Effective Date: July 27, 2022.
INTRODUCTION
These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) apply to the Sony Pictures Entertainment (a division of Sony Corporation) websites, online services, software, or apps (the "Services") that link to these Terms. In these Terms, we use “SPE”, “we”, or “us” or “our” to refer to Sony Pictures Entertainment entities. Together with Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., the SPE entity responsible for a particular Service (collectively the data controller) can be located by clicking here. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s corporate offices are located at 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232 USA. By accepting these Terms or visiting or otherwise using the applicable Service in any manner (as applicable), you agree to accept and be bound by these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms (as defined below) and confirm that you have read and understood them. You also acknowledge, agree and consent to our data practices as described in our Privacy and Cookies Policy and any other terms posted on the applicable portion of the Service.
When we refer to "you" or "your" in these Terms we mean:
These Terms affect your legal rights, responsibilities and obligations and govern your use of the Service. These include various limitations and exclusions, and a jurisdiction clause that governs where disputes will be resolved. If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and any Additional Terms, do not use the Service and uninstall any Service downloads and applications.
ADDITIONAL TERMS
In some instances, additional or different terms, posted on the Service, apply to your use of certain parts of the Service (individually and collectively "Additional Terms"). To the extent there is a conflict between these Terms and any Additional Terms, these Terms will control unless the Additional Terms expressly state otherwise. Please see the Terms of Sale for information governing your subscription to Pure Flix.
UPDATES TO THESE TERMS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS
We may change these Terms and Additional Terms by posting new or changed terms on the Service as more fully explained here. Your continued use of the Service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms and applicable Additional Terms. You may not change these Terms.
QUICK LINKS
We have summarised some (but not all) of the main topics of these Terms below. However, these should not be used as a substitute for reading the full terms. The complete provisions, and not the headings or summaries below are the ones that apply.
Grants and Limitations of Rights
Availability of Service
OWNERSHIP AND YOUR RIGHTS TO USE THE SERVICE AND CONTENT.
A. Ownership. The Service and all of its content (“Content”), including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and all other intellectual property rights in the Service and the Content (“Intellectual Property”), are owned or controlled by SPE, our Sony group companies and affiliates, our licensors, and certain other third parties. All right, title, and interest in and to the Content and Intellectual Property available via the Service is the property of SPE, our Sony group companies and affiliates, our licensors or certain other third parties, and is protected by all applicable copyright, trademark, patent and/or other intellectual property and unfair competition rights and laws, including those of your country of residence or international laws, to the fullest extent possible. SPE owns the copyright in the selection, compilation, assembly, arrangement, and enhancement of the Content on the Service.
B. Your Rights to Use the Service and Content.
(i) Your right to use the Service and Content is subject to your strict compliance with these Terms and the Additional Terms. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we reserve the right to terminate your right to access and use the Service and the Content upon any breach of these Terms or any Additional Terms. By visiting or using the Services, you represent and warrant that your access or use complies with the applicable law in your jurisdiction of residence. These rights are non-exclusive, limited, and revocable by us at any time in our sole discretion without advance notice or liability to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. As your right to access and use the Service and the Content is personal to you, you may not assign nor transfer your right; any attempt to do so is void. You may, for your personal, non-commercial, lawful use only (collectively, the following are the “SPE Licensed Elements”):
(1) Display, view, use, and play the Content on a computer, mobile or other internet enabled or permitted device (“Device”) and/or print one copy of the Content (excluding source and object code in raw form or otherwise) as it is displayed to you;
(2) Stream any applicable Content using any of the widgets and/or other digital streaming internet video players, if any, provided on the Service (any such widget or other digital streaming Internet video player referred to as a “Service Widget”);
(3) Cut and paste certain code expressly made available to you through the Service (whether such functionality is designated as “sharing” functionality or not) in order to embed, re-publish, maintain, and/or display the specific content to which such code relates on your own personal, customised social networking Web page(s), Web blog(s), or microblog(s) (collectively, your “Personal Social Media” which definition expressly excludes any Business media or Business use), and/or, if the Service provides “widget grabbing and embedding” functionality, to “grab” a Service Widget and embed, re-publish, maintain, and/or display such Service Widget on your Personal Social Media;
(4) Cut and paste certain code expressly made available to you through the Service, and/or if the Service provides “widget grabbing and embedding” functionality, to “grab” a Service Widget, to forward, as applicable, such code and/or Service Widget to your friends, so that they can view the Service and Content contained therein, and/or if, they so desire, so that they themselves may embed the forwarded piece of code or Service Widget on their own Personal Social Media or re-forward it to their own friends;
(5) If the Service includes a “Send to Friend” or similar tool that allows you to initiate and send to one of your friends an email communication that includes Content, and the tool is operational, use the tool to request that the Service's servers convey your message to your friend on your behalf;
(6) If the Service includes a “Download” link next to a piece of Content (including, without limitation, an image, an icon, a wallpaper, a music track, a video, a trailer, an RSS feed), you may only download a single copy of such Content to a single Device;
(7) Download, install and use one copy of any software, including apps, that we make available on or through the Service (“Software”) on your Device in machine-executable object code form only and make one additional copy for back-up purposes; provided, however, that you understand and agree that (i) by allowing you to download the Software, SPE does not transfer title to the Software to you (i.e., you own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but the Software's owner (which may be SPE and/or its third party Software licensor) will retain full and complete title to such Software); (ii) you may not copy, modify, adapt, translate into any language, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Software without the prior written consent of SPE; (iii) you may not assign, rent, lease, or lend the Software to any person or entity and any attempt by you to sublicense, transfer, or assign the Software will be void and of no effect; and (iv) you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Software by any means whatsoever, except to the extent the foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
(8) If made available to you, obtain a registered personal account (and/or related username and password) on the Service and interact with other Service users as part of Service-based chat rooms, message boards, social media networks, online multiplayer games and/or other activities or similar services offered on the Service;
(9) Link to the Service from a website or other online service, so long as: (a) the links only incorporate text, and do not use any Intellectual Property, (b) the links and the content on your website do not suggest any affiliation with SPE (or our Sony group companies and affiliates) or cause any other confusion, and (c) the links and the content on your website do not portray SPE, or our Sony group companies and affiliates, or any of our respective products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner, and do not contain content that is unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third party or are otherwise objectionable to SPE. SPE reserves the right to suspend or prohibit linking to the Service for any reason, in its sole discretion, without advance notice or any liability of any kind to you or any third party; and
(10) Use any other functionality expressly provided by SPE on or through the Service for use by users, subject to these Terms (including, without limitation, functionality to create and/or use User-Generated Content (as defined below)) and any applicable Additional Terms.
C. Rights of Others. In using the Service, you must respect the intellectual property and rights of others and SPE and our Sony group companies and affiliates. Your unauthorised use of Content may violate the rights of others and applicable laws, and may result in your civil and criminal liability. If you believe that your work has been infringed via the Service, see Section 5 below.
D. Reservation of all Rights Not Granted as to Content and Service. These Terms and any applicable Additional Terms include only narrow, limited grants of rights to use and access the Service and Content. ALL RIGHTS NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED TO YOU ARE RESERVED BY SPE AND ITS LICENSORS AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES. Any unauthorised use of any Content or the Service for any purpose is prohibited.
CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
A. User-Generated Content.
(i) General. SPE may now, or in the future, offer users of the Service the opportunity to create, build, post, upload, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, or otherwise make available on or submit through the Service, or on or in response to our pages or posts on any third party platforms or in connection with any of our promotions or marketing campaigns by any media or manner, or otherwise submit to us (e.g., on our Facebook or other social media pages, in response to our tweets, through a sweepstakes or contests, or by mail) (collectively, “submit”) messages, text, illustrations, files, images, graphics, photos, comments, responses, sounds, music, videos, information, content, ratings, reviews, data, questions, suggestions, personal data, or other information or materials and the ideas contained therein (collectively, but excluding SPE Licensed Elements included therein, “User-Generated Content” or “UGC”). You may submit UGC through your profile, forums, blogs, message boards, social networking environments, content creation tools, gameplay, social communities, contact us tools, email, and other communications functionality. Except to the extent of the rights and license you grant in these Terms and, subject to any applicable Additional Terms, you are responsible for and retain whatever legal right, title, and interest that you have in your UGC, except to the extent licensed below. Please be aware that any content disclosed or made available in these situations may be processed by SPE for marketing purposes and/or to improve its services, products, and marketing.
(ii) Non-Confidentiality of Your User-Generated Content. Except as otherwise described in the Service’s posted Privacy and Cookies Policy or any applicable Additional Terms, you agree that (A) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW YOUR UGC WILL BE TREATED AS NON-CONFIDENTIAL AND NON-PROPRIETARY BY US – REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU MARK THEM “CONFIDENTIAL,” “PROPRIETARY,” OR THE LIKE – AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED, AND (B) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SPE DOES NOT ASSUME ANY OBLIGATION OF ANY KIND TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY WITH RESPECT TO YOUR UGC. Upon request, you will provide documentation necessary to authenticate rights to such content and verify your compliance with these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. You acknowledge that the Internet and mobile communications may be insecure and subject to breaches of security; accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that your UGC is submitted at your own risk.
