CrowdSource Studios Terms and Conditions of Use:
1. TERMS
By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.
2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The content and design of this Website, including but not limited to the programming, text, images, artwork, photographs, illustrations, graphic material, video, audio, other copyrightable elements and the selection and arrangement thereof, are the property of CrowdSource Studios and/or its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or assigns and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. The Website is also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and treaties, and all individual elements making up the Website are also copyrighted works.
By using the Website, you agree to abide by all applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in the Website. You agree not to reproduce, publish, distribute, display, broadcast, circulate, rent, lease or loan this Website or any of its elements or content to any third party (including, without limitation, display and distribution via a third party website) without the express prior written consent of CrowdSource Studios. You agree not to disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, modify or create derivative works from this Website or its content for any purposes whatsoever. You further agree that you will not use any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the site architecture or extract information about usage or users, nor will you use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy this Website or its content.
Any unauthorized use of this Website is strictly prohibited and may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws.
3. USE LICENSE
CrowdSource Studios hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to access and use the Website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on CrowdSource Studios' web site;
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by CrowdSource Studios at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.
4. RESTRICTIONS ON USE
You agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of any information contained in this Website in any manner that could compete with the business of CrowdSource Studios.
You agree to protect the proprietary rights of CrowdSource Studios and all others having rights in this Website and its content during and after the term of this Agreement and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by CrowdSource Studios or its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or suppliers to protect their contractual, statutory and common law rights.
You agree to notify CrowdSource Studios in writing promptly upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use of the Website by any party or of any claim that the Website infringes upon any copyright, trademark or other contractual, statutory or common law rights.
5. INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CrowdSource Studios, its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, representatives, and third party providers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement by you.
You agree to pay any and all costs, damages and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs awarded against or otherwise incurred by or in connection with or arising from any such claim, suit, action or proceeding attributable to any such violation.
6. DISCLAIMER
The materials on CrowdSource Studios' web site are provided "as is". CrowdSource Studios makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, CrowdSource Studios does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
7. LIMITATIONS
In no event shall CrowdSource Studios, its affiliates or suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on CrowdSource Studios' Internet site, even if CrowdSource Studios or a CrowdSource Studios authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
8. REVISIONS AND ERRATA
The materials appearing on CrowdSource Studios' web site could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. CrowdSource Studios does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. CrowdSource Studios may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. CrowdSource Studios does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.
9. LINKS
CrowdSource Studios has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by CrowdSource Studios of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user's own risk.
10. SITE TERMS OF USE MODIFICATIONS
CrowdSource Studios may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
11. REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP
CrowdSource Studios retains the right to revoke registration or membership to any user, at any time, for any reason (which CrowdSource Studios need not disclose).
12. COMPETITIONS AND VOTING
CrowdSource Studios may occasionally conduct competitions or contests wherein users may cast “votes”. CrowdSource Studios reserves the right without limitations to disregard any and/or all votes from any user(s) for any reason, which need not be disclosed. Further, in order to enter, participate, or submit to any of our competitions, including but not limited to script, acting or directing competitions, you must be over 18.
13. COMMITMENTS AND GUARANTEES
CrowdSource Studios makes no guarantees or commitments regarding any of its competitions. Entrants, participants, submitters, voters, finalists &/or winners should be aware that entering, submitting, voting, placing or winning any of our competitions, including but not limited to script, acting or directing competitions, in no way constitutes a commitment of any kind on the part of CrowdSource Studios to attempt or guarantee to develop, produce, finance or secure distribution for any film or television project, or to provide employment to anyone at any time. Further; CrowdSource Studios does not provide any talent representation services of any kind, to anyone, under any circumstances.
14. GOVERNING LAWS
Any claim relating to CrowdSource Studios' web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. This Agreement and all matters or issues collateral thereto will be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the Laws of the State of California applicable to contracts executed and performed entirely therein (without regard to any principles of conflict of laws). Jurisdiction for any court action shall reside in the State of California with respect to any legal proceedings that may arise in connection with the Website or from a dispute as to the interpretation or breach of this Agreement.
PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
COLLECTION OF DATA
You are not required to register or give us any personal information in order to visit certain areas of our website and view content made generally available; however, we may still collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your use of our website. For example, we may collect information concerning the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, your IP address, your connection speed, and/or the website, advertisement or search engine from which you linked to our website.
OUR COMMUNICATIONS
When you register with our website, or submit to, or vote in any of our competitions, you are consenting to sign up for our membership email list and we will request certain specific information from you including your email address and possibly other contact information. We will use this information solely to communicate with you about our company and we may send you news and updates from our company and select offers and information from our sponsors and industry partners.
Once you have joined our email list, we may track and collect additional information about you regarding the specifics of your transactions with us, and we may keep a record of our correspondence with you; however, we will never disclose, share, sell or rent your personal information to any third party without your prior consent.
OPTING OUT
You may opt-out of the CrowdSource Studios email list at any time. To remove your name from our list, simply click on the link provided at the bottom of your email or send us a message with the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject line of your email.
PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
If you provide us with personal information, we will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect this information. At times we may use non-identifying and aggregate information about our users in order to improve and enhance the services we provide. We may share this information with suppliers of content, affiliates, advertisers and other entities to illustrate general usage, demographic and preference information, but we will not disclose personal information such as your name or email address.
COOKIES
When you visit our website, click through the hyperlinks provided, or submit information to us, we may use an industry-wide technology known as “cookies” which stores certain information on your computer and which allows us to facilitate and customize your experience to match your interests and preferences. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies and/or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. (PLEASE NOTE: if you set your browser to block cookies, you may not be able to use our submission forms or access certain areas of our website.)
EXTERNAL WEBSITES
Our website may contain external hyperlinks to other websites; however, this in no way constitutes our endorsement of the opinions or views expressed by these sites. Furthermore, CrowdSource Studios does not assume any responsibility or liability for the accuracy or quality of the content contained in these sites, for the quality or delivery of the products or services offered or advertised by these sites, nor for the privacy practices of these sites. Please visit the privacy policies of these third party websites in order to understand their privacy and data collection practices.
DATA SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have established appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online; however, because no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers. The CrowdSource Studios Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the internet and therefore beyond our control.
We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.
2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The content and design of this Website, including but not limited to the programming, text, images, artwork, photographs, illustrations, graphic material, video, audio, other copyrightable elements and the selection and arrangement thereof, are the property of CrowdSource Studios and/or its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or assigns and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. The Website is also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and treaties, and all individual elements making up the Website are also copyrighted works.
By using the Website, you agree to abide by all applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in the Website. You agree not to reproduce, publish, distribute, display, broadcast, circulate, rent, lease or loan this Website or any of its elements or content to any third party (including, without limitation, display and distribution via a third party website) without the express prior written consent of CrowdSource Studios. You agree not to disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, modify or create derivative works from this Website or its content for any purposes whatsoever. You further agree that you will not use any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the site architecture or extract information about usage or users, nor will you use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy this Website or its content.
Any unauthorized use of this Website is strictly prohibited and may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws.
3. USE LICENSE
CrowdSource Studios hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable license to access and use the Website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on CrowdSource Studios' web site;
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by CrowdSource Studios at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.
4. RESTRICTIONS ON USE
You agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of any information contained in this Website in any manner that could compete with the business of CrowdSource Studios.
You agree to protect the proprietary rights of CrowdSource Studios and all others having rights in this Website and its content during and after the term of this Agreement and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by CrowdSource Studios or its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or suppliers to protect their contractual, statutory and common law rights.
You agree to notify CrowdSource Studios in writing promptly upon becoming aware of any unauthorized access or use of the Website by any party or of any claim that the Website infringes upon any copyright, trademark or other contractual, statutory or common law rights.
5. INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CrowdSource Studios, its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, representatives, and third party providers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement by you.
You agree to pay any and all costs, damages and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs awarded against or otherwise incurred by or in connection with or arising from any such claim, suit, action or proceeding attributable to any such violation.
