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BlockSavvy.com Terms of Use Agreement
June 12, 2006
BlockSavvy.com is a social networking service that allows Residents to
create unique personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with
old and new neighbors. The Services offered by BlockSavvy.com
("BlockSavvy.com" or "we") include the BlockSavvy.com
Website (the "Website"), the BlockSavvy.com instant messenger, and
any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by
BlockSavvy.com in connection with the Website (collectively, the
"Services").
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally
binding terms for your use of the Services. By using the Services, you agree to
be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means
that you simply browse the Website) or you are a "Resident" (which
means that you have registered with BlockSavvy.com). The term "User"
refers to a Visitor or a Resident. You are only authorized to use the Services
(regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by
all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully
and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the Website and
discontinue use of the Services immediately. If you wish to become a Resident,
communicate with other Residents and make use of the Services, you must read
this Agreement and indicate your acceptance at the end of this document before
proceeding to the Registration process.
This Agreement includes BlockSavvy.com's policy for acceptable use of the
Services and Content posted on the Website, your rights, obligations and
restrictions regarding your use of the Services and BlockSavvy.com's Privacy Policy. In order to participate
in certain Services, you may be notified that you are required to download
software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless
otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the
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
emailing us at: privacy@BlockSavvy.com,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
BlockSavvy.com may modify this Agreement from time to time without prior
notification, and such modification shall be effective upon posting by
BlockSavvy.com on the Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this
Agreement when you use the Services after any such modification is 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 BlockSavvy.com and that you
provide to other Users. Your BlockSavvy.com profile may not include the
following items: telephone numbers,
street addresses, last names, and any photographs, videos, or other content
containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually
explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition,
information provided by other BlockSavvy.com Residents (for instance, in their
Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit
material, products or services, and BlockSavvy.com assumes no responsibility or
liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the Services by
any person, please contact BlockSavvy or
click on the "Report Inappropriate
Content" link at the bottom of any BlockSavvy.com page.
BlockSavvy.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to
post or remove any posting (including email) by you, or to restrict, suspend,
or terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, for
any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
- Eligibility.
Use of the Services and Residence is void where prohibited. By using the
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 Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your
profile may be deleted and your Residence may be terminated without
warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
- Term. This
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services
or are a Resident. You may terminate your Residence at any time, for any
reason, by following the instructions on the Resident's Account Settings page. BlockSavvy.com may terminate
your Residence at any time, without warning. Even after Residence is
terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
- Fees. You
acknowledge that BlockSavvy.com reserves the right to charge for the
Services and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If
BlockSavvy.com terminates your Residence 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 Resident, 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 Resident at any time or to disclose your password to any third
party. You agree to notify BlockSavvy.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
Residents. The Services are for the personal use of Residents
only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors
except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by BlockSavvy.com.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting
usernames and/or email addresses of Residents by electronic or other means
for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate
links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Resident
profiles without notice and may result in termination of Residence
privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or
unauthorized use of the Services.
- Proprietary Rights in
Content on BlockSavvy.com.
- By displaying or
publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files,
images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any
other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the
Services, you hereby grant to BlockSavvy.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid
and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through
unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate,
publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and
distribute such Content on and through the Services. This license will
terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. You represent
and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the
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
Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights,
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 Services.
- The Services contain
Content of BlockSavvy.com ("BlockSavvy.com Content").
BlockSavvy.com Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret and other laws, and BlockSavvy.com owns and retains all
rights in the BlockSavvy.com Content and the Services. BlockSavvy.com
hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to
reproduce and display the BlockSavvy.com Content (excluding any software
code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the Website
and using the Services.
- The Services contain
Content of Users and other BlockSavvy.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 Services.
- Content Posted.
- BlockSavvy.com may
delete any Content that in the sole judgment of BlockSavvy.com violates
this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights,
harm, or threaten the safety of any person. BlockSavvy.com assumes no responsibility
for monitoring the Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at
any time BlockSavvy.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the
Services, BlockSavvy.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
Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other
Residents and for your interactions with other Users. BlockSavvy.com does
not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not
necessarily reviewed by BlockSavvy.com prior to posting and does not
necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of BlockSavvy.com.
BlockSavvy.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 Residents.
- 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 Services.
