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Our Full Terms and Conditions

Last Updated:  16/08/23

The terms of the online customer order form, our Acceptable Use Policy and our 30 day money back guarantee are incorporated into these terms and conditions.

 

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 References to “we”, “us” and “our” are references to Hipposerve Digital Services Ltd (trading as Hipposerve) registered in England (company registration number 10288860).

1.2 The terms “you” and “your” refer to any individual, company or business to whom we provide our Services as specified in the online customer order form including a person reasonably appearing to us to act with your authority.

1.3 In these conditions the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:

  • Commencement Date means the date of our acceptance of your order as notified to you under our account activation notice;
  • Contract means any contract between us and you for the supply of Services incorporating these conditions;
  • Domain Names means Internet addresses which have been registered with the central registration authorities on the Internet on your behalf;
  • Gigabyte means 1,073,741,824 bytes or characters of information;
  • Hosting means the making available of your Domain Name on the Internet;
  • Internet means the network of interconnected e-communications and computer systems connected by internet protocol numbers;
  • Megabyte means 1,048,576 bytes or characters of information;
  • Renewal Date means the day following the end of the first billing period specified in the online customer order form and the day following the end of the relevant billing period from time to time;
  • Services the internet services to be provided by us to you as specified in the online customer order form together with any other services which we provide, or agree to provide, to you;
  • Upload means to transfer computer files to our computer system for publication on the Internet or WWW;
  • Web Site means the area on our computer system allocated to you for the purpose of this Contract;
  • WWW means World Wide Web service available on the Internet;

1.4 A reference to a particular law is a reference to it as it is in force for the time being taking account of any amendment, extension, application or re-enactment and includes any subordinate legislation for the time being in force made under it.

1.5 Condition headings do not affect the interpretation of these conditions.

1.6 Any words in the singular include the plural and vice versa.

 

2. APPLICATION OF CONDITIONS

2.1 Subject to any variation under conditions 2.2 or 2.3 the Contract shall be on these conditions to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions (including any terms or conditions which you purport to apply under any order, confirmation of order or other document).

2.2 Any variation to these conditions and any representations about the Services shall have no effect unless expressly agreed in writing and signed by our authorised representative on our behalf. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise or representation made or given by or on behalf of us which is not set out in this Contract. Nothing in this condition shall exclude or limit our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

2.3 We reserve the right to alter or amend our terms and conditions by giving you fourteen days’ prior notice by email and by displaying the notice on the our web site in the Terms and Conditions section. If you do not want to accept any new conditions you must inform us within 7 days by emailing us at accounts@hipposerve.co.uk otherwise you will be deemed to have accepted such new conditions.

2.4 Your order for Services from us shall be deemed to be an offer by you to buy the Services subject to these conditions.

2.5 No order placed by you shall be deemed to be accepted by us until an account activation notice is issued by us.

2.6 You shall ensure that the terms of your order are complete and accurate.

2.7 Any date proposed either by you or us for the provision of the Services is to be treated as an estimate only and we accepts no liability for any failure to meet it.

2.8 These terms and conditions may change or be updated from time to time. It remains your responsibility to access and check these terms and conditions whenever you access this web site. The latest version of these terms and conditions will govern any future usage by you of this web site and the Services.

 

3. CONTRACT PERIOD

3.1 Subject to termination under conditions 9 and 10 this Contract shall begin on the Commencement Date and shall automatically renew on the relevant Renewal Date for successive periods equal to the billing period set out in the online customer order form or for such period as subsequently agreed by us in writing.

3.2 If you wish to change your billing period (e.g switch to monthly after an annual contract) after the initial contract period, please notify us in writing prior to the contract end.

 

4. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

4.1You agree that you will keep secure the login name and password specified on your online customer order form and not to pass that information to any unauthorised person. In the event of your login name and password being used by any unauthorised person, we accept no responsibility and you will be liable for additional charges arising therefrom.

4.2 It is your sole responsibility to make regular backups of your data and files used in connection with the Services. Even though we may make our own periodic backups for server maintenance purposes, we are not responsible whatsoever for your data or files. If you have purchased an additional backup service, your data will be sent in an encrypted form to our third party backup provider (Amazon S3). Hipposerve can not be held responsible for any failure of these third party services.

