Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions 360 Web Firm – March 05, 2024
WEBSITE HOSTING & DOMAIN NAME
The Domain Name – We ask our clients to purchase the domain name themselves because this is something that should always be in the client’s name and in the clients’ full control. Don’t worry, we will talk you through this as its very easy and a domain name cost on average $15.00 a year. This way you always have access to it and its under your name/business and you have complete control on this. Once you purchase a domain name, you can grant us access to change the DNS settings for you if you wish to point to your hosting.
You are responsible for making sure your domain name gets renewed. Please always check with your registrar and keep your domain name renewed.
The Hosting Including Maintenance – For website maintenance and hosting packages, click HERE. Our website hosting is through C Panel and a cloud hosting platform. We provide 5GB of bandwidth and 5GB of disk Space for basis hosting and up to 10GB bandwidth and 10GB disk space for advanced hosting. Both hosting comes with FREE email services that you use at your own risk, and we do not provide any support for any email services.
*** Note – we no longer host websites alone without doing website maintenance as we still end up doing the updates for most people to keep things safe and secure. This is no longer an option with 360 Web Firm. Hosting comes with website maintenance and not stand alone anymore.
Websites Hosted on our VPS Servers, or your own VPS servers.
360 Web Firm host some of our clients’ websites on a VPS server we rent from a few companies. We set up, manage, and look after the server on a regular basis. If you have your own server through us that we rent on your behalf, we set up, manage, and look after this VPS server as well. We are the renters, not the owners of any hosting services you have with us. These servers also require downtime for maintenance at times.
PCI COMPLIANT – Currently, our hosting services does not include PCI Compliant specifications.
Uptime and Downtime on our VPS server we rent – You agree and fully understand circumstances that could happen.
The companies we rent out servers are from 95% – 99.9% uptime. There is always a chance that a bad cable, hardware, or anything else that could take the server offline could happen. In this case, this is out of our control and the HOST will fix this as soon as they can. Most of the time this is done super-fast, however, it could take a day or even a few days to get this rectified and resolved. By continuing to use our services with 360 Web Firm, you fully understand and are OK with the small risk of your website going down due to hardware issues that is out of our control. This could be 1 hour or even 2 days or more.
360 Web Firm has backups of your website and if it seems that the hardware issue from the HOST might take a long time to fix, we could take your websites latest backup and add it to another host we have with another VPS server just to get your website up and running faster.
HOSTING WITH OUR SERVER + YOUR OWN SERVER – *** Late Payments ***
Please note that 360 Web Firm tries to send out the invoices in a reasonable time frame each month. However, if you are on a monthly payment plan or package, this needs to be paid on the 1st of the month or just before. If you have issues with making the payment, please advise us so we know when you will make the payment. However, if we send out notifications and you continue to not make any payment and/or ignore our notifications, we could put your Hosting Account/Server into suspension mode. Please note that if you were hosted with another company, they could just automatically stop your hosting on the 1st day the payment is late. 360 Web Firm must pay our server cost no matter what on the 1st and we expect everyone to make payment on time as well.
Please pay your bill on time and if you are sending out a cheque, please mail it so we will receive it on time. All we ask is to pay your bill with us on time. We don’t want to suspend your hosting account, but if you continue to be late on the payment all the time, what other choice do we have? If you wish to change from the monthly plan to 3, 6 or even 12 months payment plan we can certainly do that if this is easier for you.
EMAIL SERVICES
We strongly suggest using a professional email services such as Google, Outlook which can be purchased here – Office 365 Email which is great for small businesses. Using C panel email is not a good idea for any business in our opinion. WE also DO NOT SUPPORT any C Panel email services nor any cloud-based email services which comes free with our hosting. Please note that Office 365 email is provided, supported, and maintained by Go Daddy and we are just the referral to these services. You make direct payment to them, and they provide all services to you including billing and support.
support for email as we need to be in front of your PC for setting up and this is just not possible. We will try to help you out, but please note we are not responsible for your email services. This is offered ONLY for free with your C Panel. We will not provide support for email accounts. We can set up IMAP or POP email and this can be attached to your iPhone and Outlook and other programs. Your email is provided as a courtesy and is FREE with your hosting account.
Backing Up Your Email – If you do decide to use the FREE C panel email, then please note that we do not provide any support for any C Panel email service. Please also note that if you are using this email, then you are responsible for backing this up on your local PC as we are not responsible for your email backups.