In your communications with SPE, please keep in mind that we do not seek any unsolicited ideas or materials for products or services, or even suggested improvements to products or services, including, without limitation, ideas, concepts, inventions, or designs for music, websites, apps, books, scripts, screenplays, motion pictures, television shows, theatrical productions, software or otherwise (collectively, “Unsolicited Ideas and Materials”). Any Unsolicited Ideas and Materials you submit are deemed UGC and licensed to us as set forth below. In addition, SPE retains all of the rights held by members of the general public with regard to your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials. SPE’s receipt of your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials is not an admission by SPE of their novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not impair SPE’s right to contest existing or future intellectual property rights relating to your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials.
(iii) License to SPE of Your UGC. Except as otherwise described in the Privacy and Cookies Policy and any applicable Additional Terms (such as a promotion’s official rules), which specifically govern the submission of your UGC, to the maximum extent permitted by law, you hereby grant SPE and its Sony group companies and affiliates, the non-exclusive, transferable, unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, sub-licensable, and royalty-free right and licence to use, copy, record, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, rent, lend, sub-license (through multiple levels), display, publicly perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, translate, adapt, make derivative works of, and otherwise use and exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of your UGC (and derivative works thereof), for any purpose whatsoever in all formats, on or through any means or medium now known or hereafter developed, and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed, and to advertise, market, and promote the same (it being agreed that such rights shall last for 99 years in territories where a perpetual licence may not be granted). Without limitation, the granted rights include the right to: (a) configure, host, index, cache, archive, store, digitize, compress, optimize, modify, reformat, edit, adapt, publish in searchable format, and remove such UGC and combine same with other materials, and (b) use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any UGC for any purposes whatsoever, including developing, producing, and marketing products and/or services. You understand that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in exercising such rights metadata, notices and content may be removed or altered, including copyright management information, and you consent thereto and represent and warrant you have all necessary authority to do so. In order to further effect the rights and license that you grant to SPE to your UGC, subject to the Privacy and Cookies Policy and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law you also hereby grant to SPE (and our Sony group companies and affiliates), and agree to grant to SPE (and our Sony group companies and affiliates), the unconditional, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name, persona, and likeness in connection with any UGC, without any obligation or remuneration to you (it being agreed that such rights shall last for 99 years in territories where a perpetual licence may not be granted). To the maximum extent permitted by law, you hereby waive, and you agree to waive, any moral rights or similar or equivalent rights (including without limitation any applicable rights to be identified as author, rights to object to derogatory treatment, rights not to be falsely attributed, rights to decide when the UGC should be made accessible to the public, or rights to oppose any adaptation or alteration of the UGC) that you may have in any UGC, even if it is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. To the extent not waivable, you irrevocably agree not to exercise such rights (if any) in a manner that interferes with any exercise of the granted rights. You understand that you will not receive any fees, sums, consideration, or remuneration for any of the rights granted in this Section 2.A(iii).
(iv) SPE’s Exclusive Right to Manage Our Service. Except as otherwise described in the Privacy and Cookies Policy) or as required by applicable law, SPE may, but will not have any obligation to, review, monitor, display, post, store, maintain, accept, or otherwise make use of, any of your UGC, and SPE may, in its sole discretion, reject, delete, move, re-format, remove or refuse to post or otherwise make use of UGC without notice or any liability to you or any third party in connection with our operation of UGC in an appropriate manner to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Without limitation, we may do so to address content that comes to our attention that is, or we believe to be, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, threatening, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate, or to enforce the rights of third parties or these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. Such UGC submitted by you or others need not be maintained on the Service by us for any period of time, and you will not have the right, once submitted, to access, archive, maintain, change, remove, or otherwise use such UGC on the Service or elsewhere except as otherwise described in the Privacy and Cookies Policy. SPE has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your UGC.
(v) Representations and Warranties Related to Your UGC. Each time you submit any UGC, you warrant that you are at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside and are the parent or legal guardian, or have all proper consents from the parent or legal guardian, of any minor who is depicted in or contributed to any UGC you submit, and that, as to that UGC, (a) you are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property and other rights to the UGC, or you have a lawful right to submit the UGC and grant SPE (and our Sony group companies and affiliates) the rights to it that you are granting by these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, all without any SPE obligation to obtain consent of any third party and without creating any obligation or liability of SPE; (b) the UGC is accurate; (c) the UGC does not and, as to SPE’s permitted uses and exploitation set forth in these Terms, will not infringe any intellectual property or other right of any third party; and (d) the UGC will not violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, or cause injury or harm to any person. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold SPE and our Sony group companies and affiliates and each of ours and their directors, officers, agents, contractors, partners and employees, harmless from and against any loss, liability, threatened or actual claim, demand, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with any of your UGC.
B. Appropriate content and Alerting Us of Violations. We expect UGC to be appropriate for a general audience, but do not undertake to monitor it, and you consent to potentially encountering content you find offensive or inappropriate. Please note that UGC has not been verified or approved by us, and the views expressed by other users on our Service do not necessarily represent our views or values. We may include venue and content rules as Additional Terms. If you discover any content that violates these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, then you may report it here.
RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THE SERVICE AND CONTENT
A. Service Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not: (i) use the Service for any political or commercial purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds, collecting product prices, and selling products) unless you are a Business and have obtained our prior written consent; (ii) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilising any Intellectual Property; (iii) engage in any activities through or in connection with the Service that seek to attempt to or do harm to any individuals or entities or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third party, or are otherwise objectionable to SPE; (iv) to the maximum extent not prohibited by applicable law, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Service by any means whatsoever or modify any Service source or object code or any Software or other products, services, or processes accessible through any portion of the Service; (v) engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to the Service or the proper operation of the Service, or otherwise causes harm to the Service, SPE (or our group companies or affiliates), or other users of the Service; (vi) interfere with or circumvent any security feature (including any digital rights management mechanism, device or other content protection or access control measure) of the Service or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Service, the Content, or the UGC; (vii) harvest or otherwise collect or store any information (including personal data about other users of the Service, including email addresses, without the express consent of such users); (viii) attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other computer systems or networks connected to the Service, through password mining or any other means; or (ix) otherwise violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms.
B. Content Use Restrictions. You also agree that, in using the Service, you: (i) will not monitor, gather, copy, or distribute the Content (except as may be a result of standard search engine activity or use of a standard browser) on the Service by using any robot, rover, “bot”, spider, scraper, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic device, utility, or manual process of any kind; (ii) will not frame or utilise framing techniques to enclose any such Content (including any images, text, or page layout); (iii) will keep intact all trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property notices contained in such Content; (iv) will not use such Content in a manner that suggests an unauthorised association with any of our or our licensors’ products, services, or brands; (v) will not make any modifications to such Content (other than to the extent of your specifically permitted use of the SPE Licensed Elements, if applicable); (vi) will not copy, modify, reproduce, archive, sell, lease, rent, exchange, create derivative works from, publish by hard copy or electronic means, publicly perform, display, disseminate, distribute, broadcast, retransmit, circulate or transfer to any third party or on any third-party application or website, or otherwise use or exploit such Content in any way for any purpose except as specifically permitted by these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms or with the prior written consent of an officer of SPE or, in the case of content from a licensor, the owner of the content; and (vii) will not insert any code or product to manipulate such Content in any way that adversely affects any user experience.
C. Availability of Service and Content. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, SPE, in its sole discretion without advance notice or liability, may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Service and/or Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason.
CREATING AN ACCOUNT
A. If you register with us or create an account, you are solely responsible and liable for the security and confidentiality of your access credentials and for restricting access to your Device and for all activity under your account unless you are able to prove that such use is fraudulent. Registered accounts may only be setup by an individual that is at least the age of majority in your country of residence, but no less than 18 years old. Passwords must be personal, and you must have a unique username (or email address) that does not violate the rights of any person or entity, or is offensive. We may reject the use of any password, username, or email address for any reason in our sole discretion. You are solely responsible for your registration information and for updating and maintaining it. You will immediately notify us here of any unauthorised use of your account, password, or username, or any other breach of security. You will not sell, transfer, or assign your account or any account rights. We have the right to disable any accounts and/or passwords, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
B. Accounts may only be set up by an authorised representative of the individual that is the subject of the account. We do not review accounts for authenticity, and are not responsible for any unauthorised accounts that may appear on the Service. For any dispute as to account creation or authenticity, we shall have the sole right, but are not obligated, to resolve such dispute as we determine appropriate, without notice.
PROCEDURE FOR ALLEGING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
A. If you are a copyright owner who would like to send us a notice to identify content or material posted on the Service that is infringing that you would like removed from our Service, you may submit such notice to us by following the instructions here.
