Terms of Service

1 FEES; PAYMENT OF FEES

1.1 Fees - FloPortal charges the following fees where applicable. All such fees are subject to change with 30 days notice.

1.1.1 Account Set-Up Fee

1.1.2 Service Fee

1.1.3 Domain Registration Fee

1.2 FloPortal reserves the right to offer subsequent promotional rates which may or may not be more favorable than the terms under which you entered this agreement. Any such periodic special rates shall not effect the then existing rights and responsibilities of each party. FloPortal also reserves the right to change the rate charged for any such fee under this agreement with 30 days notice.

1.3 FloPortal charges a non-refundable set up fee as well as its periodic service fee which in some cases may be refundable as further set forth elsewhere herein. According to the services you order from FloPortal, FloPortal may also charge you for Domain Registration Fees and specifically reserves the right to institute additional charges upon notice to you. FloPortal also reserves the right to alter, change, amend or delete charges at its sole option. FloPortal further reserves the right to institute new services and charge fees in association with the provision of such new services as it deems appropriate.

1.4 Payment of Fees - FloPortal accepts payment by Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover) and by  cashiers check or money order.

1.5 Payment by Credit Card

1.5.1 Prior to activation of your user account and at any applicable time thereafter you agree to allow FloPortal to charge your provided credit card and at stated regular intervals the agreed service fee amount for the stated period together with any FloPortal set-up charges, registration fees, or any other charges outlined herein as may be applicable. You further authorize FloPortal to charge your credit card for all subsequent period fees at, or a reasonable period in advance of, the commencement of any such subsequent period. You agree to maintain current valid existing credit card information with FloPortal for the purpose of satisfying the FloPortal charges as they become due. Refusal or rejection of any such charge or any portion thereof is grounds for account suspension and/or termination at the sole option of FloPortal under Paragraph 8 herein.

1.6 Payment by Check

1.6.1 Prior to activation of your user account you agree to submit a check payable in U.S. dollars against a bank located within the United States. FloPortal is under no obligation to initiate service until the proceeds of such check have been cleared by such financial institution and have been received by FloPortal. Invoices will be submitted to you as a courtesy only. Payment for subsequent fees are due and payable immediately upon invoice and in no instance later than the expiration of the last day of the previous period without regard to any invoice. It is your responsibility when paying by check to make sure that your payment is received by FloPortal. An administrative fee of $28.00 will be charged for the refusal, rejection or return of any such check for any reason whatsoever or any portion thereof. In addition, refusal, rejection or return of any such check for any reason whatsoever or any portion thereof is grounds for account suspension and/or termination at the sole option of FloPortal under Paragraph 8 herein.

1.6.2 It is recommended that in order to avoid any service interruption that you submit your payment to FloPortal a sufficient time before the expiration of the current service period so that it reaches FloPortal in advance of the renewal date.

1.7 Refunds of Service fees will be made only for pre-payment of Service fees beyond the renewal date following the effective notice and termination of this agreement under paragraph 8.1. All refunds shall be pro-rated based upon the number of days for which service remains unused as of that renewal date. FloPortal may grant refunds under any other circumstance if it deems appropriate without waiving any other rights hereunder.

2 WEB HOSTING SERVICES

For the term of the agreement as set forth herein FloPortal agrees to provide web hosting services according the plan selected by you upon activation of your account. FloPortal reserves the right to change, amend and/or otherwise alter the services provided with equivalent or otherwise equal services without prior notice to you. You agree to receive periodic emails from FloPortal in regards to products, services, your account, and system updates.

3 DOMAIN REGISTRATION SERVICES

At Customer's request, FloPortal may also acquire a Second-Level Domain Name ("Domain Name"), on behalf of Customer. FloPortal will not own or otherwise control any domain name registered on your behalf under this paragraph. FloPortal provides this service as a convenience to you only and you hereby waive any and all claims which you may have, or which may later arise, against FloPortal for any and all damages, losses, claims or expenses arising our or related to the acquisition, registration and/or use of the Domain Name. Any costs incurred by FloPortal to obtain and/or maintain the Domain Name on your behalf shall be charged to you by FloPortal under the provision therefore elsewhere herein.

