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• Terms
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You
should be aware that by
signing up for an account with
ProHostAmerica.com, you agree
to position data on our
servers, thus making it
accessible to the wide public.
In this sense, you accept that
it is beyond the power of ProHostAmerica.com
to restrict such access and
guarantee the security of your
files. You are completely in
charge of protecting your data
on ProHostAmerica.com servers,
which suggests that you would
better consider carefully any
piece of information before
uploading it to your newly
allocated ProHostAmerica.com
server space. It is
recommendable to avoid
publishing personal data that
could be abused online.
The
order form completion
represents the electronic
signing of this document.
ENTIRE
AGREEMENT; SEVERABILITY OF
AGREEMENT
ProHostAmerica.com
shall provide its Services to
You (the Customer) under the
Terms and conditions of this ProHostAmerica.com
Customer Agreement. The
Agreement is intended to keep
the integrity of both ProHostAmerica.com
and the Customer and to
protect both parties from
liability. This Service
Agreement will be enforced to
ensure the speed, power,
performance, and reliability
of our services.
Along
with the Order Form and any
other documents or agreements
explicitly specified in this
Agreement, the Customer
Agreement constitutes the
whole act of convention
between ProHostAmerica.com and
the Customer, thus being the
most significant document of
the newly-established
relationship. In case that a
court of competent
jurisdiction considers that
any of the Agreement's
provisions is invalid,
unenforceable, or void, the
remaining ones will completely
reserve their validity.
Customer's
side of the Agreement could be
presented by the following
parties: an individual with
personal demands, being over
18 years of age; a legal
entity such as a corporation,
a limited liability company
etc. that is consistent with
state's law system. If a
person represents the Customer
for some reason, he/she should
be legally authorized to act
in his/her name, thus
accepting, executing and
delivering the Agreement.
You
understand and agree that the
Service is provided
"AS-IS" and that ProHostAmerica.com
assumes no responsibility for
the timeliness, deletion,
failure to deliver or store
any Customer communication or
personalization settings.
ProHostAmerica.com
HOSTING SERVICES
1.
TRAFFIC - Each hosting
plan includes prepaid traffic.
Additional traffic is
available at $2.00 per GB
transferred. This traffic must
be prepaid before use or
otherwise the account will be
suspended due to traffic
overuse.
2. DOMAINS HOSTED - ProHostAmerica.com
hosting plans include domain
hosting. If you want to host
more domains than allowed,
then you can upgrade your
account and host additional
domains at $36.00 per domain
per year. Payment is accepted
only for a year in advance.
3. DOMAIN REGISTRATION - ONE
FREE DOMAIN REGISTRATION OR
TRANSFER is available only
with the purchase of web
hosting account(s). Each web
hosting account can use a
maximum of one free domain
name. Additional domain names
can be registered or
transferred from the Control
Panel at the price of $10.00
per domain name per year.
Domain registrations are final
and cannot be refunded.
4. DISK SPACE -
Additional disk space is
available at $38.40 per 100 MB
per year. Payment is accepted
only for a year in advance.
5. IP ADDRESS - ProHostAmerica.com
hosting accounts do not
include an IP address. For
many customers an IP address
is important for starting SSL
hosts and that is why we allow
the purchasing of an IP
addresses at $24.00 per IP
address per year. Payment is
accepted only for a year in
advance.
6. MYSQL DATABASE(S) -
is/are included in all hosting
plans. Additional MySQL
databases are available at
$36.00 per year per database.
7. MYSQL DATABASE STORAGE
- 25 MBs are included in the
"Business" hosting
plan and 40 MBs are included
in the "Corporate"
hosting plan. (This will be
applied to all newly
registered accounts. The MySQL
storage quota of the existing
accounts will be updated by
personal request only.).
Additional MySQL database
storage is available at $18.00
per year per 1MB.
8. SSH - is not
included in hosting plans.
Each customer can use SSH for
the cost of $18.00 per year.
BACKGROUND
OPERATIONS/PROGRAMS ON SERVERS
These
programs, named cron jobs, can
be continuingly run by ProHostAmerica.com
in the background. Their
provision suggests additional
fee in accordance with system
resources used and operational
maintenance involved, if
needed. Generally, ProHostAmerica.com
avoids placing complementary
charges upon customers,
providing the CronTab service
that is integrated in the
hosting Control Panel.
