Terms and Conditions
of Use Agreement
Read This Before Accessing
Website
Effective Date: This Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement was last updated on March 28, 2007.
Welcome to www.Budotv.com by Otane, Inc. Please read this Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement
(“Agreement”) completely and carefully before using the Budotv.com (the “Site”). By using the Site, you express your unconditional
agreement to follow and be bound by this Agreement in its entirety. If you do not agree with any of the following Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not use this Site.
- Budotv Services
Budotv provides Members with video uploading and social networking
services. The services offered by Budotv.com (“Budotv”
or “we”) include the Budotv.com website (the “Site”), the
Budotv.com Internet messaging service, video uploading and sharing
service, and any other features, content, or applications offered from
time to time by Budotv in connection with the Site (collectively,
the “Budotv Services”). The Budotv Services are hosted in the
State of California in the United States of America.
- This Agreement
This Agreement sets forth the legally binding terms for your use
of the Budotv Services, including your rights, obligations and restrictions.
By using the Budotv Site and the Budotv Services, you agree to be
bound by this Agreement and Budotv’s Privacy Policy, whether
you are a “Visitor” (which means that you simply browse the Budotv
Website) or you are a “Member” (which means that you have registered
with Budotv.com). The term “User” refers to a Visitor or a Member.
You are only authorized to use the Budotv Services, regardless of
whether your access or use is intended, if you agree to abide by all
applicable laws and to this Agreement. This Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect while you use any Budotv Services.
- Modifications
We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update the terms
and conditions of this Agreement without prior notice. Modifications
shall become effective immediately upon being posted at the Budotv.com
website. Your continued use of the Service after amendments are
posted constitutes an acknowledgement of and acceptance of the Agreement
and its modifications. Except as provided in this paragraph, this
Agreement may not be amended. It is therefore important that you
review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any
changes.
- Permission for Use
Budotv hereby grants you permission to use the Budotv Site as set
forth in this Agreement, provided that:
- your use of the Site is solely
for your personal, noncommercial use;
- you will not copy or distribute
any part of the Site in any medium without Budotv’s prior written
authorization;
- you will not alter or modify
any part of the Site other than as may be reasonably necessary to use
the Site for its intended purpose; and
- you will otherwise comply
with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and Budotv’s Privacy
Policy.
You are solely responsible for providing
your own equipment for accessing the internet, including computer and
modem, and for paying any fees in connection with obtaining internet
access.
- Privacy
Use of the Budotv Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy,
which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference. You
agree that by accepting this Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement,
you are consenting to the use and disclosure of your personally-identifiable
information and other practices described in our Privacy Policy.
- Budotv
Membership
Budotv reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse
to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or
to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of
the Budotv Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without
prior notice, and without liability.
- Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the Budotv Services is void where prohibited.
By using the Budotv Services, you represent and warrant that
- all registration information
you submit is truthful and accurate;
- you will maintain the accuracy
of such information;
- you are 13 years of age or
older; and
- your use of the Budotv Services
does not violate any applicable law or regulation.
Your profile may be deleted and your
Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you
are under 13 years of age.
- Term. You may
terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason. Budotv
may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, without warning.
- Fees. You acknowledge
that Budotv reserves the right to charge for the Budotv Services,
and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If
Budotv terminates your Membership because you have breached this Agreement,
you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription
fees.
- Password. When
you sign up to become a Member, you will be asked to choose a password.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or
password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password
to any third party. You agree to notify Budotv immediately if
you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password.
You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members.
The Budotv Services are for the personal use of Members only and may
not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those
that are specifically endorsed or approved by Budotv. Illegal and/or
unauthorized use of the Budotv Services, including collecting usernames
and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the
purpose of sending unsolicited email, or unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Budotv Site is prohibited. Commercial advertisements,
affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from
Member profiles without notice and may result in termination of Membership
privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal
or unauthorized use of the Budotv Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content
on the Budotv Site
- User Submissions.
The Budotv Site permits the posting and submission of text, files,
images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or
any other materials (collectively, “Content”) by you and other Users,
and the hosting, sharing, and/or posting of such Content. You understand
that whether or not such Content is published, Budotv does not guarantee
any confidentiality with respect to any submitted or posted Content.
You understand and acknowledge that any Content you submit or post to
the Budotv Site may be redistributed through the internet and other
media channels, and may be viewed, used and collected by the general
public.
- Ownership.
Budotv does not claim any ownership rights in Content that you submit or post
to the Budotv Services. After posting your Content to the Budotv
Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content,
and you continue to have the right to use and license your Content.
- Grant of License.
By submitting, displaying, or posting any Content on or through the
Budotv Services, you hereby grant to Budotv and its subsidiaries
and successors, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable and transferable
worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative
works of, publicly display and publicly perform such Content solely
for and through the Budotv Services in any media now known or hereafter
developed.
You also hereby grant each User of the Budotv Site a royalty-free,
non-exclusive, limited license to access your Content through the Budotv
Site, and to use such Content as permitted through the functionality
of the Site and under this Agreement.
- Termination:
These licenses will terminate at the time you remove your Content from
the Budotv Services. These licenses do not grant Budotv or its Users
the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant Budotv
or its Users the right to distribute your Content outside of the Budotv
Services.
- User Warranties and Representations:
You shall be solely responsible for the Content you submit or post in
connection with the Budotv Services and the consequences of posting
or publishing them. You represent and warrant that:
- you own the Content submitted
or posted by you on or through the Budotv Services or otherwise have
the right to grant the license set forth in this section; and
- you own or have the necessary
licenses, rights, consents and permissions to use and authorize Budotv
to use the Content submitted or posted by you on or through the Budotv
Services, and that such use does not and will not violate the privacy
rights, publicity rights, trade secret rights, patents, copyrights,
trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.
You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing
any person by reason of any Content submitted or posted by you to or
through the Budotv Services.
- the Content submitted or posted
by you on the Budotv Site or through the Budotv Services does not
contain
- falsehoods or misrepresentations
that could damage Budotv or any other person;
- unlawful, obscene, defamatory,
libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or
ethnically offensive material;
- material that encourages or
promotes conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, or would
violate any law, such as gambling, drug dealing, harassment, and stalking;
- material that could give rise
to civil liability, such as material that impersonates another person
in violation of that person’s privacy rights or publicity rights;
- material that advertises or
solicits Users to buy or sell products or services or involves other
commercial activities and/or sales without the prior written consent
of Budotv;
- material that promotes the
unauthorized copying or distribution of another person’s copyrighted
work; and
- personally-identifying information
of others or solicitations for such information for commercial or unlawful
purposes.
- Prohibited Content and
Activity
- Budotv reserves the right
to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who,
in Budotv’s sole discretion, violates this Agreement, including
without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Budotv
Site and terminating the Membership of such violators. To report
illegal, harassing, or offensive material or activities, please contact:
- Budotv prohibits any and
all criminal or tortious activity in connection with its services, including
child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing,
gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses
or other harmful files, copyright infringement, trademark infringement,
patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets. Budotv further
prohibits the posting and of submission of Content described in section
7e(iii) of this Agreement.
- Budotv does not permit the
use or launch of any automated system, including without limitation,
“robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., that accesses
the Site in a manner that sends more request messages to the Budotv
servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce
in the same period by using a conventional online browser. Collecting
usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means
for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or other purposes is strictly
prohibited. Unauthorized framing of or linking to the Budotv
Site is also prohibited.
- Budotv does not permit Users
to solicit, for commercial purposes, other Users of the Budotv Services
with respect to their posted or submitted Content or transmissions.
Budotv prohibits the transmission of any chain, junk, or bulk emails
by and through the Budotv Services for solicitation or other purposes.
- Budotv does not permit copyright
infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights
on its Site, and Budotv will remove all Content if properly notified
that such Content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights.
If you are a copyright owner and believe that any posted Content infringes
upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our Copyright
Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3)
for further detail):
- A physical or electronic signature
of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted
work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works
at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative
list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material
that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing
activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled
and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider
to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient
to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone
number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
- A statement that you have
a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained
of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
and
- A statement that the information
in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that
you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right
that is allegedly infringed.
Budotv’s designated
Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is:
Budotv.com
1223 W Carson Street
Torrance, California 90502
By Email: customersvc@budotv.com
- The Budotv Services and
the Budotv Site contain Content of Users and other Budotv licensors.
Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate,
publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell
any Content appearing on Budotv Site or through the Budotv Services.
- Budotv does not permit circumvention,
disabling or other interference with the security related features of
the Budotv Site, or features that prevent or restrict use or copying
of any Content. Budotv further prohibits the imposition of any
limitation on the use of the Budotv Site or the Content therein.
- User Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Budotv
Users. Budotv reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Users.
- Budotv’s Intellectual
Property
- All content created for and
by Budotv (collectively “Budotv Content"), including site
design, text, graphics, interfaces, and the selection and arrangements
thereof is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret,
and other laws, and Budotv owns and retains all rights in the Budotv
Content and the Budotv Services.
- Budotv hereby grants you
a limited, revocable, non-sub-licensable license to reproduce and display
the Budotv Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal
use in connection with viewing the Budotv Site and using the Budotv
Services. Any other use of the Budotv Content without the prior written
permission of an authorized officer of Budotv is strictly prohibited.
- Budotv™ and Budotv.com™
are proprietary marks of Budotv. Budotv’s trademarks may
not be used in connection with any product or service that is not provided
by Budotv, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers,
or in any manner that disparages or discredits Budotv.
- User-Posted Content
- You shall be solely responsible
for the Content you submit or post in connection with the Budotv Services
and the consequences of posting or publishing the Content. You
understand that Content is not necessarily reviewed by Budotv prior
to posting, and that Budotv cannot control what Content is submitted
or posted by its Users.
