ExposureRoom.com, Inc. Terms Of Use
ExposureRoom.com is a business and social networking service
that allows Members to create unique personal profiles online in order to find
and communicate with old and new friends. The services offered by ExposureRoom.com
("ExposureRoom.com" or "we") include the ExposureRoom.com
website (the "ExposureRoom Website"), the ExposureRoom.com Internet
messaging service, the ExposureRoom.com Embeddable Player and any other features,
content, or applications offered from time to time by ExposureRoom.com in
connection with the ExposureRoom Website (collectively, the "ExposureRoom Services").
The ExposureRoom Services are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets
forth the legally binding terms for your use of the ExposureRoom Services. By
using the ExposureRoom Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement,
whether you are a "Guest" or “Visitor” (which means that you simply
browse the ExposureRoom Website) or you are a "Member" (which means
that you have registered with ExposureRoom.com). The term "User"
refers to a Guest, Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the ExposureRoom
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 ExposureRoom
Website and discontinue use of the ExposureRoom Services immediately. If you
wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the ExposureRoom
Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the
Registration process.
This Agreement includes ExposureRoom.com's policy for
acceptable use of the ExposureRoom Services and Content posted on the ExposureRoom
Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the ExposureRoom
Services and ExposureRoom.com's Privacy Policy. In order to participate in
certain ExposureRoom Services, you may be notified that you are required to
download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions.
Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to
the ExposureRoom Services in which you choose to participate, those additional
terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of
this Agreement by emailing us at: privacy@ExposureRoom.com,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
ExposureRoom.com may modify this Agreement from time to time
and such modification shall be effective upon posting by ExposureRoom.com on
the ExposureRoom Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this
Agreement when you use the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom.com
and that you provide to other Users. Your ExposureRoom.com profile may not include
the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses 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 ExposureRoom.com Members (for
instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or
sexually explicit material, products or services, and ExposureRoom.com assumes
no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse
of the ExposureRoom Services by any person, please contact ExposureRoom or click on the "Report Inappropriate
Content" link at the bottom of any ExposureRoom.com page.
Please note that your ExposureRoom username and the first and last name in your profile is information that is in the public domain. This information will be indexed by global search engines and the ExposureRoom search engine.
ExposureRoom.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion,
to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages)
and delete any content uploaded by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of
the ExposureRoom Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without
prior notice, and without liability. ExposureRoom expressly reserves the
right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access
to any part of ExposureRoom Services if ExposureRoom determines, in its sole
discretion, that you pose a threat to ExposureRoom and/or its Users.
- Eligibility. Use of and Membership in the ExposureRoom
Services is void where prohibited. By using the ExposureRoom 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
ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services or are a Member. You may
terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason. ExposureRoom.com may
terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after
Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect.
- Fees. You acknowledge that ExposureRoom.com
reserves the right to charge for the ExposureRoom Services and to change
its fees from time to time in its discretion. If ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom.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.
- Account Termination.Violations of the Terms of Use may result in a
warning notification or termination of your account with or without notice. If your account
is terminated you are prohibited from creating any new accounts.
Upon account termination all Content will be permanently deleted.
- Non-commercial Use by Members. The ExposureRoom
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 ExposureRoom.com. Uploading Commercials, Product Demos, Infomercials and anything else that helps sell or promote a product or service is not allowed. Content you upload to ExposureRoom should be such that it helps you promote your talent and skill as an artist.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on ExposureRoom.com.
- ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom Services. After posting your Content to
the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services, you hereby grant to ExposureRoom.com
a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display,
reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the ExposureRoom
Services.
Without this license, ExposureRoom.com
would be unable to provide the ExposureRoom Services. For example, without the
right to modify Member Content, ExposureRoom.com would not be able to digitally
compress videos, photos or music files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy
technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member
Content, ExposureRoom.com could not allow Users to view vidoes and photos or listen to music
posted by Members. The license you grant to ExposureRoom.com is non-exclusive (meaning
you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to ExposureRoom.com),
fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that ExposureRoom.com is not required to
pay you for the use on the ExposureRoom Services of the Content that you post),
sublicensable (so that ExposureRoom.com is able to use its affiliates and
subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the ExposureRoom
Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the ExposureRoom Services
are global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your
Content from the ExposureRoom Services. The license does not grant ExposureRoom.com
the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant ExposureRoom.com the
right to distribute your Content outside of the ExposureRoom Services.
- You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content
posted by you on or through the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services.
- The ExposureRoom Services contain Content of ExposureRoom.com
("ExposureRoom.com Content"). ExposureRoom.com Content is
protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws,
and ExposureRoom.com owns and retains all rights in the ExposureRoom.com
Content and the ExposureRoom Services. ExposureRoom.com hereby grants you
a limited, revocable, non sub licensable license to reproduce and display
the ExposureRoom.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for
your personal use in connection with viewing the ExposureRoom Website and
using the ExposureRoom Services.
- The ExposureRoom Services contain Content of Users and
other ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom Services.
- Any Content you provide to ExposureRoom.com will be deemed public information
and not subject to any confidentiality obligation and ExposureRoom.com shall have
no obligation to maintain its confidentiality.
- Content Posted.
- ExposureRoom.com may delete any Content that in the sole
judgment of ExposureRoom.com violates this Agreement or which may be
offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of
any person. ExposureRoom.com assumes no responsibility for monitoring the
ExposureRoom Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any
time ExposureRoom.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the ExposureRoom
Services, ExposureRoom.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.
