Ownership
The Site and its entire contents, design, features and functionality, including but not limited to all audio, images, logos, data, software, text, artwork, video clips and other materials (collectively the "Content") are owned or licensed by the Company, and protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. Any unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and civil and criminal statutes.
There are a number of proprietary logos, service marks, and trademarks found on the Site, all of which are owned by, or licensed to, or otherwise authorized for use by the Company. All rights are reserved. These logos, service marks and trademarks may not be used without prior written consent of the Company. By making them available on the Site, the Company is not granting you any license to utilize those proprietary logos, service marks, or trademarks.
Your Right To Use This Site and its Contents
The Site is only for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not distribute, exchange, modify, sell, or transmit any Content you copy from the Site for any business, commercial, or public purpose. You shall not copy, capture, reproduce, perform, transfer, sell, license, modify, manipulate, create derivative works from or based upon, republish, upload, edit, post, transmit, publicly display, frame, link, distribute, or exploit, in whole or in part, the Site or the Content. You may download one (1) copy only of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not modify or alter the Content in any way, delete or change any copyright or trademark notice, or violate these Terms and Conditions in any way.
This Site is intended for use by individuals 13 years of age or older.
As long as you comply with these Terms and Conditions, the Company grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to enter, display, and use the Site. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Site in any way. You warrant that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions.
Legal Capacity
This is a general audience Site for adults. We will assume (and by using this Site you warrant that) you have legal capacity to enter into the agreement set out in these Terms (i.e., that you are of sufficient age and mental capacity and are otherwise entitled to be legally bound in contract).
User's Manual
The Company welcomes your feedback, and is pleased to have you submit your comments, opinions, website links, photos, graphics, audio and videos ("User Contributions") regarding its products. However, we request that you be specific in your comments, and that you do not voluntarily submit any ideas, suggestions or materials ("Submissions") related to the business of the Company. No Submissions shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of the Company, and the Company shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions.
For any User Contributions submitted to the Site, you represent and warrant that
your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms and Conditions;
you own the intellectual property rights;
the User Contributions do not infringe or violate any third party rights, including copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights;
you have the right to grant, and do hereby grant, to the Company a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, display, perform, transmit, copy, modify, delete, adapt, publish, translate, creative derivative works from, sell and distribute such User Contributions and to incorporate the User Contributions into any form, medium, or technology, now known or hereafter developed, throughout the world, all without compensation to you.
For avoidance of doubt, the Company will be entitled to use the User Contributions for any purpose whatsoever without compensation to you or any other person. In addition, you are fully responsible for any User Contributions you submit, and you, not the Company, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness. You recognize that storing, distributing or transmitting unlawful material could expose you to criminal and/or civil liability. You agree that if a third party claims that material you have contributed to the Site is unlawful, you will bear the burden of establishing that it is lawful. The Company is not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Site.
We require that you do not submit or publish any materials or otherwise make available on this Site any content, or act in any way, which in our opinion:
Libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks, is obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening, or offensive;
Disparages, criticizes, belittles, parodies, or otherwise portrays in a negative light any actor appearing in the content;
Seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;
Infringes any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person, including violating anyone's copyrights or trademarks or their rights of publicity;
Violates any law or may be considered to violate any law;
You do not have the right to transmit under any contractual or other relationship (e.g., inside information, proprietary, or confidential information received in the context of an employment or a non-disclosure agreement);
Advocates or promotes illegal activity;
Impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;
Advertises any commercial endeavor (e.g., offering for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in any commercial activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as specifically authorized on this Site;
Solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
Includes programs which contain viruses, worms and/or 'Trojan horses' or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, overload, collapse, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications;
Disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage in real time activities via the Site;
Copies any other pages or images on this Site except with appropriate authority;
Amounts to 'data warehousing' (i.e., using any web space made available to you as storage for large files or large amount of data which are only linked from other sites). You must provide a reasonable amount of content to accompany such material in order that at least some of the traffic to your site comes directly via us;
Disobeys any policy or regulations established from time to time regarding use of this Site or any networks connected to this Site.
In addition, you are prohibited from removing any sponsorship banners or other material inserted by the Company anywhere on this Site (e.g., on any web space made available for your use).
Copyright Infringement Complaints
If you believe any materials on the site infringe a copyright, you should provide the Company with written notice that at a minimum contains:Materials and links to third party web sites may be made available through this Site by third parties not within Company’s control as Company may act as a "services provider". The Company is under no obligation to, and does not scan content used in connection with the site for the inclusion of illegal or impermissible content. However, the Company respects the copyright interests of others. It is the Company’s policy not to permit materials known by it to infringe another party’s copyright to remain on the site and will follow procedures to resolve the claim between the notifying party and the alleged infringer who provided the content.
