Designer 218 Terms of Service Agreement


By signing up for our service , and completing the form required to do so by checking the yes box when you sign up, you agree to all of the following terms and conditions.  This policy can be amended at any time by Designer 218, and you agree to be bound by any modified policy by continuing the use of our service. You must be 18 years of age or older to sign up for our website services and by signing up you agree to these terms even if you have not completely read them.

PRIVACY:

We value our clients trust !  We keep all of the information shared between you and Designer 218 private. We do not share any of your personal information with ANY third parties for any reason.

 
WARRANTY:


Designer 218 provides our website building program to you with no warranty, guarentee or condition; express, implied, or statutory.  Our goal is to make your website available to you 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, however we can not always forsee or control  technical problems  that may cause interruptions in service.  Designer 218 shall not be held responsible or liable and shall be held harmless in the event of website downtime due to technical server problems or your website exceeding its bandwidth limit webspace limit or any other technical or server problems that results in lost profits or sales, traffic, ratings or any and all  damages arising out of or in connection with our site, our services, or this agreement. Designer 218 also does not guarantee thrid party softwares or programs that you may install on your website and will not be held liable for problems arising from third party software and we do not provide customer service on thrid party software or programs.

 

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Designer 218 provides customer service free of charge to all of our clients for as long as your site is hosted with us. We are not available 24 hours per day 7 days a week. We respond to all emails within 24-36 hours during our normal business hours Monday-Friday. Emails send on weekends or holidays are answered in the order they are received upon our return to the office. If you need to speak with us via telephone you will need to email us to set up an appointment to talk to us and we will call you. Emergency emails are answered as soon as possible. Emergencies do not include set up questions. These answers can be found in the help files.

We will NOT tolerate rude, threating or bashing emails from any client for any reason. We will also not tolerate bashing or any form of slander of our website, our services or our support staff on public message boards or any other public form of expression as this is considered slander and it will not be tolerated at all.  Violation of this can result in termination without notice or refund of your website service and possible legal action for defamation of character and slander.  If you have an issue with our website or services this is to be handled with the staff in a respectful and private manner to get your situation resolved. We understand you may have a problem or do not understand how to do something but you will speak to our staff respectfully as you are treated respectfully.

BILLING:


You will be billed in accordance with the billing option you chose when registering for our service.  If you chose the paypal subscription option your paypal account will be billed automatically on your due date  and you will be responsible for immediate payment. If you are paying by check or money order it is your responsibility to be sure that your payment makes it to us and clears before your due date. If you pay by credit card via our secure servers your card will be automatically billed once per month on your due date for as long as you have a website with us. If you need to change your credit or debit card information for any reason you must notify us before your due date to be sure your account is paid and billed properly. It is your responsibility to make sure that your account is paid up to date, and that if you change your email address that we are immediately notified of such change.  If after two attempts at billing, your account balance remains unpaid, your account will be suspended.  This suspension will result in your website and email ceasing to function.  If your account remains unpaid until the end of the month, it will be terminated without further notice. Accounts that have been terminated will be subject to a reconnection fee of $30, and all past due balances must be paid before an account will be reactivated.
 
Designer 218 reserves the right to cancel services for not following our terms of service, or refuse services with anyone for any reason without notice or liability for any consequences as a result of termination. Family Friendly site only, we will not accept pornographic or leud website applications.

CANCELLATION:


If you wish to cancel your service, you must do so prior to your next billing date in order to avoid being charged for additional month(s) of service.  If you owe money on your account at the time of your cancellation, that money will need to be paid before your account will be cancelled, and monthly billing of your account will continue.  Once payment in full is received, your account may be cancelled, and you will no longer be billed for our services. All payments must be U.S. Currency.

Designer 218 reserves the right to cancel your website services for not following our terms of service, or refuse services with anyone for any reason at our descression without notice or liability for any consequences as a result of termination. Family Friendly site only, we will not accept pornographic or leud website applications.
 
REFUNDS:


Due to the nature of our business, Designer 218 does not offer refunds based on early cancellation of your account with us. Once money is received for any account, that account is considered under contract for the service provided by Designer 218 for the term of agreement for which you have paid, monthly, yearly or the down payment option. This applies if you cancel your service early or if your service is cancelled by us due to breaking our terms of service in any way.  NO REFUNDS-NO EXCEPTIONS!

CREDITS/COPYRIGHT:

All credits on the bottom of websites stating that the site is powered by or hosted by Designer 218 must be kept in tact. If you cannot keep the credit in tact due to custom template then you must do one of the following: Manually add text on the bottom of your homepage or a banner linking to our website. Removing these credits in any way violates our terms of service.

Please note that all ideas, graphics, templates, files or wording on our site or within our sitebuilder files are not public domain and may NOT be copied, taken or re-distributed. This will result in copyright violation and refusal of site services or website termination for current clients. We reserve the right to immediate termination of your website  if we find that you have stolen any of our files from our website builder, no exceptions! Our sitebuilder files, templates or any custom works are not for your personal or business use other then on your own website hosted by us only. If you leave our sitebuilder/hosting you cannot take the sitebuilder files or  our pre-built in templates for use with another host.

If you have any questions or concerns about our terms of service please contact us before you sign up to have them answered.

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