4.3 You agree that you will not:

4.3.1 perform any action that will reduce performance of our servers to the detriment of other users;

4.3.2 upload any virus to the Web Site which could infect our server or other equipment;

4.3.3 allow a virus to enter the Internet by allowing Internet users to download files containing viruses or (knowingly or otherwise) from their webspace which is on our server;

4.3.4 upload any material which infringes the intellectual property rights of any other party. We accept no responsibility for your actions in either uploading material to the Internet or in your transferral of any material to other Web Sites (or vice versa);

4.3.5 upload any material which may be considered to be contrary to public decency and morality, including (but not limited to) pornographic, barbaric and overtly tasteless material. We reserve the right to randomly inspect the Web Site and in the event that any unauthorised material has been uploaded to that Web Site, we reserve the right to inform the relevant authorities and to terminate this Contact forthwith;

4.3.6 cause or permit or in any way assist in any unauthorised publication or any dissemination of defamatory material or any material which could be considered to be in breach of the civil or criminal laws of England and Wales, see 4.3.11;

4.3.7 commit any act whereby access is gained by you to any information or resources of any person, body corporate individual, partnership, government agency, national institution, charity or recognised organisation without first having obtained authority from those persons or institutions;

4.3.8 use our servers or network to send unsolicited or spam e-mail to other Internet users regardless of whether we are referred to or not either directly or indirectly in such postings. Failure to meet this obligation would result in the termination of this Contract without refund.

4.3.9 not to use our servers or network either directly or indirectly in a way that would have a detrimental effect on network performance, this includes video, audio, and file streaming.

4.3.10 do any act or omission the result of which would have the effect of bringing us into disrepute.

4.3.11 Should a third party issue a “Take Down Notice”, provided by a court of law or relevant law enforcement agency, we are obliged to remove your website, without notice.

4.4 You are responsible for the security of the code running your website. Hipposerve can not be held responsible for any data breaching resulting from, poor programming, insecure scripts, out of date plugins and CMS’s or out of date versions of any programming or scripting language.

4.5 You are responsible for the security of all the data on your website, with reference to all Legislation involving GDPR or any equivalent data protection requirements in your jurisdiction.

 

5. HIGH RESOURCE USAGE POLICY

5.1 Where we do not operate a bandwidth capping policy on or shared hosting services and we maintain high ratios of bandwidth per Web Site. In the rare circumstances that a user utilises our server resources to such an extent that it may jeopardise server performance and resources for other users then we reserve the right to request that you migrate your services to one of our higher useage plans e.g. Hippo Buisness pro, Hippo VPS, Hippo Dedicated or Hippo Bespoke Infrastructure.

5.1.1 Resources are defined as bandwidth, processor utilisation or disk space;

5.1.2 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any Web Site immediately in order to prevent the misuse of our servers and to maintain maximum availability for other users. You may be offered alternate hosting options including us hosting the Web Site for an additional fee.

5.2 Overage Charges on Hippo VPS, Hippo Dedicated or Hippo Bespoke Infrastructure.

5.2.1 These plans all come with a defined amount of bandwidth available. It is important that you select a plan that meets your bandwidth requirements. Customers that exceed their allocated bandwidth for these services will:

 

a) Charged an overage fee of £0.02p /GB for any excess bandwidth used.

5,2.2 In order to limit excessive overage charges on an account, we may, at our discression, suspend a service to prevent it accuring further costs and notify the customer of relevant upgrade options

 

6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

6.1 The following provisions set out the our entire financial liability (including any liability for the acts or omissions of our employees, agents and sub-contractors) to you in respect of:

(a) any breach of these conditions;

(b) any use made by you of any of the Services;

(c) the content of any information placed by you onto our server;

(d) the failure of or any problem experienced by you in the operation of your Web Site;

(e) with regard to any application, receipt of, or failure to receive Domain Name registration, the registration, renewal, non-registration, non-renewal, suspension, transfer, failure to transfer, operation, delivery, mis-delivery or any and all combinations or for any errors or omissions or any other actions by the registry administrator arising out of or relating to any application, receipt of, or failure to receive a domain registration; and

(f) any representation, statement or tortious act or omission including negligence arising under or in connection with the Contract.

