The following document outlines the terms of use of all software applications (“Application”) presented by OurBigAdventure, LLC. Before using any Applicaiton, you are required to read, understand, and agree to these terms.
Description of Service
OurBigAdventure provides content via its websites and apps (“Services”) to a community of users (“Users” or “you”) to display photographs and video (“Visual Content”) share comments, opinions and ideas, and in some cases to allow Users to upload Content to be shared publically. Additional Services may be offered by us from time to time. The following are the terms of service (“Terms”) for using the Services.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE AGREEING, ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND THOSE YOU REPRESENT, TO COMPLY WITH AND BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE TERMS AS WELL AS OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND ALL APPLICABLE LAWS. IF YOU, FOR YOURSELF OR ON BEHALF OF THOSE YOU REPRESENT, DO NOT AGREE TO ANY PROVISION OF THESE TERMS, YOU MUST, FOR YOURSELF AND ON BEHALF ANY SUCH PERSON(S), DISCONTINUE THE REGISTRATION PROCESS, DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, AND, IF YOU ARE ALREADY REGISTERED, CANCEL YOUR ACCOUNT.
MODIFICATION OF TERMS
OurBigAdventure reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace the terms at any time. If the alterations constitute a material change to the terms, we will attempt to notify you by posting an announcement on the site. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications. Using any Services or viewing any Visual Content shall constitute your acceptance of the Terms as modified.
In addition, when using particular features of the Services, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such Services.
Your access to and use of the Site and our Services may be interrupted from time to time as a result of equipment malfunction, updating, maintenance or repair of the Site or any other reason within or outside the control of OurBigAdventure. OurBigAdventure reserves the right to suspend or discontinue the availability of the Site and/or any Service and/or remove any Visual Content at any time at its sole discretion and without prior notice. OurBigAdventure may also impose limits on certain features and Services or restrict your access to parts of or all of the Site and the Services without notice or liability. The Site should not be used or relied upon for storage of your Visual Content and you are directed to retain your own copies of all Visual Content that you upload.
REGISTRATION
As a condition to using Services, you may be required to open an account with OurBigAdventure and select a password and username, and to provide registration information. The registration information you provide must be accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your access to the Services, by either terminating your email access or your account.
You may not use as a username the name of another person or entity or that is not lawfully available for use, a name or trade mark that is subject to any rights of another person or entity other than you without appropriate authorization, or a name that is otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and are solely responsible for all activities resulting from the use of your password and conducted through your OurBigAdventure account.
Services are available to authorized representatives of legal entities and to individuals who are either (i) at least 18 years old to make purchases, or (ii) at least 14 years old, and who are authorized to access the Site by a parent or legal guardian. If you have authorized a minor to use the Site, you are responsible for the online conduct of such minor, and the consequences of any misuse of the Site by the minor. Parents and legal guardians are warned that the Services could display Visual Content containing nudity and violence that may be offensive to some.
The Services are for use by a) individuals who own Visual Content; b) entities that represent owners of Visual Content including but not limited to museums, galleries, agencies, representatives, distributors other market intermediaries; and c) individuals and entities seeking to display Visual Content. If you are the owner of the Visual Content, but not the creator, you may be asked to provide proof of sufficient rights to the Visual Content that you are uploading.
USER CONDUCT
All Content posted or otherwise submitted to the Site is the sole responsibility of the account holder from which such Content originates and you acknowledge and agree that you, and not OurBigAdventure are entirely responsible for all Content that you post, or otherwise submit to the Site. OurBigAdventure does not control user submitted Content and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Site you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms, or any other purpose not reasonably intended by OurBigAdventure. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:
• To abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate any person
• To post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any Visual Content or Communications that are libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or that infringes any copyright or other right of any person
• For any purpose (including posting or viewing Visual Content) that is not permitted under the laws of the jurisdiction where you use the Services
• To post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any Communication designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any user of Services
• To create or transmit unwanted ‘spam’ to any person or any URL
• To create multiple accounts for the purpose of voting for or against users’ Visual Content
• To post copyrighted Visual Content or other Communications that do not belong to you or, with exception of commenting, where you may post such Content with explicit mention of the author’s name and a link to the source of the Content
• With the exception of accessing RSS feeds if they exist, you agree not to use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site
• To artificially inflate or alter vote counts, blog counts, comments, or any other Service or for the purpose of giving or receiving money or other compensation in exchange for votes, or for participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Services
• To advertise to, or solicit, any user to buy or sell any third party products or services, or to use any information obtained from the Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without the explicit consent of OurBigAdventure
• To sell or otherwise transfer your profile
To report a suspected abuse of the Site or a breach of the Terms (other than relating to copyright infringement which is addressed under “COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS” below) please send written notice using the form below.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site. OurBigAdventure reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE
Please read this section carefully before posting, uploading, or otherwise submitting any Visual Content to the site. By submitting content to the site you are granting OurBigAdventure a worldwide, non-exclusive license to use the Visual Content and are representing and warranting to OurBigAdventure that the Visual Content is either owned by you or you are authorized to represent or distribute the Visual Content, and that OurBigAdventure is free to publish, distribute and use the Visual Content as provided in these Terms without obtaining permission, consent or any license from any third party.
