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These Terms & Conditions of Use (the “Terms”) govern the terms and conditions of your use of the products (the “Products”) offered by Thingsty, which includes all the services, features, and functions used by you in course of the use of the Products (hereinafter referred to as the “Services”).
Your use of the Products for the aforementioned purpose creates a binding and legally-enforceable contract between yourself and Thingsty (hereinafter referred to as the “Company” and also as “we” and “us”) regarding use of the Products, receipt of the Services and matters ancillary thereto. By accessing the Products and receiving the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understand and accept these Terms. If you do not agree with any of these Terms, you shall discontinue use of the Products immediately.
- User Account
- Eligibility Criteria: By creating an account with us (hereinafter referred to as your “Account”), you represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age. Furthermore, you have not been convicted of any crime, including terrorism, fraud, and money laundering. If you are a minor, your parent or guardian can open the Account on your behalf in his or her own name and, in such case, the term “you” in these Terms shall refer to you and your parent or guardian.
- Legal Persons: In the event that you are creating this Account on behalf of a company, partnership, trust or any other legal person or association of persons (the “Entity”), you warrant that you have necessary authorizations to create and access this Account on behalf of such Entity and bind the Entity. You further agree to e-mail the soft copy of any such authorization to the Company within twenty-four (24) hours, if asked. You shall also provide complete information regarding the Entity, including, legal name, legal status, nature of business, registration details and registered office.
- Account Creation: If you fulfill the eligibility criteria mentioned in Clauses 1.1 and 1.2 above, you are entitled to create your Account. You shall ensure that all information that you provide in the process of creation of your Account is accurate and verifiable. You further represent that you are in possession of all the original documents to confirm the information provided by you in such process and authorize the Company to require and verify such information and documents, if it considers necessary.
- No Multiple, Fake Accounts: You are only permitted to use one account at a time. You may not create an account on behalf of any person, whether authorized or not. You may not impersonate any other person while using the Services.
- No Assignment: The account created by you under this Clause is for your personal use only. You shall not transfer, assign or sub-license your account to any third party.
- Rejection: Thingsty reserves the right to refuse your account creation request without having to give any reason whatsoever. Thingsty does not guarantee that your account will be created under all circumstances, and may refuse to provide any Services to you to comply with its policies or for its own legitimate interests.
- Pricing The information on pricing shall be available on the URL: www.thingsty.com/pricing or any other source as notified by us. We do not offer any refunds for partial months of Services, plan downgrades or any period during which the Services were not used by you for any reason. All invoices issued by us will be paid within thirty (30) days of issuance, or any shorter period notified by us, to avoid penalties.
- Disclaimer
- Errors and Defects: The Company does not warrant that the electronic functions contained in or on the Products and the Services will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Company, or the server that makes the Services available, are free of viruses or bugs or represents full functionality.
- Protection of Data: The Company remains committed to protecting the integrity and privacy of your data. However, the Company shall not be liable for any unauthorized access or use of your information or any other negative consequence despite its best efforts to avoid the same.
- No Warranty: The Services and all information and/or material contained therein, provided therewith, available on or accessed through it are provided on “as is” and “as available” basis only, without warranty of any kind. The Company disclaims, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, conditions, representations, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, reliability, timeliness, completeness, adequacy, correctness and non-infringement of third party rights. Except where prohibited by law, this disclaimer also includes any expressed or implied warranties arising from any course of dealing, usage, or trade practice.
- Liability: When using the Products, information may be transmitted over a medium that is beyond the control and jurisdiction of the Company. Accordingly, the Company assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or information transmitted in connection with the Services.
- Data Protection
- Passwords: You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person has or gains access to your password or Account for the Products. It is your sole responsibility to (i) control the dissemination and use of your login name(s) and password(s); (ii) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your Account and password; and (iii) promptly inform the Company if you believe your Account or password has been compromised or if there is any other reason you need to deactivate your Account. To communicate with us, use our support channel by sending an email at support@thingsty.com. The Company cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using the Products. The Company does not assume any liability for misappropriation of your omissions if your Account is misused by persons not authorized by yourself.
