ClipVote.com Terms of Use Agreement, March 28 2007
ClipVote.com is a video-clip voting social networking service
provided by FJSOFT LLC, 555 Bryant Street #117, Palo Alto, CA 94301,
that allows surfers to vote and rank video clips online from a variety
of hosting services, to create personal pages, and to interact with
other members.
The services offered by ClipVote.com ("ClipVote.com"
or "we") include the ClipVote.com website (the "ClipVote Website"), the
ClipVote.com league creation service, the ClipVote.com personal
page creation service, the Clipvote.com member and league commenting
service, the ClipVote.com social and bookmarking services,
and any other features,
content, or applications offered from time to time by ClipVote.com in
connection with the ClipVote Website (collectively, the "ClipVote
Services"). The ClipVote Services are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally
binding terms for your use of the ClipVote Services. By using the
ClipVote Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you
are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the ClipVote
Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered
with ClipVote.com). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You
are only authorized to use the ClipVote Services if you agree to abide
by all applicable laws and by the terms of this Agreement. Please read this
Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you
should leave the ClipVote Website and discontinue use of the ClipVote
Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with
other Members and make use of the ClipVote Services, you must read this
Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration
process.
This Agreement includes ClipVote.com's policy for acceptable use of
the ClipVote Services and Content posted on the ClipVote Website, your
rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the ClipVote
Services and ClipVote.com's Privacy Policy.
Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and
conditions applicable to the ClipVote Services in which you choose to
participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this
Agreement.
You may receive a copy of this Agreement by visiting
http://www.clipvote.com/site/static/tos.
ClipVote.com may modify this Agreement from time to time and such
modification shall be effective upon posting by ClipVote.com on the
ClipVote Website.
The date at which this agreement, or any change to the agreement,
goes into effect is posted at the top of this agreement.
ClipVote may inform Members by email about such
modifications. If you do not agree with such modification you have the
right to terminate your membership with ClipVote. You agree to be bound
by any changes to this Agreement when you use the ClipVote Services
after the modification has been posted. It is
therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure
you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on ClipVote.com and
that you provide to other Users. Your ClipVote.com profile may not
include the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, last
names, and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd,
violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise
objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information
provided by other ClipVote.com Members (for instance, in their Profile)
may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit
material, products or services, and ClipVote.com assumes no
responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of
misuse of the ClipVote Services by any person, please contact ClipVote
by email at clipvote@gmail.com.
ClipVote.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject,
refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by
you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any
part of the ClipVote Services at any time, particularly in cases listed
under clause 8 of these Terms of Use, with or without prior notice.,
Liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law according
to clauses 12 and 13 of these Terms of Use in such a case.
- Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the ClipVote Services is void where
prohibited. By using the ClipVote Services, you represent and warrant
that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and
accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c)
you are 14 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the ClipVote
Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your
profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without
warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
- Term and Termination.
- This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use
the ClipVote Services or are a Member.
- You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by
following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings
page. ClipVote.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without
warning. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will
remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
- Fees.
ClipVote.com reserves the right to alter, to depart from or to cease
offering its services free of charge at any time, taking into account
ClipVote.com's legitimate interests and reasonable consumer
expectations. ClipVote.com may inform Members by email or by
posting on the ClipVote Website if a service is
to be offered in the future for a fee. You can then decide if you want
to continue to use such service. Your continued use of the service
after the proposed fee modification has been posted for at
least one month will be considered acceptance of the proposed fee
modification. The same applies if fees are raised by ClipVote.com. If
ClipVote.com terminates your Membership because you have breached the
Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused
portion of subscription fees.
- Password.
When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose
a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account,
username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose
your password to any third party. You agree to notify ClipVote.com
immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or
access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all
use of your account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members.
The ClipVote Services are for the personal use of Members only and may
not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those
that are specifically endorsed or approved by ClipVote.com. Illegal
and/or unauthorized use of the ClipVote Services, including collecting
usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other
means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized
framing of or linking to the ClipVote Website is prohibited. Commercial
advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may
be removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in
termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be
taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the ClipVote
Services.