- You are solely responsible for the Content that you post
on or through any of the ExposureRoom Services, and any material or
information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions
with other Users. ExposureRoom.com does not endorse and has no control
over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by ExposureRoom.com
prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or
policies of ExposureRoom.com. ExposureRoom.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.
- You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with
security-related features of the ExposureRoom Website or features that prevent or
restrict use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on use of the ExposureRoom Website
or the Content therein
- The purpose of ExposureRoom is not a backup service and should not be treated as such.
ExposureRoom may from time to time remove older original video files that
have not been accessed. This applies only to the orginal file and not the
transcoded versions.
- 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 ExposureRoom Services. ExposureRoom.com reserves the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who,
in ExposureRoom.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including
without limitation, removing the offending communication from the ExposureRoom
Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited
Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole
discretion of ExposureRoom.com:
- is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry,
hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or
contains a link to an adult website;
- solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last
names, URLs or email addresses;
- promotes information that you know is false or misleading
or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening,
obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- 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;
- involves the transmission of "junk mail,"
"chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant
messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
- contains restricted or password only access pages or
hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible
page);
- 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;
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information
for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
- involves commercial activities and/or sales without our
prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising,
or pyramid schemes;
- includes a photograph of another person that you have
posted without that person's consent; or
- for band and filmmaker profiles, 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 ExposureRoom Website
and through your use of the ExposureRoom Services. ExposureRoom.com reserves
the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who,
in ExposureRoom.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including
without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited
activity includes, but is not limited to:
- criminal or tortuous 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;
- advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or
sell any products or services through the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom
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, ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom Services, you
acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom.com
$50 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication
you send through the ExposureRoom Services;
- covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your
personal profile page, or any ExposureRoom.com page via HTML/CSS or any
other means;
- any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to
add friends or send comments or messages;
- interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden
on the ExposureRoom Services or the networks or services connected to the
ExposureRoom Services;
- attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
- for band profiles, copying the code for your ExposureRoom
Player and embedding it into other profiles or asking other Members to
embed it into their profiles;
- 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;
- selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using any information obtained from the ExposureRoom
Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
- 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 ExposureRoom
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;
- sale of access to the Website or its related services (such as the Embeddable Player) on another website;
- use of the Website or its related services (such as the Embeddable Player), for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue;
- any use of the Website or its related services (such as the Embeddable player) that ExposureRoom.com finds, in its sole discretion,
to use ExposureRoom.com 's resources or User Submissions with the effect of competing with or displacing the market for ExposureRoom.com,
ExposureRoom.com content, or its User Submissions;
or
- using the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom.com to terminate Membership privileges of any
Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon
receipt of proper notification to ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom
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 ExposureRoom 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. ExposureRoom.com's Copyright Agent
for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:
Copyright Agent, ExposureRoom, Inc., 15102 Gaffney Circle Gainesville, VA
20155; Fax: (571) 921-4099; Attn: Copyright Agent; and email: copyright@ExposureRoom.com.
- Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for
your interactions with other ExposureRoom.com Members. ExposureRoom.com
reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you
and other Members.
- Privacy. Use of the ExposureRoom Services is also
governed by our Privacy
Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
- Disclaimers. ExposureRoom.com is not responsible
for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the ExposureRoom Website
or in connection with the ExposureRoom Services, whether caused by Users
of the ExposureRoom Services or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the ExposureRoom Services. Profiles created
and posted by Members on the ExposureRoom Website may contain links to
other websites. ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom.com.
Inclusion of any linked website on the ExposureRoom Services does not
imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by ExposureRoom.com.
When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. ExposureRoom.com
takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on
this ExposureRoom Website or through the ExposureRoom Services, nor does
it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its
advertisers. ExposureRoom.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any User of the ExposureRoom Services. ExposureRoom.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. ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services. Under
no circumstances shall ExposureRoom.com be responsible for any loss or
damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the ExposureRoom
Services, attendance at a ExposureRoom.com event, from any Content posted
on or through the ExposureRoom Services, or from the conduct of any Users
of the ExposureRoom Services, whether online or offline. The ExposureRoom
Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and ExposureRoom.com
expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. ExposureRoom.com cannot guarantee and does not promise
any specific results from use of the ExposureRoom Services.
- Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL EXPOSUREROOM.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 EXPOSUREROOM.COM
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, EXPOSUREROOM.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 EXPOSUREROOM.COM
FOR THE EXPOSUREROOM SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
- U.S. Export Controls. Software available in
connection with the ExposureRoom Services (the "Software") is
further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded
from the ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Services, you agree that the dispute shall be
governed by the laws of the State of Virginia, 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 Virginia, City of Gainesville. Either ExposureRoom.com
or you may demand that any dispute between ExposureRoom.com and you about
or involving the ExposureRoom Services must be settled by arbitration
utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association
(AAA) in Gainesville, Virginia, USA, provided that the foregoing shall not
prevent ExposureRoom.com from seeking injunctive relief in a court of
competent jurisdiction.
- Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold ExposureRoom.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 ExposureRoom 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 ExposureRoom Website or through the ExposureRoom
Services causes ExposureRoom.com to be liable to another.
- Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of
the ExposureRoom Website or any of the ExposureRoom Services and is
further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the
entire agreement between you and ExposureRoom.com regarding the use of the
ExposureRoom Services. The failure of ExposureRoom.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. ExposureRoom.com
is a trademark of ExposureRoom, 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: Contact ExposureRoom
with any questions regarding this Agreement.
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