.TV Registration Agreement
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 Omni Multimedia Network International, LLC (“RSP”).
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:
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs
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.