Liberty Shield: Terms and Conditions – we don’t keep logs on our VPN and Proxy network but we do have rules!

Use of, henceforth referred to as Liberty Shield/We, is subject to the notices, terms and conditions stated below. These notices, terms and conditions may change without prior notice by posting new or revised terms of use policies and other documents on the Liberty Shield website.

Liberty Shield is a wholly owned brand of Scothosts Limited, formerly known as UK Proxy Server.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OR PURCHASING FROM LIBERTY SHIELD WEB SITE. USE OF LIBERTY SHIELD PRODUCTS AND SERVICES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ALL SUCH NOTICES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. Terms of Service

1.1) You understand and agree that Liberty Shield is provided "AS-IS" and that we assume no responsibility for the failure or inaccuracy of Liberty Shield. We may at our sole discretion add, delete or change some or all of our services provided in connection with Liberty Shield at any time. Any new features that augment or enhance Liberty Shield will be subject to these notices, terms and conditions and will also be subject to all other applicable policies, terms, notices and conditions as stated above. We may establish general practices and limits concerning use of Liberty Shield.

1.2) You agree to accept these general practices and limits as they may be in effect from time to time. In addition, we reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, Liberty Shield (or any portion thereof), or your access to Liberty Shield (or any portion thereof), for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of Liberty Shield or your access to Liberty Shield.

2. No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

2.1) As a condition of your use of the Liberty Shield Service, you will not use the Liberty Shield website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.

2.2) You may not use the Service in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Liberty Shield Site/Service(s) (or the network(s) connected to any Liberty Shield Site/Service(s)) or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Liberty Shield Site/Service(s). You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any Liberty Shield Site/Service, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Liberty Shield Site/Service, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Liberty Shield Site/Service(s). You are responsible for any content that you post or transmit on or through the Service.

2.3) You will not use the Service to carry out unlawful activities. You will not use the Service to breach copyright regulations or to spam or invade the privacy of, or threaten, other persons.

2.4) If you violate any of these terms and conditions, your permission to use the Liberty Shield Site/Service(s) automatically terminates.

3. Our Rights to Run Advertising Without Compensation to Users

Liberty Shield reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions on all pages of the Liberty Shield web site and via email marketing to registered users. By accessing Liberty Shield, you agree that we have the right to run such advertisements and promotions without compensation to you. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Liberty Shield web site, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. The timing, frequency, placement and extent of advertising by us within the pages of Liberty Shield is subject to change and shall be determined by us in our sole discretion. You agree that Liberty Shield will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Liberty Shield web site.

4. Links to Third Party Sites

The Liberty Shield web site may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or other Internet resources. Any third party sites to which Liberty Shield may link are not under control of Liberty Shield. Liberty Shield does not have any responsibility or liability for any information, contents, communications or materials available on such third party sites.

5. Applicable law

This Legal and Terms of Service as well as all disputes arising out of or in connection with this terms shall be governed by the laws of Scotland, without regard to or application of choice of law rules or principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Legal and Terms of Service, or in future agreements resulting there from, shall be exclusively resolved before the competent court in Scotland.

6. Special Admonitions for International Use

Recognising the global nature of the internet and our services, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content.

7. Indemnification

7.1) Liberty Shield users must agree to indemnify and hold Liberty Shield, and its officers, affiliates, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post to or transmit through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of these notices, terms and conditions, or your violation of any rights of another.

7.2) BY USING LIBERTY SHIELD, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE NOTICES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THIS LEGAL NOTICE AND TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE OTHER POLICIES AND DOCUMENTS POSTED ON OUR WEB SITE, WHICH MAY BE MODFIED FROM TIME TO TIME BY US, AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS EXPRESSLY INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE, ARE THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF THE PARTIES, AND SUPERCEDE ANY AND ALL PRIOR AND CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITTEN OR ORAL AGREEMENTS EXISTING BETWEEN THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO SUCH SUBJECT MATTER.

8. No Resale or Service

None of our users are permitted to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.

Subject to acceptance of an application to Liberty Shield we provide an affiliate scheme for authorised resellers.

9. Modifications to or Suspension of Service

Liberty Shield reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service temporarily or permanently, at any time, with or without notice. We will attempt to provide reasonable notice of such changes to the services or the site.

10. Our Proprietary Rights

The Liberty Shield name, the Liberty Shield logo, and other Liberty Shield related properties are trademarks of Scothosts Limited. All other trademarks appearing on the Service are trademarks of their respective owners.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

All representations and warranties, either express or implied are disclaimed, including but not limited to, warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Liberty Shield makes no warranty, representation or guaranty as to the content, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of the site or the information or that the information may be relied upon for any reason. The services, content, transmissions or other data of any kind or nature made available at the site are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis or at the specific providers own terms and conditions. Any material downloaded through the service is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download or use of any such material.

