1.
AGREEMENT. In
this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and
"your" refer to the registrant of each domain name registration,
"we", “us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc.
and “Services” refers to the
.tv domain name registration provided by us as offered through Harpwro
Enterprises Incorporated. This
Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us
for various Services.
2.
SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of
the your knowledge and belief, neither this registration of a domain name nor
the manner in which it is directly or indirectly to be used infringes upon the
legal rights of a third party and, further, that the domain name is not being
registered for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any unlawful
purpose whatsoever.
3.
FEES. As
consideration for the Services you have selected, you agree to pay RSP the
applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder are non-refundable. As
further consideration for the Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain
current, complete and accurate information about you as required by the
registration process and (2) maintain and update this information as needed to
keep it current, complete and accurate. All such information shall be referred
to as account information ("Account Information"). By submitting
this Agreement, you represent that the statements in your Application are
true, complete and accurate. Failure
to maintain accurate information will be considered a material breach of this
Agreement and will entitle us to delete your domain name registration.
4.
TERM. This
Agreement shall remain in full force during the length of the term of your
domain name registration(s) as selected, recorded, and paid for upon
registration of the domain name. Should you choose to renew or otherwise
lengthen the term of your domain name registration, then the term of this
Registration Agreement shall be extended accordingly. Should the domain name
be transferred to another Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract
shall cease.
5.
MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree that we may: (1) revise
the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (2) change the services
provided under this Agreement. You agree to be bound by any such revision or
change will which shall be effective immediately upon posting on our web site
or upon notification to you by e-mail or your country’s postal service
pursuant to the Notices section of this Agreement. You agree to review this
Agreement as posted on our web site periodically to maintain an awareness of
any and all such revisions. If you do not agree with any revision to the
Agreement, you may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing us with
notice by e-mail or postal
service pursuant to the Notices section of this Agreement. Notice of your
termination shall be effective after
processing by us. You agree that, by continuing the use of Services following
notice of any revision to this Agreement or change in service(s), you shall
be bound by any such revisions and changes. You further agree to be
bound by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“Dispute Policy”) as
presently written and posted on http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml
and as shall be amended from time to time.
You acknowledge that if you do not agree to any such modifications, you
may request that your domain name be deleted from the domain name database.
6.
MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
In order to change any of your account information with us, you must
use your Account Identifier and Password that you selected when you opened
your account with us. You agree
to safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any unauthorized use.
In no event shall we be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your
Account Identifier or Password.
7.
DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If
you reserved or registered a domain name through us, or transferred a domain
name to us from another Registrar, you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policy
that is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference.
The current version of the Dispute Policy may be found at http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
8.
DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You
agree that, if the registration or reservation of your domain name is
challenged by a third party, you will be subject to the provisions specified
in the Dispute Policy. You agree that in the event a domain name dispute
arises with any third party, you will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant
to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute Policy.
9.
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the .tv domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any
ICANN or government adopted policy, or pursuant to any Registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN or government-adopted policy, (1) to
correct mistakes by us or the applicable Registry in registering the name or
(2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the domain name.
You acknowledge that you have reviewed the .tv General Terms of Service
which may be found at: http://www.tv/en-def-5066945b5fcc/en/policies/tos.shtml
and expressly agree to the terms outlined therein.
10.
AGENCY. Should you
intend to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall nonetheless
be the domain name holder of record and are therefore responsible for
providing your own full contact information and for providing and updating
accurate technical and administrative contact information adequate to
facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in connection with the
domain name. You shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of the
domain name. You represent that you have provided notice of the terms and
conditions in this Agreement to a third party licensee and that the third
party agrees to the terms hereof.
11.
ANNOUNCEMENTS. We
reserve the right to distribute information to you that is pertinent to the
quality or operation of our services and those of our service partners. These
announcements will be predominately informative in nature and may include
notices describing changes, upgrades, new products or other information to add
security or to enhance your identity on the Internet.
