Hosting Agreement

Last updated: July 19, 2023

This Hosting Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and between Localboost LLC (“Localboost”) and you, and is made effective as of the date of electronic acceptance. This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of your use of Localboost’s Hosting services (the “Services”), and represents the entire agreement between you and Localboost concerning the subject matter hereof.

Your electronic acceptance of this Agreement signifies that you have read, understand, acknowledge and agree to be bound by this Agreement, along with our Universal Terms Of Service Agreement, which is incorporated herein by this reference, and any other agreements or policies that are expressly incorporated herein.

The terms “we”, “us” or “our” shall refer to Localboost. The terms “you”, “your”, “User” or “customer” shall refer to any individual or entity who accepts this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.

We may, in our sole and absolute discretion, change or modify this Agreement, any policies or agreements which are incorporated herein, and any limits or restrictions on the Services, at any time, and such changes or modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. Your use of the Services after such changes or modifications shall constitute your acceptance of this Agreement and any limitations to the Services as last revised. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and any Service limitations as last revised, do not continue to use the Services. We may occasionally notify you of changes or modifications to this Agreement by email. It is therefore very important that you keep your account information current. We assume no liability or responsibility for your failure to receive an email notification if such failure results from an inaccurate email address.

Web Hosting. If you purchase Web Hosting, your site is placed within one or more Virtual Private Server (“VPS”) with other customers. Resource limits are designated for each customer based on the hosting plan purchased. Additionally, some customers may, if purchased, have a dedicated IP address that only applies to their account.

Migration of Servers. You acknowledge and agree that as a normal course of business, it may be necessary for us to migrate our servers. As a result, even if you have a dedicated IP, you may be assigned a different IP number. We do not warrant that you will be able to consistently maintain your given IP numbers.

Termination of Services. You acknowledge and agree that upon expiration or termination of your Services, you must discontinue use of the Services and relinquish use of the IP addresses assigned to you in connection with Services, including pointing the domain name system (“DNS”) for your domain name(s) away from our servers. Prior to termination of the Services, you are responsible for moving your website or server content off our servers. We will not transfer or FTP your website or server content to another provider. If you fail to move your website or server content off our servers prior to cancellation, then all such content will be deleted and we will not be able to provide a copy of such content.

Free Products Credits. Upon termination of the Services, all free products provided as part of the Services will be canceled or revoked.

Abusive Activities. You acknowledge and agree that you may not use our servers and your website as a source, intermediary, reply to address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet packet flooding, packet corruption, denial of service, or other abusive activities. Server hacking or other perpetration of security breaches is prohibited and we reserve the right to remove sites containing information about hacking or links to such information. Use of your website as an anonymous gateway is prohibited. We prohibit the use of software or scripts run on our servers that cause the server to load beyond a reasonable level, as determined by us. You agree that we reserve the right to remove your website temporarily or permanently from our servers if you are in violation of this Agreement and/or there are activities that threaten the stability of our network. You acknowledge and agree that all websites associated with your hosting account may be removed if one website is in violation of this Agreement. In addition to the General Rules of Conduct listed in our Universal Terms of Service, you agree not to engage in unacceptable use of the Services, which includes, without limitation, use of the Services to: (1) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be grossly offensive, vulgar or malicious; (2) attempt to mislead any person as to the identity, source or origin of any communication; (3) interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server, network or account for which you do not have authorization to access or at a level exceeding your authorization; (4) engage in any other activity deemed by us to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this Agreement or any of our policies; or (5) use your server as an “open relay” or for similar purposes.

We prohibit the running of a public recursive DNS service on any of our servers. All recursive DNS servers must be secured to allow only internal network access or a limited set of IP addresses. We actively scan for the presence of public DNS services and reserve the right to remove any services or servers from the network that violate this restriction.

Storage and Security. You shall be solely responsible for undertaking measures to: (1) prevent any loss or damage to your website or server content; (2) maintain independent archival and backup copies of your website or server content; and (3) ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of all your website or server content transmitted through or stored on our servers.

Localboost’s backup service runs once a week and overwrites any of our previous backups. Only two weeks of backups are stored in the remote server. If daily backups are provided in User’s hosting plan, one week of daily backups will be stored. This service is provided to accounts with an Essential, Advanced, or Elite Care Plan and may be modified at any time at Localboost’s sole discretion. Localboost is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for all files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on Localboost’s servers. Any cPanel shared hosting account using more than 25 GB of disk space will be removed from our off site weekly backup. To ensure continuous backup generation, User must ensure that his disk space consumption does not exceed 25 GB.

