ewishbroker.com Terms of Use Agreement
July 30,2010
ASKWISH.COM is a free, online service that connects wishers and dishers. The services
offered by EWISHBROKER.COM LLC include the website (the ASKWISH.COM website aka
EWISHBROKER.COM and WISHVILLAGE.COM), and any other features, content, or applications
offered from time to time by EWISHBROKER.COM LLC in connection with the ASKWISH.COM
website (collectively, the “EWISHBROKER services”). ASKWISH.COM is hosted
in the United States.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding
terms for your use of the ewishbroker services. By using the ewishbroker services,
you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which
means that you simply browse the ASKWISH.COM website) or you are a "Member"
(which means that you have registered with ASKWISH.COM ). The term "User"
refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the ewishbroker
services (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to
abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully
and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave ASKWISH.COM and
discontinue use of the ewishbroker services immediately. If you wish to become a
Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the ewishbroker services,
you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration
process.
This Agreement includes ASKWISH.COM's policy for acceptable use of the ewishbroker
services and Content posted on theASKWISH.COM website, your rights, obligations
and restrictions regarding your use of the ewishbroker services and ASKWISH.COM's
Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain ewishbroker services, you may
be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to
additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms
and conditions applicable to the ewishbroker services in which you choose to participate,
those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement.
ASKWISH.COM may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification
shall be effective upon posting by ASKWISH.COM on the ASKWISH.COM website.
You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the ewishbroker
services after any such modification is posted. 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 ASKWISH.COM and that you provide
to other Users. Your ASKWISH.COM profile may not include the following
items: telephone numbers, street addresses, and any photographs containing nudity,
or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise
objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by
otherASKWISH.COM Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate,
inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and
ewishbroker.com LLC or ASKWISH.COM (aka ewishbroker.com and wishvillage.com) assumes
no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse
of the ewishbroker services by any person, please contact ASKWISH.COM.
ASKWISH.COM 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 ewishbroker services
at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
- Eligibility. Use of and Membership in the ewishbroker services is
void where prohibited. By using the ewishbroker 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 18 years of age or older;
and (d) your use of the ewishbroker 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.
- Term. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while
you use the ewishbroker services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership
at any time, for any reason, by contacting ASKWISH.COM. ASKWISH.COM
may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after Membership
is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
- Fees. You acknowledge that ASKWISH.COM reserves the right to charge
for the ewishbroker services and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion.
IfASKWISH.COM terminates your Membership because you have breached the 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 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 ASKWISH.COM 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 ewishbroker 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 ewishbroker.com
LLC. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the ewishbroker 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
ASKWISH.COM website 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 ewishbroker services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on ASKWISH.COM .
1. ASKWISH.COM does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images,
photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials
(collectively, "Content") that you post to the ewishbroker services. After
posting your Content to the ewishbroker services, you continue to retain all ownership
rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in
any way you choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content
on or through the ewishbroker services, you hereby grant to ewishbroker.com LLC
(ASKWISH.COM) a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display,
reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the ewishbroker services.
Without this license, ASKWISH.COM would be unable to provide the ewishbroker services.
For example, without the right to modify Member Content, ASKWISH.COM would not be
able to digitally compress files that Members submit or otherwise format Content
to satisfy technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member
Content, ASKWISH.COM could not allow Users to view or listen to posted content.
The license you grant to ASKWISH.COM (ewishbroker.com LLC) is non-exclusive (meaning
you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to ASKWISH.COM),
fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that ewishbroker services are not required
to pay you for the use on the ewishbroker services of the Content that you post),
sublicensable (so thatASKWISH.COM is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors
such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the ewishbroker services),
and worldwide (because the Internet and the ewishbroker services are global in reach).
This license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from the ewishbroker
services. The license does not grantASKWISH.COM the right to sell your Content,
nor does the license grant ASKWISH.COM the right to distribute your
Content outside of the ewishbroker services.
2. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through
the ewishbroker services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth
in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the ewishbroker
services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, 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 posted by you to
or through the ewishbroker services.
3. The ewishbroker services contain Content of ASKWISH.COM (" ASKWISH.COM
Content"). ASKWISH.COM Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret and other laws, and ewishbroker.com LLC. owns and retains all rights
in theASKWISH.COM Content and the ewishbroker services. ASKWISH.COM hereby
grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display
theASKWISH.COM Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal
use in connection with viewing the ASKWISH.COM Website and using the ewishbroker
services.
4. The ewishbroker services contain Content of Users and other ASKWISH.COM 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 or through the ewishbroker services.
- Content Posted.
1.ASKWISH.COM may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of ASKWISH.COM
violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights,
harm, or threaten the safety of any person.ASKWISH.COM assumes no responsibility
for monitoring the ewishbroker services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If
at any time ASKWISH.COM chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the ewishbroker
services, ASKWISH.COM 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.
2. You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of
the ewishbroker services, and any material or information that you transmit to other
Members and for your interactions with other Users.ASKWISH.COM does not endorse
and has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by ASKWISH.COM
prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of ASKWISH.COM.
ASKWISH.COM makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content
or to the accuracy, suitability and reliability of the Content or any material or
information that you transmit to other Members.
8. Content/Activity Prohibited. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content
that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the ewishbroker services. ASKWISH.COM
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone
who, in ASKWISH.COM 's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without
limitation, removing the offending communication from the ewishbroker services and
terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is
not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of ASKWISH.COM:
1. is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of
any kind against any group or individual;
2 harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
3. exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
4. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to
an adult website;
5. solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
6. provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, URLs or email addresses;
7. promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal
activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
8. 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 manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music
or links to pirated music files;
9. involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters,"
or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
10. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images
(those not linked to or from another accessible page);
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;
12. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful
purposes from other Users;
13. involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent
such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
14. includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's
consent; or
15. for band and filmmaker profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other
unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile.
The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited
on the ASKWISH.COM website and through your use of the ewishbroker services. ASKWISH.COM
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone
who, in ASKWISH.COM's sole discretion, violates this provision, including
without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity
includes, but is not limited to:
- 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;
- advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any
products or services through the ewishbroker services. You may not transmit any
chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules
to use any information obtained from the ewishbroker services in order to contact,
advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent.
In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation,ASKWISH.COM
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 ASKWISH.COM deems appropriate
in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email,
instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the ewishbroker
services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to ASKWISH.COM
, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As
a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay ewishbroker.com LLC $50 for
each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through
the ewishbroker services;
- covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal
profile page, or any ASKWISH.COM page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends
or send comments or messages;
- interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the
ewishbroker services or the networks or services connected to the ewishbroker services;
- attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
- 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;
- selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using any information obtained from the ewishbroker services in order
to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
- displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment
or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial
activity on or through the ewishbroker services on behalf of that person, such as
placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial
purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of "Your People",
or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
- using the ewishbroker services in a manner inconsistent with any
and all applicable laws and regulations.
9. Copyright Policy. You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way
any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging
to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary
rights. It is the policy of ASKWISH.COM to terminate Membership privileges of any
Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper
notification to ASKWISH.COM by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal
agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied
and posted on the ewishbroker services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement,
please provide ewishbroker.com LLC with the following information: (i) a physical
signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright
interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located
on the ewishbroker services; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address;
(v) a written 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; (vi) a statement
by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice
is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright
owner's behalf.
10. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other
ASKWISH.COM Members. ASKWISH.COM reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor
disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy. Use of the ewishbroker services is also governed by
our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers. ewishbroker.com LLC (ewishbroker services) is not responsible for
any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the ASKWISH.COM website or in connection
with the ewishbroker services, whether caused by Users of the ewishbroker services
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the ewishbroker
services. Profiles created and posted by Members on the ASKWISH.COM website may
contain links to other websites.ASKWISH.COM is not responsible for the Content,
accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way
investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by ASKWISH.COM.
Inclusion of any linked website on the ewishbroker services does not imply approval
or endorsement of the linked website by ASKWISH.COM. When you access these third-party
sites, you do so at your own risk. ASKWISH.COM takes no responsibility for third
party advertisements which are posted on this ASKWISH.COM website or through the
ewishbroker services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services
provided by its advertisers. ASKWISH.COM is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any User of the ewishbroker services. ASKWISH.COM 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. ASKWISH.COM
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 ewishbroker 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 ewishbroker services.
Under no circumstances shall ewishbroker.com LLC (ewishbroker services) be responsible
for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting
from use of the ewishbroker services, attendance at aASKWISH.COM event, from
any Content posted on or through the ewishbroker services, or from the conduct of
any Users of the ewishbroker services, whether online or offline. The ewishbroker
services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and ASKWISH.COM expressly
disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
ASKWISH.COM cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use
of the ewishbroker services.
13.Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL EWISHBROKER.COM LLC 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
SERVICES, EVEN IF EWISHBROKER.COM LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, EWISHBROKER.COM
LLC'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 EWISHBROKER.COM
LLC FOR THE EWISHBROKER SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP
14. U.S. Export Controls. Software available in connection with the ewishbroker
services (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls.
No Software may be downloaded from the ewishbroker 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. If there is any dispute about or involving the ewishbroker services,
you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of NY, USA,
without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal
jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located
in Warren County, State of New York. Either ewishbroker.com LLC or you may demand
that any dispute between ewishbroker.com LLC and you about or involving the ewishbroker
services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures
of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Queensbury, NY, USA, provided that
the foregoing shall not prevent ewishbroker.com LLC from seeking injunctive relief
in a court of competent jurisdiction.
16. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold ewishbroker.com LLC, 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 ewishbroker 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 above and/or if any
Content that you post on the ASKWISH.COM website or through the ewishbroker services
causes ewishbroker.com LLC to be liable to another.
17. Additional terms applicable to ASKWISH.COM members. Wishbones
are an imaginary points system, for facilitating the fulfillment of wishes. Wishbones
have no monetary value. The sale of these imaginary wishbones is prohibited. ASKWISH.COM,
may, among other things, in its sole discretion, and without notice to the ASKWISH.COM
members, withdraw, limit, modify, or cancel member’s wishbone accounts. Wishbones
are linked to each member’s account. Should your account be terminated, for any
reason, including, but not limited to termination by the ASKWISH.COM member, or
ASKWISH.COM, the wishbones in the account will also be terminated. If there is inactivity
on an account for 6 months, ASKWISH.COM reserves the right to terminate the account.
ASKWISH.COM may also change the Wishbone Account Values for individuals and
groups without prior notice for any reason.
In no event shall ASKWISH.COM be liable to any member or anyone claiming through
a member or on a member's behalf, for any direct, indirect or consequential damages,
or lost revenue or profits, arising out of ASKWISH.COM acts or omissions in connection
with the imaginary wishbones or any other features of the ASKWISH.COM site.
18. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the ASKWISH.COM website or
any of the ewishbroker services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and ewishbroker.com
LLC regarding the use of the ewishbroker services. The failure of ASKWISH.COM 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. ASKWISH.COM is a trademark
of ewishbroker.com LLC. 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.
Contact ASKWISH.COM with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.