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Terms of Service

AVARA Media Inc. (“Company,” “we”, “us” or “our”) maintains these Terms of Service (“TOS”) that describe the terms and conditions applicable to your use of any of our applications (each, an “Application” and collectively, “Applications”), including Applications for personal computers, mobile devices, and social networking services (“SNS”). Your use of the Applications is subject at all times to these TOS, our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and any additional end user license agreements (the “EULA”) which may apply (collectively this “Agreement”).

 

EACH TIME YOU USE OR ACCESS AN APPLICATION, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, AND YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN AND AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THEM. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR AGREE TO BE BOUND BY (OR CANNOT COMPLY WITH) THIS AGREMENT, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE APPLICATIONS. YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS AND USE OF ANY APPLICATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO CONSTITUTE YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, AS IT MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. ANY REFERENCES HEREIN TO “YOU” AND “YOUR” REFER TO BOTH YOU AND SUCH PERSON AND ENTITY ON WHOSE BEHALF YOU ACT, IF ANY.

 

In some instances, both this Agreement and separate terms of service, rules, policies or guidelines set forth additional conditions that may apply to your use of an Application, including the Apple iTunes Store Terms and Conditions, the Google Play Terms of Service, Google Terms of Service, Google Business Play Program and Policies and any applicable SNS terms and conditions (collectively, the “Additional Terms”).

 

1. LICENSE

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a. License Grant. Subject to these TOS, the Privacy Policy and any EULA (each of which is hereby incorporated into the Agreement by this reference), the Company hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right and license to:

i. download, install and use the subject Applications (excluding source code) on your personal computer and/or mobile device, and

ii. access and use the Application through the subject SNS. The Company may terminate this license and Agreement without notice in the event you fail to comply with this Agreement or any Additional Terms. Upon termination of this Agreement, you must immediately cease accessing and using all Applications.

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b. Limitations. The license granted to you is subject to the following limitations. You shall not, or permit any other person to:

i. in whole or in part, (1) modify or create any derivative work of any Company Materials (defined below), other user’s User Content, or Application, or (2) copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, disassemble, reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, structure, or organization of any Application;

ii. modify, alter or remove any copyright, patent, confidentiality, trademark or other notice, label or legend in any Company Materials, other user’s User Content, or Application;

iii. sell, grant a security interest in or transfer a reproduction of any Company Materials, other user’s User Content, or Application to any third party in any way not expressly authorized herein;

iv. assign, rent, lease, distribute or license any Company Materials, other user’s User Content, or Application to any third party;

v. exploit any Company Materials, other user’s User Content, or Application for any commercial purpose;

vi. use any Application to access, copy, transfer, transcode or retransmit content in violation of third party intellectual property rights; or

vii. create or maintain, under any circumstance, any unauthorized connection to any Application. All connections to the Applications may only be made through methods and means expressly approved by the Company. Under no circumstances will you connect, or create tools that allow you or others to connect to the proprietary interface or interfaces other than those expressly provided by the Company for public use.

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c. Additional Agreements

i. You agree to use the Applications only in compliance with this Agreement and any Additional Terms, and all applicable rules, laws and regulations.

ii. By accessing and using the Applications, you represent and warrant that you are not prohibited from receiving exports or services under Canadian, United States or other applicable export laws.

iii. You agree that by accessing and using the Applications you may be exposed to content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that you access and use the Applications at your own risk.

 

Your failure to comply with the restrictions and limitations listed above and elsewhere in this Agreement or the Additional Terms may result in termination of the license granted hereunder and may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.