You Assume the Risk. – The use of our email system through your C panel hosting with us is at your OWN RISK. C Panel email is a good email system if used properly and is set up correctly and your password is secure and changed regularly. Please always keep your email, hosting, and website credentials SAFE and secure as these are your responsibility. We highly recommend changing your passwords every 3-6 months.
Email Spam or Abuse – If we find that your email is being used for Spamming others, we reserve the right to remove your email and possibly your website from our server. We will not tolerate any spamming to others. If you are receiving SPAM in your email, we might assist you with setting up a filter, but this is your responsibility through your c panel account to set up and fight spam.
Protect Your Email Address – A great way to protect your email account is to use a Contact Us form on your website. Do NOT add your email to your website, but rather use a contact us form and then only reply to people you trust. This way no one can spoof or get your email from you unless you want them to have it.
REMOTE EMAIL SERVICES – PROFESSIONAL EMAIL RECOMMENDED
You might have an email address set up with a remote server such as Google G-Suit, Outlook, Go Daddy or my reseller with Go Daddy which is Office 365 email ( https://store.360webfirm.ca/ ) which is still Go Daddy and they provide ALL support and billing for this email 24/7. PLEASE call those providers for support as this has nothing to do with 360 Web Firm EXCEPT for the DNS (MX) settings you ask us to place on our server. The email and services are provided by those companies or places above. Please ask them for assistance with all your REMOTE email issues. You also will have your OWN C Panel login if hosted with me so you may set up all your DNS yourself as this is not 360 Web Firm’s responsibility. We will do this as a courtesy if you need our help. If at anytime you feel those DNS records are not correct, please feel free to login to your account and update or change them yourself. We JUST add what you ask us to add.
WEBSITE UPDATES AND BUILDING
UPDATES OR CHANGES TO WEBSITES ONCE THEY ARE FINISHED
Once your website is finished and we have completed the service, we will be available for question or concerns. Please note that this is provided as a courtesy and not an obligation. 360 Web Firm is in no way responsible for updates, changes, security, or modification after which the website is built. We have maintenance packages which includes support, security scans, malware scans, updates to your WordPress, theme, and plugins, and for other general changes and modifications to your website. These plans also cover backups of your website files and database. Normally we provide an hour training to our customers which we will show you the basics on your website and how to make simple updates and changes. If you require additional training, we can certainly book you in for this.
Website Content Once Website Is Finished – Once you sign off on the website and it is finished and you pay us, this concludes our services. It is your responsibility to make sure all content is correct before you finalize the payment to us. This could be text, contact us forms, buttons, links, images, and all content on your website. We do our best to make sure it is working as it should be, but you are ultimately responsible for making sure everything is 100% correct. Once your website is finished, we are under no obligation to make any changes, updates, fixes or to take any action on your website.
Maintenance Plan Customers – We make sure all is updated and secured to the best of our ability. We do go over your website from time to time. However, this is your website and your responsibility to check everything and to make sure all content is correct and working as it should be. We suggest going to your website a few times per week or more to make sure it is working well. If you notice something, let us know and we will fix this ASAP. We highly recommend you take the time to make sure any forms, text, images, and all content is working and looks as it should be.
Plugins used on your website(s) – We use plugins on your websites for several different reasons such as: security and spam, speed, and several other reasons. Most of these plugins are free and you use at your own risk which is with all websites using free plugins. 360 Web Firm might also add in paid plugins we pay for as a courtesy to our customers and these are plugins you won’t be charged for but may use under 360 Web Firm as long as you are a current customer of 360 Web Firm. If you 360 Web Firm and we are no longer providing you any type of services, we will not allow the license to continue on your site for free. These PAID plugins used are for current customers of 360 Web Firm. Examples are: Cleantalk Spam plugin, Wp Rocket Speed and Performance Plugin and SMTP contact us form via Jotform.
** NOTE if you are a customer through our reseller (store.360webfirm.ca) for such things as email or domain names, this is with Go Daddy and not considered services provided by us directly like web design, hosting and maintenance.
Theme used on your website – this is licensed under 360 Web Firm and while you are a customer, this is included with our services. If you leave for another provider, you will need to get your own license for the WordPress theme.
CHECK YOUR OWN WEBSITE(S) ON A REGULAR BASIS – IMPORTANT!