In consideration of OurBigAdventure’s agreement to allow you to use the Services, you agree with OurBigAdventure as follows:
You acknowledge that:
• You can prove that you have sufficient rights to any content uploaded under your account to fulfill the terms setforth herein
• By uploading your Visual Content you retain the rights to that content that you had prior to uploading
• By posting Visual Content to the Services you grant to OurBigAdventure a non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Visual Content in connection with the Services. This license will exist for the period during which the Visual Content is posted on the Site and will automatically terminate upon the removal of the Visual Content from the Site
• The license granted to OurBigAdventure includes the right to use Visual Content fully or partially for promotional reasons and to distribute and redistribute Visual Content to other parties, websites, authorized agents, applications, and other entities, provided such Visual Content is attributed as appropriate (notwithstanding the foregoing, no inadvertent failure to provide attribution shall be considered a breach of these Terms)
• OurBigAdventure has the right to modify, alter and amend Visual Content and other accompanying information for any Visual Content and the right to submit Visual Content to other parties and authorized agents for the purpose of annotating Visual Content
• OurBigAdventure makes no representation and warranty that Visual Content posted on the Site will not be unlawfully copied without your consent.
• Subject to the terms of the foregoing license, ownership or other rights in the Visual Content including any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with the Visual Content are retained by you or the Visual Content owner represented by You.
You represent and warrant that:
• You are the owner or the authorized representative of the owner of all rights, including all copyrights in and to all Visual Content you submit to the site
• You have the full and complete authority and right to enter into this agreement and to grant to OurBigAdventure the rights in the Visual Content herein granted, and that no further permissions are required from, nor payments required to be made to any other person in connection with the use by OurBigAdventure of the Visual Content as contemplated herein
• The Visual Content does not defame any person and does not infringe upon the copyright, moral rights, publicity rights, privacy rights or any other right of any person, or violate any law or judicial or governmental order.
You shall not have any right to terminate the permissions granted herein, nor to seek, obtain, or enforce any injunctive or other equitable relief against OurBigAdventure, all of which such rights are hereby expressly and irrevocably waived by you in favor of OurBigAdventure.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
OurBigAdventure requires subscriptions for Users to participate in certain activities when using the Services. The subscriptions behave as follows:
• Subscriptions terms are for one month unless specified otherwise
• Subscriptions are Auto-Renewing unless canceled by You
• Features available with subscriptions are subject to the terms of use described herein
• OurBigAdventure may modify, suspend or discontinue Services provided to subscription users at any time at its sole discretion and without prior notice.
COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
OurBigAdventure respects the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond promptly any claim that Content posted on our Services infringes the copyright or other intellectual property infringement (“Infringement”) of any person. OurBigAdventure will use reasonable efforts to investigate notices of alleged Infringement and will take appropriate action under applicable intellectual property law and these Terms where it believes an Infringement has taken place, including removing or disabling access to the Content claimed to be infringing and/or terminating accounts and access to the Site.
To notify OurBigAdventure of a possible Infringement you must submit your notice, including full contact information, using the form below. Include in your notice a detailed description of the alleged Infringement sufficient to enable OurBigAdventure to make a reasonable determination. Please note that you may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) for misrepresenting that any Content is infringing your copyright.
If we remove or disable access to Content in response to a notice of Infringement, we will make reasonable attempts to contact the user who posted the affected Content. If you feel that your Content is not infringing, you may provide OurBigAdventure with a counter notice. You must include in your counter notice sufficient information to enable OurBigAdventure to make a reasonable determination. Please note that you may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that your Content is not infringing the copyrights of others.