 

2. IP OWNERSHIP

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a. Company Materials. The Company, its licensors and/or certain third parties (as applicable) retain exclusive right, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to all materials that are part of the Applications (including past, present and future versions) (excluding User Content), including, without limitation: graphics; layout; text; images; audio and/or video; designs; advertising copy; logos; domain names; trade names and trademarks; any and all copyrightable material; the “look and feel”; the compilation, assembly and arrangement of the materials of the Applications; and all other materials or content made available on the Applications (collectively, the “Company Materials”) and such Company Materials are protected from unauthorized use, copying and dissemination by copyright, trademark, patent, publicity and other laws, rules, regulations and international treaties.

b. Trademark Notice. All words and logos in an Application marked by the ™ or ® symbols are trademarks of the Company and/or its licensor(s). All rights are reserved. All other trademarks appearing in the Applications are the property of their respective owners. All rights are reserved. Use of any of those trademarks or names as “metatags” or for any purpose other than as expressly authorized in this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

c. Application. The Company and/or its licensors retain exclusive right, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to all Applications, copies thereof, and all error corrections, bug-fixes, patches, updates, derivative works, improvements, modifications thereto (whether made by the Company, its licensors, you, or otherwise), any titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, musical compositions, audio-visual effects, storylines, character likenesses, methods of operation, moral rights, in-app currency, in-app accessories or incentive points, any related documentation, and “applets” incorporated into the Applications. The rights described in the foregoing sentence are the copyrighted work of the Company and/or its licensors and are protected by the copyright laws of Canada, the United States, international copyright treaties and conventions, and/or other applicable laws. The Application may contain certain licensed materials, and the licensors of those materials may enforce their rights in the event of any violation of this Agreement or the Additional Terms.

d. Third Parties. An Application may be incorporated into, and may incorporate, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Applications falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Applications will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with the Company regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to the Company to enforce any of your rights with respect to that third party software or technology.

e. No Additional Rights. Only those licenses expressly set forth in this Agreement are granted. No other licenses are granted under this Agreement, whether by implication, estoppel, course of conduct, or otherwise. Nothing in this Agreement or any Additional Terms transfers any of the right, title or interest (including any intellectual property rights) from the Company and/or its licensors to you or any third party. If you are ever inadvertently or erroneously held or deemed to be the owner of any such rights, you agree to assign and hereby irrevocably assign to the Company or its licensors, as the case may be, all such rights as of the effective date of these TOS, and agree to execute all documents to implement and confirm the letter and intent of the foregoing.

f. In-App Items. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE ONLY LICENSING THE RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND USE THE APPLICATIONS, AND AS THE COMPANY EITHER OWNS, OR HAS LICENSED, ALL OF THE COMPANY MATERIALS, APPLICATIONS AND OTHER CONTENT WHICH APPEARS IN THE APPLICATIONS, THE COMPANY DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANY PROPERTY CLAIMS OUTSIDE OF THE APPLICATIONS, OR THE PURPORTED SALE, GIFT OR TRADE IN THE “REAL WORLD” OF ANYTHING RELATED TO THE APPLICATIONS. YOU WILL HAVE NO CLAIM WHATSOEVER AGAINST THE COMPANY IN RESPECT OF THE THEFT, DELETION OR OTHER LOSS OF ANY VIRTUAL ITEMS, WHETHER DURING THE TERM OF THIS AGREEMENT OR UPON TERMINATION OF IT.

g. ANY PURCHASES OF VIRTUAL ITEMS DO NOT ENTITLE YOU TO SERVICE IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMPANY CEASES TO OFFER THE APPLICATIONS FOR ANY REASON, IS ACQUIRED BY A THIRD PARTY OR FILES A NOTICE OF BANKRUPTCY WITH ANY COURT.

 

3. ACCOUNT, FEES AND REFUNDS

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You may be required to access the Applications by establishing a user account (“Account”). You must pay the applicable fee for each Application, where applicable, and any available Virtual Items. Where applicable and subject to the applicable payment terms and conditions, you can order Virtual Items by visiting the purchase page in the Application, provide your credit card, PayPal or other applicable billing method information.

 

In addition to the foregoing, you hereby acknowledge and agree that you shall solely be responsible for and bear all telecommunication expenses, including, telephone charges, Internet connection charges and electricity charges, arising out of your access and use of the Applications.

