Terms of Service

1. Definitions
1.1. "Account" means the account held with MetaVpsPlus by the Customer that is used for billing, contact information and details of Services assigned to the Customer.
1.2. “Customer” means the person or entity who ordered Service(s) from MetaVpsPlus.
1.3. “Service”, "Service(s)" or "Services" means any product(s) or service(s) the Customer has ordered from MetaVpsPlus. This can include, but is not limited to, web site hosting, domain name registration or transfer or renewal, SSL certificates, VPS services. These product(s) and service(s) are identified in full within the “sign up” and “service provision” emails MetaVpsPlus sends to the Customer after an order has been placed. The specific details of the Services can be found by logging in to VIPControl or on our website.
1.5. “VIPControl” refers to MetaVpsPlus’s customer account management portal.

2. Acceptance
2.1. The Customer signified acceptance of these Terms of Service, as well as our Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, Customer Service Policy, Service Level Agreement (where applicable) and any applicable Registrant Agreement, when they submitted their order to MetaVpsPlus for an Account and/or Services and that order was accepted.

3. Term
3.1. The Customer agrees to a month contract term for Services unless otherwise stated in the Service offering, or otherwise agreed in writing. The month contract for Services needs to be renewed manually each month in perpetuity and subject to cancellation by the Customer as per Section 14 of this agreement.

4. Service, Marketing and Promotional Emails
4.1. The Customer agrees to receive emails directly relating to the Service(s) provided, as well as marketing and promotional emails from MetaVpsPlus to the email address registered to their account. The Customer can unsubscribe from marketing and promotional emails only, by disabling them in VIPControl.
4.2. The Customer may opt-in to receive email notifications from our Service Status system in relation to their Service(s). This subscription can be modified at any time by the Customer in VIPControl and are disabled unless otherwise enabled by the Customer.
4.3. MetaVpsPlus warrants that they will never sell or trade any email address to any third party, in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
4.4. If the Customer does not want to receive these mandatory service-specific emails messages (where applicable), they are required to cancel all active Services and close their Account, in accordance with Section 14 of this policy. The Customer may, however, opt-out from receiving marketing and promotional emails at any time by disabling them in VIPControl as described in 4.1.

5. Availability of Services
5.1. While MetaVpsPlus will endeavour to provide continuous availability of all Services to the Customer, MetaVpsPlus will not be liable for any Service interruptions or down time that is not covered by a Service Level Agreement.
5.2. Scheduled maintenance will be performed at a time which is deemed suitable by MetaVpsPlus which has the least noticeable impact on the Customer, and should it require the Services to be offline for greater than thirty (30) minutes, MetaVpsPlus will post details of the scheduled maintenance at least two (2) days prior.
5.3. Unscheduled maintenance will be performed as required by MetaVpsPlus, and should Services be offline for greater than thirty (30) minutes, MetaVpsPlus will post details of the maintenance and any updates until it has been completed. Details of these events can been found at http://status.metavpsplus.com.

6. Domain Names
6.1. The registration of the domain name and the ongoing use of the domain name are subject to the relevant naming authority’s terms of service and the Customer is responsible for ensuring awareness of these terms and that they are adhered to. The Customer waives any right to make claim against MetaVpsPlus in respect to a decision made by a naming authority to refuse registration or renewal of a domain name.
6.2. It is the Customer's responsibility to ensure that the Registrant, Technical and Administrative contact information is kept up to date on every domain name.
6.3. As per registry-registrar policy and agreements, MetaVpsPlus will use the Registrant contact information to advise the Customer of any pending expiry, renewal or transfer requests relating to the domain name.
6.4. Should the Customer choose to terminate all services with MetaVpsPlus, but does not transfer a domain name to another service, the Customer agrees that MetaVpsPlus may contact the Customer after the Account closure to advise of any domain name expiry, renewal or transfer.

7. Limitation of Liability
7.1. MetaVpsPlus shall not be liable to the Customer for harm caused by or related to the Customer's Service or inability to utilise the Service unless caused by gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
7.2. Neither Party shall be liable to the other for lost profits, direct or indirect, special or incidental, consequential or punitive, or damages of any kind whether or not they were known or should have been known.
7.3. Notwithstanding anything else in this agreement, the maximum aggregate liability that MetaVpsPlus, any of its employees, agents or affiliates, under any theory of law, shall not exceed a payment in excess of the amount paid by the Customer for the Service in question for the six months prior to the occurrence of the event(s) giving rise to the claim.

