Terms of Service
The following terms and conditions govern all use of
every iPoots LLC. website and all content, services and products
available at or through those websites, including, but not limited
to, DNSly.net (“DNSly”), iPoots.com
(“iPoots”), Big.gy (“Big.gy”),
Sendsies.com (“Sendsies”), (taken together, the
Websites). The Websites are owned and operated by iPoots, LLC. The
Websites are offered subject to your acceptance without
modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein
and all other operating rules, policies (including, without
limitation, iPoots LLC.'s
Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be
published from time to time on this Site by iPoots LLC.
(collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing
or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web
site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of
this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and
conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website
or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered
an offer by iPoots LLC., acceptance is expressly limited to these
terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at
least 13 years old.
- Your iPoots LLC.
Account and Sites. If you create an account on
one of the Websites, you are responsible for maintaining the
security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all
activities that occur under the account and any other actions
taken in connection with the account. You must immediately notify
iPoots LLC. of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other
breaches of security. iPoots LLC. will not be liable for any acts
or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred
as a result of such acts or omissions.
- Responsibility of
Contributors. If you operate a website, comment on
content, post material to the Websites, post links on the
Websites, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make)
material available by means of the Websites (any such material,
“Content”), You are entirely responsible for the
content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is
the case regardless of whether the Content in question
constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software.
By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
- the downloading, copying and use
of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights,
including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or
trade secret rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to
intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received
permission from your employer to post or make available the
Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii)
secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the
Content;
- you have fully complied with any
third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all
things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any
required terms;
- the Content does not contain or
install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other
harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not
spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain
unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive
traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings
of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as
phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material
(such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic,
does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate
the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- your website is not advertised
via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on
newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar
unsolicited promotional methods;
- your website is not named in a
manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are
another person or company. For example, your website’s URL
or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or
company other than your own; and
- you have, in the case of Content
that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or
described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials,
whether requested to do so by iPoots LLC. or otherwise.
- By submitting any public-facing
(any Content available accessible on the internet without any
authentication on your website) Content to iPoots LLC. for
inclusion on your Websites, you grant iPoots LLC. a world-wide,
royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify,
adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of
displaying, distributing and promoting your website. If you
delete Content, iPoots LLC. will use reasonable efforts to remove
it from the Websites, but you acknowledge that caching or
references to the Content may not be made immediately
unavailable.
- Without limiting any of those
representations or warranties, iPoots LLC. has the right (though
not the obligation) to, in iPoots LLC.’s sole discretion
(i) refuse or remove any content that, in iPoots LLC.’s
reasonable opinion, violates any iPoots LLC. policy or is in any
way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to
and use of the Websites to any individual or entity for any
reason, in iPoots LLC.’s sole discretion. iPoots LLC. will
have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously
paid.
- Payment and Renewal.
- General Terms.
- Paid services are available on
the Websites (any such services, a “Subscription”).
By selecting an Subscription you agree to pay iPoots LLC. the
monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service.
Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you sign
up for a Subscription and will cover the use of that service for
a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated.
Subscription fees are not refundable.
- Automatic Renewal.
- Unless you notify iPoots LLC.
before the end of the applicable subscription period that you
want to cancel an Subscription, your Subscription will
automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the
then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee for such
Subscription (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or
other payment mechanism we have on record for you. Subscriptions
can be canceled at any time in the Subscriptions section of any
of the Websites’ dashboards.
- Responsibility of
Websites Visitors. iPoots LLC. has not
reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including
computer software, posted to the Websites, and cannot therefore
be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects.
By operating the Websites, iPoots LLC. does not represent or
imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it
believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You
are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect
yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan
horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Websites
may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise
objectionable, as well as content containing technical
inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The
Websites may also contain material that violates the privacy or
publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and
other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading,
copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and
conditions, stated or unstated. iPoots LLC. disclaims any
responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of
the Websites, or from any downloading by those visitors of
content there posted.
- Content Posted on
Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and
cannot review, all of the material, including computer software,
made available through the websites and webpages to which the
Websites links, and that link to the Websites. iPoots LLC. does
not have any control over those iPoots LLC. websites and
webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use.