 

Subject to technical problems and revisions to payment policies which may be instituted by the Company and partners at any time without notice, you may pay for any applicable fees and other charges by major credit card or such other methods expressly authorized in writing by the Company and its partners.

 

If the Company allows you to make a payment by credit card, then you authorize the Company to charge all amounts to the credit card number you provide to the Company. If your credit card payment is rejected or refused you will immediately pay the Company the amount due and provide the Company with an alternative credit card number for future payments. You represent and warrant to the Company that each credit card you use for payment in connection with the Application belongs to you and you have the right to charge all such payments on the credit card(s). All payments, regardless of how they were made, are non-refundable except to the extent that the Company specifically states otherwise in writing.

 

Any dispute arising between you and any third party payment provider (including a credit card company) shall be resolved directly between you and such third party provider. Under no circumstances shall Company be liable for any obligations incurred by you to such third party provider in connection with your access and use of the Applications. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Company, its licensors, affiliates, employees, officers, and directors from and against all liabilities, losses and expenses, including reasonable lawyers’ fees, arising from any third party payment provider claim relating to or arising from your access to or use of the Application.

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You have the right to cease accessing and using any Application at any time. You understand and agree that unless otherwise expressly provided for in this TOS, the cessation of access and use of the Applications is your sole right and remedy with respect to any dispute, including any dispute related to, or arising out of: (i) any term of this Agreement or the Company’s enforcement or application of this Agreement, (ii) the Company Materials and other content available through the Applications, (iii) your ability to access and/or use the Applications and/or (iv) the amount or type of fees, surcharges, applicable taxes, billing methods, or any change to the fees, applicable taxes, surcharges or billing methods.

 

Without limiting any other remedies, we may limit, suspend, terminate, modify or delete your access to the Applications (or any portion thereof) at any time if you are, or we suspect that you are, failing to comply with any of this Agreement or Additional Terms, with or without notice to you. If the Company terminates your access to the Applications, you may lose your user ID as well as any benefits, privileges, Virtual Items and User Content associated with the subject Application, and we are under no obligation to compensate you for any such losses or results.

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Moreover, no online time or other credits will be provided to you or converted to cash or other form of reimbursement, and you will have no further access to the subject Applications (including all Virtual Items). Moreover, you will not have the right to transfer, sell, or assign any Virtual Items to anyone else. Under no circumstances shall Company be responsible for storing or returning any User Content and other information following suspension, termination, modification or deletion of your access to the Applications.

 

We reserve the right to stop offering and/or supporting an Application at any time, at which time your license to access and use the specific Application will automatically be terminated without further action. In such event, we shall not be required to provide refunds, benefits or other compensation to you.

 

ALL FEES AND CHARGES YOU INCUR IN PURCHASING VIRTUAL ITEMS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A REFUND TO YOU FOR ANY REASON, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY MONEY OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR UNUSED VIRTUAL ITEMS WHEN WE STOP OFFERING AND/OR SUPPORTING ANY APPLICATION AVAILABLE TO YOU.

 

4. USER CONTENT

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The Company does not solicit submissions, creative materials, ideas or suggestions other than those the Company may specifically request. Any communications or materials you transmit to the Company through the Application or by e-mail or otherwise, including data, questions, feedback, comments, ideas, images, writings, music, sounds, audiovisual effects, artwork, design elements, graphics, suggestions, concepts, biographical information, notes, chat or message postings, text, writings, photographs, or other material (collectively, excluding Company Materials not created by you, “User Content”), will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary except as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy.

 

As part of an Application, the Company may invite you to participate in blogs, message boards, contests, sweepstakes, forums and other functionality and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute or broadcast User Content. You represent and warrant to the Company that your User Content is wholly original with you and you exclusively own the rights to your User Content, including the right to grant all of the rights and licenses in this Agreement without the Company incurring any third party obligations or liability arising out of its exercise of the rights thereto granted herein by you.

