Terms Of Service
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We (the folks at bloggcasting) run a service called bloggcasting.com and would love
for you to use it. Our basic service is free, and we plan to offer paid
upgrades for advanced features such as domain hosting and extra storage. Our
service is designed to give you as much control and ownership over what goes
on your blog as possible and encourage you to express yourself freely.
However, be responsible in what you blog. In particular, make sure that none
of the prohibited items listed below appear on your blog or get linked to
from your blog (things like spam, viruses, hate content, etc). Please make
sure you read through the list and the rest of the terms and agree with them
before you get started.
(Note, we've decided to make the below Terms of Service available under a
Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you're more than welcome to
steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace
references to us with ones to you, and if you want we'd appreciate a link to
bloggcasting.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the
below, and other people shouldn't need to do the same.) |
Terms of Service:
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The bloggcasting.com website (“Website”) is a hosted service operated by
bloggcasting Inc. (“bloggcasting”). Any use of the Website is subject to the
following Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms and Conditions”), as well as
to bloggcasting’s Privacy Policy, all of which are incorporated by reference
into these Terms and Conditions. Your use of the Website will constitute
your acceptance of these terms and conditions.
- Your bloggcasting.com Account and Site. If you create a blog on the Website, you
are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and blog, 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 or assign keywords to your blog in a misleading or unlawful manner,
including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others,
and bloggcasting may change or remove any description or keyword that it
considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause
bloggcasting
liability. You must immediately notify bloggcasting of any unauthorized uses of
your blog, your account or any other breaches of security. bloggcasting 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.bloggcasting may from time
to time set storage limits for your blog, or take any other measures
bloggcasting considers appropriate to manage the Website. bloggcasting will advise
you of any such change, and may do so in any reasonable manner, such as
posting a change on the dashboard you see when you log in to your
bloggcasting.com account or via the “bloggcasting.com News” blog accessible at
bloggcasting.com. If you exceed the storage limits, bloggcasting may require you to
reduce the storage you are using or pay additional fees. bloggcasting may also
from time to time change its policies on offering commercial content or
displaying advertising, and it may do this without notice. However,
bloggcasting
may post blog entries about its policy changes, and you may wish to check
your dashboard for bloggcasting’s announcements about any such changes.
- Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a blog, comment on a blog,
post material to the Website, post links on the Website to material on , or
otherwise 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, 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 obscene or libelous, and does not violate the privacy or
publicity rights of any third party; 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 bloggcasting or otherwise.
By submitting Content to bloggcasting for inclusion on your Website, you grant
bloggcasting a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce,
modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying,
distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, bloggcasting 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.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, bloggcasting has
the right (though not the obligation) to, in bloggcasting’s sole discretion (i)
refuse or remove any content that, in bloggcasting’s reasonable opinion,
violates any bloggcasting 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 bloggcasting’s sole discretion. bloggcasting will have no
obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
- Responsibility of Website Visitors.
bloggcasting 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, bloggcasting 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. bloggcasting 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 bloggcasting.com links, and that link to
bloggcasting.com. bloggcasting does not have any control over those non-bloggcasting
websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their
use. By linking to a non-bloggcasting website or webpage, bloggcasting 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. bloggcasting disclaims any responsibility for any harm
resulting from your use of non-bloggcasting websites and webpages.
- Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As
bloggcasting asks others to respect
its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property
rights of others. bloggcasting 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 bloggcasting or others, bloggcasting may, in its discretion, terminate or deny
access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination,
bloggcasting
will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid
to bloggcasting.
- Trademarks. bloggcasting, bloggcasting.com, the
bloggcasting.com logo, and all other
trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with
bloggcasting.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of
bloggcasting or bloggcasting’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 bloggcasting or third-party trademarks.
- Changes. The Website, including without limitation all content there
available and these Terms and Conditions, may be changed at the sole
discretion of bloggcasting and without notice. You are bound by any such updates
or changes, including but not limited to those affecting these Terms and
Conditions, and so should periodically review these Terms and Conditions.
- Limitation of warranties of bloggcasting, its suppliers and its licensors.
Except as otherwise expressly stated, all content posted to or available
from the Website is provided “as is”, and bloggcasting, its suppliers and its
licensors make no representations or warranties, express or implied,
including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, title or non-infringement of proprietary rights. You
understand and agree that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or
services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk, and that
bloggcasting, its suppliers and its licensors will have no liability or
responsibility for any damage to your computer system or data that results
from the download or use of such content or services.
- Limitation of liability of bloggcasting, its suppliers and its licensors. Except
as otherwise expressly stated, in no event will bloggcasting, its suppliers or
its licensors be liable to you or any other party for any direct, indirect,
special, consequential or exemplary damages, regardless of the basis or
nature of the claim, resulting from any use of the Website, or the contents
thereof or of any hyperlinked website including without limitation any lost
profits, business interruption, loss of data or otherwise, even if
bloggcasting,
its suppliers or its licensors were expressly advised of the possibility of
such damages. In no event will the aggregate liability for any and all of
your claims against bloggcasting, its suppliers and its licensors arising out of
or related to use of the Website, or the contents thereof or of any
hyperlinked website exceed the amounts actually paid by you to bloggcasting
during the 12-month period prior to the date a claim is made. Some
jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for
certain incidental or consequential damages, so some of the above
limitations may not apply to you. The parties agree that this Section 11
represents a reasonable allocation of risk.
- General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that your use
of the Website will be in accordance with the bloggcasting Privacy Policy, with
these Terms and Conditions, with any 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 with any other applicable policy or terms
and conditions.
- Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
bloggcasting,
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 out of your violation of any representation or
warranty contained in these Terms and Conditions.
- Miscellaneous. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement
between bloggcasting and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may
only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of
bloggcasting, or by the posting by bloggcasting of a revised version. Except to the
extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, these Terms and
Conditions, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws
of the state of Arizona, 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 Maricopa County,
Arizona. If any part of these Terms and Conditions 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 these Terms and
Conditions 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 these Terms and Conditions to any party that consents to, and
agrees to be bound by, its terms; bloggcasting may assign its rights under these
Terms and Conditions without condition. These Terms and Conditions will be
binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors
and permitted assigns.
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