GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWS.
We may provide you, either on the website or by a 3rd party, the right to leave a review or rating of the services provided. Said review or rating requires that you:
-Should have firsthand experience with the person/entity being reviewed;
-Do not contain any offensive, abusive, racist, or profanity-laden language;
-Do not reference discriminatory language or references related to religion, race, gender, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability;
-Do not include references to illegal activity;
-Do not post negative reviews as part of a scheme working with a competitor of ours;
-Do not make any suggestions or conclusions as to the legality of our services, products, or conduct;
-Do not post any false or misleading comments about your experience with the website or our Company; and
-Do not organize a campaign encouraging others to post reviews, whether positive or negative.
In our sole discretion, we may decide to accept, reject, or remove reviews. Our responsibility is to screen reviews to ensure that any postings regarding the website and its services are accurate and verifiable. Any reviews made by you or other users of the website do not represent our opinions or statements of the services or of our affiliates or partners. We do not assume liability, claims, or losses resulting from any review made on the website. By posting a review, you hereby grant us a perpetual, nonexclusive, worldwide, commercial, royalty-free, and assignable license (and sublicense ability) to reproduce, modify, translate, transmit by any means, display, perform, and/or distribute all content relating to such reviews made.
COPYRIGHT POLICY.
a.) Intellectual Property Infringement.
It is our duty to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Therefore, it is our policy to respond to any claim that infringes on any trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property protected under law.
If you are an owner of any protected intellectual property that you feel is being used without your authorization, you must submit notice to us by any of the contact details herein and include a detailed description of the alleged infringement.
If any request is made, and it is determined that you are not the owner of the intellectual property or do not have the authority to act on the owner’s behalf, you may be held accountable for damages, which may also include costs related to attorneys’ fees for such misrepresentation.
b.) DMCA Notice and DMCA Procedure for Copyright Infringement Claims.
You may submit a notification to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by providing our Company with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail):
-An electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyrighted work;
-A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL(s) where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work;
-Your contact details, including a personal name, address, phone number, and an e-mail address;
-A statement that the copyright infringement is not authorized and that the request to remove the copyrighted work is in good faith; and
-A statement by you, with language that includes “under penalty of perjury,” that the information included in the infringement removal is accurate.
Upon receipt of a copyright infringement notification, we will take whatever steps are required to remove the copyrighted content from the website or the services.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
Except as otherwise indicated, all source coding, databases, functionalities, software graphic designs, and media of any kind (e.g., audio, video, text, photos, etc.), content, trademarks, service marks, logos, and copyrights are considered to be intellectual and proprietary information (“intellectual property”). Such intellectual information is under our ownership and protected by local, state, national, and international laws and will be defended.
No intellectual property is permitted to be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for commercial purposes without our express prior written permission.
USER OBLIGATIONS.
You, as a user of the website or any of its services, agree to the following:
-Any information used for registration purposes, if required, must be submitted in an accurate and complete manner;
-If any information should change regarding your account, you agree to change it in a timely fashion;
-You have the legal capacity to understand, agree with, and comply with this Agreement;
-That you are not considered a minor in the jurisdiction where you reside or are accessing the website or its services;
-That you will not access the website or its services through the use of bots, scripts, or any other means other than the traditional manner as is intended; and
-That you will use the website and its services in an authorized and legal manner in accordance with this Agreement.
In regard to any of the information submitted by you, if it should be deemed inaccurate, out of date, or incomplete, we reserve the right to terminate your access to the website or account and any future intended use.
USER SUBMISSIONS & CONTENT.
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the website (“submissions”) provided by you is public and is not considered confidential unless otherwise stated. Upon submissions posted on the website, it becomes our exclusive property along with all intellectual property rights, which may be used by us for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, and without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
With the posting of your submissions, you agree to waive any rights to such submissions and acknowledge their transfer to us. In addition, you agree that after the posting of such submissions, there is no recourse. Therefore, you may not delete submissions to use them on another platform for your benefit or to reclaim their rights.
Our website or services may allow you to chat, make postings (available for public or private viewing), or other communication functionalities, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials on the website, including but not limited to, text, writings, video, audio, photos, graphics, comments, suggestions, personal information or other material (collectively known as the “content”). Content may be viewable by other users or the general public. As such, any content transmitted by you may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make any content available on the website, you are accepting that:
-The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance of displaying your content to be widely available for accessing, downloading, or copying does not infringe your or its proprietary rights, including but not limited to any copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, confidential information, or moral rights of a 3rd party;
-You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consent, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, and other users of the website, to use your content in any manner deemed reasonable;
-You have the written consent, release, or permission of each and every identifiable individual in your content to use their name or likeness;
-Your content is not false, inaccurate, or misleading to the detriment of other users, the website, or any 3rd party;
-Your content is not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, used for promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation;
-Your content is not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, considered harassment, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us)
-Your content does not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or verbally abuse other users or us;
-Your content is not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any user or individual or promote violence against a specific person or class of people;
-Your content does not violate any applicable laws or regulations;
-Your content does not violate any privacy-related concerns or the publicity rights of any 3rd party;
– Your content does not include offensive comments related to groups of race, national origin, gender, relationship status, familial status, religion, sexual preference, or physical handicap; and
-Your content does not link to material that violates any of the aforementioned provisions of this section or this Agreement.
By posting your content on our website, you grant us the right and license to use, modify, and publicly perform, display, reproduce, and distribute such content. You retain any and all of your rights to any content you submit, post, or display, and are responsible for protecting those rights. This license includes the right for us to make your content available to other users of the website, 3rd parties, and the general public, with or without your consent.
