Terms Of Service

User Agreement

Agreeing to Pillarian’s Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service is mandatory for using our services. By agreeing to our terms of service, you also agree to all other policies and agreements. Additional terms may also apply to certain Services, and are combined by reference herein as applicable.

Please make sure you read everything carefully. If any of these is infringed, we reserve the right to suspend such violating websites. We don’t allow HYIP websites. This is as well as sites relating to extreme money making, gambling, e-gold doublers etc.

Introduction

During the term of its agreement with Pillarian, the customer must ensure that the use of any resource offered to the customer or owned or controlled by Pillarian (“Service”) conforms with Pillarian’s current Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”). Pillarian may modify, without prior notice, the AUP as WhoGoHost deems appropriate; such modified AUP is effective upon posting on Pillarian’s website.

Responsibility

You are responsible for your sites and all sites that you host to be in accordance with all rules on this page. Misuse by you may result in actions on your account, including removal from the host with/without notice and without a refund.

Account Setup / Email on file

We will setup your account after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not @ the domain(s) (e.g. mail@yourdomain.com) you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is current or up to date at all times. If you have a domain name registered with Pillarian, it is your responsibility to ensure that the contact information for your domain account and your actual domain name(s) is correct and up-to-date. Pillarian is not responsible for a lapsed registration due to outdated contact information being associated with the domain. If you need to verify or change this information, you should contact our support team via email via support@pillarian.co.za. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account.

Transfers

Our transfer team will make every effort to help you move your site to us. However, transfers are provided as a courtesy service, and we can not make guarantees regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to complete an account transfer. Each hosting company is configured differently, and some hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or proprietary format, which may make it extremely difficult if not impossible to migrate some or all account data. We will try our best, but in some cases we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.

The free transfer services are available for 30 days from your signup date. Transfers outside of the 30 day free period will incur a charge; please contact us on support@pillarian.co.za with specific details to receive a price quote.

Content

All services provided by Pillarian may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of Nigeria apply. The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Pillarian from any claims resulting from the use of our services

Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account. Any account found to be in violation of another’s copyright will be expeditiously removed, or access to the material disabled. Any account found to be in repeated violation of copyright laws will be suspended and/or terminated from our hosting. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email support@pillarian.co.za with the information required. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation.

Using a shared account as a backup/storage device is not permitted. Please do not take backups of your backups.

Examples of unacceptable material on all Shared and Reseller servers include:

  • Topsites
  • IRC Scripts/Bots
  • Proxy Scripts/Anonymizers
  • Pirated Software/Warez
  • Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
  • AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites
  • IP Scanners
  • Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
  • Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
  • Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation)
  • File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare)
  • Commercial Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
  • Escrow/Bank Debentures
  • High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
  • Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
  • Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
  • Prime Banks Programs
  • Lottery/Gambling Sites
  • MUDs/RPGs/PBBGs
  • Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
  • Sites promoting illegal activities
  • Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content for which you don’t hold usage or distribution rights
  • Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
  • Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com) and activities of any kind.
  • Mailer Pro
  • Broadcast or Streaming of Live Sporting Events (UFC, NASCAR, FIFA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WWE, WWF, etc)
  • Tell A Friend Scripts
  • File upload, sharing, archive, backup, mirroring or distribution services
  • Website primarily created to distribute large documents, images, videos or drive traffic to other sites.
  • Heavy websites that may over-utilize bandwidth or resources (RAM, CPU, etc)
  • Torrent software
  • Network Daemons
  • Abusive scripts, processes
  • Adult Thumbnail Galleries / Banner Exchanges

Examples of unacceptable material on all Dedicated servers include:

  • IRCD (IRC servers)
  • IRC Scripts/Bots
  • Pirated Software/Warez
  • IP Scanners
  • Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
  • Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
  • Escrow
  • High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
  • Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
  • Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
  • Prime Banks Programs
  • Lottery/Gambling Sites
  • Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
  • Sites promoting illegal activities
  • Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
  • Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
  • Mailer Pro
  • Broadcast or Streaming of Live Sporting Events (UFC, NASCAR, FIFA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WWE, WWF, etc)

Pillarian services, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use. Pillarian systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and operational security. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. Use of Pillarian system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control must be with expressed written consent from the third party. Pillarian may, at its discretion, request and require documentation to prove access to a third party network or system is authorized.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening, illegal, or violates our terms of service in any manner may be removed from our servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice.

