The following Terms of Service ("TOS," "Terms" or "Agreement") apply to your use of our website and all services, features and/or content provided by IntechDC (“IntechDC,” "us,", "our"). IntechDC is the trade name of Intech Online Private Limited. By purchasing one or more Services from IntechDC, you declare that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this TOS. The latest version of our TOS is always available on the IntechDC website. It is essential that you read this TOS prior to purchasing any Service(s) from IntechDC.
Intech Online Private Limited, F3, Eternity Commercial Premises, Teen Hath Naka, Thane West, Maharashtra - 400604, IndiaThe TOS apply to all Services provided by IntechDC to you throughout the entire Term or Renewal Term. All customers should agree on all terms and conditions stated prior to their signing up for any of the hosting plans and services mentioned on IntechDC. You shall agree to use only licensed and legal third party software in connection with your use of our services. IntechDC reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided, at any time, or when IntechDC decides that the account has been inappropriately used or otherwise.
IntechDC reserves the right to refuse service and/or access to its servers to anyone. The services provided by us must be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data, or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited.
The activities listed below are meant to provide you with examples of activities and content that are strictly prohibited.
Website content that promotes or advocates human trafficking in any way shape or form as determined by IntechDC’s sole discretion, sites that promote prostitution, or escort services.
Any website found to host child pornography, link to child pornography or exploitative content will be suspended immediately without notice or warning.
Adult materials – Includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of “adult material” is left entirely to the discretion of IntechDC.
Embedding or uploading audio/video/high resolution images on the website or linking to other websites that promote audio/video/high resolution images.
Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material in violation of any regulation or material that is perceived to be misleading.
Warez - This includes, but is not limited to, pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking, IP spoofing and encrypting of any of the above. It also includes any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
IRC Hosts - Hosting an IRC server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server or have a connection to an IRC network. Servers or Virtual hosting accounts found to be connecting to or part of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without notice. The server would not be reconnected to the network until such time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second violation would result in immediate account termination.
IntechDC reserves the right to deem any other content or literature as "prohibited" if found to be indecent, rude, hate content & generally unacceptable.
Refer to General Acceptable Use Policy for complete details on prohibited content and activities.
In compliance with the DMCA act, IntechDC has adopted procedures for parties who believe that a hosted site on our service is infringing their copyrights. All copyright complaints must be submitted to [email protected].
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to any of our servers is strictly prohibited. We hold no responsibility for the use of our clients' accounts. Any account that abuses the resources and actions are not taken to desist the activity, calls for immediate deactivation without any refund. Any site using what we deem to be using excessive CPU cycles or any resources that cause strain to other sites may also be offered new terms (i.e. upgrade). Although we offer 99.98% uptime, we cannot fully guarantee this, due to the updates and upgrades we carry out which is also a part of our maintenance.
If any client is in any way disrespectful towards any member of the IntechDC staff, we have full right to remove them from our services without any refund.
Use of our service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violation of this SPAM policy will result in severe penalties.
Upon notification of an alleged violation, we will initiate a full-scale investigation during which, we may restrict the customer's access to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to have violated our policy, we may, at our sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate the guilty hosting account. Furthermore, we reserve the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. We will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense. Anyone using our service to host websites or services that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their account(s) immediately suspended and an administrative fee of $250.00 will be charged to your account. The account will not be unsuspended until such time that you agree to remove any and all traces of the offending material immediately upon reconnection. First violations of this policy will result in a warning, and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination. A second violation may result in an immediate termination of your account and the administrative fees will be $500. Severe violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account(s) from our network without notice to the customer.
We have a zero-tolerance policy for the use of our service towards posting of messages or commercial advertisements which violate the rules, regulations, or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.
We also prohibit hosting of publicly accessible "open relay" SMTP or anonymous remailer service for any purpose, cause, or reason whatsoever.
If the customer’s account exceeds the bandwidth limit, we would inform the customer. If the customer does not wish to purchase extra bandwidth or upgrade their account and continues to exceed their limit, the account shall be suspended until the customer takes measures to ensure that the limit wouldn’t exceed again or when the account is upgraded, whichever is earlier. The account would be reactivated in the following month.
If the customer fails to complete the account verification process, then no refund would be provided to such customers under any circumstances.
