Online Terms of Use
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW (THE "TERMS")
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
(THE "SITE") OF VASTWAVE ("vastwave") AND ARE LEGALLY
BINDING ON YOU.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS
OR OTHERWISE USE THIS SITE OR ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED ON
THE SITE.
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE YOUR AGREEMENT
TO ABIDE BY EACH OF THE TERMS SET FORTH BELOW.
VASTWAVE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE THESE TERMS AT ANY
TIME AND WE SHALL NOTIFY YOU OF SUCH REVISIONS BY POSTING AN
UPDATED VERSION OF THESE TERMS ON THE SITE.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REGULARLY REVIEWING THESE TERMS.
YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SITE SHALL CONSTITUTE YOUR CONSENT
TO SUCH CHANGES.
General Use Restrictions
All information, documents, products, software and
services provided on this Site, including trademarks, logos, graphics and
images that are not Submissions (as defined below) (the "Materials") are
provided to you by vastwave or vastwave's licensors or partner
entities, as applicable.
Vastwave grants you the limited right to display the
Materials only on your personal computer, and to copy and download
the Materials displayed on this Site, provided that: (1) both the
vastwave copyright notice (set forth below) and this permission notice appear in
the Materials so displayed, copied or downloaded, (2) such display, copy or
download is solely for your personal or internal informational use (that is,
not distributed or otherwise transmitted outside of your home or company, or
otherwise broadcast in any media). You acknowledge and agree
that you have no right to modify, edit, alter or enhance
any of the Materials in any manner. This limited license
terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach
any of these Terms. Upon termination of this limited license,
you agree to immediately destroy any electronic or
printed Materials.
Except as stated herein, you acknowledge that you
have no right, title or interest in or to the Materials on any legal basis,
without the advance written authorization of vastwave.
Third Party Content
Third parties may provide certain information and
content to vastwave ("Third Party Content").
The Third Party Content is, in each case, the
copyrighted work of the creator/licensor, and may be subject to terms of use
and/or privacy policies of such third parties.
Please contact the appropriate third party for further information
regarding such terms.
Vastwave
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO CONTENT PROVIDED BY
THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
No Framing
You agree not to reproduce, transmit, display,
distribute, "frame" or "mirror" any Materials on this Site on any other server
or Internet-based device without the advance written authorization of
vastwave
or its licensors, respectively.
Links To Third Party Sites
This Site may provide links to other Web sites or
resources over which vastwave does not have control
("External Web sites"). Such links do not
constitute an endorsement by vastwave of those External Web sites.
You acknowledge that vastwave is
providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that
vastwave
is not responsible for the content of such External Web
sites. Your use of External Web sites is
subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to
External Web sites.
Privacy Policy
Your use of the Site is governed by the
vastwave
Privacy Policy that is available at
http://www.vastwave.com/
(the "Privacy Policy").
Password Restricted Areas of the Site
Certain areas of the Site may be password-restricted
to authorized users that become members ("Restricted Areas").
If you are an authorized member of the
Restricted Areas, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your password and account, and agree to notify vastwave if your password
is lost, stolen, or disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or otherwise may
have been compromised. You are responsible for activities that occur under your
account. You agree to immediately notify vastwave of any unauthorized
use of your account or any other breach of security in relation to the Site
known to you.
Submissions
You acknowledge that you are responsible for the
information and material that you submit to the Site (each a "Submission"), and
that you, and not vastwave, will have full responsibility for each such
Submission, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality
and copyright. Unless otherwise
explicitly stated herein or in the Privacy Policy, you agree that any
Submission provided by you in connection with this Site is provided on a
non-proprietary and non-confidential basis.
You agree that vastwave shall be free to use or disseminate a
Submission on an unrestricted basis for any purpose and if you submit
information to the Site, you grant vastwave a nonexclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free license to (in any media now known or not currently known or
invented) link to, utilize, use, copy, exploit, and prepare derivative works of
the Submission, provided, that vastwave agrees to use any personally
identifiable information included in your Submissions in accordance with
vastwave's
Privacy Policy. YOU
RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS APPLICABLE
TO ANY INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT TO vastwave.
Posting Etiquette
vastwave asks that you respect our on-line
community and other individuals. When
submitting Submissions to or otherwise using the Site and/or the services, you
agree not to:
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Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the
legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
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Impersonate or represent vastwave, our staff or other
industry professionals.
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Solicit a member's password or other account information.
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Harvest user names, addresses, or email addresses for any purpose.
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Use racially, ethnically, or otherwise offensive language.
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Incite illegal activity.
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Use explicit/obscene language or solicit/post sexually explicit
images (actual or simulated).
This list of prohibitions is an example and is not
complete or exclusive. These
prohibitions do not require vastwave to monitor or remove any
Submissions or other information submitted by you or any other user.
Vastwave
reserves the right to
terminate your access to your account, your ability to access and post to the
Site or to receive the services with or without cause and with or without
notice, or for any action that vastwave determines is inappropriate or
disruptive to the Site, services or to any other user of the Site and/or
services. You hereby agree to waive any
claims against vastwave and its affiliates, contractors, agents and
employees for losses, damages and injuries for which are based on or relate to communications
or materials made available to the Site or posted on the Site by persons other
than vastwave.
