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1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) strives to offer all its customers a reliable and excellent level of service. If you have any queries we would like to hear from you. Please e-mail us at support@plutushosting.com or see the "Contact Us" section on our web site for other contact details.

This Legal Terms of Agreement (this "Agreement") is between Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.), a South African Web Hosting Corporation, and the person (individual or legal person) who signs (electronically) Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) service order and set up form (the "Order") incorporating this Agreement by reference ("Customer").  This Agreement governs Customer’s use of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) services.

This Terms of Service, together with our Pty (Ltd.) acceptable Use Policy and Legal Policies, constitute the whole act of convention between You - the Customer, and Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.). Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall provide its Services to You under the Terms and Conditions explicated in this Service Agreement. The Agreement is intended to clarify all aspects, rules, and provisions of the business relationship between You - the Customer, and Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.). It is also intended to keep the integrity of this relationship and protect both parties from liability. This Service Agreement will be enforced, if/when necessary, in order to be guaranteed the speed, power, performance, and reliability of our services.

In this Agreement, unless the context indicates a contrary intention, the following words and expressions bear the meanings assigned to them and cognate expressions bear corresponding meanings:

1.1. "AFSA" means the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa;

1.2. "Agreement" means this Master Services agreement, including all Annexures hereto, and any Service Confirmation Schedule executed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;

1.3. "Customer" or "you" means the person (individual or legal person) who accepted the terms and conditions (electronically) Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.)’s service order and set up form (the "Order")

1.4. "Charges" shall mean all charges and/or fees payable by the Customer to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) for the Services;

1.5."CIS" means the customer information sheet issued to you by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) from time to time and which includes information on the Services including without limit Keywords, bandwidth, and scope of services

1.48. "Conditions" means the standard terms and conditions of sale set out herein;

1.6 "Confidential Information" means any information or data which by its nature or content is identifiable as confidential and/or proprietary to a Party and/or any third party, or which is provided or disclosed in confidence;

1.49. "Contract" means any contract for the provision of the Services;

1.6. “"Contract Value" means in the case of a 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48-month contract alternatively the contract duration as elected by the client in the service confirmation schedule. The contract term multiplied by the Customer's monthly payment to Plutus Internet Services. In the case of a month to month agreement, for purpose of this definition and for quantification purposes in clause 20, the month to month contract term will be equal to 48 months;

1.7. “CPA” means the Consumer Protection Act, 68 of 2008, as amended from time to time;

1.8. “Customer Equipment” means customer premises equipment (modems, routers etc.), or any networks or network equipment not owned or controlled by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ;

1.9. “CHS” means Customer Hosting Service means domain, hosted service, website design service, SSL Services provisioned on the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) infrastructure allow access to the hosted environment;

1.10. "Documentation" means the documentation supplied by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to the Customer;

1.11. “Effective date” means the date of Signature on which the Customer agrees to these terms and conditions on our website;

1.12. "ECA" means the Electronic Communications Act 36 of 2006, as amended from time to time;

1.13. “ECTA” means the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 25 of 2002, as amended from time to time;

1.14. "Customer Premises" shall mean the location or locations occupied by the Customer to which the Services are delivered as specified in the SCS;

1.15. "Facilities" shall mean any property owned, licensed or leased by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) , including points of presence (“POP”) used to deliver the Services, but does not include Customer Equipment;

1.16. "Force Majeure Event" means any circumstances beyond the Parties' reasonable control including, without limitation, war, national emergency, civil, disturbance, theft, fire, flood, explosion, natural disaster, unusually severe weather conditions, prohibitive legislation or regulations and failure of power or utility supplies (including electronic communications);

1.17. "Intellectual Property" means any know-how (not in the public domain), invention (whether or not patented), design, trademark, or copyright material (whether or not registered), goodwill, processes, process methodology and all other identical or similar intellectual property as may exist anywhere in the world and any applications for registration of such intellectual property, which specifically includes all copyright, design rights and any other proprietary rights in and to any business plans and proposals, business processes and functional and technical specifications and any related material;

"IPRs" means any and all intellectual property rights including without limit any and all patents, design rights, database rights, copyright, know-how, moral rights, trade secrets, confidential information, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and goodwill:

1.18. “MRC” means monthly recurring cost as set out in the applicable Online Order Form;

1.19. "Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) " means Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) (Proprietary) Limited, a company duly registered under the company laws of the Republic of the South Africa with registration number K2011/108590/07 and having its principal place of business at 9 Versveld street, The Reeds, Centurion, 0158;

1.20. "Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Equipment" means any Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) equipment or products, including any Facilities, or any other equipment or products which are supplied to the Customer by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) (for use in conjunction with the Services);

1.21. Service request Form" shall mean a request for the Services submitted by Customer to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) in a form prescribed by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ;

1.22. “Signature” or “Signed” shall mean the physical act of signing this agreement, if applicable, and shall also include the electronic signing of this agreement by way of ticking the appropriate box on an electronic platform which, upon acceptance, sends a link to email and records that email address on a database with a specific encoding;

1.23. “Party” means either of the signatories to this Agreement and “Parties” means both of them collectively and shall be deemed to mean and include their respective successors and permitted assigns;

1.24. "Prime Rate" means the prime rate published by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's principle bankers from time to time;

1.25. "Services" means the services provided by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to the Customer as more fully described in the Service Confirmation Schedule, including the provision of Plutus Internet Services Equipment and Facilities;

1.26. "Service Activation Date" means the date Services actually commence;

1.27. "Service Levels" means the specific performance levels applicable to the provision of the Services;

1.28. "Service Term" means the time period, including periods of renewal, specified in each Service Confirmation Schedule during which the Services specified therein are to be provided;

1.29. "Territory" means Republic of South Africa;

1.30. "VAT" means value-added tax, chargeable under the VAT Act of 1991;

1.31. “Degradation” means the presence of anomalies or defects in the absence of a fault;

1.32. “Degraded Service” means the presence of anomalies or defects that cause a degradation in QoS, but do not result in total failure of the service;

