1. OVERVIEW AND
PROLOGUE
Birdzee provides a collection of online resources, postings,
classified type ads, and various email services, including telephone number retrieval
(referred to hereafter as "Our Services")which are subject to the following Terms
of
Use ("Terms"). By using Our Service by any means, you are agreeing to comply
with these Terms. In addition, when using certain aspects of Our Services, you agree
to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all of Birdzee Our services, which
will change from time to time. State and Federal laws remain applicable while you
use Birdzee.
Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms,
any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with
Birdzee in any way, your only recourse is to immediately stop using and discontinue
use of Birdzee and its services. You understand that Birdzee does not accept any
liability whatsoever for any
harm that might result from any
statements or content
presented on the site. Furthermore, You hold Birdzee un liable, and harmless for
any loss or damages that occur between you and Birdzee's community of users, affiliates,
and staff.
2. CONTENTS AND
DATA
I the user understand that all postings, listings, messages,
pictures, mails, images, photos, sounds, or other materials ("Contents") posted
on, transmitted through, or linked from Our Services, are the sole responsibility
of the person, company, business or partnership from whom such Content originated.
Information on Our Services is for my use only. I will not share the information
on Our Services with non members of Birdzee. You are completely responsible for
all Content that you post, email, and communicate via phone or otherwise make viewable
and available through Our Service. You completely understand that Birdzee does not
control, thoroughly monitor or is at all responsible for Content made available
through Our Services, and that by using Our Services, you may be see, view or otherwise
be exposed to some Content that could be seen as offensive, indecent, misleading,
inaccurate, or otherwise in appropriate. In addition, Birdzee and its Content available
through Our Service may contain links, directions to other websites, agencies, companies which are completely separate from Birdzee.com and Birdzee
Inc.
Birdzee makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy,
claims, authenticity, or any of the information contained in any such site. You
are linking to any other content or web URLS is at your own risk. I agree that you
must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that
you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will Birdzee be
liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred
as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available
via Our Services. You acknowledge that Birdzee does not pre-screen or approve Content,
but that Birdzee shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion
to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via Our Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms or for any other reason.
3. Modifications
Birdzee reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change,
modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such modifications
shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.
4. 3rd Party content
The Birdzee site and Content available through Our Services
may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access
to third party content which is completely independent of Birdzee, including web
sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications,
software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole.
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found
on or through Our Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services,
and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such
dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You
should make whatever
investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding
with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties.
You agree that Birdzee shall not be responsible or liable
for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings.
If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any
third party, you understand and agree that Birdzee is under no obligation to become
involved.
In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you
hereby release Birdzee, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights
from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature,
known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising
out of or in any way related to such disputes and / or our service. If you are a
California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: "A
general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect
to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him
must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
5. NOTIFICATION
OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been
otherwise violated, please notify Birdzee agents for notice of claims of copyright
or other intellectual property infringement (contact us:mailto:abuse@birdzee.com)
6. PRIVACY AND
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
Your use of the Birdzee website or Our Services signifies
acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge
and agree that Birdzee may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content,
as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps,
and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal
process; enforce these Terms; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights
of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number,
street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent
or as a form of harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of
Birdzee, its users or the general public.
7. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available
Content:
- that harassing, degrading, intimidates or is hateful toward
an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,
race, ethnicity, age, or disability; that is pornographic or depicts a human being
engaged in actual sexual conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse,
including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between
persons of the same or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation,
or (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals
or pubic area of any person;
- that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not
limited to, a Birdzee employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your
affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to message that
are lawful non-deceptive parodies of public figures.);
- that includes personal or identifying information about another
person without that person's explicit consent;
- that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, or that
is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory,libelous, invasive
of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way constitutes "bait and switch";
- that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright
or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right
to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
- that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link
referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited
commercial advertisement;
- that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation
if: posted in areas of the Birdzee sites which are not designated for such purposes;
or emailed to Birdzee users who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact
them about other services, products or commercial interests.
- that includes links to commercial services or web sites,
except as allowed in " Our services";
- that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items
the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without
limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by California law.
- that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any
computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive
number of messages (flooding attack) to Our Services, or that otherwise negatively
affects other users' ability to use Our Services; or
- that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers
or otherwise manipulated
identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content
transmitted through Our Services.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
- "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- collect personal data about other users for commercial or
unlawful purposes;
- use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers,
data mining tools, or the like to download data from Our Services — unless expressly
permitted by Birdzee;
- post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly
post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately
large load on our infrastructure;
- post the same item or service in more than one classified
category or forum, or in more than one metropolitan area;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to Birdzees computer
systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes
with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, Our Services or the Birdzee
website; or
- use any form of automated device or computer program that
enables the submission of postings on Birdzee without each posting being manually
entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting device"), including without
limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk,
or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals.
8. NO SPAM
POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements
to Birdzees email addresses or through Birdzee's computer systems, which is expressly
prohibited by these Terms, will use or cause to be used servers located in California.
