INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our Intellectual Property

You acknowledge and agree that the Services contain works of authorship (for example, but without limitation, software), inventions, brands, and content) (“Our Intellectual Property”) that is protected by copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and/or other laws, regulations and rules and is owned by us and/or our licensors or affiliates.

Without limitation, unless otherwise designated, we own all Our Intellectual Property, including, without limitation, all the trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services (“Our Trademarks”). Nothing in these Terms or otherwise grants any license or right to use any of Our Trademarks. You may not delete, change or modify in any way the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property notices contained in the Services. All goodwill generated from the use of Our Trademarks will inure to our exclusive benefit.

Your use of prints, images or screen captures from the Services is limited to your personal, non-commercial use. You may not use any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods in connection with your use of the Services unless provided by us as part of the Services. You will not reproduce, distribute copies of, prepare derivative works based upon, publicly perform, publicly display, train artificial intelligence on, or otherwise use, exploit, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, or attempt to sell, assign, sublicense, or otherwise transfer any right in or to Our Intellectual Property.

Third-party Intellectual Property

Certain of the Services and the Products contain images, photographs, layouts, designs and other content that may consist of the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names and other intellectual property of third parties (collectively, the “Third-party Content”). Third-party Content is provided for your convenience for the specific purposes for which we have provided it. You may not use Third-party Content:

  • For any other purposes whatsoever without the prior express authorization of its owner;
  • Except solely as incorporated into a Product, or otherwise download it in its original, unaltered form outside the Service;
  • In any manner that would violate the Prohibited Uses of the Services section of these Terms; or
  • As a trademark, service mark, or logo.

Prohibited Uses of the Services

You are solely responsible for Your Content that you Transmit via the Services. We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms, including, without limitation, removing any offending content from the Services, suspending or terminating any account of such violator(s) and reporting such violator(s) to appropriate law enforcement authorities. As a condition for accessing and using the Services, you agree not to use the Services to:

  • Transmit any content that (a) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, violent, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, vulgar, obscene, pornographic (involving minors or otherwise), hateful or abusive, or otherwise similarly objectionable, (b) portrays any person depicted therein in a manner that a reasonable person would find offensive or portrays any person [1] in connection with pornography, “adult videos,” adult entertainment venues, escort services, dating services, or the like, [2] in connection with the advertisement or promotion of tobacco products, [3] as suffering from, or medicating for, a physical or mental ailment, or [4] engaging in immoral or criminal activities, (c) poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person, (d) constitutes unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, contests, sweepstakes or any other form of solicitation, (e) characterizes any unlawful or immoral activity as acceptable, glamorous or desirable, (f) glamorizes the use or “hard-core” illegal substances or drugs, (g) denigrates or offends any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group, or persons who are physically or mentally challenged, (h) makes inappropriate use of swastikas or other symbols of racism or intolerance and/or glamorizes the actions of Hitler or other individuals or groups advocating ethnic cleansing, genocide, the erasure or destruction of a country or its government, civilization or ethnic group, or similar activities, (i) uses messages, marks or symbols that support cults or conspiracy theories that have been disproven or that are rooted, in whole or in part, in intolerance or (j) contains images or likeness of, or identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly with, minors without the valid authority to do so;
  • Harass another person by any means including, without limitation, by using their email account, address or password, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
  • Violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, regulation or rule;
  • Transmit or make available any content that you do not have the lawful right to Transmit, that would infringe the intellectual or proprietary rights of any third party (including, without limitation, copyright, trade secret, trademark, service mark or patent rights), or that would violate any person’s right of privacy or publicity;
  • Engage in any conduct that would interrupt, destroy, limit or harm the Services or enable you to gain unauthorized access to the Services, including, without limitation, by using viruses, Trojan horses, worms or malicious computer code, programs or files;
  • Reproduce, copy, sell, or commercially use (including, without limitation, the right to access) the Services, including, without limitation, using the Services to facilitate the fulfillment by us of orders for Services or Products placed by third parties through you;
  • Solicit personal information from anyone under the age of eighteen (18);
  • Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Services by electronic or other means; or
  • Further or promote any criminal activity or provide instructional information about illegal activities.

In case of any violation of the above, and without limitation, we reserve the right to terminate your account and/or block you from accessing the Services and disclose any information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests, (b) enforce these Terms, (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or the public.

Information You Provide

Any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Services (“Submissions”) provided by you to us are non-confidential, and we will be entitled to the unrestricted use and distribution of Submissions for any purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

Practices Regarding Use and Storage of Your Content

We may preserve Your Content and may also delete or disclose Your Content if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests, (b) enforce these Terms, (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or the public.

We may establish practices and limits concerning use of the Services, including, without limitation, the maximum period of time that data or other content is retained by the Services and the maximum storage space that will be allotted on our servers on your behalf. We will have no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any data or other content maintained or Transmitted by or to the Services. You acknowledge and agree that we reserve the right to terminate accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time, such time to be determined in our sole discretion. You further acknowledge and agree that we reserve the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice.

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