1.33. “Incident” means a fault that directly affects the Service levels by substantially or completely reducing them. This excludes any faulty Customer equipment;

1.34. “MTTRs” (Mean Time to Respond) means the average time from when the ticket is logged with the PLUTUS INTERNET SERVICES NOC to the time a Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Support Representative attends to the incident or trouble ticket;

1.35. “MTRS” (Mean Time to Restore Service) means average time from the first detection or reporting of service interruption to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) NOC by the Customer until the time when the service is restored;

1.36. “Network Unavailability” means the time where the service is unavailable or degraded to such an extent that it is unusable, measured from the first detection or reporting of service interruption to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) NOC by the Customer until the time when the service is restored and excluding any service interruption outside of PLUTUS INTERNET SERVICES ’s contracted services supplied to the Reseller. Network Unavailability will not include Scheduled Maintenance/Emergency Maintenance or any unavailability resulting from (a) any local loop provider, (b) Reseller’s applications, equipment or facilities, (c) acts or omissions of Customer or any use of the service authorised by Reseller, (d) reasons of Force Majeure, or (e) power loss and/or interruptions at the Customer Premises;

1.37. “NNI” means Network to Network Interface between distinct MEN operated by one or more carriers;

1.38. “Off-Net Services” means those Services provided at any Customer or End User premises that are not on PLUTUS INTERNET SERVICES ’s electronic communications network and where an infrastructure build will be required to connect the Customer and/or End User to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's electronic communications network;

1.39. “On-Net Services” means those Services provided at Customer or End User premises that are on PLUTUS INTERNET SERVICES ’s electronic communications network;

1.40. “QoS” means quality of service;

1.41. “SLA” means service level agreement;

1.42. “UNI” means the physical interface or port that is the demarcation between the Customer and the service provider (PLUTUS INTERNET SERVICES );

1.43. “Uptime” means total number of available minutes in a calendar month;

1.44. “AUP” means an Acceptable Use Policy;

1.45. “Broadband access service” means the wireless broadband access service provided by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to the user using Fibre, WIFI, WiMAX or other relevant technologies;

1.46. "SCS" Service confirmation schedule. This document outlining Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Pty Ltd terms and conditions

2. IN THIS AGREEMENT:

2.1. headings and the heading of the Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be used in its interpretation;

2.2. A natural person includes a juristic person and vice versa;

2.3. The singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

2.4. A party includes a reference to that party’s successors in title and assigns allowed at law.

2.5. Any reference in this Agreement to:

2.5.1. "Business hours" shall be construed as being the hours between 08h30 and 17h00 on any business day. Any reference to time shall be based upon South African Standard Time;

2.5.2. "Days" shall be construed as calendar days unless qualified by the word "business", in which instance a "business day" will be any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday as gazetted by the government of the Republic of South Africa from time to time;

2.5.3. "Person" means any person, company, close corporation, trust, partnership or other entity whether or not having separate legal personality; and

2.5.4. "Writing" means legible writing and in English and excludes any form of electronic communication  contemplated in ECTA.

2.6. The words "include" and "including" mean "include without limitation" and "including without limitation". The use of the words "include/s" and "including" followed by a specific example or examples shall not be construed as limiting the meaning of the general wording preceding it.

2.7. Terms, other than those defined in this agreement, will be given their plain English meaning, and those acronyms and phrases known in the information technology and telecommunications industries will be interpreted in accordance with their general accepted meanings.

2.8. Unless specifically otherwise provided, any number of days prescribed shall be determined by excluding the first and including the last day or, where the last day falls on a day that is not a business day, the next succeeding business day.

2.9. The rule of construction that this Agreement shall be interpreted against the Party responsible for the drafting of this Agreement (contra proferentem), shall not apply.

2.10. If any provisions of this agreement are found to be ambiguous, the rule that it must be interpreted in favour of the debtor (quod minimum), shall not apply.

2.11. No provision of this Agreement shall (unless otherwise stipulated) constitute a stipulation for the benefit of any person (stipulatio alteri) who is not a party to this Agreement.

3. COMMENCEMENT AND DURATION

3.1. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will carry out a site survey to confirm if delivery of services is available, should Plutus Internet Services be unable to get domain/s transferred this agreement will become null and void with immediate effect.

3.2. This Agreement shall come into effect on the Effective Date from when the SCS was accepted online and shall continue in force for an indefinite period unless terminated by either Party in accordance with its terms.

3.3. The initial term of each Services Confirmation Schedule shall commence on the Service Activation Date and shall expire on the date set forth in the applicable Service Confirmation Schedule ("Initial Service Term").

3.4. After the expiry of the Initial Service Term, the Service Confirmation Schedule shall automatically renew on a month-to-month basis unless terminated by either party on twenty (20) business days' written notice.

3.5. Notwithstanding the termination of this Agreement, each Service Confirmation Schedule shall remain in force until termination thereof and shall remain subject to the terms of this Agreement.

3.6. Customers that have chosen a monthly contract term option may cancel the contract term in accordance with the Provisions of Section 14 of the CPA, read with regulation 5 thereof.

3.7. If a customer relocates to a location where Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) is unable to provide services, it will be deemed to be an early cancellation of the contract term and the provisions of clause 20 will apply.

3.8. All services are linked to their original installation address as per the SCS and original customer order. Any change in address will attract an installation, admin and related fees which will be quoted before relocation of the service may take place.

4. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) OBLIGATIONS

4.1. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall make the Services available to the Customer as specified in each Service Confirmation Schedule.

4.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) agree to implement, follow up and support services, as the parties deem appropriate under the circumstances in order to foster a satisfactory business relationship between Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) and the Customer.

4.3. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall inform the customer about new developments and modifications to the services or required equipment.

4.4. In terms of the Plutus Internet Services facilities necessary to provide the service, where required, such facilities will always remain property of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) .

