By using the www.adparlor.com website ("AdParlor" or the "Website") you agree to
be bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement").
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for your use of the Website and
your Membership in the Service. AdParlor may modify this Agreement from time to
time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by AdParlor on the Website.
You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the Service
after any such modification is posted. This Agreement includes AdParlor policy for
acceptable use and content posted on the Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions
regarding your use of the Website and the Service and AdParlor Privacy Policy.
YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND THE AdParlor SERVICE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
1. Description of the AdParlor Service. The AdParlor Service is a web-based
advertising network.
2. Changes to the AdParlor Service and the Agreement. AdParlor reserves the
right, without liability to you, to modify or discontinue the AdParlor Service with
or without notice to you, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions.
If you do not accept and abide by the terms of the Agreement, you may not use the
AdParlor Service. AdParlor may change the TOU at any time in its sole discretion,
so you should visit this page periodically to review these terms. In the event of
any material or substantial change in the terms and conditions of the TOU, AdParlor
may, but shall not be obligated to post an announcement of the changes together
with a link to the new TOU on the AdParlor Service. By using the AdParlor Service
after any change in the TOU, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by such amended
TOU.
3. Eligibility. You must be thirteen years of age or older to register as
a member of AdParlor or use the Web site. If you are under the age of 13, you are
not allowed to register and become a member of AdParlor or access AdParlor content,
features and services on the Web Site. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited.
By using the Web site, you represent and warrant that you agree to and to abide
by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. AdParlor may terminate your
membership for any reason, at any time.
4. Security. You will receive a password and account designation upon completing
the registration process for the Service. Each account is to be used by an individual
user. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and
account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password
or account. You agree to: (a) immediately notify AdParlor of any unauthorized use
of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that
you logout from your account at the end of each session. AdParlor will not be liable
for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 4.
5. Privacy. Personal information collected by AdParlor shall be used as set
forth in the AdParlor Privacy Policy. As a condition to using the AdParlor Service,
you agree to the terms of the AdParlor Privacy Policy as it may be updated from
time to time. You agree that AdParlor may monitor, edit or disclose your personal
information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order
to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search
warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in the AdParlor
Privacy Policy.
6. User Conduct. You agree to make use of this advertising network in compliance
with the guidelines set forth in this document. Your use of the AdParlor Service
is subject to your acceptance of, and compliance with the Agreement. AdParlor reserves
the right, but does not assume the responsibility, to monitor or review your conduct
on the AdParlor Service. Your use of the AdParlor Service is subject to all applicable
federal, state and local laws and regulations, and you agree that the following
activities are strictly prohibited in conjunction with your use of the AdParlor
Service:
- Promotion or encouragement of illegal activity
- Interference with other AdParlor users' use of the AdParlor Service
- Use of the AdParlor Service in violation of the rights of others
- Use of the AdParlor Service that is harmful to minors in any way
- The transmission, uploading, distribution or dissemination (or offer to do the same)
of any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene,
or otherwise objectionable content
- Transmission of another's intellectual property or other proprietary information
without permission
- Modification, adaptation, translation, or reverse engineering of any portion of
the AdParlor Service or any software offered in connection with the AdParlor Service
- Transmission of email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam
law
- The sale, exchange or distribution to a third party of the email addresses of any
person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure
- The transmission of unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses
belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no preexisting relationship
- Intentional distribution of viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, corrupted files,
hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive nature
- Impersonation of another person (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or
other misrepresentation of yourself or the source of any email
- Creation of multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the Agreement
or creation of user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses
- The sale, trade, resale or other exploitation for any unauthorized commercial purpose
or transfer any AdParlor account
- Removal if any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained
in or on the AdParlor Service
- Provision of material or resources in support of any organization(s) designated
by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization
- Altering link exchange or advertising code in any way without written permission
from AdParlor
- Use of link exchange or advertising code in any application or website that is not
part of a social networking Application which displays canvas pages within a social
networking website.
- Perpetration or any click fraud by direct or indirect means in order to increase
incoming links or advertising revenue.
Violation of any of the foregoing may result in immediate termination of this Agreement,
and may subject you to provincial and federal penalties and other legal consequences.
