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February
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Greencarbonunit.com™
is a social networking website that allows like minded individuals and organizations
research, post, create profiles and blogs, and partake in discussions related to
protecting and enhancing the Earth. Other terms used may be; sustainability, renewable
energies, green initiatives and eco-friendly. This site allows dual lateral communications
between members.
The services
offered by Greencarbonunit.com™ (referred as "GCU" or "we") include the GCU website
(the "Website"), the GCU Internet messaging service, and any other features, content,
or applications offered from time to time by GCU in connection with the GCU Website
(collectively, the "GCU Services"). The GCU Services are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms
of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use
of the GCU Services. By using the GCU Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement,
whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the GCU Website)
or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with GCU). The term
"User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the GCU Services
(regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by
all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully
and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the GCU Website and discontinue
use of the GCU Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate
with other Members and make use of the GCU Services, you must read this Agreement
and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.
This Agreement
includes GCU's policy for acceptable use of the GCU Services and Content posted
on the GCU Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use
of the GCU Services and GCU's Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain
GCU Services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or
content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided
by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the GCU Services in which you
choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this
Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at: info@greencarbonunit.com,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement. GCU may modify this Agreement from time to time
and such modification shall be effective upon posting by GCU on the GCU Website.
You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the GCU Services
after any such modification is posted. It is therefore important that you review
this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose
carefully the information you post on GCU and that you provide to other Users. Your
GCU profile may not include the following items: and any photographs contain nudity,
or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise
objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by
other GCU Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate,
offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and GCU assumes no
responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of
the GCU Services by any person, please contact GCU or click on the "Report Inappropriate
Content" link at the bottom of any GCU page.
GCU reserves
the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting
(including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your
access to all or any part of the GCU Services at any time, for any or no reason,
with or without prior notice, and without liability. GCU expressly reserves the
right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access
to any part of GCU Services if GCU determines, in its sole discretion, that you
pose a threat to GCU and/or its Users.
1. Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the GCU Services is void where prohibited. By using the
GCU Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you
submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information;
(c) you are 18years of age or older; and (d) your use of the GCU Services does not
violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership
may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 18 years of
age.
2. Term.
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the GCU Services
or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason,
by following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. GCU may terminate
your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after Membership is terminated,
this Agreement will remain in effect, including sections 5-17.
3. Fees.
You acknowledge that GCU reserves the right to charge for the GCU Services and to
change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If GCU terminates your Membership
because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund
of any unused portion of subscription fees.
4. Password.
When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any
time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify GCU immediately
if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password.
You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
5. Non-commercial
Use by Members. The GCU Services are for the personal use of Members only and may
not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically
endorsed or approved by GCU. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the GCU Services,
including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or
other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing
of or linking to the GCU Website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate
links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without
notice and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal
action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the GCU Services.
Proprietary Rights in Content on GCU.
1. GCU does
not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds,
musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content")
that you post to the GCU Services. After posting your Content to the GCU Services,
you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to
have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing
("posting") any Content on or through the GCU Services, you hereby grant to GCU
a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce,
and distribute such Content solely on and through the GCU Services.
Without
this license, GCU would be unable to provide the GCU Services. For example, without
the right to modify Member Content, GCU would not be able to digitally compress
music files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical
requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member Content, GCU could
not allow Users to listen to music posted by Members. The license you grant to GCU
is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in
addition to GCU), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that GCU is not required
to pay you for the use on the GCU Services of the Content that you post), sub licensable
(so that GCU is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content
delivery networks to provide the GCU Services), and worldwide (because the Internet
and the GCU Services are global in reach). This license will terminate at the time
you remove your Content from the GCU Services. The license does not grant GCU the
right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant GCU the right to distribute
your Content outside of the GCU Services.
2. You represent
and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the GCU Services
or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and
(ii) the posting of your Content on or through the GCU Services does not violate
the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights
of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing
any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the GCU Services.
3 The GCU Services
contain Content of GCU ("GCU Content"). GCU Content is protected by copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret and other laws, and GCU owns and retains all rights in the
GCU Content and the GCU Services. GCU hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non
sub licensable license to reproduce and display the GCU Content (excluding any software
code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the GCU Website and
using the GCU Services.
4 The GCU Services
contain Content of Users and other GCU licensors. Except for Content posted by you,
you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform,
display, or sell any content appearing on or through the GCU Services.
Content Posted.
1. GCU may
delete any Content that in the sole judgment of GCU violates this Agreement or which
may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of
any person. GCU assumes no responsibility for monitoring the GCU Services for inappropriate
Content or conduct. If at any time GCU chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor
the GCU Services, GCU nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no
obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility
for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
2. You are
solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the GCU Services,
and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your
interactions with other Users. GCU does not endorse and has no control over the
Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by GCU prior to posting and does not
necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of GCU. GCU makes no warranties, express
or implied, as to the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content
or any material or information that you transmit to other Members.
Content/Activity Prohibited. The following is a partial list of the kind
of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the GCU Services.
