GeoForums Terms of Service
Last updated: March, 29,
2020
By using the GeoForums ("Service"), you are agreeing to be
bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service").
Paradigm E
("Company") reserves the right to update and change these Terms of
Service without notice.
Violation of any of
the terms below may result in the termination of your account.
- You are responsible for
maintaining the security of your account and password. The Company cannot
and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply
with this security obligation.
- You are responsible for all
content posted and activity that occurs under your account (even when
content is posted by others who use your account).
- You may not use the Service for
any illegal purpose or to violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including
but not limited to copyright laws).
- You must provide a valid email
address and any other information requested in order to complete the
signup process.
- You must be a human. Accounts
registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
Customers may only
access their Service data via the application, GeoForums.
Any use of the Service, including the permitted use of the Service through a
third-party product that has explicit permission to access the Service, is
bound by the terms of this agreement plus the following specific terms:
- You expressly understand and
agree that the Company shall not be liable for any damages or losses
resulting from your use of the Service or third-party products that access
Service data.
- Usage of Service data originating
from outside the application, GeoForums and
without explicit permission to use the Service outside of the application,
GeoForums, may result in the temporary or
permanent suspension of your account. The Company, in its sole discretion,
will determine abuse of the Service. The Company will make a reasonable
attempt via the application to warn the account owner prior to suspension.
Modifications to the
Service
- The Company reserves the right
at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or
permanently, any part of the Service with or without notice.
- The Company shall not be liable
to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Service.
Copyright and Content
Ownership
- All content posted on the
Service must comply with U.S. copyright law.
- We claim no intellectual
property rights over the material you provide to the Service. All
materials uploaded remain yours.
- The Company pre-screens some of
the content, and reserves the right (but not the obligation) in their sole
discretion to refuse or remove any content that is available via the
Service.
- The look and feel of the
Service is copyright© to the Company. All rights reserved. You may not
duplicate, copy, or reverse-engineer any portion of the Service elements
without express written permission from the Company.
- Your use of the Service is at
your sole risk. The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available”
basis.
- You understand that the Company
uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary
hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required
to run the Service.
- You must not modify, adapt or
hack the Service.
- You must not modify another
application or website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with
the Service or the Company.
- You agree not to reproduce,
duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use
of the Service, or access to the Service without the express written
permission by the Company.
- We may, but have no obligation
to, remove content and accounts that we determine in our sole discretion
are unlawful or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms
of Service.
- Verbal, physical, written or
other abuse (including threats of abuse or retribution) of any Service
customer, Company employee or officer will result in immediate account
termination.
- You understand that the
technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your
content, may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over
various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical
requirements of connecting networks or devices.
- The Company does not warrant
that (i) the service will meet your specific
requirements, (ii) the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or
error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the
service will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products,
services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you
through the service will meet your expectations, and (v) any errors in the
Service will be corrected.
- You expressly understand and
agree that the Company shall not be liable 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 the Company has been advised of the possibility of such
damages), resulting from: (i) the use or the
inability to use the service; (ii) 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 service; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of
your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party
on the service; (v) or any other matter relating to the service.
- The failure of the Company to
exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall
not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Service
constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Company and govern
your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and
the Company (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the
Terms of Service).
- Questions about the Terms of
Service should be sent to support+geoforums@theparadigme.com.
Any new features that
augment or enhance the current Service, including the release of new tools and
resources, shall be subject to the Terms of Service. Continued use of the
Service after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.
- Be polite.
- No hate speech.
- No material which may endanger
others.
- No bullying.
- No spam.
- Be respectable.
- Any content that has been
determined by GeoForums to be inappropriate may
be censored and the user warned or banned.
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