If you are interested in commercial use of ClipVote.com, you must
contact ClipVote by sending an email to
ClipVote
and abiding by any additional terms mutually agreed upon by you and ClipVote,
before starting to use ClipVote Services commercially as defined above.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on ClipVote.com.
- ClipVote.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files,
images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or
any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the
ClipVote Services. After posting your Content to the ClipVote Services,
you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you
continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you
choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or
through the ClipVote Services, you hereby grant to ClipVote.com a limited
license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce,
and distribute such Content on and through the ClipVote
Services. Without this license, ClipVote.com would be unable to provide
the ClipVote Services. For example, without the right to modify Member
Content, ClipVote.com would not be able to digitally compress music
files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy
technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform
Member Content, ClipVote.com could not allow Users to listen to music
posted by Members. The license you grant to ClipVote.com is
non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone
else in addition to ClipVote.com), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning
that ClipVote.com is not required to pay you for the use on the ClipVote
Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that
ClipVote.com is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as
Internet content delivery networks to provide the ClipVote Services),
and worldwide (because the Internet and the ClipVote Services are
global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove
your Content from the ClipVote Services. The license does not grant
ClipVote.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant
ClipVote.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the ClipVote
Services.
- You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by
you on or through the ClipVote Services or otherwise have the right to
grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of
your Content on or through the ClipVote Services does not violate the
privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights
(including copyrights), contract rights or any other rights of any
person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies
owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through
the ClipVote Services.
- The ClipVote Services contain Content of ClipVote.com ("ClipVote.com
Content"). ClipVote.com Content is protected by copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret and other laws, and ClipVote.com owns and retains
all rights in the ClipVote.com Content and the ClipVote
Services. ClipVote.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable,
nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the ClipVote.com
Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in
connection with viewing the ClipVote Website and using the ClipVote
Services.
- The ClipVote Services contain Content of Users and other ClipVote.com
licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify,
translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display,
or sell any Content appearing on or through the ClipVote Services.
- Content Posted.
- ClipVote.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of
ClipVote.com violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal
or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any
person. ClipVote.com assumes no responsibility for monitoring the
ClipVote Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time
ClipVote.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the ClipVote
Services, ClipVote.com nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the
Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content,
and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such
Content.
- You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or
through any of the ClipVote Services, and any material or information
that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with
other Users. ClipVote.com does not endorse and has no control over the
Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by ClipVote.com prior to
posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of
ClipVote.com. ClipVote.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to
the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or any
material or information that you transmit to other Members.
- Content/Activity Prohibited.
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal
or prohibited to post on or through the ClipVote Services. ClipVote.com
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action
against anyone who, in ClipVote.com's sole discretion, violates this
provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
communication from the ClipVote Services and terminating the Membership
of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to
Content that, in the sole discretion of ClipVote.com:
- is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or
physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains
a link to an adult website;
- solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs
or email addresses;
- promotes information that you know is false or misleading or
promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening,
obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's
copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links
to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed
copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated
music files;
- involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or
unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or
"spamming";
- contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages
or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or
provides instructional information about illegal activities including,
but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating
someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for
commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
- involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written
consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid
schemes;
- includes a photograph of another person that you have posted
without that person's consent; or
The following is a partial list of the
kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the ClipVote Website
and through your use of the ClipVote Services. ClipVote.com reserves the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone
who, in ClipVote.com's sole discretion, violates this provision,
including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement
authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
- criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud,
trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment,
stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful
files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade
secrets;
- advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any
products or services through the ClipVote Services. You may not
transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also
a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the
ClipVote Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell
to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to
protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, ClipVote.com
reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may
send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which
ClipVote.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach
this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or
other unsolicited communications of any kind through the ClipVote
Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm
to ClipVote.com, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely
difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you
agree to pay ClipVote.com $50 for each such unsolicited email,
advertisement, junk emails or chain letters or other unsolicited
communication you send, acting culpably, through the ClipVote Services,
regardless of the number of recipients of such email. ClipVote.com is
entitled to additional compensation of damages beyond $ 50. You have
the right to prove that ClipVote.com.s damages are below $ 50;
- covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal
profile page, or any ClipVote.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add
friends or send comments or messages;
- interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the
ClipVote Services or the networks or services connected to the ClipVote
Services;
- attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
- using the account, username, or password of another Member at any
time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any
third party to access your account;
- selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using any information obtained from the ClipVote Services in order
to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
- displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment
or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your
performing any commercial activity on or through the ClipVote Services
on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your
profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose,
selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8"
friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
- using the ClipVote Services in a manner inconsistent with any and
all applicable laws and regulations.
