Terms & Conditions

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1. General

Shared hosting (Including only Web Hosting, Business Hosting and Email Hosting) is intended for the subscriber’s use only. Subscriber may not sublet, sublease, subhost, or give away any portion of the resources to anyone other than the subscriber. Examples include: creating sub-accounts for other people (for profit or otherwise), hosting of multiple commercial or non-commercial entities that are not directly owned by the customer, resale of sub-accounts, etc. Doing so will result in immediate account termination.

2. Content

All services provided by Schnell Netz are to be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any local or international law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, material that jeopardizes national security, or material protected by trade secret or other laws. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Schnell Netz, from any claims resulting from the subscriber’s use of Schnell Netz’s services which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Note: Pornography and sex related merchandising are prohibited on any Schnell Netz hosting account. This includes sites that may imply sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to Schnell Netz servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.

Examples of prohibited content (i.e. in the form of website material, domain names, or links) include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • IRC software
  • Pirated software
  • Hacking sites, programs or archives
  • Warez sites
  • Phishing sites
  • Distribution of music files or any other material in which the account holder does not own the copyright.
  • Adult sites
  • Pharmaceuticals/Drug Sites
  • Game Servers (dedicated game server programs)

Schnell Netz will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Content that does not meet these standards will be removed without prior notice to the subscriber.

The responsibility for ensuring compliance to illegal or unlawful activities rests primarily with the subscriber. Schnell Netz will not, as a standard practice, monitor its subscribers to ensure that they comply with this policy or any applicable laws. However, when Schnell Netz becomes aware of these activities, action may be taken to suppress these activities, including but not limited to, removing the information, shutting down an account or website, or any other action deemed appropriate.

Schnell Netz reserves the right to directly take action against a customer of a subscriber in violation of these policies. Schnell Netz also reserves the right to take action against the Schnell Netz subscriber because of activities of a customer of the subscriber. Any Schnell Netz subscribers will cooperate with Schnell Netz in any corrective or preventive action that Schnell Netz deems necessary. Failure to do so is a violation of Schnell Netz’s policy.

From a security standpoint, Schnell Netz recommends that all its subscribers assume that all of their online communications are inherently insecure and take steps to enforce the security of information transmitted. Schnell Netz cannot take any responsibility for the security of information transmitted using Schnell Netz’s facilities.

Schnell Netz will not monitor the content of electronic messages sent or received by its subscribers unless required by law, government authority, or when public safety is at stake. To maintain the operation of Schnell Netz’s networks, and to comply with public safety, court orders, subpoenas, summons, discovery requests, warrants, statutes, regulations, or government requests, Schnell Netz may disclose information, including but not limited to, information concerning a subscriber, a transmission made using our network, or a web site residing on our servers. Schnell Netz assumes no obligation to inform the subscriber that this information has been provided, and in some cases may be prohibited by law from giving such notice.

Schnell Netz expects that its subscribers who provide Internet services to others have to comply fully with all applicable laws. A subscriber’s failure to comply with any laws will violate Schnell Netz policy. In subscribing to services from Schnell Netz, subscribers indemnify Schnell Netz for any violation of the service agreement, law, or Schnell Netz policy, that results in loss to Schnell Netz or the bringing of any claim against Schnell Netz by any third-party. This means that if Schnell Netz is sued because of a subscriber’s activity or customer of a subscriber’s activity, the subscriber will pay any damages awarded against Schnell Netz, plus costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

To report cases of prohibited content, please send an email to abuse@Schnell Netz.com, and an investigation will be conducted. Account holders in violation of any local or international law will not be condoned and will be shut down.

3. Resource-intensive Scripts

Any website or scripts that utilises a higher than accepted amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU cycles, RAM usage, and network resources) will be given the option to reduce the resource utilisation to an acceptable level, or upgrade its web hosting service to a higher plan that can accomodate the server resource usage. Websites or scripts constantly found abusing common server resources will be suspended and/or terminated. Resource-intensive scripts such as Magento (as per Magento’s developer’s advice), PennyAuction, GroupBuy are not allowed to be run in a shared hosting environment (Including Reseller Hosting).

4. Housing of any of the following files is considered a violation of the terms of service:

IRC – We currently do not allow IRC, Egg Drops, BNC, or IRC bots to be operated on our servers or network. Files with references to IRC or any likeness thereof are prohibited. Also any program that acts like an IRC server or that provide chat functions that run as background processes are not allowed.

  • Proxies – We do not allow proxy servers of any kind, whether for personal or business use. Files with references to any proxy or likeness thereof are prohibited.
  • PortScanning – We do not allow any kind of portscanning to be done on or from our servers or network.
  • ShoutCast Servers – We do not allow Shoutcast Servers due to bandwidth and load issues.
  • Background Running Programs – We ask that users request permission before enabling persistent background processes of substantial load. Unauthorized background processes shall result in immediate termination of the account. Schnell Netz maintains the right to cancel accounts at its discretion.
  • PHP Shell – PHP Shells or any likeness thereof are prohibited. Files with any reference to PHP Shells or likeness thereof are prohibited.

