Freehostia.com is a (web hosting) service offered by Snapy Communications Inc., a US-based corporation, which can be contacted at:

Snapy Communications Inc.
1500 University Drive, suite 117
Coral Springs, FL 33071
United States

Freehostia.com shall provide its Services to You (Customer) under the terms and conditions of this Customer Agreement.The Agreement is intended to protect both the integrity and liability of Freehostia.com. and the Customer. This Service Agreement will be enforced to ensure the speed, power, performance, and reliability of our services.

You understand and agree that the Services are provided "AS-IS" and that Freehostia.com assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any Customer communications or personalization settings.


Freehostia.com FREE HOSTING SERVICES
      1. BANDWIDTH - The Customer can use 5GB bandwidth on Freehostia.com Free Web Hosting Service. Additional bandwidth is available at $12.00 per 1 GB per year. This bandwidth must be prepaid before use or otherwise the account will be suspended due to bandwidth overuse.
      2. DOMAINS HOSTED - Freehostia.com hosting plans include domain hosting. The Customer can host 1 domain under his/her account with Freehostia.com. To host more domains there is an upgrade option for hosting additional domains at $12.00 per domain per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      3. DOMAIN REGISTRATION - Domain registrations is available at $19.95 per year. The domain registration services are provided by the domain registrar eNom Inc. on the behalf of Freehostia.com. Please note that domain registrations are final and cannot be refunded!
More detailed information regarding domain names can be found in the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
      4. SUBDOMAINS - Additional subdomains are available at $12.00 per year. To be able to create more subdomains that the allowed 5 subdomains in the plan you can upgrade anytime.
      5. DISK SPACE - The Customer has 250 MB of disk space as a quota for his/her account. Additional disk space is available at $12.00 per 100 MB per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      6. E-MAIL ACCOUNTS - The free hosting plans includes 3 e-mail accounts. Additional e-mail accounts are available at $12.00 per 100 e-mail accounts per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      7. IP ADDRESS - Freehostia.com hosting accounts do not include an IP address (all websites resolve at the default IP address of the host/server). For many customers the IP address is important for starting SSL hosts and that's why we offer IP addresses at $12.00 per IP per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      8. MYSQL DATABASE(S) - Each free hosting plan has 1 database with 2MB storage space included in it. Additional MySQL databases are available at $12.00 per database per year.
      9. ACCOUNTS - The Customer has the right of only one account with Freehostia.com Free Web Hosting Service. Every new free hosting account signed up by one unique Customer will be automatically deleted unless the Customer gets in contact with a representative of Freehostia.com.
      10.

a. The Customer is responsible for building and updating his/her web page, and regularly backing up any related data.
b. User accounts may be deleted after 30 days if there is no activity on the account, in order to free unused resources.
c. The Customer can renew his/her free hosting account for free. We have set by default each free account to expire after 1 year.
d. Freehostia.com sites MAY be used as an entry to a non-Freehostia.com site ONLY if the user is not automatically redirected to the non-Freehostia.com site
e. FTP Usage

- FTP access is provided for the purposes of uploading content, maintaining content, and downloading content for backup purposes only. It is not to be used for the distribution of files.
- FTP usage for webcam purposes is not to exceed uploading once every 30 seconds.
- Freehostia.com reserves the right to revoke or restrict any FTP access and/or remove any web site for improper or excessive FTP usage.

Please refer to the comparative table for more details about our free hosting plan and its features.


Freehostia.com PAID HOSTING SERVICES
      1. BANDWIDTH - Each hosting plan includes prepaid bandwidth. Additional bandwidth is available at $12.00 per GB per year. This bandwidth must be prepaid before use or otherwise the account will be suspended due to bandwidth overuse.
      2. DOMAINS HOSTED - Freehostia.com hosting plans include domain hosting. If you want to host more domains than allowed, then you can upgrade your account and host additional domains at $12.00 per domain per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      3. DOMAIN REGISTRATION - Domain registrations is available at $19.95 per year. Some of our paid web hosting plans (Advanced and Xtra) include one free domain name to be used with them. The domain registration services are provided by the domain registrar eNom Inc. on the behalf of Freehostia.com. Please note that domain registrations are final and cannot be refunded!
More detailed information regarding domain names can be found in the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
      4. SUBDOMAINS - Additional subdomains are available at $12.00 per year. To be able to create more subdomains that the allowed 5 subdomains in the plan you can upgrade anytime.
      5. DISK SPACE - Additional disk space is available at $12.00 per 100 MB per year. Payment is accepted only for a year in advance.
      6. E-MAIL ACCOUNTS - The free hosting plans includes 3 e-mail accounts. Additional e-mail accounts are available at $12.00 per 100 e-mail accounts per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      7. IP ADDRESS - Freehostia.com hosting accounts do not include an IP address (all websites resolve at the default IP address of the host/server). For many customers the IP address is important for starting SSL hosts and that's why we offer IP addresses at $12.00 per IP per year. Payments are accepted only for 1 year in advance.
      8. MYSQL DATABASE(S) - Each hosting plan has database(s) included in it. Additional MySQL databases are available at $12.00 per year per database.