360 Web Firm strongly advices you to check your Contact Us forms, internal or external links, all ecommerce store functionality, the text and image layout and any other function or ability on your site regularly. AGAIN, we update the software such as the WP plugins software, WordPress software, and the WP theme software (if applicable) and host your website(s), but you need to check it or them (if more than 1 website with us) it to make sure things are working as they should.
For testing of your ecommerce store, you can get a free Sandbox account with PayPal. This will give you a testing account for both the seller and buyer and that way you can test the complete flow of your ecommerce store and make sure you get emails, payment from PayPal is working and anything else related to your ecommerce store.
Contact 360 Web Firm if you notice any issues. Please also note that we are NOT responsible for conflicts caused by any software on your website. We will do our best to assist you in fixing it, but we are NOT responsible for any issues that any software might cause on your website(s). This also includes any security issues as we do not develop any software and have no control over this.
Website Media – All website content is the responsibility of the customer. This includes any text, videos, and images. Please make sure your images and videos are non-copyrighted or you have a license for these. Please also make sure the text copy or content is not copied from someone else’s website or service. You are 100% responsible for all content on your website.
WORDPRESS, WORDPRESS THEME AND WORDPRESS PLUGINS – UPDATED FOR PERFORMANACE AND SECURITY REASONS
We strongly recommend making sure your WordPress software is updated, along with your WordPress Theme and WordPress Plugins for security reasons and for improvements. This is not our responsibility to do these unless your have a maintenance package which otherwise states this. Its always a good practice to take backups before you do any updates to your system and software. PLEASE make sure you always take a backup of your website and database before performing any updates. We are NOT responsible for fixing your website unless you have a maintenance plan in place. If you have a maintenance plan in place, we will restore your site to the last known good backup in case of complete website failure.
SOFTWARE LICENSING – LICENSE FOR SOFTWARE FOR USAGE ON YOUR WEBSITES PLUGINS AND THEME
If we include any license with our services such as for any WordPress theme or for any WordPress plugin, we install under our own license umbrella, this is ONLY valid while you are a customer of 360 Web Firm. We reserve the right to VOID any license from software that is added by us and under our own license umbrella. An example would be the WordPress theme we use a lot called DIVI. This comes with a license under our umbrella, and we could VOID this is we seem fit.
Please note that 360 Web Firm would only VOID the license in certain cases. If we VOID the license, you can always purchase your own license afterwards.
WEBSITE SOFTWARE – WORDPRESS PLUGINS, WORDPRESS THEME AND WORDPRESS AND ALL OTHER SOFTWARE USED FOR YOUR WEBSITE
360 Web Firm does not create, develop, or modify any software that is used on your website. The software is added for the functionality of your website, for security and for performance. It is up to the developer of this software to come up with fixes, updates for security and performance and general changes. Therefore, you will not hold 360 Web Firm responsible or liable for any issue whatsoever because of the software used on your website. We are not the creator of any software on your website, we just implement it by adding or installing it on your behalf for your website functionality.
The software could be WordPress, the WordPress Theme, Plugins or Extensions or any extra Software added. If you have a maintenance package with us, we will update these on a regular basis but ONLY when the developer or creator comes out with updates. Even though the software might be updated, there could still have an issue or conflict with another software on your website.
If anything shall happen because of any software used on your website such as a conflict with another software, website not working properly, a Virus or any type of Malware, you will not hold 360 Web Firm responsible or liable for this. We will do our best to help you out, but 360 Web Firm is not responsible and/or liable and you agree with this statement if you wish to use ANY of our services.
WEBSITE IMAGES AND WEBSITE CONTENT – COPYRIGHT ISSUES
The content you add to your website, or you get 360 Web Firm to add to your website is your data and your responsibility. This includes all forms of images, text and any other data or property you own. Images must not be copied from the internet, and they must not be copyrighted except if you own this copyright licence. ALL content added to your website is your content and your responsibility and 360 Web Firm has no interest or affiliation with any of your content. We just add it on your behalf, and you own this content. Please make sure your images are safe to use. There are several free high-quality image providers on the internet. Please also make sure your text and wording are not copied from others because this will seriously hurt your ranking with the search engines, and you could possibly get into trouble by copying others content.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION & RANKING FOR YOUR WEBSITE
Having a NEW or UPDATED website is nice and looks great, specially if you are using a mobile friendly site for the first time. However, getting found in the search engines with it afterwards might be a challenge. Please note that we will do our best to make sure your site is optimized for the search engines. HOWEVER, this is something we cannot guarantee and please note that it takes time to get a good ranking in Google, Bing, and other search engines. We will never say that we can guarantee this or that you will be on the 1st page, or anything related to this statement about search engine ranking. When we build your website or upgrade your existing website, we are not responsible for the search results or standing for certain keywords in the search engines. We will do our best to the ability of our knowledge.
