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Web Site Terms of Use
Effective Date: December 1, 2005
The
following Web site Terms of Use Agreement (the "Agreement") governs
your use of the Web site[s] accessible at universal resource locators
PewterKrew.com, (collectively the "Service") which are operated
PewterKrew, LLC. (collectively, the "PEWTERKREW, LLC", "we", "our", or
"us"). Your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of the
Agreement. Your acceptance of the Agreement provides you with a limited
and temporary license and permission to use the software and other
resources of the Service, which license and permission are freely
revocable at any time, with or without cause, and with or without
notice, by PewterKrew, LLC, as described more fully below. Please print
a copy of this document for your records. To retain an electronic copy
of this Agreement, you may save it into any word processing program.
1. Copyright Rights
All
copyright rights in the text, images, photographs, graphics, user
interface, and other content provided on the Service, and the
selection, coordination, and arrangement of such content, are owned by
PewterKrew, LLC, as applicable among us, or their third-party
licensors, to the full extent provided under the United States
Copyright laws and all international copyright laws. Under applicable
copyright laws, you are prohibited from copying, reproducing,
modifying, distributing, displaying, performing or transmitting any of
the contents of the Service for any purposes. Nothing stated or implied
on the Service confers on you any license or right under any copyright
of PewterKrew, LLC, or any third party.
The
Service and the information contained in reference herein are for
informational purposes only. Any reproduction, copying, or
redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design
elements of the Service is strictly prohibited, without the prior
written consent of PewterKrew, LLC. Systematic retrieval of data or
other content from this Service to create or compile, directly or
indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without
written permission from PewterKrew, LLC is prohibited.
2. Trade and Service Mark Rights
All
rights in the product names, company names, trade names, logos, product
packaging and designs of all PewterKrew, LLC or third-party products or
services, whether or not appearing in large print or with the trademark
symbol, belong exclusively to PewterKrew, LLC, as applicable, or their
respective owners, and are protected from reproduction, imitation,
dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and
international trademark and copyright laws, as applicable. The use or
misuse of these trademarks
or any materials, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited
and nothing stated or implied on this Service confers on you any
license or right under any patent, copyright or trademark of
PewterKrew, LLC or any third party.
3. Modification of This Agreement
PewterKrew,
LLC reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time. You are
bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit
this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you
are bound. Your use of the Service after the posting of modifications
to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of this Agreement, as
modified. If, at any time, you do not wish to accept this Agreement,
you may not use the Service.
4. Links
This
Service may contain links to other services ("Linked Services"). The
Linked Services are not under the control of PewterKrew, LLC, and
PewterKrew, LLC are not responsible for the contents of the Linked
Services, including, without limitation, links contained on Linked
Services, or any changes or updates to Linked Services. PewterKrew, LLC
provide any Linked Services to you only as a convenience, and the
inclusion of any such Linked Services is not an endorsement by
PewterKrew, LLC in favor of any company offering Internet services,
products or services on the Linked Services.
Other
sites may link without prior permission to the home page of the Service
only through a plain-text link. Permission must otherwise be granted by
us for any other type of link to the Service. To seek our permission,
you may write to:
PewterKrew, LLC
Attn: PewterKrew.com
3310 Lake Inks Ave.
Killeen , TX , 76543
Additional Agreement by Linked Services: any third party Web site that links to the Service:
- shall not create a frame, browser or border environment around any of the content of the Service;
- may link to, but not replicate, Service content;
- shall not imply that PewterKrew, LLC are endorsing or sponsoring it or its products or services;
- shall not present false information about PewterKrew, LLC or its products or services;
- shall not use PewterKrew, LLC trademarks without the prior written permission from PewterKrew, LLC; and
- shall not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial.
Not
withstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, we
reserve the right to deny or rescind permission to link to the Service
from any Web site, and to require termination of any link to the
Service, for any reason in our sole and absolute discretion.
5. Obligations
You
are required to comply with all applicable law in connection with your
use of the Service, and such further limitations as may be set forth in
any written or on-screen notice from PewterKrew, LLC. As a condition of
your use of the Service, you represent and warrant that you will not
use the Service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this
Agreement.