Please refer to the comparative table for more details about all paid hosting plans and their features.


NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the Freehostia.com Services, you will not use the Freehostia.com Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Freehostia.com Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Freehostia.com Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Freehostia.com Services.

Freehostia.com reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Freehostia.com deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Freehostia.com's sole discretion.


THIRD PARTY
Any dealings with third parties (including advertisers) included within the Freehostia.com Services or participation in promotions, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings or promotions, are solely between you and the advertiser or other third party. Freehostia.com shall not be responsible or liable for any part of any such dealings or promotions.


TERMINATION
You agree that Freehostia.com, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service if you violate these terms. If your account has been suspended due to an abuse report, you will not receive a 30-day money-back refund or any other partial refund.


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You are solely responsible for the content of your messages. Using the Freehostia.com Service in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk e-mail, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise) is prohibited.
In consideration of your use of the Service, you agree to:

1. Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form
2. Maintain and promptly inform us to update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Freehostia.com has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Freehostia.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
3. You will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Service's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.
You agree to
- immediately notify Freehostia.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security
- ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
Freehostia.com cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this
4. Any Customer in violation of system or network security is subject to criminal and civil liability, as well as immediate account termination. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, e-mail bombing, flooding deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting.
5. CPU usage (or usage of the Central Processing Unit(s)) on the web server Customer's account is hosted on is subject to some regulations. That means that each hosting account can take advantage of up to 5% of the CPU power for no longer than 180 seconds at any given time or 1,3% (for free hosting), 2.5% for the Value Package and 4% for the Advanced and Xtra packages in the course of 24 hours. Freehostia.com strongly requires that customers be very judicious when using the CPU power for their accounts. Otherwise, we may suspend customer accounts in cases of registered impact on other accounts on the server or disturbance caused to the functioning of the server. If we do suspend an account, then its owner will be notified of that in consistence with the situation that this suspension may provoke. Then the account's owner may be required to upgrade to a dedicated or semi-dedicated web hosting solution. Possible alternative is a required reduction in the load and traffic that the customer's account gets. Freehostia.com reserves the right to block files or scripts that use CPU exceedingly and notify clients.
6. Customer agrees not to publish on or over its account any information, software or other content which violates or infringes upon the rights of any others or which knowingly contravenes the laws of any jurisdiction in which such content is generally accessible.
7. Freehostia.com does NOT allow sites that provide any content, points of distribution, or 'links' to sites that:

- infringe on any third party's intellectual property or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy;
- violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation;
- are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, unlawfully harassing, abusive, pornographic or obscene;
- contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another;
- contain Pirated or Hacking / Phreaking Software (Warez)- Any software that is copyrighted and not freely available for distribution without cost. ROMs, ROM Emulators and Mpeg Layer 3 files (MP3) all fall under this jurisdiction;
- contain or run proxy - proxy lists and anykind of proxy scripts (including, but not limited to php proxy and nph proxy).
- has IRC bots - IRC bots are absolutely forbidden on our servers.
- has Adult Sites (content) - Any erotic or pornographic material, links to adult sites, or advertisements for adult sites.

8. User accounts may be deleted after 30 days if there is no activity on the account or if the account has less than 2 unique visitors per day on average for 30 days, in order to free unused resources.

SPAMMING IS PROHIBITED
We will determine in our sole discretion whether any of the messages you send are spam. For your information, spamming generally includes, but is not limited to:

- the bulksending of unsolicited messages, or the sending of unsolicited e-mails which provoke complaints from recipients
- the sending of junk mail
- the use of distribution lists that include people who have not given specific permission to be included in such distribution process
- posting commercial ads to USENET newsgroups that do not permit it
- posting articles containing binary encoded data to a non-binary newsgroups
- excessive and repeated posting off-topic messages to newsgroups
- excessive and repeated cross-posting
- e-mail harassment of another Internet Customer or Customers, including but not limited to, transmitting any threatening, libelous or obscene material, or material of any nature which could be deemed to be offensive
- the e-mailing of age- inappropriate communications or content to anyone under the age of 18.

COPYRIGHTS
Copyrighted material must not be placed on Customer's account without the permission of the owner(s) or person(s) they specifically authorize. Only the owner(s) or such authorized person(s) may upload copyrighted material to the account.
Upon our receipt of notice of a claimed copyright infringement containing the above information, after confirmation we will promptly remove the allegedly infringing material from the Services and carry out further procedures if necessary. We will have no liability to any Customer of the Services for the removal of any such material.


