Terms of Service (TOS) Customer agrees when using, or accessing Gfi-group1.com services that the terms and conditions of this policy will be met:

• User agrees to use the service in manner consistent with all applicable laws. If this account is not used in accordance with all Applicable Laws including, but not limited to Local, State or Federal Laws, Gfi-group1.com reserves the right to cooperate with all or any law enforcement agencies.
• User agrees to follow the Acceptable Use Policy of any network user connects to, including Gfi-group1.comsystem.
• Neither Gfi-group1.com nor its Information Providers are responsible for any damages arising from User’s use of Gfi-group1.com or by User’s inability to use Gfi-group1.com service.
• User hereby agrees that any material submitted for publication on Gfi-group1.com through user’s account(s) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory, common law or proprietary rights of others, or contain anything obscene or libellous. User’s may not host any hardcore adult content or porn websites on our shared, reseller servers. Software intended to facilitate any such violations or infringements may not be stored on Gfi-group1.com.
• The following violations of “netiquette” are grounds for immediate suspension of service pending investigation by Gfi-group1.com and will result in termination of the account(s) the investigation determines to have originated or transmitted these types of traffic.
• Posting a single article or substantially similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., 20 or more) or continued posting of articles which are off-topic (e.g., off-topic according to the newsgroup charter or the article provokes complaints from the regular readers of the newsgroup for being off-topic).
• Sending unsolicited mass e-mailings (i.e., to more than 25 users) which provoke complaints from the recipients.
• Engaging in either of the above from a provider other than Gfi-group1.comand using an account on Gfi-group1.comas a mail drop for responses or advertising a web site hosted at Gfi-group1.com.
• Continued harassment of other individuals on the Internet after being asked to stop by those individuals and by Gfi-group1.com.
• Impersonating another user or otherwise falsifying one’s username in e-mail, Usenet postings, on IRC, or with any other Internet service. (This does not preclude the use of nicknames in IRC or the use of anonymous re-mailer services.) Gfi-group1.com prohibits IRC and associated programs, including psybnc, “bots”, etc., scripts commonly used for abuse, attacks, or flooding threatening, harassing, or obscene content and any proxies which do not require authentication, including open mail proxies, unprotected anonymous web surfing proxies.
• Users whose accounts are terminated for any of the above infractions are also responsible for the cost of labour to clean up and respond to complaints incurred by Gfi-group1.com.

General server limits

• Users agree to not use excessive amounts of resources. Any violations may result in us taking corrective action in order maintain server stability by killing any processes, disabling and/or suspending your account.
• User may not allow any process to run for longer than 30 CPU seconds or run any process that consumes more than 128 MB, PHP memory limit. Databases are limited to 25 max user connections.
• Cron jobs must not execute more than once every 30 minutes unless if specified by the script provider and will be nice to 15 or greater.
• Each cPanel account may not send more than 300 emails per hour. If it is determined that a customer’s account is overusing the system resources, we may temporary suspend the account to prevent the server from experiencing any issues, resulting problems to other valued customers. If it is determined that the account is not suitable for the shared or reseller server environment, a notice will be sent to the customer providing them alternative solutions or such as ‘Semi-Dedicated’, ‘Dedicated Servers’ or a Premium Hosting account.
• Gfi-group1.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision and Gfi-group1.comreserves the right to adjust these limits at our sole discretion.

