Domain Name Standard Terms and Conditions

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Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

(As Approved by ICANN on October 24, 1999 and implemented by CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. on December 1, 1999)

1. Purpose
   This Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), is incorporated by reference into your Registration Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between you and any party other than us (the registrar) over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by you. Proceedings under Paragraph 4 of this Policy will be conducted according to the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules of Procedure"), which are available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-rules-24oct99.htm, and the selected administrative-dispute-resolution service provider's supplemental rules.
   
   
2. Your Representations
   By applying to register a domain name, or by asking us to maintain or renew a domain name registration, you hereby represent and warrant to us that (a) the statements that you made in your Registration Agreement are complete and accurate; (b) to your knowledge, the registration of the domain name will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party; (c) you are not registering the domain name for an unlawful purpose; and (d) you will not knowingly use the domain name in violation of any applicable laws or regulations. It is your responsibility to determine whether your domain name registration infringes or violates someone else's rights.
   
   
3. Cancellations, Transfers, and Changes
   We will cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to domain name registrations under the following circumstances:
   
   
   
   1. subject to the provisions of Paragraph 8, our receipt of written or appropriate electronic instructions from you or your authorized agent to take such action;
      
   2. our receipt of an order from a court or arbitral tribunal, in each case of competent jurisdiction, requiring such action; and/or
      
   3. our receipt of a decision of an Administrative Panel requiring such action in any administrative proceeding to which you were a party and which was conducted under this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN. (See Paragraph 4(i) and (k) below.) We may also cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to a domain name registration in accordance with the terms of your Registration Agreement or other legal requirements.
      
      
4. Mandatory Administrative Proceeding
   This Paragraph sets forth the type of disputes for which you are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding. These proceedings will be conducted before one of the administrative-dispute-resolution service providers listed at http://www.icann.org/udrp/approved-providers.htm (each, a "Provider").
   

1. Applicable Disputes
   You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that (i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and (ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and (iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith. In the administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three elements are present.
   
   
2. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith
   For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith: (i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or (ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or (iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or (iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other online location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
   
   
3. How to Demonstrate Your Rights to and Legitimate Interests in the Domain Name in Responding to a Complaint
   When you receive a complaint, you should refer to Paragraph 5 of the Rules of Procedure in determining how your response should be prepared. Any of the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interests to the domain name for purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(ii): (i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or (ii) you (as an individual, business, or other organization) have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or (iii) you are making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
   
   
4. Selection of Provider
   The complainant shall select the Provider from among those approved by ICANN by submitting the complaint to that Provider. The selected Provider will administer the proceeding, except in cases of consolidation as described in Paragraph 4(f).
   
   
5. Initiation of Proceeding and Process and Appointment of Administrative Panel
   The Rules of Procedure state the process for initiating and conducting a proceeding and for appointing the panel that will decide the dispute (the "Administrative Panel").
   
   
6. Consolidation
   In the event of multiple disputes between you and a complainant, either you or the complainant may petition to consolidate the disputes before a single Administrative Panel. This petition shall be made to the first Administrative Panel appointed to hear a pending dispute between the parties. This Administrative Panel may consolidate before it any or all such disputes in its sole discretion, provided that the disputes being consolidated are governed by this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN.
   
   
7. Fees
   All fees charged by a Provider in connection with any dispute before an Administrative Panel pursuant to this Policy shall be paid by the complainant, except in cases where you elect to expand the Administrative Panel from one to three panelists as provided in Paragraph 5(b)(iv) of the Rules of Procedure, in which case all fees will be split evenly by you and the complainant.
   
   
8. Our Involvement in Administrative Proceedings
   We do not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any proceeding before an Administrative Panel. In addition, we will not be liable as a result of any decisions rendered by the Administrative Panel.
   
   
9. Remedies
   The remedies available to a complainant pursuant to any proceeding before an Administrative Panel shall be limited to requiring the cancellation of your domain name or the transfer of your domain name registration to the complainant.
   
