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In order that a party may hold a
valid .ca 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 .ca domain name via the
agency of PZ Internet and/or TUCOWS you accordingly agree as
follows:
- 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
PZ Internet, the Registration Service Provider ("RSP"). CIRA shall refer to the
entity granted the exclusive right to administer
the registry for .ca domain name registrations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 CIRA 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.
- 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.
- 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 the CIRA website.
Please take the
time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
- 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.
- CIRA POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain
name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any CIRA-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any
registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an CIRA-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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, including but not
limited to the RSP and
CIRA 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 CIRA 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.
- TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. Any transfer of ownership in and to a
domain name
registration shall be affected in accordance with CIRA policies and
procedures.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
(v) The Internet Protocol number of the primary name server and
secondary name
server(s) for each domain name registration and the corresponding
names of those
name servers.
Any voluntary information we request is collected such that we can continue
to improve the
products and services offered to you through your RSP.
- DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and
acknowledge that we will make domain name registration information you
provide available to
CIRA, to the registry administrators, and to other third parties as CIRA 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 CIRA 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Com Co
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
OR -
PZ INTERNET
Box 640
Hope, B.C.
Canada V0X 1L0
and in the case of notification to you shall be to the address specified in
the "Administrative
Contact" in your WHOIS record.
- 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.
- 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.
- INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
- INCONSISTENCIES WITH CIRA. In the event that this Agreement may
be inconsistent
with any term, condition , policy or procedure of CIRA, the term, condition,
policy or
procedure of CIRA shall prevail.
- 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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