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@Mark_R
What happens is you get a fine and its not usually a small fine, A company I worked for in London lost a bunch of records and got an audit, the fine was in the region of £180,000 due to the volume.
The reason they got such a fine is that they could not show evidence that every effort was made to avoid it happening, I expect if your hardware failed and you could only recover 95% of the missing data but could show you have a system in place to recover at least that much information and only 24 hours loss maximum was possible then you would get no fine.
If you willfully and fully delete such data without keeping a good record of why or keeping paper copies for an audit they would absolutely hammer you and possibly strike you off as a director.
In the UK and US there is a legal requirement to hold records for a period of time. So no, hardware or any other failure is not a valid reason for not providing and maintaining them.
You are correct in that nobody could force you to create a backup/redundancy system, that is your choice, however the legal obligation remains and if you can't provide records, well you're shit out of luck.
The UK is strictest. If you turn up at tax time and the revenue wants to see your records but your "hardware" failure means you can't, here is what they do. I have experience of this after a fire at a business premises, where all the records were kept in paper form with no copies. It was in 2004.
They assess all your bank accounts, lifestyle and do it very thoroughly. Then they determine (their rules) what tax they think you are due and hit you with a notice.
Now that assessment will likely be more than you are due. They set the assessment at £10,000. In previous years was around £3,000 and £4,000 can;t remember exactly. So way higher than it should have been.
Unfair? Indeed, however guess what, yup, no records to disprove it. When it comes the revenue in the UK, it is not for them to prove you owe money, it is up to you to disprove it.
sounds like they give you no room to mess around.
They don't, that's why when I get a request to delete an account I reply saying I am happy to close it but I cant delete it for tax reasons, I do however offer the opportunity to print off the records and change the details to a numbered account instead for £10, if they want it removed from every backup it is £10 p/day.
I never been a customer of GVH/TacVPS but have an account on hostress, and I got email from [email protected]
WTF
Hello,
Can you open a ticket and paste the email.
Thank you.
sent to abuse
@tdale did you migrate client from GVH/TacVPS to Hostress,and send email to all? im not customer from them either.
I migrated gvhclientarea.com clients to Hostress. TacVPS GVH clients are still at TacVPS. We will be migrating them over soon as well. Currently, anything.gvhclientarea.com and gvhclientarea.com is redirected to my.hostress.net. I put a welcome message there for previous GreenValueHost clients so they know old login info works. Everything went pretty smooth. Just ironing out a few things.
Thanks for everyone's Support!
Just a side statement:
Any time i referenced previous owners of GVH/TacVPS in a statement. It wasn't to put blame on them or have anyone attack them. I should of worded it differently. What i was trying to say was I cannot speak about how your information or accounts were handled before because simply i was not involved. All i can do is set your expectations going forward.
Thank you everyone for your patronage and support!
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@tdale - rather than having all these messages on here where people are complaining about wanting to get deleted. Why don't you just setup an email address called [email protected] and then as people get these emails, they can just forward it back to that email address.
This will stop the neverending requests on here from people wanting to get off your database.
No problem Chris.
inb4 GVH v3 sale
I really don't know what the world would say if they got this in their email box:
"GreenValueHost is proud to announce that we have reacquired GVH v1 and v2 customers and have also decided to make everyone feel even more uncomfortable by acquiring TacVPS and Hostress too!"
Heh...
Omg congrats on mod
For SPAM/UCE reports:
If you want to report a mail as SPAM or UCE, the following resources will be handy:
104.223.105.4 [email protected] (Network) @QuadraNet_Adam
192.3.100.117 HudsonValleyHost @Ernie
Remember to forward the emails to SpamCop so their users can also be alerted.
[email protected] / http://mandrillapp.com/contact/abuse
http://elasticemail.com/report-spam
I hit wrong button
GVH Clients pay their requiring fees?
Does that mean R.I.P GVH ?
This post makes me so tired .
Naw... greenvalue.host is available.
http://superdeals.space/, only $6.99
@tdale, If you are incompetent to provide a service give my money back.
How much is your time worth (to waste) bumping all these old posts?
That's a good way to get a refund - harass the provider........ not
EDIT: It may sound like I'm defending tdale/Hostress, but I'm not. I'm simply stating you're going about getting your refund the worst possible way. If you want it so bad, open a dispute on PayPal or with your credit/debit card company, depending on how you paid.
Shouldn't you also be harassing Duke for these refunds?
My guess is he has far more to do with GVH and the general dealings than he's come out and said!
Did you already start doing the videos?
Ohh guys, what a history. Anyway I wish everyone good luck!
Anyone heard from Tom Dale lately?
I'm glad I got a refund out of him before he disappeared