KillerSurvey Terms of
Use
Your use of our Internet
sites or any of the products or services offered on those sites
(collectively, the "Services") is subject to these Terms of Use (these
"Terms"). We may modify these Terms at any time without notice to you by
posting revised Terms on our sites. Your use of our sites constitutes your
binding acceptance of these Terms, including any modifications that we
make.
Some of the Services may be
subject to additional posted conditions. Your use of those Services is
subject to those conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms by
reference. In the event of an inconsistency between these Terms and any
additional posted conditions, the provisions of the additional conditions
shall control.
We have the right, but not
the obligation, to take any of the following actions in our sole
discretion at any time and for any reason without giving you any prior
notice:
- Restrict, suspend, or terminate your
access to all or any part of our Services;
- Change, suspend, or discontinue all
or any part of our Services;
- Refuse, move, or remove any material
that you submit to our sites for any reason;
- Refuse, move, or remove any content
that is available on our sites;
- Deactivate or delete your accounts
and all related information and files in your account;
- Establish general practices and
limits concerning use of our sites.
You agree
that we will not be liable to you or any third party for taking any of
these actions.
Content on our
sites
Our sites include content that we
create, that our partners create, and that our users create. All materials
published on our sites, including, but not limited to, software code,
written content, surveys, survey results, photographs, graphics, images,
illustrations, marks, logos, sound or video clips, and Flash animation,
are protected by our copyrights or trademarks.
You are solely responsible
for all materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, that
you upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available on our
sites ("Your Content"). You certify that you own all intellectual property
rights in Your Content. You hereby grant us, and other users a worldwide,
irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, create
derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display,
transfer, transmit, distribute, and publish Your Content and subsequent
versions of Your Content for the purposes of (i)
displaying Your Content on our sites, (ii) distributing Your Content,
either electronically or via other media, to users seeking to download or
otherwise acquire it, and/or (iii) storing Your Content in a remote
database accessible by end users, for a charge. This license shall apply
to the distribution and the storage of Your Content in any form, medium,
or technology now known or later developed.
We do not guarantee the
accuracy, the integrity, or the quality of the content on our sites, and
you may not rely on any of this content. Without limitation, we are not
responsible for surveys or survey results generated by users. You may be exposed to content that
you find offensive, indecent, or objectionable or that is inaccurate, and
you bear all risks associated with using that content. We have the right,
but not the obligation, to remove any content that may, in our sole
discretion, violate these Terms or that is otherwise
objectionable.
Survey results on our site
may be published, and/or republished, free of charge by anyone, but any
such publishing or republishing must include attribution to
“KillerSurvey.com.”
Third-party sites,
products, and Services
Our sites contain links to other Internet
sites owned by third parties. Your use of each of those sites is subject
to the conditions, if any, that each of those sites has posted. We have no
control over sites that are not ours, and we are not responsible for any
changes to or content on them. Our inclusion on our sites of any
third-party content or a link to a third-party site is not an endorsement
of that content or third-party site.
We do not sell, resell, or
license any of the products or the services that we review, list, or
advertise on our sites, and we disclaim any responsibility for or
liability related to them. Your correspondence or related activities with
third parties, including payment transactions and goods-delivery
transactions, are solely between you and that third party. You agree that
we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort
incurred as the result of any of your transactions with third parties. Any
questions, complaints, or claims related to any product or service should
be directed to the appropriate vendor.
Fee-based
services
Some of the Services require you
to pay a fee, as described in the specific conditions included where those
Services are offered. You agree to pay all fees and charges that you
incur. Unless otherwise noted, all currency references are in U.S.
dollars. We may, upon notice if required by applicable laws, at any time
change the amount of, or basis for determining, any fee or charge, or
institute new fees or charges. All fees and charges are payable in
accordance with payment terms in effect at the time the fee or the charge
becomes payable.
Your conduct on our
sites
You hereby certify to Xanga that you are at least 13 years
old. Xanga is intended for people who are at least 13 years old. Children
under 13 are not permitted to join Xanga or participate in the Xanga
Community.
You
agree not to use the site to create surveys for criminal purposes or to
exploit other users of the site, including the seduction or recruitment of
others for criminal or harmful purposes. Specifically, you agree not to use
the survey to collect personally identifiable financial information from
other users, such as credit cards, bank account information, social
security numbers, and unique identification information, AND YOU AGREE NOT
TO ASK FOR SUCH INFORMATION IN ANY SURVEYS.
If we request registration
information from you, you will provide us with true, accurate, current,
and complete information. You will promptly update your registration to
keep it accurate, current, and complete. If we issue you a password, you
may not reveal it to anyone else. You may not use anyone else's password.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your accounts
and passwords. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use
of your passwords or accounts or any other breach of security. You also
agree to exit from your accounts at the end of each session. We will not
be responsible for any loss or damage that may result if you fail to
comply with these requirements.
The technology and the
software underlying our sites and the Services is the property of
KillerSurvey, our affiliates, and our partners. You agree not to copy,
modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, reverse engineer,
grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any right to the
technology or software underlying our sites or the Services. You agree not
to modify the software underlying our sites in any manner or form or to
use modified versions of such software, including (without limitation) for
the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to our sites.
