Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms of Use") apply to the SocialVolt web site at www.socialvolt.com, and all associated sites including but not limited to beta.socialvolt.com, studio.socialvolt.com and all web sites (collectively known as "the SocialVolt web site") owned and operated by SocialVolt, Inc. ("SocialVolt"), or any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. These web sites are the property of SocialVolt Inc. BY USING ANY OF THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE OR SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE SOCIALVOLT.
SocialVolt reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, amend, add or remove any part of these Terms of Use at any time. It is your sole responsibility to refer periodically to these Terms of Use to check for changes. Continuing to use the SocialVolt web site or services following any changes to these Terms of Use signifies agreement to any amendments made to these Terms of Use.
Content
All text, images, user interfaces, video media, artwork, computer code (including but not limited to HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript and XML) and Cascading Style Sheets (collectively known as "Content"), including but not limited to the design, structure, general "look and feel" of the SocialVolt web site, is owned or licensed by or to SocialVolt or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, and is protected by various intellectual property and copyright laws.
Except as otherwise declared within these Terms of Use, no part of the SocialVolt web site or any web site owned by SocialVolt may be copied, reproduced, republished, posted, uploaded, or otherwise duplicated on any other computer, server or web site for commercial enterprise, without the prior written consent of SocialVolt or one of its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Any content provided by SocialVolt for download from its web site (such as icon sets, cheat sheets, wallpapers and similar materials) remains the property of SocialVolt, but may be used provided that you (1) do not remove any copyright or other proprietary notice from such documents, (2) use such documents only and entirely for your own personal, non-commercial, informational purpose unless expressly permitted in writing by SocialVolt (3) do not in any way modify such documents, (4) do not offer any content of such documents to be reproduced and/or downloaded from any location except with the express written permission of SocialVolt and (5) do not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such documents.
Your use of the SocialVolt web site
You may not use any "robot", "spider", "scraper", "deep-link" or any other program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy, monitor or reproduce the whole or any part of the SocialVolt web site or any Content contained therein (with the exception of any internet Search Engines, who may use their proprietary algorithms solely for the purpose of providing a Search Index in which the SocialVolt web site may be listed), or in any way circumvent the navigational structure of the SocialVolt web site or any Content, or to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials not purposely made available through the SocialVolt web site and the navigational structure contained therein, including but not limited to attempting to execute any arbitrary computer code not part of the SocialVolt web site or systems. SocialVolt reserves the right to bar any such activity and/or ban users or Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses from the SocialVolt web site.
You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the SocialVolt web site not made specifically available to the general public, or any part of any system connected to the SocialVolt web site or to any SocialVolt server, or to any services offered by the SocialVolt web site including but not limited to the control panel, administrator pages or any protected directory or space, by hacking, password "mining", or any other illegitimate means. SocialVolt reserves the right to bar any such activity through user blacklisting, IP address blocking or similar methods.
You may not probe, scan or test the security systems or vulnerability of the SocialVolt web site or any part of any network connected to the SocialVolt web site, nor breach any security, encryption or authentication measures employed on the SocialVolt web site or any network connected to the SocialVolt web site. You may not attempt in any way to trace any information of any other user of or visitor to the SocialVolt web site, except any user information specifically made public by that user in any part of the SocialVolt web site. This includes any user account on the SocialVolt user database or any other account created on the SocialVolt web site not owned by you. You may not use any part of the SocialVolt web site to retrieve or attempt to retrieve any personal information pertaining to any user of or visitor to the SocialVolt web site, other than your own, except that information which is specifically made public by that user.
You agree not to take any action through any programmatic or manual method, which causes undue load to the infrastructure of the SocialVolt web site or of SocialVolt's systems or networks, or any such systems or networks connected to SocialVolt.
You agree not to use any device, software or routine, programmatic or manual, to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper operation of the SocialVolt web site or any transaction being conducted therein, or with any other person's use of the SocialVolt web site.
You may not in any way use the SocialVolt web site or any Content for any purpose prohibited by law or otherwise prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity, or any activity which infringes the legal rights of SocialVolt, any of its subsidiaries, or others.