4.5. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall ensure that the equipment and, in the event where the equipment consists of more than one component, that each component shall be delivered for installation only at the customer location on or before the estimated delivery date.

4.6. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall ensure that all equipment shall be installed at the Customer location in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications at Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.)’s standard rates;

4.7. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall be responsible for support services to the customer as set out in the Service Level Agreement.

5. CUSTOMER ORDER PROCEDURE

5.1. The customer shall order new services or change existing services by submitting a new Service Confirmation Schedule (SCS) to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) specifying the new and/or changed services required.

5.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will submit an SCS to the customer acknowledging acceptance of the signed quotation/order and is thereby obliged to provide the requested services.

5.3. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall be entitled to request, on receipt of a Service Request Form and prior to the issuing of the SCS in terms of clause 5.2, information related to the customer's creditworthiness. For the avoidance of doubt the Parties agree that Plutus Internet Services is authorised to conduct all reasonable credit checks and searches.

5.4. Each SCS shall create, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, an individual contractual relationship between the Parties for the provision of the services for the duration of the applicable service term. The provisions of the SCS, once signed by the Customer, shall prevail over the terms and conditions of this Agreement to the extent that there is any conflict between the provisions of the SCS and this Agreement.

6. CONNECTION AND SERVICE COMMENCEMENT

6.1. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall use best reasonable effort to ensure that the services are made available to the customer on the Service Activation Date and shall promptly inform the customer of any delay in meeting the Service Activation Date.

6.2. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, the services shall only commence on the Service Activation Date and there will be no obligation on Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to commence provision of the services prior to the Service Activation Date.

6.3. The Customer shall notify Plutus Internet Services of any problems with the services within forty-eight (48) hours of the Service Activation Date, failing which, the services shall be deemed to be accepted by the Customer, presumably without fault or defect.

6.4. In the event that the customer notifies Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) of a problem regarding the services within the specified time period in this clause 6.3, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall rectify such problem within a reasonable period of time.

6.5. With regards to a microwave link, reception of the service is dependent on, Line of Site and until a signal strength test can be performed reception can in no way be guaranteed.

6.6. Once the installation is complete and services commence, if a customer is not a month to month contract customer cannot downgrade to below the original package elected. If customer is a month to month contract the customer may upgrade at any time, but downgrade only with a months’ notice.

7. ACCESS TO THE CUSTOMER AND/OR CUSTOMER PREMISES/AND CUSTOMER PREMESIS EQUIPMENT

7.1. The customer shall provide Plutus Internet Services with reasonable access to the Customer Premises to enable Plutus Internet Services to exercise its rights and fulfil its obligations under this Agreement.

7.2. The customer shall remain responsible for providing and maintaining the customer premises at its own expense. In the event that the customer fails to maintain the premises, the customer shall reimburse Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) for any costs incurred to repair or replace any Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Facilities/Equipment damaged or destroyed as a result of the customers’ failure to maintain the premises.

7.3. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) restricts access to all CHS, any change requests shall be requested via the Plutus Internet Services help desk.

7.4. All CHS and related equipment and accessories remain property of Level 7 Wireless unless the customer has been invoiced and paid in full for the full value of the equipment.

7.5. If the customer has selected a month to month contract, all CHS remains property of the customer.

7.6. If the customer has selected any other fixed term contract (which is not a month to month agreement from initiation) all CHS remains property of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.).

7.7. The customer hereby gives Plutus Internet Services permission to install equipment and cabling in his/her premises, furthermore the customer agrees that

necessary permission from the relevant bodies and landowners have been obtained and Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will not be held liable for any claim, loss, or damage due to this installation or its related activities.

8. ACCEPTABLE USE OF NETWORK AND SERVICES

8.1. The customer is solely responsible for ensuring that the customer uses the services lawfully and that the customer complies with all applicable laws and with Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ’s Acceptable Use Policy published on www.plutushosting.com which the customer warrants that he/she has read, considered and understood by concluding this agreement and making use of the services.

8.2. The customer indemnifies Plutus Internet Services and holds it harmless against any claims:

8.2.1. Arising from a breach of this clause 8; and/or

8.2.2. By third parties in respect of prohibited or unlawful activities conducted by the customer or its customers.

8.3. The customer shall not take any steps or fail to take any steps which directly or indirectly:

8.3.1. Rearrange, disconnect, remove, attempt to repair, or otherwise tamper with the services, without the prior written consent of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ;

8.3.2. Damage Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's network (or any networks interconnected to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ) or any part thereof;

8.3.3. Cause Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to breach any of its licence terms or any provision of applicable legislation;

8.3.4. Cause the imposition of any lien or encumbrance on the facilities and/or Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Equipment;

8.3.5. Constitutes an abuse of the Services (in the reasonable opinion of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ).

8.4. To help ensure that all customers have fair and equal use of the service and to protect the integrity of its network, Plutus Internet Services reserves the right, and will take necessary steps, to prevent improper or excessive usage. The action that Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) may take includes, but is not limited to:

8.4.1. Shaping throughput, preventing or limiting service through specific ports or communication protocols, irrespective of usage;

8.4.2. Limiting throughput, preventing or limiting service through specific ports or communication protocols in the case of excessive usage; and

8.4.3. A complete termination of service to customers with improper usage in which event the provision of clause 20 will apply.

8.5. This policy applies to and will be enforced for both intended as well as unintended (e.g., viruses, worms, malicious code, or otherwise unknown causes) excessive and/or prohibited usage.

8.6. Online activity will be subject to the available bandwidth, data storage and other limitations of the broadband access service, which Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) may, from time to time, revise at its own discretion and without prior notice to the customer.

8.7. Users may not engage in any activity that compromises or threatens Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's ability to provide the broadband access service in a reasonable and efficient manner to all other users.

8.8. Examples of restricted use include, but are not limited to, running systems and servers that generate excessive number of packets or throughput at a constant rate that will cause degradation of the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) network.

8.9. The broadband access service may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorisation, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

8.10. Violations of system or network security are prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Plutus Internet Services will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve, or will cooperate with, law enforcement agencies if a criminal violation is suspected.