4. Commercial Advertising (Email)

Spamming, i.e. the sending of unsolicited email, from any Schnell Netz server or any server located on the Schnell Netz network is STRICTLY prohibited. Schnell Netz will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. This also includes Optin Optout mail programs and mail that either directly or indirectly references a domain contained within an account at Schnell Netz.

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 Schnell Netz 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 or from any Schnell Netz-hosted domain, or referencing any Schnell Netz account, is prohibited.

Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks is prohibited.

Email address cultivating, or any unauthorized collecting of email addresses without prior notification of the email address owner is strictly 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 is prohibited.

5. Server Abuse

Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Schnell Netz server or subscriber of Schnell Netz is strictly prohibited including, but not limited to:

  • Logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access
  • Accessing data or taking any action to obtain services not intended for you or your use
  • Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system, subsystem or network
  • Tampering, hacking, modifying, or otherwise corrupting or breaching security or authentication measures without proper authorization
  • Transmitting material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines with the intent or effect of damaging, destroying, disrupting or otherwise impairing a computer’s functionality or the operation of the System
  • Interfering with, intercepting or expropriating any system, data or information
  • Interfering with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, by means of overloading, “flooding,” “mailbombing,” or “crashing” any computer system

You will be held responsible for all actions performed by your account whether it be done by you or by others. All sub-networks of Schnell Netz and all account holders must adhere to the above policies.

6. Scheduled Maintenance and Downtime

Schnell Netz will use its commercially reasonably efforts to provide services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Subscriber acknowledges that from time to time the services may be inaccessible or inoperable for various reasons, including periodic maintenance procedures or upgrades (“Scheduled Downtime”); or service malfunctions, and causes beyond Schnell Netz’s control or which are not reasonably foreseeable by Schnell Netz, including the interruption or failure of telecommunications or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks (e.g. denial of service attacks), or network congestion or other failures. Schnell Netz will provide at least 48 hours advance notice to the subscriber for Scheduled Downtimes, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize any other disruption, inaccessibility and/or inoperability of its web servers. Schnell Netz has no responsibility for downtime resulting from a user’s actions. Also, the 100% network uptime guarantee does not apply for shared accounts.

7. Backups & Restoration

Backup

Remote Automatic Data Backup (For Files & Folders)

Schnell Netz provides free data backup for WEB HOSTING and BUSINESS HOSTING plans, and disaster recovery service for VPS HOSTING plans. The data backup service is a user-managed backup application, allowing customers to administer their own backup and restoration services from their cPanel account.

All clients are expected and encouraged to perform their regular backups to their local storage/computer.

All clients are urged to perform backups prior to any major updates to their website.

All free data backups are merely provided as a convenience to clients and Schnell Netz will not accept any liability for the availability and completeness of the client data backups.

Schnell Netz will maintain up-to-date backups to our best efforts.

WEB HOSTING (DATA BACKUP)

Data backup will be on a last 2 weeks – 1 copy per week basis

Free self-service backup & restore application in cPanel.

Regular automated backups.

BUSINESS HOSTING (DATA BACKUP)

Data backup will be on a last 7 days – 7 copy basis.

Free self-service backup & restore application in cPanel.

Regular automated backups.

Remote Disaster Recovery Backup (For Image-level Recovery)

Schnell Netz provides free disaster recovery backup for VPS HOSTING plans. The disaster recovery service acts as an image-level backup solution for emergency cases.

Disaster Recovery is designed for protecting data loss in emergencies of failure in our full systems and Schnell Netz VPS Cluster Infrastructure, to ensure business continuity for Schnell Netz and its customers in any severe events that may happen to our infrastructure.

All clients are expected and encouraged to perform their regular data backups to their local storage/computer.

All clients are urged to perform backups prior to any major updates to their website.

DISASTER RECOVERY FOR VPS HOSTING

Disaster recovery backup will be on a last 1 day – 1 copy basis.

Regular automated backups.

ENHANCED DISASTER RECOVERY FOR VPS HOSTING

Enhanced Disaster recovery backup with coverage up to last 7 days – 7 copies.

Includes 1 free Full VPS Restoration per month.

Add-on – Automated Daily Backups (Last 7 days – 7 copies)

The premium data backup service will be available as an add-on for WEB HOSTING and VPS HOSTING plans.

Daily backups will be automated by the subscribed backup service, providing up to the last 7 days of backup.

The add-on backup will be on a last 7 days – 7 copies basis.

Includes a self-managed data backup and restoration platform.

Schnell Netz will ensure that backup copies are up to date and complete.