Accounts, Passwords and Security
Some features of the SocialVolt web site or services offered thereon may require you to register a user account (including registering a user ID and a password). You are entirely responsible for maintaining the security of your account details, including your username and password, and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify SocialVolt immediately of any unauthorized activity or use of your account or password, or any other breach of your account's security. However, you may be held liable for any loss incurred by SocialVolt or any other user of or visitor to the SocialVolt web site due to unauthorized use of your user account.
You may not use anyone else's SocialVolt user account or password at any time without the express permission and consent of said account owner, and only for use permitted by these Terms of Use. SocialVolt cannot and will not be held liable for any loss of damage incurred by your failure to comply with these obligations.
Links to other web sites
The SocialVolt web site may contain hyperlinks to other independent third-party web sites ("Linked Sites"). These Linked Sites are provided solely as a convenience to SocialVolt web site users or visitors. Such Linked Sites are not affiliated with SocialVolt and thus are outside SocialVolt's control: SocialVolt therefore takes no responsibility for the content contained in any Linked Sites, and does not endorse any content or activity related to such Linked Sites, including but not limited to any information or materials contained therein. Your interaction with any Linked Sites is entirely independent of SocialVolt.
Disclaimers
SOCIALVOLT DOES NOT PROMISE THAT THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE OR ANY CONTENT, FEATURE OR SERVICE CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE ENTIRELY ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS THEREIN WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT YOUR USE OF THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC RESULTS. THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE AND ALL CONTENT THEREIN IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" AND "AS-AVAILABLE" BASIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ANYWHERE ON THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. SOCIALVOLT CANNOT ENSURE THAT ANY FILES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DATA DOWNLOADED FROM THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE OR ANY RELATED SERVICE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. SOCIALVOLT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SOCIALVOLT DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ACTS, OMISSIONS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED BY SOCIALVOLT. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN USE OF THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE AND ANY LINKED SITES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST SOCIALVOLT FOR ANY DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE, ANY CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN OR ANY OTHER SERVICE PROVIDED BY SOCIALVOLT IS TO STOP USING THE SOCIALVOLT WEB SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT OR SERVICES.
The above disclaimer applies to any liability, damages or injuries caused by any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in transmission, computer virus or other such destructive content, communication line failure, theft or destruction of or unauthorized access, alteration or use, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence or any other cause of action.
SocialVolt reserves the right at any time to do any of the following, without prior notice: (1) to modify, suspend or terminate the operation of or access to the whole or any part of the SocialVolt web site, for any reason; (2) to modify or change the whole or any part of the SocialVolt web site, and any relevant policies or legal terms; and (3) to temporarily interrupt the operation of the whole or any part of the SocialVolt web site as necessary to perform maintenance, be it of routine or non-routine nature, error correction, or other changes.
Violation of these Terms of Use
SocialVolt reserves the right to disclose any information about you (including your identity) if we determine that such disclosure is necessary in connection with any legal investigation or complaint regarding your use of the SocialVolt web site, or to identify, contact or bring legal action against anybody who may be causing injury to or interference with SocialVolt's rights or property, or that of any of its subsidiaries, or the rights or property of visitors to or users of any part of the SocialVolt web site. SocialVolt reserves the right at all times to disclose any information that we deem necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.
You acknowledge and agree that SocialVolt may preserve any transmittal, correspondence or communication by you with SocialVolt through the SocialVolt web site, email or any other service offered on the SocialVolt web site or through SocialVolt, and may disclose such data if required to do so by law or if we deem it necessary in order to either comply with legal process, to enforce these Terms of Use, or to protect the rights and/or property of SocialVolt, its employees, any users of or visitors to the SocialVolt web site, and the public.
You agree that at any point, SocialVolt may at its sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate your access to the SocialVolt web site and/or block any future access by any and all means possible if we determine that you have violated any of these Terms of Use or the Terms of Use specified for any other part of SocialVolt's web site or services, or any other agreements which may be associated with your use of the SocialVolt web site, or for any cause which includes but is not limited to any request by law enforcement or other government agencies or any other technical issues or problems.
The information contained in this web site is subject to change without notice.
SocialVolt, Inc., Legal Department, December 1, 2010.
If you have any questions, please email us at legal@socialvolt.com.
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