APPENDIX
A
Form
of Registration Agreement
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 Energetex Engineering (“RSP”). 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.