We generally recommend a control panel to manage and operate the VPS. All customers who have a plain VPS would have to configure the DNS, user accounts, mail accounts, and other such activities pertaining to the configuration of such VPS themselves. The support team will not be responsible for this.
Spamming, sending unsolicited emails from our servers or using email addresses that are maintained by us is STRICTLY prohibited and will qualify your site for immediate deactivation with no refund. IntechDC would be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
In order to ensure that our shared servers, cloud & VPS nodes as well as dedicated server hardware nodes give us optimum performance, we have set limits on the number of outgoing mails that can be sent per hour. Accordingly, shared & reseller customers would be allowed to send 300 outgoing mails per hour, our VPS customers would be able to send 1000 outgoing mails every hour and the Cloud hosting customers may send 1500 outbound mails per hour. Customers having dedicated servers may send one email every second i.e. 3600 mails per hour.
We do not guarantee Inbox email delivery with any of our hosting plans.
Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. You agree to back up all of your User Content so that you can access and use it when needed. IntechDC does not warrant that it backs up any Account or User Content, and you agree to accept as a risk the loss of any and all of your User Content.
You as an IntechDC User agree that in no case, IntechDC can be held responsible for the loss of data in any circumstances.
Clients who have subscribed for a paid backup service with shared and reseller hosting plans. For such clients, we take daily backup of the database with a retention period of 7 days. Website backup will be taken weekly with a retention period of 1 day. Any backup copy maintained by IntechDC will not have any emails or media files included in it.
Clients using the cPanel Backup Manager tool for backups should download the backup from the server and delete it. On every Sunday, all the backup files are removed from the server without any notification. You are not allowed to use the hosting space to store backups.
Any service interruptions or downtime due to scheduled maintenance by IntechDC or our network providers will not count towards the uptime guarantee. IntechDC is not liable in any way for failure of third-party services.
IntechDC will not be liable for failure or delay in performing its obligations if such failure or delay is due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of, interruption or delay in telecommunications or third-party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third-party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies or power used in or equipment needed for provision of the Services.
You are responsible for any misuse of your account therefore you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach the security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.
Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is not recommended. You should take care and prevent others from using your account since you will be responsible for the consequences.
Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited and will result in termination of service.
You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools.
You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host. Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. IntechDC will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.
If paying via credit card, debit card, net banking, PayPal the account will be setup immediately once the payment is confirmed. If paying by a cheque, please allow 5 days for the cheque to clear. If paying via postal orders or cash your account will be set up on the same day.
The 30-day money back guarantee is only applicable for first-time signups. Second time and subsequent sign-ups are not eligible for the same. For instance, if you have had an account with us before, cancelled and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.
Refund is not applicable on Domain registration/transfer/renewal, cPanel, Plesk, Control Panel, LiteSpeed, Softaculous, Cloud, VPS, Dedicated Server, Paid Support, SSL Certificates, Sitelock, SpamExperts, WHMCS, Windows OS, SQL, G Suite, Office 365 and any other paid licenses.
The modifications done in pricing pattern or policy by the software license company will take effect immediately on IntechDC clients.
The money back guarantee is provided on Shared hosting, Reseller hosting, WordPress hosting and Email hosting.
No refund will be made if your Service(s) are suspended or terminated for cause.
There is limitation of every hosting platform. On an OpenVZ VPS, GUI is not supported and it won’t be possible to upgrade the kernel or change BIOS setting. Kernel upgrade is possible on KVM Cloud instances but you cannot change the BIOS settings. You won't be eligible for refund in such cases.
The refund will not cover any kind of taxes, setup fees, refund processing fee, postal charges or any kind of payment processing charges or bank fee(s). There will be no refunds issued in case the web hosting account was involved in violation of our terms of service or any kind of illegal or system resources over-usages or after 30 days period or beyond coverage of our refund policy as noted here.
If the web hosting service includes free domain name, and you cancel the web hosting service, the domain charges (standard rate as per website) would be deducted from the refund amount. If the refund amount is less than the domain name price, you will have to pay the difference or forfeit the domain. The ownership of the domain will remain with IntechDC if you fail to pay the difference amount.
Transfer fees would be applicable, if you wish to transfer the free domain name to some other provider. Without transfer fees the domain will not be released.
The payments made through bank transfer, cheque, money order, cash deposit, DD are non-refundable. Refund will be added as credit to the hosting account.
The refund request placed after 30 days will not be processed and you will not be eligible for any refund.