6.2 All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law (save for the conditions implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979) are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract save that where you are a consumer rather than a business no provision of this clause 6 or these conditions shall affect your rights as a consumer.
As the Services are normally supplied immediately unless agreed otherwise with us there is not normally an opportunity to cancel under regulation 13 of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) regulations 2000.

6.3 Nothing in these conditions excludes or limits our liability:

(a) for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or

(b) for any matter which it would be illegal for us to exclude or attempt to exclude its liability; or

(c) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

6.4 Subject to conditions 6.2 and 6.3:

(a) our total liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Contract (For Agreed Contract/Payment Period) shall be limited to the initial total amount paid for the individual Service or Domain Name registration or £200 whichever is the greater; and

(b) we shall not be liable to you for any:

  • (i) pure economic loss
  • (ii) loss of profit
  • (iii) loss of business
  • (iv) loss of anticipated savings
  • (v) depletion of goodwill or otherwise

in each case whether direct, indirect or consequential, or any claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) which arise out of or in connection with the Contract.

(c) If there is any outstanding debt on a service, whether this results in the suspension of the service or not, then the total liability is zero.

6.5 Each provision of this condition 6 is to be construed as a separate limitation applying and surviving even if for any reason one or other of the said provisions is held inapplicable or unreasonable.

 

 

7. INDEMNITY

7.1 Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies which we may have against you, you agree to indemnify and keep us indemnified against:

7.1.2 all costs, claims, demands, liabilities, expenses, damages or losses or expenses arising out of or in connection with any breach by you of this Contract; and

7.1.3 all costs, claims, demands, liabilities, expenses, damages or losses or expenses arising out of any action brought or threatened against us by a third party which is caused by or arises from any action or omission of ours carried out pursuant to your instructions.

8. TERMINATION OF THIS CONTRACT BY US

8.1 If you do not pay any charge when due or materially breach this Contract in any other way we can terminate this Contract immediately without the requirement of prior notification.

8.2 If any sum payable under this Contract is still outstanding by 1 or more days we reserve the right to follow the procdure listed in section 1.6 of our Charging Policy

8.3 Should we reasonably deem you a threat to the integrity of the our network whether as a result of your actions or threats of such actions or by hostility of your actions or due to any other reason which in our considered opinion would be against our business interest, then we can terminate this Contract immediately without the requirement for prior notification.

8.4 If you go into liquidation or (in the case of an individual or firm become bankrupt) make a voluntary arrangement or have a receiver or administrator appointed we can terminate this Contract immediately without the requirement of prior notification.

8.5 Termination of this Contract by us will result in the retaining by us of all monies received from you who will not be entitled to a refund of monies paid.

8.6 Upon termination of this Contract you shall nevertheless remain liable for all charges due or which would have been payable under this Contract.

8.7 On termination of this Contract and services we will remove all materials held on our systems and remove all your system privileges.

8.9 Subject to our sole discretion after termination, if we agree that you may once again be reconnected to the service, any reconnection will be subject to an administration charge of £50 together with any outstanding charges payable prior to the reconnection.
We have no obligation to provided any of the data removed from our systems.

 

9. TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT BY YOU

9.1 You can terminate this Contract:

9.1.1 at any time within the first 30 days of the Commencement Date subject to the exclusions listed within our 30 day money back guarantee and receive a full refund, less any Domain Name registration charges or charges for additional services not included as a part of one of our standard hosting plans;

9.1.2 at any time after the first 30 days of the Commencement Date however unless notice under condition 10.2 is received prior to the next Renewal Date this Contract shall automatically renew for the period covered by the issued renewal notice and no refund will be payable to you and you will remain liable for all charges to the end of the Contract period as defined in condition 3.

