Zee Creative, Inc. Terms of Service

The following terms and conditions are the agreement between Zee Creative, Inc (us, we, our, Company, Zee, or Zee Creative) and you (your, customer or client) and governs your use of the zcreative.com website (site) and services we provide. Please review this agreement carefully. Zee Creative reserves the right to modify any of the terms and conditions within this agreement at any time. Any changes will be effective upon posting of the revisions on zcreative.com. If you do not agree to the terms in this Agreement, then do not use our services and contact Zee Creative to cancel any active services. Your use of our site or services binds you to this Agreement.

zcreative.com website

  • You may view this website and its contents using your web browser and save an electronic copy of the website solely in the usual operation of your web browser in visiting the site. You must not otherwise reproduce, frame, transmit (including broadcast), adapt, distribute, sell, modify or publish or otherwise use any of the material on the site, including audio and video excerpts, except as permitted by statute or with Zee Creative’s prior written consent.
  • Linking to the site
    • You may link to the site, provided (a) that you do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, the copyright notice, or other notices on the site, (b) your site does not engage in illegal or pornographic activities, and (c) you discontinue providing links to the site immediately upon request by Zee Creative, Inc.
  • Third Party Content and Links
    • Third party content may appear on the site or may be accessible via links from the site. We are not responsible for and assume no liability for any mistakes, misstatements of law, defamation, omissions, falsehood, obscenity, pornography or profanity in the statements, opinions, representations or any other form of content on the site. We are not responsible for content on other websites accessed from links on zcreative.com. You understand that the information and opinions in the third party content or on third party websites represent solely the thoughts of the author and is neither endorsed by nor does it necessarily reflect our belief.
  • Third Party Services
    • We may allow access to or advertise certain third party product or service providers (Merchants) from which you may purchase certain goods or services. You understand that we do not operate or control the products or services offered by Merchants. Merchants are responsible for all aspects of order processing, fulfillment, billing and customer service. We are not a party to the transactions entered into between you and Merchants. You agree that use of or purchase from such Merchants is AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND IS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND BY US, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, AND MERCHANTABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN YOU AND MERCHANTS OR FOR ANY INFORMATION APPEARING ON MERCHANT SITE OR ANY OTHER SITE LINKED TO OUR SITE.
  • Notices
    • As a customer, you understand and agree Zee Creative, Inc. may send you notices regarding your account by email. These notices include, but are not limited to, scheduled closings and billing updates.

Zee Creative’s services include, but are not limited to, website hosting (hosting), email, web marketing, programming, design, exterior and interior signage, vehicle graphics, banners and other promotional materials. By signing up for any Zee Creative services, you represent you are at least eighteen (18) years of age and legally able to enter into this agreement on behalf of yourself or a company. You agree you will use the services in accordance with the terms stated in this agreement.

  • Term
    • Hosting and email services are for a term of one year (12 months) and will automatically renew for one year terms unless cancelled prior to the renewal date.  Hosting and email services have specified storage and usage limits and accounts that exceed these limits may be billed overage charges. Except where a written agreement exists stating otherwise, programming, design and web marketing services are a month to month term and can be cancelled at any time.
  • Billing and Payments
    • All billing and prices shown on zcreative.com are in US currency and payments to us are to be made in US currency. We accept the following forms of payment:
      • Credit Card (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover)
      • PayPal
      • Check or Money Order
    • You agree to provide Zee Creative with accurate account and billing information. This includes but is not limited to name, address, phone number, email address and payment information. It is your responsibility to ensure Zee Creative has current billing information on file. Invoices, statements and past due reminders are sent via email by default. Account updates should be sent to billing@zcreative.com.
    • Invoices not paid by the invoice due date, may result in suspension of services including hosting, email or work in progress at any time after the due date. Services will be suspended until the account is brought current and may be charged a reactivation fee. Hosting and email services not reactivated within 30 days of suspension will be cancelled and removed from our servers.
    • Prepayments or setup fees may be required prior to initiation of work for projects or search marketing services. These prepayments are non-refundable but can be applied to other services with Zee Creative if requested within one (1) year of the original approval.
    • Finance charges are applied to past due accounts at a rate of 1.5% per month (18% annual rate) with a $1.00 minimum charge. All past due and unpaid balances are subject to collection, at our discretion. Zee Creative reserves the right to require credit card auto-billing for accounts that are repeatedly past due.
    • Accounts with a payment that is returned for insufficient funds (NSF check) or has a credit card chargeback may be charged a $30 processing fee.
  • Cancellations
    • All cancellations are to be made in writing to billing@zcreative.com. Hosting and email services must be cancelled at least 30 days prior to the renewal date. Prepaid hosting and email fees are non-refundable. Upon cancellation of service, the data in your account (hosting files, emails, etc.) will be removed after 48 hours and cannot be recovered. It is your responsibility to ensure you have copies of all needed data.
    • Zee Creative will not be liable to you for compensation, reimbursement or damages on the account of the loss of prospective profits, anticipated sales, goodwill or on account of expenditures, investments, leases or commitments in connection with your business, or for any other reason whatsoever on suspended or voluntary or involuntarily cancelled accounts. Cancellation of your account does not relieve you from paying any outstanding balance owed on your account.
  • Notices
    • As a customer, you understand and agree Zee Creative may send you notices regarding your services or account by email. These notices include, but are not limited to, scheduled maintenance, overages and billing updates.
  • Website Hosting Service Level Agreement (SLA)
    • Zee Creative strives to have hosting services available 99.9% of the time in any given month. In the event of service interruption on Zee Creative’s equipment and unrelated to scheduled maintenance, credit of one (1) day’s hosting fees for every sixty (60) minutes of service unavailability, up to one (1) month’s hosting fee. To receive a credit, you must contact Zee Creative indicating the service unavailability within 24 hours of interruption and must be in good financial standing with Zee Creative at the time of the incident.

