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Read This Internet Service Agreement Carefully Before Using Our Internet Services. 1. INTRODUCTION. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including any future revisions, you may not use the Services and if you are a current Member, you must terminate your use of the Services under Section 10. 2. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIREMENTS. 3. PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS OF A MEMBER. 4. MEMBER'S ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY. Using a personal account for high volume or commercial use (e.g., revenue generation, advertising, etc.) is prohibited. Email accounts exceeding the Member's allotted email space may, at DPISs discretion, be transferred to a compressed temporary file or storage. DPIS may delete the temporary file from the server 60 days after notifying you. Any free Web site exceeding the amount of space allotted to such Member may be suspended until the Member reduces the disk space usage to the amount of space allotted or less or purchases additional megabytes. Any free Web site exceeding the traffic limits for such Member will be billed for excess traffic. Members agree not to use any automatic method to avoid inactivity disconnect or to otherwise maintain a connection unless actively using it. Members agree not to provide any public information services over a dial-up connection. DPIS may change its POP numbers at any time. DPIS reserves the right to direct Members to use certain numbers to access the Service or to restrict use of specific access numbers. Usernames, passwords and email addresses are DPISs property and DPIS may alter or replace them at any time. 5. MONITORING THE SERVICES. 6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES and LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE BASIS. DPIS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. DPIS MAKES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND WAIVES ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING ANY MERCHANDISE, INFORMATION OR SERVICE PROVIDED THROUGH DPIS OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION GIVEN BY DPIS OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. DPIS AND ITS EMPLOYEES ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS OR DAMAGES ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE INTERNET INCLUDING ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, MULTIPLE, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IN ANY EVENT, DPISS CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO ANY MEMBER FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SERVICE FEES PAID DURING A ONE YEAR PERIOD. 7. SOFTWARE LICENSE. The Licensed Programs constitute confidential and proprietary information of DPIS and DPISs licensors and embody trade secrets and intellectual property protected under United States copyright laws, other laws, and international treaty provisions. All right, title, and interest in and to the Licensed Program, including associated intellectual property rights, are and shall remain with DPIS and DPISs licensors. Member shall not translate, decompile, reverse engineer, distribute, remarket, or otherwise dispose of the Licensed Programs or any part thereof. You may not download, use, or otherwise export or re-export the Licensed Programs or any underlying information or technology except in full compliance with all United States and other applicable laws and regulations. By installing or downloading the Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of or a national or resident of any country on the U.S. Treasury Departments list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Departments Table of Deny Orders. Contractor/manufacturer is DPIS, Inc., 1375 Peachtree Street, N.W., Level A, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. 8. WEB SITE USAGE. We may provide links on the Web site to other Web sites which are not under our control. In general, any Web site which has an address (or URL) which does not contain dospalos.org is such a Web site. These links are provided for convenience only and are not intended as an endorsement by DPIS of the organization or individual operating the Web site or a warranty of any type regarding the Web site or the information on the Web site. You may provide a hypertext link to our Web site on another Web site, provided that: (a) the link must be clearly marked "DPIS", (b) the link must "point" to the URL "http://www.dospalos.org" and not to any other pages within the Web site, (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with our name and trademark(s), (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity is associated with or sponsored by DPIS , (e) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Web site full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked Web site, and (f) DPIS may, in its sole discretion, revoke consent to link to our website at any time. All other hypertext links to the Web site must be approved in writing by DPIS. Some portions of the Web site are made available for the free exchange of ideas by participants and are not regularly monitored nor moderated by DPIS. DPIS assumes no responsibility and makes no warranty that it will undertake to screen or remove such material. You agree to hold DPIS harmless from all claims based upon the materials posted by others. Also, in exchange for availing yourself of the opportunity to upload or provide information to this site and any associated chat rooms or discussion areas, you will indemnify DPIS from any claims made by third parties regarding the material that you provide. Personal information posted by you to the Web site is posted at your own risk. DPIS will have no liability arising from use of that information. You shall not use the Web site to distribute or publish any advertising of goods or services, solicitations for funds, or other commercial messages. You agree that you will not post, upload or otherwise introduce a virus or other harmful code onto the Web site. Your posting of material on the Web site or providing material to DPIS to use on the Web site will be deemed to be a grant by you to DPIS of a license to the material to include the material on the Web site and to reproduce, publish, distribute, perform, display, and transmit the material and to prepare derivative works as may be reasonably necessary to do so, and you waive all rights of attribution and integrity with respect to the material. 9. TERM OF AGREEMENT. 10. TERMINATION. registered or certified mail, return receipt requested addressed to DPIS, 2218 Blossom, Dos Palos, CA. 93620; or telephone calls directed to DPIS Business Office at (209)392-1962. Email termination of your basic Internet access account will not be accepted Your termination will only be complete upon your receipt of a cancellation confirmation from DPIS. Charges to your account will stop accruing the day DPIS provides you with a cancellation confirmation. Based on your billing cycle, charges accrued prior to your termination may apply after you receive a cancellation confirmation. Email cancellation requests will not be accepted. If your account included space on DPISs servers, anything stored on this space will be deleted upon termination. Without prior notice, DPIS may terminate this Agreement, your password, your account, or your use of the Services, for any reason, including, without limitation, if DPIS, in its sole discretion, believes you have violated this Agreement, our Acceptable Use Policy, or any of the applicable user policies, or if you fail to pay any charges when due. DPIS may provide termination notice to you by: email addressed to your email account or by US Mail or courier service to the address you provided for the Services. All notices to you shall be deemed effective on the first (1st) calendar day following the date of electronic mailing or on the fourth (4th) calendar day following the date of first-class mailing or deposit with a commercial courier service. Sections 3, 4, 6, and 11 of this Agreement shall survive termination of this Agreement. 11. JURISDICTION. This Agreement is governed by California law without regard to conflict of law provisions. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration, and administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Any such arbitration will be governed by California law and will be held in Fresno, California. The arbitrator will be an expert in the field of Internet services. The arbitrators award shall be final and binding and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. There shall be no class action arbitration pursuant to this agreement. 12. MISCELLANEOUS. DPIS may revise, amend, or modify this Agreement, the Acceptable Use
Policy and any other user policies and agreements, at any time and in
any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be
posted on DPIS's Web site (http://www.dospalos.org) and/or on Member's
start pages and/or by email and/or in our various publications and mailings
to Members. |
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