- Protection: You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures, checkpoints and safeguards to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining means for the reconstruction or recovery of lost data.
- Use of the Products
- Intended Purpose: Your use of the Products shall be limited to the purpose for which it is intended only.
- Compliance with Law, Rules: You shall use this Products in compliance with:
- your obligations under any contract(s) / agreement(s) with third parties;
- any judgment, decree or writ binding upon yourself;
- all laws, rules and regulations of your jurisdiction, including laws pertaining to confidentiality, privacy and security; and
- best practices and professional code of conduct.
- Prohibited Uses: You shall NOT use the Products:
- to publish any news, photographs, images, documents, or information without verifying their contents for authenticity;
- for any illegal, fraudulent, harmful, malicious or unlawful activity;
- to upload information or make claims that may be misleading;
- to disseminate any political, religious or ideological messages, information, or propaganda;
- to promote hate speech;
- to form any interest groups or unions;
- to form any romantic or affectionate relationships;
- in an abusive manner, by gaining unauthorized access to the same;
- by uploading material that is not original or infringes upon the rights of third parties; or
- to advertise yourself by damaging the reputation of your professional competitors;
- for research purposes if you are a competitor of Thingsty; or
- for the purposes of monitoring its availability, performance, or functionality, or for competitive benchmarking, etc. if you are a competitor of Thingsty.
- License Term and Termination
- Term: These Terms be effective from the date of your Account registration us and shall continue for as long as your Account remains active (the “Term”).
- Termination by You: You may terminate the Term by deactivating your Account.
- Termination by the Company for Cause: The Company may suspend or terminate your Account:
- if there has been a breach of the Terms by you;
- to comply with any government or court order;
- to comply with any legal provision requiring the same;
- if any criminal proceedings have been commenced against you;
- if you become insolvent or become party to insolvency proceedings.
- Termination by the Company without Cause: The Company may terminate your Account without having to assign any reason to you by a written notice of fifteen (15) days to you.
- Maintenance Downtime The Company may, in rare cases, be required to shut down the Services temporarily for maintenance and/or up-gradation. While this suspension may be undesirable for you, the Company will try its best to avoid this outcome and it will do so only when it is absolutely necessary and in the best interests of its valued customers.
- No Liability
- No Liability Upon Loss: Neither the Company or its owners, partners, shareholders, directors, management, executives, employees, or other representatives, nor any of its holdings, affiliates, subsidiaries, or associated companies, shall be liable or responsible for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, punitive and/or consequential damages or losses suffered by you or any person arising out of:
- any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the services;
- the quality or originality of the services purchased by you while using the Products. You agree that the Company provides no warranty that the third party services or products available on our marketplace unless provided by the original supplier / provider / merchant;
- any changes to the Services, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the Services (or any features within the Services);
- the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the services;
- your failure to provide the Company with accurate account information;
- its or its users’ failure to perform or delay in performing any of their obligations or the Services when such failure or delay is by reason of force majeure, that is, circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company. For the purposes of this Clause, “force majeure” means and includes accident, bad weather, power failure, strike, lockout, riot, protest, delay by you or a third party, traffic jam, unforeseen problems with transport, blockade, civil strife and commotion, fire, natural disaster, flood, earthquake, explosion, epidemic, insurrection, war or warlike conditions, terrorism or threat of terrorism, embargo, act of God, judgment, order or decision of any judicial, semi-judicial or quasi-judicial forum (including courts and regulatory authorities), actions of governments or governmental agencies, compliance with any law, rule, regulation, judicial order, or governmental order, whether or not reasonable, lawful or valid, or other similar causes beyond the control of the Company;
- any physical, medical or health injury or harm caused to you by your use of any of the Company’s software, hardware, gadget, device, equipment, or machinery.
- Limitation to Apply Despite Knowledge: The limitations on the Company’s liability to you in Clause 8.1 above shall apply whether or not the Company has been advised of, is aware of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.
- Indemnity
- your breach or violation of any of these Terms;
- your misuse of the Products;
- the actions of any person using the User ID and password assigned to you for the Products;
- any misrepresentations made by you while using the Products;
- any violation of any applicable laws, rules, regulations and code of conduct whether knowingly or otherwise, while using the Products.
