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Terms of Use
Date of Last Revision: January 12, 2009
Welcome to GoRough, a utility that helps promote your accommodations
business in the USA and/or Canada. The GoRough service
(or "the Service") is operated by Mindbody Networks Inc. (known
as "us", "we" or "the Company" henceforth). By accessing or using our web site at
www.gorough.com (the "Site"), you (the "User") signify that you have read, understand
and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"), whether
or not you are a registered member of GoRough. We reserve the right to change, modify,
add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice.
If changes to this agreement are made, we will post the changes to these Terms of
Use on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the revision date. Your
continued use of the Service or the Site after any such changes constitutes your
acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by these or any
future Terms of Use, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Service
or the Site. It is your responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine
if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE
INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND A DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSE THAT
GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED.
Eligibility
Registered Membership of this Site is intended for legitimate
small business owners who have a registered accommodation business in either the
USA or Canada. Registration is not permitted at this time to businesses outside
of the USA or Canada. The general public is permitted to search the Site for content
posted by such business without registration or membership requirements but must
adhere to the User Conduct section of this document.
Registration
Data; Account Security
In consideration of your use of the Site, you agree to (a)
provide accurate, current and complete information about your business as may be
prompted by any registration forms on the Site ("Registration Data"); (b) maintain
the security of your password and identification; (c) maintain and promptly update
the Registration Data, and any other information you provide to the Company, to
keep it accurate, current and complete; and (d) be fully responsible for all use
of your account.
Proprietary Rights
in Site Content; Limited License
All content on the Site and available through the Service,
including designs, text, graphics, logos, and pictures (the "Site Content"), are
the proprietary property of the Company, its users or its licensors with all rights
reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced,
republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or
by any means, in whole or in part, without the Company's prior written permission,
except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below)
that you legally post on the Site. Provided that you are eligible for use of the
Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and the Site
Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which
you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided
that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. Except for your
own User Content, you may not upload or republish Site Content on any Internet,
Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or
compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly prohibited. Such
license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not permit use of any data mining,
robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods. Any use of the
Site or the Site Content other than as specifically authorized herein, without the
prior written permission of Company, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the
license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws including
copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes.
Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed
as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel,
implication or otherwise. This license is revocable at any time without notice and
with or without cause.
User Conduct
You agree not to use the Service or the Site to:
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harvest or collect
email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Service or
the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails
or other unsolicited communications;
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use the Service
or the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable,
overburden or impair the Site;
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use automated
scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the
Site;
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upload, post,
transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be
harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing,
vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or
racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
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impersonate any
person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your business
or your affiliation with any person or entity;
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upload, post,
transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising,
solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid
schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
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upload, post,
transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private
information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses,
Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
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upload, post,
transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software
viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy
or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment;
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upload, post,
transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that would constitute,
encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of
any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state,
national or international law;
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use or attempt
to use another's account, service or system without authorization from the Company,
or create a false identity on the Service or the Site.
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upload, post,
transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that, in the sole judgment
of Company, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from
using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose Company or its users to any harm
or liability of any type.
User Content
Posted on the Site
You are solely responsible for the photos, profiles (including
your name, images, and descriptions), messages, notes, text, information, advertisements,
listings, and other content that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, "post")
on or through the Service or the Site, or transmit to or share with other users
(collectively the "User Content"). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content
on the Site or Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission
to post. You understand and agree that the Company may, but is not obligated to,
review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Site Content or User
Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including User Content
that in the sole judgment of the Company violates this Agreement or which might
be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety
of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for
creating backup copies and replacing any User Content you post or store on the Site
or provide to the Company.
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such
copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage
of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site,
you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to
grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully
paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform,
publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute
such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or
in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works
of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize
sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at
any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will
automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived
copies of your User Content. GoRough does not assert any ownership over your User
Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these
Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual
property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.
Copyright Complaints
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and
we prohibit users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on the GoRough
website or service any materials that violate another party's intellectual property
rights. When we receive proper Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement by
emailing support@gorough.com
and you provide the description or web URL address for such content, we promptly
remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and terminate the
accounts of repeat infringers as described herein in accordance with the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that any material on the Site infringes
upon any copyright which you own or control, you may send an electronic notification
of such infringement to support@gorough.com.
Repeat Infringer
Policy
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
and other applicable law, Company has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate
circumstances and at Company's sole discretion, members who are deemed to be repeat
infringers. Company may also at its sole discretion limit access to the Site and/or
terminate the memberships of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights
of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
Third Party Websites
and Content
The Site contains (or you may be sent through the Site or
the Service) links to other web sites ("Third Party Sites") as well as articles,
photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information,
applications, software and other content or items belonging to or originating from
third parties (the "Third Party Applications, Software or Content"). Such Third
Party Sites and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated,
monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we
are not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third
Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed
from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability,
privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or
the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting
the use or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Applications,
Software or Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you
decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any
Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you
should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review
the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices,
of any site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications
you use or install from the site.
User Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other
users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between
you and other users.
Privacy
We care about the privacy of our users.
By using the Site or the Service, you are consenting to have your
personal data transferred to and processed in the United States and Canada. We do
not share your personal data in the form of database distributions or bulk sale
of data in any form. Your data is however displayed as recorded for the general
public. Any credit card or payment information is not handled by this site, but
rather is directed to a secure trusted site (currently PayPal.com)
Disclaimers
The Company is not responsible or liable in any manner for
any User Content or Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on the
Site or in connection with the Service, whether posted or caused by users of the
Site, by GoRough, by third parties or by any of the equipment or programming associated
with or utilized in the Site or the Service. Although we provide rules for user
conduct and postings, we do not control and are not responsible for what users post,
transmit or share on the Site and are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate,
obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content you may encounter on the Site
or in connection with any User Content or Third Party Applications, Software or
Content. The Company is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline,
of any user of the Site or Service.
GoRough.com does not recommend, approve of, or otherwise endorse any of the accommodations
listings or third party advertising that may be found on this Site or through any
of its services. We do not guarantee accuracy of data nor do we verify any of the
advertisements listed on this site. Contacting any of the Registered Users on this
site is done so at your own risk.
The Site and the Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance
or other reasons. Company 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, User Content.
The Company is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of
any telephone network or service, computer systems, servers or providers, computer
or mobile phone equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical
problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Site or combination thereof,
including injury or damage to User's or to any other person's computer, mobile phone,
or other hardware or software, related to or resulting from using or downloading
materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under
no circumstances will the Company be responsible for any loss or damage, including
any loss or damage to any User Content or personal injury or death, resulting from
anyone's use of the Site or the Service, any User Content or Third Party Applications,
Software or Content posted on or through the Site or the Service or transmitted
to Users, or any interactions between users of the Site, whether online or offline.
The Company reserves the right to change any and all content, software and other
items used or contained in the Site and any Services and Platform Applications offered
through the Site at any time without notice. Reference to any products, services,
processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier
or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation
thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by Company.
Limitation on
Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY OR ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS
BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST
DATA ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICE, ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS
OR ANY OF THE SITE CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIALS ON, ACCESSED THROUGH OR DOWNLOADED
FROM THE SITE, EVEN IF THE COMPANY IS AWARE OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE
COMPANY'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
COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP, BUT IN NO CASE WILL THE COMPANY'S
LIABILITY TO YOU EXCEED $1000. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IF NO FEES ARE PAID TO COMPANY
FOR THE SERVICE, YOU SHALL BE LIMITED TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ONLY, UNLESS OTHERWISE
PERMITTED BY LAW, AND SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO DAMAGES OF ANY KIND FROM COMPANY,
REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION
OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE
ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
Termination
The Company may terminate your membership, delete your profile
and any content or information that you have posted on the Site or through any Platform
Application and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Site
or any Platform Application (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service or
the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time
in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including if it believes that you
are not an appropriate business. When we are notified that a user has died or a
company ceases to exist, we will immediately terminate any profile registered to
that user or company. Upon Termination by the initiation of either the Company or
the User, any deposits or funds held in trust will be released in the most efficient
manor and time will be considered to be of the essence.
Governing Law;
Venue and Jurisdiction
By visiting or using the Site and/or the Service, you agree
that the laws of the Province of British Columbia (Canada), without regard to principles of conflict
of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise
between you and the Company or any of our affiliates. With respect to any disputes
or claims not subject to arbitration (as set forth below), you agree not to commence
or prosecute any action in connection therewith other than in the Province of British Columbia, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack
of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction
in the province and federal courts of British Columbia.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its subsidiaries
and affiliates, and each of their directors, officers, agents, contractors, partners
and employees, harmless from and against any loss, liability, claim, demand, damages,
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of or in connection
with any User Content, any Third Party Applications, Software or Content you post
or share on or through the Site, your use of the Service or the Site, your conduct
in connection with the Service or the Site or with other users of the Service or
the Site, or any violation of this Agreement or of any law or the rights of any
third party.
Submissions
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions,
ideas, feedback or other information about the Site or the Service ("Submissions"),
provided by you to Company are non-confidential and shall become the sole property
of Company. Company shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property
rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these
Submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or
compensation to you.
Definitions and
Constructions
Unless otherwise specified, the terms "includes", "including",
"e.g.,", "for example", and other similar terms are deemed to include the term "without
limitation" immediately thereafter. Terms used in these Terms with the initial letter(s)
capitalized will have the meaning attributed to them in these Terms.
Other
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between
you and Company regarding the use of the Site and/or the Service, superseding any
prior agreements between you and Company relating to your use of the Site or the
Service. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of
these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision in that
or any other instance. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder
of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of these
Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then
that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect
the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
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