9.2 You must notify us of termination by delivering to our contact address a completed account cancellation notice which can be obtained from us on request or by completing an online cancellation form within your Customer Account or send an email to cancelations@hipposerve.co.uk.

 

10. REFUNDS

10.1 On receipt of a valid cancellation notice, we may, at our sole discretion, refund unused time paid.

10.2 A cancellation notice must be received prior to the relevant Renewal Date in order for a cancellation to be effective and processed prior to a renewal payment being taken.11.3 Where at our sole discretion we choose to accept a late cancellation notice an administration charge may be applied to any refund issued with the sole exception of refunds issued in line with our 30 day money back guarantee, in which case no fees are payable.

 

11. FORCE MAJEURE

11.1 We are not liable for any breach of this Contract if the breach was caused by an act of God, insurrection or civil disorder, war or military operations, terrorism, national or local emergency, protests, riot, civil commotion, acts of omissions of government, highway authority or other competent authority, our compliance with any statutory obligation, industrial disputes of any kind (whether or not involving our employees), fire, lightning, explosion, flood, subsidence, weather of exceptional severity, acts of omission of persons whom we are not responsible (including in particular other telecommunication service providers), or any other cause whether similar or dissimilar outside our reasonable control provided that, if the event in question continues for a continuous period in excess of 90 days, you shall be entitled to give notice in writing to us to terminate the Contract.

 

12. PROPER LAW

This Contract is to be treated as made in England and Wales according to English and Welsh Law and subject to the jurisdiction of the English and Welsh Courts.

 

13. LIMITATION ON ASSIGNMENT

13.1 You must not assign the benefit of this Contract in whole or in part.

13.2 We reserve the right to assign the benefit of this Contract by giving prior written notice of any assignment to you.

13.3 Except with our prior written consent the Service shall not be used by or on behalf of any person other than you or a third party specified on the application form and no condition shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act.

 

14. DEPRECIATED, OUTDATED OR END OF LIFE SOFTWARE

14.1 We recommend that you only use supported and the most up to date software as possible on our systems.

14.2 Depreciated, outdated  or end of life software is used entirely  at your own risk

14.3 Hipposerve accepts no responsibility for data loss or downtime resulting from a server crash or security issue resulting from using depreciated, outdated or end of life software.

14.4 Hipposerve reserves the right to terminate accounts using depreciated, outdated or end of life software without notice, should it pose security or performance a risk to other tennants on our services.

 

Specific Packages T&C’s

This Section Outlines the T&C’s for specific packages not covered in our standard hosting operations.

1. Hippo Care Silver - Backup Only

 

Renewal

The services provided are renewed automatically. If you do not wish to renew your service, you can cancel at any time in the customer portal.

 

Encrypted Backup

Our backups are all encrypted for your security before being remotely stored on Amazon's AWS secure storage.

Full backups are taken nightly and retained for 30 days. In addition, a backup is taken prior to any site update being made. These backups are also retained for 30 days.

Should and issue arise with your website, and you wish to restore it to an earlier point, contact our emergency team at support@hipposerve.co.uk or phone us on 0330 043 1502, and one of our technicians will be on hand to support you.

The backup service and is based on reasonable use. Where the total 30-day backup set exceeds 10 GB, you may be asked to pay an additional fee of £1.99 per additional 10 GB per month.

If you wish to increase the backup retention period, this can be completed for an additional fee of £1.99 per addition 10 days, per month.

All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%

Termination / Cancellation

On termination or cancellation of this product, all stored backups are removed from our systems. If you require a backup of your data it is advisable to download a copy from your Hippo Portal, prior to termination or cancellation.

2. Hippo Care Gold

 

Renewal

The services provided are renewed automatically. If you do not wish to renew your service, you can cancel at any time in the customer portal.

 

Encrypted Backup

Our backups are all encrypted for your security before being remotely stored on Amazon's AWS secure storage.

Full backups are taken nightly and retained for 30 days. In addition, a backup is taken prior to any site update being made. These backups are also retained for 30 days.

Should and issue arise with your website, and you wish to restore it to an earlier point, contact our emergency team at support@hipposerve.co.uk or phone us on 0330 043 1502, and one of our technicians will be on hand to support you.