The cancellation request should be sent through client area.
After sending the cancellation request, it would take 4 - 5 working days to complete the refund process.
Your hosting account at IntechDC can get terminated due to the following reasons:
You decide to discontinue:
At any point of time, during your subscription, if you no more want to continue with our services and want to place a cancellation request with immediate termination, your hosting account will be suspended right away and will be terminated within 30 Days.
Cancellation upon expiration:
If you place a cancellation request to discontinue our services after your subscription expires, your hosting account will be suspended at the end of the subscription and will be terminated within 30 Days (after the expiration date).
You did not renew:
In case you fail to renew your hosting account on the due date, your hosting account will be suspended after 24 hrs and will be terminated within 30 Days (after the expiration date).
You violate our Terms of service:
If you violate our terms of service during your subscription period at IntechDC it will result in immediate account suspension and termination. As soon as we have been notified about the violation of service, we would usually take instant action.
Potential fraud:
We have an anti-fraud system that monitors all the orders as soon as they are placed. During such an occurrence, we will carry out a verification process manually. In this process, if we ask for certain information and it is not provided, the account suspension and termination will be done immediately.
A Dispute or Chargeback:
During the violation of our Terms of service if we see a dispute or chargeback placed against us it will result in immediate suspension and termination of your account.
Cancellations:
We may cancel or terminate your account without prior notice.
Non-payment:
If the payment for the service is not received as per the terms agreed upon, the account will be suspended and terminated after 30 days.
IntechDC reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice.
It is your responsibility to review these Terms and Conditions regularly to remain informed of any changes. Your continued use of the service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms and Conditions.
Customer agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold IntechDC harmless against liabilities arising out of -
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and without affecting your rights as a Consumer, you agree that you will not under any circumstances, including negligence, hold IntechDC, its officers, directors, employees, licensors, agents, subcontractors and/or third-party service providers liable for any direct or indirect damages of any nature and type suffered by the Customer or third parties, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, cost savings, revenue, business, data or use, or any other pecuniary loss that may result from: delays, malfunctions, suspension and any other interruption in the provision of the Service(s) due to events beyond our reasonable control (for example: force majeure, third-party conduct/acts, including IntechDC's licensors and suppliers, faults and malfunctions of the machines, software and other equipment, whether owned by us or our licensors/suppliers; acts and/or omissions made by Customers and in contrast with the obligations undertaken under these TOS); data loss due to hardware or software failure; any information, data, content in or accessed through the Services; any action, information or instruction provided as part of our technical support Services; your use of the Service(s). Intech DC will not be held responsible for any unlicensed, crack or any other applications or data which breaches any Software Provider / Licensor’s End user terms & Conditions, the whole and sole responsibility will be yours.
You agree that the foregoing limitations apply whether based on warranty, contract or tort or any other legal theory and apply even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event, we will be liable to you in the aggregate with respect to any and all breaches, defaults, or claims of liability under these TOS or under any other agreement or document for an amount greater than the fees actually paid by you to us for the respective Service(s) during the twelve-month period preceding a claim giving rise to such liability. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. You agree that in those jurisdictions, our liability will be limited to the extent permitted by law and your rights as a Consumer will not be affected. You must not use the Products in any application or situation where the Product(s) failure could lead to death or serious bodily injury of any person, or to severe physical or environmental damage (“High Risk Use”).
Dispute Resolution. Jurisdiction
In the event of any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or related to this Agreement, you and IntechDC shall use reasonable effort to settle such disputes or differences. To this effect, we shall consult and negotiate with each other with the aim to reach a solution satisfactory to each Party.
You agree that the Courts of Thane, Maharashtra (India) shall have the sole jurisdiction over all disputes and other matters relating to the execution, interpretation, enforcement and termination of this Agreement or any other document entered into by the Parties related thereto. All disputes and other matters relating to the interpretation and enforcement of these TOS as well as any other document entered into by the Parties shall be governed by the laws of India.
Change of TOS
IntechDC may modify these TOS at any time with immediate effect. Where the change in Terms is required by law or related to the addition of a new service, extra functionality to the existing Service(s) or any other change which neither reduces your rights nor increases your responsibilities, the TOS will be changed without prior notice to you and shall have immediate effect.
No clarification or explanation of the Terms provided by the Parties will have the power to modify the provisions of these TOS.