 

You hereby grant to the Company the unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, fully-paid and royalty-free right and license to host, use, copy, distribute, reproduce, disclose, sell, re-sell, sub-license, display, perform, transmit, publish, broadcast, modify, delete, make derivative works from, retitle, reformat, translate, archive, store, cache or otherwise exploit in any manner whatsoever, all or any portion of your User Content to which you have contributed, for any purpose whatsoever, in any and all formats; on or through any and all media, software, formula or medium now known or hereafter known; and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed and to advertise, market and promote same. You further agree that the Company is free to use any ideas, information, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any User Content you send to the Company, for any purposes whatsoever, including developing, producing, marketing and otherwise exploiting products and/or services using such User Content, and without remuneration of any kind. You further perpetually and irrevocably grant the Company the unconditional right to use and exploit your name, persona and likeness included in any User Content in connection with any User Content, without any obligations to you. Except as prohibited by law, you waive any rights of attribution and/or any so-called moral rights you may have in any User Content you submit, even if such User Content is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.

 

The Company has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your User Content but has the right to protect and enforce its licensed rights to your User Content, including by bringing and controlling actions in your name and on your behalf (at the Company’s cost and expense, to which you hereby consent and irrevocably appoint the Company as your lawyer-in-fact, with the power of substitution and delegations, which appointment is coupled with an interest). You also agree and understand that the Company is not obligated to use User Content and that you will not receive any additional consideration or compensation for your User Content or for any exploitation thereof.

 

You acknowledge and agree that your communications with other users via any channel of communication in an Application are public and not private, and that you have no expectation of privacy concerning your access and use of an Application. You acknowledge that personal information that you communicate in an Application may be seen and used by others and result in unsolicited communications, therefore we strongly encourage you not to disclose any personal information about yourself in your public communications in an Application. You are solely responsible for these communications and their legality under all applicable laws and regulations. Company is not responsible for information that you choose to communicate to other users in an Application, or for the actions of other users. For information regarding Company’s use of information collected in connection with the Applications, please refer to the Privacy Policy.

 

5. ONLINE CONDUCT

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You agree that you will be personally responsible for your access and use of the Applications and for all of your User Content and online activity in connection with the Applications, and that you will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its licensors, affiliates, employees, officers, and directors from all claims for liabilities, losses and expenses, including reasonable lawyers’ fees, from third parties arising from such use, User Content and activity. Specifically, you agree to comply with this Agreement, all applicable laws, rules and regulations governing the disclosure and use of third party property, including any and all intellectual property rights. Moreover, you agree not to:

i. Post, transmit, promote, or distribute illegal content.

ii. Harass, threaten, abuse, disparage, libel, slander, embarrass, or engage in any other disruptive behavior involving another user or Company or affiliate’s employee or agent.

iii. Transmit or facilitate distribution of content that is harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, or in a reasonable person’s view, objectionable.

iv. Infringe upon the intellectual property rights of Company or any third party.

v. Alter, delete or cancel any other user’s profile information or User Content.

vi. Disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms with vulgar language, abusiveness, hitting the return key repeatedly or inputting large images so the screen goes by too fast to read, use of excessive shouting, using ALL CAPS in an attempt to disturb other users, “spamming” or flooding or posting repetitive text.

vii. Impersonate another person, indicate that you are a Company or affiliate employee or agent, or attempt to mislead users by indicating that you represent Company or any of Company’s licensors or affiliates.

viii. Attempt to get a user ID, password, or other user information, or any other private information from a user. Company employees will NEVER ask for your password. DO NOT give your password, secret answers, or billing information out to anyone.

ix. Upload any content that you do not own or have the right to freely distribute.

x. Engage in or promote or encourage any illegal or fraudulent activity including hacking, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software, or identity theft.

xi. Upload files or display URLs that contain a virus or corrupted data.

xii. Post messages for any purpose other than personal communication, including advertising, promotional materials, chain letters, pyramid schemes.

xiii. Make any commercial use of the Applications, including using the Applications as an Internet dating service website, use at a cyber café, computer gaming center or any other location-based site without the express written consent of Company.

