Refund Policy
Refund Policy for Hostshield’s products and services
All payments to Hostshield are non refundable (unless covered by 30 day Money Back Guarantee). This includes any setup fees and monthly fees regardless of usage. All billing disputes must be reported within 15 days of the time the dispute occurred. Disputed charges to your credit card issuer, also known as charge backs, in Hostshield’s discretion which is valid, under the terms and conditions of our SLA, AUP, and TOS, will result in service interruption, and reconnection fees to restore the desired service.
We are confident that you’ll be pleased with the Hostshield performance and support, however for your peace of mind we offer a no-quibble 30 day Money Back Guarantee on all web hosting plans. We take pride in our business so we’ll probably ask you why you are leaving, but you will get a refund of hosting fees (remainder of the term) within 72 hours of requesting it. Refund can be claimed on Only first-time service package comes under refund policy, For example, if you’ve had an hosting account with us before, canceled and signed up again for new hosting package, you will not be eligible for a refund on this hosting package. Violations of this Agreement will waive your rights under the refund policy
The refund will exclude any fees for domain registration, the domain will still belong to you and you can use it with any hosting company by updating the nameservers in the client area
To request a refund of your account please email [email protected] or open a Billing Department ticket. The full value (remainder of the term) of any payment for hosting fees will be refunded, we make no other charges or deductions.
Notes:
Our money back guarantee does not apply to purchases of Domain Names or SSL certificates, once purchased we cannot cancel them.
Regarding the fraud case or unauthorized payment account cannot be cancelled under refund policy unless its proven by the affected party.
Accounts terminated for abuse (such as Spamming, or other usage against our Acceptable Usage Policy) shall not be refunded at anytime. Refund in the event of Network or Server outage. In the event that there is no website Availability, Hostshield will credit the monthly service charge for the Service as calculated below and as measured 24-hours a day in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceed the monthly service charge for the affected month: website Availability Credit 95% to 99.4% = 25% 90% to 94.9% = 50% 89.9% or below = 100% In order for you to receive a credit on your account, you must request such credit within Three (3) business days after you experienced no website Availability. You must request credit by sending an electronic mail message to [email protected] For security, the body of this message must contain your account number/domain name, the dates and times of the unavailability of your website, and such other customer identification requested by Hostshield. Credits will usually be applied within thirty(30) days of your credit request. Credit to your account shall be your sole and exclusive remedy in the event that there is no website Availability.
Credits shall not be provided to you in the event that you have no website Availability resulting from (i) Scheduled maintenance, (ii) Your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, facilities or applications, or (iii) Circumstances beyond Hostshield’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of your website.
There might come a time when you cannot access your website or any other service. This is not necessarily due to Hostshield. Perhaps your ISP is experiencing technical difficulties, or there might be a routing problem between your ISP and Hostshield, making communication difficult or impossible. We cannot bear the responsibility of such problems. Our monitoring agents determine the uptime of our service, and not any one client’s experience.