6. DISCLAIMER
The materials on CrowdSource Studios' web site are provided "as is". CrowdSource Studios makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, CrowdSource Studios does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
7. LIMITATIONS
In no event shall CrowdSource Studios, its affiliates or suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on CrowdSource Studios' Internet site, even if CrowdSource Studios or a CrowdSource Studios authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
8. REVISIONS AND ERRATA
The materials appearing on CrowdSource Studios' web site could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. CrowdSource Studios does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. CrowdSource Studios may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. CrowdSource Studios does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.
9. LINKS
CrowdSource Studios has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by CrowdSource Studios of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user's own risk.
10. SITE TERMS OF USE MODIFICATIONS
CrowdSource Studios may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
11. REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP
CrowdSource Studios retains the right to revoke registration or membership to any user, at any time, for any reason (which CrowdSource Studios need not disclose).
12. COMPETITIONS AND VOTING
CrowdSource Studios may occasionally conduct competitions or contests wherein users may cast “votes”. CrowdSource Studios reserves the right without limitations to disregard any and/or all votes from any user(s) for any reason, which need not be disclosed. Further, in order to enter, participate, or submit to any of our competitions, including but not limited to script, acting or directing competitions, you must be over 18.
13. COMMITMENTS AND GUARANTEES
CrowdSource Studios makes no guarantees or commitments regarding any of its competitions. Entrants, participants, submitters, voters, finalists &/or winners should be aware that entering, submitting, voting, placing or winning any of our competitions, including but not limited to script, acting or directing competitions, in no way constitutes a commitment of any kind on the part of CrowdSource Studios to attempt or guarantee to develop, produce, finance or secure distribution for any film or television project, or to provide employment to anyone at any time. Further; CrowdSource Studios does not provide any talent representation services of any kind, to anyone, under any circumstances.
14. GOVERNING LAWS
Any claim relating to CrowdSource Studios' web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. This Agreement and all matters or issues collateral thereto will be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the Laws of the State of California applicable to contracts executed and performed entirely therein (without regard to any principles of conflict of laws). Jurisdiction for any court action shall reside in the State of California with respect to any legal proceedings that may arise in connection with the Website or from a dispute as to the interpretation or breach of this Agreement.
PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
COLLECTION OF DATA
You are not required to register or give us any personal information in order to visit certain areas of our website and view content made generally available; however, we may still collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your use of our website. For example, we may collect information concerning the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, your IP address, your connection speed, and/or the website, advertisement or search engine from which you linked to our website.
OUR COMMUNICATIONS
When you register with our website, or submit to, or vote in any of our competitions, you are consenting to sign up for our membership email list and we will request certain specific information from you including your email address and possibly other contact information. We will use this information solely to communicate with you about our company and we may send you news and updates from our company and select offers and information from our sponsors and industry partners.
Once you have joined our email list, we may track and collect additional information about you regarding the specifics of your transactions with us, and we may keep a record of our correspondence with you; however, we will never disclose, share, sell or rent your personal information to any third party without your prior consent.
OPTING OUT
You may opt-out of the CrowdSource Studios email list at any time. To remove your name from our list, simply click on the link provided at the bottom of your email or send us a message with the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject line of your email.
PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
If you provide us with personal information, we will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect this information. At times we may use non-identifying and aggregate information about our users in order to improve and enhance the services we provide. We may share this information with suppliers of content, affiliates, advertisers and other entities to illustrate general usage, demographic and preference information, but we will not disclose personal information such as your name or email address.
COOKIES
When you visit our website, click through the hyperlinks provided, or submit information to us, we may use an industry-wide technology known as “cookies” which stores certain information on your computer and which allows us to facilitate and customize your experience to match your interests and preferences. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies and/or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. (PLEASE NOTE: if you set your browser to block cookies, you may not be able to use our submission forms or access certain areas of our website.)
EXTERNAL WEBSITES
Our website may contain external hyperlinks to other websites; however, this in no way constitutes our endorsement of the opinions or views expressed by these sites. Furthermore, CrowdSource Studios does not assume any responsibility or liability for the accuracy or quality of the content contained in these sites, for the quality or delivery of the products or services offered or advertised by these sites, nor for the privacy practices of these sites. Please visit the privacy policies of these third party websites in order to understand their privacy and data collection practices.
DATA SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have established appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online; however, because no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers. The CrowdSource Studios Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the internet and therefore beyond our control.
We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
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