12.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You
agree that our entire liability, and your exclusive remedy, with respect to
any Services(s) provided under this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement
is solely limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s).
Neither we, nor our contractors or third party beneficiaries shall be
liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages
resulting from the use or inability to use any of the Services or for the cost
of procurement of substitute services. Because some jurisdictions do not allow
the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental
damages, in such jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the extent
permitted by law. We disclaim any and all loss or liability resulting from,
but not limited to: (1) loss or liability resulting from access delays or
access interruptions; (2) loss or liability resulting from data non-delivery
or data mis-delivery; (3) loss or liability resulting from acts of God; (4)
loss or liability resulting from the unauthorized use or misuse of your
account identifier or password; (5) loss or liability resulting from errors,
omissions, or misstatements in any and all information or services(s) provided
under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability resulting from the interruption of
your Service. You agree that we will not be liable for any loss of
registration and use of your domain name, or for interruption of business, or
any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind
(including lost profits) regardless of the form of action whether in contract,
tort (including negligence), or otherwise, even if we have been advised of the
possibility of such damages. In no event shall our maximum liability exceed
five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
13.
INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees,officers, directors, affiliates and third party
beneficiaires harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, of third parties relating to or arising under this Agreement,
the Services provided hereunder or your use of the Services, including without
limitation infringement by you, or someone else using the Service of any
intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or
from the violation of any of our operating rules or policy relating to the
Service(s) provided. You also agree to release, indemnify and hold us harmless
pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute Policy. When we
are threatened with suit by a third party, we may seek written assurances from
you concerning your promise to indemnify us; your failure to provide those
assurances shall be a breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation
of your domain name.
14.
TRANSFER OF
OWNERSHIP.
The person named as administrative contact at the time the user name
and password are secured shall be the owner of the domain name. You agree that
prior to transferring ownership of your domain name to another person (the
Transferee") you shall require the Transferee to agree
in writing to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Your
domain name will not be transferred until we receive such written assurances
or other reasonable assurance that the Transferee has been bound by the
contractual terms of this Agreement (such reasonable assurance as determined
by us in our sole discretion). If the Transferee fails to be bound in a
reasonable fashion (as determine by us in our sole discretion) to the terms
and conditions in this Agreement, any such transfer will be null and void.
15.
BREACH. You agree
that failure to abide by any provision of this Agreement, any operating rule
or policy or the Dispute Policy provided by us, may be considered by us to be
a material breach and that we may provide a written notice, describing the
breach, to you. If within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of such
notice, you fail to provide evidence, which is reasonably satisfactory to us,
that you have not breached your obligations under the Agreement, then we may
delete the registration or reservation of your domain name. Any such breach by
you shall not be deemed to be excused simply because we did not act earlier in
response to that, or any other breach by you.
16.
NO GUARANTY. You
acknowledge that registration or reservation of your chosen domain name, does
not confer immunity from objection to either the registration, reservation, or
use of the domain name.
17.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
You agree that your use of our Services is solely at your own risk. You
agree that such Service(s) is provided on an "as is," "as
available" basis. We expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind,
whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your
requirements, or that the Service(s) will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or
error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained
from the use of the Service(s) or as to the accuracy or reliability of any
information obtained through the Service or that defects in the Service will
be corrected. You understand and agree that any material and/or data
downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of Service is done at your
own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage
to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such
material and/or data. We make no warranty regarding any goods or services
purchased or obtained through the Service or any transactions entered into
through the Service. No advice or information, whether oral or written,
obtained by you from us or through the Service shall create any warranty not
expressly made herein.
18.
INFORMATION.
As part of the registration process, you are required to provide us
certain information and to update us promptly as such information changes such
that our records are current, complete and accurate. You are obliged to
provide us the following information:
(i)
Your name and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain name
holder);
(ii)
The domain name being registered;
(iii)
The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative contact for the domain
name;
(iv)
The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for the domain name.
