Policies and Agreements
This Hosting Agreement is made, entered into and executed between DESTER HOST AFRICA, hereinafter referred to as “DESTERHOST” and you, hereinafter referred to as “Customer”, If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity to these terms and conditions, in which case the term “Customer” shall refer to such entity.
WHEREAS DESTERHOST provides various Hosting and related Products and Services;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual promises, benefits and covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, DESTERHOST and the Customer, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
- OVERVIEW
This Agreement is made effective as of the date of electronic acceptance. Your electronic acceptance of this Agreement signifies that you have read, understand, acknowledge and agree to be bound by this Agreement, along with our Terms of Service Agreement, which is incorporated herein by this reference, and any other agreements or policies that are expressly incorporated herein.
DESTERHOST may, in our sole and absolute discretion, change or modify this Agreement, any policies or agreements which are incorporated herein, and any limits or restrictions on the Services, at any time, and such changes or modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. Your use of the Services after such changes or modifications shall constitute your acceptance of this Agreement and any limitations to the Services as last revised. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and any Service limitations as last revised, do not continue to use the Services. We may occasionally notify you of changes or modifications to this Agreement by email. It is therefore very important that you keep your customer account information current. We assume no liability or responsibility for your failure to receive an email notification if such failure results from an inaccurate email address.
- DEFINITIONS
(1) “Agreement” refers to this Agreement along with all its appendices, extensions and amendments at any given point in time.
(2) “Business Day” refers to a working day between Mondays to Friday excluding all Public Holidays.
(3) “Confidential Information”, as used in this Agreement shall mean all data, information and materials including, without limitation, computer software, data, information, databases, protocols, reference implementation, documentation, functional and interface specifications, provided by DESTERHOST to the Customer under this Agreement, whether written, transmitted, oral, through the DESTERHOST Website or otherwise, that is marked as Confidential.
(4) “Customer Contact Details” refers to the Contact Details of the Customer as listed in DESTERHOST’s Client Relationship Management (hereinafter referred to as “CRM”) software.
(5) “Customer Control Panel” refers to the set of Web-based interfaces provided by DESTERHOST and its Service Providers to the Customer which allows him to Manage the products and services.
(6) “Product Agreements” refers to the latest version of a specific Product Agreement of respective service providers, as posted on the DESTERHOST Website www.desterhost.africa.
(7) “Service Providers” refers individually and collectively to any Artificial Juridical Persons, Company, Concern, Corporation, Enterprise, Firm, Individual, Institute, Institution, Organization, Person, Society, Trust or any other Legal Entity that DESTERHOST or its Service Providers (recursively) may, directly or indirectly, Engage / Employ / Outsource / Contract for the fulfillment / provision / purchase of DESTERHOST Products and any other services and operations of DESTERHOST.
- DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
We offer various plans of Hosting Services:
Dedicated Server. A server as per your hardware, software specifications at the data center of your choice exclusively for your account and usage. You will have exclusive rights to your server’s bandwidth, memory, and storage space.
Cloud Server. A virtual server as per your requirement of CPU, RAM, Disk space running on a virtualization platform of a service provider. You will share a server cluster with other customers, but you will have full control over your server space and the complete configuration of your virtual instance on the server. You will have administrator (root) access and a dedicated IP address.
Web Hosting. A control panel-based server offering various hosting plans to serve your website and mails. The server is shared by many customers. The server is pre-installed and configured with a control panel and other add-on software to ease your hosting needs.
Virtual Private Server (“VPS”). A cPanel or Plesk panel based virtual private server as per the offered plans. You will share a server with other customers, but you will have full control over your server space and the complete configuration of the hosting packages under your VPS on the server.
Services by other Service Providers: Like SSL Certificates, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365, Registrations and renewals of Domain names, Site Lock, Google Apps which are published on the DESTERHOST website.
- OBLIGATIONS OF DESTERHOST
DESTERHOST shall make available the latest versions of this Agreement and Product Agreements on the DESTERHOST Website.
(1) The Customer acknowledges that in the event of any dispute and/or discrepancy concerning any data element of an Order or the Customer in the CRM Database, the data element in the CRM Database records shall prevail.
(2) The Customer acknowledges that all information of the Customer in the CRM is accessible to DESTERHOST and its Service Providers
(3) The Customer shall comply with all terms or conditions established by DESTERHOST and/or its Service Providers from time to time.
(4) The Customer agree to provide, maintain and update, current, complete and accurate information for all the data elements about the Customer in the CRM Database.
(5) Customer acknowledges that DESTERHOST Products may be obtained through Service Providers, and as such, changes in structure, or contracts may occur, and as a result services may be adversely affected. Customer acknowledges and agrees that DESTERHOST shall not have any liability associated with any such.
(6) The Customer shall comply with the “The Acceptable Usage Policy” and “The Resource Usage Policies” as part of this agreement.
- OBLIGATIONS OF THE CUSTOMER
(1) The Customer acknowledges that in the event of any dispute and/or discrepancy concerning any data element of an Order or the Customer in the CRM Database, the data element in the CRM Database records shall prevail.
(2) The Customer acknowledges that all information of the Customer in the CRM is accessible to DESTERHOST and its Service Providers
(3) The Customer shall comply with all terms or conditions established by DESTERHOST and/or its Service Providers from time to time.
(4) The Customer agree to provide, maintain and update, current, complete and accurate information for all the data elements about the Customer in the CRM Database.
(5) Customer acknowledges that DESTERHOST Products may be obtained through Service Providers, and as such, changes in structure, or contracts may occur, and as a result services may be adversely affected. Customer acknowledges and agrees that DESTERHOST shall not have any liability associated with any such.
(6) The Customer shall comply with the “The Acceptable Usage Policy” and “The Resource Usage Policies” as part of this agreement.
- REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
DESTERHOST and Customer represent and warrant that: –
(1) they have all requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform their obligations under this Agreement;
(2) This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against the Customer and DESTERHOST in accordance with its terms;
(3) The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the consummation by DESTERHOST and the Customer of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, conflict with or violate: –
(1) any provision of law, rule, or regulation;
(2) any order, judgement, or decree by competent courts / authorities;
(3) any provision of corporate bye-laws, or other applicable laws, bye-laws; or
(4) any superseding agreement or other such instrument, either signed by both parties, or borne out of applicable laws, bye-laws, rules or regulations as notified by competent authorities from time to time.
(5) the execution, performance and delivery of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Customer and DESTERHOST;
(6) No consent, approval, or authorization of, or exemption by, or filing with, any governmental authority or any third party is required to be obtained or made in connection with the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement or the taking of any other action contemplated hereby;
The Customer represents and warrants that:
(1) the Customer has read and understood every clause of this Agreement
(2) the Customer has independently evaluated the desirability of the service and is not relying on any representation agreement, guarantee or statement other than as set forth in this agreement
(3) the Customer is eligible, to enter into this Contract according to the laws of the Customer’s country