GCU reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against
anyone who, in GCU's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without
limitation, removing the offending communication from the GCU Services and terminating
the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited
to Content that, in the sole discretion of GCU:
1. is patently
offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against
any group or individual;
2. harasses
or advocates harassment of another person;
3. exploits
people in a sexual or violent manner;
4. contains
nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
5. solicits
personal information from anyone under 18;
6. provides
any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses not
for promotion of small business;
7. promotes
information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities
or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
8. promotes
an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing
pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent
manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links
to pirated music files;
9, involves
the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant
messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
10. contains
restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked
to or from another accessible page);
11. furthers
or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information
about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal
weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
12. solicits
passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes
from other Users;
13. involves
commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests,
sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
14. includes
a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
or
15. for
band and filmmaker profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair,
misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile.
The following
is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the GCU
Website and through your use of the GCU Services. GCU reserves the right to investigate
and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in GCU's sole discretion,
violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement
authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
1. criminal
or tortuous activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene
material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending
of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement,
or theft of trade secrets;
2. Advertising
to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through
the GCU Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other
Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from
the GCU Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member
without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such
advertising or solicitation, GCU reserves the right to restrict the number of emails
which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which
GCU deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send
unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of
any kind through the GCU Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial
harm to GCU, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain.
As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay GCU $50 for each such
unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the GCU Services;
3. covering
or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any GCU
page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
4. any automated
use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
5. interfering
with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the GCU Services or the networks
or services connected to the GCU Services;
6. attempting
to impersonate another Member or person or business entity.
7. for band
profiles, copying the code for your GCU Player and embedding it into other profiles
or asking other Members to embed it into their profiles;
8. using
the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your
password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
9. selling
or otherwise transferring your profile;
10. using
any information obtained from the GCU Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm
another person;
11. displaying
an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from
a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through
the GCU Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on
your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a
profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private
messages with a commercial purpose; or
12. using
the GCU Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
Copyright Policy
You may
not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,
trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining
the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy
of GCU to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes
the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to GCU by the
copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing,
if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the GCU Services in
a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent
with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description
of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of
where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the GCU Services;
(iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written statement
by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized
by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under
penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that
you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
GCU's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached
as follows: Copyright Agent, GCU, Inc., 1341 N. Delaware Ave., Suite 504, Philadelphia,
PA 19125 Facsimile: (215) 426-6629
Attn: Copyright
Agent; and email: info@greencarbonunit.com.
Member Disputes.
You are
solely responsible for your interactions with other GCU Members. GCU reserves the
right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
Privacy.
Use of the
GCU Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into
this Agreement by this reference.
Disclaimers.
GCU is not
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the GCU Website or
in connection with the GCU Services, whether caused by Users of the GCU Services
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the GCU
Services. Profiles created and posted by Members on the GCU Website may contain
links to other websites. GCU is not responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions
expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored
or checked for accuracy or completeness by GCU. Inclusion of any linked website
on the GCU Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website
by GCU. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. GCU
takes no responsibility for third party advertisements, which are posted on this
GCU Website or through the GCU Services, nor does it take any responsibility for
the goods or services provided by its advertisers. GCU is not responsible for the
conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the GCU Services. GCU assumes
no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay
in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction
or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication. GCU
is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network
or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software,
failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion
on the Internet or on any of the GCU Services or combination thereof, including
any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to or resulting
from participation or downloading materials in connection with the GCU Services.
Under no circumstances shall GCU be responsible for any loss or damage, including
personal injury or death, resulting from use of the GCU Services, attendance at
a GCU event, from any Content posted on or through the GCU Services, or from the
conduct of any Users of the GCU Services, whether online or offline. The GCU Services
are provided "AS-IS" and as available and GCU expressly disclaims any warranty of
fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. GCU cannot guarantee and does
not promise any specific results from use of the GCU Services.
Limitation on Liability.
IN NO EVENT
SHALL GCU BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF GCU HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, GCU'S LIABILITY
TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT
ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO GCU FOR THE GCU SERVICES
DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
U.S. Export Controls.
Software
available in connection with the GCU Services (the "Software") is further subject
to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the GCU Services
or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading
or using the Software is at your sole risk.
Disputes.
If there
is any dispute about or involving the GCU Services, you agree that the dispute shall
be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict
of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in
the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State of Delaware,
City of Wilmington. Either GCU or you may demand that any dispute between GCU and
you about or involving the GCU Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing
the dispute resolution procedures of the Civil Court, State of Delaware USA, provided
that the foregoing shall not prevent GCU from seeking injunctive relief in a court
of competent jurisdiction.
Indemnity.
You agree
to indemnify and hold GCU, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective
officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim,
or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to
or arising out of your use of the GCU Services in violation of this Agreement and/or
arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations
and warranties set forth above and/or if any Content that you post on the GCU Website
or through the GCU Services causes GCU to be liable to another.
Other.
This Agreement
is accepted upon your use of the GCU Website or any of the GCU Services and is further
affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
between you and GCU regarding the use of the GCU Services. The failure of GCU to
exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as
a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for
convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. GCU is a trademark of
GCU, Inc. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any
provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is
deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability
of any remaining provisions.
Please contact
us at: info@greencarbonunit.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.
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