Any violation as stated above may result in the suspension or termination of your services with or without notice. All abuse issues must be dealt with via trouble ticket/email and will have a response within 48 hours.

Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography. Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.

Resellers: We will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your account.

Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.

It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as username and password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change/update your password.

Zero Tolerance Spam Policy

We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. “Safe lists” and purchased lists will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.

Payment Information

You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from Pillarian, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify Pillarian of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.

As a client of Pillarian, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date and that all invoices are paid on time. You agree that until and unless you notify Pillarian of your desire to cancel any or all services received (by the proper means listed in the appropriate section of the Terms of Service), those services will be billed on a recurring basis unless otherwise stated in writing by Pillarian.

It is the customer’s responsibility to notify our billing team via email at billing@pillarian.co.za after paying for a product/service renewal and to ensure the email is received and acted upon. Product/service renewal notices and invoices are provided as a courtesy reminder and Pillarian cannot be held responsible for failure to renew a product/service or failure to notify a customer about a product/service renewal.

No refunds can be given, once a domain is renewed. All domain registrations and renewals are final. Pillarian reserves the right to change the annual payment amount and any other charges at any time.

Termination

Pillarian may terminate your access to the Services, in whole or in part, without notice in the event that:

  • You fail to pay any fees due;
  • You violate this Agreement;
  • Your conduct may harm Pillarian or others or cause Pillarian or others to incur liability, as determined by Pillarian in our sole discretion; or
  • As otherwise specified in this Agreement. In such event, Pillarian shall not refund to you any fees paid in advance of such termination, and you shall be obligated to pay all fees and charges accrued prior to the effectiveness of such termination. Additionally, Pillarian may charge you for all fees due for the Services for the remaining portion of the then-current term.

UPON TERMINATION OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY REASON, USER CONTENT, USER WEBSITES, AND OTHER DATA WILL BE DELETED.

Backups and Data Loss

Your use of this service is at your sole risk. Pillarian is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on Pillarian servers.

Promotional Terms

If you purchased a product/service during a promotion bundled with a free product (i.e a domain name) and you fail to renew it before the date of expiration or a change is made to the billing cycle of the product during the promotional period, the terms of the promo become void. The free product will be charged at the standard renewal rate of the current price of the product.

Domain name promo discount offers do not apply to renewals, transfers, premium domains, trademark domains and pre-registration domain fees except otherwise stated in the promotional communication.

Cancellations and Refunds

Pillarian reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise restrict access to the account at any time with or without notice.

Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result in the suspension or termination of your services.

Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For example, if you’ve had an account with us before, cancelled and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

Resource Usage – Users May Not

  • Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
  • Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
  • Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
  • Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
  • Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
  • Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
  • Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
  • Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes.
  • Run any MySQL queries longer than 15 seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.
  • When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include ‘yourdomain.com/include.php’ use include(“include.php”)
  • To help reduce usage, do not force HTML to handle server-side code (like PHP and SHTML).
  • Only use https protocol when necessary; encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more CPU-intensive than unencrypted communications.
  • INODES

    The use of more than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inodes on any shared or reseller account may result in a warning, and if no action is taken to reduce the excessive use of inodes, your account may be suspended. If an account exceeds one hundred thousand (100,000) inodes it will be automatically removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage, however, databases will still be backed up as a courtesy in our sole discretion. Every file (i.e. a webpage, image file, email, etc.) on your account uses up one (1) inode.

