Hostafy Privacy Policy

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Refund & Cancellation Policy

    1. Introduction

    Billing Policy

  1. If paying via credit card, debit card, net banking, PayPal the account will be setup immediately once the payment is confirmed. If paying by a cheque, please allow 5 days for the cheque to clear. If paying via postal orders or cash your account will be set up on the same day.
  2. The 30 day money back guarantee is only applicable for first-time signups. Second time and subsequent sign-ups are not eligible for the same. For instance, if you've had an account with us before, cancelled and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.
  3. Refund is not applicable on Domain registration/transfer/renewal, cPanel, Plesk, Control Panel, LiteSpeed, Softaculous, Cloud, VPS, Dedicated Server, Paid Support, SSL Certificates, Sitelock, SpamExperts, WHMCS, Windows OS, SQL, G Suite, Office 365 and any other paid licenses.
  4. The modifications done in pricing pattern or policy by the software license company will take effect immediately on HostAfy clients.
  5. The money back guarantee is provided on Shared hosting, Reseller hosting, WordPress hosting and Email hosting.
  6. No refund will be made if your Service(s) are suspended or terminated for cause.
  7. There is limitation of every hosting platform. On an OpenVZ VPS, GUI is not supported and it won’t be possible to upgrade the kernel or change BIOS setting. Kernel upgrade is possible on KVM Cloud instances but you cannot change the BIOS settings. You won't be eligible for refund in such cases.
  8. The refund will not cover any kind of taxes, setup fees, refund processing fee, postal charges or any kind of payment processing charges or bank fee(s). There will be no refunds issued in case the web hosting account was involved in violation of our terms of service or any kind of illegal or system resources over-usages or after 30 days period or beyond coverage of our refund policy as noted here.
  9. Shared Hosting:

  10. Business / Ultimate Plan : 1 free .COM domain is offered with purchase of every new Business or Ultimate plan for 1/3 years. You may transfer your existing .com domain under this offer. Domain name will be free for the first year and renewal charges will be applicable from the second year.
  11. You must add the domain name into your cart with the hosting plan. You cannot claim the free domain later.
  12. If the web hosting service includes free domain name, and you cancel the web hosting service, the domain charges (standard rate as per website) would be deducted from the refund amount. If the refund amount is less than the domain name price, you will have to pay the difference or forfeit the domain. The ownership of the domain will remain with HostAfy if you fail to pay the difference amount.
  13. Transfer fees would be applicable, if you wish to transfer the free domain name to some other provider. Without transfer fees the domain will not be released.
  14. One free WHMCS Starter or ClientExec license is included in reseller hosting plan (Essential/Advance/Pro/Ultimate). WHMCS starter license allows you to manage upto 250 clients. You can upgrade the WHMCS license from us by paying the appropriate license cost. If the reseller hosting plan is cancelled within first 30 days then WHMCS Starter or ClientExec license cost will be deducted from the refund amount.
  15. The payments made through bank transfer, cheque, money order, cash deposit, DD are non-refundable. Refund will be added as credit to the hosting account.
  16. The refund request placed after 30 days will not be processed and you will not be eligible for any refund.
  17. The cancellation request should be sent through client area.
  18. After sending the cancellation request, it would take 14 days to complete the refund process.
  19. Cancellation Process:

  20. At any point of time, you wish to discontinue our services, you can place the cancellation request through your client area. Before that, you need to clear all the pending dues (if any).
  21. You can either choose immediate cancellation or request cancellation to happen once your subscription period expires. If you select immediate cancellation, you will no longer have access to your hosting plan/service. If cancellation after the tenure period is over is selected, you will continue to have access to use the Services purchased until the end of your prepaid term.
  22. It is your responsibility to backup all your data before you place the cancellation request. Once you place the cancellation request all your data from our server will be deleted and it cannot be retrieved nor restored.