- Budotv assumes no responsibility
for monitoring the Budotv Site for inappropriate Content or conduct.
If at any time Budotv chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor
the activity and Content of the Site, Budotv assumes no responsibility
for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate
Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting
any such Content.
- Budotv may, without prior
notice, delete any Content that, in the sole judgment of Budotv, violates
this Agreement or which may be harmful, offensive,or illegal, or violate
the rights or threaten the safety of any person. Budotv may
also, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, delete any Member
profile, including any Content therein, and/or terminate a User’s
access to the Budotv Site.
- Third
Parties: Links, Advertising and Websites
- The Budotv Site may include
authorized advertisements and/or links to other sites on the Internet
that are owned and operated by online merchants and other third parties.
Budotv’s authorization and placement of such links and advertising
constitute neither an endorsement nor a recommendation of those third
parties. In addition, Budotv’s use of third parties’ trademarks
or links to the websites of third parties is not intended to imply,
directly or indirectly, that those third parties endorse or have any
affiliation with Budotv.
- You acknowledge that we are
not responsible for the availability of, or the content located on or
through, any third-party site. Your use of those third-party sites
is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of each site.
You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those third-party
sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located
on such sites. We encourage all Users to review the terms of use
and privacy policies of the third-party sites they visit.
- Disclaimer of Warranties
and Liabilities
- The Budotv Site and Budotv
Services are provided by Budotv on an “as is” and on an “as
available” basis. Budotv makes no representations or warranties
of any kind, express or implied, regarding the use or the results of
this web site in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability, availability
or otherwise.
- You understand and acknowledge
that you may be exposed to Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent,
or objectionable on the Budotv Site. Budotv makes no representations
or warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of the Content or any
material or information posted by Users. Budotv expressly disclaims
any and all liability in connection with such Content.
- Budotv makes no representations
or warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of the product specifications
and other information provided by online merchants and other third parties.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Budotv disclaims
all warranties with regard to the information provided, including the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose,
and non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion
of implied warranties, therefore the above-referenced exclusion is inapplicable
in those jurisdictions.
- Limitation of Liability
RIDERSTV SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD-PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER, AND IN PARTICULAR, RIDERSTV SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES
FOR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR LOSS OF USE, ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATED TO THIS WEB SITE OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN IT, WHETHER
SUCH DAMAGES ARISE IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, UNDER STATUTE, IN
EQUITY, AT LAW, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF RIDERSTV HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW FOR
THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, THEREFORE SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS ARE INAPPLICABLE IN
THOSE JURISDICTIONS.
- Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Budotv, its parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers and employees harmless from any claim or demand,
including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, made by any third
party due to or arising out of your use of the Budotv Site, your violation
of this Agreement, or any infringement or violation by you, or another
User of the Budotv Site using your computer, involving the intellectual
property rights or any other rights of any person or entity.
- Modification and Interruption
to Service
Budotv reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Budotv Site
and Services with or without notice to you. Budotv shall not
be liable to any User or any third party should Budotv exercise its
right to modify or discontinue the Service. Budotv shall have
no liability for any interruptions in the use of this website.
You acknowledge and accept that Budotv does not guarantee continuous,
uninterrupted or secure access to our website, and that operation of
our website may be interfered with or adversely affected by numerous
factors or circumstances outside of our control.
- Governing Jurisdiction
of the Courts of California
Our website is operated and provided in the State of California.
As such, we are subject to the laws of the State of California, and
such laws will govern the Budotv Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement,
and Privacy Policy without giving effect to any choice of
law rules. We make no representation that our website or other
services are appropriate, legal or available for use in other locations.
Accordingly, if you choose to access our site, you agree to do so subject
to the internal laws of the State of California, and further agree to
personal jurisdiction in the state and federal courts of the County
of Los Angeles.
- Severability
If any provision of this Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement shall
be unlawful, void or unenforceable for any reason, the other provisions
(and any partially-enforceable provision) shall not be affected thereby
and shall remain valid and enforceable to the maximum possible extent.
- Assignment
You agree that this Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement and any other
agreements referenced herein may be assigned by Budotv, in our sole
discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition.
- Integration and Interpretation
This Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement shall apply in addition to,
and shall not be superseded by, any other written agreement between
us and in relation to your participation as a Member or User of Budotv
Services. The rule of construction that any ambiguities are to
be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the
interpretation of this Agreement or of any amendments to this Agreement.
Captions are to be used for reference purposes only and should be ignored
in the interpretation of this Agreement.
- Ability to Accept Terms
of Use
You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an emancipated
minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully
able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations,
affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Agreement,
and to abide by and comply with these Agreement. In any case, you affirm
that you are over the age of 13, as the Budotv Site and Budotv Services
are not intended for children under 13.
Please contact us at customersvc@budotv.com with
any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE
TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
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