Optional ProHostAmerica.com
Services. These services,
including but not limited to:
Site Studio, Mailing Lists and
other services offered are
provided WITHOUT WARRANTY and
WITH NO GUARANTEE OF RESULTS. ProHostAmerica.com
ADDITIONAL SERVICES OR
FEATURES AND VALUE-ADDED
SERVICES OR FEATURES ARE
OFFERED ON "AS IS"
AND "AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS. ProHostAmerica.com
REJECTS ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTIES. ANY OF ProHostAmerica.com'S
EMPLOYEES, MANAGEMENT OR
AFFILIATES MAY NOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE OR THUS LIABLE FOR
ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES PROVOKING
USE OR MISUSE OF ANY
INFORMATION, CONTENT OR
SERVICES PROVIDED BY ProHostAmerica.com,
INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT,
PUNITIVE, AND INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY
FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES,
SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF
SERVICES.
SERVICE
GUARANTEES
ProHostAmerica.com
will guarantee 99.9% ProHostAmerica.com
network uptime and 99.9%
network stability uptime. ProHostAmerica.com
will pro-rate credits (up to 3
additional domains or up to 5
GB bandwidth per month) for
uptime below 99.9% upon
request. This, however, does
not refer to problems stemming
from:
- Server Hardware Breakdown
- User error(s) or purposeful
interruption(s) of the user
service (e.g. if the client
shuts his/her own server down,
ProHostAmerica.com is not
responsible for the downtime)
- Failures due to software
that is not explicitly
supported by ProHostAmerica.com.
Consequently, if a hardware
crash provoked by the customer
happens, ProHostAmerica.com is
beyond the control and
responsibility for the
resulting downtime.
SERVER
USAGE & HOSTED CONTENT
1.
Server content MUST comply
with the parameters stated in
this TOS. Web content
requirements exclude the
publication of illegal content
or content considered
inappropriate otherwise.
Customers should get in touch
with a ProHostAmerica.com
Service representative
regarding any inquiries over
the matter.
2.
If any of ProHostAmerica.com
Services are used for the
illegal purpose of SPAM or UCE,
then they will be
instantaneously terminated.
Unauthorized Access. ProHostAmerica.com
expressly bans the use of any ProHostAmerica.com
hardware or software hosted on
a ProHostAmerica.com server
for trying to illegally access
another hosted machine or
network.
3.
Using ProHostAmerica.com
temporary URL -
supremeserver.com is not
defined as a bandwidth
stealing. However, customers
are advised to use it
temporarily and ProHostAmerica.com
does not bear the
responsibility, if we change
it afterwards - traffic
processing there is not
recommendable. It is not
recommendable to use ProHostAmerica.com
temporary URL-
supremeserver.com as a basic
URL. Users are advised to
redirect their traffic to
their own domains.
Each customer will be able to
take advantage of the package
he/she has purchased at the
introductory price levels and
with one and the same set of
features in the course of the
whole contract period. ProHostAmerica.com
reserves the right to
introduce certain changes to
the packages (in the shape of
complementary services) to the
benefit of customers.
MONEY
BACK GUARANTEE
ProHostAmerica.com
offers a 30-day money back
guarantee. If you are not
satisfied with our hosting
service, you can email billing@ProHostAmerica.com and
receive a full refund for your
hosting plan within 15 days
after you purchased the
account. However, all
domain registrations are
final, do not include any
money back guarantee and will
be subject to a $9.95 per year
per domain registration fee.
You will be required to make a
deposit of $9.95 for the
domain fee before receiving
the refund for the hosting
account.
PAYMENT,
CHARGEBACKS AND RETURNED
CHECKS
1.
ProHostAmerica.com contracts
with VISA / MASTER CARD
International, American
Express Bank and Discover
Financial Services for
chargeback procedures, thus
avoiding its merchant accounts
involvement. When signing up
for a web hosting service with
ProHostAmerica.com, customers
agree to AUP (this document)
and the specified Terms &
Conditions in this document.