The backup service and is based on reasonable use. Where the total 30-day backup set exceeds 10 GB, you may be asked to pay an additional fee of £1.99 per additional 10 GB per month.

If you wish to increase the backup retention period, this can be completed for an additional fee of £1.99 per addition 10 days, per month.

Content Update Service

Our Hippo Care - Managed Website Gold Subscription includes up to 4 content updates per month. Each month is defined as a calendar month. If the 4 updates are not used within this period, they can not be rolled over into subsequent calendar months.

For the purposes of this service, Hipposerve defines a content update as:

  • A blog post, including images
  • Updating existing text or images
  • Adding text or images to existing pages
  • Updating or adding to other elements within the website.

A content update does not include any additional design work, addition of web pages, updates to the menu or site structure, addition of plugins and set up of additional services. These services can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.

Additional updates, above and beyond the 4 included updates, can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.

Hipposerve does not provide copy (text or images), which should be provided by the customer. When you wish to make an update, you should notify us at support@hipposerve.co.uk. and provide all the copy required.

Hipposerve makes every effort to proofread the copy for spelling and grammatical errors, but the responsibility for the final check lies with the customer. Hipposerve can accept no responsibility for losses incurred, due to errors in any published update.

All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%

Termination / Cancellation

On termination or cancellation of this product, all stored backups are removed from our systems. If you require a backup of your data it is advisable to download a copy from your Hippo Portal, prior to termination or cancellation.

2. Hippo Care Platinum

 

Renewal

The services provided are renewed automatically. If you do not wish to renew your service, you can cancel at any time in the customer portal.

 

Encrypted Backup

Our backups are all encrypted for your security before being remotely stored on Amazon's AWS secure storage.

Full backups are taken nightly and retained for 30 days. In addition, a backup is taken prior to any site update being made. These backups are also retained for 30 days.

Should and issue arise with your website, and you wish to restore it to an earlier point, contact our emergency team at support@hipposerve.co.uk or phone us on 0330 043 1502, and one of our technicians will be on hand to support you.

The backup service and is based on reasonable use. Where the total 30-day backup set exceeds 10 GB, you may be asked to pay an additional fee of £1.99 per additional 10 GB per month.

If you wish to increase the backup retention period, this can be completed for an additional fee of £1.99 per addition 10 days, per month.

Content Update Service

Our Hippo Care - Managed Website Platinum Subscription includes up to 6 content updates per month. Each month is defined as a calendar month. If the 6 updates are not used within this period, they can not be rolled over into subsequent calendar months.

For the purposes of this service, Hipposerve defines a content update as:

  • A blog post, including images
  • Updating existing text or images
  • Adding text or images to existing pages
  • Updating or adding to other elements within the website.

Ecommerce Update Service

Our Hippo Care - Managed Website Platinum Subscription also includes updates to your ecommerce platform.

For the purposes of this service, Hipposerve defines a content update as:

  • Adding new products to your platform (6 per month)
  • Updating product images or descriptions (6 per month)
  • Updating product prices (10 per month)
  • Providing transaction or sales reports. (1 per month)

A content update does not include any additional design work, addition of web pages, updates to the menu or site structure, addition of plugins and set up of additional services. These services can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.

Additional updates, above and beyond the 6 included updates, can be provided at our standard website development rate of £59 per hour, billable in 15 minute increments.

Hipposerve does not provide copy (text or images), which should be provided by the customer. When you wish to make an update, you should notify us at support@hipposerve.co.uk. and provide all the copy required.

Hipposerve makes every effort to proofread the copy for spelling and grammatical errors, but the responsibility for the final check lies with the customer. Hipposerve can accept no responsibility for losses incurred, due to errors in any published update.

All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%

Termination / Cancellation

On termination or cancellation of this product, all stored backups are removed from our systems. If you require a backup of your data it is advisable to download a copy from your Hippo Portal, prior to termination or cancellation.

5. Hippo Doctor.

Hippo Doctor is a digital service provided by Hippo Service to Diagnose Website Problems, Repair Website Problems and/or Optimize Website Performance aimed and optimising and repairing websites. There are 3 Main services we offer.

