Terms and Conditions
- DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
- APPLICATION OF CONDITIONS
- COMMENCEMENT AND DURATION
- THESERVE'S OBLIGATIONS
- CUSTOMER'S OBLIGATIONS
- CHARGES AND PAYMENT
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- CONFIDENTIALITY AND Theserve'S PROPERTY
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- DATA PROTECTION
- TERMINATION
- FORCE MAJEURE
- VARIATION
- WAIVER
- SEVERANCE
- STATUS OF PRE-CONTRACTUAL STATEMENTS
- ASSIGNMENT
- NO PARTNERSHIP OR AGENCY
- RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
- NOTICES
- PUBLICITY
- GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
- DOMAIN NAME SPECIFIC TERMS
1. Definitions and Interpretation
The definitions and rules of interpretation in this clause apply in these terms and conditions (The "Conditions").
AUP: The Acceptable Use Policy which governs the Customers' use of all Theserve services, located at http://www.theserve.com/aup
Customer's Equipment: any equipment, systems, cabling or facilities provided by the Customer and used directly or indirectly in the supply of the Services.
Deliverables: all Documents, products and materials developed by Theserve in relation to the Services in any form, including computer programs, data, reports and specifications (including drafts).
Document: includes, in addition to any document in writing, any drawing, map, plan, diagram, design, picture or other image, tape, disk or other device or record embodying information in any form.
Input Material: all Documents, information and materials provided by the Customer relating to the Services including, computer programs, data, reports and specifications.
Intellectual Property Rights: all patents, rights to inventions, utility models, copyright and related rights, trade marks, service marks, trade, business and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database right, topography rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications for and renewals or extensions of such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world.
Pre-existing Materials: all Documents, information and materials provided by Theserve relating to the Services which existed prior to the commencement of this Agreement including computer programs, data, reports and specifications or any other existing materials.
Services: the services to be provided by Theserve under this Agreement including the electronic transmission of information, graphics, sound and any other form of information transfer through Theserve servers and lines of telecommunication internet services, hosting of internet servers, space on internet servers, hosting of virtual internet servers, website, domain names, electronic transfer of information, design, construction and work involved in the production of such and any other services and products supplied to the Customer and purchased from Theserve, together with any other services which Theserve provides or agrees to provide to the Customer from time to time.
SLA: Service Level Agreements which dictate the level of service Theserve shall provide, located at http://www.theserve.com/service-level-agreement.
Theserve's Equipment: any equipment, including tools, systems, cabling or facilities, provided by Theserve or its subcontractors and used directly or indirectly in the supply of the Services which are not the subject of a separate Agreement between the parties under which title passes to the Customer.
VAT: value added tax chargeable under English law for the time being and any similar additional tax.
Condition, schedule and paragraph headings shall not affect the interpretation of these conditions.
A person includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (whether or not
having separate legal personality).
Words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as it is in force for the time
being, taking account of any amendment, extension, or re-enactment and includes any subordinate
legislation for the time being in force made under it.
A reference to writing or written includes faxes but not e-mail.
Any obligation in this Agreement on a person not to do something includes an obligation not to agree,
allow, permit or acquiesce in that thing being done.
References to conditions and schedules are to the conditions and schedules of this Agreement.
2. Application of Conditions
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These Conditions (including the AUP and any relevant SLA) shall prevail over any inconsistent
terms or conditions contained, or referred to, in any purchase order, confirmation of order,
acceptance of a quotation or specification, or implied by law, trade custom, practice or course
of dealing.
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| 2.2 |
The Customer's purchase order, or the Customer's acceptance of a quotation for Services by Theserve,
constitutes an offer by the Customer to purchase the Services specified in it on these Conditions.
No offer placed by the Customer shall be accepted by the Theserve other than:
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| 2.3 |
No changes to these Conditions shall be binding unless made with the prior written consent of a
Director of Theserve. Unless notified to the contrary, no agent of, or person employed by or under
contract with Theserve, has any authority to alter or vary these Conditions in any way.
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| 2.4 |
The Customer's standard terms and conditions (if any) attached to, enclosed with or referred
to in any purchase order or other Document shall not govern this Agreement.
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| 2.5 |
Quotations are given by Theserve on the basis that no Agreement shall come into existence except
in accordance with this condition 2. Any quotation is valid for a period of 30 days from its date,
provided that Theserve has not previously withdrawn it.
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| 2.6 |
Theserve may alter these Conditions at any time with notification to You via email. Your sole
remedy in the event that You do not agree to amendments made to the Conditions shall be
to serve 3 months written notice of contract termination without any right to damages or
service credit.
