Terms of Service
TipExchange.com Terms of Use Agreement October 1, 2008Wheat Communications LLC ("TipExchange" or "we") operates TipExchange.com, which is a business networking service that allows Members to create unique personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with old and new business contacts. The services offered by TipExchange include any TipExchange-branded URL (the "TipExchange Website"), the TipExchange instant messaging service and other features (for example, music and video embedded players) and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by TipExchange in connection with TipExchange's business (collectively, the "TipExchange services"). The TipExchange Services are hosted in the United States.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the TipExchange Services. By using the TipExchange Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the TipExchange Website, including through a mobile device, or otherwise use the TipExchange Services without being registered) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with TipExchange). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the TipExchange Services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and the terms of this Agreement. Please read this Agreement and save it. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and to follow all applicable laws, you should leave the TipExchange Website and discontinue use of the TipExchange Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and/or make use of the TipExchange Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the registration process.
TipExchange may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by TipExchange on the TipExchange Website. Your continued use of the TipExchange Services after TipExchange posts a revised Agreement signifies your acceptance of the revised Agreement. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on or through the TipExchange Services and that you provide to other Users. Your TipExchange profile may not include any form of Prohibited Content, as outlined in Section 8 below. Despite this prohibition, information, materials, products or services provided by other TipExchange Members (for instance, in their profile) may, in whole or in part, be unauthorized, impermissible or otherwise violate this Agreement, and TipExchange assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the TipExchange Services by any person, please click on the "Contact TipExchange" or the "Report Abuse" link at the bottom of the TipExchange Website pages.
TipExchange reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the TipExchange Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. TipExchange expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the TipExchange Services if TipExchange determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or pose a threat to TipExchange and/or its Users.
1. Eligibility. Use of the TipExchange Services and registration to be a Member for the TipExchange Services ("Membership") is void where prohibited. By using the TipExchange Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the TipExchange 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 18 years of age, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older.
2. Term. This Agreement, and any posted revision to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect while you use the TipExchange Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. TipExchange may terminate your Membership at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including Sections 5-17.
3. Fees. You acknowledge that TipExchange reserves the right to charge for any portion of the TipExchange Services and to change its fees (if any) from time to time in its discretion. If TipExchange terminates your Membership because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of fees or payments (if any).
4. Password. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also 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 TipExchange 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.
5. Use by Members. The TipExchange Services are for the personal use of Members and may be used for promotional purposes as well. TipExchange reserves the right to remove commercial content in its sole discretion. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the TipExchange Services, including collecting usernames, user id numbers, 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 TipExchange Website, or employing third party promotional sites or software to promote profiles for money, is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice or explanation and may result in termination of Membership privileges. TipExchange reserves the right to take appropriate legal action for any illegal or unauthorized use of the TipExchange Services.
6. Proprietary Rights in Content on TipExchange.
6.1 TipExchange does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post on or through the TipExchange Services. After posting your Content to the TipExchange Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the TipExchange Services, you hereby grant to TipExchange a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through the TipExchange Services, including without limitation distributing part or all of the TipExchange Website in any media formats and through any media channels, except Content marked "private" will not be distributed outside the TipExchange Website. This limited license does not grant TipExchange the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the TipExchange Services. After you remove your Content from the TipExchange Website we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate. If after we have distributed your Content outside the TipExchange Website you change the Content's privacy setting to "private," we will cease distribution of such "private" Content outside the TipExchange Website as soon as practicable after you make the change.
6.2 The license you grant to TipExchange is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to TipExchange), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that TipExchange is not required to pay you for the use on the TipExchange Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that TipExchange is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the TipExchange Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the TipExchange Services are global in reach).
6.3 You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the TipExchange Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this Section 6, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the TipExchange Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by reason of any Content posted by you on or through the TipExchange Services.
6.4 The TipExchange Services contain Content of TipExchange ("TipExchange Content"). TipExchange Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and TipExchange owns and retains all rights in the TipExchange Content and the TipExchange Services. TipExchange hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the TipExchange Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the TipExchange Website and using the TipExchange Services.
6.5 The TipExchange Services contain Content of Users and other TipExchange licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the TipExchange Services.
6.6 TipExchange performs technical functions necessary to offer the TipExchange Services, including but not limited to transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use throughout the TipExchange Services.
7. Content Posted.
7.1 TipExchange may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content that in the sole judgment of TipExchange violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity, or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. TipExchange assumes no responsibility for monitoring the TipExchange Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time TipExchange chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the TipExchange Services, TipExchange nonetheless 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.
7.2 You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the TipExchange Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users.
8. Content/Activity Prohibited. The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the TipExchange Services. TipExchange reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in TipExchange's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the TipExchange Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of TipExchange:
8.1 is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
8.2 harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
8.3 exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
8.4 contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
8.5 solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
8.6 publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
8.7 constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
8.8 constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
8.9 involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
8.10 contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
8.11 furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
8.12 solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
8.13 involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from TipExchange such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
8.14 includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
8.15 for band, comedy, filmmaker and other profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile; or
8.16 violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the TipExchange Website and through your use of the TipExchange Services. TipExchange reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in TipExchange's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
8.17 criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
8.18 advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the TipExchange Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, TipExchange reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which TipExchange deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unauthorized commercial communications of any kind through the TipExchange Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to TipExchange, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay TipExchange $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication you send through the TipExchange Services;
8.19 circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the TipExchange Services;
8.20 activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network;
8.21 covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any TipExchange page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
8.22 any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
8.23 interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the TipExchange Services or the networks or services connected to the TipExchange Services;
8.24 impersonating or attempting to impersonate another Member, person or entity;
8.25 using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
8.26 selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
8.27 using any information obtained from the TipExchange Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same;
8.28 using the TipExchange Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
9. Protecting Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property. TipExchange respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. You may not upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. TipExchange has the right to terminate the Membership of infringers.
If you believe your work has been copied and posted on or through the TipExchange Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send TipExchange's Copyright Agent a notification of claimed infringement with all of the following information: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the TipExchange Services (providing the URL(s) of the claimed infringing material satisfies this requirement); (c) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address; (d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or a uthorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. TipExchange's Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, Wheat Communications LLC, PO Box 20573, Oklahoma City, OK 73156; Facsimile: (405) 607-4006; Attn: Copyright Agent. TipExchange provides certain tools and technologies to help facilitate copyright owners' control over their copyrighted works.
10. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other TipExchange Members. TipExchange reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy. Use of the TipExchange Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers. TipExchange is not responsible for and makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the User Content or the accuracy and reliability of the User Content posted on or through the TipExchange Services, whether caused by Users of the TipExchange Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the TipExchange Services and such User Content does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of TipExchange. Profiles and third party applications created and posted by Members on the TipExchange Website may contain links to other websites. TipExchange is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are not necessarily investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by TipExchange. Inclusion of any linked website on the TipExchange Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by TipExchange. When you access these third party sites, you do so at your own risk. TipExchange takes no responsibility for third party advertisements or third party applications that are posted on or through the TipExchange Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. TipExchange is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the TipExchange Services. TipExchange assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication. TipExchange is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the TipExchange Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the TipExchange Services. Under no circumstances shall TipExchange be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the TipExchange Services, attendance at a TipExchange event, from any User Content posted on or through the TipExchange Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the TipExchange Services, whether online or offline. The TipExchange Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and TipExchange expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. TipExchange cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the TipExchange Services.
13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL TIPEXCHANGE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE TIPEXCHANGE SERVICES, EVEN IF TIPEXCHANGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, TIPEXCHANGE'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO TIPEXCHANGE FOR THE TIPEXCHANGE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. U.S. Export Controls. Software available in connection with the TipExchange Services (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the TipExchange Services or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk.
15. Disputes. The Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and TipExchange agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the State of New York to resolve any dispute arising out of the Agreement or the TipExchange Services. EACH OF THE PARTIES HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CLAIMS, COUNTERCLAIMS, CROSS-CLAIMS, OR THIRD PARTY CLAIMS) ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. FURTHER, EACH PARTY HERETO CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT OF EITHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH PARTY WOULD NOT IN THE EVENT OF SUCH LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THIS WAIVER OF RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL PROVISION. EACH OF THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS SECTION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE OTHER PARTY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
16. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold TipExchange, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the TipExchange Services in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and/or if any Content that you post on or through the TipExchange Services causes TipExchange to be liable to another.
17. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the TipExchange Website or any of the TipExchange Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and TipExchange regarding the use of the TipExchange Services. The failure of TipExchange to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. TipExchange is a trademark of TipExchange, Inc. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Please contact us at: admin@tipexchange.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.