socialDragon
TERMS OF SERVICE
Welcome
to www.socialDragon.com.
This Website is owned and operated by socialDragon, Inc.
(“socialDragon,” “we,” or “us”)
and provides access to various products and services, including, but
not limited to, the socialDragon Advertising Interactions Network
Service (“Advertising Interactions Service,” “Network,”
or “Service”), subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in these Terms of Service (“Agreement,” or “Terms
of Service”).
IMPORTANT
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. THIS AGREEMENT IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT
BETWEEN SOCIALDRAGON AND YOU (EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR A SINGLE
ENTITY). THIS AGREEMENT, ALONG WITH ANY GUIDELINES THAT MAY BE
POSTED ON THE WEBSITE OR A PARTICULAR ADVERTISING INTERACTIONS
NETWORK, SETS FORTH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH YOU MAY ACCESS
AND USE THE WEBSITE AND SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS,
YOU MAY NOT USE THE WEBSITE OR SERVICE.
1.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE. You acknowledge and agree that by using
the Website or any Advertising Interactions Network, in any way, you
consent to these Terms of Service. For clarity, by uploading,
posting, publishing, displaying or making available any information,
data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video,
messages, tags or other materials, whether created by or for You,
(“Submission(s)”) on or through the Website, or any
Advertising Interactions Network, you consent to these Terms of
Service and your Submission(s) are subject to the licenses and other
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. In order to use
the Website and Service, You must be at least 18 years of age, or an
emancipated minor, or Your account must be created by Your legal
guardian and they agree to these Terms of Service on Your behalf.
Importantly, by agreeing to these Terms of Service, you also consent
to our Privacy Policy.
2.
GUIDELINES. Specific Advertising Interactions Networks may be
subject to additional guidelines, technical
and non-technical specifications, and other rules and policies
(“Guidelines”). Such Guidelines will be posted on the
Website or the applicable Advertising Interactions Network. All such
Guidelines are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of
Service.
3.
MODIFICATIONS. socialDragon may modify this Agreement from
time to time, in its sole discretion, or may modify, suspend or
discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website or any
particular Advertising Interactions Network, or any feature thereof,
with or without notice, and without liability to You. Modifications
to these Terms of Service, including, but not limited to, any
Guidelines, will be posted on the relevant area of the Website and
will be effective immediately upon posting. You agree to review the
Terms of Service from time to time to ensure you are updated as to
any modifications. By continuing to use the Website or Service
following any such modification, You accept and agree to be bound by
such modifications. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO YOU,
YOUR SOLE REMEDY AND RECOURSE IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE WEBSITE OR
SERVICE.
4.
REGISTRATION. In order to use certain features of the Website
or applicable Service, You will have to register and create a unique,
password-protected account (“Your Account”). You agree
to: (a) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information as
prompted by the registration form; and (b) maintain and update such
information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete at all
times. socialDragon reserves the right to delete Your Account
without warning if you are found to have misrepresented your age or
any of the registration information submitted. You are responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and email
address. You agree to (a) immediately notify socialDragon of any
unauthorized use of your password or account, or any other breach of
security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end
of each session. You will be solely responsible for safeguarding
Your password and also for any actions under Your password and
Account, whether authorized by You or not. socialDragon cannot and
will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure
to comply with this section.
5.
ACCESS. Subject to Your acceptance and compliance with these
Terms of Service, socialDragon hereby grants You permission to access
and use the Website, provided that You shall not (and not allow third
party to): (i) modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any
portion of the Website and/or Advertising Interactions Service; (ii)
remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices
contained in or on the Website and/or Advertising Interactions
Service or in or on any content or other material obtained via the
Website and/or Advertising Interactions Service; (iii) use any robot,
spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device,
process or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of the
Website and/or Advertising Interactions Service; (iv) access,
retrieve or index any portion of the Website and/or Advertising
Interactions Service for purposes of constructing or populating a
searchable database of business reviews; (v) collect or harvest any
information about other users or members (including usernames and/or
email addresses) for any purpose; (vi) reformat or frame any portion
of the web pages that are part of the Website and/or Advertising
Interactions Service; (vii) create user accounts by automated means
or under false or fraudulent pretenses; (viii) create or transmit
unwanted electronic communications such as “spam” to
other users or members of the Website and/or Advertising Interactions
Service or otherwise interfere with other users’ or members’
enjoyment of the Website and/or Advertising Interactions Service;
(ix) transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other
items of a destructive nature; (x) use the Website or Advertising
Interactions Service to violate the security of any computer network,
crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store
illegal material, including any material that may be deemed
threatening or obscene; (xi) copy or store any Content offered on the
Website for other than your own personal, non-commercial use; (xii)
use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper
working of the Website and/or Advertising Interactions Service, or
otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website
and/or Advertising Interactions Service; (xiii) take any action that
imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion, an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on our IT infrastructure; (xiv) use the
Website and/ or Advertising Interactions Service, intentionally or
unintentionally, to violate any applicable local, state, national or
international law; or (xv) collect or store personal data about other
users in connection with the prohibited activities described in this
paragraph.
