Good--Games.Net  reserves the right to change this Policy any time, so please, check this page at least once every 30 days or when in doubt. Update to this policy will be announced at  Good--Games.Net  forums.  Good--Games.Net  strives to provide the best possible service to all our customers, but we will not tolerate any unlawful activity or abuse on our servers. We respect freedom of speech and expression unless it is harmful to others. These brief guidelines are imposed to protect you, other  Good--Games.Net  customers and  Good--Games.Net  against such harm. Signing up with  Good--Games.Net  and/or any of its services shows your agreement with our TOS [Terms of Service] and AUP [Acceptable Use Policy]. Should the AUP or TOS be changed for any reason, the users will have 30 days to change their site to abide by the regulations set forth in AUP and TOS. The information in the AUP is in conformity with the information in the TOS. Should any conflict rise between the two documents, the information and rules set forth in the TOS will supersede any other information.

Payment Policies, Fees, Refunds and Terms of Agreement:

Full payment is required before any  Good--Games.Net  service is rendered, which includes renewals. All payment-due notices will be sent by electronic mail. No bills or invoices will be sent by postal mail or fax. Payments must be paid through one of the methods listed on our payment page. Prepayment is due each anniversary (one month, three month, six month, one year, two years, or other duration if agreed upon in advance) following the date the account was established. Billing will continue until you cancel your hosting account. You may cancel at anytime. As a policy, we do not offer credits or refunds for hosting time already expended.

You can update your billing information anytime by contacting  Good--Games.Net  via the official support channels. Failure to update your credit card, whenever a change is necessary, with the latest information could result in a billing for your  Good--Games.Net  service being unsuccessful, which in turn may result in the suspension or termination of your service's] with  Good--Games.Net .

We do give refunds for full months unused, should you want to cancel a prepaid service. If you decide to cancel after prepayment, you will not receive a refund for the current month in use (We do not give partial months refunds). If you have prepaid and received a multi-month discount, upon cancellation we will figure the refund retroactively withdrawing the discount back to the start date of the contract. This will result in paying full-undiscounted price for the months used and refunding the balance. This only applies to cancellation by the client. If cancellation is done by  Good--Games.Net  due to restrictions violation, there will be no refund.  Good--Games.Net  will only allow for the discount if cancellation is not the fault of the client, as determined by  Good--Games.Net . All monetary transactions are in $US dollars. Additional features can be added at any time. Monthly feature prices are not prorated.  Good--Games.Net  reserves the right to change prices at any time. It is the sole discretion of  Good--Games.Net  to provide refunds, whether full or partial, for duration of time after the first 30 days of your first initial payment.

Account Cancellation:

You may cancel at anytime. Phone requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancellation. To cancel your account, please contact Customer Service at cs@ Good--Games.Net . Notification of cancellation must be received at least five business days prior to your cycle date, with the cycle date being the day of the month you sign up, in order to avoid charges in full for the next cycle. It is the Clients Responsibility to secure email confirmation from  Good--Games.Net  that account has been canceled. If the client has not yet received email confirmation of account cancellation, then the account remains active, and you will continue to be invoiced.
 

If Client has a balance due at the time of canceled, this balance must be paid in full. canceled does not absolve Client of any outstanding financial obligations.

canceled credit card payment for your  Good--Games.Net  service[s] requires you to contact  Good--Games.Net . PayPal payments can be canceled by contacting  Good--Games.Net , or via your Paypal.com account interface. Note that, canceling any payment in any form, whether via credit card, PayPal, or any other agreed form of payment, automatically results in the termination of your  Good--Games.Net  service[s]. You must contact  Good--Games.Net  prior to canceling any account if you wish to retain your  Good--Games.Net  services in any way.
 

To cancel a hosting plan, simply contact  Good--Games.Net  with your request. Your initial billing routine, whether PayPal, credit card, or any method of agreed payment, will also be canceled. If you have signed up for any additional services such as Domain registration, or extra disk space, which you would like to be cancelled also, you must let  Good--Games.Net  know of these acquired services; otherwise, they may not get automatically canceled from future billing. If such a future billing occurs, simply contact  Good--Games.Net  and you will be reimbursed [refunded] for any excessive amount charged after you cancel your services with  Good--Games.Net
 

Payment Policy:
 

If billing has failed for a client after a continuous 7 days, and no arrangement has been made by the customer beforehand, the account will be suspended for 7 days [starting from the 7th day of the billing failure], and on the 7th day of suspension [which would be the 14th day of billing not working for that client], if the customer still has not contacted  Good--Games.Net , the account will be deleted from  Good--Games.Net  servers and all information stored [files, emails, etc] related to that account will be removed completely. In such a case, any  Good--Games.Net  services offered to a client who has not paid for any  Good--Games.Net  services free due for 14 days, will be suspended/terminated.

