Terms of Service

UPDATED JUNE 1, 2010

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Soul Strut website and all content, services and products available at or through the website. The Website is owned and operated by Soulstrut (a sole proprietorship). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Soul Strut’s privacy policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Soul Strut (collectively, the Agreement).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Soul Strut, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

• Your Soul Strut Account and Site. If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and its content, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the Website. You must not describe or assign content to your account in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Soul Strut may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Soul Strut liability. You must immediately notify Soul Strut of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Soul Strut will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

• Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate an account, comment on a screenshot, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, Content), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text or graphics. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that: the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party; if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content; you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms; the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content; the Content is not spam, is not machine&8212;or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing); the Content is not obscene, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; your account is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods; your account is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your account’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Soul Strut or otherwise.

• Soul Strut reserves the right to remove content for any reason whatsoever.

• Soul Strut reserves the right to ban any member or website from using the service for any reason.

• By uploading content to Soul Strut you give Soul Strut permission to use or distribute your screenshots on Soul Strut.com or affiliated sites.

If you delete Content, Soul Strut will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Soul Strut has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Soul Strut’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Soul Strut’s reasonable opinion, violates any Soul Strut policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Soul Strut’s sole discretion. Soul Strut will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

• Responsibility of Website Visitors. Soul Strut has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that materials content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Soul Strut does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Soul Strut disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

• Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which Soul Strut links, and that link to Soul Strut. Soul Strut does not have any control over those non-Soul Strut websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Soul Strut website or webpage, Soul Strut does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Soul Strut disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Soul Strut websites and webpages/

• Copyright Infringement. As Soul Strut asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by Soul Strut violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Soul Strut. Soul Strut will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Soul Strut or others, Soul Strut may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Soul Strut will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Soul Strut.

• Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Soul Strut to you any Soul Strut or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Soul Strut. Soul Strut, the Soul Strut logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Soul Strut, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Soul Strut or Soul Struts licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Soul Strut or third-party trademarks.

• Changes. Soul Strut reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Soul Strut may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 

• Termination. Soul Strut may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your Soul Strut account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a VIP Services account, such account can only be terminated by Soul Strut if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Soul Struts notice to you thereof; provided that, Soul Strut can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. 

• Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Soul Strut and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Soul Strut nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

• Limitation of Liability. In no event will Soul Strut, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interuption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Soul Strut under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Soul Strut shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

• General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Soul Strut Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

• Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Soul Strut, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to out of your violation this Agreement.

• Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Soul Strut and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Soul Strut, or by the posting by Soul Strut of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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