AdsOutLoud™ Terms of Service

Let’s keep this simple, shall we?
This is a contract between you and the folks at Ibul Ltd (who created AdsOutLoud.com - “AdsOutLoud™”) when you use the AdsOutLoud.com (“Site”) and the services and products found there (“Services”).
We’re excited that you’re using AdsOutLoud™ and would love your feedback. We created AdsOutLoud™ to allow anyone to create a Poll and share it with the world. We think that we’re doing something pretty special here and have only the best intentions. We’re sure you do too, but we hafta write this document because not everyone does.
So here goes a lot of words that just sum up one idea - be nice.
With that said, we think everyone should read this before accessing our site.
This is a binding agreement
By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Site or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by AdsOutLoud™, acceptance is expressly l imited to these terms.

Who can use our Services
AdsOutLoud™ is only for human adults and teenagers above the age of 18 years old. If you are a cyborg, mutant, or mean person you are not allowed here.

We can change our Services
We may change any aspect of the service we want, or even stop it, at any time without giving you notice. We can also terminate or restrict access to it at any time, at our sole discretion. Termination of your access and use of AdsOutLoud™ Services shall not relieve you of any obligations arising or accruing before the termination.

Your AdsOutLoud™ Account
If you create or vote on a poll on the Site, you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with your account. You must not use your account in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and AdsOutLoud™ may change content that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause AdsOutLoud™ liability. You must immediately notify AdsOutLoud™ of any unauthorized uses of your content, your account or any other breaches of security. AdsOutLoud™ will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

Your Content
You own the rights to the content you launch through AdsOutLoud™. We do not claim ownership over it. However, by posting content to AdsOutLoud™, you give us permission to use your content, free of charge, to do the things we need to do to provide AdsOutLoud™ Services which may include storing, displaying, reproducing, and distributing your content. By publishing on AdsOutLoud™, you agree to allow others to view your content. You are free to delete your content at any time. If you delete your account or content, it may be unrecoverable.

Here are some things we forbid.
By using AdsOutLoud™, you promise not to do any of the following things:
- post any comments, material, links, text, images, audio, or video (any such material, “Content”) containing any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- post Content without permission from the owner;
- post Content that is pornographic, contains threats, incites violence, or violates the rights of any third party.
- probe, scan, or test our systems or networks;
- break or circumvent any technologies we have put in place for security or authentication;
- attempt to access AdsOutLoud™ Services by means other than currently available;
- scrape AdsOutLoud™ Services or Content;
- violate the intellectual property or personal privacy rights of others, causing harm to others, or violating any criminal laws where AdsOutLoud™ has a physical location;
For more information about what we feel is appropriate on AdsOutLoud™, view our content guidelines.

Fees and Payments
You agree to pay for the Services you use on the AdsOutLoud™ Site in accordance the pricing and payment terms presented to you for that service. Fees paid by you are non-refundable except as provided in these terms or when required by law.
For subscriptions, you will be billed in advance on a recurring cycle for the period you have selected (monthly or annually) at the beginning of that period. Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each period unless you cancel automatic renewal at least 48 hours before your next renewal date. You can cancel automatic renewal at any time. If you do cancel automatic renewal, no refund will be provided for fees paid and your service will remain active through the end of the current billing period.
AdsOutLoud™ may change the fees charged for Services at any time, provided that, for subscription Services, the change will become effective only upon the next renewal date.

Upgrades
An upgrade is when a paying customer decides to change their current plan to a more expensive paid plan.
When upgrading in the middle of a billing period, you will be given a pro-rated credit (not a refund) for the current plan which will be applied to the pro-rated charges for the upgraded plan. At the end of the billing period, the upgraded plan will auto-renew.

Downgrades
A downgrade is when a paying customer chooses to change their plan from a more expensive to a less expensive (but still paid) plan. When a paying customer decides to switch from a paid plan to the free plan, that is called a cancellation.
When downgrading in the middle of a billing period, your account will receive a credit (not a refund) for the pro-rated amount for the remaining days in the billing period. The credit will be applied toward the downgraded plan which will auto-renew at the start of the next billing period.
When downgrading in the middle of a billing period, you will be given a pro-rated credit (not a refund) for the current plan which will be applied to the pro-rated charges for the upgraded plan. If the credit applied exceeds the new charges, a positive balance will remain on your account and be applied to future billings. At the end of the billing period, the upgraded plan will auto-renew.

Responsibility of visitors
AdsOutLoud™ has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material posted to the Site or any third party site that the Site links to, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Site, AdsOutLoud™ does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Site may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Site may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. AdsOutLoud™ disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Site, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

Privacy
When you use AdsOutLoud™ Services, you consent to the collection and use of information as detailed in our Privacy Policy. If you’re outside the United States, you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information - including but not limited to the content you posted or transferred to the site and any personal information - to and within the United States and other countries.

Termination of Services
AdsOutLoud™ has the right to limit, suspend, or stop providing the Services to you if you fail to comply with these Terms.

Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy
As AdsOutLoud™ asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by AdsOutLoud.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify AdsOutLoud™. AdsOutLoud™ will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. AdsOutLoud™ will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Site if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of AdsOutLoud™ or others. In the case of such termination, AdsOutLoud™ will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to AdsOutLoud™.