6.
SUBMISSIONS
6.1
Your Ownership Rights. Subject to the licenses You are granting
hereunder, You retain all right, title and interest, including
without limitation all worldwide intellectual property rights, in and
to Your Submissions. We shall not acquire any right, title or
interest in or to Your Submissions, except as provided herein.
6.2
Licenses.
6.2.1 Commercial
License. You hereby grant socialDragon a worldwide, perpetual,
royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable and
transferable right and license to use, reproduce, store, host, index,
cache, distribute (through multiple tiers), publicly perform,
publicly display, (each of the foregoing in any form, medium or
technology now known or later developed), modify and adapt including
without limitation the right to adapt for streaming, downloading,
broadcasting, distribution, publicly displaying, publicly performing
(each of the foregoing in any form, medium or technology now known or
later developed), create derivative works from, and exercise all
aforesaid rights with respect to such derivative works, and otherwise
exploit in any manner, Your Submissions or any part thereof. You
hereby expressly waive any and all so-called moral rights You may
have in Your Submissions.
6.2.2 Non-commercial
Creative Commons License. Notwithstanding the licenses set forth
above or in any applicable Guidelines, You hereby grant to any
persons or entities who want to use Your Submissions in a manner not
intended for commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, a
right to use, reproduce, publicly perform, distribute and display
Your Submissions for non-commercial purposes pursuant to the terms
and conditions of the Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License, available at:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/.
In addition, with respect to the license set forth herein, You
hereby expressly waive any and all so-called moral rights You may
have in Your Submissions.
6.2.3 Feedback.
As part of the Service, socialDragon may provide bulletin boards,
blogs, instant messaging, wikis and the like for posting user
feedback, comments or other input, including but not limited to, on
the Website and Service. You understand and acknowledge that,
subject and pursuant to the licenses set forth hereunder,
socialDragon may display Your Feedback on the Website and use it for
other marketing and business activities. In addition, socialDragon
may in its sole discretion decide not to use Your Feedback, delete it
from the Website, and even edit Your Feedback for both content and
format.
6.3
Pornographic Content. You will not use the Website or Service
to display, distribute or make available any material that is sexual,
pornographic, erotic, obscene, indecent or profane in its use of
sexual language or description or depictions of sexual acts
(hereinafter, “Pornographic Content”) nor upload, email,
post, publish, distribute, transmit, submit or otherwise make
available through the Website or Service any Pornographic Content.
If socialDragon finds a Submission or other content that it
determines, in its sole discretion, contains Pornographic Content,
socialDragon may, without notice, remove or block access to such
content and terminate Your Account.
6.4
Infringing Content. You will not use the Website or Service for
any purpose or in any manner that infringes the intellectual property
rights of any third party. You will not upload, email, post,
publish, distribute, transmit, submit or otherwise make available
through the Website any content that infringes the intellectual
property rights of any third party. If socialDragon finds content
that it determines, in its sole discretion, contains infringing
content, socialDragon may, without notice, remove or block access to
such content and terminate Your Account. Without limiting the
foregoing, Your use of the Website and Service is governed by the
socialDragon Copyright Policy contained in Section 7.
