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ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Scrapo.com provides the following service to you,
subject to these Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated periodically
without notice.
Failure to comply with these TOS may result in
account termination.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
Scrapo.com is a web-based service that allows its
users to create and update online scrapbooks (herein referred to as "Scrapo",
or "the Service"). The Service can be updated through a web browser. Once
registered with Scrapo.com, each user receives his or her own scrapbook space
to post photos, graphics, text, and captions relating to or associating with
the users personal lifestyle("the Content"). This Content will reside on
Scrapo's servers.
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ACCOUNT STRUCTURE
Scrapo currently has an upgrade based account structure.
All accounts are available in accordance with local law including the
Children's Online Protection Privacy Act (COPPA) which restricts children under
the age of 13 from registering;
- Any user at any time can remain on our website for free of charge. In order to obtain additional features and webpage storage they will need to purchase account add-ons located at http://www.scrapo.com/members/upgrades.asp
You hereby agree to this structure, and to
Scrapo.com's right to change, modify, or otherwise discontinue any type of
account and/or its respective services.
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YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
Account registration and verification is required in
order to create a Scrapo.com account. During registration, all users are
required to provide accurate, complete and current information about themselves
in all required fields. Should any of your own information change after
submitting it to Scrapo, you are hereby required to update that information as
soon as possible. Should Scrapo.com suspect that your personal information is
not complete, current, or accurate, your account may be subject to suspension
or termination. Should you feel that Scrapo.com's privacy policy is not
sufficient for you to complete the registration form truthfully, please email
your policy concerns to privacy@scrapo.com.
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SCRAPO.COM PRIVACY POLICY
For information on Scrapo's privacy practices, please
see the entire privacy policy at http://www.scrapo.com/privacy.asp.
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INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Scrapo.com, and its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and
employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney
fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Content, your use
of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or
your violation of any rights of another, whether you are a registered user or
not. The user is solely responsible for his or her actions when using the
Service, including, but not limited to, costs incurred for Internet access.
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SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you
agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable
Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding
the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the
country in which you reside.
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GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
You acknowledge that Scrapo.com may establish limits
concerning use of the Service and may modify these limits at any time.
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MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE
Scrapo.com reserves the right to modify or
discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with
or without notice at any time. You agree that Scrapo.com shall not be liable to
you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of
the Service.
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NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell,
resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to
the Service.
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TERMINATION
You agree that Scrapo.com, in its sole discretion,
may terminate your password, scrapbook, or account, and remove and discard any
content within the Service, for any reason, including and without limitation,
the lack of use, or if Scrapo.com believes that you have violated or acted
inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Any contracts, verbal or
written or assumed, in conjunction with your deleted scrapbook and all its
parts, at Scrapo.com's discretion, will be terminated as well. Scrapo.com may
also in its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue providing the Service,
or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of
your access to the Service under any provision of this TOS may be effected
without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Scrapo.com may immediately
deactivate or delete your Scrapo.com scrapbook and all related information and
files. Scrapo.com reserves the right to bar any further access to such files or
the Service. You agree that Scrapo.com shall not be liable to you or any
third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Basic and
Premium accounts that are terminated will not be refunded.
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ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
Scrapo.com has decided to NOT HAVE banner
advertisements and promotions on Scrapo.com scrapbooks. However, Scrapo.com
reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions on the Scrapo.com
service in the future. By using Scrapo.com, you agree that Scrapo.com has the
right to run such advertisements and promotions with or without prior notice,
and without recompense to you or any other user. The manner, mode and extent of
advertising by Scrapo.com on your scrapbook are subject to change. You agree
that Scrapo.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of
any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the
presence of such advertisers on the Service.
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LINKS
The Service, or relevant third parties, may provide
links to other web sites or resources. Because Scrapo.com has no control over
such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Scrapo.com is not
responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does
not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising,
products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You
further acknowledge and agree that Scrapo.com shall not be responsible or
liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be
caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods
or services available on or through any such site or resource.
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SCRAPO.COM PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You must acknowledge and agree that the Service, and
any necessary software used in connection with the Service (referred to as
"Software"), may contain proprietary and confidential information that is
protected by applicable laws governing intellectual property, proprietary
rights and the like. All Scrapo code and specifications are subject to their
said or implied licenses.