Vastwave
may report to law enforcement authorities any actions that may be illegal, and
any reports it receives of such conduct.
When legally required or at vastwave's discretion,
vastwave
will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any investigation of
alleged illegal activity on the Site.
Trademarks and Copyrights
The trademarks, service marks, brands, names, logos
and designs ("Trademarks") of vastwave or others used on this
Site are the property of vastwave or their respective owners. You may
not remove or alter any Trademark. You may not use any trademark displayed on
the Site without the express prior written permission of vastwave or the
respective owner, and nothing contained on this Site grants by implication,
waiver, estoppel or otherwise, any right to use such trademarks.
All of the Materials appearing on this Site,
including but not limited to, text elements, site design, images and icons, as
well as the selection, assembly and arrangement thereof, are the sole property
of
vastwave, Copyright © 2010
,
unless otherwise specified. All rights not expressly
granted herein are reserved. Except as
otherwise required by applicable law, any reproduction, distribution,
modification, retransmission or publication of any copyrighted material is
strictly prohibited without the express written consent of the copyright
owner.
Copyright Agents
Notification:
Vastwave respects the intellectual property rights of
others, and we ask you to do the same. vastwave may, in appropriate
circumstances and at our discretion, terminate service and/or access to this
Site for users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you
believe that your work is the subject of copyright infringement and/or
trademark infringement and appears on our Site, please provide vastwave's
designated agent the following information:
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A physical or electronic
signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an
exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
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Identification of the
copyrighted and/or trademarked work claimed to have been infringed, or, if
multiple works at a single online site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
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Identification of the
material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of
infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be
disabled at the Site, and information reasonably sufficient to permit vastwave to locate the material.
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Information reasonably sufficient to permit
vastwave to contact you as the complaining party, such
as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an
electronic mail address at which you may be contacted.
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A statement that you
have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained
of is not authorized by the copyright and/or trademark owner, its agent,
or the law.
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A statement that the
information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury,
that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed.
Vastwave's agent for notice of claims of copyright or
trademark infringement on this Site can be reached as follows:
By mail:
Legal Counsel, vastwave
1256 Westwood Street
Redwood City, CA 94061
By e-mail: legal@vastwavecom
Please also note that for copyright infringements
under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially
misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to
liability.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
vastwave
and its affiliates, representatives, partners, agents and
employees from and against any and all liabilities, claims, costs and expenses,
including attorneys' fees, that arise out of or in connection with your use of
the Site or breach of these Terms.
Disclaimer of Warranty
You acknowledge and agree that this Site may include
certain errors, omissions, outdated information which may affect the quality of
the Materials. You acknowledge that the
Materials have not been independently verified or authenticated in whole or in
part by vastwave, and agree that vastwave does not warrant the
accuracy or timeliness of the Materials and further agree that vastwave
has no liability for any errors or omissions in the Materials, whether provided
by vastwave or its licensors.
Vastwave, FOR ITSELF AND EACH OF ITS
LICENSORS, MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR GUARANTEES AS TO THE
QUALITY, SUITABILITY, TRUTH, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION OR
MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE MATERIALS AND
ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT. UNLESS
OTHERWISE EXPLICITLY STATED, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
THE SITE AND ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THE SITE IS PROVIDED TO
YOU ON AN "AS IS" AND "WHERE-IS" BASIS, AND IS FOR PERSONAL USE
ONLY. ALL CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY
IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.
Limitation of Liability
NEITHER vastwave NOR ANY OF ITS PARTNERS,
AGENTS, AFFILIATES, THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PROVIDERS SHALL BE LIABLE
TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY FORM OF DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES)
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE USE OR ATTEMPTED USE OF THE SITE, OR ANY
EXTERNAL WEB SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE, OR THE MATERIALS ON THE SITE, HOWEVER
ARISING, WHETHER FOR BREACH OR IN TORT, EVEN IF vastwave WAS INFORMED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
General
Vastwave controls and operates this Site from
its headquarters in the United States and makes no representation that the
Materials are appropriate or will be available for use in locations other than
the United States. If you use this Site
from outside the United States, you are entirely responsible for compliance
with applicable local laws, including but not limited to the export and import
regulations of other countries in relation to the Materials.
These Terms will be governed by California
law and United States federal law, without regard to the choice or conflicts of
law provisions of any jurisdiction. You
shall bring all disputes, actions, claims, or causes of action related to these
Terms or in connection with this Site only in the federal and state courts
located in Santa Clara County, California.
If any provision of these Terms is held by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed,
as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties, with all other
provisions remaining in full force and effect.
The failure of vastwave to enforce any right or provision in
these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless
acknowledged and agreed to by vastwave in writing.
The Terms comprises the entire agreement
between you and vastwave and supersede all prior or contemporaneous
negotiations, discussions or agreements, if any, between the parties regarding
the subject matter contained herein.