   
10. Notification and Publication
    The Provider shall notify us of any decision made by an Administrative Panel with respect to a domain name you have registered with us. All decisions under this Policy will be published in full over the Internet, except when an Administrative Panel determines in an exceptional case to redact portions of its decision.
    
    
11. Availability of Court Proceedings
    The mandatory administrative proceeding requirements set forth in Paragraph 4 shall not prevent either you or the complainant from submitting the dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before such mandatory administrative proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding is concluded. If an Administrative Panel decides that your domain name registration should be canceled or transferred, we will wait ten (10) business days (as observed in the location of our principal office) after we are informed by the applicable Provider of the Administrative Panel's decision before implementing that decision. We will then implement the decision unless we have received from you during that ten (10) business day period official documentation (such as a copy of a complaint, file-stamped by the clerk of the court) that you have commenced a lawsuit against the complainant in a jurisdiction to which the complainant has submitted under Paragraph 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure. (In general, that jurisdiction is either the location of our principal office or of your address as shown in our WHOIS database. See Paragraphs 1 and 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure for details.) If we receive such documentation within the ten (10) business day period, we will not implement the Administrative Panel's decision, and we will take no further action, until we receive (i) evidence satisfactory to us of a resolution between the parties; (ii) evidence satisfactory to us that your lawsuit has been dismissed or withdrawn; or (iii) a copy of an order from such court dismissing your lawsuit or ordering that you do not have the right to continue to use your domain name.
    
    
12. All Other Disputes and Litigation
    All other disputes between you and any party other than us regarding your domain name registration that are not brought pursuant to the mandatory administrative proceeding provisions of Paragraph 4 shall be resolved between you and such other party through any court, arbitration or other proceeding that may be available.
    
    
13. Our Involvement in Disputes
    We will not participate in any way in any dispute between you and any party other than us regarding the registration and use of your domain name. You shall not name us as a party or otherwise include us in any such proceeding. In the event that we are named as a party in any such proceeding, we reserve the right to raise any and all defenses deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to defend ourselves.
    
    
14. Maintaining the Status Quo
    We will not cancel, transfer, activate, deactivate, or otherwise change the status of any domain name registration under this Policy except as provided in Paragraph 3 above.
    
    
15. Transfers During a Dispute
    
    
    
    1. Transfers of a Domain Name to a New Holder
       You may not transfer your domain name registration to another holder (i) during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded; or (ii) during a pending court proceeding or arbitration commenced regarding your domain name unless the party to whom the domain name registration is being transferred agrees, in writing, to be bound by the decision of the court or arbitrator. We reserve the right to cancel any transfer of a domain name registration to another holder that is made in violation.
    2. Changing Registrars
       You may not transfer your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded. You may transfer administration of your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending court action or arbitration, provided that the domain name you have registered with us shall continue to be subject to the proceedings commenced against you in accordance with the terms of this Policy. In the event that you transfer a domain name registration to us during the pendency of a court action or arbitration, such dispute shall remain subject to the domain name dispute policy of the registrar from which the domain name registration was transferred.
       
       
    3. Policy Modifications
       We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time with the permission of ICANN. We will post our revised Policy at least thirty (30) calendar days before it becomes effective. Unless this Policy has already been invoked by the submission of a complaint to a Provider, in which event the version of the Policy in effect at the time it was invoked will apply to you until the dispute is over, all such changes will be binding upon you with respect to any domain name registration dispute, whether the dispute arose before, on or after the effective date of our change. In the event that you object to a change in this Policy, your sole remedy is to cancel your domain name registration with us, provided that you will not be entitled to a refund of any fees you paid to us. The revised Policy will apply to you until you cancel your domain name registration.

Domain Name Deletion Policy

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Corporation Service Company Legal T&C - Website

IMPORTANT-READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING ANY MATERIAL ON THIS WEB SITE. BY ACCESSING ANY MATERIAL ON THIS WEB SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE (THE "AGREEMENT"), THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE AGREEMENT, AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PROMPTLY EXIT THIS WEB SITE WITHOUT ACCESSING, DOWNLOADING OR USING ANY MATERIAL.

