Terms of use.
Use of our Service and this website is governed by the terms and conditions described below. Please read them carefully. Your use of our Service and this website indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions. Declaration Archive LLC (the “Company”) reserves the right to make modifications to these Terms & Conditions of Use at any time. You accept the obligation to review these Terms & Conditions of Use prior to each use, and your use of this website constitutes an acceptance to be bound by any modifications. These Terms & Conditions of Use are referred to hereafter as the “Agreement”.
1. The service license
The term “Service” shall mean (a) the Internet web pages, data, analyses, screens, reports, documentation and other information of any kind that are accessible through the Company’s web application (the “Website”), as well as all updates, enhancements and modifications thereto, and all intellectual property contained therein, (b) the products, services, software and other content offered to Users in the manner described on the Website and (c) communications from the Company to Users.
2. Grant of license
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company grants to you, the “User”, during the Term (as defined in Section 6 below), a limited nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license solely in connection with User’s personal use, and not for resale or public performance of any kind, to access and use the Service (or any portions thereof). The Company reserves the right at all times and without notice to (i) restrict or prevent User’s access to the Service (or any portion thereof); and (ii) modify or discontinue providing the Service (or any portion thereof). The Company shall have no obligation to correct or update the Service. For the purposes of the license grant in this Section 2, the term “User” shall include individuals and any entity on behalf of which this Agreement is being reviewed and accepted and such entity’s employees and other individual users.
3. Restrictions on use
User may not (i) use, copy, modify, merge, install, transfer or distribute the Service, except as expressly provided in this Agreement; (ii) reverse-engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble or separate the components of the Service (including, without limitation, viewing or otherwise obtaining source code); (iii) sublicense, rent, sell or lease the Service or any part thereof; (iv) use the Service or any part thereof for third-party training, commercial time-sharing or service bureau use, except as expressly provided in this Agreement or on the Website; (v) remove from the Service or alter any copyright or trademark notice contained therein; (vi) use the Website for any unlawful purpose; (vii) express or imply that any statements User makes are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent; (viii) transmit (a) any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or infringes on our or any third party’s intellectual property or other rights, (b) any material, non-public information about individuals or companies without the authorization to do so, (c) any trade secret of any third party, or (d) any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities, or other unsolicited commercial communication (except as otherwise expressly permitted by us), or engage in spamming or flooding; (ix) transmit any software or other materials that contain any virus, worm, time bomb, Trojan horse, or other harmful or disruptive component; (x) “frame” or “mirror” any part of the Website without our prior written authorization; (xi) use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine”, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or its contents; (xii) harvest or collect information about Website visitors or members without their express consent; or (xiii) post or otherwise distribute material that is subject to a copyright unless you are the owner of such copyright or you have been granted permission for such actions from the copyright owner. The foregoing restrictions on use may be modified, expanded or reduced by the Company elsewhere on the Website. In such case, such modification, expansion or reduction shall be incorporated herein as if stated in full herein.
4. Submissions and Postings
Please note that, because we allow Users to post text, software, images, scripts, graphics, photographs, sounds, music, videos, audiovisual materials and other information and intellectual property on the Website and therefore redistribute materials you give us, we acquire certain rights in those materials. Therefore, by sending or transmitting to us information, opinions, creative suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, or other materials (collectively, “Materials”), or by posting such Materials to any area of the Website, you grant us and our designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, assignable, royalty-free right to use, reproduce, distribute (through multiple tiers), publicly display and import such Materials in any media now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Materials. None of the Materials shall be subject to any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution, or otherwise, on our part and we shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Materials. The foregoing rights may be modified, expanded or reduced by the Company elsewhere on the Website. In such case, such modification, expansion or reduction shall be incorporated herein as if stated in full herein. You are solely responsible for your communications and the consequences of their posting and for the content and information you provide, distribute, post, include, link to, or otherwise upload to our Website. You also agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for the online distribution and publication of your content. However, although we are not obligated, we reserve the right to take any action with respect to your content if we believe that it may create a liability for us.
5. Forums
a) We neither endorse nor are responsible for any opinion, advice, information, or statement made or displayed on the Website by Users. We are not responsible for any errors or omissions in articles or postings, for hyperlinks embedded in messages, or for any results obtained from the use of such information. Under no circumstances will we or our affiliates, suppliers, or agents be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on such information obtained through the Website. We cannot and do not take responsibility for the veracity, reliability, or completeness of any opinion, advice, information, or statement available on the Website.
(b) The opinions expressed on the Website by Users reflect solely the opinions of the Users who post thereon and do not reflect the opinions of the Company. We have no obligation to monitor User postings on the Website. However, User acknowledges and agrees that we have the right (but not the obligation) to monitor the Website and the materials any User may transmit or post; to alter or remove any such materials; and to disclose such materials and the circumstances surrounding their transmission to any third party in order to operate the Website properly; to protect ourselves, our suppliers, sponsors, or advertisers and our members and visitors; and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests.
(c) Users of the Website must not post sexual, ethnic or racial or other discriminating slurs, or material which contains profanity or no relevant or constructive content. Nor shall users identify individuals in a negative or derogatory fashion. Users are also prohibited from posting any proprietary information, trade secrets or confidential information which is the property of any other individual or entity, without the permission of such individual or entity. Although the Company has no obligation to do so, the Company may monitor messages and other information posted on its Website and reserves the right to delete portions of or entire posts which violate the above rules, messages or topics that are unrelated to the Service, and advertisements or other commercial messages. If you believe a message violates our member policies, please contact the Company immediately at info@declaration.net so that we can consider its editing or removal.
6. Term
The term of this Agreement (the “Term”) shall commence on the date on which User first accesses or utilizes the Service or the Website in any way (the “Effective Date”) and will continue so long as User continues to access or utilize the Service or the Website.