Privacy Policy

Zee Creative is committed to protecting your personal information and this Privacy Policy explains the information we collect and how it may be used to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our services. When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on Jun 21, 2023.

Personal information you may choose to provide

You will provide us information about yourself, your company and your practices when you contract us to provide services to you or register for email newsletters. Zee Creative only collects the information necessary for fulfilling the requested services. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

Non-identifying information we may collect

Similar to most websites, we use cookies, server logs and other tracking systems to collect non-personally identifying information such as date and time of visits, page viewed, time spent on our website, browsers and referring sites.

IP Addresses

Your IP address may be used to estimate the number of visitors from geographic regions or used to identify and block visitor that are attempting to disrupt or cause harm to our site or services.

Cookies

Cookies are files that are stored on your computer with an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are used to identify and track visitors to our site and their usage of our site. Cookies can only be saved if your browser is set to allow them. If you choose not to allow cookies, certain features or our website or services may not function properly.

Ads

Our website uses the Google Ads Remarketing platform to place advertising for Zee Creative on the Google Display Network. Google Ads Remarketing will display ads to you through the Google Display Network based on past visits to zcreative.com by placing a cookie on your web browser. This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer, tablet or mobile device. The cookie is used to indicate to other websites that “This person visited a particular page, so show them ads relating to that page.” Google Ads Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you. If you do not wish to see ads from Zee Creative through the Google Display Network you may opt out in several ways:

Opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

Opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

How we use information we collect

Generally, the information we collect is used for administrating and expanding our business and services and understanding how visitors are using our site to improve our services. Personally identifying information may used to notify you of important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you may find valuable. You may opt-out of these notices by unsubscribing to our newsletter or contacting us at customerservice@zcreative.com.

We use third parties to facilitate our business, including but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, these third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities.

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers or any dissolution.

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or related parties or to protect and defend our rights and property, the site, the users of the site, third parties or the public at large.

Links

Our site may contain links to other websites and Zee Creative is not responsible for the privacy policy or practices of those websites.

Changes/Updates

Zee Creative may make changes to this Privacy Policy at its discretion and you are encouraged to review this page for those changes. Your continued use of our site after any change to this policy constitutes your acceptance of such change.

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was generated by Terms Feed Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account” means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Company” (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Downtown Billings Alliance
  • Country” refers to United States of America
  • Cookies” are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service” refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website” refers to Zee Creative, accessible from https://zcreative.com/
  • You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected

Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data

Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookie

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact You.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Disclaimer

Our website and services are provided “as-is” and “as available” and we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not represent or warrant that the website or services will be error-fee, free of viruses or other harmful components or that defects will be corrected. The information and services may contain bugs, errors, problems or other limitations and neither Zee Creative nor its suppliers or affiliated parties have any liability for your use of the services, except as stated elsewhere in this document.

