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Terms of service

Welcome to arcien.com. Thanks for using our service (“Service”). The Service is provided by arcien.com (“Website”).

Acceptance

Please read these Terms of Service (“TOS”) carefully before registering or using the service. If you do not accept these TOS, then you may not use the Service. By using our Service, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and agree to abide by them. TOS are subject to change by arcien.com at any time, effective when posted on the Service. Your continued use after such notice will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.

Your Rights

You may use this Service solely for personal and non-commercial purposes only and subject to these Terms of Use, all applicable laws, rules and regulations and any agreements or terms with third parties to which you are subject. The Service is for educational purposes.

You may not use the Service and may not accept these Terms of Service if you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Arcien.

Registration

You may use the Service without registration, but in order to take advantage of some aspects of the Service, you will need to register for an account. Your account is for your sole, personal use, you may not authorize others to use your account, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity.

You are responsible for the security of your password and will be solely liable for any use or unauthorized use under such password.

Your License To Use the Services

Arcien gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software that is provided to you by Arcien as part of the Service.

This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Service as provided by Arcien, in the manner permitted by these Terms.

Your Content

Any and all text, photos, pictures, graphics, comments, audio, video and other content, data or information that you upload, store, transmit, submit, exchange or make available to or via the Website (hereinafter "Your Content") is generated, owned and controlled solely by you, and not by Website.

Arcien does not claim any ownership rights in Your Content, and you hereby expressly acknowledge and agree that Your Content remains your sole responsibility.

You must not upload, store, distribute, send, transmit, display, perform, make available or otherwise communicate to the public any Content to which you do not hold the necessary rights. In particular, any unauthorized use of copyright protected material within Your Content (including by way of reproduction, distribution, modification, adaptation, public display, public performance, preparation of derivative works, making available or otherwise communicating to the public via the Platform) may constitute an infringement of third party rights and is strictly prohibited. Any such infringements may result in termination of your access to the Website, and may also result in civil litigation or criminal prosecution by or on behalf of the relevant rights holder.

We may, from time to time, invite or provide you with means to provide feedback regarding the Website, and in such circumstances, any feedback you provide will be deemed non-confidential and Arcien shall have the right, but not the obligation, to use such feedback on an unrestricted basis.

Your License to Arcien

The Service may provide you with an opportunity to share and upload, or submit to public forums, , blogs, photo- and video-sharing pages, e-mail services and social networking features or other aspects of the Service, your photos, videos, text and other information (collectively any submission or derivative thereof is referred to as “Content”). You hereby grant Website a perpetual license to use, redact, republish, copy, sell, distribute, perform and distribute your Content and screen name, including any intellectual property contained therein, in any medium now known or hereinafter developed without payment or compensation to you and without seeking any further approval from you as part of the Service or in support of the Service through advertising and marketing. You acknowledge that nothing contained within your Content would require us to seek permission of a third party in order to use the Content as described in these Terms of Use. You also agree to waive any moral rights, or right to any residual payment associated with Content if such Content is published, sold, distributed, or otherwise commercially exploited.

You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you provide, and for any consequences thereof, including the use of your Content by other users and our third party partners. You understand that your Content may be syndicated, broadcast, distributed, or published by our partners and if you do not have the right to submit Content for such use, it may subject you to liability. Arcien will not be responsible or liable for any use of your Content by Arcien in accordance with these TOS. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit.

Privacy

The privacy of your personally identifiable information is very important to us. For more information on what information we collect and how we use such information, please read our privacy policy.

Community Rules

The Website expects all of its users to be respectful of other people. This Website may include a variety of features, such as discussion forums, blogs, photo- and video-sharing pages, e-mail services and social networking features that allow feedback to us and allow users to interact with each other on the Website and post content and materials for display on the Website. This Website also may include other features, such as personalized home pages and e-mail services, that allow users to communicate with third parties. By accessing and using any such features, you represent and agree that you will not:

  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Website;
  • Use the Website 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 Website or its features, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of the networks we use to provide the Website;
  • Use the Website to instigate or encourage others to commit illegal activities or cause injury or property damage to any person;
  • Gain unauthorized access to the Website, or any account, computer system, or network connected to this Website, by means such as hacking, password mining or other illicit means;
  • Obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through this Website;
  • Use the Website to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law;
  • Use the Website to post or transmit any information, software or other material that violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material that is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or rights holder;
  • Use the Website to post or transmit any information, software or other material that contains a virus or other harmful component;
  • Use the Website to post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or that contains advertising;
  • Use the Website to advertise or solicit to anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without our express written approval;
  • Gather for marketing purposes any e-mail addresses or other personal information that has been posted by other users of the Website;
  • Contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
  • Engage in personal attacks, harass or threaten, question the motives behind others' posts or comments, deliberately inflame or disrupt the conversation, or air personal grievances about other users;
  • Repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
  • Take or cause to be taken any action that disrupts the normal flow of postings and dialogue on our Website (such as submitting an excessive number of messages - i.e. a flooding attack), or that otherwise negatively affects other users ability to use the Website and/or services; or
  • Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from our Website. Exception is made for Internet search engines (e.g., Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g., archive.org) that comply with our Terms of Service.

We reserve the right to deny access to the Website or any features of the Website to anyone who violates these Community Rules or who, in our sole judgment, interferes with the ability of others to enjoy our website or infringes the rights of others.

Copyright Infringement Notification

Arcien respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Service to do the same. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and are properly provided to us. If you believe there is content on the Arcien website that violates copyright law, let us know. Specifically, send us an email that includes substantially the following:

  • a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
  • identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
  • information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  • a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  • a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The notice should be sent to our designated agent, via email (arcien (at) arcien.com).

Note: Under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability for damages.

Arcien reserves the right to review the allegedly infringing material and independently determine whether it is infringing.

Please also note that the information provided in this legal notice will be forwarded to the person who provided the allegedly infringing content. A copy of this legal notice may also be sent (with your personal information removed) to a third-party that may publish and/or annotate it for noncommercial research and educational purposes.

Our Proprietary Rights

Website or its licensors are the exclusive owners of all software, graphics, designs and all copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property or proprietary rights contained on or used in connection with the Service. Except as set forth herein, you agree not to copy, distribute, modify or make derivative works of any materials without the prior written consent of the owner of such materials. All rights not granted under these Terms of Use are reserved by Website.

Disclaimers

This Service may contain links to other web sites not maintained by us. These links may include listings that can provide you with further information, or links that have been included in materials uploaded to the Service by a party other than Website. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Service and to read the terms and conditions and privacy statements of each and every web site that you visit. We are not responsible for the practices or the content of such other web sites or services. Despite any links that might exist on the Service, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with such third parties.

THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SERVICE, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER FOR THE CONTENT ON THE SERVICE. FURTHER, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE COMPLETELY SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE CONTENT AND ANY ERRORS CONTAINED THEREIN PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES. IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OF TORT, CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, COSTS OF COVER, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, PERSONAL INJURY/WRONGFUL DEATH, EACH OF WHICH IS HEREBY EXCLUDED BY AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Website, its officers, directors, employees, business partners and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) any breach by you of any of these Terms of Use, (ii) your Content, (iii) your use of materials or features available on the Service (except to the extent a claim is based upon infringement of a third party right by materials created by Website) or (iv) a violation by you of applicable law or any agreement or terms with a third party to which you are subject. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this section. In such event, you agree to provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.

Account suspension

You agree that, in our sole discretion, we may suspend or terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Website, or any part of the Website, and remove and discard any materials that you submit to the Website, at any time, for any reason, without notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third-party for any suspension or termination of your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Website, or any removal of any materials that you have submitted to the Website. In the event that we suspend or terminate your access to and/or use of the Website, you will continue to be bound by the Terms of Service that were in effect as of the date of your suspension or termination.

Agreement

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us and you with respect to the subject matter contained in this agreement and supersedes all previous and contemporaneous agreements, proposals and communications, whether written or oral. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use the products or services of a third party that are provided through the Website. In the event of any conflict between any such third-party terms and conditions and these Terms of Service, these Terms of Service will govern. This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

This agreement is personal to you and you may not assign it to anyone. If any provision of this agreement is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from this agreement and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms of Service are not intended to benefit any third party, and do not create any third party beneficiaries. Accordingly, these Terms of Service may only be invoked or enforced by you or us. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to use of the Website or these Terms of Service must be filed by you within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

These Terms of Service were last updated on May 21, 2014