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| 2.7 | Unless otherwise expressly agreed, the Conditions apply to any future work the Customer provides to Theserve. |
3. Commencement and Duration
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The Services supplied under this Agreement shall be provided by Theserve to the Customer
from the date of acceptance by Theserve of the Customer's offer in accordance with condition 2.
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| 3.2 | The Services supplied under this Agreement shall continue to be supplied for a period of 12 months (the "Initial Period") and, after that, shall continue to be supplied unless this Agreement is terminated by one of the parties giving to the other not less than 3 months' notice, unless this Agreement is terminated in accordance with condition 11 |
4. Theserve's Obligations
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Theserve shall use best endeavours to supply the Services, to the Customer.
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| 4.2 |
Theserve shall use best endeavours to meet any agreed performance dates but any such dates
shall be estimates only and time shall not be of the essence of this Agreement.
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| 4.3 |
Theserve will undertake planned service outages as required. Customers will be notified
of planned outages via the system status page on the website plus email. During
these planned outages Theserve cannot guarantee availability of the Service.
Theserve will give advance notice of no less than 7 (seven) days prior to the commencement of the downtime. Theserve reserve the right to undertake planned outages at any time and without notice in order to resolve emergency service faults, however Theserve will endeavour to provide notice of any planned outages that are necessary. |
| 4.4 | Theserve shall insure all servers and associated equipment provided that the Customer acknowledges Theserve does not maintain insurance cover against the risk of loss of software or data from servers. |
5. Customer's Obligations
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The Customer shall:
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| 5.2 |
If Theserve's performance of its obligations under this Agreement is prevented or delayed by
any act or omission of the Customer, its agents, sub-contractors or employees, Theserve shall
not be liable for any costs, charges or losses sustained or incurred by the Customer arising
directly or indirectly from such prevention or delay.
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| 5.3 |
The Customer shall be liable to pay to Theserve all reasonable costs, charges or losses sustained
or incurred by Theserve arising directly from the Customer's fraud, negligence, failure to perform
or delay in the performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement, subject to Theserve
confirming such costs, charges and losses to the Customer in writing.
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| 5.4 |
Nothing in this Agreement excludes the liability of either party:
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| 5.5 |
If either party requests a change to the scope or execution of the Services, Theserve shall,
within a reasonable time, provide a written estimate to the Customer of:
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| 5.6 |
If the Customer wishes Theserve to proceed with the change, Theserve has no obligation to
do so unless and until the parties have agreed in writing on the necessary variations
to its charges, the Project Plan and any other relevant terms of this Agreement to take
account of the change.
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| 5.7 |
Theserve may charge for its time spent in assessing a request for change from the Customer
on a time and materials basis in accordance with condition 6.
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| 5.8 |
Theserve may, from time to time and without notice, change the Services in order to comply
with any applicable safety or statutory requirements. If Theserve requests a change to the
scope of the Services for any other reason, the Customer shall not unreasonably withhold
or delay consent to it.
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6. Charges and Payment
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Condition 6.2 shall apply if Theserve provides the Services on a time and materials basis.
Condition 6.3 shall apply if the Theserve provides the Services for a fixed price. The remainder
of this condition 6 shall apply in either case.
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| 6.2 |
Where the Services are provided on a time and materials basis:
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| 6.3 |
Where the Services are provided for a fixed price, the total price for the Services shall be
the amount set out in the Sales Order. The total price shall be paid to Theserve
(without deduction or set-off) in instalments, as set out in the Sales Order, Theserve shall
invoice the Customer on commencement of the services for the charges that are then payable,
together with expenses (agreed in advance), the costs of materials and VAT, where appropriate.
Any fixed price and daily rate contained in the Sales Order excludes:
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| 6.4 |
The Customer shall pay each invoice submitted to it by Theserve, in full and in cleared funds, within 30 days of receipt.
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| 6.5 |
Without prejudice to any other right or remedy that it may have, if the Customer fails to pay
Theserve on the due date, Theserve may:
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| 6.6 |
Time for payment shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
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| 6.7 |
All sums payable to Theserve under this Agreement shall become due immediately on its termination,
despite any other provision. This condition is without prejudice to any right to claim for
interest under the law, or any such right under this Agreement.
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| 6.8 |
Theserve may, without prejudice to any other rights it may have, set off any liability of the
Customer to Theserve against any liability of Theserve to the Customer.
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7. Intellectual Property Rights
| 7.1 |
As between the Customer and Theserve, all Intellectual Property Rights and all other rights
in the Deliverables and the Pre-existing Materials shall be owned by Theserve.