Your right to use the AdParlor Service is personal to you. You agree not to resell
or make any commercial use of the AdParlor Service without the express consent of
AdParlor. You may not create bots or other computer generated automatic tools to
create events, nor abuse the AdParlor Service in any manner. Use that constitutes
abuse shall be determined by AdParlor in its sole discretion. AdParlor reserves
the right to terminate your account if AdParlor determines you have not complied
with any part of the Agreement. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary
right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the acts
required of you hereunder.
7. Content. You understand that all information, data, text, photographs,
graphics, messages or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately
transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated.
With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible
areas of the AdParlor Service, you grant AdParlor a world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive
license(s) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly
display such Content on the AdParlor Service solely for the purpose for which such
Content was submitted or made available. AdParlor does not control the Content posted
by any user of the AdParlor Service and thus does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity
or quality of such Content. Under no circumstances will AdParlor be liable in any
way for any Content posted by any user or third party, including, but not limited
to, liability for any errors or omissions in any Content or for any loss or damage
of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, e-mailed or otherwise
transmitted via the AdParlor Service. "Publicly accessible" areas of the AdParlor
Service are those areas intended by AdParlor to be available to the general public.
8. AdParlor Intellectual Property Rights; Copyright Policy.You acknowledge
that AdParlor owns all right, title and interest in and to the AdParlor Service,
including without limitation all intellectual property rights (the "AdParlor Rights"),
and such AdParlor Rights are protected by Canadian and international intellectual
property laws. The AdParlor Rights include rights to: (a) the AdParlor Service developed
and provided by AdParlor and all trademarks and other intellectual property associated
therewith; and (b) all software associated with the AdParlor Service. You agree
that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from
the AdParlor Service or any Content placed on the AdParlor Service by AdParlor or
any third party. If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the
AdParlor Service without your permission or in any way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please provide AdParlor with the following information: a description
of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where
the material you claim is infringing is located on the AdParlor Service; your address,
telephone number, and email address; and a written statement by you stating that
you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by you, your
agent, or the law; and a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you
own the claimed infringing material together with any evidence of such ownership.
Please contact AdParlor at the following address:
AdParlor Copyright Infringement
140 Old Surrey Lane
Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 7E5
9. Advertisements. You agree and understand that some parts of the AdParlor
Service may display ads and other information adjacent to and related to your content.
Any such ads or other information is served using a completely automated process.
No email content, addresses, or other personally identifiable information will be
provided to advertisers as part of the AdParlor Service. Your correspondence or
business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on
or through the AdParlor Service, including payment and delivery of related goods
or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated
with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that AdParlor
shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as
the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers
on the AdParlor Service.
10. Publisher Agreement. By becoming a publisher with AdParlor you agree
to serve ads ONLY on the URL that you have provided while registering that application.
AdParlor ads cannot be served on any other site. This includes sub-affiliates, rotators,
or other networks. You must have complete control and ownership of the application
where these ads are being server. Additionally, you agree to follow the terms and
conditions of the hosting platform. i.e. facebook, myspace, hi5, bebo, orkut, friendster.
You are not allowed to incent, request, lead, or mislead the user into clicking
on an advertisement for profit, support, or any other reason. The user should be
clicking on the ad out of genuine interest in the advertisement at AdParlor’s sole
discretion.
11. Software. Your use of any software associated with the AdParlor Service
will be governed by the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement ("EULA")
accompanying such software. If you receive any software that is not accompanied
by a EULA, then AdParlor grants to you a non-exclusive, revocable, personal, non-transferable
license to use such software solely in connection with the AdParlor Service and
in accordance with this Agreement. AdParlor reserves all rights to such software
not expressly granted to you in any EULA or in this Agreement. Such software is
protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties. AdParlor
or its suppliers own all right, title and interest in and to such software (including
all intellectual property rights), and such software is licensed, not sold to you.
You will not disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer, such software, except
and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law.
12. Information Available from the AdParlor Service. AdParlor and its suppliers
do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of any information available
from the AdParlor service, even if such information appears in e-mail, cell phone
or other alerts available through the AdParlor Service. AdParlor and its suppliers
do not authorize the use of information available from the AdParlor Service for
any purpose other than your personal use, and prohibit the resale, redistribution,
and use of this information for commercial purposes. AdParlor does not endorse or
recommend any particular product or service. Nothing contained in the AdParlor Service
is intended to constitute professional advice of any kind.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties.
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
- A. YOUR USE OF THE AdParlor SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE AdParlor SERVICE IS
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. AdParlor EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT.