8.11. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

8.11.1. Unauthorised 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 authorisation of the owner of the system or network;

8.11.2. Unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorisation of the owner of the system or network;

8.11.3. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;

8.11.4. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting;

8.11.5. Knowingly distributing computer viruses or other malicious computer programs;

8.11.6. The infringement of others intellectual property rights or the breaching of any laws or infringement of any third-party rights, including without limitation, copyright.

8.12. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) reserves the right to implement technical mechanisms which prevent usage patterns in violation of this AUP. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) further reserves the right to take such action as may be necessary to protect the integrity of the system, including, but not limited to, system monitoring, as well as protocol management and shutting down of ports affected by viruses, worms or other malicious code.

8.13. Nothing contained in this policy shall be construed to limit Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's rights or remedies in any way with respect to any of the foregoing activities, and Plutus Internet Services reserves the right to take any actions that it may deem appropriate with respect to such activities, including without limitation: investigating suspected violations of this AUP, taking action to recover the costs and expenses of identifying offenders and terminating their access to and use of the Broadband access service, and levying cancellation charges to cover Plutus Internet Services 's costs in the event of termination of access to the broadband access service. In addition, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) reserves all available rights and remedies with respect to such activities at law or in equity.

8.14. This AUP may be clarified or modified periodically and Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) reserves the right to modify this policy at any time, which changes shall become effective as soon as they are posted to the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) website.

9. FAIR USAGE AND NETWORK POLICY

9.1. The user acknowledges that Plutus Internet Services is unable to exercise control over the data passing over the infrastructure and the internet, including but not limited to any websites, electronic mail transmissions, news groups or other material created or accessible over its infrastructure. Therefore, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) is not responsible for data transmitted over its infrastructure.

9.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) infrastructure may be used to link into other networks worldwide and the user agrees to conform to the acceptable use policies of these networks.

9.3. Users of the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) network include not only the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) customers, but in the case of resellers of the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) services, the customers of the resellers too. Resellers of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) services are responsible for the activities of their customers.

9.4. The user may obtain and download any materials marked as available for download from the internet but is not permitted to use their internet access to distribute any copyrighted materials unless the owner of the materials grant’s permission for such distribution to the user.

9.5. The user is prohibited from obtaining, disseminating or facilitating over Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) network any unlawful materials, including but not limited to:

9.5.1. Copying or dealing in intellectual property without authorisation;

9.5.2. Child pornography; and/or

9.5.3. Any unlawful hate-speech materials.

10. SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY

10.1. All references to systems and networks under this section include the internet (and all those systems and/or networks to which users are granted access through Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) and include but is not limited to the infrastructure of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) itself.

10.2. The user may not circumvent user authentication or security of any host, device, network, or account (referred to as "cracking" or "hacking"), nor interfere with service to any user, host, device, or network (referred to as "denial of service attacks"). The host, device, network or account shall also not be used for any llegal purpose, including phishing.

10.3. Violations of system or network security by the user are prohibited and may result in civil or criminal liability. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will investigate incidents involving such violations and will involve and co-operate with law enforcement officials if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

10.3.1. Unauthorised access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without the express authorisation of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ;

10.3.2. Unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on the network or systems without express authorisation of Plutus Internet Services ;

10.3.3. Interference with service to any user, device, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;

10.3.4. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header (spoofing) or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.

11. INTERCEPTION

The User acknowledges that Plutus Internet Services is lawfully required to intercept communications in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation of Interception and Provision of Communication-related Information Act 70 of 2003 (“the Act”). Any interception of communications shall be strictly in accordance with the requirements of the Act, as and when required under the Act.

12. MANAGING ABUSE

Upon receipt of a complaint, or having become aware of an incident, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) reserves the right to take any one or more of the following steps listed below, insofar as Plutus Internet Services deems them necessary in its absolute and sole discretion, against the offending party:

12.1. Inform the user's network administrator of the incident and require the network administrator or network owner to deal with the incident according to this Acceptable Fair Use Policy.

12.2. In the case of individual users suspend the user's account and withdraw the user's network access privileges completely.

12.3. Charge the offending parties for administrative costs as well as for machine and human time lost due to the incident.

12.4. Take such action as may be necessary to protect the integrity of the system, including, but not being limited to, system monitoring, as well as protocol management and shutting down of ports affected by viruses, worms or other malicious code.

12.5. Implement appropriate technical mechanisms in order to prevent usage patterns that violate this AUP.

12.6. Share information concerning the incident with other internet access providers, or publish the information, and/or make available the users' details to law enforcement agencies.

12.7. In severe cases suspend access of the user's entire product offering until abuse can be prevented by appropriate means.

12.8. Cancel this agreement in which case the provisions of clause 20 will apply.

13. LAWS AND LEGISLATION

13.1. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) infrastructure may be used only for lawful purposes. Users may not violate any applicable laws or regulations of South Africa within the territory of South Africa. Should the user reside outside of South Africa, the laws of the country in which the user resides shall apply.

13.2. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material on or through the infrastructure in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorisation, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

13.3. The User warrants that he/she will use Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) services in accordance with any restrictions imposed under the following legislation:

13.3.1. ECTA;

13.3.2. ECA;

13.3.3. Films and Publications Act 65 of 1996 (as amended);

13.3.4. Regulation of Interception and Provision of Communication-related Information Act 70 of 2003.

14. SUSPENSION OF SERVICES

14.1. In addition to clause 12, Plutus Internet Services may lawfully suspend, withdraw all or part of any service at any time until further notice to the customer if, in Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ’s reasonable discretion:

14.1.1. The continued provision of the Services will cause Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to breach an applicable law or be in contravention of its Licenses; and/or

14.1.2. The customer is in breach of or otherwise is not complying with any of the provisions of this Agreement; and/or

14.1.3. Any overdue tax invoice for charges billed by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to the customer remains unpaid for longer than 7 (seven) days.