By linking to a iPoots LLC. website or webpage, iPoots LLC. does
not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage.
You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to
protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms,
Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. iPoots
LLC. disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from
your use of non-iPoots LLC. websites and webpages.
- Copyright
Infringement and DMCA Policy. As iPoots LLC.
asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it
respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you
believe that material located on or linked to by iPoots.com
violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify iPoots LLC.
iPoots LLC. will respond to all such notices, including as
required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or
disabling all links to the infringing material. iPoots LLC. will
terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Websites if,
under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be
a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual
property rights of iPoots LLC. or others. In the case of such
termination, iPoots LLC. will have no obligation to provide a
refund of any amounts previously paid to iPoots LLC..
- Intellectual
Property. This Agreement does not transfer
from iPoots LLC. to you any iPoots LLC. or third party
intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and
to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with
iPoots LLC.. iPoots LLC., iPoots, iPoots.com, the iPoots.com
logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos
used in connection with iPoots.com, or the Websites are
trademarks or registered trademarks of iPoots LLC. or iPoots
LLC.’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics
and logos used in connection with the Websites may be the
trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Websites
grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any
iPoots LLC. or third-party trademarks.
- Attribution on
Big.gy Websites. iPoots LLC. reserves the
right to display attribution links such as ‘Website at
Big.gy,’ theme author, and font attribution in your Big.gy
website footer or toolbar. Footer credits may only be removed
after upgrading to a paid subscription.
- Domain Names. If
you are using or transferring a previously registered domain
name, you acknowledge and agree that use of the domain name is
also subject to the policies of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), including their
Registration
Rights and Responsibilities.
- Changes. iPoots
LLC. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or
replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to
check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use
of or access to the Websites following the posting of any changes
to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. iPoots
LLC. may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features
through the Websites (including, the release of new tools and
resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to
the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- Termination. iPoots
LLC. may terminate your access to all or any part of the Websites
at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice,
effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or
your iPoots LLC. account (if you have one), you may simply
discontinue using the Websites. All provisions of this Agreement
which by their nature should survive termination shall survive
termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions,
warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
- Disclaimer of
Warranties. The Websites is provided
“as is”. iPoots LLC. and its suppliers and licensors
hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied,
including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither
iPoots LLC. nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty
that the Websites will be error free or that access thereto will
be continuous or uninterrupted. If you’re actually reading
this, here’s a treat. You understand that you download from, or
otherwise obtain content or services through, the Websites at
your own discretion and risk.
- Limitation of
Liability. In no event will iPoots
LLC., or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to
any subject matter of this agreement under any contract,
negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory
for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii)
the cost of procurement for substitute products or services;
(iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or
(iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to iPoots
LLC. under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period
prior to the cause of action. iPoots LLC. shall have no liability
for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable
control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited
by applicable law.
- General
Representation and Warranty. You represent and
warrant that (i) your use of the Websites will be in strict
accordance with the iPoots LLC. Privacy Policy, with this
Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including
without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country,
state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct
and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws
regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the
United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your
use of the Websites will not infringe or misappropriate the
intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Indemnification. You
agree to indemnify and hold harmless iPoots LLC., its
contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors,
officers, employees and agents from and against any and all
claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out
of your use of the Websites, including but not limited to your
violation of this Agreement.
- Miscellaneous. This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between iPoots LLC.
and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only
be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized
executive of iPoots LLC., or by the posting by iPoots LLC. of a
revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any,
provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the
Websites will be governed by the laws of the state of North
Carolina, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and
the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to
any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in
Durham County, North Carolina. Except for claims for injunctive
or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property
rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the
posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement
shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive
Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation
Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed
in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place
in Durham, North Carolina, in the English language and the
arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing
party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall
be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of
this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will
be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and
the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A
waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement
or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such
term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may
assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that
consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions;
iPoots LLC. may assign its rights under this Agreement without
condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to
the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted
assigns.