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| 7.2 |
The Customer acknowledges that, where Theserve does not own any Pre-existing Materials,
the Customer's use of rights in Pre-existing Materials is conditional on Theserve obtaining
a written licence (or sub-licence) from the relevant licensor or licensors on such terms
as will entitle Theserve to license such rights to the Customer.
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| 7.3 |
All Intellectual Property Rights in the Deliverables or any other works arising in
connection with the performance of the Services by Theserve shall be the property of
Theserve, and Theserve hereby grants to the Customer a non-exclusive licence to such
Intellectual Property Rights for the purposes only of using the Services.
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| 7.4 |
This licence will not extend to:
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| 7.5 |
If this Agreement is terminated, this licence will automatically terminate.
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| 7.6 |
Theserve shall indemnify the Customer against all damages, losses and expenses arising as a result
of any successful action for infringement of the Intellectual Property Rights of a third party
brought in respect of the Pre-existing Material or the Deliverables provided that such infringement
is in no way attributable to the IPR contained in the Input Materials.
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| 7.7 |
The indemnity in clause 7.6 is subject to the following conditions:
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| 7.8 |
The Customer shall indemnify Theserve against all damages, losses and expenses arising as the result of
any successful action for infringement of the Intellectual Property Rights of a third party in the
Input Materials.
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| 7.9 |
The indemnity in clause 7.7 is subject to the following conditions:
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8. Confidentiality and Theserve's Property
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Both parties shall keep in strict confidence all technical or commercial know-how,
specifications, inventions, processes or initiatives which are of a confidential nature
and have been disclosed to it by the other, its employees, agents or sub-contractors and
any other confidential information concerning its business or its products which the other
party may obtain (“Confidential Material”). Both parties shall restrict disclosure of such
Confidential Material to such of its employees, agents or sub-contractors as need to know
the same for the purpose of discharging the party’s obligations under this Agreement, and
shall ensure that such employees, agents or sub-contractors are subject to obligations of
confidentiality corresponding to those which bind the parties.
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| 8.2 |
All materials, equipment and tools, drawings, specifications and data supplied by Theserve to
the Customer (including Pre-existing Materials and Theserve's Equipment) shall, at all times,
be and remain the exclusive property of Theserve, but shall be held by the Customer in safe
custody at its own risk and maintained and kept in good condition by the Customer until
returned to Theserve, and shall not be disposed of or used other than in accordance with
Theserve's written instructions or authorisation.
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| 8.3 | This condition 8 shall survive termination of this Agreement, however arising. |
9. Limitation of Liability
YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN SPECIFICALLY TO THE LIMITATIONS TO LIABILITY IN THIS CLAUSE 9
| 9.1 |
This condition 9 sets out the entire financial liability of Theserve (including any liability
for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents and sub-contractors) to the Customer
in respect of:
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| 9.2 |
All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from this Agreement.
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| 9.3 |
Nothing in these Conditions limits or excludes the liability of Theserve:
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| 9.4 |
Subject to condition 9.2 and condition 9.3 Theserve shall not be liable for:
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10. Data Protection
| 10.1 |
The Customer acknowledges and agrees that details of the Customer's name, address and
payment record may be submitted to a credit reference agency.
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| 10.2 | If The Customer require Theserve to process information about any person that is defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 (as amended from time to time) (“DPA”) as personal data, Theserve will do as a data processor (as defined in the DPA). You shall remain the data controller (as defined in DPA) for the purposes of such processing. |
11. Termination
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Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies which the parties may have, either
party may terminate this Agreement without liability to the other on giving the
other not less than three months written notice after the Initial Period; or immediately on giving notice to
the other if:
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| 11.2 |
On termination of this Agreement for any reason:
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12. Force Majeure
| 12.1 | Theserve shall have no liability to the Customer under this Agreement if it is prevented from or delayed in performing its obligations under this Agreement or from carrying on its business by acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond its reasonable control, including strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes (whether involving the workforce of Theserve or any other party), failure of a utility service or transport network, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, storm or default of Theserve or sub-contractors. |
13. Variation
| 13.1 | No variation of this Agreement shall be valid unless it is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the parties. |
14. Waiver
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A waiver of any right under this Agreement is only effective if it is in writing and it applies
only to the party to whom the waiver is addressed and the circumstances for which it is given.
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| 14.2 | Unless specifically provided otherwise, rights arising under this Agreement are cumulative and do not exclude rights provided by law. |
15. Severance
| 15.1 |
If any provision (or part of a provision) of this Agreement is found by any court or
administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal,
the other provisions will remain in force.