6.5
Authority. You hereby represent and warrant to socialDragon
that: (i) You have all the requisite power and authority, corporate
or otherwise, to enter into this Agreement, conduct Yourself and Your
business and to execute, deliver, and perform all of Your obligations
under this Agreement; (ii) You are the owner - or the authorized
agent of the owner - of Your Submissions; (iii) You have the right to
grant the licenses granted under this Agreement; (iv) Your
performance under this Agreement and/or the rights granted herein do
not and will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of
any of the terms or provisions, or constitute a default under any
contract or agreement, to which You are currently bound or will
become bound in the future; (v) Your performance under this Agreement
will comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations
(including, without limitation, export control, privacy and obscenity
laws), domestic or foreign. In addition, You hereby represent and
warrant that Your Submissions and socialDragon’s use thereof
pursuant to this Agreement, (i) do not and will not, directly or
indirectly, violate, infringe or breach any duty toward or rights of
any person or entity, including without limitation any copyright,
trademark, service mark, trade secret, other intellectual property,
publicity or privacy right; (ii) do not contain Pornographic Content;
(iii) are not fraudulent, misleading, hateful, tortuous, defamatory,
slanderous, libelous, abusive, violent, threatening, profane, vulgar
or obscene; (iv) do not harass others, promote bigotry, racism,
hatred or harm against any individual or group, promote
discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual
orientation or age, or otherwise interfere with another party’s
use of the Website; (v) do not promote illegal or harmful activities
or substances or provide instructional information about activities
such as making or buying illegal weapons or substances; (vi) are not
illegal, unlawful or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state
or country where, as applicable, Your Submissions are created,
displayed or accessed; (vii) do not contain any adware, malware,
spyware, computer programming routines, software or viruses that are
intended to damage, interfere with or in any way limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment, intercept or expropriate any system
data or personal information, permit unauthorized access to the
Service or any part thereof or disable, damage or erase any portion
of the content or advertisements processed or stored therein; or
(viii) do not constitute unsolicited bulk email, junk mail, spam or
chain letters.
7.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
7.1
DMCA Policy. socialDragon shall: (i) block access to, or
remove material that it believes in good faith infringes copyright of
a third party; and (ii) remove and discontinue service to repeat
infringers.
7.2
DMCA Notice. Copyright owners or any agents thereof who
believe that any Content infringes upon their copyrights may submit a
notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the
following information in writing ( see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further
detail):
i.
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed;
ii.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been
infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site
are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such
works at that site;
iii.
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 and information reasonably
sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
iv.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to
contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available,
an electronic mail;
v.
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 owner, its agent, or the law; and
vi.
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.
vii.
Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as
follows:
socialDragon,
Inc
27702
Crown Valley Parkway
Suite
#D-4, #285
Ladera
Ranch, CA 92694.
Email:
info@socialDragon.com
Please
also note that under Section 512(f) any person who knowingly
materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may
be subject to liability.
7.3 Counter-Notification.
If You elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be
a written communication provided to our designated agent that
includes substantially the following (please consult your legal
counsel or see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g)(3) to confirm these
requirements):
i.
A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.
ii.
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which
access has been disabled and the location at which the material
appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
iii.
A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good
faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of
mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or
disabled.
iv.
The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a
statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal
District Court for the judicial district in which the address is
located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of the United
States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may
be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from
the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an
agent of such person.
8.
OWNERSHIP. You acknowledge and agree that the Website and
Service use and contain proprietary and confidential technology and
information owned by or licensed to socialDragon, and protected by
applicable intellectual property and other laws and international
treaties. The content displayed on or through the Website and
Service, including without limitation all information, data, text,
software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags,
or other materials (collectively, “socialDragon Content”)
is copyrighted by socialDragon and its licensors under United States
and international copyright laws. Other than with respect to Your
Submissions, and as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the
socialDragon Content may not be copied, modified, reproduced,
republished, posted, transmitted, sold, offered for sale, or
redistributed in any way without the prior written permission of
socialDragon. You must abide by all copyright notices, information,
or restrictions contained in or attached to any socialDragon Content.
socialDragon and the socialDragon logo, as well as certain other of
the words and logos displayed on the Website, constitute trademarks,
trade names, or service marks (“Marks”) of socialDragon
or other entities. You are not authorized to use any such Marks.
Ownership of all such Marks and the goodwill associated therewith
remains with socialDragon or those other entities.
9.