14.2. The exercise of Plutus Internet Services ’s right to suspend the services under this clause is without prejudice to any other remedy available to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) under this Agreement and does not constitute a waiver of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ’s right to subsequently terminate the Agreement.

14.3. Where Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) has suspended the services in terms of clause 15.1, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) may:

14.3.1. Refuse to reconnect the services unless precluded by any law or order of court; and

14.3.2. If it agrees to reconnect the services, require the customer to pay a reconnection fee in advance as a pre-condition to making the services available again.

15. FEES AND CHARGES

15.1. All payments payable by the customer in terms of each SCS shall be paid in full without deduction or demand, free of exchange, to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) , and the customer shall not be entitled to withhold any part of such payments or to make anything but the full payments due to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) in terms of each SCS.

15.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall be entitled to adjust the fees and charges as a result of any regulatory, economical, or government-imposed factors that impact on such fees and charges by means of notice on its website.

15.3. The rates payable by the customer to Plutus Internet Services as set out in each SCS hereof shall escalate annually on the annual anniversary date of the Service Commencement Date of the SCS to such rates as may be agreed between the parties. Failing mutual agreement, then the rates payable for the following twelve-month period shall escalate by a maximum factor of the increase in the CPI during the immediately preceding twelve months plus 3% (three percent).

15.4. Any charges incurred by Plutus Internet Services in the provision of the service/s will be increased when increases are applied by the suppliers of these services and products to Plutus Internet Services , notification will be provided in writing within 14 days of Plutus Internet Services being made aware of any pending increases.

15.5. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall be entitled to terminate services due to outstanding payments within 7 days.

16. INVOICING

16.1. Invoices rendered by Plutus Internet Services in respect of the services shall be rendered monthly in advance, except for charges that are dependent upon usage of the services, which shall be billed in arrears. Billing for partial months shall be pro-rated based on a calendar month.

16.2. All invoices are due payable within seven (7) days after the date of invoice.

16.3. If payment is not received by Plutus Internet Services for any reason whatsoever by the due date for payment, then the customer shall be liable to pay to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) (and without prejudice to any other right or remedy of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) ):

16.3.1. Any resulting bank or other charges incurred by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) consequent thereupon; and

16.3.2. Any associated reasonable administrative charges including interest that has accrued on the unpaid amount;

16.3.3. Nonpayment of any invoice will be construed as a material breach of this agreement.

16.3.4. The full outstanding amount calculated over a 24-month period. With an additional 10% per month for all outstanding fees.

16.3.5. Any legal or collection fees

16.4. If any amount is overdue, the customer shall pay interest on the overdue amount at prime rate plus 10% (ten percent), such interest to run from the date upon which payment of the relevant amount became due until payment thereof has been made in full.

16.5. The customer will be responsible for all applicable taxes.

16.6. Payments shall be made by means of a monthly an internet transfer or debit order on the 1st of each month unless agreed in writing by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) management.

 

17. SERVICE LEVELS AND MAINTENANCE

17.1. The SCS shall set forth the service levels specifically applicable to the services ordered by the customer.

17.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) is committed to providing a reliable, high quality network to support its services offered. Accordingly, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) offers the following guarantees:

17.2.1. Network Response Times Guarantee - 8 hours response;

17.2.2. Response Time – this is the time taken for Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to respond (acknowledge) that there is a fault on the Network. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will inform the customer of the network failure and give estimated times for the network to be restored.

17.3. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall conduct scheduled maintenance in respect of the services in such a manner that it does not cause unreasonable outage or interruption of the services. In the event that scheduled maintenance requires a service interruption or outage, Plutus Internet Services shall exercise commercially reasonable efforts to:

17.3.1. Provide customer with seven (7) days’ prior written notice of such scheduled maintenance;

17.3.2. Work with the customer in good faith to attempt to minimize any disruption in the customers’ services that may be caused by such scheduled maintenance; and

17.3.3. Perform such scheduled maintenance during the non-peak hours of 12:00 a.m. (midnight) until 6:00 a.m. local time where reasonably possible.

17.4. The Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Technical Service Desk will be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to attend to all e-mail and web-based support queries. The Technical Service Desk can be contacted telephonically on 072 931 3608 and its hours of operation are 08h00 to 20h00 weekdays, 08h00 – 14h00 weekends and holidays. Additional information can be sent to the Technical Service Desk via e-mail at support@plutushosting.com. If for any reason the Technical Service Desk cannot be reached telephonically, the customer shall follow the agreed escalation procedure.

17.5. The customer shall report all faults to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) by calling 072 931 3608, or emailing support@plutushosting.com or logging a fault via the website www.plutushosting.com.

17.6. All requests to the Plutus Internet Services Support Desk (support@plutushosting.com) will be answered within an estimated 8 hours.

17.7. Where assistance is required by either party, this shall be requested through the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Technical Service Desk.

17.8. A copy of all contact telephone numbers, and escalation matrix shall be made available on the Plutus Internet Services website and will be updated as and when changes occur.

17.9. From time to time testing and routine maintenance will be required on the network infrastructure and will normally be performed during off-peak times (00:00 – 06:00).

17.10. Where testing or maintenance is required during the times stipulated in above, a standard service interruption notification will be communicated to the customer at least 7 (seven) calendar days prior, where possible.

17.11. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall monitor the infrastructure platform and notify the customer in the event of disruptions that will affect the delivery of service.

17.12. The customer shall supply Plutus Internet Services with the following details when logging a fault:

17.12.1. Reference number from the helpdesk; and

17.12.2. Start time of the fault; and

17.12.3. Service affected; and

17.12.4. Symptoms and nature of the downtime; and

17.12.5. First line support performed by the Reseller.

17.13. Scheduled maintenance of the Plutus Internet Services network (or portion thereof) will not normally result in service interruption or outage. However, in the event scheduled maintenance should require a service interruption or outage, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to (a) provide the customer with seven (7) days’ prior written notice of such scheduled maintenance, (b) work with the customer/reseller in good faith to attempt to minimise any disruption to customer/reseller’s services that may be caused by such scheduled maintenance, and (c) to perform such scheduled maintenance during the non-peak hours of 0:00 (midnight) until 06:00 local time. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will arrange for the necessary repairs arising in terms of this Agreement. Plutus Internet Services will carry the costs for faults arising in/from Plutus Internet Services ’s equipment.

18. CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE

18.1. Notification of all planned changes or maintenance schedules will be emailed to the customer/reseller.

18.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) NOC shall try and inform the customer of any change or scheduled maintenance that will affect service at least seven (7) calendar days before the planned implementation date.

18.3. If the customer requires that the planned changes or maintenance to be stalled, postponed or rescheduled because of business-affecting reasons, these reasons must be reported to the Plutus Internet Services NOC within 24 hours of receiving notification from Plutus Internet Services .

18.4. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Technical Service Desk will inform and consult with the customer regarding any emergency change or maintenance to correct a fault that will affect service, at least one (1) hour before the implementation, if possible.

18.5. If and to the extent an emergency change is required and, after all attempts to inform the appropriate customer representative as the customer escalation matrix failed, Plutus Internet Services may make such a change provided, and shall as soon as reasonably practicable after making such a change and again upon termination of the emergency concerned, provide the customer representative with full written details of such change and the reason or reasons therefore.

18.6. All changes are managed by the Technical Service Desk. The start of the change is logged; the change is implemented by trained technical personnel and overseen by a Plutus Internet Services supervisor. The end of the change is logged, and the success thereof logged and recorded.

19. TERMINATION

19.1. Termination for Convenience:

19.1.1. Either party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement by providing the other party with 20 (twenty) business days' prior written notice to that effect.

19.1.2. Cancellations with notice given as per 19.1.1 will only take effect after a full calendar month.

19.1.3. Webpage Design and Social Media Management require 2 months notice.

19.1.4. Termination in accordance with clause 19.1.1 above shall not affect the service term of any SCS, which shall continue, in full force and effect, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement as if this Agreement had not been terminated, until the end of the service term of the SCS.

19.1.5. Notwithstanding the service term set out in the SCS, the customer shall be entitled in its sole discretion and without cause, to the terminate one or more SCS’s (the “Terminating Services”) by giving Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 20 (twenty) business days’ prior written notice, which termination shall be subject to the early termination charges set out in clause 20 below.

19.2. Termination for cause:

19.2.1. In the event that there is a breach by either party, the non-defaulting party shall be entitled to provide the defaulting party with 10 (ten) days’ written notice to remedy such breach, including but not limited to breaches set out below:

19.2.1.1. Non-payment of any invoice or late payment of any invoice;

19.2.1.2. A meeting of that party convened to consider or pass a resolution, or a declaration is made in respect of that party, a petition is presented in respect of that party, legal proceedings are commenced by or in respect of that party or any other step is taken, for the provisional or final winding-up, sequestration, business rescue, curatorship or dissolution of that party’s assets, business, undertaking or estate or with a view to a composition, assignment or arrangement with such party’s creditors;

19.2.1.3. The party being or becoming unable (or admitting its inability) to pay its debts generally as they fall due or being (or admitting to being) otherwise insolvent or stopping, suspending or threatening to stop or suspend payment of all or a material part of its debts or making a general assignment or arrangement or composition with, or for the benefit of, its creditors (or any class of them);

19.2.1.4. Any business rescue proceedings under the Companies Act, 2008, being commenced against it or a resolution being proposed to place the party under supervision under the Companies Act, 2008, at any duly convened meeting of the shareholders or board of directors of the party;

19.2.1.5. Any liquidator, curator, business rescue practitioner or similar officer being appointed in respect of the party or any part of its assets, undertaking, business or estate or such entity (or any organ of that person or entity) requests such appointment;

19.2.1.6. The party committing any act which, if it were a natural person, would be an act of insolvency as contemplated in the Insolvency Act.

19.3. The non-defaulting party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement, where the defaulting party fails to remedy, where it is capable of remedy, or

persists in, any breach of any of its obligations under this Agreement after having been required to do so within a period of 10 (ten) days.

20. EARLY TERMINATION COSTS

20.1. For purposes of clauses 20.2 – 20.4, ‘customer’ means a natural person or trust with less than 2 trustees.

20.2. The customer acknowledges that Plutus Internet Services incurred costs to provide hosting, website design or any services offered by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.).

20.3. The customer acknowledges and understands that from a business perspective, the customer’s contract has an inherent and anticipated future value to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.).

20.3. The customer acknowledges and understands that from a business perspective, the customer’s contract has an inherent and anticipated future value to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.).

20.4. Should the agreement be cancelled in terms of clause 12, 14 or 19 alternatively in terms of the CPA, the customer will be liable to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.), as pre-liquidated damages the following charges:

20.4.1. Costs of an reasonable admin fee; and/or

20.4.2. A termination fee which will be calculated on the following basis: and/or

20.4.2.1. Termination within the first 6 months of the Service Activation Date of this Agreement at 80% of the contract value;

20.4.2.2. Termination between 6 to 12 months after the Service Activation Date at 60% of the contract value;

20.4.2.3. Any termination thereafter at 40% of the contract value after the Service Activation Date.

20.5. For purposes of clause 20.6, ‘customer’ means any juristic entity including a trust with more than 2 trustees.

20.6. Should a customer enter into an agreement for the designing of a website or social media marketing on the monthly packages with Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.), the full contract value balance is payable to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) by the customer upon termination.

20.7. Should a customer enter into an agreement for monthly hosting services clauses 20 will apply.

20.8. The parties acknowledge that the early termination charges set forth in clauses 20 are reasonable genuine estimates of the actual damages that Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) will suffer and are not construed as penalties for the purposes of this Agreement.

