Terms of Service
Imagine Solutions provides web hosting to clients worldwide, and we have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. All clients of Imagine Solutions are subject to the following terms of service:
INDEMNIFICATION POLICY
You agree to use all Imagine Solutions services and facilities at your own risk. Imagine Solutions specifically disclaims all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Imagine Solutions be liable for any loss, or loss of data, or other commercial damage, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential or other damages. Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Imagine Solutions harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees asserted against Imagine Solutions, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it’s agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Imagine Solutions against liabilities arising out of Any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Imagine Solutions’s server. Imagine Solutions reserves the right to intervene with any of the sites hosted on its servers in the interest of its customers. Any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party Copyright infringement any defective products sold to customer from Imagine Solutions’s server. Imagine Solutions shall be the sole judge of what violates this Policy.
BILLING:
At this time we bill monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually, depending upon the plan. If you are not satisfied within your first 30 days we would be happy to provide you with a full refund (For some special offers the money-back-guaranteed day will be varied; and Domain Name registration fee and any addons like (Softaculous,cPanel or WHMCS) is non-refundable). We accept Visa and Mastercard. For Web Hosting plans we will setup your account without any payment. Clients are encouraged to pay by credit card as it is the easiest way to handle payment at this time. There are no contract periods but for each successive period, your contract is automatically renewed unless we are notified otherwise.
Please note we do not refund full amounts since purchase, if unsatisfied with service we refund you only for that month alone. Only web hosting is refundable. Note: We only refund to Bank Accounts and can refund Payfast transactions and Paypal transactions.
Please Note: Accounts with Proof of payment are always not guaranteed activation or credit due to us have a large amount of fake proof of payments being sent. Hence billing team will do this with approval from management or until payment reflects. Please ensure you submit proof of payment earlier than due date to ensure your account stays active.
We do not apply any refunds prior to 60 days for any service.
Each account as a domain set. Please note this in no way can be changed after the first week of existence, please apply for a new package if you require a new domain to be used
Please note we do not register any domains without or before payment is made
NON REFUNDABLE SERVICES
- Domains Registered
- WHMCS Licences
- Softaculous
- cPanel Licensing
Note the above are included in many VPS or Reseller packages hence the cost may be subtracted from the total amount before refund is completed.
CREDITS:
Credits on accounts due incorrect billing by Billing department will be processed immediately
Withdraws for Affiliate Credits or payments can take 21 days
Credits to bank accounts can only be done 21 days from request
Amendments
You agree that Imagine Solutions may amend this agreement at any time without notice to you. You agree to keep advised of any changes to this agreement by checking the Imagine Solutions on a periodic basis on the announcement pages
AFFILIATES:
Affiliates get paid 20% Once Off every payment their signups make
Withdraws for Affiliate Credits or payments can take 21 days
LATE PAYMENTS:
All accounts are billed according to the dates they were first activated on. If you will not pay for service renew 7 days after service due date, your account will be suspended. If you will not pay for service renew in 90 days after the due date, your account will be terminated. You will receive numerous email reminders aswell as an invoice before the due date to remind you of payment, you may also receive SMS reminders if possible but is at our discretion.
Imagine Solutions will not be held liable for the loss or suspension of customer services due to non-payment.
We recommend customers pay a few days before due date to ensure their accounts or hosting does not get suspended or terminated.
DOMAINS:
Domain Purchases are non-refundable.
Transfer fees are non-refundable when domain is already transferred
If you are registering or transferring a domain name you must also agree to the Domain Name Registration Agreement.
Domains shall be renewed at the same price as new registrations. The current pricing is displayed on our website.
Domain renewal reminders will be sent in advance of expiration via email to the address stored in your client area.
After 29 days of being expired, domains enter the redemption period. At this point, eNom requires renewal fee of $250 to $300 to renew the domain name. Imagine Solutions will request that you to pay this cost until the 36th day past expiration, after which the domain will no longer be available and may have to be re-registered when it becomes available.
Should an expired domain enter the redemption period, the cost of restoring the domain shall be no more than R3200.
Prices to domains can change unexpectedly at anytime. We will notify customers within 24 to 48 hours of such a change
Should a reseller’s client contact us to renew a domain we will assist only in such a request.
We do not assist client’s clients in anyway – it is against policy and unethical to do so
Should a reseller’s client contact us to transfer a domain we will not assist unless written consent from our client is provided or Form 2 of COZA (Uniforum) is done with attached affidavit
ACCEPTABLE USAGE POLICY:
Please refer to AUP
RESOURCE USAGE:
Users may not:
1) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
2) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
3) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
4) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
5) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
6) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
7) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
8) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes.