Introduction

In this Agreement "you" and "your" refer to each customer, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Corporation Service Company Inc. and "Service" refers to the services provided by us. Any and all use of Corporation Service Company's service is subject to this Agreement, which may be updated by us from time to time without prior notice to you. Any change of terms shall be binding and effective upon posting of the revised Agreement on the Corporation Service Company web site. In addition to this Agreement, specific services or information contained within this web site may be subject to additional posted terms or guidelines applicable to such services. All such terms or guidelines are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.

Use of Service

You shall have no ownership rights in the material contained within this web site. You shall have only the limited right to access and use the material contained within this Web site as set forth herein. Such right shall continue only as long as this Agreement remains in full force and effect. Ownership of said material and all intellectual property rights contained therein shall remain at all times with Corporation Service Company.

Copyright

This web site contains proprietary material that is or may be protected by United States Copyright Law, trade secret law, and by international treaty provisions. All rights not granted to you herein are expressly reserved by Corporation Service Company. No portion of the materials obtained from or through this web site may be reprinted, republished, redistributed, reproduced, retransmitted or otherwise transferred in any form except for your private or internal business use without the prior express written permission of Corporation Service Company.

Trademark

All trademarks on this site are owned by Corporation Service Company. Without our prior permission, you agree not to display or use in any manner, the Corporation Service Company  trademarks.

No Resale of Service

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service.

No Legal Representation

Corporation Service Company is a trademark research corporation and a publisher of general information to assist its customers in understanding United States trademark law. WE ARE NOT A LAW FIRM AND DO NOT PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE. Only a lawyer can provide you with specific legal advice. THE INFORMATION AND SERVICES CONTAINED HEREIN ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEGAL ADVICE OR OTHER LEGAL SERVICES.

Modification and/or Termination of Service

Corporation Service Company reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Corporation Service Company shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance

Privacy Policy

Any information we collect from you is subject to our Privacy Policy, located at: Click here to read this document.

Disclaimer

THIS WEB SITE, INCLUDING ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN OR PROVIDED THROUGH IT, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE AND THE INFORMATION RECEIVED THROUGH IT. FURTHER, CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS WHATSOEVER ABOUT OTHER WEB SITES WHICH YOU MAY ACCESS THROUGH THE CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY WEB SITE.

Limitation of Liability

ALTHOUGH CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY MAKES EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE ACCURATENESS AND INTEGRITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON AND THROUGH ITS WEB SITE, WE MAKE NO GUARANTEES WHATSOEVER AS TO THE CORRECTNESS OR ACCURACY OF THE WEB SITE AND INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE WEB SITE COULD INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR ERRORS, AND THAT UNAUTHORIZED ADDITIONS, DELETIONS AND ALTERATIONS COULD BE MADE TO THE WEB SITE BY THIRD PARTIES. CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS SPONSORS ARE NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE WEB SITE OR ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE WEB SITE, INCLUDING THE CONTENT OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN OR THROUGH THE WEB SITE. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEB SITE IS TO STOP USING THE WEB SITE AND THE INFORMATION OBTAINED THEREIN.

Warranty and Indemnification

You represent and warrant to Corporation Service Company that your use of the materials contained within this web site will at all times comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and this Agreement. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Corporation Service Company and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates and subsidiaries from and against any and all claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal costs and expenses and attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to any breach by you of the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any claim. Corporation Service Company reserves the right, at its sole cost and expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and you shall not in any event settle any matter without the prior written consent of Corporation Service Company.

Termination

Corporation Service Company may terminate this Agreement and your license to use its web site and services at any time and for any reason.

Governing Law

This Agreement shall be construed, interpreted and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to conflicts of law provisions thereof. The exclusive forum for any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be a court of competent jurisdiction in Delaware. If any part of this Agreement is found invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Agreement shall be interpreted so as to reasonably effect the intention of the parties.