6. Prohibited Uses Generally
Without
limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post,
communicate or store information or other material on, to or through
the Service that:
- is
copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or valid licensee to
such materials and you have the right to grant PewterKrew, LLC the
rights and licenses set forth in Section 8 of this Agreement;
- reveals
trade secrets, unless you own them, or you are the valid licensee to
such materials and you have the right to grant PewterKrew, LLC the
rights and licenses set forth in Section 8 of this Agreement;
- infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;
- is
obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful,
slanderous or embarrassing to any other person or entity or in
violation of applicable law as determined by PewterKrew, LLC in their
sole discretion;
- is sexually-explicit;
- constitutes advertisements or solicitations of business, surveys, contests, chain letters or pyramid schemes; or
- contains
viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer
programming routines or engines that are intended to damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate
any system, data or information.
You further agree not to:
- use
any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or other
information for purposes of registering as a user of the Service, or
for purposes of registering for any promotions offered through the
Service;
- delete or revise any material or other information of any other user of the Service;
- harvest, collect, or send information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent;
- take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service's infrastructure;
- use
any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere
with the proper working of the Service or any activity being conducted
on this site;
- use or attempt to use any
engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including
without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatar's or intelligent
agents) to navigate or search the Service to harvest or otherwise
collect information from the Service to be used for any commercial
purpose;
- register or attempt to register multiple usernames at any time;
- allow
any other person or entity to use your username or password for posting
or viewing comments or sending or receiving materials; or
- attempt
to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the
software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Service.
You further agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation:
- accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access;
- attempting
to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to
breach security or authentication measures without proper
authorization;
- attempting to interfere with
service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, by
way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, "flooding", "spamming",
"mailbombing" or "crashing", the Service;
- sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or
- forging
any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any
e-mail or posting. Violations of system or network security may result
in civil or criminal liability.
PEWTERKREW,
LLC may investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and
may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in
prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
PEWTERKREW,
LLC reserve the right (but do not have the obligation) to review
postings on its Service, to remove any postings, and to terminate your
ability to post to the Service at any time without notice, in its sole
discretion. PEWTERKREW, LLC also reserve the right to disclose any
information necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to
remove any information or materials, in whole or in part.
7. Conduct
You
are responsible for, and assume all liability associated with, any
material you make available or transmit through the Service, whether
through chat rooms, messages boards or other forums, including
liability for claims of infringement, libel and slander. You may not
post, transmit through or otherwise make available on or through the
Service (i) any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the
rights of others, that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, abusive,
profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, racist, threatening, hateful or
otherwise objectionable or that encourages conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or
otherwise violate any law, (ii) without the express written consent of
the owner thereof, any copyrighted material, or (iii) without the
express prior written consent of PewterKrew, LLC any advertising or any
solicitation with respect to products or services (unless posted in an
area specifically designated for that purpose). Although PewterKrew,
LLC does not and cannot review every message posted on or transmitted
through the Service, PEWTERKREW, LLC shall be under no obligation to
permit any material posted or transmitted to remain on the Service, and
may remove from, or refuse to display on the Service any material that
PewterKrew, LLC, in the exercise of their sole discretion, believe
violates this Agreement.
8. License Granted
We
do not claim ownership of any information or material you transmit,
distribute, post, communicate or store on, to or through the Service
(expressly excluding your user data which is collected in accordance
with the Service Privacy Policy) ("Your Content"). However, by
submitting or posting Your Content, to or through the Service, you
grant PewterKrew, LLC a world-wide, royalty free, perpetual,
irrevocable and non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and
license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create
derivative works from, distribute, perform and display Your Content
anywhere, for any purpose, and in any form, media or technology now
known or later developed. No compensation will be paid with respect to
the use of Your Content. SHOCKPOINTE, LLC are free to use any ideas,
concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in Your Content for any
purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing,
manufacturing and marketing products using Your Content PewterKrew, LLC
are under no obligation to maintain any of Your Content and may remove
any of Your Content at any time in its sole discretion.
By posting or submitting Your Content to this Service, you also
represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the
rights to Your Content, and that use of Your Content by PewterKrew, LLC
will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party or violation
applicable law.
9. Notice of Copyright Infringement
If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this
Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please
provide PewterKrew, LLC Copyright Agent with the following information:
- identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
- identification of the allegedly infringing material on the Service that is requested to be removed;
- your name, address and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available, so that we may contact you, if necessary;
- a
statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the
copyrighted work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent,
or the law;
- a statement that the information
in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the
signatory is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed; and
- an
electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone
authorized on the owner's behalf to assert infringement of copyright
and to submit the statement.
