Terms of service.

The following describes the terms on which Update Everyone offers you access to our services. This agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and subdomains of updateeveryone.com and the general principles for the websites of our clients, subsidiaries, and partners. If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement, please do not use or access our services.

By using our service, you agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this agreement, which include those terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before you may become an account holder of the Update Everyone System ("System").

We may amend this agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on updateeveryone.com. Except as stated below, all amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on our site. In addition, we will notify you in accordance with your notification preferences. This agreement may not be otherwise amended except in writing signed by you and Update Everyone, Inc.

Account eligibility

Our services are available only to individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to minors or to temporarily or indefinitely suspended Update Everyone account holders. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians. If you do not qualify, please do not use our services. Further, your Update Everyone account may not be transferred or sold to another party.

Your registration obligations

In consideration of your use of the Service, you agree to:

Provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (such information being the "Registration Data").

Maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Update Everyone has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Update Everyone has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). Update Everyone is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its account holders.

User account, password and security

You will receive an authentication code upon completing the Service's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the authentication code and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify Update Everyone of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security, and ensure that you logout from your account at the end of each session if you are using a website.

Update Everyone cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this section.

Account Activity

Fraud

Without limiting any other remedies, Update Everyone may suspend or terminate your account if we suspect that you (by conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with our System.

Manipulation

You may not manipulate any other account holder’s information without the expressed written consent of the other account holder's permission.

Your information and activity

Definition

"Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us in the registration process, in any public message area, or through any messaging system. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information.

Restricted activities

Your Information and your activities on our System shall not:

  • Be false, inaccurate or misleading.

  • Be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items.

  • Infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy.

  • Violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination, false advertising or regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law).

  • Be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing.

  • Be obscene or contain pornography (whether child or adult) or, if otherwise adult in nature or harmful to minors.

  • Upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).

  • Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Update Everyone official, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

  • Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Service.

  • Contain any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

  • Create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers.

  • "Stalk" or otherwise harass another person.

  • Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other account holders of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other account holders' ability to engage in real time exchanges.

  • Link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that are prohibited under this Agreement or you do not have a right to link to or include.

  • Collect or store personal data about other account holders.

  • Include any information that could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation.

License

Solely to enable Update Everyone to use the information you supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. Update Everyone will only use Your Information in accordance with our terms and conditions.

Access and interference

Our website contains robot exclusion headers and you agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without our prior expressed written permission.

You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers, or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Update Everyone System.

You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.

Much of the information on our site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to Update Everyone by our account holders or third parties. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from our Web site without the prior expressed written permission of Update Everyone or the appropriate third party.

You acknowledge that Update Everyone does not pre-screen Content, but that Update Everyone and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or move any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, Update Everyone and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by Update Everyone or submitted to Update Everyone, including without limitation information in all parts of the Service.

You acknowledge and agree that Update Everyone may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce the terms of service, respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Update Everyone, its account holders and the public.

You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve transmissions over various networks and changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

Breach

Without limiting other remedies, we may issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your account and refuse to provide our services to you if:

  • You breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference.

  • We are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

  • We believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our account holders, or us.

Privacy

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of account holders' privacy as a very important principle. We understand clearly that you and your information is one of our most important assets. We store and process your information on computers located in the United States that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles.

If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.

No warranty

We, our subsidiaries, employees, independent contractors and our suppliers provide our website, mobile application, and services "as is" and without any warranty or condition, express, implied or statutory. We, our subsidiaries, employees, independent contractors and our suppliers specifically disclaim any implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other legal rights that vary from state to state.

Liability limit

In no event shall we, our subsidiaries, employees, independent contractor or our suppliers be liable for lost profits or any special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with our website, mobile applications, our services, or this agreement (however arising, including negligence).

Our liability, and the liability of our subsidiaries, employees, independent contractors and suppliers, to you, or any third parties in any circumstance is limited to $100.

Some States do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

Legal compliance

You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your posting information on our website or mobile applications.

No agency

You and Update Everyone are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

Notices

Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail to:

Update Everyone, Inc.

Attn: Legal Department

69 Mildred Street

Austin, TX 78702

(in the case of Update Everyone)

or

To the email address you provide to Update Everyone during the registration process (in your case).

Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the address provided to Update Everyone during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of mailing.

Arbitration

Any legal controversy or legal claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or our services, excluding legal action taken by Update Everyone to collect our fees and/or recover damages for, or obtain an injunction relating to, the Update Everyone site operations, intellectual property, and our services, shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party.

The arbitration shall be conducted in Austin, Texas, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or Update Everyone may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in Austin, Texas necessary to protect the rights or property of you or Update Everyone pending the completion of arbitration. Should either party file an action contrary to this provision, the other party may recover attorney's fees and costs up to $1,000.00.

General

This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Texas as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Texas between Texas residents. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of our site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

You agree that this Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically assigned by Update Everyone, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition.

Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.

This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. Fees and Services - with respect to fees owed for our services, License, Access and Interference, Liability Limit, Indemnity and Arbitration shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.

Disclosures

The services hereunder are offered by Update Everyone, Inc., located at 69 Mildred Street, Austin, TX 78702. If you are a Texas resident, you may have this same information emailed to you by sending a letter to the foregoing address with your email address and a request for this information.

Trademark information

Update Everyone, the Update Everyone logo and trademarks and service marks, and other Update Everyone logos and product and service names are trademarks of Update Everyone, Inc. ("Company Marks"). Without Update Everyone’s prior permission, you agree not to display or use in any manner, the Update Everyone Company Marks.