Dog-gone
Terms and Conditions of Web Site Use
Set forth below
are the "Dog-gone Terms and Conditions" governing the
dogwalkpress.com web site (“the Web Site”) located at, or linked to through,
the root URL www.dogwalkpress.com. Please read this page carefully. If you do
not accept the Dog-gone Terms and Conditions stated here, do not use this web
site and service. By using this web site, you are indicating your acceptance to
be bound by the terms of these terms and conditions. Dogwalkpress.com, (the
"Company") owner of dogwalkpress.com, may revise these Dog-gone Terms
and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page
periodically to review the Dog-gone Terms and Conditions, because they are
binding on you and may change without notice. The terms "You" and
"User" as used herein refer to all persons, pets and/or entities
accessing this web site for any reason.
Use
of site:
Use of this
website by anyone under 18 years of age is prohibited. Users under the age of
18 may only use the Web Site if such use is affected and handled through a
parent or legal guardian.
Use of Material.
The Company
authorizes you to download a single copy of any material on the Web Site solely
for your personal, noncommercial use.
The contents of this Web Site, such as text, graphics, images, logos, button
icons, software and other "Material", are protected under
Acceptable Site Use.
General Rules:
Users may not
use the Web Site in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material
(a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will
infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property
rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of
others, (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful, or
(d) otherwise prohibited by the Company.
Web Site
Security Rules:
Users are
prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Web
Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for such
user or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorized to
access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or
network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper
authorization, (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or
network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the
Web Site, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing" or "crashing", (d) sending
unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or
services, or (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header
information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network
security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Company will
investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and
cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are
involved in such violations.
This site is
designed for parties who can legally make binding contracts under applicable
law. Therefore, minors are not allowed to use this site without permission and
involvement of their parents or guardians. Minors who cannot meet these
requirements may not use this Web Site.
You are also expected to follow all laws and regulations that may be
associated with any of the activities involved with the use of the Web Site.
You are also expected to pay for any state fees or applicable taxes that may be
associated with your use of the activities from this Web Site.
Specific Prohibited Uses.
The Web Site may be used
only for lawful purposes by persons (and pets) wanting to use the site’s
services as permitted. The Company specifically prohibits any use of the Web Site, and all users agree not to use
the Web Site, for any of the following:
1.
Posting or submitting any incomplete, false or
inaccurate information, including, but not limited to, any postings that are
sexually explicit or implicit, use derogatory statements or offensive language,
are immoral in nature, are harassing or libelous, and/or are unlawful.
2.
Posting or submitting any corrupted files, viruses
and other software damaging activities.
3.
Attempting to gather or solicit other user’s
information for any reason not authorized by the Company.
4.
Deleting or revising any material submitted or
posted by any other person or pet. This includes, but is not limited to, the
infringement of any third party’s content or transmission.
5.
Using any device, software or routine to interfere
or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Web Site or any
activity being conducted on this site.
6.
Taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on this Web Site’s infrastructure.
7.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, using or attempting to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other
device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots,
avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate, search or alter this Web Site other
than the search options available from the Company on this Web Site.
8.
Attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or
reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part
of the Web Site.
9.
Aggregating, copying, duplicating or publishing in
any manner any of the materials or information available from the Web Site.
10.
Framing of or linking to any of the materials or
information available from the Web Site.
11.
Violating any other posted policy in regards to the
use of this Web Site, regardless as to where the policy is located at on the
Web Site.
The Company
reserves the right to terminate your use of this site if you violate any of
these prohibited uses.
Privacy Policy.
The Company
cares deeply about online privacy will not disclose to any third party any
person’s name, address, e-mail address or telephone number without their prior
consent except to the extent necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable
laws or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant. The Company
collects user submitted information such as name, pet name, ages, e-mail or
other submitted addresses to authenticate users and to send notifications to
those users relating to the submission. All data is used to improve the service
of the Web Site and for use in further publications and commercial
exploitations. THE COMPANY MAY IN THE FUTURE USE COOKIES TO STORE USERS
PREFERENCES BUT WILL NOT LINK THE INFORMATION WE STORE ON COOKIES TO PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. The
Company reserves the right to offer third party services and products to you;
such offers may be made by the Company or by third parties. Please see the
Company’s Privacy Policy for further details regarding your Information. The Company does not sell or rent your
personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your
consent and we only use your information as described here and in the Privacy
Policy. Your personal information and safeguarding it is very important to the
Company. Your information is on computers and is protected by physical as well
as technological security devices. If you object to your Information being
transferred or used in this way please do not use our services and you are
forbidden from doing so. All Dog-Gone terms
and Conditions are incorporated herein.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
this Web Site, or your dealings with this Web Site, please contact us at
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User Submissions.
As a user, you are
responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the
consequences thereof. You must not, and by using this Web Site you agree not
to, do the following things (as mentioned above): submit material that is
copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner and consent to such submission
and Company’s unrestricted future use thereof; submit material that reveals
trade secrets, unless you own them and consent to such submission and Company’s
unrestricted future use thereof; submit material that infringes on any other
intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of
others; submit material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing,
abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another user or any other person or entity;
submit a sexually-explicit image or statement; submit advertisements or
solicitations of business, submit chain letters or pyramid schemes; or submit
material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or
engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.
It is the responsibility of the user to verify the accuracy of all the
information (including personal) submitted or posted by that party to the Web
Site.
