1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your"
refer to the registrant of each domain name registration,
"we", "us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc.
and services refers to the .tv domain name registration provided by
us as offered through PCB Systems Ltd.
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 this registration of a
domain name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly to be
used infringes upon the legal rights of a third party and, further,
that the domain name is not being registered for nor shall it at any
time whatsoever be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever.
3. FEES. As consideration for the Services you have selected,
you agree to pay RSP 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"). By
submitting this Agreement, you represent that the statements in your
Application are true, complete and accurate. Failure to maintain
accurate information will be considered a material breach of this
Agreement and will entitle us to delete your domain name registration.
4. TERM. This Agreement shall remain in full force during the
length of the term of your domain name registration(s) 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 shall be
extended accordingly. Should the domain name be transferred to another
Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract shall cease.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree that we may: (1)
revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (2) change the
services provided under this Agreement. You agree to be bound by any
such revision or change will which shall be effective immediately upon
posting on our web site or upon notification to you by e-mail or your
country’s postal service pursuant to the Notices section of this
Agreement. You agree to review this Agreement as posted on our web
site periodically to maintain an awareness of any and all 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 e-mail or postal service pursuant to the Notices section of this
Agreement. Notice of your termination shall be effective after
processing by us. You agree that, by continuing the use of Services
following notice of any revision to this Agreement or change in
service(s), you shall be bound by any such revisions and changes. You
further agree to be bound by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution
Policy (“Dispute Policy? as presently written and posted on http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml
and as shall be amended from time to time. 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.
You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any
unauthorized use. In no event shall 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 that 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. 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.
9. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the .tv domain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any ICANN or government adopted policy, or pursuant to any
Registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN or
government-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by us or the
applicable Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution
of disputes concerning the domain name. You acknowledge that you have
reviewed the .tv General Terms of Service which may be found at:
http://www.tv/en-def-5066945b5fcc/en/policies/tos.shtml and expressly
agree to the terms outlined therein.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name
to a third party you shall nonetheless be the domain name 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 domain
name. You shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of
the domain name. You represent that you have provided notice of the
terms and conditions in this Agreement to a third party licensee and
that the third party agrees to the terms hereof.
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We 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). Neither we,
nor our contractors or third party beneficiaries shall 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
jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability
for consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions, 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, affiliates and
third party beneficiaires harmless from all liabilities, claims and
expenses, 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 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 shall 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 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). 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 acknowledge that registration or
reservation of your chosen domain name, 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, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative contact for the
domain name; (iv) The name, postal address, e-mail 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 for the purpose of improving 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 applicable. 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 applicable laws. You hereby consent to any and all such
disclosures and 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 wilful provision of inaccurate or
unreliable information, your wilful failure promptly to update
information provided to us, or your failure to respond for over
fifteen (15) 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 domain name 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. 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. We reserve the right to
delete or transfer your domain name within a thirty (30) day period
following registration if we believe the registration has been made
possible by a mistake, made either by us or by a third party.
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
e-mail or via postal service. In the case of e-mail, 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 e-mail, notifications must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com, or in
the case of notification to you, to the e-mail address provided by you
in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail 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 RSP shall be sent to:
| Our address: |
RSP Address |
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs |
PCB Systems Ltd.
Shop F5-6, 1/F Kornhill Plaza North,
1 Kornhill Road,
Quarry Bay
Hong Kong |
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.