Without limiting the
foregoing, you agree that you will not use our sites to take any of the
following actions:
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk,
threaten, or otherwise violate the legal right of others;
- Publish, post, upload, e-mail,
distribute, or disseminate (collectively, "Transmit") any inappropriate,
profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful content;
- Transmit files that contain viruses,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may
damage or adversely affect the operation of another person's computer,
our sites, any software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment;
- Transmit contests, pyramid schemes,
spam, unsolicited advertising or promotional materials, or chain
letters;
- Download any file that you know or
reasonably should know cannot be legally obtained in such manner;
- Falsify or delete any author
attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations
or labels of the origin or the source of software or other material;
- Restrict or inhibit any other user
from using and enjoying any public area within our sites;
- Collect or store personal
information about other end users;
- Interfere with or disrupt our sites,
servers, or networks;
- Impersonate any person or entity,
including, but not limited to, a KILLERSURVEY representative, or falsely
state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or
entity;
- Forge headers or manipulate
identifiers or other data in order to disguise the origin of any content
transmitted through our sites or to manipulate your presence on our
sites;
- Take any action that imposes an
unreasonably or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- Engage in any illegal activities.
If you choose a username
that, in our sole discretion, is obscene, indecent, abusive or that might
otherwise subject us to public disparagement or scorn, we reserve the
right, without prior notice to you, to automatically change your username,
delete your content from our sites, deny you access to our sites, or any
combination of these options.
Unauthorized access to our
sites is a breach of these Terms and a violation of the law. You agree not
to access our sites by any means other than through the interface that is
provided by KillerSurvey for use in accessing our sites. You agree not to
use any automated means, including, without limitation, agents, robots,
scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, or copy any part of our sites,
except those automated means that we have approved in advance and in
writing.
Use of our sites is subject
to existing laws and legal process. Nothing contained in these Terms shall
limit our right to comply with governmental, court, and law-enforcement
requests or requirements relating to your use of our sites.
Indemnification
You
hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold KillerSurvey and all of our
officers, directors, owners, employees, agents, information providers,
affiliates, partners, and licensors (collectively, the "CNET Parties")
harmless from and against any and all liability, losses, costs, and
expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by any CNET Party in
connection with any claim, including, but not limited to, claims for
defamation, violation of rights of publicity and/or privacy, copyright
infringement, or trademark infringement arising out of:
- Your use of our sites;
- Any use or alleged use of your
accounts or your passwords by any person, whether or not authorized by
you;
- The content, the quality, or the
performance of content that you submit to our sites;
- Your connection to our sites;
- Your violation of these Terms; or
- Your violation of the rights of any
other person or entity.
We reserve the right, at our
own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for
which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with
our defense of these claims.
Disclaimers
We disclaim any responsibility for the deletion, the
failure to store, the misdelivery, or the
untimely delivery of any information or material. We disclaim any
responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any
information or material on the Internet using search results from our
sites. We disclaim any responsibility for, and if you subscribe to one of
our fee-based services you will not be entitled to a refund as a result
of, any service outages that are caused by our maintenance on the servers
or the technology that underlies our sites, failures of our service
providers (including telecommunications, hosting, and power providers),
computer viruses, natural disasters or other destruction or damage of our
facilities, acts of nature, war, civil disturbance, or any other cause
beyond our reasonable control.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT OUR
SITES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. IN ADDITION, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY
WARRANTY AS TO THE CONTENT ON OUR SITES. OUR SITES AND THEIR CONTENT ARE
DISTRIBUTED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ANY MATERIAL THAT YOU
DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH OUR SITES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN
DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POTENTIAL
DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR
DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR PARTNERS MAKES
ANY WARRANTY THAT (i) OUR SITES WILL MEET YOUR
REQUIREMENTS, (ii) OUR SITES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR
ERROR FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF OUR
SITES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS,
SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL THAT YOU PURCHASE OR OBTAIN
THROUGH OUR SITES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (v) ANY ERRORS WILL BE
CORRECTED. NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR PARTNERS MAKES ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES
OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO OUR SITES, ANY CONTENT, OR ANY OF OUR
SERVICES, TOOLS, PRODUCTS, OR PROPERTIES. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOU
WILL ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR
SITES AND THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ITS CONTENT.
NEITHER WE NOR OUR PARTNERS
SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OUR
SITES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW
EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT
APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY AND THAT OF OUR THIRD-PARTY
CONTENT PROVIDERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE
GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Arbitration
KillerSurvey may
elect to resolve any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to
these Terms or our sites by binding arbitration in accordance with the
commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any
such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis and
shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy
of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in
Fairfax,
Virginia, and judgment on the
arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
Either you or we may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court
of competent jurisdiction in Fairfax, Virginia, necessary to protect the
rights or the property of you or KillerSurvey (or its agents, suppliers,
and subcontractors), pending the completion of arbitration.
Our failure to exercise or
enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not constitute a
waiver of such right or provision.
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 sites or these Terms must be filed within
one (1) year after such claim or cause of action
arose or be forever barred.
These Terms, including all
terms, conditions, and policies that are incorporated into these terms by
reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and KillerSurvey
and govern your use of our sites, superceding any prior agreements that
you may have with us.
These Terms shall be
construed in accordance with the laws of
Virginia, and the parties
irrevocably consent to bring any action to enforce these Terms before an
arbitration panel or before a court of competent jurisdiction in Fairfax,
Virginina if seeking interim or preliminary
relief or enforcement of an arbitration award.
If any part of these Terms is
determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, then
the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superceded by a
valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the
original provision, and the remainder of the
Terms shall continue in effect.