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Truey.com Terms
of Use Agreement
March 15, 2007
Truey.com is a game
and social networking service that allows members to create unique games and personal
profiles to share with others. The services offered by Truey.com (“Truey.com” or
“we”) include the Truey.com website and any other features other features, content,
or applications offered from time to time by Truey.com in connection with the Truey.com
Website (collectively, the "Truey Services"). The Truey Services are hosted in the
U.S.
This Terms of Use
Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the
Truey Services. By using the Truey Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement,
whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Truey Website)
or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with Truey.com). The
term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the
Truey Services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree
to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement
carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the Truey Website
and discontinue use of the Truey Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member,
communicate with other Members and make use of the Truey Services, you must read
this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.
Truey.com may modify
this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting
by Truey.com on the Truey Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this
Agreement when you use the Truey Services after any such modification is posted.
It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you
are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully
the information you post on Truey.com and that you provide to other Users. Your
Truey.com profile may not include the following items: telephone numbers, street
addresses, last names, and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd,
excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject
matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by other Truey.com Members
(for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive
or sexually explicit material, products or services, and Truey.com assumes no responsibility
or liability for this material.
If you become aware of misuse of the Truey Services by any person, please contact
Truey (http://truey.com/viewprofile.aspx?id=107).
Truey.com reserves
the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting
(including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your
access to all or any part of the Truey Services at any time, for any or no reason,
with or without prior notice, and without liability.
- Eligibility. Use of and Membership in the Truey Services is void where
prohibited. By using the Truey Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all
registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain
the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and (d)
your use of the Truey Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.
Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning,
if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
- Term. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while
you use the Truey Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at
any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member's Account
Settings page. Truey.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning.
Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including
sections 5-17.
- Fees. You acknowledge that Truey.com reserves the right to charge
for the Truey Services and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion.
If Truey.com terminates your Membership because you have breached the Agreement,
you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees.
- Password. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked
to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another
Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to
notify Truey.com immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account
or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your
account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members. The Truey Services are for the personal
use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors
except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by Truey.com. Illegal and/or
unauthorized use of the Truey Services, including collecting usernames and/or email
addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited
email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Truey Website is prohibited.
Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may
be removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in termination of
Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or
unauthorized use of the Truey Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content
on Truey.com.
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Truey.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos,
video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively,
"Content") that you post to the Truey Services. After posting your Content to the
Truey Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and
you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying
or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the Truey Services, you hereby
grant to Truey.com a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly
display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the Truey
Services.
Without this license,
Truey.com would be unable
to provide the Truey Services. For example, without the right to modify Member Content,
Truey.com would not be able to digitally compress image files that
Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical requirements. This
license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from the Truey Services.
The license does not grant Truey.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the
license grant Truey.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the Truey
Services.
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You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through
the Truey Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in
this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Truey Services
does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights
or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and
any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through
the Truey Services.
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The Truey Services contain Content of Truey.com ("Truey.com Content"). Truey.com
Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws,
and Truey.com owns and retains all rights in the Truey.com Content and the Truey
Services. Truey.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license
to reproduce and display the Truey.com Content (excluding any software code) solely
for your personal use in connection with viewing the Truey Website and using the
Truey Services.
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The Truey Services contain Content of Users and other Truey.com licensors. Except
for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast,
transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through
the Truey Services.
- Content Posted.
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Truey.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of Truey.com violates
this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or
threaten the safety of any person. Truey.com assumes no responsibility for monitoring
the Truey Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time Truey.com
chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Truey Services, Truey.com nonetheless
assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any
inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting
any such Content.
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You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the
Truey Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members
and for your interactions with other Users. Truey.com does not endorse and has no
control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by Truey.com prior
to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Truey.com.
Truey.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content or to the accuracy
and reliability of the Content or any material or information that you transmit
to other Members.
- Content/Activity Prohibited. The following is a partial list of
the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Truey
Services. Truey.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal
action against anyone who, in Truey.com's sole discretion, violates this provision,
including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Truey
Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes,
but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of Truey.com:
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is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any
kind against any group or individual;
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harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
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exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
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contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an
adult website;
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solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
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provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;
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promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities
or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
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promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such
as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to
circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music
or links to pirated music files;
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involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing,
instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
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contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those
not linked to or from another accessible page);
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furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional
information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying
illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer
viruses;
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solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful
purposes from other Users;
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involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such
as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
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includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's
consent; or
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uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content
intended to draw traffic to the profile.