Thus, ProHostAmerica.com will
utilize this document as an
evidence for the customer's
agreement in cases of a
chargeback inquiry on behalf
of the customer based on
points that the client tries
to refute after he accepted
them at the time of the order.
If, however, customer presents
a valid motive for the refund
required, having observed the
afore-specified requirements,
then ProHostAmerica.com will
process the money back
procedures without hesitation.
Any refund actions will
immediately lead to web
hosting account suspension and
the customer's credit card
will be charged back with the
respective sum under the same
payment order / authorization
number.
2. ProHostAmerica.com
will charge customers with
fees based on the fee
structure at the time of the
sign-up process. ProHostAmerica.com
reserves the right to
introduce changes to the
packages when needed regarding
price and set of features.
This means that the current
price list at www.ProHostAmerica.com.com
may differ from the pricing
and features of the customer's
account.
3. When signing up for
an account with ProHostAmerica.com,
the customer agrees to pay for
the period of one year (365
days). ProHostAmerica.com
grants customers with 48 hours
over the official payment
period. In case that the
payment has not been received,
the account will be suspended.
Chargebacks are not considered
as a way of refunding. Any
customer who provides a credit
card chargeback in response to
a bill or order placed at ProHostAmerica.com
will be subject to collections
and legal action. He/she will
be charged $29.00, because
when signing up with ProHostAmerica.com,
customers accept these terms
and conditions, thus agreeing
to observe them strictly.
WARRANTIES
AND REPRESENTATIONS
ProHostAmerica.com
provides hosting services on
an "as is" and
"as available" basis
without warranties or
representations for its
offering. The company bears no
responsibility for connection
problems, in cases when
customers' hosting with ProHostAmerica.com
confronts with service
interruption issues.
FREE
DOMAIN NAME PROMOTION
ProHostAmerica.com
has a promotion and gives FREE
domain names only to new
customers of web hosting
accounts. However, when the
money back guarantee option is
used the domain names must be
paid - $9.95 per year per
domain name. Domain name
owners will receive an account
username and password to
manage their domain names and
they will be able to transfer
the domain name(s) at will.
NO
UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As
a condition of your use of the
ProHostAmerica.com Services,
you will not use the ProHostAmerica.com
Services for any purpose that
is unlawful or prohibited by
these terms, conditions, and
notices. You may not attempt
to gain unauthorized access to
any ProHostAmerica.com
Services, other accounts,
computer systems or networks
connected to any ProHostAmerica.com
Services, through hacking,
password mining or any other
means. You may not obtain or
attempt to obtain any
materials or information
through any means not
intentionally made available
through the ProHostAmerica.com
Services.
ProHostAmerica.com reserves
the right at all times to
disclose any information as ProHostAmerica.com
deems necessary to satisfy any
applicable law, regulation,
legal process or governmental
request, or to edit, refuse to
post or to remove any
information or materials, in
whole or in part, in the sole
discretion of ProHostAmerica.com.
ProHostAmerica.com is within
the capacity to refuse service
to unlawful parties. ProHostAmerica.com
servers can be used explicitly
for legal purposes only and
each attempt for taking
indecent advantage of the
servers inconsistent with the
rules will be immediately
rejected. In this light, ProHostAmerica.com
expressly forbids any breach
of Federal, State or Local
regulation, including, but is
not limited to the
transmission of:
copyrighted material, material
legally judged to be
threatening or obscene and
material protected by trade
secrets.
ProHostAmerica.com management
will thoroughly scrutinize any
of the received orders and
decide to their own discretion
which of them do not comply
with the officially stated
requirements for use of the
company's servers. ProHostAmerica.com
servers CANNOT be used for the
propagation, distribution,
housing, processing, storing,
or handling in any way of
lewd, obscene, adult OR
pornographic material, or any
other material which is
considered impermissible by
the company including, but not
limited to - pornography,
adult materials, satanic
materials, and any other
materials of an adult nature.
THIRD
PARTY
Any
dealings with third parties
(including advertisers)
included within the ProHostAmerica.com
Services or participation in
promotions, including the
delivery of and the payment
for goods and services, and
any other terms, conditions,
warranties or representations
associated with such dealings
or promotions, are solely
between you and the advertiser
or other third party. ProHostAmerica.com
shall not be responsible or
liable for any part of any
such dealings or promotions.
