Terms of Use
Agreement
Welcome to ES40 Technologies. By using the
ES40 Technologies Website (the "Website") you agree to be
bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"), whether or
not you register as a member ("Member"). If you wish to
become a Member and communicate with other Members and make use of
the ES40 Technologies service (the "Service"), read these
Terms of Use and indicate your acceptance of them by following the
instructions in the Registration process.
This Agreement sets
out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website and your
membership in the Service and may be modified by ES40 Technologies
from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by
ES40 Technologies on the Website. This Agreement includes ES40
Technologies Acceptable Use Policy for Content Posted on the Website,
ES40 Technologies Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the
Website. You may also receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us
at: support@es40.net, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
1.
Eligibility.
You must be thirteen or over to register as
a member of ES40 Technologies or use the Website. Membership in the
Service is void where prohibited. By using the Website, you represent
and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter
into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions
of this Agreement.
2. Term.
This
Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the
Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at any
time, for any reason by following the instructions on the Resign
pages in Account Settings, or upon receipt by ES40 Technologies of
your written or email notice of termination. ES40 Technologies may
terminate your membership for any reason, effective upon sending
notice to you at the email address you provide in your application
for membership, or such other email address as you may later provide
to ES40 Technologies. If ES40 Technologies terminates your membership
in the Service because you have breached the Agreement, you will not
be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees. Even after
membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect. Even
after this Agreement is terminated, certain provisions will remain in
effect, including sections 4, 5, 7 and 9-14 of this Agreement.
3.
Non Commercial Use by Members.
The Website is for the
personal use of individual Members only and may not be used in
connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies,
and/or businesses may not become Members and should not use the
Service or the Website for any purpose. Illegal and/or unauthorized
uses of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email
addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of
sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to
the Website will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will
be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and
injunctive redress.
4. Proprietary Rights in Content
on ES40 Technologies.
ES40 Technologies owns and retains
all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website
contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of ES40 Technologies. Except for that information which
is in the public domain or for which you have been given written
permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute,
perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
5.
Content Posted on the Site.
a. You understand and agree
that ES40 Technologies may review and delete any content, messages,
ES40 Technologies Messenger messages, photos or profiles
(collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of ES40
Technologies violate this Agreement or which might be offensive,
illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the
safety of Members.
b. You are solely responsible for the
Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post")
on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
c. By posting
Content to any public area of ES40 Technologies, you automatically
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to
grant, to ES40 Technologies an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,
fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and
distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative
works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and
content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
d.
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is
illegal or prohibited on the Website. ES40 Technologies reserves the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole
discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including
without limitation, removing the offending communication from the
Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes
Content that:
# is patently offensive to the online community,
such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical
harm of any kind against any group or individual;
# harasses
or advocates harassment of another person;
# involves the
transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or
unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
# promotes
information that you know is false, 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;
# contains
restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images
(those not linked to or from another accessible page);
#
provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a
sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from
anyone under 18;
# provides instructional information about
illegal activities such as 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;
and
# engages in commercial activities and/or sales without
our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter,
advertising, and pyramid schemes.
e. You must use the Service
in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and
regulations.
f. You may not include in your Member profile any
telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, or URLs
g.
You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other
Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service.
You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other
Members. Although ES40 Technologies cannot monitor the conduct of its
Members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use
any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse,
or harm another person, or 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, ES40 Technologies 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 ES40 Technologies deems appropriate
in its sole discretion.
6. Copyright
You
may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted
material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without
obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary
rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work
has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the
following information: an electronic or physical signature of the
person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright
interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has
been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is
infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number,
and email address; 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; 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.
7. Subscription.
You may only sign up for 1 subscription to each ES40 Technologies
powered site.
8. Member Disputes.
You are
solely responsible for your interactions with other ES40 Technologies
Members. ES40 Technologies. reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
9.
Privacy.
Use of the Website and/or the Service is also
governed by our Privacy Policy. Use of the Website and/or the Service
is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
10.
Disclaimers.
ES40 Technologies is not responsible for
any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in
connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website,
Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or
utilized in the Service. ES40 Technologies is not responsible for the
conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or
Member of the Service. ES40 Technologies 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, user or
Member communications. ES40 Technologies 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 email or players on account of technical
problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or
combination thereof, including injury or damage to users and/or
Members or to any other person's computer related to or resulting
from participating or downloading materials in connection with the
Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances
will ES40 Technologies be responsible for any loss or damage,
including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of
the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Website or
transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the
Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are
provided "AS-IS" and ES40 Technologies expressly disclaims
any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
ES40 Technologies cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific
results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
11.
Limitation on Liability.
Except in jurisdictions where
such provisions are restricted, in no event will ES40 Technologies be
liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential,
exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also
lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the Service,
even if ES40 Technologies has been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
ES40 Technologies 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 ES40 Technologies for the Service
during the term of membership.
12. U.S. Export
Controls.
Software from this Website (the "Software")
is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may
be downloaded from the Website or otherwise exported or re-exported
(i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North
Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country to which the U.S. has
embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's
list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce
Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the
Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in,
under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country
or on any such list.
13. Disputes.
If
there is any dispute about or involving the Website and/or the
Service, by using the Website, you agree that the dispute will be
governed by the laws of the United States Government without regard
to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction
by and venue in ES40 Technologies.
14. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold ES40 Technologies, its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and
employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand,
including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to
or arising out of your use of the Service 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.
15.
Other.
This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Website
and further affirmed by becoming a Member of the Service, contains
the entire agreement between you and ES40 Technologies regarding the
use of the Website and/or the Service. If any provision of this
Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall
continue in full force and effect.
Please contact us with any
questions regarding this agreement. ES40 Technologies is a trademark
of ES40 Technologies.