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These are the standard terms and conditions of the supply of the Services by Aardvark (‘the Host’)

Overview:

These terms and conditions (‘the Conditions’) represent the terms and conditions on which the Host will deliver to the Customer any or all of the Services. Where there is any conflict between the Conditions and the terms and conditions set out in the Website Development Agreement between the Customer and the Host, the terms and conditions in the Website Development Agreement shall prevail.

Any variation to these Conditions shall be inapplicable unless in writing and approved by the Host.

The Host will host the Customer’s Website on the charges agreed for the reasonably anticipated amount of site traffic. If the Customer’s site requires more then the Customer shall pay the Host further reasonable charges for the extra data transferred in each month. The Host can invoice the Customer for this additional data transfer in arrears on the basis of the amount of data actually transferred or in advance at the beginning of the month based on the amount of data transferred in the previous month. The fees are subject to annual change and will validly be notified to the Customer by publication on the Host’s site.

1 Services
The Host agrees host the Customer’s Website (‘Web Hosting Services’) on the terms described in this Agreement. The Host agrees to place the website of the Customer in accordance with this Agreement on the computer server owned or operated by the Host and allow storage of information received by the Customer or from the general public on such server on a monthly basis subject to the limits as more particularly described above and further agrees to provide on a monthly basis those maintenance services described above. All Web Hosting Services under this Agreement shall be performed in accordance with the Host’s standard procedures so long as such procedures do not conflict with the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing under this Agreement shall affect the Customer's statutory rights in particular but without limitation those under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 or the Data Protection Act 1998.

2 Fees
The Customer agrees to pay to the Host the fees specified in the Proposal for the Web Hosting Services.

3 Taxes
All payments due under this Agreement are net of applicable taxes.

4 Term
4.1This Agreement shall be effective commencing on the date stated overleaf for a period of one year and thereafter from year to year subject to earlier termination as set out in this clause unless and until either party gives to the other not less than 30 days notice in writing.
4.2The Host may immediately terminate this Agreement where the Customer is in default of its payment obligations under this Agreement or where it is in breach of any other of its obligations under this Agreement which shall include the Host’s Acceptable Use Policy. On termination by the Host under this clause, all payments that would then be due by the Customer to the Host shall become immediately payable.
4.3The following clauses will survive termination of this Agreement; 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10

5 Customer responsibilities
5.1 In addition to the obligations of the Customer as otherwise specified in this Agreement, the Customer shall be solely responsible for the following:
5.1.1 the accuracy and content of any information provided by the Customer to the Company; and
5.1.2 any information, programs and other information that the Customer receives as a result of the use of the Services, including without limitation, the entire responsibility of any losses of data, programs, breaches of security, viruses and disabling or harmful devices that the Customer may download or otherwise experience as a result of the Customer's use of the Services.
5.2 The Customer shall notify the Host at least 7 days in advance if it intends to change its business details or stop providing any of the goods or services being offered through the Company.
5.3The Customer agrees to use the Services in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
5.4The Customer agrees to adhere to the Host’s Acceptable Use Policy.

6 Ownership
All materials, documentation, computer programs, inventions (whether or not patentable), pictures, audio, video, artistic works and all works of authorship, including all worldwide rights therein under patent, copyright, trade secret or other property right, created or developed by the Host while providing Web Hosting Services (collectively, ‘Work Product’) are owned by the Host. The Host shall not be liable to return any artwork or other material supplied by the Customer for the purposes of Web Hosting Services. Work Product shall not include the Confidential Information (defined below) of the Customer. If ownership of all right, title and interest of the intellectual property rights in the Work Product shall not otherwise vest exclusively in the Host, the Customer assigns to the Host and upon the future creation thereof automatically assigns to the Host without further consideration, the ownership of all Work Product.

7 Limited warranty
The Host warrants that for a period of 90 days from the date of first installation of the Customer's completed HomePage on the server described above, the coding of such HomePage shall be reasonably HTML-compliant. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the sole and exclusive remedy for a breach of the warranties contained in this clause 7 shall be that the Host shall replace the nonconforming coding to make such HomePage reasonably HTML-compliant. The Customer acknowledges that HTML is an industry standard that contains some ambiguous provisions and that does not completely address all issues associated with the coding of HomePages accessible via the Worldwide Web. The Customer also acknowledges that HTML is a standard that will be amended from time to time and that not all ‘browsers’ used by third parties to access the Worldwide Web implement HTML in the same way. Variations in HTML coding associated with ambiguities or revisions to the HTML standard or variations among Worldwide Web browsers shall not be the basis for a claim of breach of the Company's warranties under this Agreement. The warranties described in this clause 7 are subject to the limitations of liability described below. Except as provided in this clause 7, the Host does not make any express or implied warranties with respect to the services or any products provided under this Agreement, including but not restricted to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to the Customer.