PewterKrew,
LLC's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement on
the Service is D. Peterson, PewterKrew, LLC who can be reached as
follows:
PewterKrew, LLC
Attn:PewterKrew.com
3310 Lake Inks Ave.
Killeen, TX, 76543
PewterKrew,
LLC reserves the right to remove any posted submission which infringes
the copyright of any person under the laws of the United States upon
receipt of such a statement (or, more specifically, any statement in
conformance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). United States law provides
significant penalties for submitting such a statement falsely.
10. Registration, Username, Password, Security.
- Registration.
Registration may be required for the use of certain portions of the
Service. Your registration shall not impose any duty on us to provide
any particular service to you. If the terms of any PEWTERKREW, LLC
registration agreement conflict with the terms of this Agreement, the
registration agreement shall control.
- Your
User Identity. Your username and password will be your identity for
purposes of interacting with Service and other users through the
Service.
- User Name, Passwords, and Password
Access. You shall keep confidential, shall not disseminate, and shall
use solely in accordance with this Agreement, your username, and
password for the Service. You shall immediately notify PewterKrew, LLC
if you learn of or suspect:
- any loss or theft of your username or password, or
- any
unauthorized use of your username or password or of the Service. In the
event of such loss, theft, or unauthorized use, PewterKrew, LLC may
impose on you, PewterKrew, LLC's sole discretion, additional security
obligations.
- Security
Breaches and Revision. If any unauthorized person obtains access to the
Service as a result of any act or omission by you, you shall use your
best efforts to ascertain the source and manner of acquisition and
shall fully and promptly brief PewterKrew, LLC. You shall otherwise
cooperate and assist in any investigation relating to any such
unauthorized access.
11. Privacy Policy
We
are committed to protecting your privacy and security and have
explained in detail the steps we take to do so in the Service Privacy
Policy, a copy of which you should review by clicking here. You, in
turn, agree and consent to the terms of the Service Privacy Policy by
your use of the Service.
12. Access to the Service
In
order to access the Service, you must have access to the World Wide
Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content,
and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you
must use all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World
Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE
SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." PEWTERKREW, LLC MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON RELATING IN
ANY WAY TO THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY PART THEREOF, OR ANY WEB SITE OR
OTHER CONTENT OR SERVICE THAT MAY BE ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
THROUGH THE SERVICE. PEWTERKREW, LLC DISCLAIMS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY AND ALL SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, SHOCKPOINTE, LLC
DISCLAIMS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY AND ALL (i)
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, (ii)
WARRANTIES AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY OR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, (iii) WARRANTIES RELATING TO DELAYS,
INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, OR OMISSIONS IN THE SERVICE, OR ANY PART
THEREOF, (iv) WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE TRANSMISSION OR DELIVERY OF
THE SERVICE, (v) WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE ACCURACY OR CORRECTNESS OF
DATA, AND (vi) WARRANTIES OTHERWISE RELATING TO PERFORMANCE,
NONPERFORMANCE, OR OTHER ACTS OR OMISSIONS BY PEWTERKREW, LLC OR ANY
THIRD PARTY. FURTHER, AND WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF ANY OF THE
FOREGOING, THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS
OR REQUIREMENTS OR THE NEEDS OR REQUIREMENTS OF ANY OTHER PERSON.
PEWTERKREW,
LLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT
THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM ERROR,
OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, OR DELAY IN OPERATION. ANY INFORMATION
ON THIS SERVICE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, AND WE DISCLAIM
ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE CHANGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
CHANGES TO PRICES, DISCOUNTS, AND HOURS OF OPERATION.
14. Limitation of Liability
IN
NO EVENT WILL PEWTERKREW, LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY PARTY INVOLVED
IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THIS SERVICE, OR ON ANY WEB SITE
LINKED TO THIS SERVICE, BE LIABLE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR ANY
DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS, USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS
SERVICE OR ANY SITE LINKED TO THIS SERVICE, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY
FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN
OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE. IN
NO EVENT SHALL PEWTERKREW, LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES ORANY THIRD PARTY BE
LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING UNDER OR IN
ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY PART THEREOF, OR ANY
OTHER CONTENT, (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR DATA,
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, TRADING LOSSES, AND DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM
INACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR INCONVENIENCE, DELAY, OR LOSS OF THE
USE OF THE SERVICE) EVEN IF PEWTERKREW, LLC OR ANY THIRD PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES.
