PhotoEscrow Terms of Service
1. Your relationship with PhotoEscrow
1.1 Your use of PhotoEscrow’s products, software, services and web
sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document
and excluding any services provided to you by PhotoEscrow under a
separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal
agreement between you and PhotoEscrow. “PhotoEscrow” is a division
of Nextropia LLC. This document explains how the agreement is made
up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.
1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with PhotoEscrow, your
agreement with PhotoEscrow will always include, at a minimum, the
terms and conditions set out in this document. These are referred to
below as the “Universal Terms”.
1.3 Your agreement with PhotoEscrow will also include the terms of
any Legal Notices applicable to the Services, in addition to the
Universal Terms. All of these are referred to below as the
“Additional Terms”. Where Additional Terms apply to a Service, these
will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your
use of, that Service.
1.4 The Universal Terms, together with the Additional Terms, form a
legally binding agreement between you and PhotoEscrow in relation to
your use of the Services. It is important that you take the time to
read them carefully. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred
to below as the “Terms”.
1.5 If there is any contradiction between what the Additional Terms
say and what the Universal Terms say, then the Additional Terms
shall take precedence in relation to that Service.
2. Accepting the Terms
2.1 In order to use the Services, you must first agree to the Terms.
You may not use the Services if you do not accept the Terms.
2.2 You can accept the Terms by:
(A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is
made available to you by PhotoEscrow in the user interface for any
Service; or
(B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand
and agree that PhotoEscrow will treat your use of the Services as
acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a)
you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with
PhotoEscrow, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the
Services under the laws of the United States or other countries
including the country in which you are resident or from which you
use the Services.
2.4 Before you continue, you should print off or save a local copy
of the Universal Terms for your records.
3. Language of the Terms
3.1 Where PhotoEscrow has provided you with a translation of the
English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the
translation is provided for your convenience only and that the
English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship
with PhotoEscrow.
3.2 If there is any contradiction between what the English language
version of the Terms says and what a translation says, then the
English language version shall take precedence.
4. Provision of the Services by PhotoEscrow
4.1 PhotoEscrow has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities
around the world (“Subsidiaries and Affiliates”). Sometimes, these
companies will be providing the Services to you on behalf of
PhotoEscrow itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and
Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Services to you.
4.2 PhotoEscrow is constantly innovating in order to provide the
best possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree
that the form and nature of the Services which PhotoEscrow provides
may change from time to time without prior notice to you.
4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree
that PhotoEscrow may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the
Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users
generally at PhotoEscrow’s sole discretion, without prior notice to
you. You may stop using the Services at any time. You do not need to
specifically inform PhotoEscrow when you stop using the Services.
4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if PhotoEscrow disables access to
your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your
account details or any files or other content which is contained in
your account.
4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while PhotoEscrow may not
currently have set a fixed upper limit on the number of
transmissions you may send or receive through the Services or on the
amount of storage space used for the provision of any Service, such
fixed upper limits may be set by PhotoEscrow at any time, at
PhotoEscrow’s discretion.
5. Use of the Services by you
5.1 In order to access certain Services, you may be required to
provide information about yourself (such as identification or
contact details) as part of the registration process for the
Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree
that any registration information you give to PhotoEscrow will
always be accurate, correct and up to date.
5.2 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are
permitted by (a) the Terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or
generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant
jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or
software to and from the United States or other relevant countries).
5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the
Services by any means other than through the interface that is
provided by PhotoEscrow, unless you have been specifically allowed
to do so in a separate agreement with PhotoEscrow. You specifically
agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services
through any automated means (including use of scripts or web
crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set
out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
5.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that
interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and
networks which are connected to the Services).
5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a
separate agreement with PhotoEscrow, you agree that you will not
reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for
any purpose.
5.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that
PhotoEscrow has no responsibility to you or to any third party for)
any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the
consequences (including any loss or damage which PhotoEscrow may
suffer) of any such breach.
6. Your passwords and account security
6.1 You agree and understand that you are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any
account you use to access the Services.
6.2 Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to
PhotoEscrow for all activities that occur under your account.
6.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or
of your account, you agree to notify PhotoEscrow immediately.
7. Privacy and your personal information
7.1 For information about PhotoEscrow’s data protection practices,
please read PhotoEscrow’s privacy policy at
http://www.photoescrow.com/privacy.aspx.
This policy explains how PhotoEscrow treats your personal
information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Services.
7.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with
PhotoEscrow’s privacy policies.