The contact information for AdsOutLoud™’s designated agent for receipt of notices of claimed infringement is here:
AdsOutLoud™ LLC
115 W. 18th St.
New York, NY 10011
Email:hello@adsoutloud.com

Intellectual Property
You retain ownership of all copyrights and any other intellectual property rights in your Content. AdsOutLoud™ (and/or other third parties) retains ownership of intellectual property rights in all content and material other than user Content.
By submitting your Content to AdsOutLoud™, you give AdsOutLoud™ a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to utilize all copyright rights now in existence or that may arise in the future with respect to your Content, in any medium that now exists or may arise in the future, as well as to do anything else that is reasonably appropriate to our Services and its use of your Content (including, but not limited to, use of your name in association with your Content to identify you as the contributor). The license has no restriction as to the medium, dissemination method, type of Service we may offer, or the type of systems or products that may be used in conjunction with your Content.
This license shall remain in effect for so long as your Content is available on AdsOutLoud™. You are free to remove or delete your Content at any time, in which case this license shall terminate after a commercially reasonable period of time, except for comments, the license to which is perpetual and irrevocable. You understand and agree, however, that even if you delete Content, AdsOutLoud™ may retain, but not display or distribute, server copies of your Content.
You represent that you have all of the necessary rights to grant this license to AdsOutLoud™ for all Content you submit.
AdsOutLoud™ grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to download, store, view, display, perform, redistribute, and create derivative works of Content solely in connection with your use of, and in accordance with the Terms of, AdsOutLoud™ Services.
Ready for a break? You deserve one. Get ready because here goes a bunch of legal stuff.

Disclaimer of Warranties.
The Site is provided “as is”. AdsOutLoud™ and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither AdsOutLoud™ nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Site will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. If you’re actually reading this, here’s a treat. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Site at your own discretion and risk.

Limitation of Liability In no event will AdsOutLoud™, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for:
(i) any special, incidental or consequential damages;
(ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services;
(iii) interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or
(iv) any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to AdsOutLoud™ under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. AdsOutLoud™ shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

General Representation and Warranty
You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Site will be in strict accordance with the (Ibul Ltd Privacy Policy) with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Site will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless AdsOutLoud™, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Site, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

Miscellaneous
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between AdsOutLoud™ and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of AdsOutLoud™, or by the posting by AdsOutLoud™ of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Site will be governed by the laws of the state of New York, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in New York. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in New York, NY, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; AdsOutLoud™ may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Whew! It’s over.
If you are a United States federal government agency, your use of the Services is subject to this amendment.

AdsOutLoud™ Privacy Policy
This privacy policy of Ibul Ltd (who created AdsOutLoud.com - “AdsOutLoud™”) covers all of the products and sites we’ve created. Your privacy is critically important to us. At AdsOutLoud™ we have a few fundamental principles:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.) We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services. In our products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Site Visitors
Like most site operators, AdsOutLoud™ collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. AdsOutLoud™’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AdsOutLoud™’s visitors use its website. From time to time, AdsOutLoud™ may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. AdsOutLoud™ also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. AdsOutLoud™ only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to AdsOutLoud™’s websites choose to interact with AdsOutLoud™ in ways that require AdsOutLoud™ to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AdsOutLoud™ gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, AdsOutLoud™ collects such information only as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with AdsOutLoud™. AdsOutLoud™ does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
AdsOutLoud™ may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. AdsOutLoud™ may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, AdsOutLoud™ does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
AdsOutLoud™ discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on AdsOutLoud™’s behalf or to provide services available at AdsOutLoud™’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using AdsOutLoud™’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AdsOutLoud™ will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, AdsOutLoud™ discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when AdsOutLoud™ believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of AdsOutLoud™, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a AdsOutLoud™ website and have supplied your email address, AdsOutLoud™ may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with AdsOutLoud™ and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. AdsOutLoud™ takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Payment Information
AdsOutLoud™ uses secure services for online card payment transactions and does not record or store credit card information on its Site or servers.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. AdsOutLoud™ uses cookies to help AdsOutLoud™ identify and track visitors, their usage of the AdsOutLoud™ website, and their website access preferences. AdsOutLoud™ visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using AdsOutLoud™’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of AdsOutLoud™’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. AdsOutLoud™ also uses a first-party Google Analytics cookie in order to track usage of AdsOutLoud™’s websites and to provide a more relevant experience to our users. Visitors can opt out of the Google Analytics features by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available here.

Business Transfers
If AdsOutLoud™, or its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that AdsOutLoud™ goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of AdsOutLoud™ may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, AdsOutLoud™ may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in AdsOutLoud™’s sole discretion. AdsOutLoud™ encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of any of AdsOutLoud™’s sites after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change Log
Added about Google Analytics Cookies: AdsOutLoud™ also uses a first-party Google Analytics cookie in order to track usage of AdsOutLoud™’s websites and to provide a more relevant experience to our users. Visitors can opt out of the Google Analytics features by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available here.

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