Tankweb.net, LLC Terms of Service (TOS)

Tankweb.net, L.L.C. dba ThinkTank Forensics("Tankweb.net") is a client-centered web hosting firm. This Services Agreement ("Agreement") governs your purchase and use, in any manner, of all web hosting services as described in the online order form (the "Services"), ordered by you and accepted by TANKWEB.NET and describes the terms and conditions that apply to such purchase and use of the Services. Under the terms of this agreement, your placement of information on our servers is an acknowledgement that you have read, understand, and agree to bide by terms and conditions below.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Terms of service also includes our Acceptable Use Policy.

TERM AND PAYMENT FOR SERVICES

This Agreement shall be for an "Initial Term" as chosen by you in the Order Form located on this Site at the time you register for the Services. This Agreement will be automatically renewed (the "Renewal Term") at the end of the Initial Term for the same period as the Initial Term unless you provide TANKWEB.NET with notice of termination or change in plan thirty (30) days prior to the end of the Initial Term or the Renewal Term. You must provide TANKWEB.NET with your notice of termination by opening a support ticket (the "Ticket") in the Client Extranet (the "Extranet") When opening the Ticket you must provide TANKWEB.NET with sufficient customer identification information so that TANKWEB.NET may properly identify you and your account. Any notice of termination will be effective following thirty (30) days after TANKWEB.NET's receipt thereof.

TERMINATION POLICY

If you terminate your receipt of the Services prior to the end of the Initial Term or the Renewal Term, whichever is then applicable, (a) TANKWEB.NET will not refund to you any fees paid in advance of such termination and (b) you shall be required to pay 100% of TANKWEB.NET's standard monthly charge for each month remaining in the term, unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you terminate your receipt of the Service prior to the end of the first thirty (30) days of the Initial Term, you are entitled to a refund of the fees you paid in advance for the monthly Services, not including any set-up fees, if applicable. Your termination request or notice must be submitted to TANKWEB.NET in the manner described above. TANKWEB.NET may terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason by providing to you written notice ten (10) days prior to the date of termination. If TANKWEB.NET terminates this Agreement, TANKWEB.NET will refund to you the pro-rated portion of pre-paid fees attributable to Services (excluding set-up fees) not yet rendered as of the termination date unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement.

ENFORCEMENT

TANKWEB.NET may investigate any reported or suspected violation of this Agreement or of the Acceptable Use Policy, its policies or any complaints and take any action that it deems appropriate and reasonable under the circumstance to protect its systems, facilities, customers and/or third parties. TANKWEB.NET will not access or review the contents of any e-mail or similar stored electronic communications except as required or permitted by applicable law or legal process.

TANKWEB.NET reserves the right to refuse or discontinue service to anyone at TANKWEB.NET' sole discretion. TANKWEB.NET may deny you access to all or part of the service without notice if you engage in any conduct or activities that TANKWEB.NET in its sole discretion believes violates any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement or of the Acceptable Use Policy. TANKWEB.NET shall have no responsibility to notify any third-party providers of services, merchandise, or information, nor any responsibility for any consequences resulting from such discontinuance or lack of notification. You agree that TANKWEB.NET has the right to monitor the service electronically from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy the law, or to protect itself or its subscribers. TANKWEB.NET reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, or in violation of this agreement. TANKWEB.NET also reserves the right to refuse refunds in cases where TANKWEB.NET believes abuse has taken place.

PUBLIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET

Please understand that all information submitted on your hosting account shall be considered publicly accessible. Important and private information should be protected/backed up by you. For example, we are not liable for protection or privacy of electronic mail or other information transferred through the Internet or any other network provider that you may use.

