Terms of Use/User License
Last Updated November 20, 2007
THIS
TERMS OF USE/USER LICENSE (THIS “AGREEMENT”)
CONSTITUTES A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND FREEDRIVE
(“FREEDRIVE”). CONTINUED USE OF THE FREEDRIVE SERVICE,
AS DEFINED BELOW, CONSTITUTES ASSENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT
AS SUCH TERMS MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. YOUR FAILURE TO
ADHERE TO THE TERMS AND OBLIGATIONS INCLUDED HEREIN SHALL CONSTITUTE
A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH MAY RESULT IN PERSONAL LIABILITY
FOR YOU UNDER THE INDEMNITY SET FORTH BELOW AND/OR IN IMMEDIATE
TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT AND, AT FREEDRIVE'S SOLE DISCRETION, THE
DELETION OF ALL CONTENT RELATED THERETO.
FreeDrive
is the owner and operator of the website located at
http://www.FreeDrive.com,
and any linked pages or applications (the “FreeDrive Site”),
and is the provider of the services (the “FreeDrive Services”)
which are available to You though the FreeDrive Site,.
Eligibility Criteria and Representations. You hereby
represent that the following are all true:
You
are at least 13 years old, and if You are less than 18 years old,
You have the permission of Your parents or legal guardian to use
the FreeDrive Service. (Please be aware that FreeDrive may create certain
areas on the FreeDrive Site that contain adult or mature content. You
must be at least 18 years of age to access and view such areas.) If
you are not at least 13 years old, please discontinue using the
FreeDrive Site and the FreeDrive Services immediately.
You
have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this
Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement; and
You
have the right to display each and every item of content (whether
images, links, documents, “Skins”, or files –
“content”) which You have released to the FreeDrive Site,
including the right to display all copyrights, trademarks, trade
names and similar intellectual property interests reflected therein
or thereon. Your sharing of content constitutes permission for
reproduction/printing of such image by any recipient for his or her
personal use and by FreeDrive solely to provide the FreeDrive Service to
You and others, to market the FreeDrive Service and/or the FreeDrive
Site, and to illustrate the operation of the FreeDrive Service and/or
the FreeDrive Site. You understand that the FreeDrive Service may involve
the transmission of content over various networks and changes to
content to conform and adapt to technical requirements of
connecting networks, devices or display media. See also, discussion
of “Skins” below.
License
Grant.
LICENSE.
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, FreeDrive hereby grants You a
limited, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, nonexclusive license
to use the software that You have downloaded or are about to
download, any software that you have embedded on a third party web
site or are about to embed, and any software running on FreeDrive's
server (“Software”). You may (and in fact are
encouraged to) download, install and/or use the Software on a
single computer or on a website that is operated and maintained by
You, or by someone else who has agreed to be bound by this
Agreement. As between the parties, title, ownership rights, and
intellectual property rights in and to the Software, and any copies
or portions thereof, shall remain in FreeDrive and its suppliers or
licensors. You understand that FreeDrive may modify or discontinue
offering the Software at any time.
SUPPORT
AND UPGRADES. This Agreement does not entitle You to any support,
upgrades, updates, add-ons patches, enhancements, or fixes for the
Software (collectively, “Updates”). FreeDrive,
however, may occasionally provide You with automatic Updates to the
Software at its sole discretion (and without any advanced
notification to You). Any such Updates for the Software shall
become part of the Software and subject to this Agreement.
GOVERNMENT
USE. If You are a part of an agency, department, or other entity of
the United States Government (“Government”), the
use, duplication, reproduction, release, modification, disclosure
or transfer of the Software is restricted in accordance with the
Federal Acquisition Regulations as applied to civilian agencies and
the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement as applied to
military agencies. The Software is a “commercial item,”
“commercial computer software” and “commercial
computer software documentation”. In accordance with such
provisions, any use of the Software by the Government shall be
governed solely by the terms of this Agreement.
Your
Obligations. In exchange for Your being able to use the
Software, the FreeDrive Services and/or the FreeDrive Site, You agree to
be bound by the following obligations:
Registration:
If
You choose to register with FreeDrive, You will provide us with an
email address You own and use, a password and a username (“User
ID”). You shall be solely responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of Your password. You will also update Your
registration information on the FreeDrive Site from time to time so
that it remains true, correct and complete.