Backups

• Gfi-group1.com performs backups of client databases daily and weekly and all other files every other day and weekly on all our servers to ensure critical files are never lost. Our backups are created for accounts that are under 50GB and 250,000 Inodes.
• For Reseller plans, these limits apply to each cPanel user individually. Furthermore, Gfi-group1.com does not guarantee this feature to any of the clients, and therefore strongly advise the client to regularly perform a backup of their own data, hosted with us. In the unfortunate event that the client has lost their data hosted with Gfi-group1.com, will use reasonable endeavours to restore the client’s data; however, Gfi-group1.com will not be responsible for lost data, time, income, or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existent back-ups or any data loss due to faulty hardware.
• We highly encourage our customers to have their own separate backups if your website or data is critical to your business or livelihood as no backup method is failsafe therefore, we make no warranties.
• The use of more than 240,000 inodes on any cPanel account (single user) may result in automatic warning on cPanel > Stats > inodes. There will be no service interruption at this stage but if no action is taken to reduce the inodes, service interruption may take place once a user reach 250,000 Inodes. Accounts found to be exceeding the 250,000 inode limit will automatically show resource exceeded message and may be suspended if no action is taken to reduce the inode count. Virtual private servers have a server wide limit of 5 million and there are no per cPanel user limits. Resellers with over 100 cPanel accounts, have a reseller wide limit of 1 million inodes in addition to the per user limit, however this reseller limit is not something we actively enforce, and it will only become an issue if a reseller is causing problems for other resellers on the server. If a resellers inode usage is in between 5 to 10 million inodes we may request the reseller to upgrade to a dedicated server or provide adequate time to resolve the inode usage, if no action is taken by the reseller, account may be suspended. Budget resellers have a per user limit of 50,000 inodes and a 250,000 reseller wide limit of inodes. If this limit is exceeded, we may request the budget reseller to upgrade to a normal reseller plan or provide adequate time to resolve the inode usage, if no action is taken by the budget reseller, account may be suspended.
• Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode. Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files or resellers with millions of files that cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose “Mail”, then “Default Address”, “Set Default Address”, and then type in fail: No such user here.

Other limits

• You MUST NOT use our RESELLER HOSTING ACCOUNTS to offer any of the following kinds of FREE services but are not limited to, Free Web hosting services, Free e-mail services, Free blogging services, Free home pages, Free image hosting, Free trial accounts.
• There are several reasons for these prohibitions on free services. The reasons include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
• First, free services generally do not require any reliable means of identifying the person who registers for them. As such, it can be practically impossible to track down persons who abuse the free services.
• Our customers, including (resellers) are all paying for prompt, reliable service and we have built a solid reputation for delivering excellent service to them. We cannot risk having unidentified persons damage our reputation.
• Users of free services are notorious for registering for free accounts and immediately spamming or otherwise consuming very large amounts of system resources and bandwidth before their accounts are shut down. Such abusers often register for successive or multiple accounts and cause many problems for the servers and network.
• Spammers, operators of phishing and pharming scams, phishing sites, distributors of spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and other malware, operators of illegal Warez sites, operators of illegal or unauthorized file-swapping or archive sites, and hackers frequently abuse free online services. Allowing free services would expose our servers to severe abuse and could harm us or all of our customers, and all the customers of our resellers.
• Free services lead to various forms of abuses that may violate criminal laws or even foster terrorist activities. Because such abuses violate applicable laws as well as our policies, we must prohibit them.
• If you violate this prohibition on free services, we may suspend your account immediately, with or without notice, as we in our sole discretion deem necessary to address the situation.
• File hosting and file storage of any type is strictly prohibited on any and all reseller, shared and hosting servers. You MAY NOT use your hosting with Gfi-group1.com as a download or file storage repository. Our services are strictly offered for website hosting only. This does NOT mean that you cannot have downloads on your site. This means you cannot operate a site that specializes in downloads like Download.com or similar and you may not use your account as a storage repository for MP3, games, video, photos, images, audio, or music files or as a backup storage facility.