5.1 Hippo Diagnosis

We will provide a FREE audit of your website to diagnose any problems. We will include a no obligation quote in order to fix this issue.

5.2 Hippo Doctor

We will provide a FREE audit of your website to diagnose any issues. We will include a no obligation quote in order to fix this issue. Upon Agreement, we will fix the issue, based on this quote.

If, during our investigations, we find additional concerns, we will advise you in advance, with the cost of fixing those issues, so you can decide if you wish to proceed.

5.3 Hippo Clinic

Payment is upfront and on receipt of your login credentials will complete the website tune-up services. We will provide a before and after performance report. Performance is measured using the GTMetrix tool.

If, during our investigations, we find that poor performance is down to underpowered web hosting, we will advise you accordingly, with any additional costs required.

Passwords

In order to work on your website, we will require administrator access to the site installation and any control panels. In addition, we will also need administration access to any CMS or Web Builder you are using.

Whilst we take extreme care of your login credentials, we strongly advise you to change these before sending us the information and use an encrypted password sending service such as https://password.link/

Hipposerve can not be held liable for any passwords that are compromised as they are sent to us.

Backups

Before we start work, we will attempt to take a full backup of your data and databases, so we can restore the site if you are not happy with the work. However, if we have fixed the issue requested or with regard to Hippo Clinic demonstrated an improvement of performance, we will be unable to refund the cost under our "No Fix, No Fee" guarantee.

“No Fix, No Fee” Guarantee.

If we take on the work, and we are unable to fix the original issue, then we will refund the 50% deposit (or the full fee, in regard to the Hippo Clinic product deposit in full). We will also restore the site to how it was before we started.

This guarantee does not apply if we are unable to access your installation due to insufficient login credentials. It will also not apply if you later decide you no longer wish to proceed with any work, where the deposit will be retained to cover costs incurred.

All prices quoted exclude VAT @ 20%

6. Hippo Designer.

Hippo Designer is our website design service and has three separate tiers: Design Starter, Design Website, Design Ecommerce. Details of each package is included on our website here.

Agreement

Before we start any work on your website design, our website agreement to be signed. This is bespoke to each individual client, and we will create this, after our initial discovery meeting. This agreement will include the breakdown of the price and payment schedule.

Payments

Payment Option 1:
Before we commence any work, we require 50% deposit for the payments required. On completion, and before we launch your website, we will require the balance of the payment.

Payment Option 2 (available on request):
Before we commence any work, we require 25% deposit for the payments required. This is followed by 6 equal monthly payments.

Prices quoted on the website do not include any hosting costs or website management fees.

12 Month Guarantee

Our 12-month guarantee provides you with any technical fixes and typographical errors found on your website within this period. It does not include any data backup or website plugin updates unless included as part of a Hippo Care Plan. It does not include any content updates or website additions beyond those stated in the original agreement.

If, during our investigations, we find that poor performance is down to underpowered web hosting, we will advise you accordingly, with any additional costs required.

Website Content

In most case's customer choose to provide their own content, however we are able to provide a paid content writing service if required. Arrangements for this would be discussed at our discover meeting.

SEO

All our websites are build SEO ready.  When we build the website, we ensure that it is SEO ready, with basic keywords and site structure. If you wish to develop your SEO. We are able to provide SEO services if you require, or you can hand this over to a third-party SEO provider at a later date. Hipposerve will work with your SEO provider to ensure that they have the access needed to make SEO updates to your website.

Post Launch Updates

Technical updates and any mistakes in the website site are included as part of our 12-month guarantee and are fixed free of charge. Any content updates or additions to the website will be charged at £49 per hour. If you have a managed hosting option, as part of your hosting plan, up to 4 content updates are included every month.

Hosting

You agree to host the website with Us for a period of no less than 12 months. Whilst we provide a fast and secure service at competitive pricing, you are free to move the site to a third-party host after this time. However, we do not provide a transfer out service, which remains your responsibility. If you choose to move away  early, no refunds will be given for hosting costs already paid. You may also be liable for any additional hosting fees for any other services subsequently added on to your plan, including email.