* Schnell Netz backup service runs on a daily basis and overwrites any prior backups according to the type of backup plan subscribed. The service is provided to shared, business and VPS hosting accounts as a form of convenience. Schnell Netz does not maintain backup copies for dedicated hosting accounts. Schnell Netz reserves the right to modify or terminate the service at any time.Email Archiving Function for bizMail

All bizMail accounts are provided with an “Email Archiving” function, allowing users to store incoming, outgoing and/or mailing list messages separately, for a specified amount of time. Archived emails will utilise the existing diskspace of the account, and have a retention period of up to 90 days. Users will be able to enable this function in their bizMail cPanel account (disabled by default).

Please note that for any legacy retention period will be replaced by the new 90-days retention period if the user were to update the archive settings.

Restoration

For WEB HOSTING and BUSINESS HOSTING plans:

Schnell Netz provides a free self-service backup & available in all applicable cPanel hosting accounts.

Clients are able to conduct full account/single file/email/database/cron jobs/SSL Certificates restoration within their cPanel account.

Clients have to ensure that they have the required backup copy.

Schnell Netz will not accept any liability for any loss of data before or after the user’s restoration process.

Schnell Netz provides assisted restoration services on a per request basis. Each request will be chargeable at $120USD.

For VPS HOSTING plan:

Disaster recovery services are purely administered in cases of complete server or hardware failure to restore all affected VPS accounts.

Clients are advised to perform regular backups for their VPS accounts, or subscribe to our off-site daily backup services.

The state of the hosting account will be according to the available backup copy. Any file changes made between the date of the backup copy to the current version will not be kept.

Individual file/folders restorations are not applicable for VPS HOSTING accounts. Such requests will be chargeable at S$250USD per incident.

For customers with Automated Daily Backup addon – (Last 7 days – 7 copies):

The backup covers files, folders and databases.

Shared Hosting

Shared Hosting customers with the addon will be entitled to 1 free restoration per month

Additional restoration requests may be chargeable at S$25 per incident.

VPS Hosting

VPS Hosting customers with the addon will be provided with a Self-Managed Data Restoration platform.

For Managed Restoration and Site Clean-up

Schnell Netz provides managed restoration and cleanup services for websites. The backup copy used will be based on the user’s subscribed backup copy, and will be chargeable at S$120 per request for a single website. Schnell Netz will restore the site to the latest backup copy, and clean up any malicious files present in the account. Furthermore, Schnell Netz will investigate the root cause of the issue, update the related software if necessary and advise customers on how to better secure their application and account.

For Reinstatement and Restoration for Terminated Accounts:

Clients have the responsibility to ensure that their hosting services are paid duly. For reinstatement and restoration services for terminated accounts, each request will be chargeable up to S$150. Reinstatement and restorations of the account will be subjected to the availability of the backup copies.

8. Customer’s data

Schnell Netz will never use or sell existing customer data on our servers, any purpose.

Schnell Netz is not responsible for data loss or for data loss due to third party software that is not maintained and managed by Schnell Netz.

Clients have the full responsibility for all files and data and are to maintain their own appropriate backup to safeguard their data. Schnell Netz is not responsible for the data residing on your account.

Schnell Netz will not be liable for any data loss that are not within our control, such as in the events of hardware failure, time difference between backed up data and point in time of failure.

Only customers who subscribed High-Availability (HA) services remote backup will have our data protection guarantee. Schnell Netz will ensure the safekeeping and completeness of data residing in our servers, with the exception of storage devices corruption which happens on a rare occurrence

9. Refunds

Refunds will be given at the discretion of the Company Management. All fees outside of our 30-day money back guarantee are non-refundable and non-negotiable. The 30-day money back guarantee only pertains to basic hosting plans (for the “Web Hosting” category of products, such as webValue, webExpert, webPlus, etc). Any setup fees are NON-refundable. The cost of the domain will be deducted from the refund amount if a free promotional domain was registered. Domain names are not applicable for any refunds, but the domain name will still be rightfully owned by the registrant. Domain refunds are only applicable if the registration was performed by a Schnell Netz representative and was mistyped by them. All credit card payments are subjected to 5% transactional charges from our payment processor, which will be deducted from the total refund amount.

For any billing discrepancies, customers can request for a refund or credit note for the amount overcharged, within 90 days from the date when payment is made.

Any violation of Schnell Netz’s Terms of Service Agreement shall result in no refund.

10. Limitations on Email

Sending mass emails (more than 200 email addresses per hour) on basic hosting accounts (for the “Web Hosting” category of products, such as webValue, webExpert, webPlus, etc) may cause your emails to be lost or sent unsuccessfully because of the shared usage of email resources. If you need higher email sending limits, you may consider our dedicated server plans (more information).

11. Limitations on Use (Server resources / Bandwidth / Email)

Any account using 15% or more of the server CPU or memory can be suspended and/or terminated.

