Terms of Service
1. Eligibility & Registration
1.1. Before you use our Websites and Services, you must ensure that such use is in compliance with all laws,
rules and regulations applicable to you.
1.2. The Websites and Services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 18. By
using the Websites and Services, you represent and warrant to us that you are 18 years of age or older.
1.3. To access the Services and some features of the Websites, you must register for an account. When you
register for your Account, you may be required to provide us with some information about yourself, such as your
email address, and a valid form of payment, and you may also provide optional information about yourself on a
voluntary basis.
1.4. We may, in our sole discretion, refuse to provide or continue providing the Websites and Services to any
person or entity and change eligibility criteria at any time, including if you fail to comply with the TOS. We
reserve the right to deactivate, terminate, prevent access to, disable services for, and/or delete any accounts
or access to the Websites and Services at any time at our sole discretion.
2. Service Content
2.1. Our Services allow you to provide us with source code, files, software, processes, interfaces, data, text,
settings, media, or other information for storage, hosting, or processing by the Services.
2.2. Subject to this TOS, by providing your Services Content to or via the Services, you grant Cheapernetes
a license to host, store, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, modify for the purpose of formatting for
display, and distribute your Services Content solely for the purpose of providing the Services to you.
2.3. As between you and Cheapernetes, you retain any copyright and other ownership rights that you may hold in
your Services Content.
2.4. You are solely responsible for your Services Content and you agree Cheapernetes is not and will not be in
any way liable for your Services Content. By providing your Services Content via the Services, you affirm,
represent, and warrant that:
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Your Services Content will not violate this TOS or any applicable law, regulation, rule, or third party
rights;
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You are solely responsible for the development, moderation, operation, maintenance, support and use of
your Services Content;
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Your Services Content does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third party
right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of
publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) slander, defame, libel, or
invade a right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person; or (iii) cause us to
violate any law, regulation, rule, or rights of third parties; and you are solely responsible for the
technical operation of your Services Content, including on behalf of your End Users.
2.5. You are responsible for properly configuring and using the Services and taking your own steps to maintain
appropriate security, protection and backup of your Services Content, which may include the use of encryption
technology to protect your Services Content from unauthorized access and routine archiving your Services
Content. Cheapernetes does not promise to retain any preservations or backups of your Services Content. You are
solely responsible for the integrity, preservation and backup of your Services Content, and to the fullest
extent permitted by law, Cheapernetes shall have no liability for any data loss, unavailability, or other
consequences related to the foregoing.
3. Rules of Conduct
3.1. You must use the Websites and Services in accordance with our Acceptable Use Policy:
Illegal or abusive activity or content
You may not use the Services for any unlawful or abusive purpose. Prohibited activities include:
- Illegal activities
- Fraudulent or harmful activities
- Violation of intellectual property rights
- Pornography
- Violent, harassing, or abusive content
- Controlled substances
Security violations
You may not use the Services to violate the security or integrity of any network, computer or communications
system, software application, or network or computing device (each, a “System”). Prohibited activities
include:
- Harmful software
- Unauthorized access
- Interception
- Falsification of origin
Network abuse
You may not make network connections to any users, hosts, or networks unless you have permission to
communicate with them. Prohibited activities include:
- Monitoring or crawling
- Deceitful actions
- Intentional interference
- Operation of certain network services (open proxies, open mail relays, open recursive domain name
servers, Tor exit nodes, or other similar network services)
- Avoiding system restrictions
- Retaliation against Cheapernetes
- Withholding identity
- Mining of cryptocurrencies
Email and other message abuse; spamming
You will not distribute, publish, send, or facilitate the sending of unsolicited mass e-mail or other
messages, promotions, advertising, or solicitations (like “spam”), including commercial advertising and
informational announcements.
Vulnerability testing
You may not attempt to probe, scan, penetrate, or test the vulnerability of a Cheapernetes system or
network, or to breach the Cheapernetes security or authentication measures, whether by passive or intrusive
techniques, or conduct any security or malware research on or using the Services, without Cheapernetes'
prior written consent.
Excessive use of shared system resources
You may not use the Service provided by Cheapernetes in a way that unnecessarily interferes with the normal
operation of the Service, or that consumes a disproportionate share of the resources of the Service. For
example, we may require you to decrease the size of your container images if it unnecessarily conflicts with
other customers’ use of the Services. You agree that we may quarantine or delete any data stored on the
Service if the data is infected with a virus, or is otherwise corrupted, and has the potential to infect or
corrupt the Service or other customers’ data that is stored on the same system.
Consequences of violation of the Acceptable Use Policy
If we determine, in our discretion, that you have violated this policy, we may remove, disable access to, or
modify any content or resource and/or to suspend or terminate your use of the Services. We also may
intercept or block any content or traffic belonging to you or to users where the Services are being used
unlawfully or not in accordance with this Policy. Our right to suspend or terminate your use of the Services
applies even if a violation is committed unintentionally or without your authorization. Such right is not an
obligation on us to act at any given time or with respect to any given Subscriber, and we may exercise such
rBecight at any time within our sole discretion.
Accordingly, any use of the Websites and Services in violation of this policy shall constitute a breach of this
TOS.
3.2. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your Account, regardless of whether the
activities are undertaken by you, your employees, any third party (including your contractors or agents), your
End Users, your licensees, or your customers.
3.3. You are responsible for notifying your employees, agents, and others related to your use of the Websites and
Services of the provisions of this TOS, including where the terms of the TOS are binding on them.
3.4. You shall not (directly or indirectly): (i) decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise
attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the Websites or Services
(including without limitation any application), except to the limited extent applicable laws specifically
prohibit such restriction; (ii) modify, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the
Websites or Services; or (iii) copy, rent, lease, distribute, or otherwise transfer any of the rights that you
receive hereunder. You shall abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and
regulations. To the extent any portions of the Websites or Services are subject to Open Source Licenses, such
Open Source Licenses apply regardless of this section.
3.5. We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is
necessary to (i) respond to any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce
this TOS, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address
fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) respond to user support requests; or (v) protect the rights, property
or safety of us, our users and the public.
3.6. You shall notify Cheapernetes if and when you learn of any security incidents or breaches affecting the
Websites or Services, including unauthorized access to your Account or Account credentials, and shall aid in any
investigation or legal action that is taken by authorities and/or Cheapernetes to investigate and cure the
security incident or breach to the extent caused by your Account or your use of the Websites and Services.
4. Service Level Agreement
4.1. We provides mutualized Kubernetes clusters. Because of this mutualization of resources, your workloads
might be impacted by noisy neighbors. Although Kubernetes provides tooling to ensure clear isolation of
resources between workloads, some disturbance might happen during the life of your workloads. Cheapernetes is
focused on reducing and eliminating this disturbance, but we can not provide you any assurance regarding the
availability of resources and uptime of either the Service or your workload.
4.2. We might be forced to occasionally shut our Services down to improve them or fix security issues. You will
be warned before such interruptions occur. However, we will not reimburse, to the extent permitted by law, for
the time during which our Services were not available.