 Abuse of Gfi-group1.com Staff or Support Personnel

 At Gfi-group1.com, we take pride in providing excellent service to all our customers. It is our policy always to treat our customers with the highest level of respect and courtesy. In return, we expect the same respect and courtesy from you. If our staff feels that you are consistently engaging in abusive content toward them, or addressing them in a demeaning or rude manner, your account(s) may be suspended, and you may be asked to take your business elsewhere. If we terminate service for abusive conduct, customers will be given five (5) days’ notice. We will issue a refund only for the unused portion of pre-paid service. Abusive conduct includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviours:

• Repeatedly addressing members of our staff in a demeaning or rude manner.
• Using profanity in any oral or written communications with our staff, by any medium of communication, including but not limited to e-mail, instant messages, chat, text messaging, fax, postal mail, telephone, voice over Internet Protocol, or in-person communication.
• Yelling or shouting at our staff. Deliberately using all capital (uppercase) letters in any written communication to our staff.
• Insulting our staff because of their personal characteristics, or on the basis of their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, or housing or economic status; or Deliberately providing false information to our staff for the purpose of harassing them or wasting their time.

Billing & Cancellations

User agrees to pay Gfi-group1.com all charges relating to the use of User’s account(s) according to rates and prices stated on said sales order at the time of commencement. User is responsible for charges at the time the service is used and Gfi-group1.com may apply the amount due to User’s credit card at any time.

• Gfi-group1.com reserves the right to suspend access to service for User’s account(s) upon an indication of credit problems including delinquent payments or rejection of any credit card charges.
• Credit Card payment: If Customer chooses to pay for services by credit card, Customer grants Gfi-group1.comthe right to charge payments to that card on each due date. Customer further agrees not to challenge or dispute any charge representing hosting payments.

Non-Payment

• All overdue payments that are not paid within 4 days are subject to a 15% late fees.
• All Reseller, Shared and SEO Hosting payments are due in full on the monthly anniversary date.
• Failure to remit payment for services on the monthly anniversary date is a violation of the TOS. Failure to remit payment for five (3) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, may result in suspension of customer services.
• Failure to remit payment for services within four (4) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, may result in termination of access to the service network and all services shall be reclaimed.
• All customer data remaining after fourteen (90) days of non-payment will be destroyed for security and privacy reasons. Once your account has been terminated for non-payment, you may be charged a reconnection fee. If you are a reseller with more than 10 cPanel accounts a restoration fee per cPanel account will be charged in addition to the reconnection fee in order to cover the administrative time that takes to restore accounts from backups. The same restore fees may apply to all customers, if you want us to provide backups once an account is terminated for non-payment. This restore service is subject to backup availability. There will be no re-connection or restore fees to re-enable suspended accounts due to non-payment.

Payment Reminders

• Our credit card processor Payfast, will remit payment for all recurring orders, for services on the monthly anniversary date. It is client’s responsibility to make sure the sufficient funds are available on their credit card payment account. It is the customers sole responsibility to make sure that dues are paid on time and the email address on file is working and allowed to receive reminders from Gfi-group1.com. Once a payment reminder dispatched from Gfi-group1.com, it is considered as a valid payment reminder. Gfi-group1.com does not take any responsibility for non-deliverable email addresses or e-mails sent by Gfi-group1.com not reaching the client destinations, including but not limited to spam filters or network issues.
• For the first day after payment should have been made; you will receive a payment reminder notice that states you must update your credit card and pay your invoice from Payfast. The second and third payment reminders will be sent. From the fourth day customer services may be suspended temporarily for non-payment.

 Cancellations

• Customers may voluntarily cancel their account at any time, for any reason or for no reason, by requesting a cancellation from your members area at www.my.Gfi-group1.com> Services > My Services > Product/Service > View Details > Management Actions > Request Cancellation. Gfi-group1.com requires a five (5) day cancellation notice prior to the anniversary billing date for discontinuance or downgrades of month to month services. Failure to supply the requisite five (5) days will result in a full billable monthly cycle prior to cancellation. All due amounts must be settled in full before we cancel the customer account.
• Customer understands and agrees that Gfi-group1.com does not provide pro-rated or any other kinds of refunds on cancellations. All fees Customer has paid shall be non-refundable, unless stated otherwise under our any 30 day money back guarantee.
• All cancellation requests must be made directly via https://clientzone.gfi-group1.com/.
• Cancellations requests are not accepted by email, postal mail, by phone or via the help desk. If a customer cancelled a recurring order by contacting any 3rd parties, we will consider it as an account cancellation request. In such cases, Gfi-group1.com reserves the right to terminate the customer account with immediate effect without any prior notice.

