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WRITE CYPHER, WRITE CIPHER & GRIOT INTERNATIONAL LLC is designed to serve the web hosting needs of Authors as well as small, independently owned and operated businesses in a single country. It is not appropriate to use our services to support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively impacts use by small, independently owned and operated businesses.

For the remaining of the terms and services listed on this page, we will refer to our services as GriotSites.com, Writecipher.com, Writecypher.com, Griot International LLC, & International Griot Publishing House (IGPHouse).

Nameservers where Write Cipher and all sister sites are hosted at:
NS1.GRIOTINTERNATIONALLLC.COM
NS2.GRIOTINTERNATIONALLLC.COM

What do "free disk space, data transfer, and email storage" mean?
It's pretty straightforward: Customers who writecipher.com can obtain free disk space, data transfer, and email storage if they use their services consistently with these paragraphs.

What is appropriate usage?
WRITECIPHER.COM is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers' web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server. WRITECIPHER.COM uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the
performance of our system or other customers' sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.

Disk space:
Disk space (not to be confused with bandwidth) refers to the amount of hard disk space on Griot International LLC’s server. This is the space given to you to save your Web site on. Your site is really just a collection of files including HTML files, images, videos, audio, Flash files, databases and so on. Your disk space must also fit your email accounts, raw access logs and any installed programs or scripts.

Each account is allotted 1 GB (1000 MB) of disk space which is more than enough to host an Author’s site of approximately 5 pages. Pictures do not take up a lot of disk space but videos and streaming will. It is the responsibility of the Client to monitor disk usage (Write Cipher provides tools so that you can view your disk usage). Any accounts that exceed the allotted space will be flagged and scheduled for termination. Clients who are over the 1 GB mark will receive a notification via email and given 10 business days from the date of the notice to bring the account to right standing. If a Client desires more disk space, The Write Cipher offers free upgrades to premium packages to accommodate the space that is needed.

Data transfer:
Bandwidth is the total amount of data, typically measured in MegaBytes or GigaBytes, that may be downloaded or uploaded from a particular web site or web hosting account during a given month. Write Cipher’s web hosting account is metered and restricted to stay under its monthly bandwidth allotment. This is also often referred to as Data Transfer.

Each Write Cipher account is measured on a monthly basis, like an odometer, and reset to zero at the end of the month. It is the responsibility of the Client to monitor bandwidth usage (Write Cipher provides tools so that you can view your bandwidth usage). Any accounts that exceed the allotted data transfer limit will be flagged and scheduled for termination. Clients who are over the 1 GB mark will receive a notification via email of the violation giving a overage warning. Upon the second violation, the account will be sent an overage invoice with a charge of $10 per 1 GB. The Client is given 10 business days from the date of the invoice to pay the charges and bring the account to right standing. If a Client desires more bandwidth per month, The Write Cipher offers free upgrades to premium packages to accommodate the data transfer (bandwidth) that is needed.

Email storage:
Each WRITE CIPHER free account comes with 1 free email account. Email disk usage must fall under the allotted space of 1 GB along with website items. More email accounts can be added by upgrading to one of our premium for free.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY & TERMS OF SERVICE
The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy ("AUP") agreement between GRIOTSITES.COM ("GRIOT INTERNATIONAL LLC") and the personal or corporate account holder ("YOU/YOUR/Customer"). GRIOTSITES.COM provides World Wide Web Hosting, Marketing, and Development.
GRIOTSITES.COM has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services.
GRIOTSITES.COM general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the rights to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by GRIOTSITES.COM when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

SERVER ABUSE
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of GRIOTSITES.COM is strictly prohibited.

GRIOTSITES.COM will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password theft, security hole scanning, etc.

Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by YOU, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to GRIOTSITES.COM, will result in action against YOU. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, as well as civil or criminal legal action, depending on
the seriousness of the attack.

IMPORTANT NOTE - GRIOTSITES.COM has the right to discontinue service, or deny access to anyone who violates our policies or the terms and conditions shown below WITHOUT WARNING or PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds of fees paid will be made if account termination is due to violation of the terms outlined below.