9) Run any MySQL queries longer than 15 seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.
10) When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include(“https://yourdomain.com/include.php”) use include(“include.php”)
11) To help reduce usage, do not force html to handle server-side code (like php and shtml).
12) Only use https protocol when necessary; encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more CPU-intensive than unencrypted communications.
EXCESSIVE USAGE:
To ensure service levels within the Shared Hosting platform are stable and reliable, Imagine Solutions utilises various methods to protect its customers and associated systems from abuse which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Excessive SQL Databases: Services with SQL databases larger than 4GB individually, or if a database is deemed to be negatively affecting the shared hosting platform (i.e. if the database uses 200% more resources than our average database, or exceeds a reasonable RAM allocation).
Excessive inode count: Services with an inode count in excess of 200 000 may result in adverse effect on server performance and is may be deemed abuse at Imagine Solutions’s discretion. You will need to upgrade to a VPS Server if necessary.
Excessive domain, email and FTP services: Imagine Solutions does not set specified limits to the domain, email and FTP services, but at it’s sole discretion may suspend or deactivate a service should it adversely be impacting the performance of the Shared Hosting environment.
Excessive bandwidth and diskio usage.
No Gambling sites, Lottery sites, Pornography sites, Music, Movies or excessive streaming allowed as this is for web hosting, web services alone and to have fair usage and environment for all clients.
We note any usage above 300GB as excessive per month but only if it affects other customers by causing high diskio or network usage is used excessively.
ZERO TOLERENCE PHISHING POLICY
Any account found to be hosting a phishing page will be suspended and/or terminated with or without notice at our discretion. Phishing is defined as any site that masquerades as another trustworthy site in attempts to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card information, banking information, pin numbers, or any other personal information.
Phishing pages result in stolen identities, stolen banking information, stolen credit card information, and fraud that can cause the victims of these pages weeks, months, years, or even a lifetime of problems. Due to the serious issues that phishing pages cause, phishing is not something that is taken lightly. In the event that your account is suspended for phishing there is a very good chance that your account will not be re-enabled.
Any account suspended or terminated due to a phishing policy violation will be ineligible for refund. We may invoice you an hourly fee of R750 per hour rounded up to the nearest hour for all time spent investigating any report that results in account suspension or termination.
SPAMMING
Why has my Account or Server been suspended?
As part of our agreements with you, you agree to accept the bounce back limit and to not send spam. If we suspect that you have violated our agreements with you, we will suspend your account. Whenever possible we attempt to notify you prior to suspending your account.
We give a 3 strike policy we will assist in stopping the spam for you which will continue to monitor. If we find the spam to continue more than 3 times we have no choice but to suspend your server/service indefinitely to protect our other users.
Below are more reasons why your account may be suspended. To resolve an issue, please contact support@Imagine Solutions.co.za.
Unverified Email Addresses — We might suspend your account if your email contacts has too many unverified email addresses. If we receive bounce back emails from these addresses, we suspect the addresses have been used for spamming.
Spam Complaints — We might suspend your account because we received too many spam complaints. This means than an unacceptable number of recipients of your email campaign have actively flagged the message as spam and indicated that they either did not ask to receive the messages, or that they do not know who you (the sender) is.
Remember that we define spam as any message sent without the recipient’s prior consent to receive the message(s). A fine of R400 will be applied if serious bounce backs and spam is suspected and found. We then provide one last warning.
No Refunds will be given to customers found spamming even within 30 day policy.
ANTI-SPAM / ANTI-VIRUS
We use clamd antivirus and spamassassin to SCAN all emails. Note no service provider is full proof hence we alway recommend your local PCs antivirus be updated and on at all times.
Antivirus recommendations: Avast or AVG
TROUBLESHOOTING / SUPPORT
We try and assist every customer new or existing with support.
We can never guarantee we can solve your website issues. Though we will surely try and resolve the issues if we can
You agree that we will not be held liable due to human error causing financial loss or issue of any sort. We will try and assist where we can as best we can but it is the clients responsibility to ensure all works as requested and inform us if there are any issues.
If you migrate your website or application to us please note we can never guarantee it will work on our servers as other web hosts have custom setups. Some hosts use third party applications we may not support aswell as their setups may differ from our own servers.
VPS Clients on unmanaged servers please be aware we assist with installation of OS, Firewall and SQL Server installs and are no way responsible for troubleshooting your applications, websites or databases. Optimization and speed we may try and assist with but ultimately please note you are responsible in resolving any performance related issues unless proven to be NODE or Host server related.
