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The trademarks, logos, and service marks ("Marks") displayed on the site by Pledge It are registered trademarks of their respective owners, are the property of their respective owners, and/or are protected by U.S. and international trademark laws and/or common law. Their uses are restricted to programs, events, products or services that Pledge It sponsors or with which we are otherwise affiliated. Pledge It's trademarks may not be used for personal financial gain. Use of the Marks is prohibited without Pledge It's express written consent except as permitted by applicable laws. Nothing contained on the site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Marks without Pledge It's express written consent.
No portion of the site, services or Site Information may be reprinted, republished, modified, or distributed in any form without Pledge It's express written permission. You may not, and these terms do not give you permission to, reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, transmit, sell, distribute, license or create derivative works with respect to the site, services or any of the Site Information.
You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or proprietary notice or legend contained on the site, services, or the Site Information and you must retain all copyright, trademark, service mark and other proprietary notices contained on the site, services or in the original Site Information on any authorized copy you make of the site, services or the Site Information.
Feedback. You agree that submission of any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals to Pledge It through its suggestion, feedback, wiki, forum or similar pages (“Feedback”) is at your own risk and that Pledge It has no obligations (including without limitation obligations of confidentiality) with respect to such Feedback. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit the Feedback. You hereby grant to Pledge It a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, adapt, modify, re-format, create derivative works of, and otherwise commercially or non-commercially exploit in any manner, any and all Feedback, and to sublicense the foregoing rights.
Use of Site. The site, services and the Site Information are provided "as is" with all faults. Your use of the site, services, and the Site Information is at your own risk. The site, services or Site Information may contain errors or omission, or may be out of date. The site, services or Site Information may, without prior notice, change, be deleted or updated at any time. As a condition of your use of the service or the site, you promise to:
Use the service in compliance with all laws, regulations, ordinances, directives, court orders and this Agreement local and applicable to your use of the site and services;
Use the service so as not to damage, disable, overburden or impair the service, our networks or systems or not to interfere with any others’ legal rights or use or enjoyment of the service; and
Not engage in, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in, activities which, in our judgment and discretion: (1) are illegal; (2) result in the infringement of the intellectual property rights of others or libel or defamation of another person; or (3) harvest or otherwise collect information about others (such as e-mail addresses or other personally identifiable information) without their consent.
Promotions. You are not permitted to offer any contest, competition giveaway, sweepstakes or similar activity (each, a "Promotion") on Pledge It without our prior written consent. You may seek permission by sending an email to info@pledgeit.org. If we consent, you take full responsibility for the Promotion, and you agree that: (a) such Promotion shall comply with all applicable laws; (b) you are solely responsible for all facets of the Promotion; (c) you may not use the Marks or any other Pledge It intellectual property in the rules or any other materials relating to the Promotion, without Pledge It's express written permission; (d) such Promotion does not require making a donation as the only way to enter; (e) such Promotion is not marketed to anyone under the lawful age for participation in each jurisdiction in which the Promotion is offered and is void where prohibited; and (f) such Promotion may not endorse, sponsor or promote anything related to gambling, alcohol, illegal or prescription drugs, pornography, or tobacco. You will include the following provisions within your official rules for any Promotion that you choose to administer or publicize on the site: (i) Pledge It does not sponsor, endorse or administer the Promotion; (ii) each participant or entrant in the Promotion releases Pledge It from any and all liability and (iii) all questions concerning the Promotion must be directed to you and not to Pledge It.
Content. When you are using the site and/or the services, you may have the opportunity to post, stream, transmit or otherwise provide photos, videos, ideas, remarks, questions, data, graphics, opinions, designs, customizations, or other content (including information, if any, on message boards, friend feeds, comments or other forums on the site or through the services (collectively "User Generated Content"). You alone, not Pledge It, are responsible for all of your User Generated Content and, as between Pledge It and you, you retain ownership to all User Generated Content. However, by submitting your User Generated Content to Pledge It, you hereby grant Pledge It a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, derive revenue or other remuneration from, and communicate to the public, your User Generated Content (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any worldwide intellectual property right, including moral rights, that may exist in your User Generated Content.
