TERMS OF SERVICE
Welcome to SharableThings Inc.
1. AGREEMENT TO TERMS
(a) SharableThings Inc. (“SharableThings” or “we” or “us”) provides online services, including but not limited to a profile generator; sharing interest creation, display, and interaction; community resources; and inter-user communications, (hereinafter referred to as the “Service") subject to these Terms of Use and Service ("TOUS").
(b) Your use of the Service in any way signals and constitutes your agreement with us on these TOUS.
(c) You agree that, when you use particular SharableThings services, you will abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all SharableThings services.
(d) These TOUS may be changed from time to time in our sole discretion.
(e) Should you object to any provision of the TOUS, to any guidelines, or to any modifications to the TOUS or guidelines or if you become dissatisfied with SharableThings or the Service in any way, your sole recourse is to discontinue your use of the Service immediately.
(f) SharableThings may, but is not obligated, to enforce the TOUS strictly, including through civil legal action, prosecution, investigation, self-help, and community moderation.
2. CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT
(a) We reserve the right to change, modify or otherwise alter these TOUS at any time, in our sole discretion.
(b) Such modifications shall become effective immediately when posted.
(c) You must review this agreement on a regular basis to acquaint yourself with any changes.
(d) You can find the most recent version of the TOUS at our website at http://www.sharablethings.com/termsofservice
3. CONTENT
(a) You understand that all sharing interests, sharing groups, postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, and other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person who originated such Content.
(b) You are entirely responsible for each individual item of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service.
(c) You understand that SharableThings does not control, and is not responsible for, the Content made available through the Service, and that, by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable.
(d) The SharableThings site, and Content available through the Service, may contain links to other websites, which are independent of SharableThings. SharableThings makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. You link to any other websites at your own risk.
(e) You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will SharableThings be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service.
(f) You acknowledge that SharableThings does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that SharableThings shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the TOUS or for any other reason, without reason needing to be given.
4. CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES OF THIRD PARTIES
(a) The SharableThings site and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content which is independent of SharableThings, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole.
(b) Your interactions with organizations and individuals found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties, representations, or agreements associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel is necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction or arrangement with any of these third parties.
(c) You agree that SharableThings shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings.
(d) You understand and agree that if there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, SharableThings is under no obligation to become involved.
(e) In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release SharableThings, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or our service.
5. NOTICE OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
(a) If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify SharableThings' agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement ("Agent"), at support@SharableThings.com or:
Attention: Chief Legal OfficerSharableThings Inc.
#630-943 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V5Z 4E1
(b) Please provide our Agent with the following notice:
(1) Identify the material on the SharableThings site that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website;
(2) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
(3) A statutory declaration declaring or an affidavit swearing that (1) the above-required information in your notice is accurate, and (2) that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
(4) Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
(5) Your physical or electronic signature.
6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
(a) SharableThings has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used.
(b) Our Privacy Policy is located at http://www.sharablethings.com/privacy
(c) Your use of the SharableThings website or the Service signifies your acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy.
(d) You further acknowledge and agree that SharableThings may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; enforce the TOUS; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of SharableThings, its users or the general public.
7. CONDUCT
(a) You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
(1) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
(2) that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person;
(3) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
(4) that violates applicable housing or human rights legislation by stating, in any sharing interest, sharing group, notice or advertisement respecting the use of any dwelling place, a discriminatory preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap (or violates any federal, provincial, state or local law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of these or other characteristics);
(5) that violates federal, provincial, state, or local equal employment opportunity laws, including but not limited to, stating in any sharing interest, sharing group, or advertisement regarding work a preference or requirement based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability;
(6) that violates anti-discrimination provisions, including requiring citizenship or lawful permanent residency as a condition for employment, unless otherwise required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, provincial, state, or local government contract;
(7) that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a SharableThings employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.);
(8) that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
(9) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
(10) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
(11) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
(12) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas of the SharableThings sites which are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to SharableThings users who have not indicated in writing that it is acceptable to contact them about other services, products or commercial interests;
(13) that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "services";
(14) that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by British Columbia, Canadian, U.S., or any state or local law.
(15) that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
(16) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of Content (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or
(17) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
(b) You also agree not to:
(1) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose;
(2) "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
(3) collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes;
(4) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by SharableThings;
(5) post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
(6) create (unless an authorized Posting Agent) sharing interests that you personally would not be involved with as a sharing party; tag sharing interests with locations that are not relevant to the sharing interest contemplated, or (unless an authorized Posting Agent) tag sharing interests with Associations with which you are not personally associated (and, if an authorized Posting Agent, only tag sharing interests with Associations with which the person(s) you are authorized to represent are personally associated with);
(7) attempt to gain unauthorized access to SharableThings computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Service or the SharableThings website; or
(8) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on SharableThings without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting device"), including without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals.
