Terms of Use

Provider - sOptions LTD.
User - Any person that enters the servers of the Provider.
Client - User who is using the tools provided by the Provider.
System - The tool used by the Client to receive various options such as site construction, mailing package and more.
Reseller - (livecityClient that was granted approval to market the system under his own name and not under the name of the Provider.
System and Infrastructure Operator - A third party company that provides its users and the Provider the technology, infrastructure and other tools that appear in the system.
Registration manager - Third party companies that manage the registration of domain names and their soundness.

  1. Introduction
    1. Use of the system is subject to the following terms of use. Terms of use are intended to ensure proper use of the services that the Provider allocates to its customers and the appropriate use of the Internet towards users and in general, adherence to the system's environmental requirements, offered by the Provider.
    2. Please read these terms carefully, as use of the system or surfing the servers of the Provider constitutes your agreement to all such terms, notices and conditions of these terms.
    3. The Terms of Use are styled for convenience in masculine but it applies to both sexes as well as to plural and to corporations and other legal entities equally.
       
  2. Registration
    1. Some of the services provided by the system require registration. During registration you will be required to provide personal information such as your name, address, contact details, e-mail address and more. The information you provide when registering will be kept in the system's database. You are not required - by law to provide such information, however without it you cannot use the services supplied.
    2. You are asked to be accurate when giving the details and to provide correct information only.
    3. By purchasing such services you declare and pledge that you are over 18 years old and have full legal capacity to complete such contractual action without need for permits or other consents.
    4. When registering you will be asked to choose a name and password. The user name and password will serve you for identification each time you use the services of the system. Keep your user name and password confidential to prevent others from abusing them. Change your password as often as possible, and in any case every three months at least. Responsibility for actions taken using the account you created is yours alone. You will also be required to provide your email address; this address is the only address relevant regarding the password recovery.
       
  3. Freedom of expression and adding contents to the site

    Freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of the system, as well as keeping the laws. Therefore:

    1. You are prohibited from posting contents of a vulgar sexual nature, threatening, defamatory, encouraging criminal or civil offenses, violate the privacy, damaging, offend public feelings and content that constitute any violation of the law; contents that their intellectual property rights do not belong to you; contents that contain computer viruses of any kind.
    2. The Provider may refuse to publish content that he believes violate one or more of the above and / or may damage the system and / or any third party, and may delete such content at any time without previous notice.
    3. The Provider shall bear no liability regarding the content found in the system and any end device on which they appear, the content, reliability, accuracy, credibility and influence on the computers of users of the system as well as any damage, inconvenience, loss, grief and so those results, directly or indirectly caused to you, your property or any third party for use of these contents.
    4. The content you post on the site or various end devices will be exposed to all users and the Provider cannot know what responses you may receive after submitting the content. Therefore, the Provider shall not be liable to you (or anyone on your behalf) for these responses or of any consequence caused to you or your property following these responses.
       
  4. System Provider's Copyright
    1. All copyrights and intellectual property for the system and any software, application, computer code, design, graphic files, text and other material contained therein - are only of the Provider. You may not copy, distribute, publicly display or disclose to a third party any part of the above without getting the prior written consent of the Provider.
    2. The trademarks on the website are the property of the Provider only - or if they were advertised, the property of those advertisers. No use should be made without their prior written consent.
    3. It is not allowed to move and / or copy tools / code / software / image etc. from the Provider's system without the written approval or as part of a product offered by the Provider.
    4. As part of the client’s website design, a variety of images will be presented to the client by the Provider. Clients may keep these images in his site only and may not sell / copy and / or reproduce the images to other places on the Web.
    5. For the avoidance of doubt, the client is not entitled in any case to use these images in any form of advertising and / or marketing and / or sale and / or copying for business cards and / or flyers and / or any other form of marketing outside the frame of the site.
    6. The Provider may discontinue the use of a particular image by removing the image, without prior notice, even if the client is already using it. The Provider gives no warranty to find a suitable replacement to the client.
    7. It is not possible to build a site in the system and store it on another server or outside it.
       
  5. Limitation of Liability
    1. The Provider's system offers a wide range of tools that clients can make use of them, and they are given as they are (“as is"). The Provider reserves the right to decide whether to add tools to the system, but the client will not have the option to require things that the system does not support. The Provider will make every effort to develop and upgrade the system - according to client requests, but he is not obligated to do so.
    2. The Provider may shut down the system, and change from time to time its structure, system appearance and availability of services and content provided without the need for prior notice. client will have no claim or demand against the Provider in connection therewith.
    3. Provider does not warrant that the service provided by the system and the server will not be interrupted without malfunction and / or will be immune from unauthorized access to its computers, damages or malfunctions, failures in hardware, software or the company’s communication lines or those of its Providers or harm by any reason otherwise, the Provider will not be liable for any direct or indirect damage, pain and suffering etc. caused to you or your property as a result. The Provider will do every effort to keep the service uninterrupted.
    4. The information you submit to the system will be exposed to all Internet users and perhaps to additional information means. Be careful when providing your personal information (such as address or telephone number) and so in responses to inquiries received through use of the system or posting of your information there. Remember: You need to implement the same measure of caution while delivering information and receiving applications as when establishing contact, when it is done not through the Internet.
    5. Payment for the use of the system does not make the payer owner or holder of the property or person responsible for the Provider's system, including the system source code in any way.
       
  6. Privacy
    1. When using the system information regarding your habits, products and services purchased or sold, information or advertisement you read, the pages viewed, the offers and services of interest to you, payment method you used may accumulate. Information will be used only under this Privacy Policy.
    2. The Provider will avoid as much as possible providing your personal information to third parties unless required to do so on - by court order, or if he faces the threat of legal action (criminal or civil) in respect of acts done by you in the system. In this case, the Provider may provide the information to the party claiming to have been damaged by you or in accordance with a judicial order.
    3. The Provider may use your information in order to improve the services offered by the system and adjust the system to your needs and preferences, as well as to contact you.
       
  7. End users on your site
    1. "End user" means any surfer who visits the client's site, built using the system, without distinction regarding the means through which he uses to surf.
    2. The Provider shall not be under any liability for any differences that may arise between the client and the end user or intervene in them in any case.
    3. All terms and conditions of the system are also applicable to the users of the website and the client must inform about it.
       
  8. Security
    1. The Provider is not responsible for any information deleted from the system or maliciously hacked. Be sure to check who you add to the permissions to manage your system. Change your password as often as possible, and in any case every three months at least.
    2. Some of the tools in the system allow blocking pages or certain information to different users or at all. The Provider does not guarantee that this information is properly blocked and will not be accessible even without the proper permissions. It is recommended not to upload important or confidential information as the Provider does not guarantee its safety within the system.
       
  9. Backups
    1. The Provider is not responsible for the client’s system backup and it is the client's responsibility to backup and keep a copy of any content of any kind prior to uploading it to the system.
       
  10. Trial Period
    1. The provider is entitled to use the system free of charge for a limited period or without limitation (trial period) as published and periodically updated (by decision of the provider). If a fixed period was set, the user can decide after the trial period, whether to continue to use the system and pay for a license to use it. The provider may change at any time the fixed period given to the client.
    2. Clients that will make use of the system in this framework agree with the following conditions:
      1. Sites during the trial period ("without limitation" or "limited period") are assigned sub – domains. The provider reserves all rights to cancel or suspend the use of any "sub-domain" at any time without reason. The user declares that he agrees and knows that all sub-domains are owned by the provider and that he may for any reason or no reason, at its sole discretion and without notice or liability to User or any third party, terminate or suspend the user's account and subdomain, and remove or delete any content associated with the account, the user name and sub-domain immediately.
      2. The provider may at any time change this condition and require the customer payment for continuing the use of the system. It is understood that the provider will not require payment for use prior to the change in this condition.
      3. The Provider may place advertisements alongside free services, without prior notice.
      4. The Provider may block and / or delete any information from your system, if and when the customer fails to make payment at the end of this period including discontinued payment if possible in advance.
      5. Customers that used the trial period for opening multiple sites for this period and using them commercially in an inappropriate manner are at risk that the Provider will lock or delete these sites without notice.
      6. The Provider may send you several messages in different ways (email, text, etc.) during your trial period.
         
  11. Payment Policy
    1. Purchasing a product or service will be completed only after fully paid.
    2. Although the Provider has reserved the right to change the prices for the services at any time, prices are guaranteed for pre-paid periods.
    3. In the event of a credit card number or its validity causes a delay in clearing by credit card companies, the Provider may suspend immediately the services provided to the customer until the issue is resolved and payment is made in full.
    4. The Client is charged for payments in full every period in which the account is active from the date of opening the account. Any change in the credit card information must be reported immediately to continue to provide and receive services on an ongoing basis and without service interruptions.
    5. In order to prevent unexpected shutdown of a customer's website, domain or email accounts, the automatic renewal will be enabled, once the payment has been executed. The mechanism is designed to automatically extend subscription of purchased services before they expire. Automatic renewal can be disabled by the customer via their personal account interface (My Account >> Products (in the customer's personal profile payment interface).
    6. Tax invoices in accordance to charges, will be sent to the customer immediately after the billing to the email address He shall provide for this purpose.
    7. Payment by deposit / bank transfer or bank checks will count as the actual payment, but only after fully redeemed and approved by the bank.
    8. No proportional refund will be paid for services paid long-term in advance.
       
  12. Termination of the site in the system and cancellation of a transaction
    1. A customer interested in stopping the use of the services of the Provider previous the conclusion of the period of the connection can do so, but there will be no refund from the Provider. All transactions are final and in advance. It should be noted that the above applies to all products offered by the company.
       
  13. Purchase and management of a Domain (Domain Name)
    1. The relevant registration manager may accept or reject any request to register or renew the registration of a domain name, in his sole discretion and for any reason, including if he believes that the Domain name selected is forbidden for registration - according to the registration rules that binding him and the Provider will not be responsible if the domain is not renewed or it is purchased.
    2. The Provider is not responsible for any action, decision, act or omission of any registration managers and you shall have no claim or demand for any action, decision, act or omission by them - including, without limitation, in respect of the rejection of a request registration or renewal of registration of a domain name, the event that a domain registration or renewal has not performed as well as for each dismissal, suspension or cancellation of a domain registration.
    3. After ordering the domain name, it cannot be edited or replaced by another name.
    4. After ordering the domain name, it is possible to apply for a cancellation of registration but no refunds will be given for the remaining period.
    5. The process of transferring a domain name from one registry to another registry and renewal of a domain address that ended, can take up to five business days and in any case it is the responsibility of the relevant registration manager.
    6. The Provider hereby wishes to inform you that on 01.01.14 changes to the Rules of the global Internet Society (ICANN) for the domain names and generic extensions entered into force, aimed at ensuring that the details of the Domain names holder are correct, accurate and updated (COM, NET, BIZ, ORG, NAME, INFO, MOBI, etc.). When you register a new domain or update existing domain information, the duty of the holder is to confirm that the email address provided is correct and active. This confirmation is done by clicking on the link sent automatically to the email address specified in the domain. If the e-mail address was not verified until the 15th day from the date of registration / update – the domain will be suspended and will not be accessible; the suspension of the domain will not cause its deletion, but will rather stop its activity on the Internet. It should be noted that the suspension of the domain does not eliminate the need for renewal at the end of the initial registration period. That is if the domain is not renewed, it will eventually be deleted.
    7. You can click the following link to read more about your rights and obligations as published by ICANN regarding generic top level domains (gTLDs):
      http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities-en.htm

       
  14. Purchasing and managing mailboxes (E -mail)
    1. The Provider allows the client to purchase mailboxes under his domain name.
    2. The Provider is not responsible for incoming messages through this mailbox, including messages containing viruses and the client has to defend himself against these malicious items.
    3. The Provider does not backup the mailboxes and the client is responsible for downloading the incoming messages in his mailbox to a personal computer using the appropriate protocol. Messages remaining on the mail server will not be the responsibility of the Provider in case the information is damaged in any way.
    4. Provider shall not be responsible if the mail server operations will not function properly and the client messages will not reach their destination or are not received at the client's mailbox.
    5. The Provider shall not be responsible for damage caused to content uploaded or received to the mail server (email messages, contacts, calendar, etc.).
    6. The Provider may limit the number of submissions performed from every box at his discretion in order to avoid situations of mail server blocking.
    7. The Provider may at any time remove user mailboxes from the mail server if he receives complaints from Internet service providers and/or spammer blacklists in the world.
       
  15. Distribution of text messages (SMS)

    The system allows some of the tools to send and receive text messages. The client must be aware of the following terms:

    1. Any text message sent, even if it does not reach the target, is counted.
    2. Any text message sent to an incorrect number is counted and the client is responsible to verify the correctness of the numbers.
    3. The client has the responsibility to make sure that he does not break the law and does not perform the distribution of messages to users who have not confirmed themselves to receive such messages.
       
  16. Data Traffic
    1. The Provider limits data traffic through the system depending on the package purchased. However, in case of exceeding this limit site activity will not stop immediately, but at the sole discretion of the Provider.
    2. The Provider does not restrict the clients using the system upon the amount of traffic that they need, but reserves the right to remove without prior notice sites that “monopolize" the server and use server resources inappropriately.
       
  17. Commercial e-mail advertisements - spamming
    1. Do not send spam through the company's services or by using the services of another company.
    2. If any problem should occur in the Provider's servers or the ongoing work of the Provider, as a result of spamming, by any internal or external means, the Provider may use any means at his disposal including the termination of the services that the client receives from the Provider and even removing the site from the network without prior notice.
    3. Some of the system tools allow the client to send messages using advanced technological means (such as email, SMS, etc.). It is strictly forbidden utilizing these tools for sending spam messages and the Provider may terminate the client's system activity that uses these tools inappropriately at any time and without previous notice.
    4. Using the system contains different elements for handling outgoing mail and removal requests of users from the mailing lists. The Provider does not guarantee that these tools meet the legal requirements in your country. The responsibility for checking whether these elements meet the appropriate requirements apply to you only and the Provider shall not have any responsibility in this matter.
    5. The Provider allows companies and users throughout the network to report spamming in order to detect factors that make it.
    6. No spam should be sent through other servers as well. Sites that do so may be blocked and must indemnify the Provider for any damage caused as result of this.
    7. There are tools that enable the system monitoring user’s activities on the site by joining the mailing list. The Provider does not guarantee that the data presented in those lists are current or full in any way, and will not be responsible for them or their contents in case the owner of the site needs to use them.
       
  18. Bottom Credit Link
    1. The Provider may add to the bottom of the client’s system a line or a logo that will be linked to a particular location on the network according to the sole discretion of the Provider.
    2. The Provider is not required to remove this link and he may change the design and the place to which it refers at any time.
    3. The Provider may allow the removal of the line or logo or text for an additional charge (according to the decision of the reseller) which will appear on system payment page.
       
  19. Design Templates
    1. The Provider allows the client to select a design template for his site from a wide selection of templates.
    2. The Provider may discontinue the use of certain design templates without notice, even if the client already uses it. The Provider will make an effort to find a suitable replacement for the client, but he is not obligated to do so.
    3. Acquisition of a template is for a single site only and the client is not entitled to sell and / or copy and / or reproduce, etc. the template to other users.
    4. The client may use the images and template files only as received at the opening of the design template and is not allowed to edit photos and / or those files, or any part of them.
    5. Acquisition of design templates does not give the client copyright on it or other objects or other content related to it, and additional clients will be able to use it as decided by the Provider.
    6. For the avoidance of doubt, the client knows that all copyrights related to the template and / or image and / or objects found in the system belong to the Provider only.
       
  20. External components
    1. The Provider may rely on external components supplied by third parties, including fonts, images, text and audio to provide a certain level of functioning. The Provider may bring an end to the use of these components at any time for any reason or no reason and the client will have no claim or demand against the Provider in connection therewith.
    2. Some fonts appearing in the system are provided using Google Fonts. The use of these fonts are in accordance with the terms of use of Google Fonts and therefore any change in policy and terms of use of Google can bring a policy change by the Provider including stopping using these fonts completely and the client will have no claim or demand against the Provider in connection therewith. Also the responsibility for checking the license for each font applies to the client. The conditions of use of Google Fonts can be read at the following link:
      https://developers.google.com/fonts/terms

       
  21. Links to third party sites
    1. The system may include links to websites of third parties. These sites are not controlled and / or owned by the Provider and he is not responsible for the contents of any linked site. These sites are property of the third party and may be protected by copyright and / or intellectual property laws and / or any other protection. The Provider is providing these links only as a convenience and he does not approve and not assume any responsibility for the content, security, functionality or practices of such sites. Also, the inclusion of these links does not imply support of the Provider to the site or any contact with his handlers.
    2. You acknowledge and agree that the Provider may disable your use or remove any third party linked sites at any time.
       
  22. Technical Support
    1. The services on the site do not include any kind of support, unless otherwise noted.
    2. In any case, if offered support the provider may, at his sole discretion, change the nature of the support, and / or hours of support and / or the ways in which it provides support including even stop providing support at all, and the client will have no claim in this regard.
    3. It is further noted that the provider may also stop providing client support to a certain client and this is if a client acted in an inappropriate manner towards any employees of the company and the decision in this matter is subject to the sole discretion of the provider.
       
  23. Virtual Store
    1. The Provider bears no responsibility for the store’s security.
    2. Responsibility for the information obtained from the user, including credit card information is the client’s and the Provider does not bear any responsibility on this issue.
    3. The credit card companies require business owners to be authorized by them and the client's sole responsibility is to do so. The Provider has no ability or responsibility to monitor this issue.
    4. The Provider is not responsible for the quality of third-party companies that offer clearance services (such as PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.) and the responsibility for making transactions with these companies including user charging applies to the client only. The Provider is not responsible for the operations of these companies.
    5. The store owner must inform his clients that the Provider is not a party to the transaction and that the responsibility for these transactions is upon the webmaster only.
       
  24. Terms of use for a Reseller (Reseller Program)
    1. The Provider may authorize the client to market under the name of the client and not under the Provider’s, using a system similar to the system of the Provider. A client that is a license holder will be called "Reseller".
    2. The reseller is subject to all the terms of use in this document, including in relation to the systems which will opened under his reseller account.
    3. The reseller hereby pledges to bring to the knowledge of the site users these Terms of Use as the conditions that will apply in the relations between them, likewise, to receive the users' consent to these conditions.
    4. The Provider may change at any time the system prices and the reseller shall be subject from then on to the current system prices set by the Provider, independently of the price offered by the reseller to its clients. The reseller is responsible to keep track of the Provider’s system prices. Price changes will not apply, of course, retroactively to transactions made before the change.
    5. Reseller whose reseller account is closed, either on his own initiative or whether upon a violation of the Terms of Use, including non- payment, clients will be transferred to another reseller account according to the sole discretion of the Provider and without considering the opinion of the closed reseller.
    6. The Provider does not undertake to comply with a condition in which the reseller's clients will not see a connection between the reseller and the name of the Provider.
    7. Resellers will not be able to decide which tools are displayed in the system and the Provider may make changes at his sole discretion.
    8. To confirm orders of various products for his clients, the reseller must deposit an amount of money via his system account. The amount of money deposited will serve the reseller only for confirmation of client transactions and not for other payments to the Provider.
    9. The reseller should be available by phone and e-mail at any reasonable time and no later than 24 hours from the Provider’s request to receive comments and assorted queries from the Provider. If he is not, the Provider may take actions, in some cases - even actions at his discretion without receiving a response from the reseller.
    10. The Provider may deal with complaints from clients of the reseller and to act according to his discretion, and that if it was found that the reseller is carrying out or carried out unreasonable actions and without providing satisfactory explanation to the Provider.
    11. The license granted to the reseller is for a fixed period determined in advance. The license is not transferable, not to sub-resellers and not to any other party.
    12. The license is not exclusive and the reseller is not granted any right of exclusivity of any kind.
    13. The Provider reserves the right to cancel and / or transfer any reseller's site in case the site is not used by the reseller to distribute the Provider’s systems which is an abuse of the Provider’s system.
    14. The Provider and / or his representative shall not be responsible nor bear any damage direct, indirect, special or consequential, including loss of profits or loss of information of any kind caused to the reseller or client or any third party due to the use of the site or non-ability to use it, or use of the information in it, whatever the cause of action may be. The reseller shall be responsible for and shall indemnify the Provider and his employees for any expense, loss, damage, legal fees or otherwise, arising out following a claim and / or claim to be filed by clients of the reseller or their representatives.
       
  25. Separation between the terms of use of the Provider and the Reseller
    1. There is a separation between the terms of use of the Provider's system and the reseller's terms and conditions, through which the users or clients make use of the services supplied by the Provider.
    2. You can read the additional terms and conditions of the reseller in the following link: http://www.livecity.com/site/live/terms/.
    3. You acknowledge that the Provider is not responsible for the actions of the reseller. However the Provider undertakes to comply with the obligations listed under these conditions.
    4. In any case where there is a conflict or missing information between the different terms of use, the terms of use of the Provider will prevail over the terms of use of the reseller.
       
  26. Changes to the Terms of Use
    1. The Provider may change these terms and conditions from time to time and without giving prior notice.
    2. The Provider will publish the new terms and they will be effective from their date of publication.
       
  27. General
    1. In the event the Provider transferred the rights, or any part thereof to a third party, he will be entitled to forfeit his rights under these terms and conditions.
    2. These regulations are added to any other regulations found within the system and in the case of a discrepancy, they have precedence.
    3. Non-compliance with any section of this document will be considered cause to terminate the client's account immediately and without any prior warning.
    4. The Provider will be entitled to terminate the accounts of those who violate these terms of use in whole or in part.
    5. This agreement is subject to the laws of the State of Israel only.
    6. Subject to and without limiting the foregoing, in each case and for any reason, any dispute shall be within the sole jurisdiction of the competent court of Be'er Sheva district in Israel.