YOU may not run IRC, bots or clients on shared servers. Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing, unsolicited emailing, newsgroup spamming, pornographic content, illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez sites (including links to/from), cracks, software serial numbers, proxy-relaying, link farming (the act of or by use of scripts), link grinding, link-only sites, spamdexing, FFA (Free-For-All) and/or anything else determined by GRIOTSITES.COM to be unacceptable use of our services including abuse of server
resources.

WEB APPLICATIONS and WEB ACCESSIBLE SCRIPTS - All web applications that are out- of-date and actively being exploited will be shut down immediately without prior notice. YOU are responsible for and should evaluate YOUR web-based applications and scripts on a regular basis to ensure their security and orderliness.

Shared hosting accounts may also be terminated if it includes the following content or have links to the following content: Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity; promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities; promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual; displaying material containing
obscene nudity or pornographic material (not applicable to managed dedicated servers); displaying material that exploits children under 18- years of age; acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer programs or links to such programs; information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities.

STORAGE SPACE ABUSE
GRIOTSITES.COM will not tolerate any form of storage space abuse. At least 90% of YOUR web pages ("HTML") must be 'linked' with files (GIF, JPEG, etc.) stored on GRIOTSITES.COM servers. Website that are found to contain either/or no HTML documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to files deletion or account cancellation at the discretion of GRIOTSITES.COM Management ("MANAGEMENT"), with or without prior notice.

If YOU do not qualify for the free service, disk space will go unmonitored until YOU reach the amount allocated to YOUR specific web hosting plan ("PLAN"). Thereafter, normal website data storage costs $0.20/1MB/month will be billed to YOUR account. If you want to pre-pay for disk space overages, you will be billed $0.10/1MB/month.

YOU will have 3 days to pay for your overages. Failure to do so will result in YOUR website being disabled within 3 days of YOUR first notice. This does not apply to co-location clients. Co-location clients will be billed for the overages based on switch reports. Co-location clients must pay for the overages IMMEDIATELY once billing or GRIOTSITES.COM has the sole decision to deactivate any and all servers.

GRIOTSITES.COM will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

BANDWIDTH ABUSE
The intention of GRIOTSITES.COM is to provide a large bandwidth to transfer web documents, and not an offsite storage area for electronic files. If YOU violate this condition, YOU will be notified and given 48 hours to remedy the problem. Failure to do so will result in YOU being billed for the overages.

Write Cipher nor affiliates will keep track of'Traffic will go unmonitored until YOU reach the amount of quota allocated to YOUR specific PLAN.
Thereafter, normal data transfer cost of
$10.00/1GB/month will be billed to YOUR account. If YOU want to pre-pay for bandwidth overages, YOU will be billed $5.00/1GB/month.

YOU will have 3 days to pay for your overages. Failure to do so will result in YOUR website
being disabled within 3 days of YOUR first notice. This does not apply to co-location clients. Co-location clients will be billed for the overages
based on switch reports. Co-location clients must pay for the overages IMMEDIATELY once billing or GRIOTSITES.COM has the sole decision to
deactivate any and all servers.

GRIOTSITES.COM will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

UNSOLICITED EMAIL & SPAMMING
Unsolicited commercial advertisements ("SPAM") are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account cancellation.

GRIOTSITES.COM takes a zero-tolerance approach to SPAM originating from its servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted within our network. If found, we will charge YOU up to $25 per unsolicited email message sent and delete YOUR account with any prior notice.

The following activities are not allowed: SPAM, which includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts (such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it from your domain); Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers
- any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without warning and without refund. Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing"); Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Inappropriate posting may result in account cancellation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. Sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such; Mail may not be used to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, YOU must not send that person any further messages.

NOTE - If YOU use the services of another provider to promote a website hosted by or through GRIOTSITES.COM ("spamvertising"), then the provisions of the above policy shall apply as if the SPAM were sent through our servers.

99.99% UPTIME GUARANTEE
(1.) COVERAGE - This 99.99% uptime guarantee applies to any Customer in good financial standing with GRIOTSITES.COM at the time of a service outage.