Any
other information, which we request from you at registration, is voluntary.
Any voluntary information we request is collected for the purpose of improving
the products and services offered to you through your RSP.
19.
DISCLOSURE AND
USE OF
REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge that we will make
domain name registration information you provide available to ICANN, to the
registry administrators, and to other
third parties as applicable. You further agree and acknowledge that we may
make publicly available, or directly available to third party vendors, some,
or all, of the domain name registration information you provide, for purposes
of inspection (such as through our WHOIS service) or other purposes as
required or permitted by ICANN and applicable laws.
You
hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use of information provided
by you in connection with the registration of a domain name (including any
updates to such information), whether during or after the term of your
registration of the domain name. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all
claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure or use
of your domain name registration information by us.
You
may access your domain name registration information in our possession to
review, modify or update such information, by accessing our domain manager
service, or similar service, made available by us through your RSP.
We
will not process data about any identified or identifiable natural person that
we obtain from you in a way incompatible with the purposes and other
limitations which we describe in this Agreement.
We
will take reasonable precautions to protect the information we obtain from you
from our loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor disclosure, alteration or
destruction of that information.
20.
REVOCATION. Your
wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, your wilful failure
promptly to update information provided to us, or your failure to respond for
over fifteen (15) calendar days to inquiries by us concerning the accuracy of
contact details associated with the your registration shall constitute a
material breach of this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation of the
domain name registration.
21.
RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We,
in our sole discretion, reserve the right to refuse to register or reserve
your chosen domain name or register you for other Services. In the event we do
not register or reserve your domain name or register you for other Services,
or we delete your domain name or other Services within such thirty (30)
calendar day period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree that
we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may result from our
refusal to register, reserve, or delete your domain name or register you for
other Services.
We
reserve the right to delete or transfer your domain name within a thirty (30)
day period following registration if we believe the registration has been made
possible by a mistake, made either by us or by a third party.
22.
SEVERABILITY. You
agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable. If any term or provision
is declared invalid or unenforceable, that term or provision will be construed
consistent with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original
intentions of the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions will remain
in full force and effect.
23.
NON-AGENCY. Nothing
contained in this Agreement or the Dispute Policy shall be construed as
creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between
the parties.
24.
NON-WAIVER. Our
failure to require performance by you of any provision hereof shall not affect
the full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor shall
the waiver by us of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a
waiver of the provision itself.
25.
NOTICES. Any
notice, direction or other communication given under this Agreement shall be
in writing and given by sending it via e-mail or via postal service. In the
case of e-mail, valid notice shall only have been deemed to have been given
when an electronic confirmation of delivery has been obtained by the sender.
In the case of e-mail, notifications must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com,
or in the case of notification to you, to the e-mail address provided by you
in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed to have been
validly and effectively given on the date of such communication, if such date
is a business day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00 p.m. EST, otherwise
it will be deemed to have been delivered on the next business day. In the case
of regular mail notice, valid notice shall be deemed to have been validly and
effectively given 5 business days after the date of mailing and, in the case
of notification to us or to RSP shall be sent to:
OUR
ADDRESS:
TUCOWS
Inc.
96
Mowat Avenue
Toronto,
Ontario
M6K
3M1
Attention:
Legal Affairs
and
in the case of notification to you shall be to the address specified in the
“Administrative Contact” in your WHOIS record.
26.
ENTIRETY. You agree
that this Agreement, the rules and policies published by us and the Dispute
Policy are the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding
our Services. This Agreement and the Dispute Policy supersede all prior
agreements and understandings, whether established by custom, practice, policy
or precedent.
27.
GOVERNING LAW. THIS
Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted and enforced in accordance with
the LAWS OF Province of ontario and the FEDERAL LAWS OF canada applicable
therein without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action
relating to this Agreement must be brought in ontario
and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.
28.
INFANCY. You attest
that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
Acceptance
of Agreement.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS
TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE
SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE OR
STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.