12. Fair use on Bandwidth / Data Transfer And What “Unmetered” Means

Schnell Netz does not set arbitrary limits on the exact amount of resources a Subscriber can use. In good faith and subject to these Terms, Schnell Netz makes every commercially-reasonable effort to provide its Subscribers with the resources needed to power their web sites successfully, as long as the Subscriber’s usage complies with these Terms. By not setting arbitrary limits on resources, Schnell Netz is able to provide simple, consistent pricing to Subscribers for their websites.

In order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all Subscribers, Schnell Netz has automated safeguards in place to protect against any one website from consuming too many resources, and adversely impacting the other Subscribers until Schnell Netz can evaluate said site’s resource needs. Schnell Netz’s offering of “unmetered” services is not intended to allow the actions of a single or several Subscribers to unfairly or adversely impact the service experienced by other Subscribers.

Schnell Netz’s shared hosting service hosts multiple Subscriber web sites from the same server, and allow them to share server resources. Schnell Netz’s service is designed to meet the typical needs of individuals and small business website Subscribers. It is NOT intended to support the sustained high demands of large enterprises, international businesses, or non-typical applications better suited to a dedicated server.

Schnell Netz does not set arbitrary limits on the exact amount of traffic a website can receive or on the amount of content a Subscriber can upload to his/her/its website in a given month, as long as the Subscriber’s use of the Services complies with these Terms. In most cases, a Subscriber’s web site will be able to support as much traffic as the Subscriber can legitimately acquire. However, Schnell Netz reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, processes, memory, or number of files, in cases where it is necessary to prevent other Subscribers from being negatively affected.

To prevent excessive bandwidth usage in a shared environment, and to maintain the quality of data transfer rates for each shared hosting customer, certain heavy bandwidth-intensive sites are discouraged, such as, but not limited to, the following: file sharing (music, video, etc), game servers, etc. Bandwidth usage is checked daily, and successive abusers will be required to upgrade their plans, or failing that, may be subjected to immediate account suspension.

For users that require high data transfer rates, higher resources, and dedicated bandwidth, you should consider upgrading to a VPS account or Dedicated Server to ensure the best resources for your website. Dedicated bandwidth is only applicable for non-shared web hosting.

13. Account Setup, Termination, and Billing

Upon submission and confirmation of your order, Schnell Netz reserves the right to process your order and invoice you for the fees. The account will be charged on the day the order is processed, regardless of the services’ activation date. Our system will automatically generate the invoice when your account is due for renewal. If you wish to terminate your account, contact our billing department for termination, and upon verification, your invoice and related subscription services will be stopped. Termination requests should be made with 1 month notice in advance. Customers may be billed for, on a pro-rated basis, for any outstanding charges.

Cheque Orders: Accounts for subscribers who wish to pay by cheque will be setup when the cheque is processed by the bank and funds are received.

Disabling of accounts due to overdue payment: Accounts will be disabled if payment is not received within 7 days of the due date. If your account has been disabled, you may be charged a re-connection fee of up to $150 in order to re-enable your account.

Termination of accounts due to overdue payment: If the account is not paid within 30 days of the due date, the account will be terminated and all information within the account will be deleted. Schnell Netz reserves the right to invoice you for subscription fees, should there be no termination requests for your services before they expire.

Cancellation Procedure: Valid proof of account ownership will be required to terminate an account. This includes, but is not limited to, billing information in the form of a partial credit card number or other payment information, or the billing password. Non-secure information, such as the contact email address or account billing address, is not sufficient as a security verification.

Late Fees: Payments overdue by 60 days will be subjected to a 10% late fee.

Resuming service after suspension: Customer will still be required to pay for the hosting or domain charges incurred during the suspension period of the product. Schnell Netz will not offer any form of product fees reduction for the period of suspension. Schnell Netz reserves the right to charge reactivation fees for services that are resumed after the suspension or termination phase.

14. Log Files (Logs)

For Managed Services, Schnell Netz stores any log files for a maximum of 30 days only. Schnell Netz does not keep log files for Unmanaged Services. Should the customer have specific log file requirements, e.g. for audit/compliance, do get in touch with our sales team to customize a hosting package that enables the storage of log files.

There will be a one-time processing fee of S$500.00 to retrieve log files, if deemed required by the customer, or for investigation purposes.

15. Domain Names

For all newly registered domain names, customers have the responsibility to verify any web or other content related to the domain. This can be done by visiting the domain name in question. If there are any unknown content present, please contact us immediately and our support team will investigate and rectify the issue.

Parked Domain Names: There is no charge for parking additional domain names.

Virtual Domain Names: Additional domains that point to a sub folder (Virtual Domains) are free.

Domain Name Transfers: Schnell Netz shall not be held responsible for domain transfers. The account holder is responsible for completing any necessary domain name transfers.