xiv. Improperly use support or complaint buttons or make false reports to Company.

xv. Use or distribute “auto” software programs, “macro” software programs or other “cheat utility” software program or applications.

xvi. Modify, reproduce, distribute, delete or create derivative works of the Applications, Company Materials or any User Content displayed therein, or any component thereof.

xvii. Attempt (or authorize, encourage or support others’ attempts) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, break or otherwise alter or interfere with the Applications or any component thereto.

xviii. Solicit or attempt to solicit, and post or communicate any user’s personal information.

xix. Interfere with, hack into or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Applications.

xx. Exploit any bug in any Application or in any Company product to gain unfair advantage in a game or exploit it for commercial purposes. You agree not to communicate the existence of any such bug (either directly or through the public posting) to any other user or third party.

xxi. Attempt to play any Company game on or through any service that is not controlled or authorized by Company. You will not participate in any online service that provides online features or game play for a Company game that is not authorized by Company.

xxii.Do anything that interferes with the ability of other users to enjoy playing a game and using the Applications or that materially increases the expense or difficulty of Company in maintaining the Applications for the enjoyment of all its users.

xxiii. Sell, purchase, gift or exchange Virtual Items for “real” money.

xxiv. Copy, sell, assign, lease, license or grant a security interest in the Applications or any part thereof (including Company Materials and Virtual Items).

xxv. Modify or remove any copyright, patent, confidentiality or other notice, label or legend in any Application.

xxvi. Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for a game or intercept, emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Company or its licensors in any way, including through protocol emulation, tunneling, packet sniffing, modifying or adding components to a game, use of a utility program or any other techniques now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose, including unauthorized network play over the Internet, network play utilizing commercial or non-commercial gaming networks or as part of content aggregation networks.

xxvii. Attempt to gain and maintain any unauthorized connections to an Application. All connections to a game and/or the Applications may only be made through methods and means expressly approved by Company. Under no circumstances will you connect, or create tools that allow you or others to connect, to a game’s proprietary interface or interfaces other than those expressly provided by Company for public use.

xxviii. Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Applications or connect to or use the Applications in any way not expressly permitted by this Agreement.

xxix. Use the Applications in connection with any violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations, or do anything that promotes the violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations.

xxx. If you encounter another user who is violating any of the items described in the Online Conduct list above, please go to info@avaramedia.com

 

6. MODIFICATIONS

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a. Terms of Service. The Company may, from time to time, modify, amend, or supplement these TOS or any other part of this Agreement and post those changes on the TOS page. Such modifications or supplements shall be effective immediately upon posting in the Applications. You are responsible for periodically checking the Applications for changes to the TOS. If you do not agree to be bound by (or cannot comply with) this Agreement as modified or supplemented, you agree that your sole remedy is to cease using the Applications. Your continued access and use of any Application constitutes your agreement to be bound by the modified Agreement.

b. Changes. The Company reserves the exclusive right and may, at any time, modify, supplement, suspend or discontinue (collectively, “Changes”) the Applications, whether temporarily or permanently, in whole or in part. Any such Change shall be effective immediately upon notice by posting on the Applications or this Agreement, or by any other method of notice the Company deems appropriate. Any access or use of the Applications after such notice of Change, constitutes acceptance by you of such Change. Temporary interruptions in the availability of the Applications may occur from time to time as normal events. You agree that neither the Company nor any of its affiliates, licensors, agents, or employees is liable to you or any third party for any revision, supplement, suspension, or discontinuation of the Applications, and termination of any license. The Applications may include technical inaccuracies, typographical errors or may enable you to access or download harmful or malicious code introduced onto the Internet by third parties. The Applications are made available internationally and may contain references to products, programs and services of the Company or its licensors that are not available in your location. Such references do not imply that the Company or its licensors intend to make available such products, programs or services in your location.

c. Applications. The Company and/or its licensors may deploy or provide patches, updates, upgrades, error corrections, bug-fixes, modifications and additional features or functions to any Application that must be installed for you to continue accessing and using the Application. The Company and/or its licensors may upgrade or update the Application remotely, including the Application residing on your machine, without your knowledge or consent, and you hereby grant to the Company and its licensors your consent to deploy and apply such patches, updates, upgrades, error corrections, bug-fixes, and modifications, and additional features or functions to the Applications. The Company has no obligation to make available to you any subsequent versions of the Applications. You may have to enter into a renewed version of this Agreement, in the event you want to download, install or use a new version of the Applications.