The Company does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or
reliability of communications posted by users or endorse
any opinions expressed by users. As a user, you will be liable for all damages
based on your content. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by
other users will be at your own risk and without Company consent. User shall
indemnify and hold Company harmless for any such reliance or use.
By submitting
content to any public or non-public area of the Web Site, including submissions
e-mails, postings, message boards, forums, contests, photographs and chat
rooms, you grant the Company and its affiliates the royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers),
non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) in your copyright, trademark,
publicity and database rights, a license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the
public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or
to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or
later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such
content. You also warrant that the holder of any rights, including moral rights
in such content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and
validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated
above. Subject to the foregoing, the
owner of such content placed on the Web Site retains any and all rights that
may exist in such content. This information will only be used in accordance
with the Company’s privacy policy.
License Grant.
If you post or
submit material, (unless we indicate otherwise), you grant dogwalkpres.com and
its affiliates a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-terminable,
perpetual right and license, but not the obligation, to post, display, exhibit,
reproduce, mechanically reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, encode, print,
distribute, transmit, retransmit, stream, archive, stream on-demand, make
available digitally for download and publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast,
and webcast through any use of Internet based
protocols, distribute and publish in any media whether paper, wave, electronic,
wireless or broadband means, now known or hereafter devised, your content and
Materials. This license applies to any and all content of any sort submitted or
in any way posted under the terms in effect at the time of the submission.
Copyright Notification in the Event of Possible
Infringement.
If you believe
that your (or any) copyrighted work has been uploaded, posted or copied to this
Web Site and is accessible on this Web Site in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please notify us by providing the Company with the following
information:
1.
The physical or electronic signature of either the
copyright owner or of a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
2.
A description of the copyrighted work you claim
has been infringed, and a description of the activity that you claim to be
infringing;
3.
Identification of the URL or other specific
location on this web site where the material or activity you claim to be
infringing is located or is occurring; you must include enough information to
allow us to locate the material or the activity;
4.
Your name, address, telephone number and, if you
have one, your e-mail address;
5.
A statement by you that you have a good faith
belief that use on the web site of the copyrighted work in the manner you are
complaining of is not authorized by the copyright owner, any agent of the
copyright owner, or the law; and
A statement by you, made
under penalty of perjury, that the information you have provided in your notice
is accurate and that you are either
6.
The copyright owner or are authorized to act on
behalf of the copyright owner.
Termination
of Users who Violate the Company's Policies
The Company, and
all of our affiliated companies respect the intellectual and property and personal
rights of others, and we ask our users and content partners to do the same. As
a condition to your use of this Web Site, you agree not to use the Web Site to
infringe the rights of others in any way. We will block access to our Web Site
of any users who cannot abide by the Company’s policies. We reserve the right
to take this action at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without
notice, and without any liability to the user whose access is blocked.
The Company’s Liability.
Dogwalkpress.com is only a
venue. This Web Site acts as a venue for users (such as Vendors, Customers,
content providers and other parties) and does not screen or censor the
submission or posting made. The web site may also be a venue for different
products, articles and interviews. The Company, unless the
author, is not involved in any actual communications between users, unless
specifically mentioned otherwise. As a result, the Company has no
control over the content of any such user communications, if any. In addition, note that there are risks of
dealing with persons through the internet, including but not limited to the
risk of physical harm, of dealing with strangers, foreign nationals, underage
persons or people acting under false pretenses. You assume all risks associated
with dealing with other users with whom you may come in contact through the Web
Site.
Dogwalkpress.com and Company and all affiliates thereof shall have no liability
to any user for user-to-user dealings and by your use of the Web Site you agree
to release the Company (and our agents and employees) from claims, demands and
damages (actual and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and
nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and
undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. Any dispute with the Company shall be solely
determined by arbitration and User agrees to submit any such dispute to binding
arbitration in Los Angeles County California pursuant to the then current rules
of the American Arbitration Association.
THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE
WEB SITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE WEB SITE AND ITS SERVER ARE FREE
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MECHANISMS. IF YOUR
USE OF THE WEB SITE OR THE MATERIAL RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR
REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, THE COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.
THE WEB SITE AND MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. THE COMPANY, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE MATERIAL, SERVICES, SOFTWARE,
TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS.
Links to Other Sites.
The Web Site may
from time to time contain links to third party web sites. The Company does not
endorse any of these sites and is provided to you as a convenience only. The
Company is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does
not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on
such third party web sites. If you decide to access linked third party Web
sites, you do so at your own risk.
Many of the Vendors will provide links to their web sites. If you access their
web sites, you will need to follow their terms and conditions, privacy
policies, and any other agreements found on their web site. The Company is not
liable for of the Vendor’s agreements, nor did the Company have any control of
its contents.
No
Resale or Unauthorized Commercial Use.
You agree not to
resell or assign your rights or obligations under these Dog-gone Terms of Use.
You also agree not to make any unauthorized commercial use of the Web Site.
Indemnity.
You agree to
defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its officers, directors,
employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands,
including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or
resulting from your use of the Material or your breach of the terms of these
Dog-gone Terms and Conditions. The Company shall provide notice to you promptly
of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense,
in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.
General
Terms.
The Company
makes no claims that the Materials may be lawfully viewed or downloaded outside
of the
Additional Terms of Use.
Certain areas of this web
site are subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas, or any part
thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to
such areas.