- Copyright Policy.
You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any
copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information
belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the
owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of ClipVote.com to
terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes
the copyright rights of others upon receipt of prompt notification to
ClipVote.com by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal
agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work
has been copied and posted on the ClipVote Services in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent
with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical
signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of
the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work
that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the
material that you claim is infringing is located on the ClipVote
Services; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v)
a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the
disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or
the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that
the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the
copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's
behalf. ClipVote.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright
infringement can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, ClipVote.com,
C/O FJSOFT LLC, 555 Bryant Street #117, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
- Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other ClipVote.com
Members. ClipVote.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy.
Use of the ClipVote Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy,
which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
- Liability Disclaimer.
ClipVote.com will not be responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate
Content posted on the ClipVote Website or in connection with the
ClipVote Services, whether caused by Users of the ClipVote Services or
by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in
the ClipVote Services. Profiles created and posted by Members on the
ClipVote Website may contain links to other websites. ClipVote.com is not
responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such
websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or
checked for accuracy or completeness by ClipVote.com. Inclusion of any
linked website on the ClipVote Services does not imply approval or
endorsement of the linked website by ClipVote.com. When you access these
third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. ClipVote.com takes no
responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this
ClipVote Website or through the ClipVote Services, nor does it take any
responsibility for the goods or services provided by its
advertisers. ClipVote.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any User of the ClipVote Services.
In addition, ClipVote.com assumes no responsibility for any error,
omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or
transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or
unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member
communication. ClipVote.com is not responsible for any problems or
technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer
online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software,
failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic
congestion on the Internet or on any of the ClipVote Services or
combination thereof.
- Exclusion of Warranty.
The ClipVote Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available. ClipVote.com
does not warrant of timely, secure, error- and interruption-free
provision of ClipVote Services. ClipVote.com expressly disclaims any
warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. ClipVote.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any
specific results from use of the ClipVote Services. The exclusion of
warranties does not affect your right of withdrawal.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of
certain types of of warranty or liability, such as liability for death
or personal injury as a result of negligence or fraud of
ClipVote.com. Some of the limitations in clauses 12 and 13 may therefore
not apply to you.
- U.S. Export Controls.
Software available in connection with the ClipVote Services (the
"Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No
Software may be downloaded from the ClipVote Services or otherwise
exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading
or using the Software is at your sole risk.
- Disputes.
If there is any dispute about or involving the ClipVote Services, you
agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of
California, USA, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
If you are a merchant, public-law legal body, or public-law separate
estate and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in
the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State
of California, City of San Francisco.
Either ClipVote.com or you may demand that any dispute between
ClipVote.com and you about or involving the ClipVote Services must be
settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of
the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in California, USA. This does
not apply when you are a consumer, The demand to settle a dispute by
arbitration shall not prevent ClipVote.com from seeking injunctive
relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
- Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold ClipVote.com, its subsidiaries, and
affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and
employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to
or arising out of your use of the ClipVote Services in violation of
this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or
any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above
and/or if any Content that you post on the ClipVote Website or through
the ClipVote Services causes ClipVote.com to be liable to another,
provided that this was caused by culpable conduct.
- Other.
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the ClipVote Website or
any of the ClipVote Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a
Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you
and ClipVote.com regarding the use of the ClipVote Services. The
failure of ClipVote.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision
of this Agreement shall not be seen as a waiver of such right or
provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience
only and have no legal or contractual effect. ClipVote.com is a
trademark of FJSOFT LLC. This agreement is applicable and will be
enforced vigorously to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any
provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that
provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect
the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS WEBSITE,
I AFFIRM THAT I AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
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