Any unauthorized use of Birdzees computer systems is a violation of these Terms
and certain federal and state laws, including without limitation the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.), Section 502 of the California Penal Code
and Section 17538.45 of the California Business and Professions Code. Such violations
may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
9. LIMITATIONS
ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that Birdzee may establish limits concerning
use of Our Service, including the maximum number of days that Content
will be retained by Our Services, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other
Content that may be transmitted or stored by Our Service, and the frequency with
which you may access Our Services. You agree that Birdzee has no responsibility
or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted
by Our Services. You acknowledge that Birdzee reserves the right at any time to
modify or discontinue Our Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice,
and that Birdzee shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension or discontinuance of Our Services.
10. ACCESSING
OUR SERVICES
Birdzee grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license
to access Our Service for your own personal use. This license does not include any
collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of Our
Services nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering
and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by Birdzee. A limited
exception is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial
public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of
displaying hyperlinks to Our Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP
address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with
our robots.txt file. "General purpose internet search engine" does not include a
website or search engine or other service that specializes in classified listings
or in any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale, services,
or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified ad listing services.
11. TERMINATION
OF SERVICE
You agree that Birdzee, in its sole discretion, has the right
(but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email
or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of Our Services (or
any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content
within Our Services, for any reason, including, without limitation, if Birdzee believes
that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further,
you agree that Birdzee shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination
of your access to Our Services. Further, you agree not to attempt to use Our Services
after said termination. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-16 shall survive termination of
these Terms.
12. PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS
Our Services is protected to the maximum extent permitted
by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through Our
Services is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification,
creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective
work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other
server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without
the express written consent of Birdzee. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate
or copy Content from Our Services without the express written consent of Birdzee,
and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on Our Services. You
may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover
any source code contained in Our Services. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree
not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes,
any aspect of Our Services. Birdzee inc. is a registered mark in the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office.
Although Birdzee does not claim ownership of content that
its users post, by posting Content to any public area of Our Services, you automatically
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Birdzee
an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works
of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses
(through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any
public area of Our Services you automatically grant Birdzee the rights necessary
to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction,
or exploitation of the Content on Our Services by any party for any purpose.
13. DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE BIRDZEE SITE AND OUR SERVICE IS
ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE BIRDZEE SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, BIRDZEE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY,
TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE BIRDZEE SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BIRDZEE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES
OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE BIRDZEE SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE,
OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE BIRDZEE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, BIRDZEE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE BIRDZEE SITE OR OUR SERVICES.
Some jurisdictions do not allow
the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing
disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
14. LIMITATIONS
OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL BIRDZEE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT,
INDIRECT,INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF BIRDZEE
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT
OF YOUR USE OF THE BIRDZEE SITE OR OUR SERVICES, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM
USE OR MISUSE OF THE BIRDZEE SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE BIRDZEE
OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION
OF THE BIRDZEE SITE OR OUR SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT
TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR
ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BIRDZEE SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE
BIRDZEE SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH
OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BIRDZEE SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON
THE BIRDZEE SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such
jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
15. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Birdzee, its officers, subsidiaries,
affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable
attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of
Content you submit, post or make available through Our Services, your use of Our
Services, your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations
and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
16. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and
Birdzee and govern your use of Our Services, superseding any prior agreements between
you and Birdzee. The Terms and the relationship between you and Birdzee shall be
governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of
law provisions. You and Birdzee agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts located within the county of Los Angeles, California. The failure
of Birdzee to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not
constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is
found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless
agree that the court should endeavor
to give effect to the parties' intentions as
reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full
force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary,
any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of Our Services or
the Terms must be filed within one (2) year after such claim or cause of action
arose or be forever barred.
17. VIOLATION
OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the Terms, by flagging the
posting(s) for review, or by emailing to: abuse@birdzee.com
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our
right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
You understand and agree that, because damages are often
difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for Birdzee to pursue legal action
to enforce these Terms, you will be liable to pay Birdzee the following amounts
as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of Birdzee' damages
for the specified breaches of these Terms:
- If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person or
entity; (2) falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person
or entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifying information about another
person without that person's explicit consent, you agree to pay Birdzee one thousand
dollars ($1000) for each such message. This provision does not apply to messages
that are lawful non-deceptive parodies of public figures.
- If Birdzee notifies you in writing, to the email address
you supplied upon signup, informing you that it has established limits on the frequency
with which you may access Our Services, or terminates your access to or use of Our
Services, you agree to pay Birdzee one hundred dollars ($150) for each message posted
in excess of such limits or for each day on which you access Birdzee in excess of
such limits, whichever is higher.
- If you send unsolicited email advertisements to Birdzee email
addresses or through Birdzee computer systems, you agree to pay Birdzee twenty five
dollars ($25) for each such email.
- If you post messages in violation of these Terms of Use,
other than as described above, you agree to pay Birdzee one hundred dollars ($100)
for each such message. In its sole discretion, Birdzee may elect to issue a warning
before assessing damages.
- If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or
otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in violation
of these Terms without Birdzees express written permission, you agree to pay Birdzee
three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct.
- Otherwise, you agree to pay Birdzee actual damages, to the
extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other
provision of these Terms, Birdzee retains the right to seek the remedy of specific
performance of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary or permanent
injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any
power granted in these Terms, or any combination thereof.