NOTICES, QUESTIONS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
A. You agree that we may give you notices or otherwise respond to you by mail or to your email (if we have it on file) or in any other manner reasonably elected by us.
B. All legal notices to us must be sent in writing to the relevant Sony Pictures entity listed here.
C. If you have a question regarding the Service, you may contact SPE Customer Support by clicking here and completing the form. You acknowledge that customer service personnel cannot change or waive Terms or applicable Additional Terms.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICES; ADVERTISEMENTS; DEALINGS WITH THIRD PARTIES
A. Third-Party Content and Sites; Advertisements. The Service may contain third party plug-ins, applications, ads, tools and/or other content, and/or links to third-party websites or other services that are not owned, controlled or operated by SPE (or our group companies or affiliates), including services operated by advertisers, licensors, licensees, and certain other third parties who may have business relationships with SPE (collectively, “Third-Party Services”). We may also host our content, apps, and tools on Third-Party Services. SPE has no control over the content, operations, policies, terms, or other elements of Third-Party Services, and does not assume any obligation to review them. SPE does not necessarily review, endorse, approve, or sponsor any Third-Party Services, or any third-party content, advertising, information, materials, products, services, or other items. Furthermore, SPE is not responsible for the quality or delivery of the products or services offered, accessed, obtained by or advertised at such Third-Party Services.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL LOSS, INJURY (INCLUDING PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH), CLAIM, LIABILITY OR OTHER DAMAGE, WHETHER ARISING FROM NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT, DEFAMATION, INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, CAUSED BY THE EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTION, OR EXPLOITATION OF ANY INFORMATION OR CONTENT CONTAINED WITHIN THESE THIRD-PARTY SERVICES.
Any activities you engage in in connection with Third-Party Services are subject to that Third-Party Services’ separate terms including the privacy policy and terms of use which you should read before engaging in such activities.
A. Apple and Other Platforms and Devices. If you are accessing or using the Service through Apple, Android, Google, Microsoft Windows or other third-party platforms or services, those Third-Party Services’ own terms and policies apply to such access and usage.
B. Dealings with Third Parties. Any interactions, correspondence, transactions, or dealings you have with any third parties found on or through the Service (including on or via Third-Party Services or advertisements) are solely between you and the third party (including issues related to the content of third-party advertisements, payments, delivery of goods, warranties (including product warranties), privacy and data security, and the like). SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.
LIMITATIONS OF OUR LIABILITY
A. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:
(i) death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
(ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and
(iii) any matter in respect of which it would be unlawful for us to exclude or restrict our liability.
B. The content on our Service is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Service. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Service, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Service is accurate, complete or up to date.
(i) If you are a Consumer:
(1) nothing in these Terms affects your statutory or other applicable legal or contractual rights. Advice about your statutory rights (including but not limited to warranties and product warranties) is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau, Trading Standards Office or equivalent local consumer protection authorities; and
(2) we only supply the Service for domestic and private use. YOU AGREE NOT TO USE THE SERVICE OR ANY CONTENT FOR ANY COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES AND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
(ii) If you are a Business, we will under no circumstances whatsoever be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), gross negligence, breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with these Terms for: (a) any loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; (b) loss or corruption of data, information or software; (c) loss of business opportunity; (d) loss of anticipated savings; or (e) loss of goodwill; or (f) any indirect or consequential loss whatsoever, in each case to the maximum extent permitted by law.
C. Subject to paragraph 8A, our maximum aggregate liability under and/or in connection with these Terms and/or the Service (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise and whether foreseeable or not), in respect of all our acts, omissions (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or breach of warranty, including those of our officers, employees, agents, contractors, sub-contractors, group companies or affiliates, to the maximum extent permitted by law, shall be limited to the cost of supplying the Services again or payment of the reasonable cost of having the Services supplied again, but in no case in excess of USD$100 One Hundred U.S. Dollars ($100) or the equivalent in any other currency.
D. THE SERVICES AND THE CONTENT HEREIN ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, WHERE IS" BASIS. SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, TERMS, UNDERTAKINGS AND OBLIGATIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ARISING BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW, USAGE OR TRADE, CUSTOM OR OTHERWISE, OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES OR THE CONTENT. SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, TERMS, UNDERTAKINGS AND OBLIGATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ARISING BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW, USAGE OR TRADE, CUSTOM OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. BY VISITING OR USING OR ATTEMPTING TO VISIT OR USE THE SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR CONDITIONS REGARDING THE CONTENT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CURRENCY, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS; AND (II) AS A SERVICE TO USERS OF THE SERVICES SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES INCLUDE LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES OVER WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL. SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES PROVIDE NO ENDORSEMENT OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND REGARDING THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, CONTENT OR APPROPRIATENESS OF CONTENT OF SUCH THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, AND YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIM AGAINST SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES WITH RESPECT TO SUCH THIRD PARTY WEBSITES.
E. EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY STATED ON OR WITHIN THE SERVICES, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NONE OF SPE AND OUR SONY GROUP COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES OR ANY OF OUR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICES, OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE. THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THAT APPLIES TO ALL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, INCOME OR PROFIT, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
THESE TERMS ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF CALIFORNIA EXCEPT AS PROHIBITED BY LOCAL LAW. This means that with respect to your access to and use of the Service, and for any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection therewith will be governed by California laws except as prohibited by the applicable laws, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum. of your country of residence and pursuant to Section 10 below. The parties agree to abide by the applicable mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident. Nothing in these Terms affects your rights as a consumer to rely on such mandatory provisions of local law.
DISPUTES AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
A. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, their enforcement, arbitrability or interpretation shall be submitted to final and binding arbitration, to be held in Los Angeles County, California, before a single arbitrator, in accordance with California Code of Civil Procedure §1280 et seq, except where prohibited by applicable laws of your jurisdiction of residency, then such arbitration will occur in your country of residency. The arbitrator shall be selected by mutual agreement of the parties or, if the parties cannot agree, then by striking from a list of arbitrators supplied by JAMS. The arbitration shall be a confidential proceeding, closed to the general public. The arbitrator shall issue a written opinion stating the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator’s award is based. The parties will share equally in payment of the arbitrator’s fees and arbitration expenses and any other costs unique to the arbitration hearing (recognizing that each side bears its own deposition, witness, expert and attorneys’ fees and other expenses to the same extent as if the matter were being heard in court). Nothing in this paragraph shall affect either party’s ability to seek from a court injunctive or equitable relief at any time to the extent same is not precluded by another provision of these Terms. To the extent this Section 10 (A) is found to be void or otherwise unenforceable, any claim must be heard and determined through an appropriate court proceeding without regard to any choice of law or conflict of laws principles, subject to Section 9, and not in arbitration.
B. Limitation on Injunctive Relief. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW IF YOU CLAIM THAT YOU HAVE INCURRED ANY LOSS, DAMAGES, OR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, THEN THE LOSSES, DAMAGES, AND INJURIES WILL NOT BE DEEMED IRREPARABLE OR SUFFICIENT TO ENTITLE YOU TO AN INJUNCTION OR TO OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF OF ANY KIND. THIS MEANS THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR CLAIM, YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT SEEK, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN, ANY COURT OR OTHER ACTION THAT MAY INTERFERE WITH OR PREVENT THE DEVELOPMENT, USE OR EXPLOITATION OF ANY WEBSITE, APPLICATION, CONTENT, UGC, PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNED, LICENSED, USED, OR CONTROLLED BY ANY SPE PARTY (INCLUDING YOUR LICENSED UGC) OR A LICENSOR OF ANY SPE PARTY. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you hereby irrevocably waive any right or remedy to seek and/or obtain injunctive or other equitable relief or any order with respect to, and/or to enjoin or restrain or otherwise impair in any manner, the production, distribution, exhibition, or other exploitation of any motion picture, production or project related to SPE, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, or the use, publication or dissemination of any advertising in connection with such motion picture, production, or project. You may opt out, however, of arbitrating claims for public injunctive relief. If you do so, neither you nor SPE can require the other to participate in an arbitration of any claim of public injunctive relief, and you retain your right to bring such actions in a court that has jurisdiction. To opt out, you must notify us in writing within 30 days of the date that you first became subject to this arbitration provision, and must include your name and residence address, your email address, and a clear statement that you want to opt out of arbitration of public injunctive relief. Any requests to opt out must be sent to: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232, U.S.A. (Attn: EVP Global Litigation -- Claims). If a court or arbitrator decides that any of this section's limitations cannot be enforced as to a particular claim for relief, then that claim (and only that claim) must be severed from the arbitration and may be brought in court subject to Section 10(A).