PEWTERKREW,
LLC RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALTER THE CONTENT OF THIS SERVICE IN ANY WAY,
AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION, AND WILL NOT
BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH CHANGES. THESE
LIMITATIONS APPLY WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT,
TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF
SHOCKPOINTE, LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SHOCKPOINTE, LLC'S LIABILITY IN
SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
IN
NO EVENT SHALL PEWTERKREW, LLC'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL
DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00).
15. Indemnification
Upon a request by PewterKrew, LLC, you agree to indemnify and hold
harmless PewterKrew, LLC and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates,
directors, officers, agents, licensors, co-branders or other partners
and employees from and against all liabilities, claims and expenses,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or
arising out of content you submit, post to or transmit through this
Service, your use of the Service, your violation of this Agreement or
your violation of any rights of another.
16. Choice of Law and Forum
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of Texas , excluding its conflict of law rules.
You expressly consent and agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
and venue of the United States District Court for the Bell County,
Texas or, for matters not susceptible of adjudication in the federal
courts, the courts of the State of Texas located in Bell County , in
all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this Service.
17. United States Jurisdiction
The
Service is operated in the United States of America . We do not
represent that content or materials presented on the Service are
appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access the
Service from a jurisdiction other than the United States, you agree
that you do so on your own initiative, and are responsible for
compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are
applicable to your use of the Service.
18. Severability and Integration
Unless otherwise specified herein, this Agreement constitutes the
entire agreement between you and PewterKrew, LLC and governs your use
of this Service, super ceding any prior or contemporaneous
communications and proposals (whether oral, written or electronic)
between you and PewterKrew, LLC. If any portion of this Agreement is
held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a
manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as
possible, the original intention of the parties, and the remaining
portions shall remain in full force and effect. This agreement may be
modified only by our posting on the Service changes to this Agreement,
or by a subsequent writing signed by PewterKrew, LLC.
19. No Waiver
The
failure of PewterKrew, LLC to enforce any provisions of this Agreement
or respond to a breach by you or other parties shall not in any way
waive its right to enforce subsequently any terms or conditions of this
Agreement or to act with respect to similar breaches.
20. No Professional Advice
Any information supplied by any employee or agent of PewterKrew, LLC,
whether by telephone, e-mail, letter, facsimile or other form of
communication, is intended solely as general guidance on the use of the
Service, and does not constitute legal, tax, accounting or other
professional advice. Individual situations and state laws vary and
users are encouraged to obtain appropriate advice from qualified
professionals in the applicable jurisdictions. PewterKrew, LLC makes no
representations or warranties concerning any course of action taken by
any person following or otherwise using the information offered or
provided within or through the Service, and PewterKrew, LLC will not be
liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, exemplary or
other damages that may result, including but not limited to economic
loss, injury, illness or death.
21. Miscellaneous
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency
relationship exists between you and PewterKrew, LLC as a result of this
Agreement or your use of this Service. Nothing contained in this
Agreement is in derogation of PewterKrew, LLC's right to comply with
governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements
relating to your use of this Service or information provided to or
gathered by PewterKrew, LLC with respect to such use. A printed version
of this Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be
admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or
relating to this Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same
conditions as other business documents and records originally generated
and maintained in printed form.
22. Termination
PEWTERKREW, LLC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to
terminate this Agreement and your access to all or part of this
Service, with or without notice and with or without cause. Termination
of your access to this Service means the revocation of the limited and
temporary license and permission to use the software and other
resources of the Service granted to you under this Agreement by
PewterKrew, LLC. The provisions of this Agreement will survive the
termination of your access to the Service and of this Agreement.
23. Notices
PewterKrew, LLC may give notices to users of the Service, at
PewterKrew, LLC's option, by posting a message on the Service, by
electronic or conventional mail or by any other means by which users
obtain actual knowledge thereof. Notices by users to PewterKrew, LLC
must be given by electronic or conventional mail. Notices to
PewterKrew, LLC by electronic mail must be sent to
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Notices to PewterKrew, LLC by conventional mail must be sent to:
PewterKrew, LLC
Attn: PewterKrew.com
3310 Lake Inks Ave.
Killeen , TX , 76543
Notices
by a user to PewterKrew, LLC will not change the terms of this
Agreement unless the change is expressly accepted in writing by an
authorized officer of PewterKrew, LLC.
24. Violations
Please report any violations of this Agreement to PEWTERKREW LLC'S Customer Service center at 254-220-2704
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