8. Content in the Services
8.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written
text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds,
photographs, videos or other images) which you may have access to as
part of, or through your use of, the Services are the sole
responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All
such information is referred to below as the “Content”.
8.2 You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the
Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the
Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected
by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or
advertisers who provide that Content to PhotoEscrow (or by other
persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent,
lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on
this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been
specifically told that you may do so by PhotoEscrow or by the owners
of that Content, in a separate agreement.
8.3 PhotoEscrow reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to
pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or
all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, PhotoEscrow
may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content. In
addition, there are commercially available services and software to
limit access to material that you may find objectionable.
8.4 You understand that by using the Services you may be exposed to
Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and
that, in this respect, you use the Services at your own risk.
8.5 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that
PhotoEscrow has no responsibility to you or to any third party for)
any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the
Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any
loss or damage which PhotoEscrow may suffer) by doing so.
9. Proprietary rights
9.1 You acknowledge and agree that PhotoEscrow (or PhotoEscrow’s
licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the
Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist
in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or
not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further
acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is
designated confidential by PhotoEscrow and that you shall not
disclose such information without PhotoEscrow’s prior written
consent.
9.2 Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with PhotoEscrow,
nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of PhotoEscrow’s
trade names, trade marks, service marks, logos, domain names, and
other distinctive brand features.
9.3 If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these
brand features in a separate written agreement with PhotoEscrow,
then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance
with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and
PhotoEscrow's brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to
time.
9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11,
PhotoEscrow acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title
or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to
any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or
through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights
which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be
registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may
exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with
PhotoEscrow, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and
enforcing those rights and that PhotoEscrow has no obligation to do
so on your behalf.
9.5 You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any
proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trade mark
notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.
9.6 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by
PhotoEscrow, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use
any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or
organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion
about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.
10. License from PhotoEscrow
10.1 PhotoEscrow gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free,
non-assignable and non-exclusive licence to use the software
provided to you by PhotoEscrow as part of the Services as provided
to you by PhotoEscrow (referred to as the “Software” below). This
licence is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the
benefit of the Services as provided by PhotoEscrow, in the manner
permitted by the Terms.
10.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy,
modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or
otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any
part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law,
or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by
PhotoEscrow, in writing.
10.3 Unless PhotoEscrow has given you specific written permission to
do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-licence of) your rights to
use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights
to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights
to use the Software.
11. Content licence from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in
Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the
Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give
PhotoEscrow a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and
non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate,
publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any
Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the
Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling
PhotoEscrow to display, distribute and promote the Services and may
be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms
of those Services.
11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for PhotoEscrow to
make such Content available to other companies, organizations or
individuals with whom PhotoEscrow has relationships for the
provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in
connection with the provision of those services.
11.3 You understand that PhotoEscrow, in performing the required
technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a)
transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and
in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are
necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical
requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You
agree that this licence shall permit PhotoEscrow to take these
actions.
11.4 You confirm and warrant to PhotoEscrow that you have all the
rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.
12. Software updates
12.1 The Software which you use may automatically download and
install updates from time to time from PhotoEscrow. These updates
are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services
and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software
modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such
updates (and permit PhotoEscrow to deliver these to you) as part of
your use of the Services.
13. Ending your relationship with PhotoEscrow
13.1 The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you
or PhotoEscrow as set out below.
13.2 If you want to terminate your legal agreement with PhotoEscrow,
you may do so by (a) notifying PhotoEscrow at any time and (b)
closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use, where
PhotoEscrow has made this option available to you. Your notice
should be sent, in writing, to PhotoEscrow’s address which is set
out at the beginning of these Terms.
13.3 PhotoEscrow may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with
you if:
(A) you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in
manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are
unable to comply with the provisions of the Terms); or
(B) PhotoEscrow is required to do so by law (for example, where
the provision of the Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or
(C) the partner with whom PhotoEscrow offered the Services to you
has terminated its relationship with PhotoEscrow or ceased to
offer the Services to you; or
(D) PhotoEscrow is transitioning to no longer providing the
Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from
which you use the service; or
(E) the provision of the Services to you by PhotoEscrow is, in
PhotoEscrow’s opinion, no longer commercially viable.
13.4 Nothing in this Section shall affect PhotoEscrow’s rights
regarding provision of Services under Section 4 of the Terms.
