Legal

Acceptable Use Policy

Host Tornado is dedicated to providing an all-round top quality service. The terms and conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that we may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our customers whilst at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical responsibilities.

Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice. Host Tornado will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions.

Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension.

To report suspected abuses or any violations of these policies, please contact our abuse department at abuse@hostt.net

Illegal Usage

Host Tornado servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, prescription drug sales, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws or the laws of the state of Florida. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: Pirated software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber to Host Tornado service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Host Tornado from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party.

No online pharmacies are allowed on our network.

Sites related to HYIP (High Yield Investment Programs), Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes are prohibited.

Host Tornado will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Adult Content

Legal Adult Content is allowed

Security

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. 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, 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 email or a newsgroup posting.

Server Resource

Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either paying extra for a dedicated server / semi-dedicated server (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level. Host Tornado shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level.

Chat Rooms

Host Tornado does not provide nor allow chat rooms on shared hosting environments. You may elect for a Dedicated Server to run a chat room efficiently

Background Running Programs

Host Tornado does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation.

IRC

Host Tornado does not allow IRC server, IRC bots, or IRC shells to be operated on our network.

Banned Scripts

We do not allow proxy servers or scripts, torrent trackers or torrent clients to be run from our shared/reseller hosting servers.

Free Hosting Accounts

Host Tornado provides free hosting as a gift to our customers (free hosting is open to public). There are however some restrictions with using our Free Hosting.

We do NOT use any type of forced ads on our hosting, we do however ask that you help us out by posting a link back to us on your site somewhere. This will allow us to continue to offer free hosting and not discontinue it at any point.

Due to the lack of customers not linking back to us our free hosting now requires a link back or the use of our forced ads. If you would like to place a link to us on your website somewhere and have the forced ads removed please contact us support@hostt.net

ABSOLUTELY NO PAID ADS ALLOWED!
Free hosting clients are NOT allowed to place any type of ad revenue on their websites, this includes Google AdSense and any type of affiliate marketing techniques. Meaning you can have a website that talks all about different types of electronics, but if you have links to any type of store where you will be generating revenue from clicks or purchases, that is not allowed.
If you want to place ads on your website you must purchase a paid hosting plan.

Free hosting is also not available for customers who will be uploading content stuffed websites. Meaning websites that are created for the sole purpose of generating revenue by clicks or purchases from the hundreds of pages that have been keyword stuffed for SEO.

Our free hosting is for businesses or personal use, but we draw a fine line when it comes to businesses. Business sites that are NOT eligible for free hosting include any type of site that has some type of revenue. We do allow specific revenue generating businesss for specific individuals like developers, coders, etc. It is hard to specifically say what is and isn't considered an allowed business please contact us if you have any questions about your website.

An example of an allowed business site is website design, programmers, or a business that does not generate revenue from selling products on their site (ie John's Nursery).

An example of businesses that are NOT allowed include online retailers, shops, or resellers. Again, if you are unsure if where your business falls in this criteria please contact us.

Free hosting is a gift, we reserve the right at any time to determine who is and is not eligible for free hosting. If we decide your website is either abusing, or misusing our free hosting service we reserve the right at any time to suspended the account without notice.

Backups

Host Tornado performs daily backups on all servers to ensure critical files are never lost. However Host Tornado is NOT responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existent backups.

Please always backup your own data for redundancy. For us to restore a backup for your account due an error made beyond our control, there is a $15.00 one time fee required. If your account or data is lost due to system or drive we will restore it at no additional charge. The data on our shared servers are backed up on a separate hard on a weekly and/or daily basis. Due to the nature of hard drives having errors or issues we can not ensure 100% recovery, however we will always strive to recover 100%. The charge for the restore is used to maintain the highest level of security and integrity on our backups and to strive to be able to help you restore data which may be unrecoverable without backups.

Client Responsibility

The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username/password. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of Host Tornados service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, C Shell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of Host Tornado to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to Host Tornado servers.

UCE&M (Unsolicited Commerce Email & Material) - SPAM

Uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available any UNSOLICITED or unauthorized advertising, or promotional materials where examples of these include but are not limited to "junk mail," "instant messaging," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of unauthorized solicitation from or through a Host Tornado server or using an email address or system that is maintained by Host Tornado is STRICTLY prohibited. Host Tornado will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. If you engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another ISP or IPP, but channeling activities through a Host Tornado server as a mail drop for responses, you are in violation. Violators will be assessed a minimum of $200.00 fine and will face an immediate suspension and/or termination. See our NO SPAM Policy for more details.