You warrant that the holder of any worldwide intellectual property right, including moral rights, in your User Generated Content, has granted you all necessary rights to grant the license stated above. In addition, you represent and warrant that you will not:
provide User Generated Content that is obscene, indecent, defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing, or infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
create any liability for Pledge It or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our Internet Service Provider(s), web hosting company or any other vendors or suppliers;
engage in any conduct that, in Pledge It's sole judgment and discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the site or services;
use the site or services to impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
interfere with or disrupt any servers or networks used to provide the site or services or their respective features, or disobey any requirements of the networks Pledge It uses to provide the site or services;
gain unauthorized access to the site, or any account, computer system, or network connected to this site or services, by any unauthorized or illegal means;
obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information not intentionally made available through the site or services;
use the site or services to post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or that contains advertising, except that using the site or services for fundraising activities is expressly permitted;
engage in advertising or commercial solicitation of any product or service without Pledge It's written consent, except that using the site or services for fundraising activities is expressly permitted;
gather for marketing purposes any email addresses or other personal information that has been posted by other users;
post any identification documents or sensitive information about another person;
Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any other technology or manual work) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the services;
Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from the services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of Pledge It;
Use, disclose or distribute any data obtained in violation of this policy; Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer, school or non-profit organization));
Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code; Attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology that is not open source;
Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Pledge It without our express consent (e.g., representing yourself as an accredited Pledge It trainer);
Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell access to the Services or related data; Sell, sponsor, or otherwise monetize any Service without Pledge It’s consent;
Deep-link to our Services for any purpose without Pledge It’s consent; Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on our Service; Remove, cover or obscure any advertisement included on the Services;
Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services; Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose; Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
Overlaying or otherwise modifying the Services or their appearance;
Access the services except through the interfaces expressly provided by Pledge It, such as its mobile applications and the site;
Use a Service for tasks that it is not intended for;
Override any security feature of the Services; and/or
Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on, the services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms).
Pledge It shall have the right, but no obligation, to monitor User Generated Content and other features of the site and services to determine compliance with these terms and any other operating rules we establish. Pledge It shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted through the site or services. We do not control any User Generated Content that you or other users may provide. Pledge It neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement on the User Generated Content, whether it is provided by Pledge It, our employees, or a third party.
Under no circumstances will Pledge It be liable for any loss or damage of any kind caused by reliance on information obtained through User Generated Content of the site or services. Pledge It is not responsible for any offensive, defamatory, obscene or any other posting made through the site or services. We reserve the right at all times to disclose any information we believe necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in Pledge It's sole discretion is inappropriate, objectionable or in violation of these terms. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email to info@pledgeit.org.
Pledge It is a provider of an interactive computing service as set forth in the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230 and expressly reserves its rights to not be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider on the site or through the services.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Copyright Complaints. Pledge It respects the intellectual property rights of others and requires those that visit the site and use our network to do the same. Pledge It may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, remove or disable access to material on the site or our network that infringes upon the copyright rights of others. Pledge It also may, at our discretion, remove or disable links or references to an online location that contains infringing material or infringing activity. In the event that any visitors to the site or users of our network repeatedly infringe on others' copyrights, Pledge It may in its sole discretion terminate those individuals' rights to use the site or our network. If you believe that your work has been used on our site or network in any manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify Pledge It's copyright agent by written notice. The notice should include the following information:
An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright allegedly infringed;
A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed, including a copy of the copyrighted work or the web page address where the copyrighted work may be found;
Identification of the location on the site of the material you claim has been infringed, or the link or reference to another website that contains the material you claim has been infringed;
Your name, address, telephone number and email address;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material at issue is not authorized by the copyright owner, the agent of the copyright owner or the law; and
A statement by you that the information in this notification is accurate and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner of the material allegedly infringed or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Pledge It's copyright agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on the site and our network is Duane Stewart III who can be reached at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant Street, 20th Floor, Pittsburg, PA 15219-1410. Phone: 412.562.1622