C. Class Action Waiver. Both you and SPE waive the right to bring any dispute, including but not limited to actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or similar applicable laws in your country of residence, as a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general action, or to participate in a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general action regarding any dispute brought by anyone else. Notwithstanding any provision in the JAMS Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures to the contrary, the arbitrator shall not have the authority or any jurisdiction to hear the arbitration as a class, consolidated, representative, or private attorney general action or to consolidate, join, or otherwise combine the disputes of different persons into one proceeding. Notwithstanding the arbitration provision set forth above, if the provision regarding waiver of class, collective, representative, and private attorney general claims of this Section 10 is found to be void or otherwise unenforceable, any such class, collective, representative, or private attorney general claims must be heard and determined through an appropriate court proceeding subject to Section 9, and not in arbitration.
D. Limited Time To File Claims. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW AND UNLESS THE LAWS OF YOUR JURISDICTION PROVIDE A LONGER APPLICABLE TIME PERIOD, IF YOU OR WE WANT TO ASSERT A GENERAL DISPUTE (BUT NOT AN IP DISPUTE) AGAINST THE OTHER, THEN YOU OR WE MUST COMMENCE IT WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE DISPUTE ARISES – OR IT WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
UPDATES TO TERMS
Please make sure you review the posted Terms and any applicable Additional Terms each time you use the Service (at least prior to each transaction or submission). WE MAY MODIFY THESE TERMS INCLUDING, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE ONLY, DUE TO A CHANGE OF APPLICABLE LAW OR CASE LAW, OR MARKET CONDITIONS OR TO ENSURE BETTER FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SERVICE. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU OF NEW TERMS BY POSTING THEM ON THE SERVICE OR VIA E-MAIL (OR IN ANY OTHER REASONABLE MANNER OF NOTICE WHICH WE ELECT), AND YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE AFTER SUCH NOTICE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR GOING FORWARD AGREEMENT TO THE NEW TERMS FOR YOUR NEW USE AND TRANSACTIONS. Any new Terms or Additional Terms will be effective as to new use and transactions as of the time that we post them, or such later date as may be specified in them or in other notice to you. In the event any notice to you of new, revised, or additional terms is determined by a court or tribunal to be insufficient, the prior agreement shall continue until sufficient notice to establish a new agreement occurs. You can reject any new, revised or additional terms by discontinuing use of the Service.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
A. SPE’s Consent or Approval. As to any provision in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms that grants SPE a right of consent or approval, or permits SPE to exercise a right in its “sole discretion,” SPE may exercise that right in its sole and absolute discretion to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. No SPE consent or approval may be deemed to have been granted by SPE without being in writing and signed by an officer of SPE.
B. Indemnity. You agree to, and you hereby, defend (if requested by SPE), indemnify, and hold SPE and their direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, including our Sony group companies and each of their respective employees, directors, members, managers, shareholders, agents, vendors, licensors, licensees, contractors, customers, successors, and assigns (collectively “SPE Parties” and individually “SPE Party”) harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs, investigations, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties, settlements, interest, and expenses (including legal fees) that directly or indirectly arise from or are related to any claim, suit, action, demand, or proceeding made or brought against any SPE Party, or on account of the investigation, defence, or settlement thereof, arising out of or in connection with, whether occurring heretofore or hereafter: (i) the use of your UGC by us or our assignees or licensees in accordance with these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, or any of your UGC that does not comply with these Terms in any way; (ii) your use of the Service and your activities in connection with the Service in breach or alleged breach of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms; (iii) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms; (iv) your violation or alleged violation of any laws, rules, regulations, codes, statutes, ordinances, or orders of any governmental or quasi- governmental authorities in connection with your use of the Service or your activities in connection with the Service; (v) information or material transmitted through your Device, even if not submitted by you, that infringes, violates, or misappropriates any copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, publicity, privacy, or other right of any person or entity; (vi) any misrepresentation made by you; and (vii) SPE Parties’ use of the information that you submit to us (including your UGC) (all of the foregoing, “Claims and Losses”). You will cooperate as fully required by SPE Parties in the defence of any Claim and Losses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, SPE Parties retain the exclusive right to settle, compromise, and pay any and all Claims and Losses. SPE Parties reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any Claims and Losses. You will not settle any Claims and Losses without, in each instance, the prior written consent of an officer of a SPE Party.
C. Operation of Service; Availability of Products and Services; International Issues. SPE makes no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use beyond the territory for which these Terms and any Additional Terms are published. If you use the Service from other locations, you are doing so on your own initiative and responsible for compliance with applicable local laws regarding your online conduct and acceptable content, if and to the extent local laws apply.
D. Viruses. We do not warrant that our Service will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your Devices, information technology, computer programs and platform to access our Service. You should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse our Service by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Service, the server on which our Service is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Service. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them if required under applicable law. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Service will cease immediately.
E. Export Controls. You are responsible for complying with all applicable trade regulations and laws both foreign and domestic. Except as authorized by U.S. law, you agree and warrant not to export or re-export the Services to any county, or to any person, entity, or end-user subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions.
F. Severability; Interpretation. If any provision of these Terms, or any applicable Additional Terms, is for any reason deemed invalid, unlawful, void, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms or the applicable Additional Terms, and the invalidity of the provision will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms or the applicable Additional Terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to waive and will waive, any applicable statutory and common law that may permit a contract to be construed against its drafter.
G. Investigations; Cooperation with Law Enforcement; Termination; Survival. To the extent permitted by applicable law SPE reserves the right, without any limitation, to: (i) investigate any suspected breaches of the Service’s security or its information technology or other systems or networks, (ii) investigate any suspected breaches of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, (iii) investigate any information obtained by SPE in accordance with its Privacy and Cookies Policy in connection with complying with criminal laws, (iv) involve and cooperate with law enforcement and similar authorities in investigating any of the foregoing matters, (v) prosecute any breaches of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, and (vi) discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, or, suspend or terminate your access to it, in whole or in part, including any user accounts or registrations, at any time, without notice, for any reason and without any obligation to you or any third party. Any suspension or termination will not affect your obligations to SPE under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. Upon suspension or termination of your access to the Service, or upon notice from SPE, all rights granted to you under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will cease immediately, and you agree that you will immediately discontinue use of the Service. The provisions of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, which by their nature should survive your suspension or termination will survive. You can discontinue your use of the Service, or terminate your account, at any time. In the event any termination or suspension by us is determined by a court or tribunal to be unfair, the prior agreement shall continue until sufficient notice to terminate the agreement occurs.
H. Assignment. SPE may assign its rights and obligations under these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, in whole or in part, to any party at any time without any notice but such assignment will not affect your rights or obligations under these Terms. These Terms and any applicable Additional Terms may not be assigned by you, and you may not delegate your duties under them, without the prior written consent of an officer of SPE.
I. Complete Agreement. These Terms, and any applicable Additional Terms, reflect the complete agreement between you and us, regarding your use of the Service and supersede any prior agreements, representations, warranties, assurances, or discussion related to the Service.
J. No Waiver. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, (i) no failure or delay by you or SPE in exercising any rights, powers, or remedies hereunder will operate as a waiver of that or any other right, power, or remedy, and (ii) no waiver or modification of any term of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will be effective unless in writing and signed by the party against whom the waiver or modification is sought to be enforced.
K. Online Dispute Resolution. f you live within the European Union or the United Kingdom and wish to have more information on online dispute resolution, please follow this link to the website of the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. This link is provided as required by Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, for information purposes only. We are neither obliged nor have agreed to participate in online dispute resolution.
COPYRIGHT AGENT:
If you believe that any User-Generated Content appearing on any Service violates your copyrighted work or that your submitted User-Generated Content has been wrongfully removed from the Service, you may contact SPE as specified below.
Please send your claim to SPE's Designated Copyright Agent as specified below, and include the following information:
(i) your physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
(ii) identification of the material that has been infringed and the location where the material appears, including the date and time the content was posted, and identification of who posted the content;
(iii) a statement that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or at law;
(iv) whether any attempt has been made to contact the person who posted the content (and if so, any relevant correspondence); and,
(v) your contact information including your name, address, telephone number and email address.
By submitting an infringement notification, you acknowledge and agree that SPE may forward your notification and any related communications to the person who posted the material identified or to other third parties as necessary to evaluate your claim.
SPE Designated Copyright Agent:
Content Protection Group
10202 West Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232 U.S.A.
Phone Number of SPE Designated Copyright Agent:
+1 310-244-3450
Fax Number of SPE Designated Copyright Agent:
+1 310-244-1742
E-Mail of SPE Designated Copyright Agent:
Effective Date: December 21, 2020.
INTRODUCTION
Please read these Terms carefully before using our websites and any online services, software or apps provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. or its family of companies (collectively, "SPE", "we", or "us" or "our") that post a link to these Terms (the "Service"). By accessing or otherwise using the Service in any manner, you agree to the then posted Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, to be bound by them, and that you have read and understood them. You also acknowledge, agree and consent to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy and any Children’s Privacy Policy posted on the applicable portion of the Service.
