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WELCOME TO CommentsLink.com. We at (CommentsLink, Inc.) hope you find out website useful. By accessing or otherwise interacting with our servers, services, websites, mobile app ("App"), or any associated content/postings (together, "CommentsLink"), you agree to these Terms of Use ("TOU") (last updated March 25, 2020). You acknowledge and agree CommentsLink is a private site owned and operated by CommentsLink, Inc. If you are accessing or using CommentsLink on behalf of a business, you represent and warrant to CommentsLink that you have authority to accept the TOU on behalf of that business and that that business agrees to the TOU. If you do not agree to the TOU, you are not authorized to use CommentsLink or download the App. We may modify the TOU at any time in our sole discretion. You are responsible for periodically checking for changes and are bound by them if you continue to use commentsLink. Our privacy policy (commentsLink.com/tou.php#pp), prohibited list (commentsLink.com/tou.php#prob), and all other policies, site rules, and agreements referenced below or on CommentsLink, are fully incorporated into this TOU, and you agree to them as well. LICENSE. If you agree to the TOU and (1) are of sufficient age and capacity to use CommentsLink and be bound by the TOU, or (2) use CommentsLink on behalf of a business, thereby binding that business to the TOU, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable license to use CommentsLink in compliance with the TOU; unlicensed use is unauthorized. You agree not to display, "frame," make derivative works, distribute, license, or sell, content from CommentsLink, excluding postings you create. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, fully paid/sublicensable license to use, copy, display, distribute, and make derivative works from content you post. USE. Unless licensed by us in a separate written or electronic agreement, you agree not to use or provide software (except our App and general purpose web browsers and email clients) or services that interact or interoperate with CommentsLink, e.g. for downloading, uploading, creating/accessing/using an account, posting, flagging, emailing, searching, or mobile use. You agree not to copy/collect CommentsLink content via robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or any automated or manual equivalent (e.g., by hand). Misleading, unsolicited, and/or unlawful postings/communications/accounts are prohibited. You agree not to post content that is prohibited by any of CommentsLink's policies or rules referenced above ("Prohibited Content"). You agree not to abuse CommentsLink's flagging or reporting processes. You agree not to collect CommentsLink user information or interfere with CommentsLink. You agree we may moderate CommentsLink access/use in our sole discretion, e.g., by blocking, filtering, re-categorizing, re-ranking, deleting, delaying, holding, omitting, verifying, or terminating your access/license/account. You agree (1) not to bypass said moderation, (2) we are not liable for moderating or not moderating, and (3) nothing we say or do waives our right to moderate, or not. Unless licensed by us in a separate written or electronic agreement, you agree not to (i) rent, lease, sell, publish, distribute, license, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise make available CommentsLink or our application programming interface ("API"), (ii) copy, adapt, create derivative works of, decompile, reverse engineer, translate, localize, port or modify the App, the API, any website code, or any software used to provide CommentsLink, (iii) combine or integrate CommentsLink or the API with any software, technology, services, or materials not authorized by us, (iv) circumvent any functionality that controls access to or otherwise protects CommentsLink or the API, or (v) remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices. You agree not to use CommentsLink or the API in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law. LIQUIDATED DAMAGES. You further agree that if you violate the TOU, or you encourage, support, benefit from, or induce others to do so, you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for: (A) collecting/harvesting CommentsLink users' information, including personal or identifying information - $1 per violation; (B) publishing/misusing personal or identifying information of a third party in connection with your use of CommentsLink without that party's express written consent - $1,000 per violation; (C) misrepresenting your identity or affiliation to anyone in connection with your use of CommentsLink - $1,000 per violation; (D) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content - $4 per violation; (E) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content in any paid section of CommentsLink - the price per post applicable to that section of CommentsLink; (F) sending an unauthorized/unsolicited email to an email address obtained from CommentsLink - $25 per violation; (G) using CommentsLink user information to make/send an unauthorized/unsolicited text message, call, or communication to a CommentsLink user - $500 per text/call/communication; (H) creating a misleading or unlawful CommentsLink account or buying/selling a CommentsLink account - $4 per violation; (I) abusing or attempting to abuse CommentsLink's flagging or reporting processes - $1 per violation; (J) distributing any software to facilitate violations of the USE Section - $1,000 per violation; (K) aggregating, displaying, framing, copying, duplicating, reproducing, making derivative works from, distributing, licensing, selling, or exploiting CommentsLink content for any purpose without our express written consent - $3,000 for each day you engage in such violations; (L) requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000 pages of CommentsLink in any 24-hour period - $0.25 per page during the 24 hour period after the first 1,000 pages; (M) bypassing or attempting to bypass our moderation efforts - $4 per violation. You agree that these amounts are (1) a