| In order that
a party may hold a valid .ca domain name registration, TUCOWS, requires
that all registrants adhere to certain terms and conditions. As an organization
or individual applying to register, transfer or renew an .ca domain name
via the agency of McCann & Cambrian E-Media Services (CambrianHosting.com)
and/or TUCOWS you accordingly agree as follows: 1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") , "we", us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and
“Services” refers to the domain name registration, transfer or renewal
services provided by us as offered through McCann & Cambrian E-Media
Services (CambrianHosting.com), the Registration Service Provider (“RSP”).
CIRA shall refer to the entity granted the exclusive right to administer
the registry for .ca domain name registrations.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN
NAME. You represent that, to the best of the your knowledge and belief,
neither the registration of the domain 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 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 this
Agreement will remain in full force during the term of your domain name
registration as selected, recorded, and paid for upon registration of the
domain name. Should you choose to renew the term of your domain name registration,
then the term of this Agreement will be extended accordingly. Should you
transfer your domain name or should the domain name otherwise be transferred
to another Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract shall cease
and shall be replaced by the contractual terms in force between domain
name registrants 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 e-mail
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 e-mail 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 CIRA
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
the CIRA website. 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.
9. CIRA POLICY. You agree
that your registration of the domain name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any CIRA-adopted policy, or pursuant
to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an CIRA-adopted
policy, (1) to correct mistakes by a registrar or the registry in registering
the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the domain name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend
to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall nonetheless
be the domain name registrant 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 thedomain
name. 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 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.
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 attorney's fees, from claims by third parties, including but
not limited to the RSP and CIRA 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 CIRA 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.
Any transfer of ownership in and to a domain name registration shall be
affected in accordance with CIRA policies and procedures.
15. BREACH. You agree that
failure to abide by any provision of this Agreement, any operating rule
or policy or the Dispute Policy, 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, 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. (v) The Internet
Protocol number of the primary name server and secondary name server(s)
for each domain name registration and the corresponding names of those
name servers. 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 CIRA, to the registry
administrators, and to other third parties as CIRA 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 CIRA 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 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 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 e-mail or via regular mail. 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 notification to us or to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com
or
admin@cambrianhosting.com
or, in the case of notice to you, at 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 the RSP shall be
sent to:
TUCOWS.Com Co
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
- OR -
McCann & Cambrian E-Media
Services
P.O. Box 668
Parry Sound, Ontario
P2A 2Z1
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. INCONSISTENCIES WITH
CIRA. In the event that this Agreement may be inconsistent with any term,
condition , policy or procedure of CIRA, the term, condition, policy or
procedure of CIRA shall prevail.
30. 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.
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