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an email address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the materials in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
It is the Company’s policy to terminate relationships regarding content with third parties who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others.
The Information You Give Us Must Be Correct
To access this Site or some of the resources it has to offer, you may be asked to provide registration details. It is a condition of use of this Site that all the details you provide be correct, current, and complete. If we believe the details are not correct, current, or complete, we have the right to refuse you access to the Site, or any of its resources, and to terminate or suspend your account.
Online Privacy Notice
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide a notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.
Security Of Electronic Transmissions
Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to this Site may be read or intercepted by others, unless there is a special notice that a particular message is encrypted. Sending an e-mail message to the Company does not create any reciprocal obligation or responsibility of the Company to you.
Security
Any usernames and passwords used for this Site are for individual use only. You shall be responsible for the security of your username and password (if any). The Company shall be entitled to monitor your username and password and, at its discretion, require you to change it. If you use a username and password that the Company considers insecure, the Company will be entitled to require this to be changed and/or terminate your account.
Violation of Security Systems
You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this Site to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (e.g. password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, the Company reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents.
Links To Other Websites
The Site may contain links to other Internet sites on the World Wide Web. The Company provides such links for your convenience only, and is not responsible for the content of any website linked to or from the Site. Links from the Site to any other website do not indicate that the Company approves of, endorses, sponsors, or recommends that website. The Company disclaims all warranties, express or implies, as to the accuracy, legality, reliability, or validity of any content on any other website. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of any other website linked to on the Site. The user should review the privacy policies for those other websites that are linked to on the Site.
Descriptions Of Products
The Company attempts to provide accurate descriptions of all products displayed on the Site. However, we do not warrant that the product descriptions are complete or error-free.
Availability Of Products
The products displayed on the Site may not be available in your particular country, state or locality. The reference to such products on the Site does not imply or warrant that these products will be available at any time in your particular location. The Company attempts to provide accurate and up-to-date information through this Site, but we do not warrant that the information is complete or error-free.
Right to Change These Terms and Conditions or Site Content
The Company reserves the right to make changes to the Site and these Terms and Conditions at any time, without notice. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions or any additional terms posted on the Site apply as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use the Site after any changes are posted, you are indicating your acceptance of and agreement to those changes. Furthermore, the Company may add, change, discontinue, remove, or suspend any other Content posted on the Site, including features and specifications of products and services described or depicted on the Site, temporarily or permanently, at any time, without notice and without liability.
Release
If you have a dispute with one or more users (including merchants), you release us (and our parent company, affiliates and subsidiaries, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents) from claims, demands, liabilities, costs, or expenses and damages (actual and consequential of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you expressly waive any protections (whether statutory or otherwise) to the extent permitted by applicable law, that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release to include only those claims which you may know or suspect to exist in your favor at the time of agreeing to this release.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, costs, or expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, resulting from your breach of these Terms, including any of the foregoing provisions, representations or warranties, and/or from your placement or transmission of any content onto our servers, and/or from any and all use of your account.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Damages
Your use of the Site is at your own risk. The Site (including all content and functions made available on or accessed through the Site) is provided "as is." To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, the Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties and conditions of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title, and non-infringement. Furthermore, the Company does not warrant that the server that makes the Site available is free of viruses or other harmful components that may infect, harm, or cause damage to your computer equipment or any other property when you access, browse, download from, or otherwise use the Site.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, the Company's negligence, shall the Company be liable for any consequential, direct, incidental, indirect, punitive, or special damages that result from the use of, the inability to use, or errors or omissions in the contents and functions of the Site, even if the Company or an authorized representative of the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of consequential or incidental damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
Investigations
The Company reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms, including without limitation any violation arising from any submission, posting, or e-mails you make or send to the Site. The Company may seek to gather information from the user who is suspected of violating these Terms, and from any other user. The Company may suspend any users whose conduct or postings are under investigation and may remove such material from its servers as it deems appropriate and without notice. If the Company believes, in its sole discretion, that a violation of these Terms has occurred, it may edit or modify any submission, posting, or e-mails, remove the material permanently, cancel postings, warn users, suspend users and passwords, terminate accounts or take other corrective action it deems appropriate. The Company will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity of anyone posting any e-mails, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed to violate these Terms. BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMPANY DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUNCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER THE COMPANY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