These Terms affect your legal rights, responsibilities and obligations and govern your use of the Service, are legally binding, limit SPE’s liability to you and require you to indemnify us and to settle certain disputes through arbitration. If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and any Additional Terms, do not use the Service and uninstall Service downloads and applications.
ADDITIONAL TERMS
In some instances, additional or different terms, posted on the Service, apply to your use of certain parts of the Service (individually and collectively "Additional Terms"). To the extent there is a conflict between these Terms and any Additional Terms, these Terms will control unless the Additional Terms expressly state otherwise.
UPDATES TO THESE TERMS AND ADDITIONAL TERMS
We may prospectively change these Terms and Additional Terms by posting new or changed terms on the Service as more fully explained here.
QUICK LINKS
We have summarized some (but not all) of the main topics of these Terms below. The complete provisions, and not the headings or summaries govern.
Grants and Limitations of Rights
Limitations on Your Remedies
Dispute Resolution
Availability of Service
1. OWNERSHIP AND YOUR RIGHTS TO USE THE SERVICE AND CONTENT.
A. Ownership. The Service and all of its content ("Content"), including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and all other intellectual property rights therein ("Intellectual Property"), are owned or controlled by SPE, our licensors, and certain other third parties. All right, title, and interest in and to the Content and Intellectual Property available via the Service is the property of SPE, our licensors or certain other third parties, and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, patent and/or other intellectual property and unfair competition rights and laws to the fullest extent possible. SPE owns the copyright in the selection, compilation, assembly, arrangement, and enhancement of the Content on the Service.
B. Your Rights to Use the Service and Content.
(i) Your right to use the Service and content is subject to your strict compliance with these Terms and the Additional Terms. Your right to access and use the Service and the Intellectual Property shall automatically terminate upon any violations. These rights are non-exclusive, limited, and revocable by us at any time in our sole discretion without advance notice or liability. As your right to access and use the Service and the content is personal to you, you may not assign nor transfer your right; any attempt to do so is void. You may, for your personal, non-commercial, lawful use only (collectively, the following are the "SPE Licensed Elements"):
(1) Display, view, use, and play the content on a computer, mobile or other internet enabled or permitted device ("Device") and/or print one copy of the content (excluding source and object code in raw form or otherwise) as it is displayed to you;
(2) Stream the content using any of the widgets and/or other digital streaming internet video players, if any, provided on the Service (any such widget or other digital streaming Internet video player referred to as a "Service Widget");
(3) Cut and paste certain code expressly made available to you through the Service (whether such functionality is designated as "sharing" functionality or not) in order to embed, re-publish, maintain, and/or display the specific content to which such code relates on your own personal, customized social networking Web page(s), Web blog(s), or microblog(s) (collectively, your "Personal Social Media"), and/or, if the Service provides "widget grabbing and embedding" functionality, to "grab" a Service Widget and embed, re-publish, maintain, and/or display such Service Widget on your Personal Social Media;
(4) Cut and paste certain code expressly made available to you through the Service, and/or if the Service provides "widget grabbing and embedding" functionality, to "grab" a Service Widget, to forward, as applicable, such code and/or Service Widget to your friends, so that they can view the Service content contained therein, and/or if, they so desire, so that they themselves may embed the forwarded piece of code or Service Widget on their own Personal Social Media or re-forward it to their own friends;
(5) If the Service includes a "Send to Friend" or similar tool that allows you to initiate and send to one of your friends an email communication that includes content, and the tool is operational, use the tool to request that the Service's servers convey your message to your friend on your behalf;
(6) If the Service includes a "Download" link next to a piece of content (including, without limitation, an image, an icon, a wallpaper, a music track, a video, a trailer, an RSS feed), you may only download a single copy of such content to a single Device;
(7) Download, install and use one copy of any software, including apps, that we make available on or through the Service ("Software") on your Device in machine-executable object code form only and make one additional copy for back-up purposes; provided, however, that you understand and agree that (i) by allowing you to download the Software, SPE does not transfer title to the Software to you (i.e., you own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but the Software's owner (which may be SPE and/or its third party Software licensor) will retain full and complete title to such Software); (ii) you may not copy, modify, adapt, translate into any language, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Software without the prior written consent of SPE; (iii) you may not assign, rent, lease, or lend the Software to any person or entity and any attempt by you to sublicense, transfer, or assign the Software will be void and of no effect; and (iv) you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Software by any means whatsoever, except to the extent the foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
(8) If made available to you, obtain a registered personal account (and/or related username and password) on the Service and interact with other Service users as part of Service-based chat rooms, message boards, social media networks, online multiplayer games and/or other activities or similar services offered on the Service;
(9) Link to the Service from a website or other online service, so long as: (a) the links only incorporate text, and do not use any Intellectual Property, (b) the links and the content on your website do not suggest any affiliation with SPE or cause any other confusion, and (c) the links and the content on your website do not portray SPE or its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner, and do not contain content that is unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third party or are otherwise objectionable to SPE. SPE reserves the right to suspend or prohibit linking to the Service for any reason, in its sole discretion, without advance notice or any liability of any kind to you or any third party; and
(10) Use any other functionality expressly provided by SPE on or through the Service for use by users, subject to these Terms (including, without limitation, functionality to create and/or User-Generated Content (as defined below)) and any applicable Additional Terms.
C. Additional Terms for Usage Subscriptions. Purchases of usage subscriptions (e.g., credits, points, and/or virtual currency) or any virtual items made available on the Service are nonrefundable, have no monetary value (i.e., are not a cash account or equivalent), and are purchases of only a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-assignable, personal, and non-transferable license to use those items only, even if such came with a durational term (e.g., a monthly subscription). Any attempt to transfer, assign or otherwise sell or trade such subscription, regardless of manner or method, is null and void. Suspension or termination thereof results in the forfeit of the suspended or terminated subscription or items, except as may be noted in the applicable Additional Terms. As permitted by law, we are not responsible for repairing or reissuing any credit or refund or any other sum, as a result of our modification of any usage subscriptions or virtual item, or for loss or damage due to error, or any other reason.
D. Rights of Others. In using the Service, you must respect the intellectual property and rights of others and SPE. Your unauthorized use of content may violate the rights of others and applicable laws, and may result in your civil and criminal liability. If you believe that your work has been infringed via the Service, see Section 5 below.
E. Reservation of all Rights Not Granted as to Content and Service. These Terms and any applicable Additional Terms include only narrow, limited grants of rights to use and access the Service and content. No right or license may be construed, under any legal theory, by implication, estoppel, industry custom, or otherwise. ALL RIGHTS NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED TO YOU ARE RESERVED BY SPE AND ITS LICENSORS AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES. Any unauthorized use of any content or the Service for any purpose is prohibited.
2. CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
A. User-Generated Content.
(i) General. SPE may now, or in the future, offer users of the Service the opportunity to create, build, post, upload, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, or otherwise make available on or submit through the Service, or on or in response to our pages or posts on any third party platforms or in connection with any of our promotions by any media or manner, or otherwise submit to us (e.g., on our Facebook or other social media pages, in response to our tweets, through a sweepstakes or contest, or by mail) (collectively, "submit") messages, text, illustrations, files, images, graphics, photos, comments, responses, sounds, music, videos, information, content, ratings, reviews, data, questions, suggestions, personally identifiable information, or other information or materials and the ideas contained therein (collectively, but excluding SPE Licensed Elements included therein, "User-Generated Content" or "UGC"). You may submit UGC through your profile, forums, blogs, message boards, social networking environments, content creation tools, gameplay, social communities, contact us tools, email, and other communications functionality. Except to the extent of the rights and license you grant in these Terms and, subject to any applicable Additional Terms, you are responsible for and retain whatever legally cognizable right, title, and interest that you have in your UGC.
(ii) Non-Confidentiality of Your User-Generated Content. Except as otherwise described in the Service’s posted Privacy Policy, or any applicable Additional Terms, you agree that (a) your UGC will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary by us – regardless of whether you mark them "confidential," "proprietary," or the like – and will not be returned, and (b) to the maximum extent not prohibited by applicable law, SPE does not assume any obligation of any kind to you or any third party with respect to your UGC. Upon request, you will provide documentation necessary to authenticate rights to such content and verify your compliance with these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. You acknowledge that the Internet and mobile communications may be insecure and subject to breaches of security; according, you acknowledge and agree that your UGC is submitted at your own risk.
In your communications with SPE, please keep in mind that we do not seek any unsolicited ideas or materials for products or services, or even suggested improvements to products or services, including, without limitation, ideas, concepts, inventions, or designs for music, websites, apps, books, scripts, screenplays, motion pictures, television shows, theatrical productions, software or otherwise (collectively, "Unsolicited Ideas and Materials"). Any Unsolicited Ideas and Materials you submit are deemed UGC and licensed to us as set forth below. In addition, SPE retains all of the rights held by members of the general public with regard to your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials. SPE’s receipt of your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials is not an admission by SPE of their novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not impair SPE’s right to contest existing or future intellectual property rights relating to your Unsolicited Ideas and Materials.