Misspelt Domain Names: For all domain registrations, Schnell Netz will not be able to determine if the spelling of the domain name was intended or not. Ownership of deliberately misspelt domain names is common to cater to the different spelling abilities and nature of typographical errors of all internet users, apart from the ownership of the original domain name. Customers are to ensure that purchased domain names are spelt accurately and Schnell Netz will not be able to provide a refund for misspelt domain names. Specific to only .COM.SG and .SG domains, you are able to request for a domain name change within 24 hours of the domain name purchase, however subjected to the availability of the new registration and Schnell Netz Domain Management team’s approval.

16. Courtesy Services for Customers

All services such as backup and cPanel are provided for the courtesy of the subscriber. It is the sole responsibility of the subscriber to maintain the subscriber’s own backup of any data. Schnell Netz is not responsible for lost data or for lost data due to third party software that is not maintained by Schnell Netz programming staff. (cPanel is not associated with Schnell Netz)

17. Non-disclosure of Confidential Information

Schnell Netz agrees not to use any Proprietary or Confidential Information (“Confidential Information”) disclosed to it by the customer for its own use or for any purpose other than to carry out discussions concerning, and the undertaking of, maintaining and troubleshooting the customer’s account.

Confidential Information includes, but not limited to, login information, passwords, files, databases (including, but not limited to, products, services, and customers), web designs, configuration information, or financial information of the customer.

18. Service Level Agreement (SLA) – Network

Schnell Netz’s goal is to achieve 100% Web Site Availability for all customers.

Subject to the exceptions below, if the Web Site Availability of customer’s Web site is less than the up-time guarantee of 99.9%, Schnell Netz will issue a credit to the customer, with the credit being calculated on the basis of the monthly service charge for the affected Services in the following manner:

Upon breaching the 99.9% Up-time Guarantee SLA, for every 30 minutes block of downtime: 5% of customer’s monthly hosting subscription. Maximum compensation is up to 1 month’s worth of the customer’s subscribed service that is affected.

Exceptions:

  • Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site Availability caused by or associated with:
  • Circumstances beyond Schnell Netz’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA
  • Failure of access circuits to Schnell Netz networks, unless such failure is caused solely by Schnell Netz
  • Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades
  • Third-party digital or physical attacks on Schnell Netz servers, networks, and data centres, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, or other forms of attacks or hacking.
  • DNS issues outside the direct control of Schnell Netz
  • Issues with setup of services e.g. HTTP, FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP
  • False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Schnell Netz measurement system
  • Customer’s acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorized by customer), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, ASP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Schnell Netz’s Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy
  • Customer’s software causing a unreasonably high level of server resource usage
  • E-mail or webmail delivery and transmission
  • DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation
  • Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. Schnell Netz is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Schnell Netz will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of Schnell Netz: Schnell Netz server links to the Internet, Schnell Netz’s routers, and Schnell Netz’s servers.

19. Service Level Agreement (SLA) – Hardware

For hardware-related issues that require a replacement, the hardware replacement is guaranteed to be complete within SIX (6) hours. The hardware replacement timer begins once the customer opens a support ticket and Schnell Netz determines the cause of the problem to be faulty hardware. The time it takes to troubleshoot and identify the issue/solution is outside of the SIX (6) hours Hardware SLA. The SIX (6) hours Hardware SLA also does not include the time required to install/setup/configure the operating system or applications.

Hardware SLA is not inclusive of the scheduled and upgrade maintenances that Schnell Netz carries out occasionally. Hardware SLA is on a per-incident, and per-hardware component basis.

20. Service Level Agreement (SLA) – 24/7 SuperSupport

Schnell Netz offers 24/7 support for its customers. The support provided covers only services related to the Customer’s hosting subscriptions with Schnell Netz, and does NOT include application support such as WordPress support, Joomla support, Outlook support, etc.

Schnell Netz’s “6-hour resolution time” statement applies to most hosting-related issues that are within our control. External parties such as registrars, hosts, software/service providers, may delay resolution time. Resolution time may also vary due to more complex issues, and in these cases, the Customer will be informed by Schnell Netz’s support team.

21. Limitation of Damages

Recovery of damages from Schnell Netz may not exceed the amount of fees it has collected on the account.

22. Prices and Quotations

Any quotations and prices provided by Schnell Netz are accurate up to 30 days from the date of the email sent to the recipient, unless explicitly stated in the said email.

For telegraphic transfers, do note that Schnell Netz will not bear any underlying bank charges for the payment processed. Please check with your respective banks for any additional charges levied on such transfers.

23. Security Policies

Please refer to our document on our security policies.

24. Legacy Products

Schnell Netz will continue to honour all legacy product plans, upon the subscriber’s request, for as long as the subscriber does not terminate or cancel the existing subscription services. Schnell Netz reserves the right to change/update the subscriber’s plan upon renewal of the subscriber’s product plan.

25. Partners, Person, and Entities, Such As Web Design Partners

Any web design partner listed on our website are included as convenience to our customers who are looking for web design services, and are not necessarily reflective of the web design provider’s capabilities, pricing competitiveness, or performance. No representation is being made that any particular web design service provider will meet the customer’s expectations. Accordingly, we do not offer advice regarding the quality or suitability of any web design provider and we assume no responsibility or liability for any advice or services rendered by any person or entity mentioned, featured on or linked to from our website.