Our servers are not an archive and we shall have no liability to you or any other person for loss, damage or destruction of any of your content. The Services are not intended to provide a PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant environment and therefore should not be used or considered as one. You shall not use Localboost Services in any way that shall impair the functioning or operation of it or any equipment used to operate it. Included, but not limited to, you shall not use the Services as: (1) a repository or storage for files; and/or (2) a place to store material that can be downloaded through other websites. If we detect an infringement of aforementioned restrictions, you may be issued an email storage violation warning at 10GB, and will be required to reduce the number of used gigabytes in your email. We reserve the right to temporarily suspend disk write functionality, in our sole discretion, when email storage size reaches 10 GB. You acknowledge and agree that we have the right to carry out a forensic examination in the event of a compromise to your server or account.

Data Protection and Security. You shall be solely responsible and liable for compliance with applicable privacy and personal data protection requirements (including, but not limited to requirements laid down by General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR), which may be applicable to any personal information, data or content collected through, stored or otherwise processed in relation to Hosting Services on your website or server content.

You shall at all times remain data controller of any such personal data without any liability of whatsoever nature to Localboost.

You acknowledge that Localboost may in certain limited cases have access to information and communications systems for the purposes set forth in this Agreement or our Terms of Service.

Without limitations to the generality of the foregoing, you shall be solely responsible for installation of organizational and technical security measures sufficiently protecting personal data stored or processed on your website or server. Consequently, you will be solely responsible for all and any data breaches, incidents and similar violations pertaining to such data, unless such data breach has occurred solely due to technical failures, malfunction or errors of the servers and resources, which Localboost has expressly warranted to secure to You and assume liability for such failures, malfunction or errors.

In case certain limited personal data processing activities are found to be carried out by Localboost, the following data processing clauses shall apply: (1) Localboost shall process personal data only according to your documented written instructions or only as mandatorily required by law; (2) make best efforts to implement reasonably available technical and organisational measures in order to ensure that personal data processing carried out complies with the requirements of GDPR and personal data protection legislation as regards security of processed personal data; you understand that the fact that available technical and organisational measures will be implemented in itself does not guarantee full and complete security, safety and integrity of personal data; (3) upon your request, Localboost will take reasonable measures to discontinue data processing after expiry of the Agreement and, if required by you and unless otherwise provided in applicable legislation, take reasonable measures to erase or in any other way make inaccessible and unusable or return to you all available personal data; (4) you shall undertake to ensure that personal data are collected and processed lawfully, are accurate, relevant and adequate, and that your instructions to Localboost are lawful, accurate, relevant, comply with the GDPR and personal data protection legislation; you shall notify data subjects of their data processing and transfer to Localboost in accordance with the requirements of GDPR and personal data protection legislation; (5) you grant Localboost with a general authorisation to engage sub-processors and service providers in the processing of personal data controlled by the you; (6) overall responsibility of Localboost hereunder shall be limited to the amount of remuneration for the last 6 (six) months paid to Localboost for the services under the Agreement.

Website/Server Content. You shall be solely responsible for providing, updating, uploading and maintaining your website or server and any and all files, pages, data, works, information and/or materials on, within, displayed, linked or transmitted to, from or through your website or server including, but not limited to, trade or service marks, images, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, email or other messages, meta tags, domain names, software and text. You acknowledge and agree that in the course of providing you with technical assistance, it may be necessary for our support staff to modify, alter or remove the content of your hosted product. Your website or server content shall also include any registered domain names provided by you or registered on behalf of you in connection with the Services.

Applicable Laws. You are responsible for ensuring your website conforms to all applicable local, state, federal, and international laws. In cases where certain functionalities are required by laws of specific countries, You are solely responsible for implementing such functionalities (including by using third parties services, if required).

Taxes. You are responsible for collecting, and managing all end customer payments. Similarly, you are responsible for the payment of all applicable state, federal or international taxes on products you sell using the Services. It is your responsibility to read, enter into, and agree to all and any agreements required for use of your selected Payment Methods and Tax options. Localboost is not responsible for the accuracy of information obtained through the Payment Method and Tax options. You are responsible for any additional taxes and duties imposed on the transaction. You may be subject to foreign tax obligations by selling to buyers. You are solely responsible for complying with all domestic and foreign tax, shipping, and export laws with respect to the sale of your items to buyers internationally.

Templates. Templates (e.g. Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Refund Policy) provided by Localboost are intended for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as legal, financial, or professional advice. It is your responsibility to review, adapt or supplement these documents to ensure it complies with the actual activities occurring on your website. We make no representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of the templates for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that the use of templates is at your own risk.