4 ACCEPTABLE USE

FloPortal strictly enforces compliance with its acceptable use terms under this paragraph (4) four. You agree to maintain your website in full compliance with the terms set forth below. Failure to so comply is cause for immediate suspension and possible termination under paragraph (8) herein.

4.1 You agree that you will not violate the laws, regulations, ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Federal, State or local government in all applicable countries.

4.2 You agree not to cause any harm to minors of any kind or to perform any activity which is likely to cause such harm.

4.3 You agree not to take any action which encourages or consists of any threat of harm of any kind to any person or property

4.4 You agree not to transmit any unsolicited commercial or bulk email. You will not engage in any activity known or considered to be "spamming" or "Mail Bombing"

4.5 You agree not to make any inappropriate communication to any Newsgroup, Mailing List, Chat Facility, or other Internet Forum.

4.6 You agree not to make or attempt any unauthorized access to any FloPortal website or the website of any FloPortal customer.

4.7 You agree not to infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.

4.8 You agree not to collect or attempt to collect personally identifiable information of any person or entity without their express written consent. You shall maintain records of any such written consent throughout the terms of this agreement and for three years thereafter.

4.9 You agree not to undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to the FloPortal server (datacenter) structure.

4.10 You agree not to sublease your account or offer free space to other clients using Sub Domains, Add on Domains, Sub Directories, or by any other means. Our web plans are for single users only.

4.11 You agree not to run a banner exchange, free adult tgp (thumbnail gallery post) and free adult image galleries on your website.

4.12 Personal accounts come pre established with 100 MB to 2,000 MB of storage. Business accounts come with 2,500 MB of storage. Business Pro accounts come with 3,000 MB storage. If requesting the additional storage offer at no additional charge, you agree that you must 1) be already utilizing 90% storage capacity with the files being stored directly utilized for the website 2) not be utilizing storage capacity for emails 3) must request the increase in writing to support@FloPortal.com and 4) agree to have storage increased in 500 MB increments up to the allotted maximum free storage offer. All requests for additional storage are subject to approval.

5 LICENSE

FloPortal pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein hereby grants you a non-exclusive, limited, personal, non-transferable license to use the FloPortal Web Hosting Service for the term of the agreement as set forth herein.

6 OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; CONFIDENTIALITY

6.1 It is understood and agreed that during the term of this agreement and thereafter you may come into possession of information which is the confidential and proprietary information of FloPortal including but not limited to the FloPortal customer service and maintenance tools. You acknowledge that all right and title to any such FloPortal intellectual property shall remain the sole property of FloPortal and that you have no right, title or interest therein. You further agree not to provide access to the FloPortal services to any third party. You agree yourself and not to assist any third party in any way to translate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, reproduce, rent, lease, lend, license, distribute, market or otherwise dispose of any portion of the FloPortal Services. Any and all right or title to any engineering, coding, programming or customer service work around or other modification of the FloPortal service shall also remain the sole property or FloPortal.

6.2 During the term of this agreement you may have access to certain information and materials relating to the FloPortal business, customers, software technology and marketing which FloPortal treats as confidential (hereinafter "Confidential Information"). You agree to at all times during the term of this agreement and otherwise as set forth herein: (i) hold in confidence, and not disclose or reveal to any person or entity, any "Confidential Information" without the express prior written consent of FloPortal; and (ii) not use or disclose any of the "Confidential Information" for any purpose at any time, other than pursuant to your rights under this agreement for the purpose intended. These obligations shall continue indefinitely for so long as the Confidential Information is a trade secret under applicable law and shall continue for three (3) years following termination of this Agreement with respect to Confidential Information, which does not rise to the level of a trade secret.

7 TERM

The initial term of this agreement shall be one (1) month with automatic renewal for subsequent additional months after the expiration of the initial term. FloPortal reserves the right to accept pre-payment of renewal periods and may from time to time offer financial incentives for such pre-payment. The term of the agreement, however, shall remain one (1) month.