26. Access and Control Policy

When a new account or domain, as applicable, is registered with or transferred to Schnell Netz or with one of its affiliates, the process requires and results in the creation of the following within the records of Schnell Netz, in association with said new account or domain: i) Name of person registering; ii) email address; iii) user name; iv) password; and, v) associated payment information, such as Visa, Mastercard, etc., Credit Card Number & name thereon, etc.

If a person contacts Schnell Netz and claims that he or she is entitled to access to an account, website, or domain registered with Schnell Netz or its affiliate but is without access (for any reason such as but not limited to forgotten password or forgotten user name, data loss or corruption on personal computer, improperly locked out, and so forth), Schnell Netz will give access to the person who acceptably evidences he or she has substantially all of:

  • name of the person with the registered;
  • email address;
  • the associated payment information of the person who registered, such as Visa, Mastercard, etc., Credit Card Number & name thereon, etc. (mandatory); and,
  • a photo identification evidencing she or he is the rightful possessor and user of said credit card or payment medium (mandatory).

Otherwise, Schnell Netz will not give access and control to a claimant unless Schnell Netz is served with a valid order of a court, agency, or appropriate Internet controlling entity such as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), requiring Schnell Netz to give such access and control to said claimant.Subscriber acknowledges and accepts that the foregoing access and control policies and procedures are the only way that notice(s) can be given and changes can be effected regarding said access and/or control;

Subscriber acknowledges and accepts said access and control policy and procedure, agrees not to bring any claim in the form of a lawsuit or otherwise against Schnell Netz arising out of its following said policy and procedure, agrees immediately to dismiss any claim so brought, and hereby releases Schnell Netz from all liability and all claims for damages or any other liability whatsoever that may arise out of Schnell Netz’s following said policy and procedure.

27. Transfer of Hosting Service (Hosting Migrations)

Schnell Netz may, at our sole discretion and after your request, try to assist you to move your web hosting account to our infrastructure (“Hosting Migration”). Hosting Migrations are a service that are provided as a courtesy, and there are no guarantees regarding the success, possibility, or time required to perform and complete a Hosting Migration. Hosting Migrations are not available for websites with over 10GB of data or having more than 100,000 files. Some hosting platforms/companies have data in a proprietary or incompatible format, which may mean we will be unable to assist you in performing a Hosting Migration.

By requesting for a Hosting Migration, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to:

Provide us with access to your third-party hosting account, and

Allow us to migrate the data at the third-party host to us.

After a Hosting Migration has been performed, you are solely responsible for reviewing the functionality and accuracy of migrated content. If you are satisfied with the Hosting Migration, you will need to update your domain name’s DNS records so that the website is accessible in its new location. We will not backup any data during a Hosting Migration, and you are recommended to backup your third-party hosted website before migration. Any changes or revisions to your website during the migration process may cause complications and is advised to be avoided.

You agree that:

You retain sole contractual and any other fiduciary or legal responsibilities related to your third-party hosting account.

We are not liable for any delay in website availability, or loss of data related to your Hosting Migration.

28. Transfer of Ownership

Schnell Netz is not responsible to determine ownership of websites hosted by, accounts opened with, or domains registered with Schnell Netz or its affiliates. By accessing Schnell Netz’s system, registering, or using any of the services provided by Schnell Netz, the Subscriber, or any other person so accessing, registering or using, hereby represents and warrants that the information provided in connection with said registration, including as well information concerning ownership of websites, domains, and accounts, is true, accurate, and complete in each material detail. Any disputes arising regarding the ownership of any account, website, or domain hosted by, opened with, or registered with Schnell Netz or any of its affiliates are subject to the terms and conditions of this section of these Terms.

Schnell Netz will recognize a change of ownership of account(s) with, of websites hosted by, and/or of domains registered with Schnell Netz or its affiliates only in the event that at least one of the following occur:

Schnell Netz is served with a valid order of a court, agency, or appropriate internet controlling entity such as ICANN, requiring Schnell Netz (or affiliate) to transfer such ownership to said claimant. there is received by the Compliance Department a written statement (in a form acceptable to Schnell Netz or applicable affiliate) containing the notarized signature of the original owner of the account, website, and/or domain, as applicable, confirming that ownership of the website, domain, and/or account, as applicable, has been transferred to a person (claimant) claiming to own said website, domain and/or account, as applicable, along with a written statement containing the notarized signature of the claimant confirming that she or he has acquired said ownership, has read and agrees to be bound by these Terms.

Subscriber acknowledges and accepts that the foregoing policies and procedures regarding transfer of ownership are the only way that notice(s) can be given and changes can be effected regarding said transfer of ownership within Schnell Netz; and, further, that any other changes made directly by Subscriber or by others within the online records of Schnell Netz or of its affiliates shall not be deemed effective to give notice to Schnell Netz or its affiliates of any changes in said ownership.

