1. AGREEMENT.
In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your"
refer to each customer, "we", us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS.com
Inc. and "Services" refers to the domain name registration
provided by us as offered through Learning Connections (dba
ToughDomains.com), the Registration Service Provider ("RSP").
This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains
your obligations to us for various Services.
2. SELECTION
OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of the
your knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the
SLD name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly
used infringes the legal rights of a third party and that
the Domain Name is not being registered for any unlawful
purpose.
3. FEES.
As consideration for the services you have selected, you
agree to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment
to us on your behalf, the applicable service(s) fees. All
fees payable hereunder are non-refundable. As further consideration
for the Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain current,
complete and accurate information about you as required
by the registration process and (2) maintain and update
this information as needed to keep it current, complete
and accurate. All such information shall be referred to
as account information ("Account Information"). You, by
completing and submitting this Agreement represent that
the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM.
You agree that the Registration Agreement will remain in
full force during the length of the term of your Domain
Name Registration. Should you choose to renew or otherwise
lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration, then
the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended
accordingly. This Agreement will remain in full force during
the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration
as selected, recorded, and paid for upon registration of
the Domain Name. Should you choose to renew or otherwise
lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration, then
the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended
accordingly. Should you transfer your domain name or should
the domain name otherwise be transferred due to another
Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract shall
cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms in
force for the purpose of registering domain names then in
force between SLD holders and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS
TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period of this Agreement,
that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this
Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under this
Agreement. Any such revision or change will be binding and
effective immediately on posting of the revised Agreement
or change to the service(s) on our web site, or on notification
to you by email or regular mail as per the Notices section
of this agreement. You agree to review our web site, including
the Agreement, periodically to be aware of any such revisions.
If you do not agree with any revision to the Agreement,
you may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing
us with notice by email or regular mail as per the Notices
section of this agreement. Notice of your termination will
be effective on receipt and processing by us. You agree
that, by continuing to use the Services following notice
of any revision to this Agreement or change in service(s),
you shall abide by any such revisions or changes. You further
agree to abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
("Dispute Policy") as amended from time to time. You agree
that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of
your domain name after modifications to the Dispute Policy
become effective, you have agreed to these modifications.
You acknowledge that if you do not agree to any such modifications,
you may request that your domain name be deleted from the
domain name database.
6. MODIFICATIONS
TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of your account
information with us, you must use your Account Identifier
and Password that you selected when you opened your account
with us. Please safeguard your Account Identifier and Password
from any unauthorized use. In no event will we be liable
for the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier
or Password.
7. DOMAIN
NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved or registered a domain
name through us, or transferred a domain name to us from
another registrar, you agree to be bound by the Dispute
Policy which is incorporated herein and made a part of this
Agreement by reference. The current version of the Dispute
Policy may be found at http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
8. DOMAIN
NAME DISPUTES. You agree that, if the registration or reservation
of your domain name is challenged by a third party, you
will be subject to the provisions specified in the Dispute
Policy in effect at the time of the dispute. You agree that
in the event a domain name dispute arises with any third
party, you will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant
to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute Policy.
For any dispute, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction
of the courts of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the SLD name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any ICANN-adopted policy, or pursuant to any
registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an
ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by Registrar
or the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution
of disputes concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY.
Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a third
party you shall nonetheless be the SLD holder of record
and are therefore responsible for providing your own full
contact information and for providing and updating accurate
technical and administrative contact information adequate
to facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise
in connection with the SLD. You shall accept liability for
harm caused by wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly
disclose the identity of the licensee to the party providing
you reasonable evidence of actionable harm. You also represent
that you have provided notice of the terms and conditions
in this Agreement to the third party and that the third
party agrees to the terms of Disclosure and Use of Registration
Information (sections 18 and 19 of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We and the RSP reserve the right to distribute information
to you that is pertinent to the quality or operation of
our services and those of our service partners. These announcements
will be predominately informative in nature and may include
notices describing changes, upgrades, new products or other
information to add security or to enhance your identity
on the Internet.
12. LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire liability, and your
exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided
under this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is
solely limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s).