The following is a
partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Truey
Website and through your use of the Truey Services. Truey.com reserves the right
to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Truey.com's
sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting
you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited
to:
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criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in
obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming,
sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement,
or theft of trade secrets;
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advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services
through the Truey Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email
to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained
from the Truey Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any
Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from
such advertising or solicitation, Truey.com reserves the right to restrict the number
of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number
which Truey.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement
and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications
of any kind through the Truey Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused
substantial harm to Truey.com, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely
difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay
Truey.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication
you send through the Truey Services;
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covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or
any Truey.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
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any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments
or messages;
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interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Truey Services
or the networks or services connected to the Truey Services;
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attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
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for band profiles, copying the code for your Truey Player and embedding it into
other profiles or asking other Members to embed it into their profiles;
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using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing
your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
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selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
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using any information obtained from the Truey Services in order to harass, abuse,
or harm another person;
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displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of
value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity
on or through the Truey Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial
content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting
a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private
messages with a commercial purpose; or
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using the Truey Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws
and regulations.
- Copyright Policy. You may not post, modify, distribute,
or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary
information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the
owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of Truey.com to terminate Membership
privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others
upon receipt of prompt notification to Truey.com by the copyright owner or the copyright
owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work
has been copied and posted on the Truey Services in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information:
(i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work
that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that
you claim is infringing is located on the Truey Services; (iv) your address, telephone
number, and email address; (v) a written 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; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above
information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized
to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Truey.com's Copyright Agent for notice of
claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: Email: snoutholderAtYahoo.com.
- Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your
interactions with other Truey.com Members. Truey.com reserves the right, but has
no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy. Use of the Truey Services is also governed by our Privacy
Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
- Disclaimers. Truey.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate
Content posted on the Truey Website or in connection with the Truey Services, whether
caused by Users of the Truey Services or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the Truey Services. Profiles created and posted by
Members on the Truey Website may contain links to other websites. Truey.com is not
responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and
such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness
by Truey.com. Inclusion of any linked website on the Truey Services does not imply
approval or endorsement of the linked website by Truey.com. When you access these
third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. Truey.com takes no responsibility
for third party advertisements which are posted on this Truey Website or through
the Truey Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services
provided by its advertisers. Truey.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any User of the Truey Services. Truey.com assumes no responsibility
for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission,
communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or
alteration of, any User or Member communication. Truey.com is not responsible for
any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer
online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any
email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet
or on any of the Truey Services or combination thereof, including any injury or
damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation
or downloading materials in connection with the Truey Services. Under no circumstances
shall Truey.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury
or death, resulting from use of the Truey Services, attendance at a Truey.com event,
from any Content posted on or through the Truey Services, or from the conduct of
any Users of the Truey Services, whether online or offline. The Truey Services are
provided "AS-IS" and as available and Truey.com expressly disclaims any warranty
of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Truey.com cannot guarantee
and does not promise any specific results from use of the Truey Services.
- Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL TRUEY.COM BE LIABLE
TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE
OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF TRUEY.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, TRUEY.COM'S LIABILITY
TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT
ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO TRUEY.COM FOR THE TRUEY
SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
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U.S.
Export
Controls. Software available
in connection with the Truey Services (the "Software") is further subject to
United States
export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the Truey Services or otherwise
exported or re-exported in violation of
U.S.
export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk.
- Disputes. If there is any dispute about or involving the Truey Services,
you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Washington,
USA, without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal
jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located
in the State of Washington, City of Seattle. Either Truey.com or you may demand
that any dispute between Truey.com and you about or involving the Truey Services
must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the
American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Seattle, Washington, USA, provided that
the foregoing shall not prevent Truey.com from seeking injunctive relief in a court
of competent jurisdiction.
- Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Truey.com, its subsidiaries,
and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless
from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Truey Services
in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or
any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any
Content that you post on the Truey Website or through the Truey Services causes
Truey.com to be liable to another.
- Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Truey Website
or any of the Truey Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Truey.com regarding the
use of the Truey Services. The failure of Truey.com to exercise or enforce any right
or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.
The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal
or contractual effect. Truey.com is a trademark of Truey, Inc. This Agreement operates
to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is
unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement
and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please contact us
at: snoutholderAtYahoo.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
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