(2.) SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT ("SLA") & SPECIFICATIONS - GRIOTSITES.COM endeavors to have the content of YOUR website available for http access by any party in the world 99.99% of the time. Network downtime ("unavailability") is defined as 100% packet loss from GRIOTSITES.COM to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification of network failure via GRIOTSITES.COM's online ticketing system. If the ticketing system itself is unreachable, the ticket must be started by calling GRIOTSITES.COM’S @ 888.600.2011.
GRIOTSITES.COM's administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a traceroute to YOUR machine from outside the GRIOTSITES.COM network.

(3a.) SHARED HOSTING CREDITS - In the event that YOUR website is unavailable for less than 100%, GRIOTSITES.COM will credit the following month's service fee as follows. YOUR credit shall be retroactive and measured in 24 hours a day of a calendar month, with the maximum credit not exceeding 50% of the monthly service charge for the affected month.

Monthly Uptime Credit:
• 95% to 99.9% - YOUR account will be credited 10% of your monthly hosting fee
• 90% to 94.9% - YOUR account will be credited 20% of your monthly hosting fee
• 89.9% or below - YOUR account will be credited 50% of your monthly hosting fee (3b.) MANAGE DEDICATED SERVERS - For managed dedicated server Customers, if the uptime is between 98.9% and 99.9% for any particular month, credit shall be retroactive and equivalent to the difference between the guaranteed level of availability of the Customer's services during the month and the calculated actual level of availability of the Customer's services, multiplied by the actual charges incurred by YOU for the services during that monthly period. In addition, for managed dedicated servers, YOU may be entitled to additional credits as calculated below measured 24-hours a day in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceeding 25% of the monthly service charge for the affected month.

In order for YOU to receive a credit on YOUR account, YOU must request such credit within seven (7) days after YOU experienced the downtime. You must request credit by sending an e- mail message to billingsupport@GRIOTSITES.COM. <mailto:billingsupport@MYCOMPANY > For security, the body of this message must contain YOUR account number, the dates and times of the unavailability of YOUR website, and such other customer identification requested by GRIOTSITES.COM. Credits will usually be applied within sixty (60) days of YOUR credit request. Credit to YOUR account shall be YOUR sole and exclusive remedy in the event of an outage.

(4.) RESTRICTIONS - Credit shall not be provided to YOU in the event that you have any outage resulting from:

• scheduled maintenance as posted from time to time at GRIOTSITES.COM,
• your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, facilities or applications,
• circumstances beyond GRIOTSITES.COM's reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, including DNS propagation, domain name registration/transfer, failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of your web site,
• YOU breaking any agreement policy in GRIOTSITES.COM's "Terms & Conditions and AUP" causing a machine to fail as a result.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT BOUNDARIES
GRIOTSITES.COM provides technical support for YOU that encompasses within our area of expertise only. Such expertise includes assistance, troubleshooting, and debugging of our cPanel control panel interface, servers within our immediate responsibility and any other hosting related issues.

However, in under no circumstances is GRIOTSITES.COM neither obligated to help YOU in the installations of new application modules, templates and/or programming languages, nor in providing assistance for any errors produced by any applications that have been modified by YOU previously or are not compatible with/not allowed on shared accounts. We will only provide assistance in making sure any EasyApps applications modules that are installed through the cPanel control panel interface are installed as directed.

CGI SCRIPTS
Each shared web hosting account comes with its own CGI-BIN. YOU are free to use any CGI scripts YOU wish, however we reserve the rights to disable any CGI script that effects normal shared server operation without prior notice. (this section does not apply to managed dedicated servers)

CHAT ROOMS
We do not allow YOU to install YOUR own chat rooms within a shared hosting account, without approving it with GRIOTSITES.COM. This includes, but not limited to, chat applications written in PHP, Perl, CGI, Python, Ruby, etc. Any web application that provides 'real-time' chat is also not permitted. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. However, web based forums such as vBulletin, phpBB or similar forum scripts are acceptable.

FILE SERVER
GRIOTSITES.COM installed and provides special file-servers in our network infrastructure for YOUR benefit as a means of storage for electronic files and applications that are not dynamically generated and is downloadable in nature. Files such as MP3, AVI, MID, MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, ZIP, RAR, EXE and anything else we deemed as downloadable and not dynamically generated scripting languages are to be stored within these file-servers, away from the web- servers. This Policy does not apply for image files formats such as JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.