Waiver

No Waiver by either Corporation Service Company or you of any breach or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default hereunder.

Privacy Statement

Corporation Service Company Inc. respects the privacy of the users of our services and web site.  We adhere to a strict “no-spam” policy, meaning that you must sign up for one of our services before you receive any e-mail communication from us.  We will never sell any personal information regarding our customers to another company or entity for marketing purposes.

What Information We Collect and Why

In order to process your order or provide you with one of our services, we may need to know some standard information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number or telephone number. For research purposes, we may also need to know the trademark(s) you would like to be searched and a brief description of the goods or services used in association with the mark(s).

Based upon the information you provide to us, we will send you an email verifying your user ID and password.  We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.  We may also occasionally notify you of new services and special offers via e-mail or surface mail.  If you would rather not receive any updates from us, please unsubscribe using the links provided in our mailing or email customerservice@nameprotect.com.

Our computer is not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information about our visitors.  It does recognize the Accueil server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses.  For example, we can tell which Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our sites.  In addition, our web sites track information about the visits to our web sites.  For example, we use cookies to compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors to our sites, the daily requests we receive for particular files on our web sites, and what countries those requests come from.  A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes.  These aggregated statistics are used internally to better provide services to the public and may also be provided to others, but again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.  We also use cookies to verify your user ID and password when you log into our web site.  The cookies that we place on your computer are session cookies, meaning that they expire when you close your browser and do not remain on your computer.  If you disable cookies on your browser, you will be unable to log in to the web site.

Some customers may purchase services from us through third party companies not affiliated with Corporation Service Company Inc., also known as resellers.  Under such circumstances, such resellers may have access to personally identifiable information regarding its customer only.

For your convenience, our web site may contain links to companies offering products or services through our web site.  These other company web sites are not under the control of Corporation Service Company Inc., and we can make no promises or guarantees regarding data collection or privacy practices on these other company web sites.  They may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information.  We strongly suggest that you review the privacy policies of these other company web sites before providing any data to them.  You should contact these entities directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

It is our policy that your information is private and confidential.  Accordingly, the personal information you provide to us is stored in a secure location, is accessible only by designated staff, and is used only for the purposes for which you provide the information.  When you submit an order, your information is encrypted with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect the information from unauthorized access.  All of our staff is made aware of our confidentiality policy on a regular basis and must acknowledge that they have received and read the same.  We also secure the infrastructure that supports information collection, exchange and storage/retrieval.  We use firewalls to secure the perimeter of our information network and monitor our systems on a regular basis.  Our staff must use multiple layers of electronic authentication to access your personal information.  Each authenticated user only has access to the information that he or she is authorized to use.  Our users can only access their own personal information with their user IDs and passwords.

We will not sell any personal information you provide to us to another entity.  However, Corporation Service Company does reserve the right to transfer or disclose customer information as part of the sale of all or part of Corporation Service Company’s stock or assets.  However, this will only happen if the party acquiring the information agrees to be bound by the terms of this privacy statement applicable when your information was collected.  We also may disclose certain information to comply with a court order or if we have a good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to identify persons violating the law.

Steps You Can Take To Ensure Your Privacy

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, please send a request with your updated information to our customer service team at 1.800.689.6223 or 1.800.927.9800.

You should also take the necessary precautions to safeguard your user ID and password to prevent unauthorized access to your information stored on this web site and the applications within this web site.  If you feel that your user ID or password have been compromised, you should contact our customer service team at: 1.800.689.6223 or 1.800.927.9800.

United States of America

Our web site is maintained in the United States of America.  By using this web site, you authorize the export of your personal information to the USA and its storage and use as specified in this policy.

Changes In This Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to modify this policy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  We will post changes to this privacy statement on this web site  so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  All changes will be effective upon posting to this web site without any other notice to you. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our policy statement, please contact us at 1.800.689.6223 or 1.800.927.9800.

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