You
may not:
use
a false name or an email address owned or controlled by another
person with the intent to impersonate that person or for any
other reason;
use
as a User ID a name subject to any rights of a person other than
Yourself without appropriate authorization; or
otherwise
submit false or misleading information to FreeDrive.
Prohibited
Content. You may not (and will not allow any third party to)
post or link to any material or content which:
is
libelous, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise violative of any law
(each a “Prohibited Posting”), or
constitutes
an infringement, misappropriation or violation of the intellectual
property, publicity or other proprietary rights of any person or
entity (each, an “Infringing Posting”).
No
Changes to the Software/Prohibited Uses. You may not and may
not allow any third party to:
modify,
adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, reverse engineer or
otherwise attempt to discover the source code or structure,
sequence and organization of the Software or any portion of the
FreeDrive Site or the FreeDrive Service (except where the foregoing is
required by applicable local law, and then only to the extent so
required under such laws);
copy
or distribute the Software (except for a version that has this
license attached where the user agrees to the terms of this
Agreement), provided , however , that You may (and
are encouraged), to include a FreeDrive Ticker on your website.
rent,
lease, or use the Software for timesharing or service bureau
purposes, or otherwise charge people for use of the Software
unless You inform
of Your commercial purpose prior to such use;
use
the Software in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden,
or impair FreeDrive's Service or another user's use of the FreeDrive
Service;
remove,
obscure or change any copyright, trademark, hyperlink or other
proprietary rights notices (“Notices“) contained in or
on the FreeDrive Site, FreeDrive Service, FreeDrive code embeddable or
embedded on a third party web site and/or the Software and You
shall reproduce such Notices exactly on all permitted copies of
the Software;
collect
any information about other users or members (including usernames
and/or email addresses) for any purpose;
create
user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent
pretenses;
create
or transmit unwanted electronic communications such as “spam,”
to other users or members of the FreeDrive Site and/or FreeDrive Service
or otherwise interfere with other user's or member's enjoyment of
the FreeDrive Site and/or FreeDrive Service;
submit
any content or material that falsely express or imply that such
content or material is sponsored or endorsed by FreeDrive;
transmit
any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a
destructive nature; or
use
the FreeDrive Site or FreeDrive Services to violate the security of any
computer network or transfer or store illegal material.
Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold FreeDrive (and any employee, officer,
director or affiliate of FreeDrive) harmless (including costs and
attorneys' fees) from any claim or demand made by any third party
due to or arising out of Your access to the FreeDrive Site or Service,
the violation of this Agreement by You, the infringement by You, or
any third party using Your account, of any intellectual property or
other right of any person or entity, or for any content posted on
the FreeDrive Site by you (including claims related to defamation,
invasion of privacy, or other violation of a person's rights). Your
obligations under the foregoing indemnity may not be offset against
any other claim You may have against FreeDrive or any FreeDrive Person.
You remain solely responsible for all content that You upload, post,
email, transmit, or otherwise disseminate using, or in connection
with, the Software or the FreeDrive Service.
Rights
of FreeDrive/Exculpation of FreeDrive. By using the Software, the
FreeDrive Service and/or the FreeDrive Site, You acknowledge and agree,
FreeDrive
does not claim any copyright or other ownership in any material or
content uploaded by You onto the FreeDrive Site (other than solely to
provide the FreeDrive Service to You and others, to market the FreeDrive
Service and/or the FreeDrive Site, to illustrate the operation of the
FreeDrive Service and/or the FreeDrive Site, and an exclusive license in
the case of Skins submitted by you (see discussion of Skins, below)
simply because You have uploaded it on to the FreeDrive Site. You are
solely responsible for protecting your own content from loss.
FreeDrive
has the right to refuse registration of, or cancel Your user
account and/or User ID in its discretion for any reason or for no
reason. Any content that has been uploaded onto the FreeDrive Service
may be deleted at such time without notice to You.
FreeDrive
has the right to make changes to this Agreement, its Privacy
Policy, its Copyright Policy or the FreeDrive Service at any time
without prior notice. Such modifications will be effective no later
than the time such the new terms are posted or otherwise
implemented on the FreeDrive Site.