    User accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files or cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes is typically due to Users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past an acceptable amount of inodes. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose “Mail”, then “Default Address”, “Set Default Address”, and then type in: “:fail: No such user here”

Bandwidth Usage

You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.

Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. Pillarian does not provide support to our Reseller’s Clients. If a reseller’s client contacts us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on their clients’ behalf for security purposes. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients’. Pillarian will hold any reseller responsible for any of their clients’ actions that violate the law or the terms of service.

Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semi-Dedicated Servers

Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account.

Price Change

We reserve the right to change prices listed on the Pillarian website, and the right to change the amount of resources given to plans at any time.

Indemnification

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Pillarian harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees, asserted against Pillarian, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Pillarian against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Pillarian; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customers from Pillarian’s server.

Disclaimer

Pillarian shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Pillarian makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Pillarian disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Pillarian and its employees.

Disclosure to law enforcement

Pillarian may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

Changes to the Terms of Service

Pillarian reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.

Important Notice For Affiliates

There are terms and conditions for clients who would like to be part of our affiliate system.

  • The affiliate is credited an initial sum of R50 for subscribing to our Affiliate System.
  • The affiliate gets up to 15% on every paid shared hosting account, email hosting & sitebuilder, as well as up to 5% on every paid cloud hosting, reseller hosting account & bizgrowth account after 10 maturation days by or from each identified visitor from your website or using your unique Affiliate Link.
  • The affiliate can only withdraw after the N3000 mark is reached. The affiliate may decide however to keep the money in the system.
  • Money withdrawn by the affiliate will be paid on a weekly basis and shall be paid every Tuesday via bank transfer into any bank account in Nigeria.
  • Money withdrawn would be paid to an account with the name of the affiliate.
  • Two or more affiliate accounts cannot be combined.
  • You cannot refer yourself.
  • If your referral cancels or is refunded for his/her product or service, you will have to refund any commission paid by Pillarian, within 30 days. Otherwise, it will be deducted from the related commission in your account or the next payment.
  • Ensure that your Affiliate Link is set up properly to qualify for commissions, as this allows Pillarian to identify or track visitors originating from you.
  • If you refer someone who has made a payment for a service but did not use your unique affiliate link, simply ask the referral to send us a mail stating your email address and that you referred them.

Customer Responsibilities

  • Bulk Email

    Customers sending bulk email must provide recipients with an easy and effective mechanism for removal from bulk email list. Customer must include the source of the addressee’s address in each bulk email message.

  • CPU Usage

    Sites may not use extreme unwarranted CPU usage. This includes usage of “heavy” scripts or Flash/shockwave files. By heavy we mean oversized without cause, to the point where most users would be unable to view them in a reasonable amount of time. No single site may consume 30% of CPU usage for a sustained period of time.

  • Password Protection

    Customer is responsible for protecting passwords and for any authorized or unauthorized use.

  • Content Protection

    Customer agrees to provide appropriate protection to prevent minors (persons under 18 years of age) from accessing any unsuitable material that Customer publishes via any Service.

    Content Ownership Customer is responsible for all content or information residing on, or obtained, or transmitted via, the Service, regardless of whether such use is by Customer.

  • File repository / Dump Sites

    Customer may not use disk space as a file repository or dumpsite. This includes but is not limited to; warez, serials, sound files, applications, zip files. This includes using the space in order to store content used on other sites (remote linking). Examples of this would be using the webspace to store images for auction descriptions, flash or any other files used on another site but stored on our server.

Violation of Rules

Breaking any of these aforementioned rules may result in immediate account suspension with or without notice and also without refund, as well as criminal prosecution where deemed necessary.

Pillarian will not be held responsible for any damages, events that may occur resulting from the use of our services, downtimes, failure or refusal to register or renew your products and services with us. Pillarian will only be liable to provide a full refund of monies paid to us for such products or services.

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