MISCELLANEOUS
I. Freehostia.com cannot be held responsible for the content of pages hosted under our Service. Freehostia.com does not review pages for content before they are posted, and does not verify, endorse or otherwise take responsibility for the contents of any user-created pages. However, we reserve the right to remove any page from our servers which we determine is in violation of our rules and guidelines. Users are solely responsible for all files contained in their own directory, and can be held legally liable for the contents of their web site.

II. Freehostia.com may terminate user accounts at any time, without notice for conduct that violates these guidelines, or for any other reason, and may terminate user accounts and delete any and all user information for conduct that Freehostia.com believes is harmful to the business of Freehostia.com, or any of its users, or partners. Pages found in violation of these items may be subject to immediate deletion and removal from our servers, and their webmasters subject to banishment from the Freehostia.com network. The following is a non-exclusive list of content and behaviors that are UNACCEPTABLE on Freehostia.com:

a. Content that contains or contains links to: nudity, pornography, adult content, sex,extreme violence, or foul language.
b. Content that condones, promotes, contains, or links to warez, cracks, hacks, their associated utilities, or other piracy-related information, whether for educational purposes or not.
c. Content that has been promoted through the sending of unsolicited email (spamming) or mail fraud schemes, or pages that promote or condone the sending of unsolicited email. Users who utilize Freehostia.com resources, including e-mail addresses, for spam are also subject to prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
d. Content that commits acts of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property infringement.
e. Content that is racist, or otherwise extremely offensive to others, including content which aggravates, harasses, threatens, defames, or abuses others.
f. Storage of log files or non-HTML content, or any use of space that circumvents the display of advertising.
g. Having password-only, hidden, or restricted access pages (all Web pages must be accessible to the Internet community at large).
h. Sites that exploit images of children under 18 years of age.
i.Binary files, downloads, etc. that are not linked to an HTML page on the user's site, such that an advertising banner is displayed. Links back to files on a user's Freehostia.com page from other sites must also link first to an HTML page on Freehostia.com, which then links to the binary files.
j. Content that contains, links to, or participates in pyramid schemes, gambling, raffles, lotteries, and so forth.
k. Content that posts or discloses personal identification information or private information of individuals under the age of 13 or in connection with materials directed toward individuals under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent.
l. Content that provides, sells, or offers to sell the following: controlled substances, illegal drugs and drug contraband, alcohol, weapons, pirated materials, pornography or sexual products, programs to attack others, illegal goods, escort services, instructions on making, assembling, or obtaining illegal goods or weapons, information used to break copyright or trademark violations, to destroy others' property, or to harm any people or animals.
m. Content that takes part in, or allows any third party to take part in, the following: reverse engineering, reverse compiling or otherwise deriving the underlying source code or structure or sequence of the Technology; individual passworking of Member sites or pages; altering copyright notices and attributes (unless permitted in writing by the author/owner); and such practices.
n. Content that provides access to peer to peer (P2P) networks or streams/broadcasts media files (such as torrent trackers, Internet broadcasting applets, web radio stations, etc.)

III. Freehostia.com provides space for hosting Web pages but makes no implied or express warranties about the reliability of this space or related services. Freehostia.com is not responsible for any deletion, alteration, or loss of data due to network or system outages, file corruption, accidental deletion, or any other reasons. Freehostia.com makes no guarantees about server reliability, speed, or consistency, and cannot be held liable for such.

a. Users are responsible for regularly monitoring and creating backups of their own files, and agree to use the Freehostia.com resources and infrastructure at their own risk. This Service is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied. Neither Freehostia.com nor its partners makes any warranty with respect to any content, information, services, or products provided through or in conjunction with this free service.
b. Freehostia.com and its partners make no guarantee of the accuracy, correctness, or completeness of any information on these Web pages and are not responsible for any errors or omissions arising from the use of such information; any failures, delays, or interruptions in the delivery of any content or services contained on our servers; or losses or damages arising from the use of the content or services provided by Freehostia.com.
c. Freehostia.com may also link to or include on its web site resources and information provided by 3rd party partners and providers. We do not guarantee the reliability of this information, nor does the inclusion of this information imply our recommendation of these services; it is merely provided to assist you in the creation of your web site and provide added value to our service.
d. Because Freehostia.com sites are hosted by Snapy Communications Inc., Snapy Communications Inc. reserves the right to include traffic generated by all web sites it hosts in its overall accounting of page views, unique users, and other usage measures. This includes providing web traffic measurement companies with all URLs hosted by Snapy Communications Inc. for use in their projection of Snapy Communications Inc.'s overall traffic.

Please report any violations of our Terms of Service and the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to abuse@freehostia.com
If you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions, please do not hesitate to contact us.