FreeDrive
and its licensors own and retain all proprietary rights in the
FreeDrive Site, the FreeDrive Services, and all associated software,
content and material. The FreeDrive Site is protected by copyright as
a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright
laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws. You may
not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale
of, reproduce (except as expressly provided herein), create
derivative works based on, distribute, perform, display, or in any
way exploit, any of the content, software, and/or materials
available on the FreeDrive Site, or FreeDrive Services in whole or in
part without the express written agreement of FreeDrive. Except as
expressly provided herein, FreeDrive and its suppliers do not grant
You any express or implied rights under any patents, copyrights,
trademarks, trade secret, or other intellectual or industrial
property rights.
FreeDrive
has no responsibility for the statements in any message, content or
other material posted on or through the FreeDrive Site by any user. If
FreeDrive receives notice that an item on the FreeDrive Site is an
Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, it will use such
efforts as it, in its sole discretion, believes are reasonable, to
determine whether such item is an Infringing Posting or a
Prohibited Posting, and if it is, to remove all or a portion of
such items. You acknowledge, however, that this is a manual process
and that FreeDrive cannot evaluate or remove such items immediately.
FREEDRIVE HAS NO OBLIGATION TO ACCEPT OR DISPLAY ANY CONTENT, AND
CONTENT UPLOADED BY YOU MAY BE DELETED BY FREEDRIVE FOR ANY REASON OR
FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
If
You believe that any material on the FreeDrive Site constitutes an
Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, please notify FreeDrive as
soon as possible by sending an email to
.
FreeDrive
is exempt from liability to any person for any claim based upon its
good faith disabling of access to or removal of material it
believes, in its sole discretion to be an Infringing Posting or a
Prohibited Posting, regardless of whether the material ultimately
is determined to be infringing or otherwise prohibited. By using
the FreeDrive Service, You agree that notice to You through an email
to the email address You provided in Your profile constitutes
reasonable efforts to notify You of any removal or disabling.
FreeDrive
reserves the right to reveal Your identity (or whatever information
we know about You) in the event of a complaint or legal action
arising from any message or other content posted by You. FreeDrive may
log all internet protocol addresses accessing the FreeDrive Site and
other information about users' access, and maintain backup copies
of content indefinitely.
FreeDrive
may collect and collate a variety of information regarding the use
of the FreeDrive Site or FreeDrive Service by You or by people who use
the FreeDrive Service through Your website or watch your content
through the FreeDrive Service on third party websites, and may cause
the Software to communicate to FreeDrive information about its offline
operations. FreeDrive is the sole owner of all such information it
collects. Collection and management of such information is governed
by our Privacy Policy.
FreeDrive
uses industry-standard security measures to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Although we make good faith efforts to store the non-public
information uploaded to the FreeDrive Site or collected by FreeDrive in a
secure operating environment that is not available to the public,
we cannot guarantee complete security. We cannot and do not
guarantee that our security measures will prevent third party
“hackers” from illegally accessing our site and
obtaining access to content or information thereon.
The
FreeDrive Site may contain advertising and sponsorships. Advertisers
and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted
for inclusion on the FreeDrive Site is accurate and complies with
applicable laws. We are not responsible for the illegality or any
error, inaccuracy or problem in the advertiser's or sponsor's
materials.
The
FreeDrive Site contains links to other websites. We are not
responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such
websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or
checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked
website on the FreeDrive Site or the inclusion of a FreeDrive Ticker on a
third party's web site does not imply approval or endorsement of
that website by us. If you decide to access or post a FreeDrive Ticker
on these third-party websites, you do so at your own risk.
Limitations.
WARRANTY
DISCLAIMER. THE FREEDRIVE SERVICE, THE FREEDRIVE SITE AND THE
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY FREEDRIVE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS.
FREEDRIVE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF
THE SITE OR SOFTWARE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR
PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THE FREEDRIVE SITE OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
FREEDRIVE SERVICES. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW,
FREEDRIVE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FREEDRIVE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES
FURTHER DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE
INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN
OR AVAILABLE ON THE FREEDRIVE SITE. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS
THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
POTENTIAL
UNAVAILABILITY. THE FREEDRIVE SERVICE MAY BE TEMPORARILY
UNAVAILABLE FROM TIME TO TIME FOR MAINTENANCE OR OTHER REASONS.
FREEDRIVE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE, FREEDRIVE
SITE OR FREEDRIVE SERVICE. SUCH FAILURE MAY RESULT FROM ANY CAUSE,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE BEYOND FREEDRIVE'S REASONABLE
CONTROL, SUCH AS MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC OR COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE
OR DEGRADATION (INCLUDING “LINE-NOISE” INTERFERENCE).