Imagine Solutions is in no way responsible in setting up or installing third party applications on Unmanaged VPS servers
Imagine Solutions Support will not install any software or applications or change settings on other hosts servers even if clients request it. This is to protect us from the other host with respect to legal issues if found or our customers customer that may involve us in legal issues. Hence unfortunately we cannot do this.
Imagine Solutions hosts servers in Hetzner’s data center hence you will be required to upload data via FTP or SSH no matter the size.
Imagine Solutions cannot assist in setting up servers with any other host or ISP. This is your sole responsibility to request support from that host or ISP. It also against our internal policy as we need to focus on our customers at all times.
We reserve the right to stop assisting you if we feel we do not have the knowledge or know how to solve you customer application issues or your application does not work on our servers
BULK EMAIL
Why has my Account been suspended?
Bulk Emailing excessively from your account that causes shared web hosting servers to become unresponsive or slower than normal due to large amounts of account spamming via a reseller account or shared hosting account is also seen as spamming or abuse on the network and will be suspended immediately.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
Imagine Solutions shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental and consequential damages, which may arise from Imagine Solutions servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, Imagine Solutions shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental or consequential damages, resulting from the corruption or deletion of any web site from one of Imagine Solutions servers. All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination of service.
DISCLAIMER:
Imagine Solutions cannot be held liable for system downtime, crashes, or data loss. We cannot be held liable for any predicted estimate of profits in which a client would have gained if their site was functioning. Certain services provided by Imagine Solutions are resold. Thus, certain equipment, routing, software, and programming used by Imagine Solutions are not directly owned or written by Imagine Solutions. Moreover, Imagine Solutions holds no responsibility for the use of our clients accounts. If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed, the account in question will be automatically deactivated. We reserve the right to remove any account without advanced notice for any reason without restitution as Imagine Solutions sees fit. FURTHERMORE, Imagine Solutions retains the right to change any or all of the above Policies, Guidelines, and Disclaimer without notification.
UNLIMITED HOSTING:
What’s not allowed in “Unlimited”?
Basically, sites whose essential purpose is to use disk or bandwidth.
When making a website, you should be thinking about “How can I make an interesting site for my visitors while minimizing my server storage, bandwidth, file system, memory, and cpu impact as much as possible?”
The result will be a better experience for your visitors, your web host, and yourself!
Here are some specific examples of things not allowed:
Copyrighted content to which you do not hold usage or distribution rights.
File upload / sharing / archive / backup / mirroring / distribution sites.
A site created primarily to drive traffic to another site.
Making your account resources available (whether for free or pay) to the general public.
Imagine Solutions’s “unlimited” features on shared web hosting service is not intended to allow a single or few subscribers to unfairly or adversely impact the hosting experience of other subscribers. If this occurs the website will be stopped and owner informed. We may suspend the account in severe cases.
WEBSITE TRANSFERS:
END USERS: We assist with transferring your websites if under 5 websites on cpanel infrastructure(Note this is done via queue system so we do it as we can hence may be delay in transfers)
RESELLERS: Resellers need to be able to transfer websites and assist their customers themselves. We will guide and assist where we can though. Also if you have cPanel backups we can restore them for you. Note: Only cPanel other Control Panels are not easy to transfer and you will need to do them manually.
SHARED WEB HOSTING / VPS HOSTING:
By using Hosting services provided by Imagine Solutions, you accept the agreement to these terms of use. Imagine Solutions reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify these terms at any time. Please check these terms regularly for changes. Your continued use of Imagine Solutions following the posting of any changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Imagine Solutions reserves the right to remove any file from its servers that it determines is in violation of its rules and guidelines. Users are solely responsible for all files contained in their own directories. The following is a list of content and behavior that is NOT acceptable on web pages hosted by Imagine Solutions:
- Content that promotes or contains links to sites containing nudity, pornography, adult material, sex, exploitation of children, etc.
- Content that infringes on copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property. This includes serial numbers for software for the purpose of illegally registering or validating software, unlawful MP3 music files, copyrighted images or videos, etc. You may not use Imagine Solutions’s services or servers in any manner which infringes the intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of any third party including, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization. Infringement may result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and posting of pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works, and videos. In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”),
- Content that condones, promotes, contains, or links to unlawful products or activities, including cracks, hacks, their associated utilities, or other piracy related information. fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (i.e., make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes), or furnish false data on any signup form, contract or online application or registration, or fraudulently use any information obtained through the use of Imagine Solutions’s servers or services, including without limitation use of credit card numbers.