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| 15.2 |
If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision would be valid, enforceable
or legal if some part of it were deleted, that provision will apply with whatever
modification is necessary to make it valid, enforceable and legal.
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| 15.3 | The parties agree, in the circumstances referred to in condition 15.1 and if condition 15.2 does not apply, to attempt to substitute for any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision a valid, enforceable and legal provision which achieves to the greatest extent possible the same effect as would have been achieved by the invalid or unenforceable provision. |
16. Status of Pre-Contractual Statements
| 16.1 | Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that, in entering into this Agreement it does not rely on any undertaking, promise, assurance, statement, representation, warranty or understanding (whether in writing or not) of any person (whether party to these terms and conditions or not) relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, other than as expressly set out in this Agreement. |
17. Assignment
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The Customer shall not, without the prior written consent of Theserve, assign, transfer,
charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or
obligations under this Agreement.
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| 17.2 | Theserve may at any time assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement. |
18. No Partnership or Agency
| 18.1 | Unless expressly stated othersie nothing in this Agreement is intended to, or shall operate to, create a partnership between the parties, or to authorise either party to act as agent for the other, and neither party shall have authority to act in the name or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way (including the making of any representation or warranty, the assumption of any obligation or liability and the exercise of any right or power). |
19. Rights of Third Parties
| 19.1 | This Agreement is made for the benefit of the parties to it and (where applicable) their successors and permitted assigns and is not intended to benefit, or be enforceable by, anyone else. |
20. Notices
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A notice given under this agreement:
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| 20.2 |
The addresses for the service of notice are:
High Road Chadwell Heath Essex RM6 4HS Fax: 08704 866 855 Email: support@theserve.com |
21. Publicity
| 21.1 | All media release, public announcements and public disclosures by either party relating to this agreement or its subject matter, including promotional or marketing material, shall be co-ordinated with the other party and approved jointly by the parties in writing prior to release. |
22. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
| 22.1 |
This Agreement and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it
or its subject matter, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the law of England and Wales.
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| 22.2 |
The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in
connection with this Agreement or its subject matter.
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| 22.3 |
This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of it.
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| 22.4 | For the purposes of interpretation of the Terms and Conditions, our operating jurisdiction is England and the time zone is GMT. The operating language is English. |
23. Domain Name Specific Terms
| 23.1 |
Theserve acts as an agent and reseller for different Registrars and Domain name sellers
& as your agent when purchasing domain names. The contract for domain name registration
is between you and the naming authority. Your use of a domain name, once registered,
may be challenged by a third party; if so, the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy (the "UDRP") or other as amended from time to time and provided by the Registrar
responsible shall apply to all registrations or renewals. An example of such is ICANN’s
UDRP available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
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| 23.2 |
We do not warrant or guarantee that the domain name applied for will be registered in your
name or is capable of being registered by You. Accordingly, You should take no action in
respect of your requested domain name(s) until You have been notified that your requested
domain name has been registered.
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| 23.3 |
The registration of the domain name and its ongoing use is subject to the relevant naming
authority's terms and conditions of use and You are responsible for ensuring that You are
aware of those terms and conditions and can and do comply with them. You irrevocably waive
any claims You may have against Theserve in respect of the decision of a naming authority to
refuse to register a domain name and, without limitation agree that the administration
charge paid by You to Theserve shall be non-refundable in any event.
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| 23.4 |
We accept no responsibility in respect of the use of a domain name by You and any dispute
between You and any other individual or organisation regarding a domain name must be resolved
between the parties concerned and we will take no part in any such dispute. We reserve the
right, on our becoming aware of such a dispute, at our sole discretion and without giving
any reason, to either suspend or cancel the domain name, and/or to make appropriate
representations to the relevant naming authority. You warrant and undertake that to the
best of your knowledge and belief neither the registration of the domain name nor the
manner in which it is directly or indirectly used by You or and any licensee directly or
indirectly infringes the legal rights of a third party.
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| 23.5 | You are solely responsible for providing Theserve with accurate and up-to-date contact information and we shall not accept any responsibility for any cancellation or refusal to renew a domain name by the relevant naming authority due to any failure to provide such information. Any changes made by You to your details in any manner whatsoever are your own responsibility. Whilst we will make every effort to remind you when a renewal of a registration is required We are not responsible for the renewals of any domain name registration and You should make your own arrangements for reminding yourself when any name is due for renewal. |