INDEMNITY. You will indemnify, defend and hold socialDragon and
its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, successors, agents,
affiliates, subsidiaries and relevant third parties including
advertisers, distribution partners, referral partners, service
providers, licensors, licensees, consultants and contractors
(collectively the “socialDragon Entities”) harmless from
and against any claims, liabilities, losses, costs, damages or
expenses including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs,
directly or indirectly, arising out of or in any way relating to: (i)
Your negligence or misconduct; (ii) Your Submissions or any other
information or material You submit; (iii) Your conduct, including
Your use of the Website and Service; (iv) any violation or breach of
this Agreement; or (v) any violation or infringement of any
intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality or
proprietary rights of any third-party as a result of Your use of the
Website or the Advertising Interactions Service (collectively, the
“Claims”). You are solely responsible for defending any
such Claims, and for payment of losses, costs, damages or expenses
resulting from the foregoing to both a third party and to the
socialDragon Entities. socialDragon shall have the right, in its
sole discretion, to select its own legal counsel to defend
socialDragon from any Claims (but by doing so shall not excuse Your
indemnity obligations) and You shall be solely responsible for the
payment of all socialDragon’s reasonable attorneys’ fees
incurred in connection therewith. You shall notify socialDragon
immediately if You become aware of any actual or potential claims,
suits, actions, allegations or charges that could affect Your or
socialDragon’s ability to fully perform their respective duties
or to exercise its rights under this Agreement. You shall not,
without the prior written approval of socialDragon, settle, dispose
or enter into any proposed settlement or resolution of any Claim
(whether having been finally adjudicated or otherwise) brought
against You, if such settlement or resolution results in any
obligation or liability for socialDragon.
10.
WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
10.1
Your use of the Website and the Advertising Interactions Service is
at Your sole discretion and risk. The Website, Advertising
Interactions Service and all materials, information, products and
services included therein, are provide on an "AS IS" and
"AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind.
SOCIALDRAGON AND ITS LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, RELATING TO THE WEBSITE AND
SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES OF TITLE,
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE.
10.2
socialDragon and its licensors expressly disclaim any warranties:
(i) regarding the security, accuracy, reliability, timeliness and
performance of the Website or Service; (ii) regarding the goods,
services, advice, information or links provided by any third party;
(iii) that the Website or Service will meet Your requirements; or
(iv) that the Website or Service will be error-free or uninterrupted.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by You
from socialDragon or from Your use of the Website or Service, shall
create any warranty not expressly stated in this Agreement.
10.3
Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain
warranties. Accordingly, some of the above exclusions may not apply
to You.
11. LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY
11.1
THE SOCIALDRAGON ENTITIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES
(INCLUDING LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE
PRODUCTS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION), WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT,
WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER
LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT,
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND/ OR THE ADVERTISING INTERACTIONS SERVICE,
ANY MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO YOU FROM OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE (INCLUDING
SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES), WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARE
FORESEEABLE AND WHETHER OR NOT SOCIALDRAGON HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOCIALDRAGON'S LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY
THIRD PARTY FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF
ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY
YOU TO SOCIALDRAGON FOR THE WEBSITE AND/ OR THE ADVERTISING
INTERACTIONS SERVICE.
11.2 You
acknowledge that the limitations set forth above are an essential
basis of the bargain and of the allocation of risks between the
parties. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or
exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages.
Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to You.
12.
GENERAL
12.1
Governing Law: The Terms of Service shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California,
excluding its conflicts of laws principles. The United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is
excluded and does not apply to this Agreement.
12.2
Assignment: You may not assign or transfer this Agreement, in whole
or in part, without the prior written consent of socialDragon. Any
attempted assignment in violation of this Section will be null and
void and of no force or effect. socialDragon may assign this
Agreement freely at any time without notice. Subject to the
foregoing, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit of each
party's permitted successors and assigns.
12.3
Waiver: The failure to require performance of any provision shall
not affect socialDragon’s right to require performance at any
time thereafter, nor shall a waiver of any breach or default of this
Agreement constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach or default or
a waiver of the provision itself.
12.4
Severability: If any portion of this Agreement is found to be
unenforceable, such portion will be modified to reflect the parties'
intention and only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable,
and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in full
force and effect.
12.5
Entire Agreement: This Agreement constitutes the entire and
exclusive understanding and agreement between You and socialDragon
regarding this subject matter, and supersedes any and all prior or
contemporaneous agreements or understandings, written and oral,
between You and socialDragon relating to this subject matter.
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