8 SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

8.1 Suspension - At the sole option of FloPortal for any reason set forth herein or in the event that you breach any term of this agreement including but not limited to Section 1 (Payment of Fees) and Section 4 (Acceptable Use Policy) FloPortal may suspend your account by deactivating any access by you or by web users to any information contained on the FloPortal servers related to your account while maintaining the information and data related to your account upon the FloPortal servers. Suspension shall specifically include the disabling of your hosted domain and/or any access to information or data related to your account. In the event of any such suspension you will be notified and given an opportunity to correct such breach. In the event that such breach is not corrected within ten (10) days the account may be terminated under paragraph 8.2. Service charges will continue to accrue on suspended accounts as if they were not suspended. You will remain responsible for the payment of any such charges during any such period of suspension.

8.2 Termination - This agreement and all of its terms shall remain in full force and effect until it is terminated. Termination shall include the removal of any and all of your information from the FloPortal servers (datacenter). Such information or data may or may not be made available to you by FloPortal after any such termination. This agreement may be terminated either (a) after a period of suspension as set forth in paragraph 8.1 or (b) by either party upon 45 days notice in advance of a renewal period for any reason.

8.3 In the event of termination under paragraph 8.2(a) there will be no refund provided to you. In addition, FloPortal may charge you an additional termination fee not to exceed $200.00 at its sole option. The assessment of this termination fee shall not effect the rights of FloPortal to recover from you losses, damages, indemnity, defense costs, expert costs, collection costs and/or attorneys fees or other costs of any kind as may be applicable under California Law

8.4 In the event of any termination under paragraph 8.2(b) of this subsection any service fees paid in advance beyond the next renewal date following the notice period under that section will be refunded to you. This refund shall not include any set-up fees, Domain Registration fees or other fees which are all non-refundable.

9.0 INFORMATION USAGE

9.1 You hereby consent and agree that as to any information which FloPortal may collect from you and/or maintain with respect to you, including but not limited to your account information, dates of service, billing address, billing records, usage statistics, site statistics, services purchased, domain name purchases, correspondence to or from FloPortal concerning you or your account, or other information which in FloPortal sole judgment is reasonable, FloPortal may disclose such information to public or private third parties as applicable law may require or permit. The decision as to whether to disclose such information as may be required, permitted or otherwise reasonable shall be within the sole discretion of FloPortal and may include but shall not be limited to (1) compliance with court order or subpoena of any State or Federal government, (2) compliance with the Electronic Communications Decency Act, (3) compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (3) compliance with the FloPortal Terms of Service or other policies.

10 NOTICE

10.1 Any notice under this agreement shall be given by FloPortal to you via email at the address provided by you to FloPortal at the commencement of this agreement or as FloPortal is subsequently advised. Notice to you at this address is deemed sufficient regardless of your receipt of such email. If you wish to update your email address you should do so at this page.

10.2 Any notice by you to FloPortal shall be made by telephone to a customer service representative at 1-256-712-1766 during FloPortal regular business hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. Such notice may also be sent via United States Mail to the following Address:

NTS Technologies.
FloPortal
1427 Ingleside Avenue
Florence, AL 35630

11 SURVIVAL

Sections 1, 3 through 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 15 through 19, inclusive, of this agreement shall survive the termination of this agreement and shall remain in full force and effect after any such termination.

12 WARRANTEES AND LIMITATIONS

12.1 FloPortal makes every reasonable effort to maintain operation of the FloPortal service however because as many events and circumstances are beyond the control of FloPortal, FloPortal does not in any way warrant or otherwise guarantee the availability of the FloPortal system or servers and is not responsible for any delay or loss of data, lack of connection, slow connection, or any other such issues whether due to the active or passive negligence of FloPortal.