8. Customer General Warranties and Undertakings
8.1. The Customer warrants that any information supplied for the purpose of creating an Account with MetaVpsPlus, including but not limited to, first name, last name, address, telephone number and email address is true and correct, and will be kept up to date via VIPControl.
8.2. The Customer warrants that they will keep any passwords or sensitive information used with the Service in a secure location and the information is not to be shared with any other party.
8.3. The Customer warrants that at the time of entering into this agreement they are not relying on any representation made by MetaVpsPlus which has not been expressly stated in this agreement, or on any descriptions or specifications contained in any other document produced by MetaVpsPlus.
8.4. The Customer warrants that all due care has been taken to ensure data integrity before it has been uploaded to MetaVpsPlus's servers. This includes an undertaking that the Customer will conduct the appropriate virus and malware scans on the data before it is uploaded to MetaVpsPlus's servers.
8.5. The Customer agrees that they are solely responsible for dealing with cases of unauthorised third parties accessing their Account and/or Service(s). These matters should be referred to your local police for investigation as soon as possible.

9. MetaVpsPlus General Warranties and Undertakings
9.1. MetaVpsPlus accepts liability for the supply of the Service to the Customer to the extent provided in this agreement.
9.2. MetaVpsPlus does not warrant that:
a. The Services provided within this agreement will be uninterrupted or error free;
b. The Services will meet your requirements, other than as expressly set out in this agreement;
c. The Services will not be subjected to external hacking attempts, viruses, worms, denial of service attacks, or other persons gaining unauthorised access to the Service or internal MetaVpsPlus systems.
9.3. MetaVpsPlus does not make or give any express or implied warranties including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice, with respect to any goods or services provided under or incidental to this agreement.
9.4. No oral or written information or advice given by MetaVpsPlus or its resellers, agents, representatives or employees, to the Customer, shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of the express warranties hereby given, and the Customer should not rely on any such information or advice.
9.5. In no event will MetaVpsPlus be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings or for any other indirect or consequential or economic loss whatsoever.
9.6. Third party services engaged by the client through cPanel including but not limited to SEO and web design tools are done so at the Customers own undertaking. MetaVpsPlus does not provide any express or implied warranty on the quality of their product(s) nor the outcomes expected and is under no obligation to extend support for externally managed or purchased products.

10. Fees and Credit Management
10.1. In relation to fees for Services:
a. Fees for Services ordered by the Customer shall begin on the date of the initial order and shall be prorated to include all days until the first day of the next month, and the chosen billing cycle in advance. This may be monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually, biennially or triennially.
b. The first day of the month will serve as the anniversary date for all future billings including one time fees, upgrades, additional services, cancellations and service credits, unless the Service only allows annual or biennially billing cycles (eg. domain name registrations, SSL certificates, etc).
c. Fees are due in advance of the billing cycle and will be invoiced to the Customer ten (10) days prior to the due date. If a credit card is stored on in the Account, it will be charged three (3) days prior to the due date to allow sufficient time for any potential issues (such as insufficient funds, expired cards, etc) to be rectified before the due date.
10.2. In relation to fees for upgrades to Services:
a. Upgrades ordered by the Customer on the billing anniversary date will be billed for a full cycle and will continue each cycle on the anniversary date, unless the Services only allows annual or biennially billing cycles (eg. domain name registrations, etc).
b. Upgrades ordered by the Customer after the billing anniversary date will be prorated to the next anniversary date at the full monthly cost. Future fees will appear as the new plan from your existing anniversary billing date.
c. Fees for upgrades will be payable within seven (7) days of the upgrade taking place.
d. Additional fees may be payable for upgrades where manual work is required by MetaVpsPlus to process the upgrade request.
10.3. In relation to fees for downgrades to Services:
a. Downgrades will be processed when the request is received by MetaVpsPlus from the Customer, unless otherwise specified in the request.
b. A credit will be issued to the Customer’s Account as account credit for the difference of any prorated pre-paid amount minus the cost of the new plan prorated on the chosen cycle.
10.4. Fees for one-off Services including, but not limited to, dedicated IP addresses, SSL certificates, SMS credits, instant data blocks and instant disk blocks, are due within seven (7) of the invoice being issued.
10.5. All published prices are inclusive of any government taxes and charges unless otherwise noted.
10.6. Any unpaid invoices in the Customer's Account must be paid in full before new Services will be provisioned.
10.7. Failure to pay any fees may not result in the account being referred to an external collection agency.
10.8. Services with unpaid invoices that are not paid in full within fourteen (14) days of the due date will be automatically terminated.

11. Payment Method Management
11.1. In the event a new Service is ordered by a new or existing Customer and payment is made during the order process using credit card, this credit card information may be stored against the Customers VIPControl account. Furthermore the default payment method for that particular Service will be set as Credit Card.
11.2. Where a credit card number is recorded on file and the default payment of the Customers Service(s) is credit card, this may be used for the automated payment of due invoices. In such cases, payments will typically be taken three (3) days prior to the due date of the invoice.
11.3. Management of default payment methods can be conducted by the Customer within their VIPControl account. This includes modifying or removing stored credit card information, as well as adjustment of the default payment method.