BlockSavvy.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate
legal action against anyone who, in BlockSavvy.com's sole discretion,
violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the
offending communication from the Services and terminating the Residence of
such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content
that, in the sole discretion of BlockSavvy.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;
- 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
- for band, filmmaker and
any other commercial or promotional profiles, uses sexually suggestive
imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to
draw traffic to the profile.
The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or
prohibited on the Website and through your use of the Services. BlockSavvy.com
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against
anyone who, in BlockSavvy.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 Resident to buy or sell any products or services
through the Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk
email to other Residents. It is also a violation of these rules to use
any information obtained from the Services in order to contact, advertise
to, solicit, or sell to any Resident without their prior explicit
consent. In order to protect our Residents from such advertising or
solicitation, BlockSavvy.com reserves the right to restrict the number of
emails which a Resident may send to other Residents in any 24-hour period
to a number which BlockSavvy.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
Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to
BlockSavvy.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 BlockSavvy.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or other
unsolicited communication you send through the Services;
- covering or obscuring
the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any
BlockSavvy.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any automated use of
the system, such as using scripts to add neighbors;
- interfering with,
disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Services or the networks
or services connected to the Services;
- attempting to
impersonate another Resident or person;
- for band profiles, copying the code for your BlockSavvy Player
and embedding it into other profiles or asking other Residents to embed it
into their profiles;
- using the account,
username, or password of another Resident 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 Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another
person; or
- using the 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 BlockSavvy.com to
terminate Residence privileges of any Resident who repeatedly infringes
the copyright rights of others upon receipt of prompt notification to
BlockSavvy.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 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 Website; (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. BlockSavvy.com's
Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be
reached as follows: 213 W. 4th St. Suite 203, Austin, TX 78701, Attn: Copyright Agent; and email: copyrightagent@BlockSavvy.com.
- Resident Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other BlockSavvy.com
Residents. BlockSavvy.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Residents.
- Privacy. Use
of the Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is
incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
- Disclaimers.
BlockSavvy.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content
posted on the Website or in connection with the Services provided, whether
caused by Users of the Services or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the Services. Profiles created and posted
by Residents on BlockSavvy.com may contain links to other websites.
BlockSavvy.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 BlockSavvy.com.
Inclusion of any linked website on BlockSavvy.com does not imply approval
or endorsement of the linked website by BlockSavvy.com. When you access
these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. BlockSavvy.com takes
no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this
Website or through the Services, nor does it take any responsibility for
the goods or services provided by its advertisers. BlockSavvy.com is not
responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the
Services. BlockSavvy.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 Resident
communication. BlockSavvy.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 Services or combination thereof, including
any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or
resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with
the Services. Under no circumstances shall BlockSavvy.com be responsible
for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from
use of the Services, attendance at a BlockSavvy.com event, from any
Content posted on or through the Services, or from the conduct of any
Users of the Services, whether online or offline. The Services are
provided "AS-IS" and as available and BlockSavvy.com expressly
disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. BlockSavvy.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any
specific results from use of the Services.
- Limitation on
Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL BLOCKSAVVY.COM BE LIABLE TO YOU OR
ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF BLOCKSAVVY.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY
CONTAINED HEREIN, BLOCKSAVVY.COM'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE
WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE
LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO BLOCKSAVVY.COM FOR THE
SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF RESIDENTSHIP.
- U.S. Export Controls.
Software available in connection with the Services (the
"Software") is further subject to United States export controls.
No Software may be downloaded from the Services or otherwise exported or
re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. By downloading or using the
Software, you represent and warrant that such download or use is not in
violation of any such law.
- Disputes. If
there is any dispute about or involving the Services, you agree that the
dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas without regard
to conflict of law provisions and you agree to personal jurisdiction by
and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of Texas, City of
Austin. Either BlockSavvy.com or you may demand that any dispute between
BlockSavvy.com and you arising out of this Agreement must be settled by
arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American
Arbitration Association (AAA) in Austin, Texas.
- Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold BlockSavvy.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 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
Website or through the Services causes BlockSavvy.com to be liable to
another.
- Other. This
Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website or any of the Services
and is further affirmed by you becoming a Resident. This Agreement
constitutes the entire agreement between you and BlockSavvy.com regarding
the use of the Services. The failure of BlockSavvy.com to exercise or
enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate 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.
BlockSavvy.com is a trademark of BlockSavvy, Inc. This Agreement operates
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.
Contact
BlockSavvy with any questions regarding this Agreement.
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