Third Party Services. In case you are using third party services, which are integrated into your website software, you are responsible for managing and maintaining in good standing any paid subscription and/or account required with a third-party provider.

Storage and Plan Limits. All Hosting plans, including the ones that contain unlimited services, are subject to the following (but not limited) limitations: Inode count, Database size, CPU power, amount of RAM, Entry Processes, Active Processes. In the event that plan limitations are exceeded, you may need to reduce the number of files or database size, your site may slow down or not be served until resources are released or more resources are added, and your site may be temporarily or permanently suspended, in our sole discretion. More resources may be added at any time by upgrading the plan. Localboost reserves the right to change the plan limits at any time and such changes shall be either posted online at Localboost web sites or emailed to customers.

You acknowledge and agree that inbound UDP is not supported in shared hosting environments.

Website/Server Content. Your website may not include any of the following content: (1) image hosting scripts that allow an anonymous user to upload an image for display on another website (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic); (2) banner ad services for display on other websites or devices (commercial banner ad rotation); (3) file dump/mirror scripts that allow an anonymous user to upload a file for other to download (similar to rapidshare); (4) commercial audio streaming (more than one or two streams); (5) push button mail scripts that allow the user to specify recipient email addresses; (6) anonymous or bulk SMS gateways; (7) backups of content from another computer or website; (8) Bittorrent trackers; or (9) any script that causes a degradation in the performance of our server or network environment.

Unlimited Services. We offer certain services that contain unlimited features, meaning there are no predefined caps on the resources of that particular feature you can utilize. However, we maintain a fair usage policy across all accounts to prevent violations and uphold service stability. In practical terms, this entails that our unlimited services are intended for the typical operation of a small business website. For example, Starter shared hosting accounts are allotted up to 3 GB for database usage, while Business hosting accounts have a 6 GB limit. Additionally, accounts may have a maximum of 300,000 inodes, and Cronjobs are limited to 250. In cases where your usage or content surpasses these limits, potentially posing a risk to the stability, performance, or uptime of our servers, data storage, networking, or other infrastructure, we may request a reduction in usage, recommend upgrading your current plan, or take necessary measures to restrict the resources your website is utilizing.

cPanel. In the event you have cPanel on your server, you agree to be bound by the cPanel EULA, which is hereby incorporated by reference.

We offer a Service uptime guarantee of 99.5% (“Service Uptime Guarantee”) of available time per month. If we fail to maintain this Service Uptime Guarantee in a particular month (as solely determined by us), you may contact us and request a credit of 5% of your monthly hosting fee for that month. The credit may be used only for the purchase of further products and services from us, and is exclusive of any applicable taxes. The Service Uptime Guarantee does not apply to service interruptions caused by: (1) periodic scheduled maintenance or repairs we may undertake from time to time; (2) interruptions caused by you from custom scripting, coding or the installation of third-party applications; (3) outages that do not affect the appearance of your website but merely affect access to your website such as FTP and email; (4) causes beyond our control or that are not reasonably foreseeable, including, but not limited to, DDOS attacks and IP blacklists; and (5) outages related to the reliability of certain programming environments; (6) interference with internet connectivity at the customer’s ISP; (7) interference with internet connectivity that occurs on one of the routes which is the connectivity path from the customer to our server; (8) browser caching or DNS issues; (9) your fault or negligence; (10) interference caused by other parties; (11) violation of our Terms and Conditions.

Claims for the failure of the guarantee above can be claimed within a maximum of 30 days after the interruption occurred.

Products purchased from Localboost may be refunded only if canceled within 30 days of the date of the transaction.

Note: Due to their nature, cryptocurrencies, tokens and digital assets are generally irreversible and their exchange rates are highly volatile and transitory. We can not be responsible for any risk including but not limited to exchange rate risk and market risk. Products purchased using cryptocurrencies, tokens or digital assets will not be refunded.

“Date of the transaction,” for the purpose of this Refund Policy, means the date of purchase of any product or service, which includes the date any renewal is processed by Localboost in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable product. You may cancel a product at any time, but a refund will only be issued if cancellation is requested within the refund time frame specified for the applicable product, if available at all. Note: Some products have different policies or requirements for a refund associated with them, including some products that are not eligible for a refund under any circumstance. Please see below for refund terms applicable to such products:

• Hosting
• SSL Certificates
• CloudFlare

• Domain Name Registrations or Renewals
• Domain Name Transfers (if the transfer is successful)
• Privacy Protection
• SEO Plans

Any products or services that were suspended, canceled, or terminated due to the abusive usage of the products, services, or any other violation of the Terms and Conditions are not eligible for a refund.