Limitation of Liability

With respect to this agreement in whole, in no event, will Zee Creative or its suppliers be liable for any loss or damages of any kind, the cost to obtain substitute services, interruptions of service, loss or corruption of data or for any amounts that exceed your payments to Zee Creative during the twelve (12) months prior to the cause of action. Zee Creative has no liability for any failure or delay due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Zee Creative Inc, its suppliers, and their respective employees, directors and representatives from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising out of or relating to your use of our services, including but not limited to your violation of this agreement. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Zee Creative, Inc., its suppliers, and their respective employees, directors and representatives from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorney’s fees, resulting from your breach of this agreement, or from the use of the products while such products or in your possession or control.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement shall be treated as though it were executed and performed in Billings, Montana, and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Montana (without regard to conflict of law principles). Any cause of action by you with respect to the services must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred. Any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be settled in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of JAMS.

Any dispute shall be arbitrated on an individual basis and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with another party. The arbitration shall be conducted in Billings, Montana and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or us may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in Billings, Montana necessary to protect the right or property of you and us pending the completion of arbitration. Each party shall bear one-half the arbitration fee and costs incurred through JAMS.  The language in this Agreement shall be interpreted as to its fair meaning and not strictly for or against any party.

This Agreement and all incorporated agreements and your information may be automatically assigned by us in our sole discretion to a third party in the event of an acquisition, sale or merger. Should any part of this Agreement be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed consistent with applicable law and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. To the extent that anything in or associated with the site is in conflict or inconsistent with this Agreement, this Agreement shall take precedence. Our failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us at 406-259-6730. Or, by visiting our contact us page.

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) describes activities that are not allowed on Zee Creative’s services. The AUP is incorporated by reference in your Agreement with Zee Creative. Terms used in this AUP and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning given in the Agreement. Questions or inquiries regarding the AUP should be directed to abuse@zcreative.com