(iii) License to SPE of Your UGC. Except as otherwise described in any applicable Additional Terms (such as a promotion’s official rules), which specifically govern the submission of your UGC, you hereby grant SPE, the non-exclusive, unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, and cost-free right and license to use, copy, record, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, sublicense (through multiple levels), display, publicly perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, translate, make derivative works of, and otherwise use and exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of your UGC (and derivative works thereof), for any purpose whatsoever in all formats, on or through any means or medium now known or hereafter developed, and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed, and to advertise, market, and promote the same. Without limitation, the granted rights include the right to: (a) configure, host, index, cache, archive, store, digitize, compress, optimize, modify, reformat, edit, adapt, publish in searchable format, and remove such UGC and combine same with other materials, and (b) use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any UGC for any purposes whatsoever, including developing, producing, and marketing products and/or services. You understand that in exercising such rights metadata, notices and content may be removed or altered, including copyright management information, and you consent thereto and represent and warrant you have all necessary authority to do so. In order to further effect the rights and license that you grant to SPE to your UGC, you also hereby grant to SPE, and agree to grant to SPE, the unconditional, perpetual, irrevocable right to use and exploit your name, persona, and likeness in connection with any UGC, without any obligation or remuneration to you. Except as prohibited by law, you hereby waive, and you agree to waive, any moral rights (including attribution and integrity) that you may have in any UGC, even if it is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. To the extent not waivable, you irrevocably agree not to exercise such rights (if any) in a manner that interferes with any exercise of the granted rights. You understand that you will not receive any fees, sums, consideration, or remuneration for any of the rights granted in this Section 2.A(iii).
(iv) SPE’s Exclusive Right to Manage Our Service. SPE may, but will not have any obligation to, review, monitor, display, post, store, maintain, accept, or otherwise make use of, any of your UGC, and SPE may, in its sole discretion, reject, delete, move, re-format, remove or refuse to post or otherwise make use of UGC without notice or any liability to you or any third party in connection with our operation of UGC venues in an appropriate manner. Without limitation, we may do so to address content that comes to our attention that we believe is offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, threatening, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate, or to enforce the rights of third parties or these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. Such UGC submitted by you or others need not be maintained on the Service by us for any period of time, and you will not have the right, once submitted, to access, archive, maintain, change, remove, or otherwise use such UGC on the Service or elsewhere, except that California minors have certain rights to have certain content about them that they have themselves posted on the Service prospectively removed from public display as provided for in the Privacy Policy.
(v) Representations and Warranties Related to Your UGC. Each time you submit any UGC, you represent and warrant that you are at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside and are the parent or legal guardian, or have all proper consents from the parent or legal guardian, of any minor who is depicted in or contributed to any UGC you submit, and that, as to that UGC, (a) you are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property and other rights to the UGC, or you have a lawful right to submit the UGC and grant SPE the rights to it that you are granting by these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, all without any SPE obligation to obtain consent of any third party and without creating any obligation or liability of SPE; (b) the UGC is accurate; (c) the UGC does not and, as to SPE’s permitted uses and exploitation set forth in these Terms, will not infringe any intellectual property or other right of any third party; and (d) the UGC will not violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, or cause injury or harm to any person.
(vi) Enforcement. SPE has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your UGC, but you grant us the right to protect and enforce our rights to your UGC, including initiating actions in your name and on your behalf (at SPE’s cost and expense, to which you hereby consent and irrevocably appoint SPE as your attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution and delegation, which appointment is coupled with an interest).
B. Appropriate content and Alerting Us of Violations. We expect UGC to be appropriate for a general audience, but do not undertake to monitor it, and you consent to potentially encountering content you find offensive or inappropriate. For alleged infringements of intellectual property rights, see Section 5.
3. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THE SERVICE AND CONTENT
A. Service Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not: (i) use the Service for any political or commercial purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds, collecting product prices, and selling products); (ii) use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing any Intellectual Property; (iii) engage in any activities through or in connection with the Service that seek to attempt to or do harm any individuals or entities or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third party, or are otherwise objectionable to SPE; (iv) to the maximum extent not prohibited by applicable law, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Service by any means whatsoever or modify any Service source or object code or any Software or other products, services, or processes accessible through any portion of the Service; (v) engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to the Service or the proper operation of the Service, or otherwise causes harm to the Service, SPE, or other users of the Service; (vi) interfere with or circumvent any security feature (including any digital rights management mechanism, device or other content protection or access control measure) of the Service or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Service, the content, or the UGC; (vii) harvest or otherwise collect or store any information (including personally identifiable information about other users of the Service, including email addresses, without the express consent of such users); (viii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other computer systems or networks connected to the Service, through password mining or any other means; or (ix) otherwise violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms.
B. Content Use Restrictions. You also agree that, in using the Service, you: (i) will not monitor, gather, copy, or distribute the content (except as may be a result of standard search engine activity or use of a standard browser) on the Service by using any robot, rover, "bot", spider, scraper, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic device, utility, or manual process of any kind; (ii) will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any such content (including any images, text, or page layout); (iii) will keep intact all trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property notices contained in such content; (iv) will not use such content in a manner that suggests an unauthorized association with any of our or our licensors’ products, services, or brands; (v) will not make any modifications to such content (other than to the extent of your specifically permitted use of the SPE Licensed Elements, if applicable); (vi) will not copy, modify, reproduce, archive, sell, lease, rent, exchange, create derivative works from, publish by hard copy or electronic means, publicly perform, display, disseminate, distribute, broadcast, retransmit, circulate or transfer to any third party or on any third-party application or website, or otherwise use or exploit such content in any way for any purpose except as specifically permitted by these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms or with the prior written consent of an officer of SPE or, in the case of content from a licensor, the owner of the content; and (vii) will not insert any code or product to manipulate such content in any way that adversely affects any user experience.
C. Availability of Service and Content. Subject to the applicable provisions of any Additional Terms, SPE, in its sole discretion without advance notice or liability, may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Service and/or content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason, in SPE’s sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability.
4. CREATING AN ACCOUNT
A. If you register with us or create an account, you are solely responsible and liable for the security and confidentiality of your access credentials and for restricting access to your Device and for all activity under your account. Passwords must be personal, unique username (or email address) that does not violate the rights of any person or entity, or is offensive. We may reject the use of any password, username, or email address at any time, for any reason in our sole discretion. You are solely responsible for your registration information and for updating and maintaining it. You will immediately notify us here of any unauthorized use of your account, password, or username, or any other breach of security. You will not sell, transfer, or assign your account or any account rights.
B. Accounts may only be set up by an authorized representative of the individual that is the subject of the account. We do not review accounts for authenticity, and are not responsible for any unauthorized accounts that may appear on the Service. For any dispute as to account creation or authenticity, we shall have the sole right, but are not obligated, to resolve such dispute as we determine appropriate, without notice. SPE may shut down any account SPE deems in its sole discretion to be unauthorized.
5. PROCEDURE FOR ALLEGING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
A. If you are a copyright owner who would like to send us a notice pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") to identify content or material posted on the Service that is infringing that you would like removed from our Service, or if you are a user whose work has been removed in response to such a notice of infringement and would like to file a DMCA counter-notice, you may submit such notice to us by following the instructions here.
6. NOTICES
A. You agree that we may give you notices or otherwise respond to you by mail or to your email (if we have it on file) or in any other manner reasonably elected by us. All legal notices to us must be sent to: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., 10202 W. Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232 (Attn: Legal Department -- Notices).
7. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS; PRICING; TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
A. We strive to accurately describe our products or services offered on the Service; however, we do not warrant that such specifications, pricing, or other content on the Service is complete, accurate, reliable, current, or error-free. In the event of any errors relating to the pricing, availability, or specifications, SPE shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders in its sole discretion. If we charged your credit or other account prior to cancellation, we will reissue credit to your account. Additional Terms may apply. If a product you purchased from SPE is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it, to cancel the purchase and receive a credit for the purchase price.
8. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES; ADVERTISEMENTS; DEALINGS WITH THIRD PARTIES
A. Third-Party Content and Sites; Advertisements. The Service may contain third party plug-ins, applications, ads, tools and/or other content, and/or links to third-party websites or other services that are not owned, controlled or operated by SPE, including services operated by advertisers, licensors, licensees, and certain other third parties who may have business relationships with SPE (collectively, "Third-Party Services"). We may also host our content, apps, and tools on Third-Party Services. SPE has no control over the content, operations, policies, terms, or other elements of Third-Party Services, and does not assume any obligation to review them. SPE does not necessarily review, endorse, approve, or sponsor any Third-Party Services, or any third-party content, advertising, information, materials, products, services, or other items. Furthermore, SPE is not responsible for the quality or delivery of the products or services offered, accessed, obtained by or advertised at such Third-Party Services. SPE WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL LOSS, OR OTHER DAMAGE, WHETHER ARISING FROM NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT, DEFAMATION, INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, CAUSED BY THE EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTION, OR EXPLOITATION OF ANY INFORMATION OR CONTENT CONTAINED WITHIN THESE THIRD-PARTY SERVICES. Any activities you engage in connection with Third-Party Services are subject to that Third-Party Services’ privacy policy and terms of use which you should read before engaging in such activities.