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SCRAPBOOK CONTENT
Guidelines for posting to your online scrapbook shall
be as follows:
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All Content posted to Scrapo.com in any way, is the responsibility
and property of the author. Scrapo is committed to keeping the Service in
decent standing for all audiences but is not responsible for the monitoring or
filtering of any scrapbook Content. Within the confines of international and
local law, Scrapo.com will not place a limit on the type, or appropriateness of
user content within scrapbooks. Those users posting material not suitable for
all audiences must agree that they are fully responsible for all the content
they have posted anywhere on the service. Should content be deemed illegal by
such law having jurisdiction over the user, Scrapo.com is committed to
submitting all necessary information to the proper authorities;
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Should any Content be reported to Scrapo.com as being offensive or
inappropriate, Scrapo.com might call upon the author to retract, modify, or
protect (by means of private and friends only settings) the Content in question
within a reasonable amount of time, as set forth by the Scrapo.com staff.
Should the author fail to meet such a request from Scrapo.com staff, Scrapo.com
has the full authority to terminate any such reported and verified offensive
account holding such inappropriate content. Scrapo.com, however, is under no
obligation to restrict or monitor scrapbook Content in any way;
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Scrapo.com claims no ownership or control over any Content posted by
its users. The author retains all patent, trademark, and copyright to all
Content posted within available fields, and is responsible for protecting those
rights, but is not entitled to the help of the Scrapo.com staff in protecting
such Content;
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Scrapo.com reserves the right, without limitation except by law, to
serve user Content on the web according to the security provisions set forth by
the author. Scrapo.com also reserves the right, without limitation, to resell
any portion of a user's Scrapo back to that individual;
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You acknowledge that Scrapo.com does not pre-screen Content, but
that Scrapo.com and its designates shall have the right (but not the
obligation) on their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is
available through the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, Scrapo.com and
its designates shall have the right to remove any content that violates the TOS
or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all
risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content. Furthermore, Scrapo.com
reserves the right to limit access to your scrapbook, if found in violation of
the TOS, by removing the scrapbook and related user information from the member
directory, search engine, and all other methods used in conjunction with
finding Scrapo.com's users.
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MEMBER CONDUCT
You understand that all information, data, text,
software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other
materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole
responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. Scrapo.com
does not control Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not
guarantee the validity of such Content. You also understand that by using the
Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or
objectionable. Should Content be found or reported to be in violation with, but
not limited to, the following terms, it will be Scrapo.com's sole discretion as
to what action should be taken.
You agree to NOT use the Service to:
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Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that is in
Scrapo.com's opinion to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy
(up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other
contact information with out the written consent of the owner of such
information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
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Harm minors in any way, as seen by Scrapo.com or applicable law;
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Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a
Scrapo.com staff member or volunteer, or falsely state or otherwise
misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
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Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
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Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that you do not have
a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary
relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential
information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under
nondisclosure agreements);
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Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that infringes any
patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any
party;
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Upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized
advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters,"
"pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
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Upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains
software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications equipment;
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Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks
connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or
regulations of networks connected to the Service;
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Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local,
state, national or international law, including, but not limited to,
regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any
rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without
limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the
NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
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"Stalk" or otherwise harass another person or company;
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Collect or store personal data about other users for business
purposes;
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Promote or provide instructional information about illegal
activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or
promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, but is not limited to,
providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons or
incendiary devices;
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Use Scrapo.com as a forwarding service to another website;
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Allow usage by others in such a way as to violate Scrapo.com's TOS;
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Engage in commercial activities within Scrapo or on behalf of
Scrapo.com without prior approval. This includes, but is not limited to, the
following activities:
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Displaying a banner that is designed to profit you or any other
business or organization; and
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Displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent
prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web sites.
If any user is reported to be in violation with the
letter or spirit of these terms, Scrapo.com retains the right to terminate such
account at any time without further warning.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
(a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE
SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. SCRAPO.COM
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(b) SCRAPO.COM MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE
WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY,
SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF
THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS,
SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH
THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE
WILL BE CORRECTED.
(c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED
THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT
YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS
OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR
WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM SCRAPO.COM OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL
CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.
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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT SCRAPO.COM
SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR
LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF
SCRAPO.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING
FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA,
INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR
TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR
CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO
THE SERVICE.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOS constitutes the entire agreement between you
and Scrapo.com and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior
agreements between you and Scrapo.com (including, but not limited to, any prior
versions of the TOS). The laws of the State of Oregon, U.S.A, shall govern the
TOS and the relationship between you and Scrapo.com. without regard to its
conflict of law provisions. You and Scrapo.com agree to submit to the personal
and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Washington County,
Oregon, U.S.A. The failure of Scrapo.com to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give
effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other
provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect. 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 the Service or the TOS must be filed within
one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or
contractual effect.
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VIOLATIONS
If you notice any violations of this TOS("the
Violation"), you agree that you will contact Scrapo.com with any
information or leads related to the violation.
You may contact Scrapo.com at violations@scrapo.com.
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