 

7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

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You expressly agree that the use of the applications, third-party services and products, and the internet is at your sole risk. The applications and third-party services and products are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis for your use, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose. The company provides the applications on a commercially reasonable basis and does not guarantee that you will be able to access or use the applications at times or locations of your choosing, or that the company will have adequate capacity for the applications as a whole or in any specific geographic area. Your access and use of the applications is at your own discretion and risk and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer or mobile device, or loss of data that results from such access or use.

 

8. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITIES

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You acknowledge and agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any dispute with the company or its licensors is to stop accessing and using the applications. You acknowledge and agree that in no event will the company, its licensors or its affiliates be liable for any act or failure to act by them or any other person regarding conduct, communication or content on the applications or the access or use thereof. Moreover, in no case shall the company’s or its licensors’, affiliates’, employees’, officers’, or directors’ (collectively, “company affiliates”) liability to you exceed the amount that you paid to the company for the subject application. Furthermore, in no case shall the company or company affiliates be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (including those resulting from loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, business interruption, or other intangible loss) arising from your access or use of any application or the internet, or for any other claim related in any way to your any application or this agreement, whether based on warranty, product liability, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not the company or any company affiliate has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions, the company’s and company affiliates’ liability shall be limited to the full extent permitted by law. The company does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any third party product or service offered through any application and will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.

 

9. LINKS WITH OTHER SITES

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For the convenience of our users, an Application may provide certain links to websites provided by third parties. The Company is not responsible for the content of any other website linked to or from an Application. If you link to another website, you leave the subject Application and you do so entirely at your own risk. The Company provides links from an Application to other sites solely as a convenience to you and in no way should this be interpreted as a referral or endorsement of any content, sponsor or owner of any other website. The company disclaims all warranties, conditions or other terms express or implied as to any such linked website, including as to accuracy, ownership, validity or legality of any content of a linked website.

 

10. INDEMNIFICATION

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You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its licensors and affiliates, and each of their employees, officers, and directors (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against all damages, injuries, liabilities, losses and expenses, including reasonable lawyers’ fees and costs that any of the Indemnitees may incur in connection with:

i. any breach of this Agreement, including the TOS, the Privacy Policy or the EULA, or any Additional Terms or any applicable rules, laws or regulations, whether or not referenced herein,

ii. in connection with your access or use of any Applications,

iii.violation of any rights of any third party,

iv. use or misuse of any Applications,

v. your communication spread by means of the Applications, or

vi. any of your User Content, including any claim that your User Content, or the exploitation of it as permitted by this agreement, violates or infringes the rights of any third party.

The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. In that event, you shall have no further obligation to provide indemnification to the Company in that matter. The obligations set forth herein shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

11. GOVERNING LAW

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The Applications are made accessible, operated and controlled from AVARA Media Inc. in Canada. They can be accessed from various countries of the world. The laws of Canada (without regard to conflicts of law provisions) will apply to all matters arising out of or in connection with the Applications and your access use thereof. By accessing and using the Applications, you submit and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice with respect to any dispute or cause of action arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, the Additional Terms and/or your use of any Application.

 

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Applications. If you have a dispute with one or more users of any Application, you release us (and our licensors, affiliates, employees, officers, directors, contractors, agents, third-party suppliers, licensors and third-party partners) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known or unknown, arising out of or in connection with such disputes.

