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Cumberland Internet, Inc. Account Agreement
Revised 3/11/98: Click Here
to see changes to terms of service
- General Terms and Conditions: This
is an agreement between the customer shown below ("Subscriber")
and Cumberland Internet Inc. ("Company") for the provision
of internet telephone access.
- Availability: Dial
in service is available to the subscriber. Subscriber is aware
of Minimum System Requirements. Service may be temporarily refused,
limited, interrupted, or curtailed due to government regulations
or order, system capacity limitation, or equipment modifications,
upgrades, repairs and similar activities necessary or
appropriate for the proper operation of the Service.
- Use of Service: Service
is furnished for Subscriber's own use and not for resale. Subscriber
represents that the Service will be used primarily for business
or personal use. Orders for activating, changing or terminating
Service will be accepted by the Company only from Subscriber.
Subscriber has no proprietary or ownership rights to or interests
in any E-Mail name and the Company shall have the right to change
E-Mail name by giving notice to Subscriber.
- Terms/Rates/Termination:
The term of this agreement will commence on the date shown below
and continue on a month to month basis or until terminated in
the manner below. Subscriber understands that current rates may
change upward or downward in Company's sole discretion, and further
understands and agrees that such changes shall automatically and
without written amendment become part of this agreement for service.
Subscriber agrees to pay all such charges as billed. Should Subscriber
default in the payment of any sub hereunder, breach any representations
herein, fail to perform any obligations at the time and in the
manner specified, or should Subscriber be the subject of any proceeding
under the Bankruptcy Act or become insolvent, company shall have
the right to discontinue Service at any time with written notice
and/or terminate this Agreement. Subscriber shall remain and be
liable for the payment of all charges due Company which shall
be immediately due and payable. These remedies are not exclusive
but are in addition to all remedies provide by law. In the event
of Subscribers default, Subscriber will reimburse Company for
reasonable attorney's fees, collection fees and similar expenses
incurred by Company in the enforcement of any right or privilege
hereunder.
- Billing and Payment of Charges:
Subscriber is responsible for payment of all charges for internet
services provided. Monthly charges for internet access are due
on the first of the month for that month's service.
- Sales Tax, Etc.: In
addition to the costs of Services provided under this Agreement,
Subscriber shall pay any applicable sales, use, public utility
or other taxes, fees or charges imposed on Company as a result
of providing Service to the Subscriber.
- Limits of Liability:
Our sole liability to you for mistakes, omissions, interruptions,
delays, errors, defects or curtailments in the service we furnish
you is as follows: we will make a credit allowance, at your request,
in the form of a pro rata adjustment of the fixed monthly charges
we bill you. The form of a pro rata adjustment of the fixed monthly
charges we bill you. The pro rata adjustment will be computed
by dividing the duration of the service interruption (measured
in 24 hour days from the time the interruption is reported to
us) by a standard 30 day month and then multiplying that result
by our fixed monthly charge. A period of time less than 24 hours
shall not be credited and an additional period of 12 hours or
more shall be considered an additional day. In no case shall the
credit exceed the monthly access charge. This is our complete
and only liability to you for such interruption. You further agree
that our liability is limited as set forth herein, and expressly
excludes any liability or obligation to customer for special,
commercial, incidental or consequential damages of any kind incurred
by customer, such as but not limited to claims or damages from
loss of use, loss of anticipated profits, or other incidental
or consequential economic losses of any kind incurred by Customer
directly or indirectly resulting from interrupted service. In
no event shall we be liable for interruption or delays in transmission,
or for errors or defects in transmission or for failure to transmit
when such are caused by acts of God, Fire, War, Riots, Government
Authorities or by other causes beyond our control.
- Use of the Internet:
You understand that you may access both the Internet in general,
and in particular Cumberland Internet Inc. services on the Internet
through the software provided. You understand further that, except
for information , products or service clearly identified as being
supplied by Cumberland Internet Inc., neither Cumberland
Internet Inc. nor any of its affiliates controls any information,
products or services on the Internet in any way, and that, except
for such Cumberland Internet Inc.-identified information, products
or services, all merchandise, information and services offered
or made available or accessible are offered or made available
or accessible by third parties who are not affiliated with Cumberland
Internet Inc. or its affiliates. You assume total responsibility
and risk for your use of the Internet through the software. Neither
Cumberland Internet Inc. nor its affiliates make and express or
implied warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever
(including but without limitation warranties or title or non-infringement,
or implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose) with regard to any merchandise, information or service
provided through any Cumberland Internet Inc. service or on the
Internet generally, and they shall not be liable for any cost
of damage arising either directly or indirectly from any such
transaction. It is solely your responsibility to evaluate the
accuracy, completeness and usefulness of all opinions, advice,
services and other information, and the quality and merchantability
of all merchandise, provided on the Internet. You understand further
that the Internet contains unedited materials some of which are
sexually explicit or may be offensive to you. You access such
materials at your own risk. Cumberland Internet Inc. has no control
over and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for such materials.
Under no circumstances shall Cumberland Internet Inc., it affiliates
or its contractors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental,
special, punitive, or consequential damages that result in any
way from your use of or inability to access the Internet or any
part thereof through the software, or your reliance on or use
of information, services or merchandise provided on the Internet
or through use of the software, or that result from mistakes,
omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects,
delays in operation, or transmission , or any failure of performance.