Google changes its algorithm so often that even SEO specialized companies are finding it a challenge to keep up with the new changes and requirements. The opinion of 360 Web Firm is that having a clean & informative website is the first initial start, as well as a fast loading and secure website using an SSL Certificate. You will also need to put time into marketing and advertising your new or upgraded website.
We perform the initial SEO, Accessibility, Performance and Best Practices to the best of our knowledge, and this is done when we first build your website and its NOT an ongoing service we perform. You need to continue to update your website and content and might need to tweet your SEO and other important factors above on a regular basis to keep Google and the rest of the search engines happy. We try out best to set you out on the right foot all search engine optimization. You always have the option to hire a dedicated SEO person as we are a web design agency and not a dedicated SEO professional, and we do the initial SEO only or touch ups if asked by our client’s.
MAINTENANCE PACKAGES / PLANS
Updating software such as WordPress, the WordPress Theme and all the WordPress plugins. We are not responsible for when these updates may come out. We are also not responsible for any software on your website. This is up to the developer of the software, and we only implement it and update this software; we are not the developers. You agree not to hold 360 Web Firm responsible for any issues because of using any software on your website.
Regarding content changes or updates included in any maintenance plan. This includes ONE hour of updates or changes to your website. This will be anything you want done except for paid extras such as plugins, theme, and so on as you will be responsible for these extra costs. The ONE-hour updates to content or just changes to your website is subject to the conditions below. You agree to these below conditions if you wish to have a maintenance plan with 360 Web Firm.
360 Web Firm reserves the right to refuse any maintenance plan or cancel an exiting plan at anytime. You also have the right to cancel this plan at anytime. If we cancel the plan, we will finish up the month if paid in advance. There are no refunds.
Please also note that if we are not comfortable with certain changes or updates, or if we do not have the experience to do these changes or updates, we will let you know. We will do what we can to the best of our ability. If we simply do not know how to do your update or changes, then you will not hold us liable for this. We have a lot of experience with WordPress and website design, but we don’t know everything. We will try our best to help you, but if we are not comfortable doing your request, then we will just let you know. You agree that if we are not comfortable with doing your request, you will be OK with this. We will ONLY do updates or changes that we know how to do and are comfortable with.
BACK UPS WITH YOUR WEBSITE – MAINTENANCE CUSTOMERS ONLY
WEEKLY BACKUP SCENARIO – The server takes backups 3 times per week, and this is stored on the server. We can revert to those backups in case of a website failure or a non-responsive situation with your website.
Revert to backup stored on server would take approximately 1 hour.
COMPLETE SERVER FAILURE SCENARIO – Under the VERY RARE case that the server has issues and is not responsive and reachable, then I might have to RE-install the OS again and then RE-install C panel. In this rare case, I have a local backup of your website. These local backups are done 2 times per month. In this case, your website would be up and running once again with the last BACKUP TAKEN from up to 2 weeks. This could be 1 day; it could be 2 weeks. This all depends on when the last backup was done and when the server failed.
This is the procedure for a server failure:
- I get notified that the server is unresponsive. If I cannot fix this, then I must re install OS.
- I re install OS and then re install C Panel software.
- I then upload the backup I have of your website (which could be up to 2 weeks before) to the server.
- Your website is back up and running again.
This procedure could take between 2-4 hours, or even a little more.
If you are concerned and wish to keep your own backups, you can do this within your own c panel account. Please download your backups and save to your local disk drive. Contact me for more info and for your C Panel login if you do not have it.
EMAIL, HOSTING AND WEBSITE SECURITY
When you have a maintenance package with us, we perform regular scans on your hosting account for malware and viruses. We might even add a security plugin to your website such as Word Fence and other security and protection plugins. We highly recommend updating your passwords for your Email, Hosting and Website several times a year to help protect your services. PLEASE make sure your password is a LONG one with Caps, lowercase, alphabetical and numeral characters. Please also include any special characters. This MUST always be secure. This is YOUR responsibility to make sure your credentials are secure.