Website Management

You agree for Hipposerve to manage your website for a period of no less than 12 months. This includes daily backups, ensuring that the website security is up-to-date, ensuring that all files on the website are kept up to date, a monthly health check, security and performance audit, and 4 content updates per month. Whilst we provide a fast and secure service at competitive pricing, you are free to move the site to a third-party host after this time. However, we do not provide a transfer out service, which remains your responsibility. If you choose to move away early, no refunds will be given for management costs already paid. Our 12-month guarantee of your site build will remain, but this will no longer cover issues arising from out of date plugins or data loss.

All Prices quoted are exclusive of VAT @ 20%.

7. Hippo Backup Solutions

Hippo Backup Solutions are is an unmanaged backup service provided for free on our shared hosting conditions, using the Third Party Application, JetBackup®. It is provided as is and whilst we will provide with the relevant support to use this product Hipposerve Digital Services Limited accepts no liability, for data loss whilst using this service. 

This service takes one backup nightly and retains one copy of the backup. Previous backups are overwritten.

This service is unmanaged and it is your responsibility to ensure the service is correctly set up and the backups run accordingly.

We refer you to the JetBackup® terms and conditions as listed on their website and for support using this product. https://www.jetbackup.com/jetbackup-for-cpanel/

 

8. Hippo – High Deliverability – Email Sending Service for Web Forms

  1. General Overview 1.1 These terms and conditions govern the provision of the High Deliverability Email service (hereinafter referred to as “the Service”) by Hipposerve (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), a web hosting company. 1.2 The Service utilizes a third-party service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), for provision. 1.3 By utilizing the Service, you (hereinafter referred to as “the User”) agree to comply with these terms and conditions.

  2. Service Usage 2.1 The User acknowledges that the Service is intended solely for legitimate email communication purposes. 2.2 The User agrees not to use the Service for any nefarious activities, including but not limited to sending unsolicited bulk emails (spam) or engaging in any form of illegal, abusive, or unethical behavior. 2.3 The Company reserves the right to monitor the User’s activities and content transmitted through the Service to ensure compliance with these terms and conditions.

  3. Termination 3.1 In the event that the User is found to be using the Service for nefarious purposes, including spamming, the Company reserves the right to immediately terminate the User’s access to the Service without prior notice. 3.2 The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damages incurred by the User or any third party as a result of the termination of the Service due to the User’s violation of these terms and conditions.

  4. Limitations of Liability 4.1 The User acknowledges that the Service is provided on an “as is” basis, and the Company makes no warranties or representations regarding the reliability, accuracy, or availability of the Service. 4.2 The Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service. 4.3 The User agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from any claims, losses, or damages arising out of the User’s violation of these terms and conditions or any applicable laws.

  5. Data Privacy and Security 5.1 The User acknowledges and agrees that the Company may collect, store, and process personal data and email content for the purpose of providing the Service. 5.2 The Company shall take reasonable measures to protect the User’s data and maintain its confidentiality. However, the Company shall not be liable for any unauthorized access, loss, or disclosure of the User’s data unless directly caused by the Company’s negligence or willful misconduct.

  6. Amendments 6.1 The Company reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time. The User will be notified of any material changes to the terms and conditions. 6.2 Continued use of the Service after the notification of amendments constitutes acceptance of the modified terms and conditions.

  7. Governing Law and Jurisdiction 7.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where the Company is located. 7.2 Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the aforementioned jurisdiction.

By using the High Deliverability Email service provided by Hipposerve, the User acknowledges having read, understood, and agreed to these terms and conditions.

 

Appendix 1: DOMAIN NAMES

Please see our separate Terms & Conditions Section for Domain Names.

 

Appendix 2: COOKIES

Please see our separate section for our  Cookies Policy

 

Appendix 3: Acceptable Use Policy

Please see our separate section for our AUP.

