Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

These terms are between the users who use our services to create a website (you or users) and GbitHost.com which is the company behind the service (we).

By creating a website on GbitHost.com, you accept and agree to the terms and conditions and privacy policy herein.

Prohibited Content:

You may not use our web service to create the following content:

  1. Erotic, pornographic or dealing with sexual services.
  2. Cracking, Hacking or of a similar nature.
  3. Content made to manipulate search engines without any value for real people. Also spam or automatically generated content.
  4. Sale of illegal drugs, legal drugs, or prescription drugs.
  5. Sales of weapons or ammunition.
  6. Content that is asking visitors to give out login credentials to any site or service.
  7. Offensive, libelous or contain threats.
  8. Content that is uncomfortable for any person and which contains personal data. For example, full name with photograph of the face or the like that can identify a person.
  9. Content that is not child-friendly.
  10. Websites using someone else’s registered trademark without permission.
  11. Streaming of video that is copyrighted without permission.
  12. Other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights.

This is allowed:

  1. You are allowed to add or sell your own ads and make money in this way.
  2. It is allowed to have an unlimited number of visitors – as long as your site does not violate the terms laid out in this document.
  3. You are allowed to sell your website. The new owner must accept these terms and the email address in the settings must be changed to the new owner.
  4. You are allowed to systematically create websites and sell them to your customers at whatever price you specify.

Responsibility

You alone are legally responsible for the content that you publish on your GbitHost.com website.

You are responsible for declaring and paying taxes.

Copyright

All content (text, images, files, etc.) that are published on the internet is automatically protected by copyright unless otherwise stated.

This means you are not allowed to copy text and images from elsewhere on the internet and publish it on your own website without permission. We will not actively check this but if anyone complains with proof that they are the creator we will remove the content and possibly shut down the website.

You retain the rights to the material you post on your website. It’s you and not us who own the content. This also means that others are not allowed to copy anything you publish on your website.

Templates

Some of the templates are licensed with a requirement that the template creator has to be credited with a link at the bottom of the website. If such a credit exist you are not allowed to hide or remove it.

Reporting abuse

Hundreds of new websites are created every day in GbitHost.com and we have no way to control the contents in advance. We do routine searches in the system to find websites that violate the conditions. If you have found a website on Gbithost.com that violates these terms and conditions please write to abuse@gbithost.com and we’ll get it as soon as possible.

Advertisement

  1. We can show a little advertising on your free website if you have not paid the premium. This advertising will not interfere with your website.
  2. We also send newsletters regarding Gbithost.com to users of the service, about once a month. These newsletters may contain advertising. By clicking on a link at the bottom of the newsletter, you can unsubscribe.

Refund Policy

We offer 14 day refund policy. During this period, you can contact support and have your payment refunded. The service you paid for will be disabled.

Privacy Policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Deletion of the website and personal data

A user can request deletion of a website by writing to abuse@gbithost.com

Our right to delete and modify websites

We have the right to delete websites which:

  1. breaches these conditions,
  2. do not verify their e-mail within 30 days,
  3. misses a valid e-mail to the owner and have not logged in in over 6 months,
  4. have not logged in on the website for over a year despite two reminders via e-mail.

We also have the right to modify content on sites that violate these terms. In such cases a message on the website of the owner.

Updates to this document

These terms and conditions and privacy policy was last updated on May 21, 2018 (new Privacy Policy).

We reserve the right to update these terms and conditions if necessary. For major updates that affect users of the service significantly then it will be announced two weeks in advance before the new conditions and privacy policy comes into force. Users have the opportunity to, for example, delete the website and its data if they do not wish to accept the new terms.

Legal information about us

Name: GbitHost.com
Website: www.gbithost.com
Address: 1011 Columbus Rd, Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1K1 CANADA