20.9. A certificate signed by any manager, director or accountant of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) (whose appointment need not be proved) as to any amount owing by the customer under this Agreement and/or any other matter relevant to this Agreement, shall be prima facie proof of the matters therein and sufficient for the purposes for which the certificate issued and for all legal proceedings including summary judgement and/or provisional sentence and for the purpose of pleadings or any other trial action or application against the customer for the amount of amounts reflected in such a certificate.

20.10. Any amount or amounts indicated in the certificate mentioned in paragraph 20.8 will be due and payable within 7 days of issue of the certificate.

21. EFFECTS OF TERMINATION

21.1. Termination of this Agreement and/or an SCS in whole or in part, however caused, shall be without prejudice to any rights or liabilities accrued at the date of termination.

21.2. On termination of this Agreement and/or a SCS:

21.2.1. All benefits (including rights of use and licenses) conferred upon the customer in terms of this Agreement and/or a SCS, shall immediately cease and the customer shall have no claim, whatsoever, against Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) for the loss of such benefits;

21.2.2. The customer shall return all facilities and/or Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) equipment located on the customer premises and/or customer premises or facilitate Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) 's removal of such facilities and/or Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) equipment; and

21.2.3. The customer shall promptly return to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) or otherwise dispose of as Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) may instruct all samples, technical pamphlets, catalogues, advertising materials, specifications and other materials, documents or papers whatsoever sent to the customer and relating to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.)’s business (other than correspondence which has passed between the parties) which the customer may have in its possession or under its control. The customer shall also return to Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) its confidential information.

21.3. The termination of this Agreement and/or an SCS shall not of itself give rise to any liability on the part of Plutus Internet Services to pay any compensation to the customer, including but not limited to, for loss of profits or goodwill.

21.4. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall be entitled to cancel all orders for services placed by the customer prior to the termination date, whether or not such orders have been accepted by Plutus Internet Services, without incurring any liability of any nature to the customer.

22. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

22.1. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to confer or be deemed to confer on either party the intellectual property rights of the other party.

22.2. Each party indemnifies the other party against all crimes, actions, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses, arising out of any claims of infringement of any patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name or similar proprietary right of any third party, which claim arises directly or indirectly out of the infringement by a party of the intellectual property rights of the other party.

22.3. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) retains all right, title and interest in and to its intellectual property that is used in connection with the services. In particular, Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) retains all right, title and interest in all intellectual property rights in and to work products, deliverables, documentation, reports, designs, formulae, methodologies, software, proposals, specifications, feasibility reports and systems, whether used to provide or as are developed or created as part of the services.

22.4. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall retain all right, title and interest in all intellectual property developed or generated pursuant to and as part of the performance of the services provided under this Agreement.

23. INSURANCE

Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) shall not provide any insurance on services.

24. WARRANTIES

24.1. Each party hereby warrants unto and in favour of the other party:

24.1.1. It has full power, authority and legal right to execute this Agreement, to assume the obligations contained in this Agreement, and further to perform and observe the terms and provisions hereof;

24.1.2. To the best of the party’s knowledge and belief, all facts and circumstances material to this transaction, or which would be material or would be reasonably likely to be material and which may affect the willingness of the parties to enter into this Agreement are known to the party, have been disclosed by the party to the other party;

24.1.3. As at the signature date, no legal proceedings of any kind or administrative proceedings in terms of any law, which shall prevent either party from fulfilling its obligations in terms of this Agreement, have been instituted against such party;

24.1.4. At all times during the currency of this Agreement neither party has any obligations/duties to third parties which, if discharged, shall prevent the party from fulfilling its obligations in terms of this Agreement; and

24.1.5. All necessary action has been taken to authorise the execution and performance of this Agreement and the execution and performance of this Agreement will not contravene any provision of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or its property may be bound.

24.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) does not make any representations or warranties in respect of the quality or functionality of the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) Equipment. The customer shall only be entitled to rely on the warranties and indemnities provided by the original equipment manufacturer in respect of the Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.)  Equipment, which warranties and indemnities shall be enforced directly against the original equipment manufacturer and not against Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.).

25. INDEMNITIES

The Customer hereby indemnifies and holds Plutus Internet Services harmless against all loss, damage, costs and/or expenses which Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) may suffer or incur and any and all claims which may be brought against Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) by any third party in respect of any loss, liability, damage, costs and/or expenses of any nature whatsoever as a consequence of or which may arise from or is attributable to the engagement of the customer, the provision of the services by the customer or any acts or omissions on the part of the customer.

26. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

26.1. Neither party shall be liable to the other party for any indirect or consequential loss or damage (including any loss of profit/contract/opportunity) which may be suffered by the other party under or in connection with this Agreement.

26.2. The total liability of either party under or in connection with this Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by Law, not exceed the aggregate value of the services that have been carried out under this Agreement at the time at which any claim is made.

26.3. Where the insurance cover of any insurance policy that is procured by either party under this Agreement, which is capable of being called upon to cover any liability/damage, exceeds the aggregate cap of liability, such aggregate cap of liability shall not compromise the insurance cover that can be claimed by either party to cover the liability/damage in question.

26.4. Accordingly, the imposition of such aggregate cap of liability shall not be construed as a stipulatio alteri in favour of any insurer who would otherwise be liable to make payment from the insurance cover to cover a claim that is in excess to such aggregate cap of liability under such insurance policy.

26.5. This clause 27 shall not limit liability of either party in any case of fraud, deliberate default or reckless misconduct by either party.

27. FORCE MAJEURE

27.1. A force majeure event shall occur when either party is prevented or restricted directly or indirectly from performing all or any of that party's obligations in

27.1. A force majeure event shall occur when either party is prevented or restricted directly or indirectly from performing all or any of that party's obligations in terms of this Agreement by reason of Force Majeure, which shall constitute a "Force Majeure Event" for the purposes hereof.