29. Disputing Site or Account Ownership

Disputes sometimes arise between or among multiple persons claiming ownership of or rights in a site hosted by Schnell Netz or in an associated Schnell Netz account. Schnell Netz is not obligated to resolve any such disputes. If multiple persons are claiming ownership of or rights in a site hosted by Schnell Netz or in an associated Schnell Netz account, and, in Schnell Netz’s sole judgment, there is not certainty as to the ownership of or rights in said site or account, then Schnell Netz will, to the extent of its knowledge and ability, notify said persons of the dispute and demand that said persons promptly, conclusively, and finally resolve the dispute in a manner which makes clear who the owner(s) and/or interest holder(s) is/are and in a manner which relieves Schnell Netz of all liability or obligations concerning the dispute.

Any actions taken by Schnell Netz in such ownership disputes will be subjected to a fee of SGD25 for the adminstrative overhead for the investigative actions, and will be deemed due and payable immediately.

If the disputing persons fail so to resolve the dispute within what Schnell Netz, in its sole judgment, deems to be a reasonable time, then Schnell Netz, at its option and without any obligation to do so, may, in accordance with and subject to the laws of Singapore, file an interpleader action in a court of competent jurisdiction within the Republic of Singapore for the purpose of allowing the contending persons to resolve said dispute and to reach certainty regarding ownership of or rights in said site and/or account. The person or persons conclusively and finally determined by the interpleader action to be the rightful owner(s) or interest holder(s) of said site and/or associated account shall be obligated to reimburse Schnell Netz for all of its expenses relative to said interpleader action including without limit all its court costs and reasonable attorney fees. All amounts owed to Schnell Netz under this process shall be deemed due and payable immediately after judgment or settlement is reached.

30. Notification of Transfer of Hosting Account Ownership

Please note that any changes to the owner and/or billing information stored in the account control panel must be changed by the Transferor or the Transferee. Schnell Netz will not be liable for any inability to access the account due to a failure to release access information. Schnell Netz reserves the right to accept or reject the request for any reason in its sole and absolute discretion.

31. Newsletter Mailing List

By signing up for a billing account, you agree to be subscribed to our company’s mailing list. This list will be used to announce any maintenance, scheduled down-times, promotions, updates to our products, and similar topics. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.

32. ICANN Domain Registrar Agreement

By signing up for a domain name with Schnell Netz, you are governed by ICANN and its policies. The domain registrant agrees to abide to the ICANN domain legal agreements. For education purposes, you may refer to official ICANN site.

Information on WHOIS Service

Under the ICANN Registrar Policy, all domain registrants are required to provide accurate contact information upon domain registration. Contact information is required by ICANN and will be publicly displayed in the Public WHOIS directory . The information is also used by Schnell Netz to reach the registrant in any cases of issues pertaining to the registered domain. Domain registrant information used for the WHOIS data is utilised for legitimate purposes to aid in the maintaining of a healthy internet ecosystem, with some functions as follows:

  • Finding and Fixing Potential System Problems
  • Checking availability of Domain Names
  • Fight against Spam, Fraud Registrations and Trademark Infringement
  • Information collected for WHOIS Database
  • Registrant Name
  • Registrant Contact Name
  • Registrant Address
  • Registrant Phone Number
  • Registrant Email Address
  • ID Protection Service

Schnell Netz ID Protection service is available for all domains registered via Schnell Netz. The ID Protection service acts as a proxy by showing the contact information for Schnell Netz’s ID Protection service instead, shielding your personal information from public WHOIS searches. ID protection subscriptions can be obtained for all new domain registrations or domain transfers to Schnell Netz.

33. Cloud BackupService

All Cloud BackupService products are supported on the listed platforms in the product page. However, the following user-level factors may affect the compatibility of the service:

Software incompatibility with customised system setup

User settings on personal workstation or servers

Network Configurations

In any case of service incompatibility, users are able to request for a full refund within 30 days of the subscription of the service. Users are also encouraged to sign up for our 1-month free trial to test system compatibility before subscribing to the mentioned service.

34. Provisions Specific to Unlimited Web Hosting

What “Unlimited” means: Unlimited Web hosting plans are customised to host most small business or personal websites. Schnell Netz does NOT set an arbitrary limit on the bandwidth, disk space, websites and email accounts. In good faith and subject to the Fair Use Policy, Schnell Netz takes reasonable effort to provide its customers with as much disk space and bandwidth resources to power their websites and emails to the extent covered by these unlimited hosting terms.

What “Unlimited” does NOT mean: Schnell Netz’s unlimited hosting service is NOT intended to allow the actions of one or a few customers to adversely impact the experience of other customers. Unlimited web hosting provided by Schnell Netz is a shared hosting service, which means that customers’ websites are hosted on a specific server sharing the same resources. Schnell Netz’s service is NOT catered to support the continual demand of large corporations, enterprises and businesses that are recommended to subscribe to our VPS or Dedicated Server plans.

