Privacy
DIFFERENT TECH will not sell, distribute, reveal, or otherwise make available
any customer information. We contribute our time and help to anti-spam
organizations. We are involved 100% in prosecuting spammers. Should we need to
contact you directly regarding your specific account or service we will do so
via email only. If you are a member of our forum, you may receive mailings from
us, as required to receive server announcements. You are free to request to not
receive notifications/emails at any time from within your user panel at our
forum.
No Money Back Guarantee
If for any reason you are unhappy with the services you receive from DIFFERENT
TECH after the first 48 Hours of service, you may request in writing via email
or by our cancellation form (as mentioned below) that your services be
discontinued at which time you will receive a full refund. You must also state a
detailed reason as to why you are canceling (as we request for any cancellation,
no matter the time frame). We are the sole arbiter as to if your reason is a
valid reason and if all possible steps were taken on your side and on ours to
correct the situation causing the interest to cancel. otherwise we don't offer
any money back guarantee.
New Accounts
All new web hosting accounts purchased on are not set up instantly by our
system. It will be needing activation by a team member pending security check
and you will receive two (2) emails including login details after your purchase
activation. Due to unforeseen complications with various mail servers and any
connection problems between your ISP and DIFFERENT TECH, this process may
sometimes be delayed.
Payments
When you subscribe to our services, you are subscribing to a pre-paid service.
All payments will be charged using Paypal / Liberty Reserve / Cash / Bank
Deposit / currier service / western union transfer . Renewal notices are sent
several times via email from 7 to 0 days before the renewal date. Accounts 7
days past due will be disabled. Accounts 15 days past due will require a $15.00
USD fee to enable. We only accept
Cancellations
Reseller Accounts - If you wish to cancel your services, you must write to sales
or request a Cancellation from your client area.
If you cancel your account and your payments still continue for any reasons such as 1) by fault of DIFFERENT TECH staff 2) by fault of the payment processor 3) by fault of any other payment collection company we are not responsible for any overdraft fees that are issued by your financial institution.
Overage Charges
Our service plans are designed to accommodate the majority of usage scenarios
given the needs of our customers. However, your usage may vary and require
additional allocations, specifically in the areas of storage and traffic. We
will never charge your card automatically if your account requires more
resources. You must keep your email address updated within your cPanel, so that
you may receive an email when your account reaches certain limits determined
solely by our system, ie. bandwidth exceedment warning at 80% at which time you
may contact us to purchase a higher transfer quota for your account. If you do
not contact us, the system will suspend your site if your allotments exceed.
Refunds/Account Termination
If, for any reason, DIFFERENT TECH fails to deliver said services, a prorated
refund will be issued. No refunds will be issued if abuse of our stated policies
forces DIFFERENT TECH to suspend or terminate your services prematurely.
In the event you request account cancellation, once your service has been
cancelled your account will be suspended from use. It will then be deleted
within 3 days. If for any other reason your account becomes suspended and
remains suspended it will be deleted after a 7-day period.
Content
DIFFERENT TECH believes in freedom of speech; however, any content (written,
visual, or implied) in the following areas will not be tolerated and is grounds
for immediate suspension of service (in most cases customer will be allowed a
zip file of their files): racism or prejudice due to color, creed, or belief;
profanity or obscene language towards anyone but yourself; any violent/malicious
content. We also do not allow legal adult content. We prefer that you
self-govern your content and are responsible as to what your website provides.
We do not have the resources and time needed to govern our servers constantly
which have growing and evolving content. However, if DIFFERENT TECH is made
aware of any questionable content on a DIFFERENT TECH-hosted site, we will
address the concerns directly with you and seek an amiable resolution. If anyone
contacts us about content they have found on a DIFFERENT TECH server that
copyrights their own material or that they wish to be removed, we require legal
documentation to take any further action. We
do not allow Web Proxy Services / Scripts or file hosting services on our
Server. No remote uploading/processing scripts usage like rapidleech,
Phpmusicsearch, rapidshare premium link generator etc etc are not allowed in our
server. Torrent seeding using torrentflux or similar script may also cause a
suspention in our network immediately. You are also not allowed to host an Image
Hosting site with us which takes lots of cpu resources and abuse the server
memory. Altough, we do allow video streaming using FFMPEG on the server till you
are in the acceptable cpu range, though if malicious material is found through a
complaints from abuse department, certain action will be taken at an urgent
manner. You are not allowed to run any cron less than 30 minutes
Opt-in Email Marketing
If you choose to engage in marketing your site and/or services via email please
heed the following. The only permitted form of email marketing is that in which
the list is “opt-in”. By definition, opt-in is where people provide you with
their email address specifically requesting to be on your email list for
information about your site and/or service. If we find your account trasnmitting
email to persons that did not authorize such activity, that is grounds to
suspend and terminate your site. Note: On the flip side, the joining of an
opt-in email list does not guarantee the legitimacy of such a list. Please
contact us before taking any steps so that you will not be a victim of spam from
second and third parties of such lists.
UCE, UBE, Spam
DIFFERENT TECH has a zero tolerance policy regarding unsolicited commercial
email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE) also known as “spam”. The
definition of spam:
An electronic message is “spam” IF: (1) the recipient’s personal identity and
context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other
potential recipients; AND (2) the recipient has not verifiably granted
deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; AND (3)
the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a
disproportionate benefit to the sender.
You will be cited with “UCE/UBE Abuse” if you send any email to persons who have not specifically asked to receive email from you. The sending origin of such email is irrelevant. Upon confirmation of abuse, any DIFFERENT TECH customer engaging in this practice will have their service suspended. Not only does spam place a strain on the server that can negatively effect that server’s uptime record and performance record, you subject that server to the possibility of being blacklisted.
If your site will be sending mailings out to subscribers, this is a checklist of what you are required to do:
# You must not try to hide, forge or misrepresent the sender of the e-mail and sending site of the e-mail.
# Bulk mailings must specifically state how the persons’ e-mail addresses were obtained and must indicate the frequency of the mailing.
# Bulk mailings should contain simple and obvious unsubscribe mechanisms. We recommend that this be in the form of a working link to a one-click unsubscribe system; however, a valid “reply to:” address may be used instead.
# All subscription based e-mail must have valid, non-electronic, contact information for the sending organization in the text of each e-mail including either a phone number or physical mailing address.
# All bulk e-mail must be solicited, meaning that the sender has an existing and provable relationship with the e-mail recipient and the recipient has not requested not to receive future mailings from the sender. Documentation of the relationship between the sender and the recipient must be made available to AOL upon request.
Prohibited Uses of DIFFERENT TECH Hosting Systems and Services Regarding Spam
# Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email (”UBE”, “spam”). The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email through DIFFERENT TECH servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertizing a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on DIFFERENT TECH servers, is prohibited. DIFFERENT TECH accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider.
# Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by DIFFERENT TECH customers must be Closed-loop (”Confirmed Opt-in”). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing lists of email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to from any DIFFERENT TECH-hosted domain, or referencing any DIFFERENT TECH account, is prohibited.
# Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org.
Liabilities
DIFFERENT TECH, makes no endorsement, claims, or promises regarding the services
offered by our customers and will not be held liable for any disputes or claims
against said customers. In no event shall DIFFERENT TECH be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, or
any damages whatsoever, arising from the use or performance of this web site or
from any information, services or products provided through your web site. We
are not responsible for any content on any server in our network and will not
take any action against any questionable material or action until the website in
question is brought to our attention by emailing us.