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Performance. Helix Servers agrees to
provide and customer agrees to purchase the services requested by customer
from the website, in email or in writing. Customer may add services via any
of the 3 methods and agrees to pay in advance for them whether they be 1 time
charges or recurring monthly fees.
Changes. No changes to this agreement shall
be binding except those in writing counter-executed by both parties. Deviations
in pricing shall be agreed to in writing. Email confirmed by both parties
shall suffice.
Invoices, Payment. Helix Servers will
invoice Customer for Fees and Expenses monthly; provided, however, that Helix
Development may invoice Customer for Fees and Expenses associated with Service(s)
provided pursuant to a customer request immediately upon Helix Servers's
provision of such Service(s). Customer acknowledges that Helix Servers
will invoice certain Service(s) (including without limitation telecommunications
services) in advance of the provision of such Service(s). Payment shall be
due immediately upon the invoice date for recurring monthly services whether
or not customer has received an invoice yet or not. Invoices which remain
unpaid fifteen (15) days after receipt of same by Customer shall accrue interest
at a rate of one and a half percent (1.5%) per month (or at the maximum interest
rate otherwise allowed by law) until paid in full and service may be terminated
for non payment after 7 days at Helix Servers option. Expenses shall be
included on an invoice only to the extent that the actual amount of Expenses
is known to Helix Servers at the time the invoice is issued, and Expenses
for which an actual amount is not known to Helix Servers at the time an
invoice is issued may be included on subsequent invoices. Unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the Parties, the failure of Helix Servers to include
earned or incurred Fees or Expenses on a given invoice shall not relieve Customer
of its obligation to pay such Fees or Expenses. Customer's obligation to pay
Fees or Expenses shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason
whatsoever.
Bandwidth Overages. Customer agrees that
advertised bandwidth allowances represent the sum of the incoming and outgoing
allowances. Customer agrees that the sum of incoming and outgoing bandwidth
usage that exceeds the allowance shall be billed at $0.15 per GigaByte.
Security Interest. Customer grants Helix
Development a blanket security interest in the customer's contract with their
customers who are renting servers from them in the Helix Servers data
center and any equipment which they have colocated in the Helix Servers
data center in the event of non-payment by customer - customer agrees that
Helix Servers may take these customer contracts direct and or sell the
equipment without a tortious interference claim or unlawful conversioin claim
to protect the credit balance owed Helix Servers by customer and full
ownership of the contracts shall transfer as well if balance is more than
60 days old. Any amounts collected from any sale of equipment above and beyond
the balance owed will be returned to the customer within 10 business days.
Term. The term of this Agreement shall begin
upon the date the server is installed and made available to customer and shall
be for 1 month and shall renew for successive 1 month terms until terminated
by either Party upon the sooner of (i) thirty (30) days prior written notice
to the other Party, or (ii) the expiration or termination of all Service(s)
set forth in the Statement of Work and all Work Order(s).
Termination Due to Breach. In the event
that Customer commits a material breach of any of its obligations hereunder,
Helix Servers may terminate this Agreement or (at Helix Servers's
sole option) suspend, interrupt or terminate one or more Service(s) to which
such breach pertains by sending written notice of termination to Customer
with termination effective as of the fifth (5th) calendar day after the date
such notice is given.
Effects of Termination. Unless the Parties
agree otherwise in writing, termination of the Agreement shall also serve
to terminate all Service(s) and Statements of Work and to cancel all Work
Orders, and Customer shall pay Helix Servers all Fees and Expenses earned
or incurred by Helix Servers pursuant to such Service(s), Statements of
Work and Work Orders through the date of termination, less any payments made
hereunder by Customer prior to said termination. Additionally, all property
of each Party which is in possession of the other Party shall be returned
to its owner. In the event one or more Service(s) is terminated prior to the
expiration of the Term for such Service(s) (other than due to a material breach
of this Agreement by Helix Servers.
Warranties of Helix Servers. 99% yearly uptime
Helix Servers warrants that the Service(s) shall be provided in a workmanlike
and professional manner. Upon Helix Servers's breach of the foregoing
warranty, Customer's sole and exclusive remedy shall be to require Helix Servers
to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to repair or replace the nonconforming
Service(s); provided, however, that, with respect to any Service(s) which
are interrupted or rendered inoperable due solely to Helix Servers's breach
of the foregoing warranty for any time period, Customer shall also be entitled
to a pro-rata refund of any Fees attributable to the interrupted or inoperable
Service(s) in an amount determined by multiplying the fixed monthly, recurring
Fees (if any) for the interrupted or inoperable Service(s) by the ratio that
the number of consecutive hours of inoperability bears to 720 hours (for the
purpose of this computation, each month is deemed to have 720 hours). Helix
Development will not be liable to any extent whatsoever for interruption,
restriction, inoperability or malfunction of any Service(s) which is not caused
solely by a breach of the warranty set forth in this Section 4.1. Helix Servers
expressly reserves the right to suspend, interfere with, impair or terminate
Service(s) as necessary for purposes of maintenance, upgrades or repair (either
by Helix Servers or by any supplier, partner or independent contractor
of Helix Servers) or in the event of any circumstance which Helix Servers,
in its sole discretion, deems necessary or desirable to prevent or remedy
an impairment of, or harm to, the integrity or functionality of any Service(s)
or any plant, services or facilities of any Indemnitees (as defined in Section
4.3) or of any third party, and neither the exercise nor the non-exercise
of the foregoing rights or discretion shall constitute a breach of any provision
of this Agreement.
EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN
SECTION 4.1.1, Helix Servers MAKES NO WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, CONTRACTUAL OR STATUTORY,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES
OF UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION
AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH
RESPECT TO THE SERVICE(S) OR ANY ASPECT
THEREOF, AND ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT
THERETO ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.
Customer expressly acknowledges and agrees
that proper provision of the Service(s)
is dependent upon the provision to Helix Servers
by Customer of timely and accurate information
regarding (i) Customer's needs and expectations
regarding the Service(s), and (ii) all operational,
technological or other data which Customer
knows or should know is relevant to the
provision of the Service(s) (collectively
"Information"). Customer shall
provide the Information to Helix Servers in a timely
manner and the Information shall be accurate.
Customer agrees that, in the event of Customer's
breach of its obligations in this Section
4.1, the warranty set forth in Section 4.1
shall be null and void.
Warranties of Customer. Customer hereby
covenants, represents and warrants that:
Customer will not, and will not permit others
to, use any Service(s) (i) for any unlawful
or illegal purpose or in connection with
or in furtherance of any unlawful or illegal
activity, (ii) in violation of any applicable
law or regulation, (iii) in a manner that
will, or is likely to, infringe the copyright,
trademark, trade secret or other intellectual
property rights of others or violate the
right of privacy, publicity or other personal
rights of others, or (iv) in connection
with any conduct or activity that is, in
the sole opinion of Helix Servers, defamatory, indecent,
obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive,
hateful, tortious or violative of the rights
of any other person or entity; Customer
will not, and will not permit others to,
do any act which may interfere with or compromise
the security or functionality of any Service(s),
including without limitation attempting
to probe or test the vulnerability of any
system or network connected to or accessible
by the Service(s);No equipment owned, leased,
maintained by or controlled by Customer
or by any third party which is connected
to or utilized the Service(s) with the consent
of Customer will (i) interfere with or impair
any Service(s) or any plant, services or
facilities of any Indemnitees or of any
third party, (ii) unlawfully interfere with
or impair the transmission of privacy of
any data or communications transmitted over
the Service(s) or over any plant, services
or facilities of any Indemnitees or of any
third party, or (iii) create, cause or contribute
to the creation or causing of a hazard to
any Indemnitees or to any third party;
Indemnification. Helix Servers reserves
the right to suspend, interrupt or terminate any Service(s) or this Agreement
immediately without further notice in the event of a breach by Customer of
Section 4.2. Helix Servers reserves the right to remove, delete, disable
or block transmission of any data or materials which Helix Servers reasonably
believes constitute, either alone or in conjunction with other acts, omissions
or data or materials, a breach or potential breach by Customer of Section
4.2. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Helix Servers,
its successors or assigns, subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, agents,
independent contractors, licensees, licensors, suppliers and customers (excluding
Customer) (collectively "Indemnitees") against any and all claims, liability,
loss, damage, or harm (including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting
fees) suffered by such Indemnitees (including without limitation claims, liability,
loss, damage, or harm in connection with death, bodily injury or injury to
real or personal property) arising from or in connection with (i) Customer's
purchase or use of any Service(s), including without limitation any claims,
liability, loss, damage, harm suffered by such Indemnitees arising from or
in connection with the use by any third party of any Service(s) purchased
by Customer regardless of whether such use was authorized by Customer, or
(ii) Customer's breach of any provision of this Agreement.
Limitation of Liability. Any other provision
of this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the aggregate liability
of all Indemnitees for any losses or damage, whether direct or indirect, arising
out of or in connection with the Service(s), including without limitation
any cause of action sounding in contract, tort or strict liability, shall
be limited to actual, direct damages incurred but in no event shall exceed
the greater of (i) One Thousand Dollars, or (ii) the Fees paid by Customer
to Helix Servers during the two (2) months preceding the month in which
liability arose for the Service(s) in connection with which such liability
arose. Helix Servers shall not be liable for lost profits or other consequential
damages, cover damages, or for any claims against Customer by any third party,
even if Helix Servers was advised of the possibility of same. Under no
circumstances shall Helix Servers be liable hereunder for special damages,
consequential damages, general damages, incidental damages, indirect damages,
or exemplary or punitive damages. No action arising out of this Agreement,
regardless of form, may be brought by Customer against Helix Servers more
than one (1) year after the cause of action arose. Without limiting the foregoing:
Customer acknowledges that Helix Servers is not responsible
for controlling or monitoring any content, information, data or other materials
stored on, transmitted via, or accessible through use of, the Service(s),
and Helix Servers will have no liability to Customer whatsoever in connection
with such content, information, data or other materials (including without
limitation the accuracy or suitability thereof or unauthorized access or damage
to, alteration, theft, corruption destruction or loss of, Customer's data
or other materials); Helix Servers will have no liability to Customer
whatsoever in connection with any harm or loss arising from or in connection
with unauthorized access to the Service(s); and all Indemnitees are expressly
made third party beneficiaries of this Section 5.
This Section 5 shall survive expiration or termination of
this Agreement for any reason whatsoever.
Helix Servers and Customer acknowledge that proprietary
and confidential information (including without limitation trade secrets)
(collectively "Proprietary Information") of each Party may be disclosed to
the other Party throughout the term of this Agreement. Each Party agrees to
not reverse engineer, decompile, disclose to any third party, or to use for
any purpose not strictly required for such Party's performance hereunder,
such Proprietary Information except to the extent that such Proprietary Information
was: (i) made publicly available by the owner of the Proprietary Information
or lawfully disclosed by a non-party to this Agreement; (ii) lawfully obtained
from any source other than the owner of the Proprietary Information; (iii)
independently developed by personnel of the receiving Party to whom Proprietary
Information had not been previously disclosed and not based on or derived
from such Proprietary Information; or (iv) previously known to the receiving
Party without an obligation to keep it confidential. Customer will not contract
directly with any subcontractor relationships that Helix Servers has under
this agreement or are connected to future services related to this agreement
or that are of the same nature. Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding,
Helix Servers may disclose such information to its successors or assigns,
subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, agents, independent contractors,
licensees, licensors and suppliers which have signed and are bound by a suitable
non-disclosure agreement with Helix Servers in order for Helix Servers
to perform the service in this contract. The obligations set forth in this
Section 6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever
for a period of three (3) years; provided, however, that, with respect to
Proprietary Information which constitutes a trade secret, the obligations
set forth in this Section 6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement
for any reason whatsoever for so long as such Proprietary Information constitutes
a trade secret under applicable law.
Force Majeure. If either Party shall be
prevented from performing any portion of this Agreement (except the payment
of money) by causes beyond its control, including labor disputes, civil commotion,
war, governmental regulations or controls, casualty, inability to obtain materials
or Service(s) or acts of God, such Party shall be excused from performance
for the period of the delay and the time for such Party's performance shall
be extended for a period of time equal to the duration of such delay.
Construction, Venue, Jurisdiction. This
Agreement and any claim, action, suit, proceeding or dispute arising out of
or in connection with this Agreement shall in all respects be governed by,
and interpreted in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of Tennessee.
Venue for any actions arising under this Agreement shall vest exclusively
in courts located in the State of Tennessee. Customer hereby submits to the
jurisdiction of the aforementioned courts, and agrees that it will not assert
lack of personal jurisdiction as a defense to any such action. Customer acknowledges
that their attorney has reviewed and participated in the construction of this
document and nothing herein shall be viewed as to have favorable construction.
Waiver. No waiver of any right or remedy
shall be valid unless in writing and delivered to the other Party, and waiver
of a right or remedy on one occasion by a Party shall not be deemed a waiver
of such right or remedy on any other occasion.
Integration. This Agreement, including all
referenced or attached exhibits, schedules, attachments or documents, sets
forth the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties pertaining
to their subject matter and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous discussions,
agreements, promises or understandings between the Parties. Neither Party
shall be bound by any conditions, definitions, warranties, understandings
or representations with respect to such subject matter other than as expressly
provided in this Agreement.
Superior Agreement. This Agreement shall
not be supplemented or modified by any course of dealing or trade usage. Addition
to or variance from the terms and conditions of the Agreement by Customer,
including without limitation any additional or varying terms contained in
Customer's preprinted forms, correspondence or other documents transmitted
to Helix Servers, shall be of no effect, unless otherwise expressly provided
in the Agreement.
Assignment. This Agreement is not assignable
by Customer, in whole or in part, voluntarily or involuntarily, including
by operation of law or by merger in which Customer does not survive, without
Helix Servers's prior written consent. Any attempted assignment without
Helix Servers's written consent shall be null and void.
Notice. Unless otherwise agreed to by the
Parties, all notices required under the Agreement shall be delivered in writing,
addressed and sent to the address provided herein and to the attention of
the Party executing the Agreement or the person's successor, by either (i)
registered mail, (ii) certified mail, return receipt requested, or (iii) overnight
mail, or (iv) by telephone facsimile transfer (v) email that is replied to
as accepted - appropriately directed to the attention of the Party executing
the Agreement or that person's successor. Unless otherwise agreed to by the
Parties, all notices required under the Agreement shall be deemed effective
when received.
Severability. If any provision of the Agreement
is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all
of which taken together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
Acceptance. Payment of customer of the first
months fees shall constitute acceptance of this agreement. This agreement
shall be modified from time to time by Helix Servers and the then current
version shall be posted on the Helix Servers website. If customer does
not agree to the new terms - customer should cease utilizing the services
at the next term.
If you are terminated due
to a violation of our terms of service you
agree that you will not receive any partial
refunds and that this shall be considered
a reasonable estimate of the liquidated
damage and not a penalty.
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