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In order that a party may hold a valid .co
uk or .org uk domain name registration, TUCOWS, requires that all
registrants adhere to certain terms and conditions. As an organisation
or individual applying to register, transfer or renew an .uk domain
name via the agency of ENERGETEX ENGINEERING and/or TUCOWS you
accordingly agree as follows:
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") ,
"we", us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and
"Services" refers to the domain name registration, transfer
or renewal services provided by us as offered through ENERGETEX
ENGINEERING, the Registration Service Provider ("RSP").
NOMINET UK shall refer to the entity granted the exclusive right to
administer the registry for .uk domain name registrations.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of the
your knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the domain name
nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly used infringes
the legal rights of a third party and that the domain name is not
being registered for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As consideration for the Services you have selected, you
agree to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment to us on
your behalf, the applicable 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"). You, by completing and
submitting this Agreement represent that the statements in your
application are true.
4. TERM. You agree that this Agreement will remain in full force
during the term of your domain name registration as selected,
recorded, and paid for upon registration of the domain name. Should
you choose to renew the term of your domain name registration, then
the term of this Agreement will be extended accordingly. Should you
transfer your domain name or should the domain name otherwise be
transferred to another Registrar, the terms and conditions of this
contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms in
force between domain name registrants and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period of this
Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this
Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement.
Any such revision or change will be binding and effective immediately
on posting of the revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our
web site, or on notification to you by e-mail or regular mail as per
the Notices section of this agreement. You agree to review our web
site, including the Agreement, periodically to be aware of any 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 regular mail as per the Notices section of this
agreement. Notice of your termination will be effective on receipt and
processing by us. You agree that, by continuing to use the Services
following notice of any revision to this Agreement or change in
service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or changes. You
further agree to abide by the NOMINET UK dispute resolution policy
("Dispute Policy") as amended from time to time. You agree
that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of your domain
name after modifications to the Dispute Policy become effective, you
have agreed to these modifications. 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.
Please safeguard your account identifier and password from any
unauthorized use. In no event will 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 which 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.nic.uk/ref/drs.html.
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 in
effect at the time of the dispute. 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. NOMINET UKPOLICY. You agree that your registration of thedomain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any NOMINET UK-adopted policy, or pursuant to any
registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an NOMINET
UK-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by a registrar or the
registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes
concerning the domain name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a
third party you shall nonetheless be the domain name registrant 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
thedomain name. You also represent that you have provided notice of
the terms and conditions in this Agreement to the third party and that
the third party agrees to the terms of Disclosure and Use of
Registration Information (sections 18 and 19 of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP 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). We and our contractors shall
not 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.
13. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees,officers, directors and affiliates
harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, from claims by 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 with your computer, 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 may be considered by us to be
a breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation of your
domain name.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. Any transfer of ownership in and to a
domain name registration shall be affected in accordance with NOMINET
UK policies and procedures.
15. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision of this
Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy, 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 agree that, by registration or reservation of
your chosen domain name, such registration or reservation 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 voluntary information we request is collected such that we
can continue to improve 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 NOMINET UK, to the registry administrators, and
to other third parties as NOMINET UK and applicable laws may require
or permit. 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 NOMINET UK and the applicable laws. You
hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use of, and
guidelines, limits and restrictions on disclosure or 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 willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable
information, your willful failure promptly to update information
provided to us, or your failure to respond for over fifteen 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 within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of
your payment for such 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.
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 regular mail. 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
notification to us or to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com
or [Insert E-mail Address for RSP] or, in the case of notice to you,
at 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 the RSP shall be
sent to:
TUCOWS Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
OR -
ENERGETEX ENGINEERING
276, Old Post Road,
Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada N2L5B9
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.
29. INCONSISTENCIES WITH NOMINET UK. In the event that this
Agreement may be inconsistent with any term, condition , policy or
procedure of NOMINET UK, the term, condition, policy or procedure of
NOMINET UK shall prevail.
30. 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.
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