reasonable estimate of our damages (as actual damages are often difficult to calculate), (2) not a penalty, and (3) not otherwise limiting on our ability to recover under any legal theory or claim, including statutory damages and other equitable relief (e.g., for spam, we can elect between the above liquidated damages or statutory damages under the anti-spam statute). You further agree that repeated violations of the USE section will irreparably harm and entitle us to injunctive or equitable relief, in addition to monetary damages. FEES. When you make a paid posting, you authorize us to charge your account. Any tax is additional. Fees are non-refundable, even for posts we remove, delay, omit, re-categorize, re-rank, or otherwise moderate. We may refuse any posting. DISCLAIMER & LIABILITY. To the full extent permitted by law, CommentsLink, Inc., and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, affiliates, and successors in interest ("CommentsLink Entities") (1) make no promises, warranties, or representations as to CommentsLink, including its completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, propriety, security or reliability; (2) provide CommentsLink on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis and any risk of using CommentsLink is assumed by you; (3) disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including as to accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and all warranties arising from course of CLAIMS & INDEMNITY. Any claim, cause of action, demand, or dispute arising from or related to CommentsLink ("Claims") will be governed by the internal laws of New York, without regard to conflict of law provisions, except to the extent governed by US federal law. Any Claims will be exclusively resolved by courts in Albany, NY (except we may seek preliminary or injunctive relief anywhere). You agree to (1) submit to the personal jurisdiction of courts in Albany, NY; (2) indemnify and hold CommentsLink Entities harmless from any Claims, losses, liability, or expenses (including attorneys' fees) that arise from a third party and relate to your use of CommentsLink; and (3) be liable and responsible for any Claims we may have against your officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, or any other party, directly or indirectly, paid, directed or controlled by you, or acting for your benefit. TRADEMARKS. CommentsLink, "CommentsLink" and the "C" symbol logo are registered trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and with multiple trademark offices around the world. MISC. Unless you have entered into a separate written or electronic agreement with us that expressly references the TOU, this is the exclusive and entire agreement between us and you, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral. Users complying with prior written licenses may access CommentsLink thereby until authorization is terminated. Our actions or silence toward you or anyone else does not waive, modify, or limit the TOU or our ability to enforce it. The USE, LIQUIDATED DAMAGES, and CLAIMS & INDEMNITY sections survive termination of the TOU, and you will remain bound by those sections. If a TOU term is unenforceable, it shall be limited to the least extent possible and supplemented with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of the parties. The English version of the TOU controls over any translations. All the postings created on commentsLink.com are from users of commentsLink. CommentsLink does not in any way or form endorces those comments/postings, and commentsLink.com is not liable for the authenticity of those postings. Do not post comments contains: ⦁ Personal identifiable information of the Location of someone either personal residence, workplace, vacation, hotel or any other place where someone stays or will be staying. ⦁ Do not post the phone numbers of anyone which is not avalable publically. ⦁ Do not post the personal email adress of anyone , which are not available publcaly. 1. Protecting your privacy: We take precautions to prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of data about you. We do not share your data with third parties for marketing purposes. We do not send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes. We do provide email proxy & relay services to reduce unwanted email. Please review privacy policies of any third party sites linked to from CL. 2. Data we use to provide/improve our services and/or combat fraud/abuse: data you post on or send via CL, and/or send us directly or via other sites credit card data, which is transmitted to payment processors via a security protocol (e.g. SSL). data you submit or provide (e.g. name, address, email, phone, fax, photos, tax ID). web log data (e.g. web pages viewed, access times, IP address, HTTP headers). data collected via cookies (e.g. search data and "favorites" lists). data about your device(s) (e.g. screen size, DOM local storage, plugins). data from 3rd parties (e.g. phone type, geo-location via IP address). 3. Data we store We retain data as needed for our business purposes and/or as required by law. We make good faith efforts to store data securely, but can make no guarantees. You may access and update certain data about you via your account login. 4. Circumstances in which we may disclose user data: to vendors and service providers (e.g. payment processors) working on our behalf. to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process. to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of users of CL or the general public. with your consent (e.g. if you authorize us to share data with other users). in connection with a merger, bankruptcy, or sale/transfer of assets. in aggregate/summary form, where it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. International Users - By accessing CL or providing us data, you agree we may use and disclose data we collect as described here or as communicated to you, transmit it outside your resident jurisdiction, and store it on servers in the United States. For more information please contact our privacy officer at privacy@commentsLink.com |