User Conduct/Content
Registration
As a condition to
using Services, you are required to open an account with AquaticLog
and select a password and username, and to provide registration
information. The registration information you provide must be
accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so
constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate
termination of your AquaticLog account.
You may not use as a username the name of another person or
entity or that is not lawfully available for use, a name or trade
mark that is subject to any rights of another person or entity other
than you without appropriate authorization, or a name that is
otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene. You are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of your password and are solely
responsible for all activities resulting from the use of your
password and conducted through your AquaticLog account.
Services are available only to individuals who are either (i)
at least 18 years old, or (ii) at least 14 years old, and who are
authorized to access the Site by a parent or legal guardian. If you
have authorized a minor to use the Site, you are responsible for the
online conduct of such minor, and the consequences of any misuse of
the Site by the minor. Accounts may not be opened to sell products
or services. If you do not qualify for registration you are not
permitted to open an account or use the Services.
To fully use the services you need your own
account, without violating other peoples' rights.
Content
All Content posted or
otherwise submitted to the Site is the sole responsibility of the
account holder from which such Content originates and you
acknowledge and agree that you, and not AquaticLog are entirely
responsible for all Content that you post, or otherwise submit to
the Site. AquaticLog does not control user submitted Content and, as
such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such
Content. You understand that by using the Site you may be exposed to
Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Services for
any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms, or any
other purpose not reasonably intended by AquaticLog. By way of
example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:
- To abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate any
person;
- To post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted,
any Content that is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
abusive, offensive, profane, or that infringes any copyright or
other right of any person;
- For any purpose (including posting or viewing Content) that
is not permitted under the laws of the jurisdiction where you use
the Services;
- To post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted,
any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain
password, account, or private information from any AquaticLog user;
- To create or transmit unwanted 'spam' to any person or any
URL
- To create multiple accounts for the purpose of voting for
or against users' photographs or images;
- To post copyrighted Content which doesn't belong to you,
with exception of Blogs, where you may post such Content with
explicit mention of the author's name and a link to the source of
the Content;
- With the exception of accessing RSS feeds, you will not use
any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the
Site for any purpose without our express written permission.
Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that
imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere
or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any
activities conducted on the Site; or (iii) bypass any measures we
may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site;
- To artificially inflate or alter vote counts, blog counts,
comments, or any other Service or for the purpose of giving or
receiving money or other compensation in exchange for votes, or for
participating in any other organized effort that in any way
artificially alters the results of Services;
- To advertise to, or solicit, any user to buy or sell any
products or services, or to use any information obtained from the
Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any
user without their prior explicit consent;
- To promote or sell Content of another person
- To sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
To report a suspected abuse of the Site or a breach of the
Terms (other than relating to copyright infringement which is
addressed under "COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS" below) please send written
notice to AquaticLog at email: [email protected]
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other
users of the Site. AquaticLog reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
Content Submitted Or Made Available For Inclusion
On The Service
Please read this section
carefully before posting, uploading, or otherwise submitting any
Content to the site. By submitting content to the site you are
granting AquaticLog a worldwide, Non exclusive license to use the
content and are representing and warranting to AquaticLog That the
content is owned or duly licensed by you, and that AquaticLog is
free to publish, Distribute and use the content as hereinafter
provided for without obtaining permission Or license from any third
party.
In consideration of AquaticLog's agreement to allow you to
post Content to the Site and AquaticLog's agreement to publish such
Content and for other valuable consideration the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby expressly and irrevocably
acknowledged, you agree with AquaticLog as follows:
- You acknowledge that:
- By uploading your photographic or user content o
AquaticLog you retain full rights to those works that you had
prior to uploading.
- By posting Content to the Site you hereby grant to
AquaticLog a non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide
license (with the right to sublicense) to use, distribute,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display
such Content in connection with the Services.
- The license granted to AquaticLog includes the right to
use your Content fully or partially for promotional reasons and
to distribute and redistribute your Content to other parties,
web-sites, applications, and other entities, provided such
Content is attributed to you in accordance with the credits (i.e.
username, profile picture, photo title, descriptions, tags, and
other accompanying information) if any and as appropriate, all as
submitted to AquaticLog by you;
- AquaticLog uses industry recognized software and measures
to restrict the ability of users and visitors to the Site to make
high resolution copies of Content posted on the Site.
Notwithstanding this, AquaticLog makes no representation and
warranty that Content posted on the Site will not be unlawfully
copied without your consent. AquaticLog does not restrict the
ability of users and visitors to the Site to make low resolution
or 'thumbnail' copies of Content posted on the Site and you
hereby expressly authorize AquaticLog to permit users and
visitors to the Site to make such low resolution copies of your
Content; and
- Subject to the terms of the foregoing license, you retain
full ownership or other rights in your Content and any
intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights
associated with your Content.
- You represent and warrant that:
- You are the owner of all rights, including all copy
rights in and to all Content you submit to the site;
- You have the full and complete right to enter into this
agreement and to grant to AquaticLog the rights in the Content
herein granted, and that no further permissions are required
from, nor payments required to be made to any other person in
connection with the use by AquaticLog of the Content as
contemplated herein; and
- The Content does not defame any person and does not
infringe upon the copyright, moral rights, publicity rights,
privacy rights or any other right of any person, or violate any
law or judicial or governmental order.
- You shall not have any right to terminate the permissions
granted herein, nor to seek, obtain, or enforce any injunctive or
other equitable relief against AquaticLog, all of which such rights
are hereby expressly and irrevocably waived by you in favour of
AquaticLog.
Fair Usage Policy
AquaticLog
maintains a fair usage policy to ensure stable and fast service to
all users.
Copyright Violations
AquaticLog
respects the intellectual property rights of others. It is our
policy to respond promptly any claim that Content posted on the Site
infringes the copyright or other intellectual property infringement
("Infringement") of any person. AquaticLog will use reasonable
efforts to investigate notices of alleged Infringement and will take
appropriate action under applicable intellectual property law and
these Terms where it believes an Infringement has taken place,
including removing or disabling access to the Content claimed to be
infringing and/or terminating accounts and access to the Site.
To notify AquaticLog of a possible Infringement you must
submit your notice in writing to the attention of "Copyright
Infringement" care of [email protected] and include in your
notice a detailed description of the alleged Infringement sufficient
to enable AquaticLog to make a reasonable determination. Please note
that you may be held accountable for damages (including costs and
attorneys' fees) for misrepresenting that any Content is infringing
your copyright.
If we remove or disable access to Content in response to a
notice of Infringement, we will make reasonable attempts to contact
the user who posted the affected Content. If you feel that your
Content is not infringing, you may provide AquaticLog with a counter
notice in writing to the attention of "Copyright Infringement
Counter Notification" at [email protected] You must include in
your counter notice sufficient information to enable AquaticLog to
make a reasonable determination. Please note that you may be held
accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you
materially misrepresent that your Content is not infringing the
copyrights of others.
If you are uncertain whether an activity constitutes
Infringement, we recommended seeking advice of an attorney.