TERMINATION
You
agree that ProHostAmerica.com,
in its sole discretion, may
terminate your password,
account (or any part thereof)
or use of the Service, and
remove and discard any Content
within the Service if you
violate these terms.
SERVICE
DENIAL
ProHostAmerica.com
reserves the right to reject
its service and terminate this
agreement for a certain period
of time or indefinitely upon
customers' failure to pay. The
customer then is considered a
debtor to ProHostAmerica.com
and liable for reasonable
interest and collection fees.
YOUR
RESPONSIBILITIES
You
are solely responsible for the
content of your messages.
Using the ProHostAmerica.com
Service in connection with
surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk
e-mail, spamming or any
duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or
otherwise) is prohibited.
In consideration of your use
of the Service, you agree to:
1. Provide true,
accurate, current and complete
information about yourself as
prompted by the registration
form of the Service.
2. Maintain and
promptly inform us to update
Registration Data to keep it
true, accurate, current and
complete. If you provide any
information that is untrue,
inaccurate, not current or
incomplete, or ProHostAmerica.com
has reasonable grounds to
suspect that such information
is untrue, inaccurate, not
current or incomplete, ProHostAmerica.com
has the right to suspend or
terminate your account and
refuse any and all current or
future use of the Service (or
any portion thereof).
3. When signing up for
an account with ProHostAmerica.com,
each customer agrees to submit
correct and up-to-date contact
details, meaning that when
introducing any changes to
this information, he/she is
obliged to notify ProHostAmerica.com
in the course of a
10-business-day period after
the changes become valid. The
introduction of changes should
be done online through
customer's Control Panel, not
via e-mail. This requirement
is also in force for ProHostAmerica.com
- customers will always be
aware of any contact
information changes that the
company places within its
website. This way, a flawless
communication process between
both sides is guaranteed.
4. You will receive a
password and account
designation upon completing
the registration process of
the Service. You are
responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of your
password and account, and you
are fully responsible for all
activities that occur under
your password or account. You
agree to:
- immediately notify ProHostAmerica.com
about any unauthorized use of
your password or account or
any other breach of security
- ensure that you exit
from your account at the end
of each session.
ProHostAmerica.com cannot and
will not be liable for any
loss or damage arising from
your failure to comply with
this.
5. Any Customer in
violation of system or network
security is subject to
criminal and civil liability,
as well as immediate account
termination. Examples include,
but are not limited to the
following: Unauthorized
access, use, probe, or scan of
a systems security or
authentication measures, data
or traffic. Interference with
service to any user, host or
network including, without
limitation, e-mail bombing,
flooding deliberate attempts
to overload a system and
broadcast attacks. Forging of
any TCP/IP packet header or
any part of the header
information in an e-mail or
newsgroup posting.
6. Harm to ProHostAmerica.com
Servers - any attempts for
doing harm to a server or
customer of ProHostAmerica.com
Services are explicitly banned
- Acceptable Use of Services /
Acceptable Access to Services
- ProHostAmerica.com will
immediately and resolutely
react to any attempt of use of
an Internet account or
computer by a ProHostAmerica.com
customer unauthorized by the
account or computer owner.
Such attempts include
"Internet scamming"
(tricking other people into
releasing their passwords and
etc.), password robbery,
security hole scanning etc. It
DOES NOT matter whether the
attacked account or computer
belongs or not to ProHostAmerica.com
Services, the fraud will be
subject to actions based on
the very nature of the attack
which could be a warning, an
account suspension or
cancellation and civil or
criminal legal action.
