Paid Accounts - Terms of Service

The following terms and conditions govern the use of the TBC paid account service.  Please read these carefully before deciding to take out a paid account - the paid account service is offered subject to the acceptance of these terms, and violation of the conditions stated below may result in your paid service being terminated. 

1. Your TBC.net Account
There are three tiers of paid account service - Bronze, Silver and Platinum - each of which offers different benefits depending on the account level chosen.  Each of the accounts offers a small site hosting package (with the amount of webspace determined by account level) and an @thebasiliskcafe.net email address, and enhanced user benefits for the TBC forums.   In addition, we can pre-install a variety of blog, wiki and image gallery scripts when your account is set up, as outlined on the Paid Accounts page - please note that these scripts are provided by their creators without warranty, and that we can only provide them on an as-is basis.

While the hosting package is intended to be ideal for hosting a blog, or a small website, subscribers are free to use the space in any way they wish, providing the intended use conforms to the Acceptable Use Policy below. 

2. Acceptable Use Policy
Each paid member is responsible for the content that they post to their webspace, and for the content posted by anyone else that they choose to allow posting access.  In order to ensure that all members - paid and otherwise - enjoy a safe and pleasant community, and to satisfy the terms and conditions of TBC's own webhost, paid members are obligated to ensure that their webspace is not used for illegal or anti-social purposes.  As such, please note that the following activities, and the posting of information designed to facilitate such activities, are prohibited:

• Distribution of Viruses, Trojans, or other malicious programs

• Hacking

• Phishing

• Pornographic Content

• Posting of Slanderous or Discriminatory Materials

• Spamming

• Violation of Intellectual Property (Including posting of torrents, or other filesharing.)

• Other Illegal Content (Including websites designed to support fraud or theft.)

3. Use of Services
While TBC will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the content of paid member accounts does not breach the above rules, it should be noted that we cannot take responsibility for the content posted by paid members beyond these stipulations.  The views posted by members do not necessarily represent the views of the Administrators, and visitors to the webspace of paid members do so at their own risk.

4. Fees & Payment
All payments for TBC paid accounts are made through Paypal, and can be submitted by clicking the 'Subscribe' link for your desired account level on the Paid Accounts page and following the instructions there.   When we receive the details of your registration, we will contact you to ask for any further details we need in order to set up the account, like the names for your subdomain and email account, and any extra features you need for your account. 

In the event of the fees or payment terms changing, a notice period of at least one calendar month will be given before the new terms come into effect, in order to allow accounts to be closed before the changes come into force if desired.  Notification will also be sent to the registered email address for the account.

5. Closure of Account
If you no longer wish to continue with a paid service, please notify the Administrators of the site in advance at their normal contact address, so that arrangements can be made for your site to be backed-up and closed when your paid time expires.  In the event that a paid member does not pay to renew their membership, the account webspace will be closed immediately, and a backup of the site sent to the lapsed member as soon as is practicable.

6. Termination of Account
If the terms above are violated, particularly in reference to the prohibited activities listed in the Acceptable Use Policy, then TBC reserve the right to remove the offending content, or in extreme cases, the entire account.  Should it be necessary to remove a paid member's entire account due to a flagrant and persistent breach of these terms and conditions, no refund of the paid membership will be offered - any membership fee paid would be considered forfeit due to the breach of these terms of service.