Public Feedback

• We have a zero tolerance policy for posting negative feedback on any public locations about our company and/or our employees before submitting a ticket to our “Suggestions & Complaints” Department to discuss your issue, this will result in immediate account termination without any refund.
• Although it is your right to post feedback without discussing your issue with us first, it is undoubtedly unfair and unprofessional not to, which is not the type of client that we want to deal with. We have the utmost respect for all of our clients, and are more than fair with all of our clients. We will do anything and everything possible to keep all of our clients satisfied. But in the unlikely event you are not satisfied, all that we ask is to discuss your issue with our Complaints Department first. For example, if you are the type of person to run to the forums at the first chance you get to complain, please DO NOT SIGNUP with Gfi-group1.com in the first place.
• Furthermore, all of our policies that pertain to keeping information given to us confidential including but not limited to our privacy policy, confidentiality agreement, non-disclose agreement are nullified once you discuss your experience publicly. For example, if you make a negative post in public, then you are waiving your protection of privacy.

Refund Policy

• Without waiving any of its other rights under this Agreement, Gfi-group1.com offers to its customers a 30-day money-back guarantee on fees for hosting services. If for any reason you cancel your account within thirty (30) days starting from the day Gfi-group1.com dispatch your welcome email including your account information or the day you place the order with us, whichever comes first. Gfi-group1.com will refund your money with no questions asked; provided, however, that you have never previously obtained a refund under the 30-Day Guarantee. If you have ever previously obtained a refund under the 30-Day Guarantee, your account will be cancelled, but no money will be refunded to you.
• Changes to your service, including, but not limited to, adding new services, removing services, or changing the type of hosting plan you have do NOT make you eligible for an additional 30-Day Guarantee. The 30-Day Guarantee applies to your first order of Web hosting services from Gfi-group1.com and does not apply to any changes to your service at any time.
• Our refund policy does not apply to any additional items or services, this includes but not limited to Domain Registration, Domain Parking services, dedicated servers, virtual private servers and overage fees.

Agreement

• Gfi-group1.commay modify these terms and conditions upon notice published online via Gfi-group1.com. User’s use of Gfi-group1.comservices after such notice shall constitute user’s acceptance of the modifications to this Agreement.
• This agreement, User account, contract, and billing will automatically renew unless cancelled in writing prior to the renewal date.

Privacy Policy

• Gfi-group1.com is committed to respecting our visitor’s information. We collect basic data from our visitors, such as IP addresses, browsers, time of access, etc. We use this information to analyze our traffic and to produce services that will be beneficial to our customers and us. We also apply cookies to all customers that visit our website. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies for tracking purposes only. All information received upon our tracking devices, and any online form filled out by our visitors, will be kept strictly confidential, and will never be shared with a third party.
• Once a visitor becomes a client of Gfi-group1.com by filling out our online order form or account activation form, they are immediately affected by our privacy policy. We also collect personal information to process our customer’s service requests. Their personal information is only used to process the request, and for no other purpose. All information that is collected from our customers is kept strictly confidential and will never be shared with a third party. All customers have their own unique account with Gfi-group1.comInc. and it is kept completely secure at all times.
• Our privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

Personal information that we collect from our users

• When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.
• We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form or enter information on our site.

Usage of user information

• We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To quickly process your transactions.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.

Protection of User Information

• Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
• Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
• We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
• All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Usage of ‘cookies’

• Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

• Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
• Keep track of advertisements.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.
• You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
• If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled It won’t affect the users experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

Third Party Disclosure

• We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
• However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third Party Links

• Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the details provided at the Contact Us section on our website.