Terms of Service:
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Spredfast.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, (taken together, the Website). The Website is owned and operated by Social Agency, Inc. ("Social Agency"). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Social Agency's Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Social Agency (collectively, the "Agreement").
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Social Agency, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
- Your Spredfast.com Account and Site. If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the blog. You must not describe your initiative in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Social Agency may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Social Agency liability. You must immediately notify Social Agency of any unauthorized uses of your blog, your account or any other breaches of security. Social Agency will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
- Responsibility of Contributors.
If you post material to the Website, post material to a third party
site using the Website, or or otherwise make (or allow any third party
to make) material available by means of the Website (any such
material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of,
and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless
of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an
audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you
represent and warrant that:
- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
- you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
- the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- your initiative is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
- your initiative is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company; and
- you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Social Agency or otherwise.
By submitting Content to Social Agency for publication as part of a campaign, you grant Social Agency a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish Content solely for the purpose of implementing and maintaining the Website and fulfilling its obligations hereunder. If you delete Content, Social Agency will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Content" does not include non-identifiable aggregate data and usage statistics compiled by Social Agency in connection with Your use of the Service, which data and statistics each party may use in its discretion (but which Social Agency may not disclose to any third party in a manner that identifies You in connection therewith), and which Social Agency shall make available to You on an ongoing basis during the term hereof.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Social Agency has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Social Agency's sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Social Agency's reasonable opinion, violates any Social Agency policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Social Agency's sole discretion. Social Agency will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
- Fees and Payment. Premium paid services are available on the Website. By selecting a premium service you agree to pay Social Agency the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service. Payments will be charged on the day you sign up for a premium service and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual period as indicated. Premium service fees are not refundable.
- Paid Services.
- Fees; Payment. By signing up for a paid service account you agree to pay Social Agency the setup fees and monthly hosting fees indicated during the signup process in exchange for the services indicated during the signup process. Applicable fees will be invoiced starting from the day your paid services are established and in advance of using such services. Social Agency reserves the right to change the payment terms and fees upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to you. Paid services can be canceled by you at anytime on 30 days written notice to Social Agency.
- Support. Paid Services include access to email support. "Email support" means the ability to make requests for technical support assistance by email at any time (with reasonable efforts by Social Agency to respond within one business day) concerning the use of the paid services. All paid services support will be provided in accordance with Social Agency standard paid services practices, procedures and policies.
- Responsibility of Website Visitors. Social Agency has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Social Agency does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Social Agency disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
- Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which Spredfast.com links, and that link to Spredfast.com. Social Agency does not have any control over those non-Spredfast websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Spredfast website or webpage, Social Agency does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Social Agency disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Spredfast websites and webpages.
- Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As As Social Agency asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by Spredfast.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Social Agency. Social Agency will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Social Agency or others, Social Agency may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Social Agency will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Social Agency.
- Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Social Agency to you any Social Agency or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Social Agency. Social Agency, Spredfast, Spredfast.com, the Spredfast.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Spredfast.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Social Agency or Social Agency's licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Social Agency or third-party trademarks.
- Changes. Social Agency reserves the right, at its
sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It
is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for
changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the
posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of
those changes. Social Agency may also, in the future, offer new services
and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new
tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- Termination. Social Agency may terminate your access
to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause,
with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to
terminate this Agreement or your Spredfast.com account (if you have
one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if you have a paid account, such account can
only be terminated by Social Agency if you materially breach this
Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from
Social Agency's notice to you thereof; provided that, Social Agency can
terminate your initiative immediately as part of a general shut down of
our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature
should survive termination shall survive termination, including,
without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers,
indemnity and limitations of liability.
- Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Social Agency and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Social Agency nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
- Limitation of Liability. In no event will Social Agency, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Social Agency under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Social Agency shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
- General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Social Agency Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Social Agency, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
- Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Social Agency and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Social Agency, or by the posting by Social Agency of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of Texas, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Travis County, Texas. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Social Agency may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