NO SERVICE WARRANTIES

TANKWEB.NET makes no warranties or representations of any kind for the services being offered. The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No advice or information given by TANKWEB.NET or its agents or employees shall create a warranty. TANKWEB.NET provides no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted or error free unless otherwise stated in our Service Level Agreement (SLA), or that any information, software or other material accessible on the service is free from viruses or other harmful components. Under no circumstances shall TANKWEB.NET be liable for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages that result in any way from your use of or inability to use the service, or for third parties' use of the service to access your Web space, or to access the Internet or any part thereof, or your or any third parties' reliance on or use of information, services, or merchandise provided on or through the service, or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance. If you are dissatisfied with TANKWEB.NET service or any of its terms, conditions, rules, policies, guidelines, or practices, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the service.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Your License Grant to TANKWEB.NET. You hereby grant to TANKWEB.NET a non-exclusive, worldwide, and royalty-free license for the Initial Term and any Renewal Term to use your content as necessary for the purposes of rendering and operating the Services to you under this Agreement. You expressly (a) grant to TANKWEB.NET a license to cache materials distributed or made available for distribution via the Services, including content supplied by third parties, and (b) agree that such caching is not an infringement of any of your intellectual property rights or any third party's intellectual property rights.

TANKWEB.NET Materials and Intellectual Property. All materials, including but not limited to any computer software (in object code and source code form), data or information developed or provided by TANKWEB.NET or its suppliers or agents pursuant to this Agreement, and any know how, methodologies, equipment, or processes used by TANKWEB.NET to provide the Services to you, including, without limitation, all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets and other proprietary rights are and will remain the sole and exclusive property of TANKWEB.NET or its suppliers, including but not limited to any software programs, inventions, products and/or technology innovations and methodologies utilized, developed, or disclosed by TANKWEB.NET during the term of this Agreement. Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, decompiling, and creating derivative works based on the any such software is expressly forbidden except as permitted in this Agreement. You may be held legally responsible for violation of any patent rights, copyright or trade secret rights that is caused or encouraged by failure to abide by the terms of this Agreement.

You hereby grant to TANKWEB.NET a limited right to use your trademarks, if any, for the limited purpose of permitting TANKWEB.NET to fulfill its duties under this Agreement. This is not a trademark license and no other rights relating to the trademarks are granted by this Agreement. Specifically, but without limitation, the rights granted by this Agreement do not include the right to sublicense use of your trademarks or to use your trademarks with any other products or services outside the scope of the Services provided under this Agreement. The limited trademark use rights granted under this section terminate upon termination of this Agreement.

INDEMNIFICATION AND EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless TANKWEB.NET from any and all liability, penalties, losses, damages, costs, expenses, attorneys' fees, causes of action or claims caused by or resulting indirectly from your use of the service which damages either you, TANKWEB.NET, or any other party or parties without limitation or exception. This indemnification and hold harmless agreement extends to all issues associated with your account, including but not limited to domain name selection and web site content.

Interruption of Service You hereby acknowledge and agree that TANKWEB.NET will not be liable for any temporary delay, outages or interruptions of the Services unless such outage or delay is covered by our Service Level Agreement. Further, TANKWEB.NET shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations under this Agreement, where such delay or failure results from any act of God or other cause beyond its reasonable control (including, without limitation, any mechanical, electronic, communications or third-party supplier failure).

MISCELLANEOUS

In the event that any portion of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

TANKWEB.NET's failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement.

TANKWEB.NET may modify this Agreement from time to time, your continued use of the Service shall be deemed to be your acceptance. If you do not agree to this Agreement, you must immediately stop using the Service.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. Any cause of action you may have with respect to the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.

This Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy and the Service Level Agreement constitute the entire agreement between you and TANKWEB.NET with respect to the Service.

TANKWEB.NET reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, any Addendums and any policy or guideline incorporated by reference at any time and from time to time in its sole discretion, and to determine whether and when any such changes apply to both existing or future customers. Any changes or modification will be effective upon posting of the revisions on the TANKWEB.NET Web site (the "Site"). TANKWEB.NET may post changes or modifications to this document, the referenced Acceptable Use Policies and Service Level Agreement without notice to you. Your continued use of Services following TANKWEB.NET's posting of any changes or modifications will constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications.