Terms of Service

Scope of provided services

KevinsPapers.com offers multiple types of services: Computer build & repair, Network build & Repair, Graphics & Web Design & Development services.

Services are further divided into free-of-charge, available to non-registered users, and for-a-fee, available only to customers and subscribers. Access to the former is provided unconditionally to anyone who can access KevinsPapers.com through Internet. The latter are provided only to qualifying subscribers, if they are logged in, and only for the term of their subscription. As soon as your subscription expires you will have no access to any of the for-a-fee services, even for those items which were already published or made available during your subscription's term.

Support services are provided to qualifying subscribers only and only if they are logged in. Likewise to our services, support services are provided only for the term of your subscription. When your subscription expires you will not be able to file any replies to your existing tickets or new tickets. Moreover, private tickets will no longer be available for you to read.

No warranty

Our services are provided as-is, without any warranty whatsoever. The exact terms of my license can be read by following the "License" link at the bottom of any page of KevinsPapers.com. Regarding the support services, we cannot guarantee the validity or veracity of any provided information or suggestion.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED AS-IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF AVAILABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE AVAILABILITY, QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF OUR SERVICES IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY OF OUR SERVICES PROVE INEFFICIENT OR UNSUITABLE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY ACTIONS TO RECTIFY THE ISSUE.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW KEVINSPAPERS.COM, ITS OWNERS, STAFF, ASSOCIATES OR ANYONE AFFILIATED WITH ITS MAINTENANCE, OPERATION OR HOSTING BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF OUR PROGRAMS TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Should the applicable law hold KevinsPapers.com, its owners or any party affiliated with it liable for damages, the maximum amount of damages acknowledged shall be no higher than 5 Dollars. Shall any dispute arise between the owners of KevinsPapers.com and a third party, the only applicable jurisdiction is the Courts of Law of the state of Idaho, USA.

If you do not agree with these Terms, you are not allowed to use our services. Moreover, any use of our services implies the unconditional and immediate acceptance of the aforementioned terms, waiving your legal rights to uphold them. Acting in violation of these Terms of Service constitutes a violation of our copyright and abuse of a computer system, both prosecutable as felonies.

Refund policy

Please consult the refund policy document that you received with your service for more information.

Support policy

We only provide support to our subscribers through our site's Support section. We will not provide support by any other means including, but not limited to, email, regular mail, telephone, Twitter, Facebook, Skype and so on. If you wish to receive support without using our site's Support section or demand that you be given a full discount in violation of our refund policy we reserve the right to request to be paid according to our regular consultancy rates. My regular consultancy rates are 150 Dollars per hour (plus TAX, where applicable), minimum charge one hour. In case of on-premises support a specific arrangement has to made.

Subscription at KevinsPapers.com are not to be considered as a guarantee of response time or a service level agreement. All tickets are answered on a "best effort" basis. Private tickets and severe bug report are given top priority, public tickets are given medium priority. If you have not received any response within 72 hours, please use the Contact Us page to let us know of the issue. If we determine that there is an objective difficulty in providing support to you over our ticket system we will provide you with support over email, in exception of our support policy.

Software Services

We reserve the right to provide no support for outdated versions of our software or when your server environment does not meet our minimum requirements. Support policy details regarding different versions of our software and server environment are detailed in our release announcements. We reserve the right to give you a link to our troubleshooting page, documentation and/or previous public tickets if we deem it necessary for providing better support. We will not provide support for issues not related to our software or services. We reserve the right to decline support if the request or the conversation is conducted in a language other than English or when the language barrier makes it impossible to provide meaningful support. We reserve the right to decline support when access to the affected site is denied or objectively impossible. We reserve the right to decline providing support on a case by case basis (even though we do try to help everyone), with or without a reply to your ticket. We assume no responsibility for any issues directly or indirectly caused by our support efforts, as per the "No warranty" article of this policy. We reserve the right to close support tickets for any reason deemed appropriate. We reserve the right to decline providing support for issues which have to do with using Joomla!, not our software (e.g. Joomla! ACLs). We reserve the right to close or delete support tickets if the user refuses to follow our instructions and insists on receiving support (our instructions are support and you're supposed to follow them in order for us to help you). We reserve the right to edit or delete tickets or ticket replies. We reserve the right to close or delete tickets and/or block accounts of users who become abusive and/or pugnacious in their support ticket replies; we are trying to help frustrated users under adverse conditions, please respect it and understand that we are neither deities nor saints.

Fair use policy (software)

The owners of KevinsPapers.com believe in software Freedom and strive to provide low cost, high quality services surrounding their software. In order to keep the costs low, without placing artificial restrictions, we have a fair use policy in place. In no event shall we provide support to anyone who is seeking our support for more than three domains per month. This restriction is in place to deter edge cases, like a hosting provider buying a single subscription, installing the software on all of his clients' sites and then overflowing our support services with its client's requests. If such behavior is detected, we regret to inform you that we will immediately terminate the user account without a refund.

Moreover, KevinsPapers.com reserves the right to terminate any account which is suspected in being implicated in unlawful or abusive activity, including –but not limited to– unsolicited mass distribution of our for-a-fee software. Account termination is in the sole discretion of KevinsPapers.com and we reserve the right to not provide any prior warning or further information.

We reserve the right to terminate user accounts (upon fair warning) of users who are submitting the same support requests numerous times to our support ticket system. We reserve the right to block or terminate accounts (upon fair warning) of users who submit an excessive amount of support requests.

Actions for content beyond fair use and account termination policy

If the content you submit to KevinsPapers.com is deemed offensive, inappropriate, defamatory, objectionable or in any other way engage in disruptive behavior we reserve the right to use your personal information to stop such behavior.

If KevinsPapers.com believes on reasonable grounds that you are in violation of the laws of the USA, we reserve the right to submit your personal information - including the content itself and any other relevant information about you - to the proper authorities, such as law enforcement, your ISP or school email / ISP.

KevinsPapers.com reserves the right to terminate user accounts (free or paid subscribers) when the aforementioned fair use rules are violated. Furthermore, KevinsPapers.com reserves the right to terminate user accounts if the user is posting unsolicited messages (spam), engaged in sites or services promoting the unauthorized distribution of proprietary or other distributed for-a-fee software (warez), directly promoting or linking to resources promoting indecent or unlawful actions, or in any other way trying to disrupt or diminish the quality of the services offered by this site. Account termination takes place without prior notice and is considered final. Holders of terminated accounts, if they are paid subscribers, will not be refunded. KevinsPapers.com reserves the right to terminate any further user accounts created by the holder of a terminated account, or any other person, business or organization affiliated with or endorsed by the holder of a terminated account.

Zero spam tolerance

As noted above, if you send out an unsolicited message, your account will be terminated without prior notice. One strike and you're out. Moreover, you will feed our anti-spam filter with keywords so that you can't spam us again.

Zero bandits tolerance

If you do as much as imply that you are encouraging people to use illegal or unofficial copies of software your account will be terminated without prior notice, as noted above. Respect the work of others and we'll respect you. If you don't and act as a bandit, you'll be treated as one.

Updates to our TOS and Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to add, remove or modify any section, article or paragraph of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy without prior notice. All changes are effective immediately.

Privacy Policy

Summary

KevinsPapers.com is committed to protecting you and your personal information when you are using our services. We want our services to safe and enjoyable environments for our users. This Privacy Policy is relevant to our use of any personal information you provide to us during your visit to our site.

KevinsPapers.com seeks to follow the industry's best practices concerning personal information handling.

The website contains hyperlinks to external resources, hosted and operated by third parties. These parties have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them carefully. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the handling of your personal information when visiting these external resources; your use of those third party resources and/or websites is your own responsibility.

We also use third-party service and content providers (currently, only Google Analytics) who may collect their own set of personal information. Since these are third parties, the information collected by them is not governed by this Privacy Statement. Take a look at the Cookies section towards the bottom of this document for more information.

Personal information collected

Whenever you register for our members-only services, for example using our forum or registering for our newsletter, we may ask personal information about you. This can consist of such information as your name, e-mail, website address, gender, etc. By entering the information in the fields requested you enable KevinsPapers.com to provide you with the services you select.

We record your IP address as part of the unconditional logging our web server software does whenever anybody accesses our site. The collected IP addresses remain on record for at least a year, but they will be not shared with third parties. Exception to this rule is sharing information with authorities in the case of a suspected or proven breach of our site or other proven misuse of our services.

We record your IP address, HTTP Referrer information, username (if applicable), date & time as well as the selected item whenever you are downloading anything from our Downloads page. This information is strictly confidential and will not be shared with any third party unless a. we are requested to do so by law or b. it is deemed of absolute necessity in order to protect our business (e.g. as a proof of service consumption in the case of a PayPal dispute). We will not sell, lease or in any other way allow any third party to have access to the raw, redacted or aggregated forms of this information, as per the next section of this document.

This website is also using "cookies" to enhance user experience. Please read the relevant chapter to find out more about our use of cookies.

Use of collected information

KevinsPapers.com will NOT sell, rent or otherwise willingly transmit the recorded personal information to any third party. Your privacy is important to us and we will not even offer aggregate information resulting from personal information processing to any part outside KevinsPapers.com. We only use the recorded personal information for:

service administration purposes, e.g. sending you password reminders, registration confirmations, billing subscription services etc.;
to contact you regarding new content added on our website, e.g. new forum posts, if you have opted in for this sort of communication;
to personalize your experience, through the storage of your preferences in cookies and/or our site's database;
analyze the use of our website and improve its usability;
IP addresses may be used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different cities / territories / countries or filter and block inappropriate use.
dispute chargeback requests
If KevinsPapers.com wishes to use the recorded personal information for other uses, it will notify you beforehand so that you have the chance to opt-out from these new uses.

When we contact you

We only contact you if you have explicitly opted-in for such communication through the use of our services. For example:

We may contact you if a new post was added to a ticket thread or category you have subscribed to
We shall contact you regarding if your subscription status has changed or a change is imminent
We shall contact you to send you a copy of your invoice after a purchase
We may contact you when you register or modify a user account, request a username/password reminder or reset, or in any other case where you perform an action related to the administration of the information stored in your user account
KevinsPapers.com does not operate a newsletter or any other form of mass email facility. Any update information which you may have received in your inbox are the result of a plugin running on your own site (which you opted in to enable during installation) or you had subscribed to our now-defunct FeedBurner RSS-to-email list, operated by Google Inc.

These forms of contact are conducted by automated software running on our server. You always have the chance to opt-out from such communication. KevinsPapers.com will never send unsolicited email messages ("spam") or allow third parties access to our users and contacts database.

We may also directly contact you - manually sending out emails, as opposed to automatic email sending outlined above - under special circumstances such as:

Suspecting that your account is compromised by an unauthorized third party
Before, during or after server-related incidents which may seriously hamper your ability to use our services
In case you have crossed the line of fair use of our services
If you have so asked us with an email, ticket, personal message, instant message, Twitter message or any other form of contact.
Contact for marketing purposes

We do not send unsolicited (or even opt-in) email messages for marketing purposes.
Information sharing with third parties

Information collected by KevinsPapers.com will not be shared with any third parties. Not in their raw form, not in a processed or aggregate form. We do not share personal information with third parties except as stated in the "Use of collected information" article above.

Important note: Please review the section on cookies, as we employ third-party service/content providers. These providers collect their own set of personal information, governed by their own privacy statements.

Exceptions to this rule will be clearly stated and will only be part of a special offer campaign. For instance, we may launch a campaign offering subscriptions to third party services for free or with a discount. If we are to collect and share your personal information you will be informed before opting in to that campaign.

Notable exception: When you submit an unsolicited support request –that means any kind of support request submitted by any means other than our ticket system– you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy. We reserve the right to publicize parts or the entirety of our communication using any means we deem appropriate.

Privacy policy for minors

If you are considered a minor in your jurisdiction (for example, people under 18 years of age in the USA) you must get your parent's/guardian's permission before submitting any content or personal information to KevinsPapers.com. If you or your parent/guardian believes beyond doubt that such information have been submitted in violation of the above term, you may submit to us relevant proof so that we can remove the offending information from our website and records.

Duration of personal information retainment

Notwithstanding any aforementioned cases of explicit information removal, your personal information may be stored in our servers for an indefinite period of time, no less than the duration of your account's existence or 1 calendar year, whichever is more.

Use of cookies

What is a cookie? A cookie is a brief amount of data, usually containing a unique identifier, sent to your browser software from a website and recorded on your computer's permanent storage. Each website may set one or several such cookies on your computer, but your browser will only allow a website to access the cookie(s) it has set and deny access to other websites' cookies.

Cookies record information about your preferences and allow us to customize your experience. They are also used for handling user authentication in the members-only areas of a website. Users have the option to be forewarned before accepting a cookie, review cookies already stored on their computer's permanent storage and even delete them if so required. These options are given to you by your web browser software. Each web browser handles these features in a different way, so you have to consult your web browser's help / user guide / manual to learn more about this.

How cookies are used on KevinsPapers.com? KevinsPapers.com uses cookies to track your preferences regarding our site's features, including the ticket system and the "remember me" login feature. We also use cookies to authenticate you to members-only features. If you block KevinsPapers.com's cookies you may not be able to use our members-only features as a consequence. Moreover, in order to ensure your security, KevinsPapers.com pages perform so-called "token checks", making it impossible for automated software ("bots") to send unsolicited messages ("spam") to our services. In order to do so, we have to send your browser a cookie. If you opt out of this site's cookie, then our services shall not work properly. This is a technical limitation which cannot be overcome.

Third-party cookies. KevinsPapers.com employs the services of third-party services and content providers. Most notably we use Google Analytics to track website usage. Each of these services sets its own cookies. KevinsPapers.com doesn't have direct access to those cookies and the use of those third-part cookies is governed solely by the respective service/content provider's Privacy Statement. For more information you may consult the following resources:

Google privacy center. Information on use of cookies by Google AdSense and Google Analytics, as well as information from opting-out of the collection of such information.

Contact information

You can use the "Contact Me" link on the top and bottom of every page of this site.