Proof-reading.com User Agreement
User Agreement
The following USER AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) governs the use of all Proof-reading.com
online services (“Service”). BY CONTINUING TO ACCESS THIS CONTENT, YOU ARE
INDICATING YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE, PROOF-READING.COM, LLC IS NOT WILLING TO PROVIDE YOU WITH ACCESS TO THE
CONTENT AND YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE YOUR ACCESS TO THIS CONTENT. These
rules may be modified from time to time. The date of the most recent revisions will
appear on this page. Continued access of this Service by you will constitute your
acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement. Your failure to follow
these rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at various points in the
Service, may result in the suspension or termination of your access to the Service,
without notice, in addition to the Service Provider's other remedies.
MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION
By utilizing Proof-reading.com's online services, you: (1) accept responsibility
for all activities that occur under your account or password and agree to indemnify
Proof-reading.com for any disagreement arising from the use of your account and
password; (2) agree not to sell, transfer, or assign your Membership or any
Membership rights; and (3) are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your password so that others may not access Proof-reading.com by using your name
in whole or in part. Proof-Reading.Com, LLC., reserves the right to terminate
Membership, deny access to the site, and prosecute any person who violates
these Terms of Service. Members caught sharing their Membership will lose their
Membership and will be held liable for all unregistered user fees and pricing
discounts that were applied to their accounts.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CONTENT
You assume full liability resulting from the publication, distribution, or
redistribution related to material you post on Proof-reading.com or the
use of such material by any person (including liability resulting from any
virus, worm, “Trojan Horse”, or other contaminating or destructive feature
of the data). You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us, our directors,
officers, shareholders, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and licensers
from and against all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including REASONABLE
ATTORNEYS' FEES, resulting from your violation of the Usage Rules,
the failure to fulfill any obligations relating to your account incurred by you, any
other person using your account, or any other related legal matter involving
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. and its online services. We reserve the right to take over
the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification
under this Section. In such an event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as
is reasonably requested by us.
COPYRIGHT
All information, content, services, and software displayed on, transmitted
through, or used in connection with Proof-reading.com, including, for example,
news articles, reviews, directories, guides, text, photographs, images,
illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, trademarks,
logos, etc. (collectively, the “Content”), as well as its selection and
arrangement, is owned by Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. and its affiliated companies,
licensers, and suppliers. You may use the Content online only, and solely for
your personal, non-commercial use, and you may download or print a single copy
of any portion of the Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use,
provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright, or other notice from such
Content. If you operate a website and wish to link to Proof-reading.com, you
may do so provided you notify Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. and agree to remove said
link upon request from Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. No other use is permitted
without prior written permission of Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. The permitted use
described in this Paragraph is contingent on your compliance at all times with
these Terms of Service.
You may not, for example, without limitation, republish any portion of the
Content on any Internet, Intranet or extranet site, or incorporate the Content
in any database, compilation, archive, or cache. You may not distribute any
Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you
may not modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display,
or otherwise use any portion of the Content. You agree not to decompile, reverse
engineer, or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible
through Proof-reading.com; not to insert any code or product, or manipulate the
content of Proof-reading.com in any way that affects the user's experience; and
not to use any data mining, data gathering, or extraction methods.
Requests to use Content for any purpose other than as permitted in these Terms
of Service should be directed to legaldept@proof-reading.com. In certain cases,
you may be able to obtain a license to use individual stories that appear on
Proof-reading.com through the online functionality we have specifically designated
(e.g., to e-mail a story to a friend or to purchase the rights to reproduce a story
for other use). In such cases, we will tell you which portion of the Content you
may license, or you will see a link in the Content itself. If you do not see such
an authorization or link, you should assume that no third party has the right to
allow you to use the Content. For communications on other matters, please e-mail
info@proof-reading.com.
COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Service in a
way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify Proof-Reading.Com, LLC.
by providing the following information (as required by the Online Copyright
Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
17 U.S.C. sec. 512) to our copyright agent set forth below:
- A physical or electronic signature of the 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 infringement 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 the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and,
if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may
be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that
the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
All Content is © 2005 Proof-Reading.Com, LLC., its officers, directors,
shareholders, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, or licensers are
NOT LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, LOSS OF
BUSINESS, OR LOSS OF DATA, IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS SERVICE OR FOR ANY
CLAIM, LOSS, OR INJURY BASED ON ERRORS OR OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, OR ANY
OTHER INACCURACIES APPEARING ON PROOF-READING.COM (INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION AS A RESULT OF BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY OR OTHER TERM OF THIS
AGREEMENT). A USER'S REMEDY FOR CLAIMS AGAINST US SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE
AMOUNT HE/SHE HAS PAID, IF ANY, TO US FOR THE USE OF ANY SERVICES FOUND ON
PROOF-READING.COM. ALL EDITORS PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE SERVICE TO THE BEST
OF THEIR ABILITY AND DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT EDITED DOCUMENTS ARE “PERFECT” OR
“WITHOUT ERROR.” Those who choose to access the Service do so on their own
initiative and are responsible for compliance with local, state, and federal
laws if and to the extent that local, state, and federal laws are applicable.
TRADEMARKS
This User Agreement does not grant you any rights in connection with any
trademarks or service marks of the licenser or its suppliers.
SUPPORT SERVICES
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. may provide you with support services related to
the Software (“Support Services”). Use of Support Services is governed by
the policies and programs described in the user manual, in “online”
documentation, or in other materials from the Support Services provider.
Any supplemental software codes given to you as part of Support Services are
considered the property of Proof-Reading.Com, LLC., and are subject to the
terms and conditions of this User Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. may use technical information you provide to
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. as part of the Support Services for its business
purposes, including for product support and development. Proof-Reading.Com, LLC.
will not utilize such technical information in a form that personally
identifies you.
TERMINATION
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. may terminate this Agreement and your access to and
use of the Content, or any portion thereof, immediately, in its sole discretion,
at any time without cause.
JURISDICTION
The laws of the State of California shall EXCLUSIVELY govern this Agreement. Venue
for any mediation, litigation, special proceedings, or other proceedings as
between the parties that may be brought or arise out of, in connection with, or
by reason of this Agreement, shall be in San Francisco County, California.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement supersedes any prior agreements, oral or written, between you and
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC., with respect to such content. You may also be subject to
additional terms and conditions that apply when you access content or services
provided by entities other than Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. on the website from which
you are accessing this Agreement, or when you access any content provided by
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. from a website other than the one from which you are
accessing this Agreement. The failure of Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. to exercise or
enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of
such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the
court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in
the provision; the other provisions of this Agreement remain in full force and
effect. Prior to initiating litigation, you must advise Proof-Reading.Com, LLC.
via certified mail of your alleged dispute. Said notification must be sent within
30 days from the date you knew or should have known of the alleged dispute.
Proof-Reading.Com, LLC. is entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees for enforcing or
defending any aspect of this agreement and any legal dispute related to your use
of Proof-reading.com.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE EXIT
THE SERVICE. PLEASE CLICK THE BACK BUTTON ON YOUR BROWSER TO RETURN TO THE
PREVIOUS PAGE.