B. Apple and Other Platforms and Devices. If you are accessing or using the Service through Apple, Android, or other third party platforms or services, those Third-Party Services’ own terms and policies apply to such access and usage. Without limitation, Additional Terms for Apple Users can be found here which are applicable to you and are incorporated into these Terms by this reference.
C. Dealings with Third Parties. Any interactions, correspondence, transactions, or dealings you have with any third parties found on or through the Service (including on or via Third-Party Services or advertisements) are solely between you and the third party (including issues related to the content of third-party advertisements, payments, delivery of goods, warranties (including product warranties), privacy and data security, and the like). SPE disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
9. DISPUTES AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
A. Forum Selection/Jurisdiction. Jurisdiction and venue for any controversy, allegation, or claim arising out of or relating to the Service, the content, your UGC, these Terms, or any applicable Additional Terms, whether before the Effective Date of these Terms or after arising (collectively, "Dispute") shall be in Los Angeles, California. Each party submits to personal jurisdiction and venue in Los Angeles, California for any and all purposes.
B. Pre-Arbitration Notification. SPE and you agree to discuss and hopefully resolve any Disputes before formal proceedings are initiated; provided, however, that SPE need not do so in circumstances where its claims of intellectual property rights are concerned ("IP Disputes," with all other disputes referred to as "General Disputes"). The party making a claim – whether you or SPE – shall send a letter to the other side briefly summarizing the claim and the request for relief. If SPE is making a claim, the letter shall be sent, via email, to the email address listed in your SPE account, if applicable. If no such information exists or if such information is not current, then we have no obligations under this Section 9.B. to notify or delay bringing a claim. If you are making a claim, the letter shall be sent to Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Attn: EVP Global Litigation -- Claims). If the Dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days after notification, the claimant may proceed to initiate arbitration proceedings as set forth in this Section 9. Either you or SPE, however, may seek provisional remedies (such as preliminary injunctive relief, subject to Section 9.D) before the expiration of this sixty (60)-day period.
C. Arbitration of Claims. The Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) governs the arbitrability of all disputes because these Terms and use of our websites concern interstate commerce. All actions or proceedings arising in connection with, touching upon or relating to these Terms, the breach thereof and/or the scope of the provisions of this Section, including statutory claims or claims sounding in tort, shall be submitted to JAMS (“JAMS”) for binding arbitration under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures if the matter in dispute is over Two Hundred Fifty Thousand U.S. Dollars (US$250,000) or under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures if the matter in dispute is Two Hundred Fifty Thousand U.S. Dollars (US$250,000) or less (as applicable, the “Rules”) to be held solely in Los Angeles County, California, in the English language in accordance with the provisions below.
a. Each arbitration shall be conducted by a single arbitrator (the “Arbitrator”) who shall be mutually agreed upon by the parties. If the parties are unable to agree on the Arbitrator, the Arbitrator shall be appointed by JAMS. As set forth in Section 9(F.), the claim of a party may not be joined as a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general action with any claims of other parties
b. The Arbitrator’s fees shall be split equally between the parties and each party shall be responsible for the payment of its own costs, attorneys’ fees, expert fees and all of its other fees, costs and expenses in connection with any arbitration, unless the arbitrator finds that a party proceeded in bad faith, in which case the Arbitrator may award fees or costs in the exercise of discretion.
c. The parties shall be entitled to conduct discovery as the Arbitrator authorizes as reasonable under all of the circumstances, based on findings that the material sought is relevant to the issues in dispute and that the nature and scope of such discovery is reasonable under all the circumstances. Such discovery ordered by the arbitrator shall be limited to depositions and production of documents.
d. There shall be a record of the proceedings at the arbitration hearing and the Arbitrator shall issue a Statement of Decision setting forth its factual and legal basis. The Arbitrator’s decision shall be final and binding as to all matters of substance and procedure, and may be enforced by a petition to the Los Angeles County Superior Court or any other court having jurisdiction over both parties, which may be made ex parte, for confirmation and enforcement of the award.
e. The Arbitrator shall have the power to enter temporary restraining orders and preliminary and permanent injunctions as proper under California law. Neither party is permitted to commence or maintain any action in a court of law with respect to dispute until such matter has been submitted to arbitration as provided here, and then only for the purpose of enforcing the Arbitrator’s award; provided, however, that prior to the appointment of the Arbitrator, either party, on a showing of irreparable harm and likelihood of success, and as limited by Section D below, may seek pre-arbitration relief in a court of competent jurisdiction in Los Angeles County, California or, if sought by SPE, such other court that may have jurisdiction over you. All arbitration proceedings shall be closed to the public and confidential and all records relating thereto shall be permanently sealed, except as necessary to obtain court confirmation of the arbitration award.
D. Limitation on Injunctive Relief. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW IF YOU CLAIM THAT YOU HAVE INCURRED ANY LOSS, DAMAGES, OR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, THEN THE LOSSES, DAMAGES, AND INJURIES WILL NOT BE DEEMED IRREPARABLE OR SUFFICIENT TO ENTITLE YOU TO AN INJUNCTION OR TO OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF OF ANY KIND. THIS MEANS THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR CLAIM, YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT SEEK, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN, ANY COURT OR OTHER ACTION THAT MAY INTERFERE WITH OR PREVENT THE DEVELOPMENT OR EXPLOITATION OF ANY WEBSITE, APPLICATION, CONTENT, UGC, PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNED, LICENSED, USED, OR CONTROLLED BY ANY SPE PARTY (INCLUDING YOUR LICENSED UGC) OR A LICENSOR OF ANY SPE PARTY. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, you hereby irrevocably waive any right or remedy to seek and/or obtain injunctive or other equitable relief or any order with respect to, and/or to enjoin or restrain or otherwise impair in any manner, the production, distribution, exhibition, or other exploitation of any motion picture, production or project related to SPE, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, or the use, publication or dissemination of any advertising in connection with such motion picture, production, or project. You may opt out, however, of arbitrating claims for public injunctive relief. If you do so, neither you nor SPE can require the other to participate in an arbitration of any claim of public injunctive relief, and you retain your right to bring such actions in a court that has jurisdiction. To opt out, you must notify us in writing within 30 days of the date that you first became subject to this arbitration provision, and must include your name and residence address, your email address, and a clear statement that you want to opt out of arbitration of public injunctive relief. Any requests to opt out must be sent to: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 (Attn: EVP Global Litigation -- Claims). If a court or arbitrator decides that any of this section's limitations cannot be enforced as to a particular claim for relief, then that claim (and only that claim) must be severed from the arbitration and may be brought in court subject to Section 9(A).
E. Governing Law. These Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, Dispute and IP Disputes, and any other claim brought by you against SPE or by SPE against you pursuant to this Section 9, or otherwise related to the Service, content, SPE Licensed Elements, UGC or other SPE products or services, will be governed by, construed, and resolved in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., without regard to its conflicts of law provisions that might apply the laws of another jurisdiction. The arbitration shall be governed solely by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §1, et seq., not by the law of any state, and is otherwise enforceable pursuant to its terms on a self-executing basis. You and SPE agree that we intend that this Section 9 satisfies the "writing" requirement of the Federal Arbitration Act. This Section 9 can only be amended by mutual agreement. Either party may seek enforcement of this Section 9 in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitrator shall determine any and all challenges to the arbitrability of a claim.
F. Class Action Waiver. Both you and SPE waive the right to bring any Dispute, including but not limited to actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act as a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general action, or to participate in a class, consolidated, representative, collective, or private attorney general action regarding any Dispute brought by anyone else. Notwithstanding any provision in the JAMS Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures to the contrary, the arbitrator shall not have the authority or any jurisdiction to hear the arbitration as a class, consolidated, representative, or private attorney general action or to consolidate, join, or otherwise combine the Disputes of different persons into one proceeding. Notwithstanding the arbitration provision set forth above, if the provision regarding waiver of class, collective, representative, and private attorney general claims of this Section 9 is found to be void or otherwise unenforceable, any such class, collective, representative, or private attorney general claims must be heard and determined through an appropriate court proceeding subject to Section 9(A), and not in arbitration.
G. Limited Time To File Claims. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IF YOU OR WE WANT TO ASSERT A GENERAL DISPUTE (BUT NOT AN IP DISPUTE) AGAINST THE OTHER, THEN YOU OR WE MUST COMMENCE IT (BY DELIVERY OF WRITTEN NOTICE AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 9.B) WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE DISPUTE ARISES – OR IT WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
H. Small Claims Matters. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either of us may bring qualifying claim of General Dispute (but not IP Disputes) in small claims court, subject to Section 9.F.
