Grand County Internet Services

Terms and Conditions

Grand County Internet Services (GCIS) may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of any US or state regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: copyrighted material, threatening or obscene material, or material protected by trade secret. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GCIS from any claims resulting from your use of the service which damages you or another party.

Use of any information obtained via GCIS is at your own risk. GCIS specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its network. GCIS exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information residing on or passing through it.

GCIS makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the service it is providing. GCIS also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. GCIS will not be responsible for any damages you suffer. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries, or service interruptions caused by it's own negligence or your errors or omissions. GCIS will attempt to provide information about outages and other information we feel that is of interest to our subscribers at the following Web Page: http://status.rkymtnhi.com/ We will also send out emails to your account warning and describing outages.

Use of other organizations networks or computing resources must comply with the rules appropriate for that network. GCIS services may not be used for unsolicited bulk email services , mail relaying, or "spamming".

GCIS or other relevant authorities may determine inappropriate usage of this account and the privilege may be revoked at GCIS's discretion. Should this occur, you will be informed in writing.

Unlimited access means that there is no hourly fee, just the flat monthly fee. You can use the Internet as much as you want without having to keep track of time. Unlimited access is different than dedicated access. Dedicated access is a full-time Internet connection, which we can offer. If you are not using your connection to the internet for 7 to 10 minutes, the connection will terminated automatically. There are programs that can keep a line open indefinitely by sending IP packets on a regular basis, this is an abuse of the account and may result in termination of service. We reserve the right to terminate connections every once in a while to make users log back in, especially when a connection has been active for five hours or more. You may only have one connection active at a time. If you have more than one computer that you want to have access the Internet at the same time or computers on different telephone lines, you need to setup separate accounts with GCIS. The use of a Proxy server is allowed but we require that you notify us of its use (see rate schedule). If we notice usage increases above allowed limits, extra charges will be invoiced. These limits are on our price list.

GCIS may occasionally require new registration and account information from you to continue the service. You will notify GCIS of any changes in your account information. You will also notify GCIS if there is a disruption in service over 3 weeks in duration, due to vacation, broken equipment, extended part time residence elsewhere, etc.. Upon notification, we will adjust billing appropriately.

You agree to the rates and billing procedures as set forth in the current version of Grand County Internet Services rate schedule. GCIS reserves the right to change the rates and otherwise modify this agreement upon 30 days notice to you. This notice may be via email or posted to our web site. Use of GCIS after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the new terms and conditions. Payments must be received prior to usage in any period. Past due accounts may be disabled until receipt of payment. Late charges may be billed and restart fees for accounts disabled due to late payment. You must notify us to cancel your account prior to any accounting month or may you may incur additional charges on your account.

The Terms and Conditions reflect the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior oral or written agreements and understandings of the parties. These terms and conditions shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the state of Colorado, United States of America.

These terms and conditions may change from time to time and the current conditions may be found on our services internet pages at:

http://grandcountyinternet.com/terms.html

ADDITIONAL WIRELESS TERMS

1. The wireless equipment(antenna, cable and Radio) and furnished firewall router belongs to GCIS and must be removed by certified GCIS installer. Customer is responsible for equipment and must pay replacement cost ($900) if not returned to GCIS in working order. Customer should protect GCIS equipment from power surges through customers power lines.

2. If the Customer is moving or terminating service they should notify us 30 days in advance so we can arrange for the removal of the equipment. The Customer must pay $100 if GCIS equipment is uninstalled within 1 year of install and $75 if within 12 to 24 months.

3. GCIS is not reponsible for the functioning of the customers machine, only for the wireless equipment and router furnished by GCIS. Customer is also responsible for protecting their equipment from viruses, adware, spyware, trojan horses, etc. GCIS may provide alternate browsers, email programs, anti-spyware and anti-adware but is not responsible for these programs or their use. Any additional support for them will be billed at $40 per hour.

4. If a wireless network is being used on premises, the network may not be an open network and must be protected by WEP or other means to keep unauthorized persons from using the high speed network.

5. Due to the instability of wireless software/hardware built into computers, GCIS cannot take any responsibility for the proper functioning of customer premises wireless networks or the computers hooking up to them. Any additional support for them will be billed at $40 per hour.

 

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updated 7/27/2001