27.2. The exclusive remedy of a party affected by a Force Majeure Event ("the Affected Party") constitutes that:

27.2.1. It shall be relieved of performance of its obligations in terms of this Agreement during the period that such event and its consequences continue (but only to the extent it is so delayed or prevented from performing partially or at all by the Force Majeure Event), and, provided that notice has been given in terms of Clause 28.1, shall not be liable for any delay or failure in the performance of any of its obligations in terms of this Agreement or losses or damages whether general, special or consequential which the other party ("the Unaffected Party") may suffer due to or resulting from any such delay or failure; or

27.2.2. The affected party shall give written notice to the unaffected party at the earliest possible opportunity in writing of the occurrence of the event constituting the Force Majeure Event, together with details thereof and a good faith estimate of the period of time for which it shall endure;

27.2.3. At all times whilst a Force Majeure Event continues, the parties shall meet at regular intervals to discuss and investigate, and if possible, to implement other practical ways and means to overcome the consequences of such a Force Majeure Event, with the objective of achieving the import and intent of this Agreement without unreasonable delay.

27.3. The affected party shall use all reasonable endeavours to mitigate the effects of the Force Majeure Event on its ability to perform under this Agreement and to terminate the circumstances giving rise to a Force Majeure Event as soon as reasonably possible and upon termination of the event giving rise thereto, shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the unaffected party.

28. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

28.1. In the event of there being any dispute or difference between the parties arising out of this Agreement and/or any SCS, the said dispute or difference shall on written demand of either party be submitted to arbitration in Pretoria in accordance with the AFSA rules, which arbitration shall be administered by AFSA.

28.2. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent or prohibit a party to the arbitration from applying to the appropriate court for urgent relief or for judgment in relation to a liquidated claim.

28.3. The parties agree that the written demand by Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) to the dispute in terms of clause that the dispute or difference be submitted to arbitration is to be deemed to be a legal process for the purpose of interrupting extinctive prescription in terms of the Prescription Act, 1969.

28.4. The customer acknowledges that Plutus Internet Services has multiple customers and employees and therefore the customer shall, within 60 days of any dispute arising, and as a pre-requisite for any legal proceedings, notify Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) of any claim.

29. NOTICES AND DOMICILIA

29.1. The customer selects as its domicilia citandi et executandi the physical addresses, fax numbers and email addresses as specified in the Service Request Form for the purposes of giving or sending any notice provided for or required under this Agreement.

29.2. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) selects as its domicilia citandi et executandi the physical addresses, and email addresses as specified below for the purposes of giving or sending any notice provided for or required under this Agreement.

29.3. Physical Address: 9 Versveld street, The Reeds, Centurion, 0158, Email: support@plutushosting.com.

29.4. Provided that a Party may change its domicilium or its address for the purposes of notices to any other physical address or telefax number by written notice to the other party to that effect. Such change of address will be effective 5 (five) business days after receipt of the notice of the change.

29.5. All notices to be given in terms of this Agreement will be given in writing and will:

29.5.1. Be delivered by hand or sent by telefax or email;

29.5.2. If delivered by hand during business hours, be presumed to have been received on the date of delivery. Any notice delivered after business hours or on a day which is not a business day will be presumed to have been received on the following business day; and

29.5.3. If sent by telefax or email during business hours, be presumed to have been received on the date of successful transmission of the telefax or email. Any telefax or email sent after business hours or on a day which is not a business day will be presumed to have been received on the following business day.

29.6. Notwithstanding the above, any notice given in writing, and actually received by the party to whom the notice is addressed, will be deemed to have been properly given and received, notwithstanding that such notice has not been given in accordance with this clause 29.

30. CESSION AND ASSIGNEMENT

30.1. Neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations hereunder may be ceded, delegated or assigned by the customer without the prior written consent of Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) .

30.2. The customer acknowledges that Plutus Internet Services may enter into financing arrangements with finance parties and that the finance parties may require a cession and assignment of Plutus Internet Services ’ rights and obligations under this Agreement.

31. RELAXATION

No latitude, extension of time or other indulgence which may be given of any obligation hereunder, and no delay or forbearance in the enforcement of any right of any party arising from this Agreement and no single or partial exercise of any right by any party under this Agreement, shall in any circumstances be construed to be an implied consent or election by such party to operate as a waiver or a novation of or otherwise affect any of the party’s rights in terms of or arising from this Agreement or estop or preclude any such party from enforcing any time, and without notice, strict and punctual compliance with each and every provision or term thereof.

32. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Agreement will in all respects be governed by and construed under the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

33. GENERAL

33.1. This Agreement constitutes the whole of the agreement between the Parties relating to the matters dealt with herein and, save to the extent otherwise provided herein, no warranty, undertaking, representation, term or condition relating to the subject matter of this Agreement (not incorporated in this Agreement) shall be binding on either of the parties. This Agreement supersedes and replaces any and all agreements between the parties (and other persons, as may be applicable) and undertakings given to or on behalf of the parties (and other persons, as may be applicable) in relation to the subject matter hereof.

33.2. No addition to or variation, deletion, or agreed cancellation of all or any clauses or provisions of this Agreement will be of any force or effect unless in writing and signed by the parties.

33.3. No waiver, suspension or postponement by any party of any right arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be of any force or effect unless in writing and signed by such party. Any such waiver, suspension or postponement will be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose given.

33.4. Any provision or clause of this Agreement which is or becomes unenforceable for any other reason whatsoever, shall (only and only to the extent that it is so unenforceable) be treated as pro non scripto and the remaining provisions and clauses of this Agreement shall remain of full force and effect.

33.5. The expiration or termination of this Agreement shall not affect such of the provisions of this Agreement as expressly provide that they will operate after any such expiration or termination or which of necessity must continue to have effect after such expiration or termination, notwithstanding that the clauses themselves do not expressly provide for this.

33.6. Plutus Internet Services Pty (Ltd.) reserve the right to update this agreement from time to time without prior notice to any affected parties.

33.7. The Customer will be legally bound to this contract upon accepting our terms and conditions during signup on for any of our service offerings online