Domain Names Information and Payments summary:

Domain name payments are always to be made in advance. Domain name fees are non-refundable. By signing up with  Good--Games.Net  services or using any  Good--Games.Net  service, you agree that you will not claim a refund for the price you paid for a domain name that  Good--Games.Net  has registered for you.  Good--Games.Net  cannot offer any refunds for registered domain names.

Domain name transfer fees from other registrars to  Good--Games.Net  [any current registrar that  Good--Games.Net  prefers to use at the time of signing up for  Good--Games.Net  Domain services], whether or not included with Hosting Services, are also non-refundable.

Domain names fees and information, whether renewal/transfer/registration or anything related, will always be updated with the latest pricing and information at http://www. Good--Games.Net . It is advised and recommended for all  Good--Games.Net  Domain Services Users/Customers to bookmark that page and use it as a reference to be aware of the latest news about pricing and how  Good--Games.Net  manages domain names. The information on the domains page will be in conformity with the TOS; however, if there is any conflict with any of the information at either pages, the information and rules mentioned in the TOS will supersede any other information.

Domain name prices are from year to year, or combination of years [multiple years]; they will not be charged from month to month.

Domain names registered through  Good--Games.Net  Domain Services can be transferred to any other registrar, at any time, for no additional fee. However, if a domain is transferred away from  Good--Games.Net  Domain Services, it will not avail the then pricing structure maintained by  Good--Games.Net  Domain Services; instead, you will be charged by the new registrar, to which you have transferred the domain to, independent of  Good--Games.Net .  Good--Games.Net  will then not be responsible for any actions, charges, or any situations resulting from the actions of the other registrar/party which could affect your domain names in any way.  Good--Games.Net  is not responsible for the action of any third-party services, and your continuing use of any  Good--Games.Net  services, including  Good--Games.Net  hosting services shows your consent and agreement to this rule.

Indemnification Policy:
 

You agree to use all  Good--Games.Net  services and facilities at your own risk.  Good--Games.Net  specifically disclaims all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall  Good--Games.Net  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  Good--Games.Net  harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorneys fees asserted against  Good--Games.Net , 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, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless  Good--Games.Net  against liabilities arising out of:
 

(1) Any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with  Good--Games.Net s server;
(2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party;
(3) copyright infringement and
(4) any defective products sold to customer from  Good--Games.Net s server.
 

 Good--Games.Net  shall be the sole judge of what violates this Policy.
 

SPAM Policy:
 

 Good--Games.Net  is committed to a zero-tolerance, anti-spamming policy. Under this policy, we prohibit Spam, or any unsolicited commercial email, from being sent either: Over the  Good--Games.Net  network, by customers or any other users of the  Good--Games.Net  network (including customers); AND/OR over ANY network- if the message sent advertises or mentions a site hosted on the  Good--Games.Net  server.

We react quickly and seriously to violations, and we further reserve the right to terminate the services, without prior notice, of any customer disregarding this policy. Sending unsolicited commercial email (a.k.a. "spam"), cross-posting messages to a large number of usenet groups, posting obscene or threatening messages while using or referring to an  Good--Games.Net  email address or web site URL is prohibited. The use of  Good--Games.Net  servers as a mail drop for responses to activities described above is also prohibited. Accounts canceled due to spam will be billed a "clean up" fee of $1000.00
If you have any complaints or comments regarding Spam on our network, please direct them via email to abuse@Good--Games.Net 
 

Content Policy:

All services provided by  Good--Games.Net  may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, intellectual property, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute without proper authorization. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless  Good--Games.Net  from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all  Good--Games.Net  servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere.  Good--Games.Net  will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision.
 

Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to  Good--Games.Net  servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable content or links, but not limited to the following, are:

Pirated software
Hacker programs or archives
Warez sites

 Good--Games.Net  does not host sites of its competitors or web pages promoting sites of its competitors. Any illegal activity, including adult content, links to adult content web sites, spamming or hacking will result in your site being shut down and all your files deleted without warning, and your  Good--Games.Net  services being terminated.  Good--Games.Net  will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
 

Email Policy:
 

 Good--Games.Net  may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of any unsolicited email, email bombs, hate email, or any mass email. Your email account may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address of such email. We consider mass email any email message sent to more than 25 email addresses or more than 10 news groups.
 

CGI Scripts Policy:

Each  Good--Games.Net  hosting account comes with its own cgi-bin. You are free to use any CGI scripts you wish, except for chat rooms or similar scripts. We reserve the right to disable any CGI script that affects normal server operation or service to other  Good--Games.Net  customers. You will be notified in 24 hours about the offending cgi script[s].
 

Banned Scripts Policy:

 Good--Games.Net  does not allow the use of some scripts on its servers due to resource issues. Listed below are the scripts that cannot be used:
 

UltimateBBS (all versions)
Ikonboard (all versions)
IRC Egg Drops
Proxy Servers
Safelists
nph-proxy
The Anonymizer
 

Anyone using any of the scripts in the above list will be notified and asked to remove the script. Second violation of these terms will be dealt with according to  Good--Games.Net s discretion.
 

Chat Policy:

 Good--Games.Net  does not allow chat rooms. You can however link your site to a chat provider. Some examples of chat providers are: www.humanclick.com, www.liveperson.com, and www.livehumanhelp.com. We do allow chat scripts that are already installed via Cpanel
 

SSL Policy:

 Good--Games.Net  provides shared SSL, free of charge, for all servers and all accounts, unless otherwise agreed or noted. SSL service is provided as is, without any warranty or guarantee.  Good--Games.Net  cannot be held responsible for any losses that may occur while using ssl.
 

Traffic Policy:

 Good--Games.Net  allows for very generous traffic, and most sites never exceed 500MB per month, unless they offer shareware, sound, video, image and multimedia archives, are mirror sites or any site whose primary purpose is file distribution.  Good--Games.Net  customers are discouraged from storing any files that cause excessive traffic on  Good--Games.Net  servers. Please contact  Good--Games.Net  Technical Support team for more information. Again, most of the sites do not fall into this category and never reach our traffic limits.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason not prohibited by law. Also we reserve the right to terminate service to any customer for any reason not prohibited by law.
Any deliberate attempt to cause damage to  Good--Games.Net  or any other Internet servers will result in immediate account deactivation without prior notice. No refund is given in this case.
All account plans come with a predetermined amount of traffic allowance. We monitor all accounts and can bill extra for each gig of traffic exceeded. You will NOT be charged for transfer that you use beyond our generous data transfer limits without prior notification. You can monitor your transfer at anytime in your Control Panel.

Backups:

Full backups are made weekly, and backups of new/changed data made nightly. No guarantees are made of any kind, either expressed or implied, as to the integrity of these backups. Backups are made for server restoration purposes only. It is the clients' responsibility to maintain local copies of their web content and information. The "Backup Manager" is included in each hosting plan and client can use this tool to back up their files. If loss of data occurs due to an error of  Good--Games.Net , we will attempt to recover the date for no charge to the client. If data loss occurs due to an error on behalf of the client, in securing their account or by an action of the client,  Good--Games.Net  will attempt to recover the data from the most recent archive for a $60.00 fee.

Notice:

The AUP is a detailed information agreement that lists what can and cannot be done with your  Good--Games.Net  hosting account, rules of using  Good--Games.Net  support, how payments are processed, etc. The AUP may change frequently and more often than the TOS.

Any changes in the AUP go into effect right away; on the other hand, any changes to the TOS will go into effect within 30 days of the change. Customers will be notified of any changes to the TOS, via forums or any "current" official means of communication, one [1] day prior to the start of those 30 days. It is the customers responsibility, even if no announcement has been made about it, to keep themselves up to date with the latest TOS and AUP.

If you continue using any of  Good--Games.Net  services, after either AUP or TOS has been changed, or both of them changed, you are expressing your consent and agreeing with abiding by the TOS and AUP, and to follow any rules set within the AUP and TOS. You also agree then, after using any of  Good--Games.Net  services when either the TOS or the AUP, or both, have been changed, that your use of  Good--Games.Net  will not violate the then AUP or TOS. Your continuous use of any of  Good--Games.Net  services shows your agreement to abide by the TOS and AUP.