- B. AdParlor MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE AdParlor SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
(ii) THE AdParlor SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE,
(iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE AdParlor SERVICE WILL
BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION,
OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE AdParlor SERVICE WILL
MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (v) ANY ERRORS IN ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO OR USED BY
YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THE AdParlor SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED.
- C. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE AdParlor
SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE
FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD
OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
- D. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM AdParlor
OR THROUGH OR FROM THE AdParlor SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY
STATED IN THE TOU.
14. Limitation of Liability; Your Exclusive Remedy. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND
AND AGREE THAT AdParlor SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES
FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF AdParlor
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (a) THE USE
OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR THE AdParlor SERVICE; (b) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT
OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR
SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO
THROUGH OR FROM THE AdParlor SERVICE; (c) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF
YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (d) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE
SITE OR THE AdParlor SERVICE; OR (e) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SITE OR THE
AdParlor SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES
OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 13, 14 AND 15 MAY NOT
APPLY TO YOU.
15. Additional Liability Limitation. As you use the AdParlor Service, you
should expect to receive, access or use Content originated by AdParlor and persons
other than AdParlor (any such person is referred to as a "third party"). Without
limiting the generality of sections 13 and 14, you acknowledge and agree that neither
AdParlor nor its licensors or other suppliers are responsible or liable for: (a)
any content, including without limitation, any infringing, inaccurate, obscene,
indecent, threatening, offensive, defamatory, or illegal content, or (b) any third
party conduct, transmission or data. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that
AdParlor is not responsible or liable for: (i) any viruses or other disabling features
that affect your access to or use of the AdParlor Service, (ii) any incompatibility
between the AdParlor Service and other web site, services, software, and hardware,
(iii) any delays or failures you may experience in initiating, conducting, or completing
any transmissions or transactions in connection with the AdParlor Service in an
accurate or timely manner, or (iv) any damages or costs of any type arising out
of or in any way connected with your use of any services available from third parties
through links contained on the AdParlor Service.
16. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold AdParlor, and its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and officers, directors,
employees, successors and assigns harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of the following
actions by you or other user of the AdParlor Service using your account: (a) use
of the AdParlor Service, (b) violation of any part of the Agreement, (c) infringement
of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, (d) violation
of any federal, state or local law or regulation; (e) Content you submit, post,
transmit or make available through the AdParlor Service, or (f) violation of any
rights of another.
17. Links to Third Party Sites. Any web sites that are accessible via links
included within the AdParlor Service that take you to another web site or out of
the AdParlor Service are not under AdParlor's control, and AdParlor shall not be
responsible for the content, products or services of any linked web site. All such
web sites shall be subject to the policies and procedures of the owner of such web
sites. AdParlor encourages you to read those policies and know your rights under
any web site you visit.
18. Agreement Violations by Others. AdParlor asks that you participate in
ensuring that all users of the AdParlor Service follow the terms of the Agreement
by reporting any violations of these terms. To report a violation of the Agreement,
please email us at privacy@adparlor.com .
19. General.
- A. Entire Agreement. The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you
and AdParlor and govern your use of the AdParlor Service, superceding any prior
agreements between you and AdParlor. You also may be subject to additional terms
and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other AdParlor services,
affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.
- B. Assignment. AdParlor may assign this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time
with or without notice to you. You may not assign or otherwise transfer any of your
rights or obligations under this Agreement.
- C. Choice of Law and Forum. The Agreement and the relationship between you and AdParlor
shall be governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada without regard to its conflict
of law provisions or your actual state or country of residence. You and AdParlor
agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located
within Ontario, Canada.
- D. Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of AdParlor to exercise or enforce
any right or provision of the Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right
or provision. If any provision of the Agreement is found by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should
endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision,
and the other provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect.
- E. Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the
contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the AdParlor
Service or the Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause
of action arose or be forever barred.
- F. No Third Party Beneficiaries. You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided
in the Agreement, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.
- G. Section Headings. The section titles in the Agreement are for convenience only
and have no legal or contractual effect.
- H. Notice. AdParlor may, but shall not be obligated to provide you with notices,
including those regarding changes to the Agreement, by either email, regular mail,
or postings on the AdParlor Service.
20. Copyright and Trademark Notices; Other Acknowledgements. All contents
of the AdParlor Service are Copyright © 2008 AdParlor. All rights reserved