(9) use any form of automated device or computer program ("flagging tool") that enables the use of SharableThings' "flagging system" or other community moderation systems without each flag being manually entered by the person that initiates the flag (an "automated flagging device"), or use the flagging tool to remove posts of competitors, or to remove posts without a good faith belief that the post being flagged violates these TOUS;
8. POSTING AGENTS
A "Posting Agent" is a third-party agent, service, or intermediary that offers to post Content to the Service on behalf of others. To moderate demands on SharableThings’ resources, you may not use a Posting Agent to post Content to the Service without express permission in writing or written license from SharableThings. Correspondingly, Posting Agents are not permitted to post Content on behalf of others, to cause Content to be so posted, or otherwise access the Service to facilitate posting Content on behalf of others, except with express permission in writing or written license from SharableThings.
9. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to SharableThings email addresses or through SharableThings computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by these TOUS, will use or cause to be used servers located in Canada or the United States. Any unauthorized use of SharableThings computer systems is a violation of these TOUS and certain federal, provincial, and state laws, including without limitation the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.). Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
10. PAID POSTINGS
We may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the Service. The fee is an access fee permitting Content to be posted in a designated area. Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for said Content and compliance with the TOUS. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the event that Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOUS.
11. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that SharableThings may establish limits concerning use of the Service, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that SharableThings has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that SharableThings reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that SharableThings shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
12. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
(a) SharableThings grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include: (a) access to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by SharableThings. A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with any robots.txt file we establish. "General purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or search engine or other service that specializes in classified listings or listing of sharing opportunities or any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale, services, or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified ad listing services regarding sharing opportunities or otherwise.
(b) SharableThings permits you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website to, individual postings on the Service so long as such use is for noncommercial and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal web blogs or personal online media). If the total number of such postings displayed or linked to on your website exceeds one hundred (100) postings, your use will be presumed to be in violation of the TOUS, absent express permission in writing granted by SharableThings to do so. You may also create a hyperlink to the home page of SharableThings sites so long as the link does not portray SharableThings, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.
(c) SharableThings may offer various parts of the Service in RSS format so that users can embed individual feeds into a personal website or blog, or view postings through third party software news aggregators. SharableThings permits you to display, excerpt from, and link to such RSS feeds on your personal website or personal web blog, provided that (a) your use of the RSS feed is for personal, non-commercial purposes only, (b) each title is correctly linked back to the original post on the Service and redirects the user to the post when the user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS feed, proper attribution to SharableThings as the source, (d) your use or display does not suggest that SharableThings promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (e) you do not redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden SharableThings' systems. SharableThings reserves all rights in the content of the RSS feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any time.
(d) Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by SharableThings immediately terminates your permission or license. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from SharableThings.
13. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that SharableThings, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, without reason or for any reason, including, without limitation, if SharableThings believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOUS. Further, you agree that SharableThings shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-16 shall survive termination of the TOUS.
14. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
(a) The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of SharableThings. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of SharableThings, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.
(b) SharableThings.com is one of our registered domain names.
(c) Although SharableThings does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to SharableThings an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant SharableThings all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
15. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SHARABLETHINGS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SHARABLETHINGS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SHARABLETHINGS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
16. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL SHARABLETHINGS BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF SHARABLETHINGS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SHARABLETHINGS SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
17. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold SharableThings, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the TOUS, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
18. GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOUS constitute the entire agreement between you and SharableThings and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and SharableThings. The TOUS and the relationship between you and SharableThings shall be governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and of Canada in force in the Province of British Columbia without regard to their conflict of law provisions. You and SharableThings agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located at the City of Vancouver in the Province of British Columbia. The failure of SharableThings to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOUS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOUS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOUS remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOUS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
19. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
(a) Please report any violations of the TOUS, by flagging the posting(s) for review, or by emailing to support@sharablethings.com.
(b) Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
(c) You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for SharableThings to pursue legal action to enforce these TOUS, you will be liable to pay SharableThings the following amounts as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of SharableThings' damages for the specified breaches of these Terms:
(1) If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person or entity; (2) falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent, you agree to pay SharableThings one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such message. This provision does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.
(2) If SharableThings establishes limits on the frequency with which you may access the Service, or terminates your access to or use of the Service, you agree to pay SharableThings one hundred dollars ($100) for each message posted in excess of such limits or for each day on which you access SharableThings in excess of such limits, whichever is higher.
(3) If you send unsolicited email advertisements to SharableThings email addresses or through SharableThings computer systems, you agree to pay SharableThings twenty five dollars ($25) for each such email.
(4) If you post Content in violation of the TOUS, other than as described above, you agree to pay SharableThings one hundred dollars ($100) for each Item of Content posted. In its sole discretion, SharableThings may elect to issue a warning before assessing damages.
(5). If you are a Posting Agent that uses the Service in violation of the TOUS, in addition to any liquidated damages under clause (d), you agree to pay SharableThings one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every Item you post in violation of the TOUS. A Posting Agent will also be deemed an agent of the party engaging the Posting Agent to access the Service (the "Principal"), and the Principal (by engaging the Posting Agent in violation of the TOUS) agrees to pay SharableThings an additional one hundred dollars ($100) for each Item posted by the Posting Agent on behalf of the Principal in violation of the TOUS.
(6) If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in violation of these TOUS without SharableThings' express written permission, you agree to pay SharableThings three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct.
(d) Otherwise, you agree to pay SharableThings' actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, SharableThings retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in these TOUS, or any combination thereof.
20. FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions and comments on this document via SharableThings Support or in the SharableThings discussion forums.