Terms and Conditions

Terms & Conditions

The activities listed below are meant to provide you with examples of activities and content that are strictly prohibited.

Topsites, ponzi or pyramid schemes, prime banks programs, bank debentures/bank debenture trading programs, cryptocurrency/bitcoin miners, forex, e-gold, proxy, bots, spam bots, mail bombers, SMS bombers, or any type of bombing/spamming application, port scanners, IP scanners, mail harvesting scripts, brute force scripts, chat rooms, banner rotators, file dumps, using disk space as secondary storage, sales of illegal pharma, drugs, explosives, anonymous or bulk sms gateways, malware, warez, phishing materials, lottery, gambling, illegal downloads, pirated software distributions, escrow, high yield investment programs, adult thumbnail galleries/banner exchanges, streaming or broadcasting of live copyrighted events. Websites promoting illegal activities or linking to other websites that promote illegal activities.

Website content that promotes or advocates human trafficking in any way shape or form as determined by HostGT’s sole discretion, sites that promote prostitution, or escort services.

Websites that promote/represent/accept religiously extremist groups/sayings as determined by HostGT’s sole discretion, sites that promote/support terrorist activites and/or sites made with similar intention.

Any website found to host illegal/child pornography, link to child pornography or exploitative content will be suspended immediately without notice or warning.

Embedding or uploading audio/video/high resolution images on website or linking to other websites that promotes audio/video/high resolution images.

Illegal Material – This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material in violation of any regulation or material that is perceived to be misleading.

Warez – This includes, but is not limited to, pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking, IP spoofing and encrypting of any of the above. It also includes any sites which provide “links to” or “how to” information about such material.

Games – We strictly do not allow to host any kind of games on our servers. Your hosting account would be immediately terminated if we found any games hosted on your hosting account. This does not include blogs related to gaming or news websites related to gaming, We only prohibit using the account as a game server.

Backups and Data Retention: The Company provides backup services on a complimentary basis, as an additional feature to the primary services offered. However, the Company does not warrant or guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or availability of such backups. The Customer acknowledges and agrees that these backup services are provided “as is” and “as available,” without any express or implied warranties. The Customer is solely responsible for maintaining their own separate backups of all data and content stored on the Company’s servers. The Company strongly recommends that the Customer regularly create and maintain their own local backups to ensure data preservation and business continuity.

Prohibited Software and Licensing Compliance:

1. Prohibited Content: The use of unlicensed, “nulled,” or improperly licensed plugins, themes, or software (collectively referred to as “Prohibited Software”) is strictly forbidden on the Company’s hosting services.
2. GPL Compliance: While the Company respects the principles of open-source software, the use of GPL-licensed software must comply with all applicable licensing terms and conditions. Any use of GPL-licensed software in violation of its license terms is considered Prohibited Software.
3. Security Risks: The Company notes that Prohibited Software often contains malware, backdoors, or other security vulnerabilities that may compromise the integrity and security of the Customer’s website and the Company’s hosting infrastructure.
4. Enforcement: The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to immediately suspend or terminate the Customer’s account, without prior notice or warning, if Prohibited Software is detected on the Customer’s account.
5. No Refunds: In the event of account termination due to the use of Prohibited Software, the Customer shall not be entitled to any refunds of prepaid fees.
6. Customer Responsibility: The Customer is solely responsible for ensuring that all software used in connection with the Company’s services is properly licensed and compliant with all applicable laws and regulations.

The Company strongly advises the Customer to use only properly licensed and reputable software to maintain the security and integrity of their website and data.

IRC Hosts – Hosting an IRC server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server or have a connection to an IRC network. Servers or Virtual hosting accounts, found to be connecting to or part of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without notice. The server would not be reconnected to the network until such time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second violation would result in immediate account termination.

HostGT reserves the right to deem any other content or literature as “prohibited” if found to be indecent, rude, hate content &; generally unacceptable.

Refer General Acceptable Use Policy for complete details on prohibited content and activities.

In compliance with DMCA act, HostGT has adopted procedures for parties who believe that a hosted site on our service is infringing their copyrights. All copyright complaints must be submitted to [email protected]

Abuse Of Resources

Any attempts to compromise or actual compromise of a network device belonging to HostGT or any other company, individual, or other entity is strictly prohibited. This offense also includes port scanning, IP range scanners and vulnerability scanning. All infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and may result in immediate termination of service.
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks directed at HostGT, or any attempts to launch a Denial of Service attack from our servers are strictly prohibited. All infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and may result in immediate termination of service.
Hosting any software, source code or any other material that is illegal or could be used to commit an illegal act is strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to software exploits; exploit source code, hacking tutorials, hacking tools, viruses and Trojans, bomb making and similar device tutorials. All infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and may result in immediate termination of service.
The hosting of material that infringes on any copyright, trademark and or service mark is strictly prohibited. This also includes the storage and transmission of pirated movies, music, software, ring tones or anything else considered “Warez”. Any authentic complaint received will be investigated and may result in termination of service.
The hosting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, or violating trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights.
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to any of our servers is strictly prohibited. We hold no responsibility for the use of our clients’ accounts. Any account that abuses the resources and actions are not taken to desist the activity, calls for immediate deactivation without any refund. Any site using what we deem to be using excessive CPU cycles or any resources that cause strain to other sites may also be offered new terms ( i.e.,. upgrade). Although we offer 99.99% up time we can not fully guarantee this, this is due to the updates and up-gradation we carry out which is also a part of our maintenance.

If any client is in any way disrespectful towards any member of the HostGT staff we have full right to remove them from our services without any refund.

Unsolicited commercial e-mail/Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM)
Use of our service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violation of this SPAM policy will result in severe penalties.

Upon notification of an alleged violation, we will initiate a full scale investigation during which, we may restrict customer’s access to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to have violated our policy, we may, at our sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate the guilty hosting account. Further more, we reserve the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. We will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense. Anyone using our service to host websites or services that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their account(s) immediately suspended and an administrative fee of ₹200.00 will be charged to your account. The account will not be unsuspended until such time that you agree to remove any and all traces of the offending material immediately upon reconnection. First violations of this policy will result in a warning and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination. A second violation may result in an immediate termination of your account and the administrative fees will be ₹450. Severe violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account(s) from our network without notice to the customer.

We have a zero tolerance policy for the use of our service towards posting of messages or commercial advertisements which violate the rules, regulations, or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.

We also prohibit hosting of publicly-accessible “open relay” SMTP or anonymous remailer service for any purpose, cause, or reason what-so-ever.