  • Abuse – You may not use Zee Creative’s network or services to engage in, foster, or promote illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
    • Any activity or conduct that is likely to be in breach of any applicable laws, codes or regulations, including data protection and privacy laws and laws relating to unsolicited commercial electronic messages;
    • Use of an internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization;
    • Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
    • Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
    • Introducing intentionally, knowingly or recklessly, any virus or other contaminating code into the services;
    • Collecting or using information, including email addresses, screen names or other identifiers, by deceit, (such as, phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting);
    • Use of any false, misleading, or deceptive TCP-IP packet header information in an email or a newsgroup posting;
    • Distributing software that covertly gathers or transmits information about a user;
    • Distributing advertisement delivery software unless: (i) the user affirmatively consents to the download and installation of such software based on a clear and conspicuous notice of the nature of the software, and (ii) the software is easily removable by use of standard tools for such purpose included on major operating systems (such as Microsoft’s “ad/remove” tool);
    • Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Zee Creative network or website, or Zee Creative’s employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS);
    • Any activity intended to withhold or cloak identity or contact information, including the omission, deletion, forgery or misreporting of any transmission or identification information, such as return mailing and IP addresses;
    • Interference with service to any user of the services or other network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
    • Any action which directly or indirectly results in any of our IP space being listed on any abuse database (i.e. Spamhaus);
    • Conducting any gambling activity in violation of any required licenses, codes of practice, or necessary technical standards required under the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which your site is hosted or accessed; or
    • Any action that is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Zee Creative.
  • Offensive Content – You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the services any content or links to any content that Zee Creative reasonably believes:
    • Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography, bestiality, non-consensual sex acts, or otherwise unlawfully exploits persons under 18 years of age;
    • You may not use the services to stream live sex acts of any kind, even if the content would otherwise comply with the AUP;
    • Publish, transmit or store any content or links to any content that is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, contains harassing content or hate speech, creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, or public safety or health, compromises national security or interferes with an investigation by law enforcement;
    • Is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
    • Is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy; or
    • Is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or morally repugnant.
  • No High Risk Use
    • You may not use the services in any situation where failure or fault of the services could lead to death or serious bodily injury of any person, or to physical or environmental damage. For example, you may not use, or permit any other person to use, the services in connection with aircraft or other modes of human mass transportation or nuclear or chemical facilities.
  • Mail Requirements – You must comply with the laws and regulations applicable to bulk or commercial email in your jurisdiction. In addition, your bulk or commercial email must meet the following requirements:
    • You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing.
    • You must have the means to track anonymous complaints.
    • You must not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner.
    • You must post an email address for complaints (such as abuse@yourdoman.com) in a conspicuous place on any website associated with the email, and you must promptly respond to messages sent to that address.
    • Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure, and you can produce the evidence of such consent within 72 hours of receipt of a request by the recipient or Zee Creative.
    • You must use reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given.
    • You must include the recipient’s e-mail address in the body of the message or in the “TO” line of the e-mail.
    • You must honor revocations of consent and notify recipients of the same.
    • These policies apply to messages sent using the services, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted on Zee Creative’s services. In addition, you may not use a third-party email service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers. These requirements apply to distribution lists created by third parties to the same extent as if you created the list.
  • Vulnerability Testing
    • You may not attempt to probe, scan, penetrate or test the vulnerability of a Zee Creative system or network, or to breach the Zee Creative security or authentication measures, whether by passive or intrusive techniques.
  • Export Control
    • The services may not be used in violation of export laws, controls, regulations or sanction policies of the United States or your applicable jurisdiction.  The services may not be used by persons, organizations, companies or any such other legal entity or unincorporated body, including any affiliate or group company, which is involved with or suspected of involvement in activities or causes relating to: illegal gambling; terrorism; narcotics trafficking; arms trafficking or the proliferation, development, design, manufacture, production, stockpiling, or use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or missiles; in each case including any affiliation with others whatsoever who sponsor or support the above such activities or causes.
  • Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights
    • You may not use our services in a manner that infringes on or misappropriates the rights of a third party in any work protected by copyright, trade or service mark, invention, or other intellectual property or proprietary information. For example:
      • You may not use the services to download, publish, torrent, distribute, use, or otherwise copy in any manner any text, music, software, art, image, or other work protected by copyright law unless you have permission from the owner of the work to use or copy the work in that manner, or you are otherwise permitted by established intellectual property law to copy or use the work or rights in that manner;
      • You may not use the services to publish content intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections; and
      • You may not display another person’s trademark without permission.
    • In addition, you may not use the services to publish another person’s trade secrets, or to publish information in violation of a duty of confidentiality. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyrights infringement by a user of Zee Creative’s services, please contact Zee Creative at customerservice@zcreative.com with the following information:
      • An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest
      • A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
      • A description of where the claimed infringing material is located
      • Your name, address, telephone number and email address
      • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
      • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
    • It is Zee Creative’s policy to terminate the services of customers who are repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
  • Cooperation with Investigations and Legal Proceedings
    • If we are legally required to permit any relevant authority to inspect your content or traffic, you agree we can do so; provided however that, where possible without breaching any legal or regulatory requirement, we give you reasonable prior notice of such requirement.
    • We may, without notice to you, report to the appropriate authorities any conduct by you that we believe violates applicable law, and provide any information we have about you, or your users or your traffic and cooperate in response to a formal request from a law enforcement or regulatory agency investigating any such activity, or in response to a formal request in a civil action that on its face meets the requirements for such a request.
  • Excessive Use of Shared System Resources
    • You may not use any shared system provided by Zee Creative in a way that unnecessarily interferes with the normal operation of the shared system, or that consumes a disproportionate share of the resources of the system. For example, we may require you to repair coding abnormalities in your hosted code if it unnecessarily conflicts with other customers’ use of the service. You agree that we may quarantine or delete any data stored on a shared system if the data is infected with a virus, or is otherwise corrupted, and has the potential to infect or corrupt the system or other customers’ data that is stored on the same system.
  • Third Party Conduct
    • You are responsible for violations of this AUP by anyone using your services with your permission or on an unauthorized basis resulting from your failure to use reasonable security precautions. Your use of the services to assist another person in an activity that would violate this AUP if performed by you is a violation of the AUP.
    • You must use reasonable efforts to secure any device or network within your control against being used in breach of the applicable laws against spam and unsolicited email, including where appropriate by the installation of antivirus software, firewall software and operating system and application software patches and updates. Our right to suspend or terminate your service applies even if a breach is committed unintentionally or without your authorization, including through a Trojan horse or virus.
  • Other
    • You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain using Zee Creative services.
    • You may only use IP addresses assigned to you by Zee Creative in connection with your Zee Creative services.
    • You agree that if you register a DNS record or zone on Zee Creative managed or operated DNS servers or services for a domain of which you are not the registrant or administrative contact listed on the registrar’s WHOIS system, that, upon request from the registrant or administrative contact listed on the registrars WHOIS system, Zee Creative may modify, transfer, or delete such records or zones.
    • You may not register to use any services under a false name, or use an invalid or unauthorized credit card in connection with any services.
  • Changes to the AUP
    • The Internet continue to evolve, and the ways in which the Internet may be abused are also still evolving. Therefore, we may from time to time amend this AUP to further detail or describe reasonable restrictions on your use of our Services by publishing a revised version of the AUP at http://www.zcreative.com/support/policies-legal-agreements/zee-creative-acceptable-use-policy/. If significant changes are made to the AUP, notice that changes have been made will be done via email newsletter, on our website and/or included in notices with billing. The revised AUP will become effective as to you thirty (30) days after posting on the Zee Creative website. If your compliance with the revised AUP would adversely affect your use of the services, you may elect to terminate the Agreement by giving Zee Creative written notice of your objection no later than thirty (30) days following the date of the revised AUP effective date.  We will not charge you an early termination fee for a termination on these grounds. If you elect to terminate, you may continue using the services for up to an additional sixty (60) days and we will not enforce the revision on your account during this time, you will continue to be subject to the prior version.
  • Violation of AUP Consequences
    • If you breach the AUP we may suspend or terminate your services in accordance with this Agreement. We may intercept or block any content or traffic belonging to you or to users where services are being used unlawfully or not in accordance with this AUP.
    • No credit will be available under the Website Hosting SLA for interruptions of service resulting from any AUP violations.
  • This site includes registered trademarks and other established marks which are otherwise protected by law including, but not limited to the word ZEE CREATIVE, zcreative.com, the Zee Creative logo, the Z logo, the zcreative.com logo and the Zee dog illustration. You may not use these trademarks or the names “Zee Creative, Inc.”, “Zee Creative”, “zcreative.com” or similar
  • zcreative.com, the material on zcreative.com, the software, design, text and graphics comprised on zcreative.com and the selection and layout of zcreative.com, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are owned or licensed by us and protected by copyright under the laws of the United States and other countries.