Server Abuse

Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Host Tornado server or customer of Host Tornado is strictly prohibited.

Any sub-networks of Host Tornado and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice.

User agrees to only use shared hosting services for its intended applications. Misuses include scientific/grid/distributed computing, data warehouse/backup storage, or bandwidth sinks. Host Tornado.com, Inc. will be the sole arbiter to what is considered a misuse of service. User agrees to ask Host Tornado.com, Inc. in the event they are unsure of their applications fitness for our shared hosting services.

Software Distribution

Host Tornado shared Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing software and multimedia products. If you wish to distribute software and/or multimedia files, please contact sales @ Host Tornado.com for special arrangement. Multimedia Files

Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Host Tornado.com Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia files.

Domain Names

Host Tornado will take necessary steps to register domain names on behalf of the client when requested. However, clients are responsible for renewing their domain names. Host Tornado does not take responsibility for failing to renew domain names. If your domain name was registered via our company, you must check and take appropriate actions to renew a domain that is about to expire. We do not handle renewals unless specifically asked for by sending a ticket to our helpdesk.

Actions Taken by Host Tornado

The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation. Host Tornado will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Host Tornado reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice.

When Host Tornado becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP, Host Tornado will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, Host Tornado may restrict a customers access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, Host Tornado may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customers web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, Host Tornado will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.

Host Tornado does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement resulting from AUP violations.
Host Tornado customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Host Tornado from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The Host Tornado service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Host Tornado expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the Host Tornado service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by Host Tornado, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. Host Tornado and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service.

Modification

Host Tornado reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.

Refusal Of Service

We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.

"LIMITLESS" and "UNLIMITED" usage policies and definitions

What "UNLIMITED" and "LIMITLESS" means
Host Tornado does not set an arbitrary limit or cap on the amount of resources a single subscriber can use if under the "unlimited" or "limitless" plan. In good faith and subject to these Terms, Host Tornado makes every commercially reasonable effort to provide its users with all the storage and bandwidth resources needed to host their web sites successfully, as long as the users use of the service complies with these terms. By not setting limits on key resources, we are able to provide simple, consistent pricing to our users for when they grow their websites. As a result, a typical website may experience periods of great popularity and resulting increased storage without experiencing any associated increase in hosting charges.

What "UNLIMITED" or "LIMITLESS" does not mean
Host Tornado employs complex mechanisms to protect its users and systems from abuse. Host Tornados offering of "unlimited" services is not intended to allow the actions of a single or few users to unfairly or adversely impact the experience of other users. Host Tornados service is a shared hosting service, which means that multiple users web sites are hosted from the same server and share server resources. Host Tornados service is designed to meet the typical needs of small business and home business website users in the United States. It is NOT intended to support the sustained demand of large enterprises, internationally based businesses, or non-typical applications better suited to a dedicated server. Host Tornado will make every commercially reasonable effort to provide additional resources to users who are using their website(s) consistent with these terms, including moving users to newer and bigger shared servers as necessary. However, in order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all users, Host Tornado does place automated safeguards to protect against any one site growing too quickly and adversely impacting the system until Host Tornado can evaluate said sites resource needs.

"UNLIMITED" or "LIMITLESS" hosting space
Host Tornado does not set artibtary limits on the amount of disk space a user can use for the users website, nor do we charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided the users use of storage complies with these terms. Host Tornado is designed to host websites. We do NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use will result in termination of a users account with or without notice. Accounts with excessive number of files negatively affect the performance of the server and Host Tornado may request that the number of files be reduced to ensure proper performance.

"UNLIMITED" or "LIMITLESS" file transfer
Host Tornado does not set abitrary limits on the amount of visitor traffic a website can receive or on the amount of content a subscriber can upload to his/her/its webiste in a given month, nor does Host Tornado charge additional fees based on increased use of bandwidth, as long as the users use of services complies with these terms. In most cases, a users website will be able to support as much traffic as the user can legitimately aquire. However, Host Tornado reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, or processes, memory, or number of files in cases where it is necessary to prevent negatively impacting other users.