We and our contractors shall not be liable for any direct,
indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting
from the use or inability to use any of the Services or
for the cost of procurement of substitute services. Because
some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of
liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such
states, our liability is limited to the extent permitted
by law. We disclaim any and all loss or liability resulting
from, but not limited to: (1) loss or liability resulting
from access delays or access interruptions; (2) loss or
liability resulting from data non-delivery or data mis-delivery;
(3) loss or liability resulting from acts of God; (4) loss
or liability resulting from the unauthorized use or misuse
of your account identifier or password; (5) loss or liability
resulting from errors, omissions, or misstatements in any
and all information or services(s) provided under this Agreement;
(6) loss or liability resulting from the interruption of
your Service. You agree that we will not be liable for any
loss of registration and use of your domain name, or for
interruption of business, or any indirect, special, incidental,
or consequential damages of any kind (including lost profits)
regardless of the form of action whether in contract, tort
(including negligence), or otherwise, even if we have been
advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event
shall our maximum liability exceed five hundred ($500.00)
dollars.
13. INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors,
agents, employees,officers, directors and affiliates harmless
from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including without
limitation Network Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers,
employees and agents of each of them, including attorney's
fees, of third parties relating to or arising under this
Agreement, the Services provided hereunder or your use of
the Services, including without limitation infringement
by you, or someone else using the Service with your computer,
of any intellectual property or other proprietary right
of any person or entity, or from the violation of any of
our operating rules or policy relating to the service(s)
provided. You also agree to release, indemnify and hold
us harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions contained
in the Dispute Policy. When we are threatened with suit
by a third party, we may seek written assurances from you
concerning your promise to indemnify us; your failure to
provide those assurances may be considered by us to be a
breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation
of your domain name.
14. TRANSFER
OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as administrative contact
at the time the controlling user name and password are secured
shall be the owner of the domain name. You agree that prior
to transferring ownership of your domain name to another
person (the Transferee") you shall require the Transferee
to agree, in writing to be bound by all the terms and conditions
of this Agreement. Your domain name will not be transferred
until we receive such written assurances or other reasonable
assurance that the Transferee has been bound by the contractual
terms of this Agreement (such reasonable assurance as determined
by us in our sole discretion) along with the applicable
transfer fee. If the Transferee fails to be bound in a reasonable
fashion (as determine by us in our sole discretion) to the
terms and conditions in this Agreement, any such transfer
will be null and void.
15. BREACH.
You agree that failure to abide by any provision of this
Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy
provided by us, may be considered by us to be a material
breach and that we may provide a written notice, describing
the breach, to you. If within thirty (30) calendar days
of the date of such notice, you fail to provide evidence,
which is reasonably satisfactory to us, that you have not
breached your obligations under the Agreement, then we may
delete the registration or reservation of your domain name.
Any such breach by you shall not be deemed to be excused
simply because we did not act earlier in response to that,
or any other breach by you.
16. NO GUARANTY.
You agree that, by registration or reservation of your chosen
domain name, such registration or reservation does not confer
immunity from objection to either the registration, reservation,
or use of the domain name.
17. DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES. You agree that your use of our Services is
solely at your own risk. You agree that such Service(s)
is provided on an "as is," "as available" basis. We expressly
disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or
implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties
of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement. We make no warranty that the Services
will meet your requirements, or that the Service(s) will
be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor do
we make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained
from the use of the Service(s) or as to the accuracy or
reliability of any information obtained through the Service
or that defects in the Service will be corrected. You understand
and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise
obtained through the use of Service is done at your own
discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible
for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that
results from the download of such material and/or data.
We make no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased
or obtained through the Service or any transactions entered
into through the Service. No advice or information, whether
oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the
Service shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.
18. INFORMATION.
As part of the registration process, you are required to
provide us certain information and to update us promptly
as such information changes such that our records are current,
complete and accurate. You are obliged to provide us the
following information:
i) Your name
and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain
name holder);
ii) The domain
name being registered
iii) The
name, postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative contact
for the domain name.
iv) The name,
postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if available)
telephone numbers of the billing contact for the domain
name.