8 Limitation of liability
8.1In no event (death or personal injury excepted) will the Host be liable to the Customer for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the Web Hosting Services or any products provided under this Agreement, even if the Host has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to the Customer. The Company's liability to the Customer for actual damages for any cause whatsoever, regardless of the form of the action, will be strictly limited to 125% of the Fees paid for the prior 12 months.
8.2The Customer acknowledges that a domain name may occasionally show as available when the domain name has in fact been recently registered with another user name and the Customer further acknowledges and accepts that this is through no fault or omission of the Host and agrees that the Host should not be held in any way liable for this occurrence.
8.3The Host inevitably relies on and utilises and may provide the Customer with access to, third party services (‘Third Parties’) (e.g. Nominet). The Customer acknowledges and understands that the Host cannot and does not make any representation undertakings or warranties either expressly or implied regarding the Third Parties’ products or services. The Customer acknowledges and agrees that use of any Third Party products or services is at its sole risk and that the Host Limits its liability to the fullest extent permissible by applicable law in respect of any loss or damages, whether direct or indirect incurred and suffered by the Customer in respect of any Third Parties’ actions or services.
8.4Nothing in this clause 8 is extended to exclude or limit the Host’s liability in respect of fraud or gross negligence.

9 Limitations of service
9.1The Host does not guarantee that the Customer or any third parties will be able to access the HomePage created by the Host at any particular time. The Host access services are provided on an ‘as-is, as-available’ basis. The Customer acknowledges that the need for routine maintenance and error correction may result in down time and that the Host cannot control the timing or volume of attempts to access the Company's server.
9.2The Host reserves the right to reduce the Customer’s site or disable part of the Customer’s site to the extent that the site requires data transfer in excess of the agreed amount in any one month instead of charging an additional fee as detailed at the beginning of these Conditions.

10 Confidential Information
Each party shall use the same care and discretion, but in no event less than reasonable care and discretion, to prevent disclosure, publication or dissemination of the other party's Confidential Information (defined below) as it employs with similar information of its own; and shall not use, reproduce, distribute, disclose or otherwise disseminate the Confidential Information except in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Agreement.
As used in this Agreement the term ‘Confidential Information’ means any and all data and information relating to the business of the disclosing party (i) of which the receiving party becomes aware as a consequence of or through this Agreement; (ii) which has value to the disclosing party and is not generally known by its competitors; (iii) which is treated by the disclosing party as confidential; and (iv) which has been reduced to tangible form and marked clearly and conspicuously with a legend identifying its confidential or proprietary nature, provided, however, that Confidential Information does not include any data or information which is already known to the receiving party, or which (1) has become generally known to the public through no wrongful act of the receiving party; (2) has been rightfully received by the receiving party from a third party without restriction on disclosure and without, to the knowledge of the receiving party, a breach of an obligation of confidentiality running directly or indirectly to the other party; (3) has been disclosed pursuant to a requirement of a governmental agency or of law without similar restrictions or other protection against public disclosure, or is required to be disclosed by operation of law; (4) is independently developed by the receiving party without use, directly or indirectly, of the Confidential Information received from the other party; or (5) is furnished to a third party by the disclosing party under this Agreement without restrictions on the third party's right to disclose the information. Confidential Information may include, but is not limited to, information relating to the products, processes or financial affairs of the disclosing party.

11 Data transmission
The Host may collect, hold, control, use and transmit data obtained from and about the Customer and visitors to the Website in the course of providing the Web Hosting Services and the website. By signing the Web Hosting Services Agreement the Customer agrees to such data being so used and further agrees that it may be transmitted to others in accordance with the Company's registration under the Data Protection Act 1998.

12 Force majeure
Neither party shall have any liability under or be deemed to be in breach of this Agreement for any delays or failures in performance of this Agreement which result from circumstances beyond the reasonable control of that party. If such circumstances continue for a continuous period of more than 6 months, either party may terminate this Agreement by written notice to the other party