- Web sites using our free service that primarily serve non-html files. Non-html content includes binary files, downloads, large images, streaming media, video clips, programs (e.g. .exe), large media files split into multiple small ones, archived material (e.g. .zip, .rar, .ace, etc). Or sites with little html content, and whose main purpose is for sharing non-html files for download. Sites using Imagine Solutions’s free service may not exceed 250MB of bandwidth per month per account.
- Spanning Web sites over multiple accounts in order to increase available web space. Each account must host its own website and may not be a duplicate or an extension of another website on Imagine Solutions’s servers.
- “hotlinking” site is not allowed in Imagine Solutions’s service. All non-html files must be linked to html pages on the user’s site. Links to non-html files on a user’s page from other sites must FIRST link to an html page on that user’s account. Other sites may NOT link directly to non-html content such as images.
- Content that promotes the sending of unsolicited e-mail (spam), or mail fraud schemes. Users who utilize Imagine Solutions’s resources, including e-mail addresses for spam are also subject to prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Note: We also do not reimburse any payments when found spamming.
- Content that is racist, or otherwise extremely offensive to others, including content which threatens or abuses others.
- Sites that abuse our upload services by excessive uploading or attempting to maintain a long-term persistent connection. This includes Web Cam sites that “camp” on the FTP servers to continuously update images.
- Free hosting accounts will only be provided to clients residing in South Africa.
- For service in other languages e.g. cn.Imagine Solutions.co.za, If the act of the user account in the jurisdiction could be considered illegal or anything that adversely affects Imagine Solutions, then the site would be taken away.
Imagine Solutions provides no-banner free hosting services.
OVERAGES:
Please note if you do not stay within the bounds of your plan you can receive an overage bill.
We reserve the right and without notification to charge for such overages
You may query this with support department at any time if you so choose
VPS Servers that exceed Bandwidth will be auto-suspended, (Note: it is Unmanaged VPS customers responsibility to keep their VPS servers secure and passwords secure)
INODE LIMITATIONS:
Excessive inode count: Services with an inode count in excess of 200 000 (soft limit) may result in adverse effect on server performance and is may be deemed abuse at Imagine Solutions’s discretion – These accounts will be removed from backups – We have however set a hard limit of 250 000 per hosting “user” account. Same goes for Reseller “User” accounts. Reseller WHM accounts itself are excluded.
Accounts found to be exceeding the 200,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage. Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.
Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose “Mail”, then “Default Address”, “Set Default Address”, and then type in: :fail: No such user here.
BACKUP LIMIT – SHARED HOSTING:
Any shared account using more than 20 gigs of disk space will be removed from our weekly backup with the exception of Databases continuing to be backed up. All data will continue to be mirrored to a secondary drive which helps protect against data loss in the event of a drive failure.
We don’t backup SUSPENDED accounts by us or resellers
We don’t keep email backups for retrieval. We have Mail Server backups only
We keep 4 weekly backups for a period of one month
VPS SERVER BACKUPS:
All VPS Servers come daily backups. This is to protect from server, system or client data loss. Clients may still create their own backups if required. Unmanaged servers do not have local or weekly backups, Unmanaged VPS clients should ensure they have setup some SVN or backup system on their VPS for database and web file backup revisions. Managed servers however can be set to have daily, weekly or monthly backups from withing WHM in cpanel.
LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA:
You acknowledge and agree that Imagine Solutions is not and shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or corruption of data that you may experience on the Services or otherwise, nor are we required to return to you any data that you have stored on the Services. This includes, without limitation, the loss or corruption of data resulting from the suspension, deletion, or modification of your web pages or the Imagine Solutions site, network, system, or server “crashes” or outages, or other power outages, damage caused by viruses, worms, or security breaches, file corruption, and any other cause. We recommend that you to maintain backup versions of your web pages and related information to help protect yourself against such losses. We however do server backups daily and account weekly backups and have and will continue to do our utmost to protect all our clients even free hosting client’s data to the fullest extent with all our backup software and servers.
TERM/TERMINATION:
- Term. This agreement shall be effective upon when applying for hosting services from Imagine Solutions.
- You may terminate this Agreement immediately for any reason at any time by sending mail to support@Imagine Solutions.co.za.
- Termination by Imagine Solutions.
- When account is cancelled and terminated backups are only kept for a period of 1 week. Please contact us within 1 week if you require backup of your cancelled account.