- Making purchases on the Internet:
If you wish to make purchases on the Internet or any Cumberland
Internet Inc. service on the Internet, you may be asked by the
merchant or information or service provider from who you are making
the purchase to supply certain information, including credit card
or other payment mechanism information. You agree that all information
you provide any merchant or information or service provider on
the Internet or through any Cumberland Internet Inc. service fore
purposes of making purchases will be accurate, complete and current.
The merchants and information and service providers offering merchandise,
information and services on the Internet or through any Cumberland
Internet Inc. service set their own prices and may change prices
or institute new prices at any time. You agree to pay all charges
incurred by users of your account and credit card or other payment
mechanism at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred.
You will also be responsible for paying any applicable taxes relating
to purchase on the Internet.
- User Conduct On the Internet:
While using the Internet through Software, you may not:
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using
and enjoying the Internet;
- (Begin Revision 3/11/98) Customer
agrees to use the service in a manner consistent with any
and all applicable local, state, national and/or international
laws. Use of Cumberland Internet, Inc. network for bulk and/or
unsolicited e-mail, commercial or otherwise, is prohibited and
shall be cause for immediate account termination. Bulk e-mail
is defined as the same or similar e-mail message sent to more
than 25 recipients.
- All Cumberland Internet, Inc. network subscribers
agree to use and use only the e-mail address as confirmed at the
time of signup for their 'return' and/or 'reply-to' internet e-mail
address. The use of a 'fake' e-mail address, e-mail address belonging
to another Internet user, or no e-mail address is a 'return' and/or
'reply to' Internet e-mail address is prohibited and such use
shall be cause for immediate account termination.
- Use of Cumberland Internet, Inc. network NNTP
news server for spamming is prohibited and shall be cause for
immediate account termination. Use of the Cumberland Internet,
Inc. NNTP news server for software distribution, cross-posting
messages to more than 10 news groups, the posting of off-topic
messages to newsgroups, and/or as an advertising medium is prohibited
and shall be cause for immediate account termination.
- Customer is responsible for all use of account(s)
and confidentiality of password(s). Cumberland Internet, Inc.
will suspend or change access to Customer's Account(s) immediately
upon notification by Customer that a password has been lost, stolen
or otherwise compromised Multiple concurrent logins for a single-use
account will be cause for immediate account termination.
(End Revision 3/11/98)
- Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive,
libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, profane or otherwise
objectionable information of any kind, including without limitation
any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or
otherwise violate any local, state, national or international
law, including without limitation to the U.S. Export control laws
and regulations;
- Post or transmit any information or software
which contains a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm or other
harmful component;
- Post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute
or in any way exploit any information, software or other material
obtained through the Software for commercial purposes (other than
as expressly permitted by the provider of such information, software
or other material);
- Upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, or
distribute in any way, information, software or other material
obtained through the Software which is protected by copyright,
or other proprietary right, or derivative
works with respect thereto, without obtaining permission of the
copyright owner or right holder; or
- Upload, post, publish, reproduce, transmit or
distribute in any way any component of the Software itself or
derivative works with respect thereto.
- Cumberland Internet Inc. has no obligation to
monitor the Internet or any Cumberland Internet Inc. service on
the Internet. However, you agree that Cumberland Internet Inc.
has the right to monitor electronically from time to time and
to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation
or other governmental request, to operate its services properly,
or to protect itself or its subscribers. Cumberland Internet will
not intentionally monitor or disclose any private electronic-mail
unless required by law. Cumberland Internet Inc. will not intentionally
monitor or disclose any private electronic-mail message unless
required by law. Cumberland Internet Inc reserves the right to
refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole
or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable,
or in violation of this Agreement.
- Failure to Comply with Agreement: Cumberland
Internet, Inc. may deny you access to any Cumberland Internet,
Inc. service on or relating to the internet without notice if
you engage in any conduct or activities that Cumberland Internet,
Inc in its sole discretion believes violates any of the terms
and conditions in this Agreement. If Cumberland Internet, Inc.
denies you access to any such service because of such a violation
you shall have not right (1) to access through Cumberland Internet,
Inc. any materials stored on the Internet, (2) to obtain any credit(s)
due to you, and such credit(s) will be forfeited, (3) to access
third-party services, merchandise or information on the Internet
through Cumberland Internet, Inc, and Cumberland Internet, Inc.
shall have no responsibility to notify any third-party providers
of services, merchandise or information nor any responsibility
for any consequences resulting from lack of notification.
- You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Cumberland
Internet, Inc, and its affiliates harmless from any and all liabilities,
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, related
to any violation of this Agreement by you or authorized users
of your account, or in connection with the use of the Software
or the Internet by you or authorized users of your account.
- Miscellaneous- In the event that any portion
of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable
portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law as
nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties
and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force
and effect. Cumberland Internet, Inc.'s failure to insist upon
or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement
shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.
Neither the course of conduct between parties nor trade practice
shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of law
provisions.
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(Cumberland Internet, Inc. Subscriber) (Cumberland
Internet, Inc. representative)
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