 

12. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

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You acknowledge that the rights granted and obligations made hereunder to the Company are of a unique and irreplaceable nature, the loss of which shall irreparably harm the Company and which cannot be replaced by monetary damages alone so that the Company shall be entitled to injunctive or other equitably relief (without the obligations of posting any bond or surety) in the event of any breach or anticipatory breach by you. You irrevocably waive all rights to seek injunctive or other equitable relief and agree to limit your claims to claims for money damages (if any).

 

13. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED

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The information provided through the Applications is not intended for distribution to or use by any person in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject the Company to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. The Company makes no representation or warranty that any material on or in the Applications is lawful in every jurisdiction from which such content can be accessed, or is available for use in all jurisdictions. You are responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws. THE APPLICATIONS ARE INTENDED FOR USE BY PERSONS OVER THE AGE OF 13. BY ACCESSING AND USING ANY APPLICATION, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE 13 OR OLDER, AND THAT YOU AGREE TO AND TO ABIDE BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THESE TOS AND THE PRIVACY POLICY. MOREOVER, IF YOU ARE BETWEEN 13 AND 18 YEARS OF AGE, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN’S PERMISSION TO ACCESS AND USE THE APPLICATIONS. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 OR BETWEEN THE AGE OF 13 AND 18 BUT DID NOT HAVE YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN’S PERMISSION TO THE ACCESS AND USE THE APPLICATIONS, THE COMPANY MAY IMMEDIATELY (WITHOUT NOTICE) TERMINATE THE LICENSE GRANTED HEREUNDER.

 

14. COMPLAINTS, NOTICE AND CONTACT INFORMATION

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The Company takes claims of infringement of intellectual property rights and violation of rights of privacy or publicity very seriously. If you believe that any of the material that is or was in any Application infringes or has infringed any rights, including copyrights or trademarks, owned by you, or by an owner for which you are authorized to act, please contact us via the following URL: info@avaramedia.com.

 

15. PRIVACY POLICY

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The Company is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data. The Privacy Policy provided sets out how the Company may use your personal data, the traffic data and the content contained in your communication(s). Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and our representatives will collect personal information about you including your name, contact information, birth date, gender, numerical identifiers, personal preferences and other information. You acknowledge that we and our representatives may use your personal information for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

You hereby consent to us and our representatives collecting, using and disclosing your personal information, and sending commercial electronic messages to you, in the manner described in our Privacy Policy.

 

16. NOTICE

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In the event the Company decides, in its sole and absolute discretion, to give notice to a user regarding the termination of the licenses granted herein, revisions to payment policies, or any Changes, it may do so via email, telephone call, posting in the Applications or these TOS, or such other method of notice the Company deems appropriate. Where Company decides to give such notice, any access or use of any Applications after delivery of such notice constitutes acceptance by you of the noticed action.

 

17. MISCELLANEOUS

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If any provision of these TOS is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed to be restated to reflect as nearly as possible the original intention in accordance with applicable law, and the remainder of the TOS will remain in full force and effect. The TOS, the Privacy Policy and EULA constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede and replace all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall exclude or restrict the liability of you arising out of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Any waiver of any provision of the Agreement will be effective only if in writing and signed by the Company. The failure of party to assert any right under this Agreement shall not be considered a waiver of that party’s right will remain in full force and effect. In addition, the TOS, any Additional Terms and the Privacy Policy, including the Company’s enforcement of those policies, are not intended to confer, and do not confer, any rights or remedies upon any person. The original English version of this Agreement may have been translated into other languages. In the event of inconsistency or discrepancy between the English version and any other language version, the English language version shall prevail. You are not allowed to assign this Agreement or any rights hereunder. The Company is allowed at its sole discretion to assign the TOS or any rights hereunder to any third party, without giving prior notice to you. The Parties have expressly agreed that this agreement and all ancillary agreements, documents or notices relating thereto be drafted solely in the English language. Les parties aux présentes ont expressément convenu que ce accord et toute autre convention, document ou avis yafférent soient rédigés en anglais seulement.

 

If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding this Agreement, or have other questions or suggestions about the Applications, please contact us via email at info@avaramedia.com.

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