You may view this website and its contents using your web browser and save an electronic copy of the website solely in the usual operation of your web browser in visiting the site. You must not otherwise reproduce, frame, transmit (including broadcast), adapt, distribute, sell, modify or publish or otherwise use any of the material on the site, including audio and video excerpts, except as permitted by statute or with Zee Creative, Inc.’s prior written consent.

our use of our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Reporting services are subject to the following terms.

  • For the purposes of receiving professional SEO services, client agrees to provide the following:
    • Administrative/backend access to the website for analysis of content and structure.
    • Permission to make changes for the purpose of optimization, and to communicate directly with any third parties, if necessary.
    • Authorization to use client pictures, logos, trademarks, web site images, pamphlets, content, etc., for any use as deemed necessary by Zee Creative for search engine optimization purposes.
    • If client’s site is lacking in textual content, client will provide additional text content in electronic format for the purpose of creating additional or richer web pages. Zee Creative can create site content at additional cost to the client. If client is interested in using Zee Creative’s creative writing/content creation services, please contact Zee Creative for a cost estimate.
  • Client must acknowledge the following with respect to SEO services:
    • All fees are non-refundable.
    • All fees, services, documents, recommendations, and reports are confidential.
    • Zee Creative has no control over the policies of search engines with respect to the type of sites and/or content that they accept now or in the future. The client’s website may be excluded from any directory or search engine at any time at the sole discretion of the search engine or directory.
    • In most cases, performing on-site optimization only (while not increasing the amount of in-bound links to the website) will only provide limited benefits. For long-term, sustainable success in the search engines, increasing the amount of incoming links to your website is essential.
    • Due to the competitiveness of some keywords/phrases, ongoing changes in search engine ranking algorithms, and other competitive factors, Zee Creative does not guarantee #1 positions or consistent top 10 positions for any particular keyword, phrase, or search term.
    • Google has been known to hinder the rankings of new websites (or pages) until they have proven their viability to exist for more than “x” amount of time. This is referred to as the “Google Sandbox.” Zee Creative assumes no liability for ranking/traffic/indexing issues related to Google Sandbox penalties.
    • Linking to “bad neighborhoods” or getting links from “link farms” or “link networks” can seriously damage all SEO efforts. Zee Creative does not assume liability for the client’s choice to link to or obtain a link from any particular website without prior consultation.
    • Zee Creative is not responsible for changes made to the website by other parties that adversely affect the search engine rankings of the client’s
    • The client guarantees any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other artwork provided to Zee Creative for inclusion on the website above are owned by the client, or that the client has received permission from the rightful owner(s) to use each of the elements, and will hold harmless, protect, and defend Zee Creative and its subcontractors from any liability or suit arising from the use of such elements.
    • Zee Creative is not responsible for the Client overwriting SEO work to the client’s (e.g., client /webmaster uploading over work already provided/optimized). The client will be charged an additional fee for re-constructing content.