The purpose of the refund is for customers to try and understand whether the services provided by Localboost suit their needs. In any way, Localboost will not tolerate abusive usage of refunds (i.e., refunding the same services multiple times and/or repetitively purchasing and asking for a refund for services purchased in bulk, etc.). Localboost reserves the right to unilaterally decline the request for a refund if any of the signs related to the abuse of the refunds occur.

From time to time, Localboost offers special deals such as a free domain when buying a 24 or 48 month hosting plan. Keeping in mind that there are different conditions for domain refunds (as described in this Refund Policy), Localboost reserves the right to refund you a difference between your paid amount and the domain you received for free price. In such a case, you can keep using a domain name for the remaining billing period term.

Refunds from Balance. Over-funded balance can be refunded within 30 days of the payment that resulted in the over-funding.

Chargebacks. If at any time, we record a decline, chargeback, reversal, payment dispute, risk of payment fraud or other rejection of a charge of any payable fees on your Localboost account (“Chargeback”), this will be considered as a breach of your payment obligations hereunder; therefore, you agree that Localboost may pursue all available lawful remedies in order to obtain payment, including but not limited to, immediate termination, without notice to you, of your Localboost account and any domain names or Localboost services registered or renewed on your behalf (“Services”). In addition, this will also result in disabling the option to checkout with a credit card for your Localboost account to limit the risk of payment fraud.

In the event a Chargeback is performed, your Localboost account may be blocked without the option to re-purchase or re-use it, and any data contained in such a Localboost account, including any certain content, features, or capacity of your Localboost account may be subject to cancellation and loss of data.

Your use of the Localboost Services and the ability to checkout using credit card will not resume until you either verify the payment method used for the disputed transaction, by providing:

• providing proof of the payment or a simple censored photo of the credit card, with uncovered first 6 (six) and last 4 (four) digits; or
• pay any applicable fees in full, including any fees and expenses incurred by Localboost and/or any third party services for each Chargeback received (including fees for Localboost Services provided prior to the Chargeback, handling and processing charges and fees incurred by the payment processor).

Cases related to criminal fraud chargebacks or obvious payment fraud (i.e. cases where compromised credit card details were used to make purchases) will result in permanent service termination without any option to recover.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding a payment made to Localboost, we encourage you to first contact our Customer Support team before filing a Chargeback or reversal of payment, in order to prevent the Localboost Services from being canceled and your Localboost account being blocked, and to avoid the filing of an unwarranted or erroneous Chargeback, which may result in your being liable for its applicable fees, in addition to re-payment of all the fees applicable to the Localboost Services purchased (and charged-back) by you.

We reserve our right to dispute any Chargeback received, including by providing the relevant credit card company or financial institution with any information and documentation proving that the User responsible for such Chargeback did in fact authorize the transaction and make use of the Services rendered thereafter.

Definition. “Third Party Software” means any software or application developed and owned by a third party provider that we may contract with from time to time.

Operating Software. We reserve the right to modify, change, or discontinue any Third-Party Software at any time, and you agree to cooperate in performing such steps as may be necessary to install any updates to the Third-Party Software. The Third-Party Software is neither sold nor distributed to you, and you may use the Third-Party Software solely as part of the Services. You may not use the Third-Party Software outside of the Services. We may provide your personal information to third-party providers as required to provide the Third-Party Software. You acknowledge and agree that your use of the Third-Party Software is subject to our agreement(s) with the third-party providers. In addition, if the Third-Party Software is accompanied by or requires consent to a service or license agreement from the third-party provider, your use of the Third-Party Software is subject to such service or license agreement. You may not download, install, or use any Third-Party Software that is accompanied by or requires consent to a service or license agreement from a third-party provider unless you first agree to the terms and conditions of such service or license agreement. You may not remove, modify, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices that are contained in or on the Third-Party Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Third-Party Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that the third-party providers (and their affiliates and suppliers) make no representations or warranties about any Third-Party Software offered in connection with the Services, and expressly disclaim any liability or damages (whether direct, indirect, or consequential) arising from the use of the Third-Party Software. You acknowledge and agree that any Third-Party Software will be supported by us and not by the third-party providers (or their affiliates or suppliers).

The titles and headings of this Agreement are for convenience and ease of reference only and shall not be utilized in any way to construe or interpret the agreement of the parties as otherwise set forth herein. Each covenant and agreement in this Agreement shall be construed for all purposes to be a separate and independent covenant or agreement. If a court of competent jurisdiction holds any provision (or portion of a provision) of this Agreement to be illegal, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable, the remaining provisions (or portions of provisions) of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby and shall be found to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.