 

Appendix 4: Privacy Policy

Please see our separate section for our Privacy Policy

 

Appendix 5: Charging Policy

Please see our separate section for our Charging Policy

 

Appendix 6: Special Offer Policy

Please see our separate section for our Special Offer Policy

 

Appendix 7: Usage Policy

Please see our separate section for our Usage Policy

 

Appendix 8: Service Level Agreement

Please see our separate section for our Service Level Agreement

 

Looking After Our Customers

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Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable use when using our services, in terms of disk space and bandwidth and other conditions

Domain Names T&C's

Terms and conditions related to the purchase and use of domain names.

Cookie Policy

General terms and conditions relating to the use of our cookies on our website and sales interface.

Privacy Policy

How we ensure that customer and site visitor data is protected.

Charging Policy

Information relating to the charging of our services

Special Offer Policy

Information and terms relating to any special offers that are available with Hipposerve.

Usage Policy

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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Our SLA to our customers.

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Union House, 111 New Union Street
Coventry, West Midlands
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Email

sales@hipposerve.co.uk

Phone Number

+44 0330 043 1502

Anything Else?

Hipposerve - Hassle-Free FAQ's

Here are some answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Frequently Asked Questions
I already have a domain name, can I transfer this to you?

Yes, you can. There are different ways to do this depending on the type of domain name that you have, but our automated systems do most of the work for you. You will have to contact your existing domain registrar and tell them that you wish to move, and then our systems can do the rest. It takes a few days for the transfer to take place.

Can I upgrade a package, if I outgrow it?

Yes, you can automatically upgrade a package and you will be charged pro-rata from the time that you upgrade. If you are unsure what do do, just give us a call and we can go through the process with you.

Can I downgrade a package, if I am not using all the facilities?

Is is possible to downgrade all or hosting plans. However if you have purchased a 1 or 3 year discounted plans we will be unable to refund the difference and the price will be updated at the start of the next billing cycle.  See our terms and conditions for further details.

What's the difference between shared hosting and other hosting plans

Shared hosting is a low-cost web hosting solution suitable for the vast majority of personal, community  and small business websites. Whilst you have your own private space, resources are shared between other users on the server.

For customers with demanding or high traffic sites, or for those looking to host a web sites with faster speeds our Business Pro or VPS hosting is recommended. These are fully managed for you, and as always, hassle free.

What control panels does your hosting come with?

Our shared hosting plans all currently come with cPanel, which is perfect for managing all aspects of your website.

Our Business Pro plans come with a choice of Plesk or cPanel depending on your requirements.

Our VPS and Dedicated server solutions come with a range of control panels and software installation options suitable for individual needs. These can be customised for specific purposes by our Hippo Helper team.

 

 

How long does it take to set up an account?
Shared hosting is set up automatically as soon as you make payment. Some of our options require manual settings to be made by our technicians and they have a 48 hour lead time. Our VPS can servers take between 24 and 48 hours to set up.

It is worth remembering if you purchase a new domain name or transfer an existing name to us DNS propagation can take up to 72 hours. This is beyond our control.

What billing cycles do you offer?

On most of our products we offer monthly, annual or 3 year billing cycles.

In most cases, the longer the billing cycle, the more money you save.

Is my account backed up?

Whilst we backup our servers in the event of catastrophic failure, we do not provide these to customers to restore their services as a result of individual account failures.

We would always recommend that customers purchase one of our Hippo Care plans during the order process, which includes a full account nightly backup, with 30 day retention.

What payment methods do you accept?

We accept all major credit cards, direct debit and more than 50 different cryptocurrency coins. 

We are also able to accept BACS payments by arrangement for annual or 3 yearly billing cycles only.

Can I resell my web space?

We offer specific hosting plans for web designers and developers who want to publish more than one website.

Significant savings can be had by signing up to one of these packages.

The more sites you add, the cheaper each site becomes!

We also take care of all the techie work, so you can get on with your design business

Can I have additional domains pointed at my account?

Yes, we actually recommend it. The more versions of your business name that you have parked or being used as an alias, the less chance there is of someone else using that name and passing themselves off as you.

All our packaged allow multiple domain name parking and our technical team will help you set it up.

Can I run an ecommerce site?

Of course, we support and are able to offer advice on a range of E-Commerce solutions.

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