When more than one person has credentials for logins such as email, hosting, and websites, this opens more of a risk for these services being hacked or compromised. Please make sure you always take care of your credentials. If 360 Web Firm does not do your maintenance, please remove us from your website users list.
HOSTING ACCOUNTS WITH NO MAINTENANCE PLAN WITH US – STANDALONE HOSTING ACCOUNT
When you have a hosting account with us which would be when you purchase a website and get a free year of hosting, or if you just wanted to purchase hosting as a standalone for your website. You are 100% responsible for updating the website’s software, malware protection and keeping your website safe from being hacked. You are furthermore responsible for any changes or functions on your website. Your hosting account is also limited by Bandwidth as this depends on the package you have with 360 Web Firm or the agreement you have in place.
MALWARE AND VIRUS PROTECTION – Make sure your COMPUTER is also free of malware and viruses if you keep your credentials on your PC or MAC. We recommend using Malwarebytes and AVG Internet Security. Both programs come with a FREE version that works great. The paid version offers more and is very affordable as well. Please SCAN all the time. Each morning, lunch, after work. Try to scan your PC each day as a habit. These are some tools you can use, and this is of our own opinion. Please use at your own risk.
WEBSITE COMPROMISED
Maintenance Customers with hosting – We do our best and there is NEVER any guarantee that someone will NOT hack into your website, email, or hosting. 360 Web Firm takes precautions to try and prevent this from happening, but it does happen all around the world and websites and other login services do get infected/hacked all the time. Keeping passwords secure, files updated and backed up and credentials safe, will certainly lower the risk of being hacked by malware or viruses.
Please inform us ASAP if you believe you are compromised. We will take the necessary actions to rectify the situation. If you are on a maintenance plan, we will investigate the scenario. If you are NOT on one of our maintenance plans, there could be a cost associated with this.
Non-Maintenance Customers – Once your website is built and you sign off, then this is up to you to maintain your website and to keep all software updated and secure, your website backed up and for all login credentials. Once your website is finished and you make your payment to us, then your website is now 100% your responsibility. You acknowledge that 360 Web Firm is not responsible for anything that may happen regarding your website files, database, email and anything related to your website.
Without a maintenance plan in place, you are also responsible for any backup of your website. We take a few backups each week and if server fails, we have 2 backups stored that could be up to 2 weeks old. There will be a cost to restore your website if its just your website and not the server. You can take your own backups within your c panel account and save those on your local disk just in case.
Maintenance customers with no hosting – If we simply take care of your website and not your hosting, then we will do our best to keep it updated and secure as well as backed up. Not having control over your hosting can have an impact of what we can do to TRY and prevent malware, website, email & database hacking and other software related conflicts or issues. Not having access to change or modify server software and configurations as well as scans and checks can also affect how much control we have and what we can do to stop, prevent and even fix issues. There is only so much we can do with just the website.
For all THREE WEBSITE COMPROMISED scenarios above – you acknowledge that 360 Web Firm is not responsible for someone hacking into your website and/or malware or viruses that may happen on your website files, database, or email. Furthermore, 360 Web Firm is not responsible for any software related issues or conflicts that could happen on your website. As stated above, we are not the developers of any software found or used for your website functionality.
Changes to the Terms and Conditions of Use
360 Web Firm may at any time, and at its sole discretion, modify these Terms and Conditions of Use, with or without notice. Such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. You agree to review these Terms and Condition of Use periodically and your continued use of our services following such modifications will indicate your acceptance of these modified Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to our terms and conditions, please do not use our services anymore.
IN CONCLUSION
Please read the above terms completely. Once again, if you wish to use our services, you agree 100% with the above statements, conditions, and terms.
Maintenance Customers – While we do our best to protect against Malware, Viruses, software conflicts, email spamming and other website threats by continuing to use our services you acknowledge that 360 Web Firm is in no way responsible for any of these issues.
Please feel free to contact us anytime if you have any questions or concerns.
We try our best to make our customers happy and we are completely honest with them. We are available 7 days a week and we go above and beyond for our customers.
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The personal data of individuals accessing the website from Europe is not covered by the GDPR as the website does not offer goods or services to EU/EEA data subjects. We do not control or process data from EU/EEA residents. We service Canada and the United States ONLY.
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