- Intellectual Property Rights of the Company
- Title to Intellectual Property: Save as otherwise stated, all intellectual property in the Products, its software and the Services, whether in trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, methods, secrets, source codes, or otherwise, whether registered or unregistered, shall vest in and is the sole and exclusive property of the Company (the “Intellectual Property”). This Intellectual Property also includes but is not limited to:
- the Company name and logo;
- all text, images, artwork and graphics in the Company, including its layout and design of the Products’ application;
- all graphical user interfaces on the Products; and
- all copyrights in the software of the Products.
- Use of Intellectual Property: You may only use this Intellectual Property in a manner expressly permitted by the Company. Your use of the Products or otherwise receipt of the Services does not give you the right to copy, modify, distribute, reproduce, broadcast, publish, sell, license or derive the source code of any or all of the Intellectual Property.
- Third Party Breach: In the event that you suspect a breach of the IPRs of the Company by a third party, you shall promptly notify the Company of such breach, and shall provide all reasonable information in the Company’s attempts to take all legal measures necessary to protect its Intellectual Property.
- International Protection: The Intellectual Property is protected by national copyright law and international copyright conventions. Any use of the Intellectual Property not expressly permitted by the Terms shall be considered a breach of the Terms.
- Violation: If you violate or breach any of the Terms, your permission to use the Products and the Intellectual Property automatically terminates.
- Rights Reserved: All rights not expressly granted herein or are reserved by the Company.
- Survival: This Clause shall survive the termination of these Terms.
- Links to Third-Party Resources Any hyperlink to any third party source or resource on the Products is provided for your convenience and ease of reference only. The Company does not necessarily recommend, endorse or approve, and is not responsible or liable for, any third-party content that may be accessed through any hyperlink on the Products.
- Independent Contractors Nothing in the Terms shall be construed to create a relationship of agency, partnership, joint venture or other formal business entity or fiduciary relationship between you and the Company (collectively as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”).
- Entire Understanding These Terms constitute the complete agreement and sets out the entire understanding concerning the arrangement between the Parties on the subject matter hereof and shall, as of the effective date hereof, supersede all prior agreement(s) or understanding(s) between the Parties as well as all other communications, representations, promises, proposals, oral or written, negotiations, conversations, or discussions between or among the Parties relating to the subject matter of the Terms.
- Notices Any notice required to be served under the Terms shall be deemed to have been served if either delivered through e-mail, registered post or courier service at the respective addresses of the Parties provided and in such a case it shall be deemed (whether it is actually or not) to have been received at the time when such e-mail, registered post or courier would, in the normal and ordinary course, be delivered to the Party to be served.
- Governing Law & Jurisdiction
- Governing Law: These Terms and your use of the Products shall be governed, interpreted, and construed solely in accordance with the applicable laws for the time being in force in Delaware, United States of America.
- Jurisdiction: In the event of any dispute(s) between the Parties arising from, or in connection with, or under these Terms or your use of the Products, the court(s) of competent jurisdiction, civil and/or criminal (as the case may be), at Delaware, United States of America shall have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate upon such dispute(s).
- Modification The Company may, at its sole discretion, at any time and without prior notice:
- change, alter, revise, modify, amend or update any or all of these Terms;
- change the nature of its services; and
- make amendments to the Products
- No Waiver Any failure or delay by the Company to exercise, enforce or demand its rights or remedies under these Terms at any time for any period shall not operate or be construed as a waiver or relinquishment of the Company’s right to enforce strict performance thereof. No single or partial exercise or enforcement by the Company of any right or remedy under the Terms or the law shall preclude any other or future exercise or enforcement of any right or remedy by such party under these Terms or the law. Any waiver of these Terms shall only be valid if it is in writing by the Company.
- Headings The headings in these Terms are for your use of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of these Terms.
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By using this Products, you agree to defend and indemnify the Company, its owner(s), shareholder(s) (if applicable), director(s) (if applicable), officers, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors and suppliers and hold them harmless from and against all or any consequences, actions, claims, losses, liabilities, demands and settlements including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, or arising out of, or alleged to arise out of: