Terms Of Use
1. Acceptance of the Terms of Use
We at VoteOurVoice, Inc. ("VoteOurVoice", the "Company", "us", "we", or "our") are happy and excited to welcome you as a member of our community and user of our tools. The following terms (collectively, these "Terms of Use") govern your use of www.voteourvoice.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or via us (the "Website"). The Terms of Use also include our Privacy Policy.
Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start using VoteOurVoice. By using our website you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use. If you disagree with some of the provisions herein, you can either leave our websiteor contact us at admin@voteourvoice.com
2. Changes to the Terms of Use and our website
VoteOurVoice is a work in progress, meaning that a lot will change in the near future. We reserve the right to update our website and these Terms of Use from time to time, at our discretion. Your continued use of our website following the publishing of updated Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes.
3. Accessing our website, Security and Privacy
We are working hard on improving VoteOurVoice but we cannot guarantee that our website will be up and running at all times. We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to some features to users. We will not be liable if for any reason any part or all of our website is unavailable at any time or for any period, nor for any data loss.To access certain features of our website you have to register by entering your email, username, and choosing a password, or by registering with your Facebook or Google credentials, as part of our security procedures. You must treat such information as confidential, not disclosing it to any third party and only using VoteOurVoice in person.It is a condition of your use of our website that all the information you provide on our website is accurate and current. In the future, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. As is customary for Internet websites, we reserve the right to disable any user account, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any provision of these Terms of Use.We do not guarantee that our website or any content provided on our website is error free.We manage your personal data according to our Privacy Policy.
4. Intellectual Property Rights and Use Guidelines.
Our website and its original content, tools, features and functionality, are owned by VoteOurVoiceand are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. Therefor you agree not to copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, or republish, any of our copyrighted material, except to the extent permitted by our website itself. If you have doubts about whether and how to use any material on our website, please address your concerns to: admin@voteourvoice.com
For purposes of these Terms of Use, the term "Content" includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, other digital recordings, written posts and comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through our website. For the purposes of these Terms of Use, "Content" also includes all User Content (as defined below).
All Content added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted to our website by users (collectively "User Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such User Content. You represent that all User Content provided by you is accurate, complete, up-to-date, and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. You acknowledge that all Content, including User Content, accessed by you using our website is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to you or any other party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that any Content you access on or through our website is or will continue to be accurate.
By submitting public User Content through our website, you hereby do and shall grant VoteOurVoice a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content in connection with our website and our (and our successors’ and assigns’) businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of our website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites and feeds). You also hereby do and shall grant each user of our website a non-exclusive, perpetual license to access your User Content through our website, and to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Content. For clarity, the foregoing license grants to us and our users does not affect your other ownership or license rights in your User Content, including the right to grant additional licenses to your User Content, unless otherwise agreed in writing. You represent and warrant that you have all rights to grant such licenses to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights, including without limitation, any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
We do not guarantee that any Content will be made available on our website. We reserve the right to, but do not have any obligation to, (i) remove, edit or modify any Content in our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you and for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content or if we are concerned that you may have violated these Terms of Use), or for no reason at all and (ii) to remove or block any Content from our website.
You are permitted to use our website for your personal, non-commercial use, or legitimate business purposes, provided that your activities are lawful and in accordance with these Terms of Use. Prohibited uses include violation of laws and regulations, hacking our website in any manner, or violating the Content Standards set below. No right, title or interest in or to our website or any content on the site is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved. Any use of our website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and can lead to account termination.
We encourage your opinions and feedback, in the form of reviews, comments, and suggestions or recommendations for modifications, improvements or changes to our website that you may choose in your sole discretion to provide us from time to time ("User Opinion"). When you provide User Opinion, you grant us, under all right, title and interest in and to the User Opinion, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use that User Opinion or to incorporate it into our website or other products or services.
Our website may contain Content specifically provided by us, our partners or our users and such Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You shall abide by and maintain all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through our website.
5. User Contributions and Content Standards. Special Disclaimer for legal content.
VoteOurVoice contains user generated content and may contain message boards, personal web pages, forums or other interactive features that allow you to upload, post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other users,User Content on or through our website. All User Content must be lawful, not spam-like and clear of viruses or other malware. More specifically, but without limiting the foregoing, it must comply with the following Content Standards:
Not contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
Not promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Not infringe any patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property rights of any other person.
Not violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms of Use.
Not be likely to deceive any person.
Not promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
Not be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
Not involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising.
Not give the impression that they emanate from VoteOurVoice or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.
Not used, if public, as test empty documents with no actual content, or typing exercises: we respect our community and promote a clutter free platform.
User Content is not intended to be legal advice nor form an attorney-client relationship, nor among the users, nor between the users and VoteOurVoice.Use of our website should never be understood to be replacing the use of a qualified attorney and VoteOurVoice’srelationship to all documents and transactions completed using our website is that of a trusted, disinterested third party.
6. Law and Copyright Infringement
We do not undertake to review any material before it is posted on our website and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. In the unlikely event we receive a disclosure request from an authorized party, we reserve the right to disclose user identities when required to do so by the law, including in response to a law enforcement request supported by a valid court order.
You waive and hold harmless the Company from any claims resulting from any action taken by the VoteOurVoice during or as a result of its investigations and from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either VoteOurVoice or law enforcement authorities.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitations of Liability and Indemnification.
Your use of VoteOurVoiceis at your sole risk. The service is provided "as is" and "as available". We disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We are not liable for damages, direct or consequential, resulting from your use of our website, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses, liability costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from your violation of any third-party's rights. You acknowledge that you have only a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable license to use our website. Because our website is not error or bug free, you agree that you will use it carefully and avoid using it in ways that might result in any loss of your or any third party's property or information.
8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of, or related to them, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Texas without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or our website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of Texas.
9. Waiver and Severability
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and VoteOurVoiceand govern your use of the service, superseding any prior agreements (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Use). If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.
10. User Opinion
We welcome any comments, questions, and/or communication related to these Terms of Use at: admin@voteourvoice.com