I. This Section 9 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any termination of your use of the Service or these Terms.
10 DISCLAIMER OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
A. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE", AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" BASIS. To the fullest extent permissible by law, SPE and their direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and each of their respective employees, directors, members, managers, shareholders, agents, vendors, licensors, licensees, contractors, customers, successors, and assigns (collectively, "SPE Parties") hereby disclaim and make no representations, warranties, endorsements, or promises, express or implied, in connection with, or otherwise directly or indirectly related to, without limitation, the Service, content, SPE Licensed Elements, UGC or other SPE products or services, except as set forth in subsection C, below.
B. EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES PROVIDED HEREIN, OR IN APPLICABLE ADDITIONAL TERMS, OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SPE PARTIES HEREBY FURTHER DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES, TITLE, CUSTOM, TRADE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS.
C. FOR PURPOSES OF CLARITY, THIS SECTION DOES NOT EXPAND OR LIMIT ANY EXPRESS, WRITTEN PRODUCT WARRANTY OR RELATED DISCLAIMERS THAT ARE PROVIDED BY SPE OR A MANUFACTURER WITH REGARD TO A PHYSICAL PRODUCT SOLD BY US, OR ANY WARRANTY ON A PHYSICAL PRODUCT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
11. LIMITATIONS OF SPE'S LIABILITY
A. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY SPE PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, including personal injury or death or for any direct, indirect, economic, exemplary, special, punitive, incidental, or consequential losses or damages of any kind, including without limitation loss of profits, in connection with, or otherwise directly or indirectly related to, without limitation, the Service, content, SPE Licensed Elements, UGC or other SPE products or services, except for direct damages for personal injury caused by a physical product manufactured, sold or provided by SPE.
B. The foregoing limitations of liability will apply even if any of the events or circumstances were foreseeable and even if SPE Parties were advised of or should have known of the possibility of such losses or damages, regardless of whether you bring an action based in contract, negligence, strict liability, or tort (including whether caused, in whole or in part, by negligence, acts of god, telecommunications failure, or destruction of the Service).
C. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL SPE PARTIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU, FOR ALL POSSIBLE DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE AND YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THESE TERMS, EXCEED AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID SPE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTION(S) THAT UNDERLIE THE CLAIM(S). FOR PURPOSES OF CLARITY, THIS SECTIONS DOES NOT EXPAND OR LIMIT ANY EXPRESS, WRITTEN PRODUCT TERMS THAT ARE PROVIDED BY SPE OR A MANUFACTURER WITH REGARD TO A PHYSICAL PRODUCT SOLD BY US OR LIABILITY FOR DIRECT DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY A PHYSICAL PRODUCT MANUFACTURES, SOLD OR PROVIDED BY SPE.
12. UPDATES TO TERMS
A. It is your responsibility to review the posted Terms and any applicable Additional Terms each time you use the Service (at least prior to each transaction or submission). EACH TIME YOU SIGN IN TO OR OTHERWISE USE THE SERVICE YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A NEW AGREEMENT WITH US ON THE THEN APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY NOTIFY YOU OF NEW TERMS BY POSTING THEM ON THE SERVICE (OR IN ANY OTHER REASONABLE MANNER OF NOTICE WHICH WE ELECT), AND THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE AFTER SUCH NOTICE CONSTITUTES YOUR GOING FORWARD AGREEMENT TO THE NEW TERMS FOR YOUR NEW USE AND TRANSACTIONS. Any new Terms or Additional Terms will be effective for any new use and transactions as of the time that we post them, or such later date as may be specified in them or in other notice to you. However, any changes to the dispute resolution provisions set out in Section 9 (Disputes and Dispute Resolution) will not apply to any Disputes for which the parties have actual notice on or before the date the change is posted on the website. In the event any notice to you of new, revised, or additional terms is determined by a tribunal to be insufficient, the prior agreement shall continue until sufficient notice to establish a new agreement occurs. You can reject any new, revised or additional terms by discontinuing use of the Service.
13. GENERAL PROVISIONS
A. SPE’s Consent or Approval. As to any provision in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms that grants SPE a right of consent or approval, or permits SPE to exercise a right in its "sole discretion," SPE may exercise that right in its sole and absolute discretion. No SPE consent or approval may be deemed to have been granted by SPE without being in writing and signed by an officer of SPE.
B. Indemnity. You agree to, and you hereby, defend (if requested by SPE), indemnify, and hold SPE Parties harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs, investigations, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties, settlements, interest, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) that directly or indirectly arise from or are related to any claim, suit, action, demand, or proceeding made or brought against any SPE Party, or on account of the investigation, defense, or settlement thereof, arising out of or in connection with, whether occurring heretofore or hereafter: (i) your UGC; (ii) your use of the Service and your activities in connection with the Service; (iii) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms; (iv) your violation or alleged violation of any laws, rules, regulations, codes, statutes, ordinances, or orders of any governmental or quasi-governmental authorities in connection with your use of the Service or your activities in connection with the Service; (v) information or material transmitted through your Device, even if not submitted by you, that infringes, violates, or misappropriates any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent, publicity, privacy, or other right of any person or entity; (vi) any misrepresentation made by you; and (vii) SPE Parties’ use of the information that you submit to us (including your UGC) (all of the foregoing, "Claims and Losses"). You will cooperate as fully required by SPE Parties in the defense of any Claim and Losses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, SPE Parties retain the exclusive right to settle, compromise, and pay any and all Claims and Losses. SPE Parties reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any Claims and Losses. You will not settle any Claims and Losses without, in each instance, the prior written consent of an officer of a SPE Party.
C. Operation of Service; Availability of Products and Services; International Issues. SPE controls and operates the Service from the U.S.A., and makes no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use beyond the U.S.A. If you use the Service from other locations, you are doing so on your own initiative and responsible for compliance with applicable local laws regarding your online conduct and acceptable content, if and to the extent local laws apply.
D. Export Controls. You are responsible for complying with all applicable trade regulations and laws both foreign and domestic. Except as authorized by U.S. law, you agree and warrant not to export or re-export the software to any county, or to any person, entity, or end-user subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions.
E. Severability; Interpretation. If any provision of these Terms, or any applicable Additional Terms, is for any reason deemed invalid, unlawful, void, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms or the applicable Additional Terms, and the invalidity of the provision will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms or the applicable Additional Terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to waive and will waive, any applicable statutory and common law that may permit a contract to be construed against its drafter.
F. Investigations; Cooperation with Law Enforcement; Termination; Survival. SPE reserves the right, without any limitation, to: (i) investigate any suspected breaches of its Service security or its information technology or other systems or networks, (ii) investigate any suspected breaches of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, (iii) investigate any information obtained by SPE in accordance with its Privacy Policy in connection with reviewing law enforcement databases or complying with criminal laws, (iv) involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating any of the foregoing matters, (v) prosecute violators of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, and (vi) discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, or, suspend or terminate your access to it, in whole or in part, including any user accounts or registrations, at any time, without notice, for any reason and without any obligation to you or any third party. Any suspension or termination will not affect your obligations to SPE under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. Upon suspension or termination of your access to the Service, or upon notice from SPE, all rights granted to you under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will cease immediately, and you agree that you will immediately discontinue use of the Service. The provisions of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, which by their nature should survive your suspension or termination will survive, including the rights and licenses you grant to SPE in these Terms, as well as the indemnities, releases, disclaimers, and limitations on liability and the provisions regarding jurisdiction, choice of law, no class action, and mandatory arbitration.
G. Assignment. SPE may assign its rights and obligations under these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, in whole or in part, to any party at any time without any notice. These Terms and any applicable Additional Terms may not be assigned by you, and you may not delegate your duties under them, without the prior written consent of an officer of SPE.
H. Complete Agreement; No Waiver. These Terms, and any applicable Additional Terms, reflect our complete agreement regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements, representations, warranties, assurances or discussion related to the Service for your use of the Service from the effective date of these Terms. Any prior Terms and any applicable Additional Terms remain applicable to uses during the period those Terms and any applicable Additional Terms were in effect as specified in Section 12 above. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, (i) no failure or delay by you or SPE in exercising any of rights, powers, or remedies under will operate as a waiver of that or any other right, power, or remedy, and (ii) no waiver or modification of any term of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will be effective unless in writing and signed or accepted by the party against whom the waiver or modification is sought to be enforced.
I. California Consumer Rights and Notices. Residents of California are entitled to the following specific consumer rights information: you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at: 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N-112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at 800.952.5210 or (916) 445-1254. Their website is located at: http://www.dca.ca.gov. California residents can obtain information on our privacy practices, including how we comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Shine the Light Act in our Privacy Policy.
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