In some instances, you may wish to give access to your site to a third party not employed by 3001Web for the purposes of installing a program or performing a modification to your site. Before giving access to your site to someone not directly employed by 3001Web.com please bear the following in mind:

1. 3001Web WILL NOT be held responsible for any damage done to your site due to the errors of programmers or other parties not employed directly by 3001Web. Any repairs or reinstalls performed by us due to the errors of another party will be billed at our full per minute rate.

2. If you do decide to use an outside service to modify your site in some way, make sure you change any passwords before giving them access. Better still add an extra login just for them that can be removed once the work is complete. We suggest you do the following:

a. Change any hosting control panel password before giving access to the third party. This way you can change it back when the work is complete.

b. If you are giving them access to the admin area of a script that runs your site like WordPress, add a new administrator account so they can have their own login. This way you can remove their admin account once the work is complete so they can no longer access your admin area.

c. If they only require FTP access log in to your control panel for your hosting account and create their own FTP account. EG programmer@yoursite.com and a temporary password. Again you can remove this FTP account once the work is done. Help on how to create a new FTP account here.

d. If you can, make sure you know the third party is experienced enough to edit your site.

Basically, be careful, not all programmers out there are honest, we suggest where possible you employ 3001Web staff to install your programs or modifications for you.

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