12.2 THE FLOPORTAL SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

12.3 In general, FloPortal has no control over information contained on the Internet. Information obtained by you from the Internet may be inaccurate, offensive or in some cases even illegal. FloPortal accepts no responsibility for any information which you receive from the Internet. You accept full responsibility to verify the truth and accuracy, legality and ownership of the information that you obtain from the Internet as well as the reputation of the individuals with whom you may deal. FloPortal provides no warrantee for any goods or services which you obtain over the Internet nor the compatibility of any such services with the FloPortal system.

12.4 You specifically hereby waive any claim for damages of any kind whether direct, indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental or consequential, loss of profits or loss of business as the result of any action taken in response to any claim of copyright infringement without regard to whether or not the material claimed to have been infringing is later found to be infringing.

12.5 THE TOTAL SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE RESULT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY ACTION OR FAILURE TO ACT WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR OTHERWISE SHALL BE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SERVICE FEES PAID BY YOU TO FLOPORTAL IN THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PROCEEDING ANY ALLEGATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO SUCH REMEDY. IN NO EVENT SHALL FLOPORTAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF BUSINESS AS THE RESULT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR INACTION WITHOUT REGARD TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES.

13 INDEMNITY

13.1 You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold harmless FloPortal of and from any and all third party claims, causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs, expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of any breach or claim of breach of this agreement or your negligence whether active or passive or any negligence of FloPortal in any way related to your use of the FloPortal service or any portion thereof.

13.2 You agree to fully defend and indemnify and hold harmless FloPortal of and from any and all third party claims, causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs, expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of any violation or claimed violation of any copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party which is in any way related to your use of the FloPortal service or any portion thereof. Choice of counsel remains exclusively that of FloPortal

13.3 You agree that upon the assignment of your user ID and password that you will maintain the confidentiality of your account information and assume all responsibility of and from any loss, theft or other destruction of any data as the result of any access to your account via the use of your user ID. You further agree to defend and indemnify and hold harmless FloPortal of and from any and all third party claims, causes of action, demands, costs, damages including both direct and consequential damages, specifically including attorneys fees and costs, expert fees and costs and mediation and/or arbitration fees and costs incurred (whether paid or not) as the result of any claim for damages in any way related to the disclosure of your confidential User ID and Password information. Choice of counsel remains exclusively that of FloPortal.

14 FORCE MAJEURE

Either party to this agreement shall be excused from any delay or failure in performance hereunder caused by reason of any occurrence or contingency beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of God, earthquake, labor disputes and strikes, riots, war, and governmental requirements. The obligations and rights of the party so excused shall be extended on a day-to-day basis for the period of time equal to that of the underlying cause of the delay.

15 ASSIGNMENT

This agreement and the rights hereunder is not assignable or transferable except that FloPortal may assign i.ts rights hereunder to any person or entity who shall become a principal owner, or shareholder of FloPortal. Any other attempted transfer or assignment of rights hereunder shall be null and void ab initio.

16 SEVERABILITY

If any term, clause or provision hereof is held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity or operation of any other term, clause or provision and such invalid term, clause or provision shall be deemed to be severed from the Agreement.

17 CHOICE OF LAW

This Agreement shall be interpreted under the laws of the State of Alabama without regard to any conflict of laws provisions. Any action between the parties to this agreement for the breach of this agreement or any action or claim in any way relating thereto shall be venued in the Superior Court of the State of Alabama, County of Lauderdale. The parties to this agreement hereby consent to jurisdiction in that court and agree to accept service by mail and hereby waive any defense of any kind related to jurisdiction or venue.

18 NO AGENCY

Notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, FloPortal is not your agent, partner or joint venturer in any respect.

19 AMENDMENT

FloPortal may without advance notice amend this Agreement from time to time, and will do so by posting the new Agreement on the FloPortal web site in place of the old. Each and every such amendment shall be become effective immediately for all pre-existing and future accounts.

20 REQUIRED NOTICES

20.1 Copyright Infringement Claims - Any notice concerning any claim of copyright infringement should be addressed to NTS Technologies – FloPortal, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT CLAIM, 1427 Ingleside Avenue, Florence, AL 35630 Telephone (256) 712-1766 Facsimile (256) 712-1766

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