In the event of any actions that presents a risk to the performance, stability and uptime of our servers and other infrastructure, the safeguards set for unlimited web hosting customers will automatically protect against customer(s) websites that are severely affecting the server until Schnell Netz can evaluate and recommend the next course of action. Customers may be recommended to upgrade to a Business Web Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server plan depending on the usage and hosting requirements.

Storage & Limits Specifics: Users can utilise as much disk space, subjected to a limit of no more than 250,000 inodes per account. Email accounts are subjected to a 500MB limit per mailbox and a maximum of 200 outgoing emails per hour. No data backup will be provided as compared to our other hosting plans. The unlimited web hosting plans are also subjected to the following restrictions of no more than: a. 1 CPU core; b. 768MB of RAM; c. 100 active website connections; d. 20 active processes; e. 1MB/s Disk I/O; f. 100MB FTP upload size; g. 512MB max PHP post size. In any event of exceeding the limitations, your hosted websites may slow down or NOT be served until resources are cleared.

Online Storage: Schnell Netz does NOT provide unlimited disk space for online storage, archival, backups, log files, etc. Such abuse of the unlimited web hosting services will result in the termination of the customer’s account, with or without prior notice.

35. Provisions Specific to WordPress Hosting

What “WordPress” Hosting means: WordPress hosting may only be used to host one WordPress website. Users are only limited to the single WordPress website per account. Any customers subscribed to the WordPress hosting plan found to be hosting a non-WordPress website will be required to immediately remove the non-WordPress website, or may be temporarily suspended or required to upgrade to the next suitable plan.

Optimised WordPress Hosting: Schnell Netz administers a customised server configuration to provide an optimised WordPress hosting experience. The optimised WordPress hosting configuration provides optimal website performance and enhanced security implementations to protect sites against malware and attacks. Due to this unique setup, customers with the WordPress hosting plans are subjected to the following terms.

The optimised WordPress Hosting setup is intended for the sole use with the WordPress CMS platform. The use of WordPress hosting accounts with other non-WordPress installations is not supported and may not work.

Certain WordPress plugins and setup are pre-installed and configured for optimal WordPress website performance. Customers are advised not to remove or edit any of the pre-installed plugins. Safe checks are set in place to check for any changes to the customised setup. Schnell Netz will not be responsible for losses of any nature or downtime resulting from the tinkering of the in place setup.

Schnell Netz reserves the right to deny customer requests for changes to the optimised WordPress hosting setup. We believe, in our own discretion that such changes to the setup may adversely affect the performance of the server.

36. Provisions Specific to Reseller Hosting

Definition of Reseller: Specific to this article, a Reseller is defined as a party reselling Schnell Netz’s services.

Schnell Netz Web Hosting Resellers: Schnell Netz offers reseller web hosting services, and such services may be subjected to the terms and conditions of the resellers. Pricing, discounts and promotions provided are determined solely by the resellers and Schnell Netz does not exact any forms of control or influence to the web hosting services fulfilled. For any terms and obligations with regards to Schnell Netz services purchased through such resellers, it is solely determined and set by the specific reseller.

Schnell Netz does not make any forms of representations or guarantees with regards to the availability or quality provided by the reseller. Transactions between resellers and you solely form a relationship between you and the provider, and Schnell Netz will not be involved in any forms of interactions. Schnell Netz is not a point of contact or representative of you or the reseller by any means. This includes legal actions against such resellers, and Schnell Netz will not be held liable or be obligated to provide any information or assistance.

Dispute Resolution: All resellers agree that if a dispute arises from one of the clients hosted under Schnell Netz’s reseller plans, the reseller will indemnify, defend and hold Schnell Netz harmless against any legal actions or expenses from such a dispute.

Representation of Reseller: In any situations where a reseller is uncontactable for any reasons that are within or not within their control, Schnell Netz may step in to assist the affected parties, to our own discretion.

37. Schnell Netz as a Reseller

Schnell Netz acts as a reseller for certain third party services that are used in conjunction with Schnell Netz related services. Schnell Netz shall not be responsible for any changes in the third party services that causes the third party services to affect any of Schnell Netz related services.

38. General

Terms Of Service are subject to change without any prior notification. Anything not listed in the Terms of Service is open to interpretation and change by Schnell Netz management without prior notice. These Terms of Service are a legally binding contract between the subscriber and Schnell Netz. By opening an account, the subscriber agrees to the above-stated terms.

All prices, with the exception of the 30-day money back guarantee, are non-refundable and non-negotiable.

The 30-day money back guarantee only pertains to shared hosting plans.

Any violation of these Terms of Service will result in termination of the account. Schnell Netz maintains the right to terminate accounts without prior notification.

We reserve the right to remove any account with 15 days prior notice via email or by other means.