Monday, March 22, 2010

Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the Tondee’s Tavern network of sites. By accessing and using these web sites and their services you are agreeing to be legally bound by these Terms of Use.

 

1. GENERAL

Tondee’s Tavern, LLC reserves the right to change these Terms of Use without advance notice by posting a revised Terms of Use to the web site. Your use of the Tondee’s Tavern web sites after any changes have been posted will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use. You understand and agree that Tondee’s Tavern may discontinue or change the web sites and/or the service at any time, without notice. You also understand and agree that Tondee’s Tavern may discontinue or restrict your use of the web sites for any reason without notice and without any liability to you. In addition, when using the Tondee’s Tavern web sites, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to the service, which may be posted from time to time and which are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.

 

2. COPYRIGHT

The content displayed on the Tondee’s Tavern web sites, including the selection, arrangement and design is the property of Tondee’s Tavern or its licensors, and it is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. This content may be used only for your personal and non-commercial use and may not be edited or modified for any purpose. By accessing the Tondee’s Tavern web sites, you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, display, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate this content to anyone, except that you may occasionally reproduce, distribute, display or transmit an insubstantial portion of this content, for a noncommercial purpose, to a limited number of individuals, provided you use the phrase "Used with permission from the Tondee’s Tavern web sites, a service of Tondee’s Tavern, LLC."

All rights not expressly granted herein are hereby reserved.

Tondee’s Tavern does not claim ownership of this content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Tondee’s Tavern web sites. This content is the property of the author of such content. You agree to grant Tondee’s Tavern a perpetual, royalty-free and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer and sell such content in any format now known or hereafter created and to use your name and other identifying information you provide in connection with that content. You also permit any visitor or member of the Tondee’s Tavern web sites to use such Content for personal use as described above.

If you believe in good faith that any content infringes your copyright, you may send us a notice requesting that the material be removed though we cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your correspondence.

 

3. USER OBLIGATIONS

In consideration of your use of Tondee’s Tavern’s web sites, you represent that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself upon registration and thereafter. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to immediately notify the Tondee’s Tavern web sites of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. Tondee’s Tavern cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply this section.

You agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

You agree to be fully responsible for your own content. The Tondee’s Tavern web sites act as a venue for you to post your content. While Tondee’s Tavern has the right to refuse to post or remove, edit or abridge any content for any reason, it is otherwise not involved in the writing or decisions as to the content of its users. As a result, Tondee’s Tavern has no control over the quality, accuracy or legality of the content on the Tondee’s Tavern web sites. All content posted on the Tondee’s Tavern web sites is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated.

Because the Tondee’s Tavern web sites function as venues, in the event that you have a dispute with a user of the Tondee’s Tavern web sites and their service, you release Tondee’s Tavern and its officers, members and employees from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) 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.

You agree to indemnify and hold Tondee’s Tavern and its officers, members and employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs (including reasonable attorney's fees) that arise out of any of your content, including, without limitation, any content posted or otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark, intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or violates any person's rights of publicity or privacy, or otherwise violates these Terms of Use.

 In addition, you agree not to use the Tondee’s Tavern web sites or its service to: 

1.     Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content:
 - that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, false or inaccurate, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

- that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); or
- that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;

2.   Harm minors in any way;

3.     Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

4.     Post any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;

5.     Post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

6.     Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;

7.     Violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, intentionally or unintentionally;

8.     "Stalk" or otherwise harass another; and/or

9.     Collect or store personal data about other users.

 

4. THIRD PARTY SITE LINKS

The Tondee’s Tavern web sites may contain links to web sites operated and managed by individuals other than Tondee’s Tavern. You agree not to hold Tondee’s Tavern responsible for the content oroperation of those web sites as a link from the Tondee’s Tavern web sites does not imply or constitute an endorsement by Tondee’s Tavern of the content on that web site or the operators or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may use any content from any other web sites to which you might link from the Tondee’s Tavern web sites.

 

5. DISCLAIMERS

The Tondee’s Tavern web sites include facts, views, opinions and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest, and Tondee’s Tavern does not endorse these views, opinions and recommendations.

The Tondee’s Tavern web sites may include inadvertent inaccuracies or errors or information that violate the Terms of Use. Additionally, the possibility does exist that a third party could make unauthorized alterations to the content or features at Tondee’s Tavern web sites. We attempt to ensure the intregity of Tondee’s Tavern, though we cannot make any guarantees to its correctness or its completeness. In the event that a situation arises in which Tondee’s Tavern’s correctness or completeness is in question, please contact us with a description of the material to be checked and the location (URL) where such materials can be found, as well as information sufficient to enable us to contact you.