1. The Customer wishes to provide DS Creative with data that will be hosted on DS Creative's servers and made accessible via the Internet.
2. DS Creative provides web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer's data upon the following terms and conditions.

DS Creative shall provide to the Customer the Services specified in their order subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. Payment methods include credit cards (including MasterCard and Visa), debit cards (including Switch/Maestro), paypal, cheque, bank transfer or cash.
2. DS Creative do not accept any other form of payment other than those outlined in 4.1
3. The Charges are exclusive of VAT, which if payable shall be paid by the Customer.
4. DS Creative shall be entitled to charge interest in respect of late payment of any sum due under this Agreement, which shall accrue from the date when payment becomes due from day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time in force.
5. DS Creative do not provide credit facilities.
6. From time to time DS Creative may make enquiries on the Customers company, proprietor or directors of the Customers company with credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a search has been made and share this information with other businesses.
7. DS Creative provide "Money-Back Guarantees" on certain products. Should your product qualify for this guarantee please raise a support ticket at hosting.dscreative.co.uk within 30 days of placing your order for a full refund. This guarantee excludes domain names which may not be cancelled once ordered. Customers are limited to using the money-back guarantee once.
8. Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for yearly services that are cancelled before the end of the year.
9. Services not renewed by the renewal date will be disabled. All data will be deleted 14 days after the expiry date of the service.
10. You will receive notifications to your nominated email address prior to the renewal date of services. We cannot be held responsible for any failure to receive renewal notifications.

1. DS Creative shall maintain control and ownership of the IP address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services and reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP addresses.
2. Where DS Creative changes or removes any IP address it shall use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the Customer.

1. If the Customer requires use of software owned by or licensed to DS Creative ("DS Creative's software") in order to use the Services, DS Creative grants to the Customer and its employees, agents and third party consultants and contractors, a royalty-free, world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use DS Creative Software in object code form only, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Customer any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in DS Creative Software.
2. In relation to DS Creative's obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants to DS Creative a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence to use the Customer Software and all text, graphics, logos, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and other material and related documentation featured, displayed or used in or in relation to the website ("the Content"). For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to DS Creative any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in the Customer Software or the Content.
3. The Customer undertakes that he will not himself or through any third party, sell, lease, license or sublicense DS Creative Software.
4. DS Creative may make such copies of the Customer Content as may be necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement, including back up copies of the Content. Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, DS Creative shall destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials provided by the Customer as and when requested by the Customer.

1. DS Creative shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the server and the Services available to the Customer 100% of the time but because the Services are provided by means of computer and telecommunications systems, DS Creative makes no warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free and DS Creative shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime of the server.
2. DS Creative carries out data backups for use by DS Creative in the event of systems failure. Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly DS Creative accepts no responsibility for data loss or corruption.
3. DS Creative carries out data backups of all customer sites and can provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. There is a charge for this service.

1. The website and use of the Services may be used for lawful purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular the Customer agrees not to:
   1. use the Services or the website in any way to send unsolicited commercial email or "spam", or any similar abuse of the Services;
   2. send email or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities;
   3. publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or information which infringes any intellectual property rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed as Warez), via the Services or on the Website;
   4. threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
   5. engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services or via the Website;
   6. make available or upload files to the website or to the Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data; or
   7. obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of DS Creative's network or the Services which are identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers.
   8. operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent server processes.
2. The Customer has full responsibility for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, DS Creative is not obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.
3. If the Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined in Clause 8.1 DS Creative shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the Customer's account without notice.

All alterations and updates to the website shall be made by the Customer using the online account management facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. The Customer will be issued with a user name and password in order to access the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer reasonably believes that this information has become known to any unauthorised person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform DS Creative and the password will be changed.

1. The Customer warrants and represents to DS Creative that DS Creative's use of the Content or the Customer Software in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and that the Customer has the authority to license the Content and the Customer Software to DS Creative as set out in Clause 6.2.
2. All conditions, terms, representations and warranties that are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing or whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded. In particular and without prejudice to that generality, DS Creative shall not be liable to the Customer as a result of any viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer.

The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold DS Creative and its employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against DS Creative arising out of any breach by the Customer of the terms of this Agreement or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the Website.

1. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit DS Creative's liability for death or personal injury resulting from DS Creative's negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors.
2. The entire liability of DS Creative to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen.
3. In no event shall DS Creative be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or DS Creative had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss.

1. This Agreement will become effective on the date the service is ordered and shall continue until terminated by either party in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement.
2. DS Creative shall have the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by notice in writing to the Customer if the Customer fails to make any payment when it becomes due.
3. Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if:
   1. the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the other party to do so; or
   2. the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or
   3. the other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect; or
   4. the other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the whole of its business; or
   5. the other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets.
4. Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
5. On termination all data held in the customers account will be deleted.

1. DS Creative may assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement at any time.
2. The Customer may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any part of it without DS Creative's prior written consent.

Neither party shall be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events.

If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.

Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be served 2 days following the date of posting.

This Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, oral or written. This Agreement may be updated without notice.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Domain names are not deemed to be successfully registered until they appear in the relevant whois database of the top level domain name registrar. In the event that a domain name is unavailable when we attempt to register it DS Creative will provide a full refund for that domain name.

DS Creative are not responsible for customer programming issues other than ensuring that programming languages such as Perl, PHP and ASP are installed and functioning on the web hosting system.

To protect your privacy we will not distribute your details to third parties, unless required to do so by law. Our full privacy policy can be seen here

1. Web hosting accounts include a certain amount of data transfer, if you exceed this amount in any one month your account will be deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that has more data transfer included.
2. Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting file distribution websites (including but not limited to music, video and software), adult content orientated websites, hosting banners, graphics or cgi scripts for other websites, storing pages, files or data as a repository for other websites or personal computers, giving away web space under a domain, sub domain or directory.

Should your account use more than 5% of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your hosting requirements.

DS Creative communicates with it's customers via email and as such you agree to receive by email changes to our terms and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our products & features and special offers.

Web space is available for genuine web site content, content must be linked into web pages. Customers are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository. Customers are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining their account.

Mail boxes not accessed for 100 days or more will be deleted from the system.

1. All subcriptions to the Security and Updates Package are subject to an initial inspection of the site. If additional work is required before the package can commence, this would be chargeable.
2. When you sign up to the security and updates package, we agree to the following:
   1. We will regularly apply all updates to software running on the hosting package.
   2. We will monitor your site for unusual activity and investigate any potential security issues.
   3. We will take and retain daily backups of your website for a 30 day period.
   4. In the event that your site is hacked or suffers other security related issues, we will endeavour to fix this on the next working day. In the event that a fix cannot be successfully completed in a reasonable timeframe, we will restore your site from the most recent backup prior to the security breach.
3. By signing up to the package, you agree to the following:
   1. We will be allowed access to the website in order to apply updates to the software running thereon.
   2. You will not materially alter the software, functionality or structure of the website. This may affect our ability to perform updates.
   3. You will ensure all usernames and passwords are kept securely. We cannot be held responsible for any security breaches caused by login details being distributed insecurely.
4. If commercial software is used on a website which requires a regular payment for a license or updates, we would have to apply an additional charge to cover the cost of this.
5. We cannot be held responsible for loss of business due to any website downtime.
6. Security packages must be renewed before their expiry date in order to continue coverage. There may be an additional charge to restart a package after expiry.
7. The package covers software updates to the website. We cannot be held responsible for any security problems related to server or hardware security where sites are hosted on packages which are not supplied by us.