Terms of Service
This Terms of Service Agreement governs the use of the Civicom software, websites, Services, and technology.
This Terms of Service Agreement (“Agreement”) governs the use of the Company (“Civicom”) websites, mobile apps, content materials, website designs, products, technologies owned or leased, and business processes, including all programs, related documentation, and updates (collectively, “Services”). “You” refers to any person or entity which accesses or uses our Services.
1. Agreement
This page states the terms and conditions under which you may use the Services. If you do not wish to be bound by this agreement, you may not access or use the Services.
We may modify this Agreement at any time, and such modification shall be effective 30 days after either posting of the modified Terms or notice to you. You agree to review this Agreement periodically to ensure that you are aware of any modifications. Your continued access or use of the Services after the modifications have become effective shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms. We agree to notify our registered users of modifications we regard as material by electronic mail sent to the email address you provide us during signup. Your entry into this Agreement constitutes agreement to that manner of notification.
2. Your E-Mail Address
You also agree to maintain an electronic mail address and some form of Internet access throughout the term of this Agreement and to notify us of any change to that electronic mail address so that we know how to reach you.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
Our websites, apps, and account designs, and their entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection and arrangement thereof) other than User Generated Content as defined below , are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of content, and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. Subject to these Terms of Service and our policies, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use our Services.
Except as otherwise permitted herein, you must not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, transmit, sell, or otherwise make use of any of our websites, apps, and account designs, except if we provide desktop, mobile or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreements for such applications.
If you use or provide any other person with access to any part of our Services in breach of the Terms of Service, your right to use the Service will cease immediately. No right, title, or interest in or to our websites, account designs, apps or content or any Services is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the foregoing not expressly permitted by these Terms of Service is a breach of these Terms of Service and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.
Trademark. The Company name (“Civicom”), all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans that are registrations and/or trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors, and all of its other related product and service names cannot be used without the prior written permission of the Company.
License. THE CONTENTS OF OUR WEBSITES AND APPS, INCLUDING THEIR “LOOK AND FEEL” (E.G., TEXT, GRAPHICS, IMAGES, LOGOS, AND BUTTON ICONS), EDITORIAL CONTENT, NOTICES, SOFTWARE (INCLUDING HTML-BASED COMPUTER PROGRAMS) AND OTHER MATERIAL, ARE PROTECTED UNDER UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, AND OTHER LAWS. These contents belong to or are licensed to Civicom. We hereby grant you the right to view and use our websites subject to this Agreement. The only exception is any document for which we have provided a link to for you to download.
You may not sublicense or charge others to use our software or Services without our written consent. We occasionally may provide automatic or voluntary upgrades to improve your usage experience. Any such upgrades are provided pursuant to these same conditions.
4. User Generated Content Standards
The content standards set out below (the “User Generated Content Standards”) apply to any and all User Generated Content and use of our Services.
User Generated Content (UGC) is the term used to describe any form of content such as video, blogs, discussion form posts, digital images, audio files, music, software, designs, typefaces, graphics, HTML, and any other forms of media that was created by consumers or end-users of an online system or service and is publically available to others consumers and end-users.
You represent and warrant that:
- You own or have a right to use and post the User Generated Content on the Services app.
- All of your User Generated Content does and will comply with these Terms of Service.
- You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Generated Content you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have fully responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness.
- We are not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any User Generated Content submitted by you or any other user of the Services app. Except as expressly indicated otherwise, we are not promoters or sponsors or otherwise affiliated with the providers of any goods or services that may be contained in any User Generated Content.
- User Generated Content must in its entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, User Generated Content must not:
- Contain any material which is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable.
- Promote inappropriate sexually explicit or pornographic material, or violence, or promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age. (Certain marketing research studies that are based on products or demographic groups that have agreed to participate in studies for the research sponsor to gain insights into human experience may deal with certain of these topics, excluding sexually explicit or pornographic material or violence, subject to a set of specific research study parameters.)
- Infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person or entity.
- Violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.
- Be likely to deceive any person.
- Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote, or assist any unlawful act.
- Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
- Give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.
- When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, it will be encrypted. Your information will be kept private in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
- Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on the Services.
- Send e-mails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, through the Services.
- Cause limited portions of content within the Services to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.
- You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and solely with respect to the content they are displayed with. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
- Cause the Services or portions of it to be displayed, or appear to be displayed by, for example, framing, deep linking or in-line linking, on any other site.
- Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials within the Services that are inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Service.
- You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to cease. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice at our discretion.