Terms of Service

These terms of service ("Terms", "Agreement") are an agreement between FSHOST ("FSHOST", "us", "we" or "our") and you ("User", "you" or "your"). This Agreement sets forth the general terms of your use of the fshost.me website and any of its products or services (collectively, "Website" or "Services").

1. Accounts and membership

You must be at least 13 years of age to use this Website. By using this Website and by agreeing to this Agreement you warrant and represent that you are at least 13 years of age. If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with it. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor and review new accounts before you may sign in and use our Services. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account.

You are prohibited from making multiple accounts when using our free service. Your accounts could be blocked.

You should immediately notify us of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions. We may suspend, disable, or delete your account (or any part thereof) if we determine that you have violated any provision of this Agreement or that your conduct or content would tend to damage our reputation and goodwill. If we delete your account for the foregoing reasons, you may not re-register for our Services. We may block your email address and Internet protocol address to prevent further registration.

2. User content

We do not own any data, information or material ("Content") that you submit on the Website in the course of using the Service. You shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all submitted Content. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor and review Content on the Website submitted or created using our Services by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Website does not grant us the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the Content created by you or stored in your user account for commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant us permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, display and perform the Content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, we have the right, though not the obligation, to, in our own sole discretion, refuse or remove any Content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any of our policies or is in any way harmful or objectionable.

3. Backups

We perform regular backups of the Website and Content and will do our best to ensure completeness and accuracy of these backups. In the event of the hardware failure or data loss we will restore backups automatically to minimize the impact and downtime.

4. Links to other websites

Although this Website may link to other websites, we are not, directly or indirectly, implying any approval, association, partnership, endorsement, or affiliation with any linked website, unless specifically stated herein. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, products, services, and content of any other third-parties. You should carefully review the legal statements and other conditions of use of any website which you access through a link from this Website. Your linking to any other off-site websites is at your own risk.

5. Prohibited uses

In addition to other terms as set forth in the Agreement, you are prohibited from using the Website or its Content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet; (h) to collect or track the personal information of others; (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. You are prohibited from making/ using scripts to automatically create free game servers on this service. We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Service or any related website for violating any of the prohibited uses.

6. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will FSHOST, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, suppliers or licensors be liable to any person for (a): any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, cover or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, revenue, sales, goodwill, use of content, impact on business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity) however caused, under any theory of liability, including, without limitation, contract, tort, warranty, breach of statutory duty, negligence or otherwise, even if FSHOST has been advised as to the possibility of such damages or could have foreseen such damages. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of FSHOST and its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors, relating to the services will be limited to an amount greater of one pound or any amounts actually paid in cash by you to FSHOST for the prior one month period prior to the first event or occurrence giving rise to such liability. The limitations and exclusions also apply if this remedy does not fully compensate you for any losses or fails of its essential purpose.

7. Severability

All rights and restrictions contained in this Agreement may be exercised and shall be applicable and binding only to the extent that they do not violate any applicable laws and are intended to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this Agreement illegal, invalid or unenforceable. If any provision or portion of any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is the intention of the parties that the remaining provisions or portions thereof shall constitute their agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof, and all such remaining provisions or portions thereof shall remain in full force and effect.

8. Changes and amendments

We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or its policies relating to the Website or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Agreement on the Website. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.

9. FSHOST Free

Things to follow when using our free servers

• Do not remove our advertisements from the hostname or any other place.
• Do not idle on the server to keep it online or to boost your Steam account(s).

Any servers found to be online for more than 3 hours with players idling (not moving for a period of time), will be stopped. We will try to check you're not actively playing first before stopping your server.

Users found to be repeatedly violating these terms will have their accounts blocked.

10. FSHOST Pro

Billing and Top-ups

We charge you as soon as you start a new or expired server, or on the server renewal date. Top-ups are done manually by you and can be used to pay for any server you want to create and keep running. Please make sure to keep your account topped up if you want your server to be auto renewed.

Stopped servers

While we do not charge for stopped servers, we have to monitor port allocation and data storage for our machines. Most companies will charge for stopped servers or remove them for this very reason. We offer a grace period to allow you to keep your server stopped for a generous amount of time.

If your server has been stopped for one (1) month, you will receive these emails to warn you about server deletion;

• First warning - deletion one (1) week after receiving this email.
• Second warning - deletion one (1) day after receiving this email.

Starting your server will reset the deletion timer.

Files and Backups

We perform file clean up tasks on our servers with these timeframes;

• CoD4 screenshots - after seven (7) days.
• CoD4 demos - after thirty (30) days.
• CS2 demos - after sixty (60) days.

We perform backups of these files;

• Valheim worlds - every thirty (30) minutes.

You are responsible for downloading and keeping backups of your demos or screenshots taken on your server(s).

Chargebacks

While you may think these are harmless, they're damaging for any business, especially for a non-profit like us. As a result of this, for each chargeback, we will deduct the fee and €15 EUR from your account. You should contact us directly to sort out any issues with a payment.

11. Acceptance of these terms

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to use or access the Website and its Services.

Contacting us

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Agreement or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to it, you may contact us via email or Discord - details found on our contact page.

This document was last updated on 12th Dec 2023