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Terms of Service

Effective Aug 20, 2008

By using the GripeFest web site, you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Use").

Basic Terms

  1. You must be 18 years or older to use this site. The content on this site is adult in nature and is not meant for anyone that is not of legal adult age.
  2. You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other GripeFest users.
  3. You may not use the GripeFest service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
  4. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links ("Content") that you submit, post, and display on the GripeFest service.
  5. You must not modify, adapt or hack GripeFest or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with GripeFest.
  6. You must not create or submit unwanted email to any GripeFest members ("Spam").
  7. You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
  8. You must not, in the use of GripeFest, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your GripeFest account and banning from the GripeFest web service. While GripeFest prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that GripeFest cannot be responsible for the Content posted on its web site and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the GripeFest service at your own risk.

General Conditions

  1. We reserve the right to modify or terminate the GripeFest service for any reason, without notice at any time.
  2. We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time. The terms posted here at the time of your use will be the terms that you agree to.
  3. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
  4. We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Use.
  5. The GripeFest service makes it possible to post images and text hosted on GripeFest to outside websites. This use is accepted. However, pages on other websites which display data hosted on GripeFest must provide a link back to GripeFest.
  6. We reserve the right to reclaim usernames on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold legal claim or trademark on those usernames.

Copyright (What's Yours is Yours)

  1. We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the GripeFest service.
  2. We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.
  3. GripeFest undertakes to obey all relevant copyright laws. We will review all claims of copyright infringement received and remove content deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws. To make a claim, please provide us with the following:
    1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on its behalf;
    2. A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
    3. A description of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit GripeFest to locate the material;
    4. Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email;
    5. A statement by you 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
    6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Claims can be sent to . Contact the agent designated to receive and act on copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

(These terms of service were inspired, by Flickr.)



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