7. CPU usage (or usage
of the Central Processing
Unit(s)) on the web server
Customer's account is hosted
on is subject to some
regulations. That means that
each hosting account can take
advantage of up to 10% of the
CPU power for no longer than
180 seconds at any given time
or 3% in the course of 24
hours. ProHostAmerica.com
strongly requires that
customers be very judicious
when using the CPU power for
their accounts. Otherwise, we
may suspend customer accounts
in cases of registered impact
on other accounts on the
server or disturbance caused
to the functioning of the
server. If we do suspend an
account, then its owner will
be notified of that in
consistence with the situation
that this suspension may
provoke. Then the account's
owner may be required to
upgrade to a dedicated or
semi-dedicated web hosting
solution. Possible alternative
is a required reduction in the
load and traffic that the
customer's account gets. ProHostAmerica.com
reserves the right to block
files or scripts that use CPU
exceedingly and notify
clients.
8. Customer agrees not
to publish on or over its
account any information,
software or other content,
which violates or infringes
upon the rights of any others
or which knowingly contravenes
the laws of any jurisdiction
in which such content is
generally accessible.
9. To avoid misuse of
our services, users are NOT
allowed to send more than 1500
emails per day per hosting
account.
10. Each account is
entitled to host up to 50.000
files.
11. ProHostAmerica.com
does NOT allow sites that
provide any content, points of
distribution, or 'links' to
sites that:
- infringe on any third
party's intellectual property
or proprietary rights, or
rights of publicity or privacy
- violate any law, statute,
ordinance or regulation
- are defamatory, trade
libelous, threatening,
unlawfully harassing, abusive,
pornographic or obscene
- contain viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time bombs,
cancelbots, corrupted files,
or any other similar software
or programs that may damage
the operation of another's
computer or property of
another
- contain Pirated or Hacking /
Phreaking Software (Warez)-
Any software that is
copyrighted and not freely
available for distribution
without cost. ROMs, ROM
Emulators and Mpeg Layer 3
files (MP3) all fall under
this jurisdiction
- have Adult Sites (content) -
Any erotic or pornographic
material, links to adult
sites, or advertisements of
adult sites.
CUSTOMER
WEBSITE; E-COMMERCE;
CUSTOMER WARRANTIES/GUARANTIES
1.
When buying an allocated
space on ProHostAmerica.com
servers, customers agree to be
fully responsible for the
development, operation and
maintenance of their web site,
online store and e-commerce
activities within that space.
Each customer is in charge of
all the products and services
as well as of all contents and
materials appearing online,
including:
- the accuracy and relevance
of Customer Content and
content and material showcased
in its store or on its
products
- certainty that the Customer
Content and content and
materials appearing in its
store or on its products do
not violate or infringe upon
the rights of any person
- certainty that the Customer
Content and the content and
materials appearing in his/her
store or on his/her products
are not calumnious or somehow
illegal. Customer is the only
one in charge of approving,
processing and filling
customer orders and of taking
care of customer requests or
complaints. Customer is the
one in charge of the payment
or satisfaction of any and all
taxes related to his/her web
site and online store.
2. Customer bears the
responsibility for ensuring
the security and
confidentiality of any
customer data (including,
without limitation, customer
credit card numbers) that
he/she may receive in
connection with his/her web
site or online store.
3. Each Customer
guarantees to ProHostAmerica.com
that he/she owns or possesses
the right to use the Customer
Content and its material,
including all text, graphics,
sound, music, video,
programming, scripts and
applets. Each Customer
warrants to ProHostAmerica.com
that the use, reproduction,
propagation and transmission
of the Customer Content and
any information and materials
contained inside do not, and
will not:
- infringe or abuse any
copyright, patent, trademark,
trade secret or any other
proprietary right of a third
party
- break any criminal laws or
manifest false advertising,
unfair competition,
vilification, privacy
intrusion; violate a right of
publicity or violate any other
law or regulation. Each
Customer empowers ProHostAmerica.com
to reproduce, copy, use and
propagate all and any part of
the Customer Content for
ensuring and operating the
Services. ProHostAmerica.com
is granted the right to assess
the extent these operations
need to be done.
Torturous
Conduct
Any
case of indecent treatment
towards a ProHostAmerica.com
employee will be considered
inappropriate. Each Customer
is anticipated to conduct a
professionally mannered
communication with ProHostAmerica.com
employees regarding any
requests for help through
e-mail or by means of the
Ticket Desk Support System.
Each Customer should avoid
applying any forms of written
emotional outburst or cursing.
Any attempts of deliberately
undermining behavior will be
interpreted as a breach of
this TOS.