In addition, all electronic files stored within GRIOTSITES.COM's file-servers must be legally-owned and be accompanied with a valid license and/or copyright. This include and is not limiting to MP3, AVI, MID, MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, EXE, ISO. Should we discover any unlicensed and/or illegal files within YOUR account, the files will be subjected to deletion without any further notifications.

File-servers will not be backed up automatically. YOU are advised to back them up via your cPanel, have YOUR own backup locally or elsewhere other than the GRIOTSITES.COM's servers. If YOU are found to not adhere to this Policy, the offending material(s) will be deleted from YOUR hosting account without any prior notice.

This service is only available for GRIOTSITES.COM's SHARED-HOSTING customers.

SMTP MAIL SERVER ABUSE
We do not allow YOU to send outbound mail to more than 20 recipients at any one given time and/or more than 1,000 pieces of e-mail per day from a shared hosting account with a maximum filesize of 20MB per email message. If YOU violate GRIOTSITES.COM policies persistently in email activities, YOUR account will be suspended and deleted.

BACKGROUND RUNNING PROGRAMS
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to- one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed. (This section does not apply to managed dedicated servers).

IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. IRC servers are not permitted on our network. YOU can however, install IRC clients on managed dedicated servers. The installation and/or execution of a script and/or binary that runs in the background or listens to any given port are also strictly prohibited.

PAYMENT POLICIES
All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. There are no setup fees on all new accounts, but major account changes on accounts may access a fee and is non-refundable. All pricing is guaranteed for the term of pre- payment. GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the right to change prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice or exceeding this time frame in any way is subject to suspension. YOU are responsible for all fees owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that YOU notify GRIOTSITES.COM to request for termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency. GRIOTSITES.COM will bill each client $50 per returned check, per wire transfer received and per credit card chargeback received. All GRIOTSITES.COM accounts are setup on anniversary billing cycles. YOUR particular billing cycle corresponds to the contract length that was initially chosen at setup. YOUR account will automatically renew at this length. There is no fee to change to a shorter billing cycle at the end of the current cycle. However, if you wish to change to a shorter billing cycle during a current cycle, there will be a $50.00 fee. Please contact the billing department at billing@GRIOTSITES.COM should you wish to change your anniversary billing cycle.

CANCELLATION OF SERVICE
GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the right to cancel a service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by GRIOTSITES.COM if we institute our right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs billed to YOU (i.e. transfer, space etc.).

All of GRIOTSITES.COM's PLANS are backed by a 30-day money back guarantee. If YOU are not completely satisfied with our services or support within the first 30 days of YOUR service, YOU will be given a full refund of the monthly amount excluding setup fees (if any), domain registration fees, add-on/upgrade fees and overages. Setup fees are refundable only if the account order is canceled prior to account activation.

If YOU cancel, the full contract amount less any setup fees and overages will be refunded if GRIOTSITES.COM is notified within the first 30 days following activation. This policy does not apply to any additional services such as overages, referrer logs, real audio/video, additional disk space, additional pop accounts, domain registration fees, etc. For credit card payment, refunds will be made to a PayPal account made available by the Customer after the 120th day. Refund policy will not be made available to Customers using wire transfers.

All account cancellations must be done via our cancellation form at YOUR hosting account control panel. Phone or email requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancellation.

PROMOTIONAL RATES & SPECIAL OFFERS
GRIOTSITES.COM may offer subsequent promotional rates or special offers, the terms of which may or may not be more favorable than the terms and conditions for YOUR Services. Any such promotions or modifications shall not affect YOUR obligations under this Agreement. Promotional fees may be subject to additional terms and conditions which, to the extent they conflict with the terms of this Agreement, shall govern.

Different promotional fees and special offers may not be combined together.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Material accessible to you through GRIOTSITES.COM's services may be subject to protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets and proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, YOU must not use GRIOTSITES.COM or its servers and network in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material that you access or receive through the GRIOTSITES.COM network. If YOU use a domain name in connection with GRIOTSITES.COM or similar
service, YOU must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

NETWORK SECURITY
Customers may not use the GRIOTSITES.COM network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for YOU, logging into a server or account YOU are not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy. YOU may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. GRIOTSITES.COM will cooperate fully with investigations for violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
YOU will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of YOUR online store and products along with all content and materials appearing online or on YOUR products, including without limitation:

(a.) the accuracy and appropriateness of content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products,

(b.) ensuring that the content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, and

(c.) ensuring that the content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products are not libelous or otherwise illegal. YOU will be solely responsible for the final calculation and application of shipping and sales tax. YOU will also be solely responsible for accepting, processing, and filling any customer orders, and for handling any customer inquiries or complaints arising there from.

YOU are also responsible for the security of any customer credit card numbers and related customer information YOU may access as a result of conducting electronic commerce transactions through YOUR website. YOU will keep all such information confidential and will use the same degree of care and security as YOU use with your confidential information.

STATIC & DYNAMIC CONTENT CACHING
YOU expressly
(i) grant to GRIOTSITES.COM a license to cache the entirety of YOUR website, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by
GRIOTSITES.COM under this Agreement and
(ii) agree that such caching is not an infringement of any of YOUR intellectual property rights or any third party's intellectual property rights.

IP ADDRESS OWNERSHIP
GRIOTSITES.COM shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to YOU by GRIOTSITES.COM. GRIOTSITES.COM reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.

DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
YOU agree to pay GRIOTSITES.COM prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration, the then-current amount set forth in the GRIOTSITES.COM price schedule for the initial registration of the domain name and, should YOU choose to renew the registration, subsequent renewals of the registration. All fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if YOUR domain name registration is suspended, canceled or transferred prior to the end of YOUR then current registration term. GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. YOUR requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed YOUR registration in an email from GRIOTSITES.COM to the email address indicated in YOUR registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by GRIOTSITES.COM) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to GRIOTSITES.COM as the paying entity for that registration to the registry and that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name including, without limitation, the right to make the domain name available to other parties for purchase. GRIOTSITES.COM will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at GRIOTSITES.COM discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.

Transfer domain registrar to GRIOTSITES.COM

YOU agree to pay GRIOTSITES.COM prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name transfer request, the then-current amount set forth in the GRIOTSITES.COM price schedule for the initial transfer request of the domain name. YOU agree and acknowledge that the domain name transfer will fail, and all fees are non-refundable, for the following reasons, but not limited to:

• No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact

• Domain name in Registrar Lock Status

• Domain name registration period time expires or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer

GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. YOUR requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed YOUR registration in an email from GRIOTSITES.COM to the email address indicated in YOUR registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by GRIOTSITES.COM) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to GRIOTSITES.COM as the paying entity for that registration to the registry and that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name including, without limitation, the right to make the domain name available to other parties for purchase. GRIOTSITES.COM will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at GRIOTSITES.COM discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.

Transfer domain registrar away from GRIOTSITES.COM

GRIOTSITES.COM reserves all rights, without limitation, to reject the domain name transfer request for the following reasons, but not limited to:

• No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact

• Domain name in Registrar Lock Status and there is no request from Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact for the status change

• Domain name registration period time will be expiring in less than 60 days or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer

YOU agree and acknowledge that the failure or success of a domain name transfer will be his/her sole responsibility, and GRIOTSITES.COM will not be held liable for the failure of a domain name transfer for any reason.

LAWFUL PURPOSE
GRIOTSITES.COM reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. YOU may only use GRIOTSITES.COM server for lawful purposes and our services may not be used for illegal purposes or in support of illegal activities. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. If anything is not legal in the United States of America, it is not permitted to reside on our servers. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes but not limiting material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links: "Pirated Warez", OGG, AVI, MPEG, ISO, "Hacker programs or archives", "Copyrighted Digital Movie Copies (DIVX)" and "Unlicensed MP3". The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of
GRIOTSITES.COM management.

If illegal content or usage is found, the account will be suspended and/or terminated. YOU agree that GRIOTSITES.COM may disclose any and all YOUR information including assigned IP numbers, account history, account use, etc. to any law enforcement agent who makes a written request without further consent or notification.