Any other
information which we request from you at registration is
voluntary. Any voluntary information we request is collected
such that we can continue to improve the products and services
offered to you through your RSP.
19. DISCLOSURE
AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge
that we will make domain name registration information you
provide available to ICANN, to the registry administrators,
and to other third parties as ICANN and applicable laws
may require or permit. You further agree and acknowledge
that we may make publicly available, or directly available
to third party vendors, some, or all, of the domain name
registration information you provide, for purposes of inspection
(such as through our WHOIS service) or other purposes as
required or permitted by ICANN and the applicable laws.
You hereby
consent to any and all such disclosures and use of, and
guidelines, limits and restrictions on disclosure or use
of, information provided by you in connection with the registration
of a domain name (including any updates to such information),
whether during or after the term of your registration of
the domain name. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all
claims and causes of action you may have arising from such
disclosure or use of your domain name registration information
by us.
You may access
your domain name registration information in our possession
to review, modify or update such information, by accessing
our domain manager service, or similar service, made available
by us through your RSP.
We will not
process data about any identified or identifiable natural
person that we obtain from you in a way incompatible with
the purposes and other limitations which we describe in
this Agreement.
We will take
reasonable precautions to protect the information we obtain
from you from our loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor disclosure,
alteration or destruction of that information.
20. REVOCATION.
Your willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information,
your willful failure promptly to update information provided
to us, or your failure to respond for over fifteen calendar
days to inquiries by us concerning the accuracy of contact
details associated with the your registration shall constitute
a material breach of this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation
of the SLD registration.
21. RIGHT
OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right
to refuse to register or reserve your chosen domain name
or register you for other Services within thirty (30) calendar
days from receipt of your payment for such services. In
the event we do not register or reserve your domain name
or register you for other Services, or we delete your domain
name or other Services within such thirty (30) calendar
day period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You
agree that we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages
that may result from our refusal to register, reserve, or
delete your domain name or register you for other Services.
22. SEVERABILITY.
You agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable.
If any term or provision is declared invalid or unenforceable,
that term or provision will be construed consistent with
applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original
intentions of the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions
will remain in full force and effect.
23. NON-AGENCY.
Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Dispute Policy
shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership,
or other form of joint enterprise between the parties.
24. NON-WAIVER.
Our failure to require performance by you of any provision
hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance
at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a
breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a
waiver of the provision itself.
25. NOTICES.
Any notice, direction or other communication given under
this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending
it via email or via regular mail. In the case of email,
valid notice shall only have been deemed to have been given
when an electronic confirmation of delivery has been obtained
by the sender. In the case of email notification to us or
to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com
or notice@ToughDomains.com or, in
the case of notice to you, at the email address provided
by you in your WHOIS record. Any email communication shall
be deemed to have been validly and effectively given on
the date of such communication, if such date is a business
day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00 p.m. EST, otherwise
it will be deemed to have been delivered on the next business
day. In the case of regular mail notice, valid notice shall
be deemed to have been validly and effectively given 5 business
days after the date of mailing and, in the case of notification
to us or to the RSP shall be sent to:
TUCOWS.com
Inc.
Registrant
Affairs Office
96 Mowat
Avenue
Toronto,
Ontario
M6K 3M1
- OR -
Learning
Connections
PO Box 690624
San Antonio,
TX 78269-0624
U.S.
and in the
case of notification to you shall be to the address specified
in the "Administrative Contact" in your WHOIS record.
26. ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies published
by us and the Dispute Policy are the complete and exclusive
agreement between you and us regarding our Services. This
Agreement and the Dispute Policy supersede all prior agreements
and understandings, whether established by custom, practice,
policy or precedent.
27. GOVERNING
LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED
AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF PROVINCE OF
ONTARIO AND THE FEDERAL LAWS OF CANADA APPLICABLE THEREIN
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY
ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT IN ONTARIO
AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH
COURTS.
28. INFANCY.
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
29. ACCEPTANCE
OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY
EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING
ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT., GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT
OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.