Other acts of treatment
towards ProHostAmerica.com
employees that will be
considered as unacceptable
include any verbal, oral,
written or delivered by a
second party threats
addressing ProHostAmerica.com
or any of its employees,
partners, equipment, and
concerns. Any forms of such
threats will be interpreted as
a breach of this TOS. ProHostAmerica.com
keeps the right to assess
which behavior will be treated
as a breach of this TOS and to
give no refunds to the users
whose accounts have been
suspended for violating the
aforementioned rules.
SPAMMING
IS PROHIBITED
We
will determine in our sole
discretion whether any of the
messages you send are spam.
For your information, spamming
generally includes, but is not
limited to:
- the sending of unsolicited
messages in bulk, or the
sending of unsolicited
e-mails, which provoke
complaints from recipients
- the sending of junk mail
- the use of distribution
lists that include people who
have not given specific
permission to be included in
such a distribution process
- posting commercial ads to
USENET newsgroups that do not
permit it
- posting articles containing
binary encoded data to
non-binary newsgroups
- excessive and repeated
posting of off-topic messages
to newsgroups
- excessive and repeated
cross-posting
- e-mail harassment of another
Internet Customer or
Customers, including but not
limited to, transmitting any
threatening, libelous or
obscene material, or material
of any nature which could be
deemed to be offensive
- the e-mailing of
age-inappropriate
communications or content to
anyone under the age of 18
- "Spamming" is
considered as explicit misuse
of ethical principles and will
be interpreted as a violation
of them
- The maximum number of
allowed e-mail messages sent
per day is 1500. There are no
exceptions to this rule. Every
customer who is sending more
than 1500 e-mail messages per
day needs a dedicated server
and cannot use a shared
hosting account.
NEWS
RELEASES
Forward
Looking Statements: these
refer to any predications
within this website that are
not based on objective facts
and express expectations with
regard to forthcoming events.
Such statements cannot be
treated as reality-based
because it is possible that
they happen to deviate from
actual circumstances. Forward
Looking Statements can be
recognized by the availability
of indicative words such as
"believes",
anticipates,"
"plans,"
"may,"
"hopes,"
"can,"
"will,"
"expects," "is
designed to," "with
the intent,"
"potential".
However, their availability is
not a compulsory requirement
for a forward-looking
statement to be treated as
such.
HIGHER
FORCE CIRCUMSTANCES
ProHostAmerica.com
will be in an off-liability
position as regards the
failure or delay in doing its
professional duties in
consequence of circumstances
beyond its control. Such
circumstances could be
provoked by acts of any
governmental body, war,
rebellion, 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), failure of third
party software or hardware or
inability to obtain raw
materials, supplies or power
used in or equipment needed
for provisioning of the
Services.
This agreement constitutes the
whole act of convention
between the parties with
regard to the agreement signed
between them. It is not
subject to any amendments,
modifications, or any other
alterations with the exception
of changes introduced through
a written instrument that is
signed by the party to be
charged.
- This Agreement shall be
interpreted in consistence
with the laws of the State of
Florida.
- This Agreement shall be in
force and effect entirely to
the benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective
heirs, executors,
administrators, successors and
assigns. - The captions and
headings contained in this TOS
are aimed at facilitating the
text comprehension. They are
not a part of the very
Agreement, and shall not limit
or construe the provision they
refer to. - This Agreement may
be executed in counterparts,
which will be considered as
original.
COPYRIGHTS
Copyrighted material must not
be placed on Customers'
accounts without the
permission of the copyright
owners or people that are
specifically authorized by the
copyright owners. Only
copyright owners or people
specifically authorized by
them may upload copyrighted
material to the account.
Upon
our receipt of a notice of a
claimed copyright infringement
containing the above
information, after
confirmation we will promptly
remove the allegedly
infringing material from the
Services and carry out further
procedures if necessary. We
will assume no liability to
any Customer of the Services
for the removal of any such
material.
Please
report any violations of the
Terms of Service to abuse@ProHostAmerica.com
ASSIGNMENT
Customer
shall not have the right to
assign this Agreement without
the written permission of ProHostAmerica.com.
This Agreement shall be in
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