12. Limitation of Liability

You understand and agree that Liberty Shield shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, resulting from:

a) The use or the inability to use the service;

b) The cost of procurement of substitute goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the service;

c) Unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data;

d) Statements or conduct of any third party on the service; or

e) Any other matter relating to the service.

13. Wilful misconduct and death or injury

The limitation of liability referred to in article 12 shall not apply in the event of (a) wilful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of Liberty Shield and/or (b) in the event of claims for compensation as a result of death or injury. However, in no event shall Liberty Shield's total liability to you for all damages exceed the amount of a GBP 100.

14. Notice

Liberty Shield may provide notices of changes to the Terms of Service or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on our web site. You are obliged to update you knowledge hereto continuously. Lack of knowledge does not imply that these terms are not accepted by you.

15. Miscellaneous

15.1) You may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third party content or third party software. The failure or delay of Liberty Shield to exercise or enforce any rights or provision of the Terms of Service may not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. All provisions which must survive in order to give effect to their meaning, shall survive any expiration or termination of these Terms of Service, including without limitation all of your representations, warranties and indemnification obligations. Should any part of these Terms of Service be held invalid by any court or tribunal, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of any remaining part, which will remain in full force and effect as if these Terms of Service had been executed without that part having been held to be invalid.

15.2) These Terms of Service constitute the entire understanding of you and Liberty Shield with respect to the subject matter hereof. There are no understandings, agreements, conditions or representations, oral or written, express or implied, with reference to the subject matter hereof that are not merged herein, expressly referenced herein, or superseded hereby.

16. Abuse

Should any user or third party be of the opinion that their rights are being breached by users of our service; or that our service is being used to breach the legal rights of others then such complaints should be submitted in writing to info@scothosts.com

17. Privacy Policy

We are committed to your privacy and do not collect or log traffic data or browsing activity from individual users connected to our VPN.

When you register on with Liberty Shield you will be asked to provide certain personal information, including your billing and email address and payment information. We will store this information, but will not share it with any third parties except as necessary to provide the features of the Service. For example, we may store your personal information on a third party server or we may use a third party analytics tool to understand how the Liberty Shield Service is being used by customers. We will use your contact details to send you notifications about the Service and to respond to customer support requests. You may access and change your personal information by logging in to the Site.

In addition, we may collect the following information: times when connected to our service, choice of server location, and the total amount of data transferred per day. We store this to be able to deliver the best possible network experience to you. We analyse this information generically and keep the data secure.

Our software may send diagnostic data to a third party analytics provider for the purpose of identifying connection errors and possible bugs in our application. The information collected is generic in nature and does not contain personally identifying information.

We use third party cookies, pixels and website analytics tools to track sales promotions or advertisements and to understand which pages on the Site receive visitors.

18. Cancelation and refund policy

LibertyShield VPN Services are subscribed on a service period basis. You choose the service period and the payment method yourself when you sign up for the VPN, VPN router or proxy service. The LibertyShield app is available on any platform or operating system supported by LibertyShield. Users will have to purchase a paid subscription from LibertyShield VPN to connect to the LibertyShield VPN network, except in the case of a limited free trial or certain coupon offers.

Your service will automatically be renewed, and your chosen payment method will be charged at the end of each service period, repeating the length of the previous service period, unless you decide to cancel your subscription for the LibertyShield Services. To cancel your subscription simply login to your account on our website. If you do not know your login details please create a support ticket and we will send them too you. Once logged into your account simply click the cancel button to complete the cancelation process.

If you wish to claim a refund, you can do so within 30 days following your initial purchase of LibertyShield Service. This means if your subscription renews after 30 days from when you joined you will not be refunded for the renewal payment. You can cancel at any point prior to your renewal date and you will not be charged. We seek your full satisfaction with our services. However, we would like to troubleshoot an issue you experience first. There are common VPN service configuration issues that may hinder LibertyShield service for you and we resolve most of user issues encountered.

Subscriptions purchased via the iTunes/App Store are subject to iTunes/App Store refund policies. This means we cannot grant refunds if you purchased an app through iTunes/App Store – you will have to contact store support for that.

LibertyShield cannot refund any purchases made from our resellers. In this case, refunds are handled according to the terms of service of the reseller from which the product was purchased.

You have a right to cancel your account at any time. You can cancel a recurring subscription from your website profile, iTunes/App Store or Google Play Store.

Note: Cancelled accounts will not be refunded for the unused part of the ongoing service period, your access will remain active until your next billing date.

LibertyShield reserves the right to suspend or refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason. No refunds will be considered for accounts terminated for violation of these Terms.