13.5 When these Terms come to an end, all of the legal rights,
obligations and liabilities that you and PhotoEscrow have benefited
from, been subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the
Terms have been in force) or which are expressed to continue
indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the
provisions of paragraph 20.7 shall continue to apply to such rights,
obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
14. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES
14.1 NOTHING IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING SECTIONS 14 AND 15, SHALL
EXCLUDE OR LIMIT PhotoEscrow’S WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES
WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES
OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS
OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF
IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY,
ONLY THE LIMITATIONS WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL
APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
14.2 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE
SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS" AND “AS AVAILABLE.”
14.3 IN PARTICULAR, PhotoEscrow, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES,
AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:
(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
(B) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE
OR FREE FROM ERROR,
(C) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE
SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND
(D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE
PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.
14.4 ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE
OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU
WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR
OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY
SUCH MATERIAL.
14.5 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY
YOU FROM PhotoEscrow OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE
ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
14.6 PhotoEscrow FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND
CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT.
15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
15.1 SUBJECT TO OVERALL PROVISION IN PARAGRAPH 14.1 ABOVE, YOU
EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT PhotoEscrow, ITS SUBSIDIARIES
AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:
(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND
UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY.. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS
OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS;
(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:
(I) ANY RELIANCE PLACED BY YOU ON THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR
EXISTENCE OF ANY ADVERTISING, OR AS A RESULT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP
OR TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR WHOSE
ADVERTISING APPEARS ON THE SERVICES;
(II) ANY CHANGES WHICH PhotoEscrow MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR
FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE
SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);
(III) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY
CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED
BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;
(III) YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE PhotoEscrow WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT
INFORMATION;
(IV) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS
SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL;
15.2 THE LIMITATIONS ON PhotoEscrow’S LIABILITY TO YOU IN PARAGRAPH
15.1 ABOVE SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT PhotoEscrow HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES
ARISING.
16. Copyright and trade mark policies
16.1 It is PhotoEscrow’s policy to respond to notices of alleged
copyright infringement that comply with applicable international
intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminating the accounts of
repeat infringers.
17. Advertisements
17.1 Some of the Services are supported by advertising revenue and
may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may
be targeted to the content of information stored on the Services,
queries made through the Services or other information.
17.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising by PhotoEscrow on
the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you.
17.3 In consideration for PhotoEscrow granting you access to and use
of the Services, you agree that PhotoEscrow may place such
advertising on the Services.
18. Other content
18.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or
content or resources. PhotoEscrow may have no control over any web
sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other
than PhotoEscrow.
18.2 You acknowledge and agree that PhotoEscrow is not responsible
for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and
does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or
available from such web sites or resources.
18.3 You acknowledge and agree that PhotoEscrow is not liable for
any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the
availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of
any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or
existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or
available from, such web sites or resources.
19. Changes to the Terms
19.1 PhotoEscrow may make changes to the Universal Terms or
Additional Terms from time to time. When these changes are made,
PhotoEscrow will make a new copy of the Universal Terms and any new
Additional Terms will be made available to you from within, or
through, the affected Services.
19.2 You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the
date on which the Universal Terms or Additional Terms have changed,
PhotoEscrow will treat your use as acceptance of the updated
Universal Terms or Additional Terms.
20. General legal terms
20.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of,
or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a
piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another
person or company. Your use of these other services, software or
goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company
or person concerned. If so, the Terms do not affect your legal
relationship with these other companies or individuals.
20.2 The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and
PhotoEscrow and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any
services which PhotoEscrow may provide to you under a separate
written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements
between you and PhotoEscrow in relation to the Services.
20.3 You agree that PhotoEscrow may provide you with notices,
including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular
mail, or postings on the Services.
20.4 You agree that if PhotoEscrow does not exercise or enforce any
legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which
PhotoEscrow has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will
not be taken to be a formal waiver of PhotoEscrow’s rights and that
those rights or remedies will still be available to PhotoEscrow.
20.5 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this
matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then
that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the
rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will
continue to be valid and enforceable.
20.6 You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of
companies of which PhotoEscrow is the parent shall be third party
beneficiaries to the Terms and that such other companies shall be
entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the
Terms which confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) them. Other
than this, no other person or company shall be third party
beneficiaries to the Terms.
20.7 The Terms, and your relationship with PhotoEscrow under the
Terms, shall be governed by the laws of the State of California
without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and
PhotoEscrow agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
courts located within the county of Santa Clara, California to
resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms. Notwithstanding
this, you agree that PhotoEscrow shall still be allowed to apply for
injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief)
in any jurisdiction.
November 1, 2007