YOU AGREE THAT FREEDRIVE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF
MATERIALS, CONTENT, OR ANY MODIFICATION, SUSPENSION OR
DISCONTINUANCE OF THE SERVICE.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY. FREEDRIVE AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT
BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OF LAW, FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
PUNITIVE, AND/OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, AND/OR LOSS OF
INFORMATION OR DATA. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, FREEDRIVE'S AGGREGATE
LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE
FORM OF ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF
ANY, BY YOU TO FREEDRIVE FOR THE FREEDRIVE SERVICES, OR TEN DOLLARS, IF
GREATER. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FREEDRIVE IS NOT LIABLE FOR
THE CONTENT SUBMITTED BY ANY USER OR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR
ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF A THIRD PARTY. SOME STATES OR OTHER
JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS
AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Please
note that a small number of people may experience epileptic
seizures when exposed to certain light patterns on a computer
screen like those displayed when using FreeDrive Services. Consult
your physician prior to using the FreeDrive Services if you have had
any epileptic symptoms (such as eye or muscle twitches, dizziness,
altered vision, disorientation, loss of awareness, involuntary
movements or convulsions) and discontinue use of the FreeDrive
Services immediately if you experience any such symptoms
TERM
AND TERMINATION. Unless terminated by FreeDrive, this Agreement
will remain in full force and effect while You use the Software,
FreeDrive Site and/or FreeDrive Services. Subject to the last sentence of
this Section 8, You may terminate this Agreement at any time by
deleting the Software from Your computer and ceasing to use the
FreeDrive Service. FreeDrive may terminate this Agreement at any time,
particularly if You violate any provision of this Agreement. Any
termination of this Agreement shall also terminate the licenses
granted hereunder. Upon termination of this Agreement for any
reason, You shall destroy and remove from all computers, and other
storage media all copies of the Software. FreeDrive shall have the
right to inspect and audit Your facilities to confirm the foregoing.
Your representations in Sections 1 and the provisions of Sections 4
through 9 shall survive any termination or expiration of this
Agreement.
THIRD
PARTY NOTICES AND LICENSES In order to use the FreeDrive Service,
You will have to download a Flash Player from Adobe Systems
Incorporated. Use of the Flash Player is subject to Adobe's Terms of
Service. See http://www.adobe.com/misc/copyright.html
Mapping services may use software and other information from Google
Maps (See Google Maps' Terms of Service), Yahoo Maps (see Yahoo
Maps' Terms of Service) and/or www.geonames.org.
MISCELLANEOUS
Privacy.
In addition to the terms of this Agreement, You should be aware
that use of the FreeDrive Site and/or the FreeDrive Service is also
governed by our Privacy Policy. Acceptance of this Agreement
constitutes acceptance of FreeDrive's acceptable use policy for
content posted on the FreeDrive Site, FreeDrive's Privacy Policy,
FreeDrive's Copyright Policy, and any notices regarding the FreeDrive
Site, as such policies or notices may be amended from time to time.
Disputes.
You agree that any dispute relating to your use of the FreeDrive Site
and/or Service under this Agreement shall be governed by the laws
of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law
provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the
state and federal courts of the State of California, City of San
Deigo, and that any action hereunder must be brought, if at all,
within one (1) year from the accrual of the cause of action.
International
Use. FreeDrive makes no representation that the Software is
appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United
States, and accessing it from territories where the Software or any
feature of the FreeDrive Services and/or FreeDrive Site is illegal is
prohibited. Those who choose to access this website from other
locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for
compliance with local laws. The Software may be further subject to
United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from
the FreeDrive Site or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation
of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your
sole risk.
No
Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is between You and
FreeDrive. No user has any rights to force FreeDrive to enforce any
rights it may have against any You or any other User.
FreeDrive
is an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of
connections for digital online communications, between or among
points specified by a user of material of the user's choosing,
without modification of the content of the material sent or received
(“transitory digital network communications”), as well as
system caching, storage of material residing on a system or network
at the direction of a user, and referral or linkage of users to an
online location using information location tools, each through the
website located at http://www.FreeDrive.com,
and any linked pages or applications owned and operated by FreeDrive.
Please
contact us at
with any questions regarding this Agreement.
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