12. Refunds
A full refund will be provided to either account credit or returned to the original payment method, if the order was placed within forty-five (45) days of the date that the refund was requested for any of the following Services:
a. Any shared cPanel web hosting Service;
b. Any VPS hosting Service.

13. Suspension and Termination of Services
13.1. MetaVpsPlus may suspend or terminate Services if:
a. The Customer is found to be in breach of any formal policy including but not limited to the Terms of Services, Acceptable Use Policy, Customer Service Policy or any applicable Registrant Agreement;
b. The Customer has become insolvent or bankrupt;
c. The Customer has unpaid invoices as per Section 10 of this agreement.
13.2. MetaVpsPlus may decide at its sole discretion to advise a Customer that their Account and/or Service(s) will be terminated by giving thirty (30) days written notice, and any applicable refunds will be processed as per Section 12.5 of this agreement.
13.3. If a Customer’s Account is closed for any reason, the Customer must pay all outstanding invoices by the due dates.
13.4. If a web hosting or VPS Service is suspended or terminated for any reason, MetaVpsPlus is under no obligation to provide the Customer with a copy of any data associated with the Service. MetaVpsPlus may provide the customer with a backup of the data, if it is available.

14. Cancellation
14.1. The Customer can request cancellation of their Account or any Service(s) with MetaVpsPlus for any reason by logging in to VIPControl and submitting a cancellation request. For security reasons, we will not accept cancellation requests by any other method.
14.2. Any pre-paid fees for Services past the current billing month will be refunded in accordance with Section 12 of this agreement once a refund request has been made by the Customer. This can only be done by submitting an eTicket through VIPControl.
14.3. The Customer agrees to pay any outstanding invoices upon cancellation of their Services.
14.4. If the Customer requests cancellation of a Service after the invoice for the renewal of the Service has been paid, a refund will be issued in accordance with Section 12 of this agreement.

15. Data Management
15.1. It is the Customer's sole responsibility to maintain regular off-site backups of their data. The Customer will not hold MetaVpsPlus liable for incomplete, out of date, corrupt or otherwise incomplete data recovered from backups and archives.
15.2. With regards to shared cPanel web hosting Services, MetaVpsPlus makes every reasonable effort to backup and archive the Customer’s data on a regular basis for the purpose of disaster recovery.
15.3. In the event of hard disk failure or data corruption of a shared cPanel web hosting server, MetaVpsPlus will restore data from the last known verified archive. If all backup and archived data appears to be corrupt, the Customer should be prepared to upload all of their data to their Service from their own copy or an off-site backup, and re-create all mailboxes, databases, FTP accounts, etc.
15.4. MetaVpsPlus takes automatic system backups of all shared cPanel web hosting Services seven (7) times a week.
15.5. MetaVpsPlus takes automatic system backups of shared cPanel Business web hosting Services seven (7) times a week and will also retain a weekly rotation of these backups.
15.6. If the Customer requires MetaVpsPlus to supply a backup of their data for an active shared cPanel web hosting Service, for any reason or purpose that is not the direct fault of MetaVpsPlus, the data will be made available for an active Service only. Services in a suspended or terminated state within VIPControl are not considered an active Service.
15.7. MetaVpsPlus is under no obligation to maintain a backup of the Customer’s data following the cancellation of the Service by the Customer nor by the result of Service termination.
15.8. MetaVpsPlus does not take automated system backups of Virtual Private Server (VPS) Services or any other Service unless explicitly stated.
15.9. MetaVpsPlus holds no responsibility for any issues which arise during the use of third party services bundled within cPanel; this includes but is not limited to Softaculous, Installatron and RVSiteBuilder. Issues which occur as a result of failed upgrade attempts by the Customer are outside the control of MetaVpsPlus.

16. Changes
16.1. MetaVpsPlus may amend our Terms of Service at any time. At all times MetaVpsPlus will make available the current terms for client review and download via our website. Changes to this agreement other than price changes will become effective upon their publication to our website, and furthermore, continued use of the Service(s) constitutes acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not wish to accept the amended terms, you may request cancellation of your Service(s) in-line with our Cancellation Policy as per Section 14 of this agreement.
16.2. All MetaVpsPlus Terms, Policies and Agreements are available for view from our website at any time.

17. Use of Identity
17.1. The Customer agrees to use the MetaVpsPlus logo, company information and related services in accordance with approved marketing guidelines.
17.2. MetaVpsPlus agrees not to use a Customer name, logos or information without prior written consent of the Customer.

18. Entire Agreement
18.1. These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between MetaVpsPlus and the Customer, and it supersedes all prior oral or written agreements, understandings and representations.

19. Governing Law
19.1. The Customer agrees to abide by all local, state and federal laws pursuant to the Services delivered by MetaVpsPlus.
19.2. The Customer agrees that these terms and conditions are governed by the laws of Florida, United States of America, and agrees to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of that state.