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Wild Treasure Terms of Use Agreement
June 23, 2008
Wild Treasure, LLC. ("Wild Treasure" or "we") operates wildtreasure.com, which is social networking site that provides online treasure hunts for our users. The services offered by Wild Treasure include any Wild Treasure-branded URL (the "Wild Treasure Website"), the Wild Treasure online treasure hunt service and other features (for example, online challenges marketplace, and chatting), and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by Wild Treasure in connection with Wild Treasur's business (collectively, the "Wild Treasure Services"). The Wild Treasure Services are hosted in the United States.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the Wild Treasure Services. By using the Wild Treasure Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Wild Treasure Website, including through a mobile device, or otherwise use the Wild Treasure Services without being registered) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with Wild Treasure). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Website and discontinue use of the Wild Treasure Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, participate in Treasure Hunts & Quests, communicate with other Members and/or make use of the Wild Treasure Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the registration process.
This Agreement includes Wild Treasure's policy for acceptable use of the Wild Treasure Services and Content (as defined in Section 6.1 below) posted on or through the Wild Treasure Services and your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Wild Treasure Services and Content posted on or through the Wild Treasure Services. In order to participate in certain Wild Treasure Services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions from Wild Treasure. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the Wild Treasure Services in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by Contacting Us, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
Wild Treasure may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by Wild Treasure on the Wild Treasure Website. Your continued use of the Wild Treasure Services after Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services and that you provide to other Users. Your Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Members (for instance, in their profile) may, in whole or in part, be unauthorized, impermissible or otherwise violate this Agreement, and Wild Treasure assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the Wild Treasure Services by any person, please click on the "Contact Wild Treasure" or the "Report User" link on a user's profile.
Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Wild Treasure expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Wild Treasure Services if Wild Treasure determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or pose a threat to Wild Treasure and/or its Users.
Wild Treasure reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny payment or delivery of any prize won by a user or group while using Wild Treasure Services. All family members and friends of anyone associated with Wild Treasure LLC. are not allowed to participate in treasure hunts where the prize is of value. In the event a user or group wins a prize that is of value and is found to be a friend or family member of anyone associated with Wild Treasure LLC, there prize will be forfeited. You agree not to hold Wild Treasure LLC or anyone associated with Wild Treasure LLC responsible for failure to receive a prize you win while using Wild Treasure Services. In the event a user provides incorrect information on the "verify info" page which results in failure to deliver the prize, Wild Treasure LLC, at its sole discretion will not attempt to resend the lost prize.
You are soley responsible for reporting your winnings to the IRS or any other government entity. Wild Treasure LLC accepts no responsibility for this action.
Wild Treasure reservers the right, in its sole discretion, to deny payment or delivery of any money received due to referrals.
1. Eligibility. Use of the Wild Treasure Services and registration to be a Member for the Wild Treasure Services ("Membership") is void where prohibited. By using the Wild Treasure 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) your use of the Wild Treasure 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 not who you claim to be, or if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent yourself as under 18.
2. Term. This Agreement, and any posted revision to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Wild Treasure Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by contacting us. Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure reserves the right to charge for any portion of the Wild Treasure Services and to change its fees (if any) from time to time in its discretion. If Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services are for the personal use of Members and may be used for promotional purposes as well, but direct commercial endeavors may only be used if they are specifically endorsed or authorized by Wild Treasure. Wild Treasure reserves the right to remove commercial content in its sole discretion. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Website, or employing third party promotional sites or software to promote profiles for money, is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of unauthorized solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice or explanation and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Wild Treasure reserves the right to take appropriate legal action for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Wild Treasure Services.
6. Proprietary Rights in Content on Wild Treasure.
6.1 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services. After posting your Content to the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services, you hereby grant to Wild Treasure a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through the Wild Treasure Services, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Wild Treasure Website in any media formats and through any media channels, except Content marked "private" will not be distributed outside the Wild Treasure Website. This limited license does not grant Wild Treasure the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the Wild Treasure Services. After you remove your Content from the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Website you change the Content's privacy setting to "private," we will cease distribution of such "private" Content outside the Wild Treasure Website as soon as practicable after you make the change.
6.2 The license you grant to Wild Treasure is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to Wild Treasure), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that Wild Treasure is not required to pay you for the use on the Wild Treasure Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that Wild Treasure is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the Wild Treasure Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the Wild Treasure Services are global in reach).
6.3 You represent and warrant that:
(i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services.
6.4 The Wild Treasure Services contain Content of Wild Treasure ("Wild Treasure Content"). Wild Treasure Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and Wild Treasure owns and retains all rights in the Wild Treasure Content and the Wild Treasure Services. Wild Treasure hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the Wild Treasure Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the Wild Treasure Website and using the Wild Treasure Services.
6.5 The Wild Treasure Services contain Content of Users and other Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services.
6.6 Wild Treasure performs technical functions necessary to offer the Wild Treasure Services, including but not limited to transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use throughout the Wild Treasure Services.
7. Content Posted.
7.1 Wild Treasure may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content that in the sole judgment of Wild Treasure 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. Wild Treasure assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Wild Treasure Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time Wild Treasure chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Wild Treasure Services, Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services. Wild Treasure reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Wild Treasure's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Wild Treasure Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of Wild Treasure:
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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Website and through your use of the Wild Treasure Services. Wild Treasure reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Wild Treasure'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 Wild Treasure 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, Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Wild Treasure, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay Wild Treasure $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication you send through the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services or the networks or services connected to the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same;
8.28 displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Wild Treasure 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 "Top 8" friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
8.29 using the Wild Treasure Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
9. Protecting Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property. Wild Treasure 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. Wild Treasure has the right to terminate the Membership of infringers.
If you believe your work has been copied and posted on or through the Wild Treasure Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send notification of claimed infringement to Contact Us .
10. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Wild Treasure Members. Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers. Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services, whether caused by Users of the Wild Treasure Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Wild Treasure Services and such User Content does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Wild Treasure. Profiles and third party applications created and posted by Members on the Wild Treasure Website may contain links to other websites. Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure. Inclusion of any linked website on the Wild Treasure Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by Wild Treasure. When you access these third party sites, you do so at your own risk. Wild Treasure takes no responsibility for third party advertisements or third party applications that are posted on or through the Wild Treasure Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. Wild Treasure is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the Wild Treasure Services. Wild Treasure 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. Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services. Under no circumstances shall Wild Treasure be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Wild Treasure Services, attendance at a Wild Treasure event, from any User Content posted on or through the Wild Treasure Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the Wild Treasure Services, whether online or offline. The Wild Treasure Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and Wild Treasure expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Wild Treasure cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Wild Treasure Services.
13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL WILD TREASURE 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 WILD TREASURE SERVICES, EVEN IF WILD TREASURE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, WILD TREASURE'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 WILD TREASURE FOR THE WILD TREASURE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. U.S. Export Controls. Software available in connection with the Wild Treasure Services (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the Wild Treasure 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 <NAME STATE>, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Wild Treasure agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the State of <NAME STATE> to resolve any dispute arising out of the Agreement or the Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure, 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 Wild Treasure 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 Wild Treasure Services causes Wild Treasure to be liable to another.
17. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Wild Treasure Website or any of the Wild Treasure Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Wild Treasure regarding the use of the Wild Treasure Services. The failure of Wild Treasure 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. Wild Treasure is a trademark of Wild Treasure, 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: Contact Us with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
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