If you are uncertain whether an activity constitutes Infringement, we recommended seeking advice of an attorney.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement
OurBigAdventure has registered an agent with the United States Copyright Office in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “Act”) and avails itself of the protections under the Act. OurBigAdventure reserves the right to remove any Visual Content or Communications that allegedly infringes another person’s copyright. OurBigAdventure will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, Users who are repeat infringers of another person’s copyright. Notices to OurBigAdventure regarding any alleged copyright infringement should be directed to OurBigAdventure using the form below.
Filing a DMCA Notice to Remove Copyright-Protected Content
If you believe in good faith that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with a written notice containing the following information:
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address
• A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed
• A description of where on the Services the material that you claim is infringing may be found, sufficient for OurBigAdventure to locate the material
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by the copyright OurBigAdventure, its agent, or the law and is not a fair use
• A statement by you UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf
• Your electronic or physical signature.
Filing a DMCA Counter-Notice to Restore Content Removed from the Website
If you believe that your material has been removed by mistake or misidentification, please provide OurBigAdventure with a written counter-notification containing the following information:
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address
• A description of the material that was removed and the location on the Services where it previously appeared
• A statement UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, any judicial district in which OurBigAdventure may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original DMCA notice or an agent of that person
• Your electronic or physical signature.
LINKS
The Services may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because OurBigAdventure has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that OurBigAdventure is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that OurBigAdventure shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
RELEASE AND INDEMNITY
You hereby expressly and irrevocably release and forever discharge OurBigAdventure, its affiliated and associated companies, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, independent and dependent contractors, licensees, successors and assigns of and from any and all actions, causes of action, suits, proceedings, liability, debts, judgments, claims and demands whatsoever in law or equity which you ever had, now have, or hereafter can, shall or may have, for or by reason of, or arising directly or indirectly out of your use of the Services.
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless OurBigAdventure, its affiliated and associated companies, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, independent and dependent contractors, licensees, successors and assigns from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs (including, but not limited to, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and indirect damages), and reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from or arising out of (i) a breach of these Terms, (ii) Content posted on using the Services, (iii) the use of the Services, by you or any person using your account or OurBigAdventure Username and password, (iv) any violation of any rights of a third party.
TERMINATION
OurBigAdventure may terminate or suspend any and all Services and/or your OurBigAdventure account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms. Upon termination of your account, your right to use the Services will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your OurBigAdventure account, you may simply discontinue using the Services. All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
It is your responsibility to remove all Visual Content from your account prior to termination. You may also supply a list of films that you have submitted to OurBigAdventure for removal. Your list must contain enough information for the film to be identified such as the title of the film, the approximate latitude and longitude of the film segments and any annotations that may accompany the film.
WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
YOU USE THE SITE AND THE SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS, AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. OurBigAdventure EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. OurBigAdventure DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS, INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY, OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO (A) ANY ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THIS SITE AND THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TECHNICAL INACCURACIES AND TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, (B) THIRD PARTY COMMUNICATIONS, (C) ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITES OR CONTENT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ACCESSED THROUGH LINKS IN THE SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS, (D) THE UNAVAILABILITY OF ALL OR ANY PART OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES, (E) YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES, OR (F) YOUR USE OF ANY EQUIPMENT OR SOFTWARE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE OR THE SERVICES.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, NEITHER OurBigAdventure NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS, INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY, OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE, ANY FACTS OR OPINIONS APPEARING THEREON, OR THE SERVICES. OurBigAdventure SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ATTORNEYS’ FEES) IN ANY WAY DUE TO, RESULTING FROM, OR ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR SERVICES. TO THE EXTENT THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS PROHIBITED OR FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE, OurBigAdventure'S SOLE OBLIGATION TO YOU FOR DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO $10.00.
YOU AND OurBigAdventure AGREE THAT ANY PROCEEDINGS TO RESOLVE OR LITIGATE ANY DISPUTE ARISING HEREUNDER WILL BE CONDUCTED SOLELY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT SEEK TO HAVE ANY DISPUTE HEARD AS A CLASS ACTION, A REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, A COLLECTIVE ACTION, A PRIVATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ACTION, OR IN ANY PROCEEDING IN WHICH YOU ACT OR PROPOSE TO ACT IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT NO PROCEEDING WILL BE JOINED, CONSOLIDATED, OR COMBINED WITH ANOTHER PROCEEDING WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF OurBigAdventure AND ALL PARTIES TO ANY SUCH PROCEEDING.
MISCELLANEOUS
The United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods shall not apply and is expressly excluded.
Any controversies or disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the then current Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association or of the International Center for Dispute Resolution to be held in the jurisdiction of Washington DC. The parties shall select a mutually acceptable arbitrator knowledgeable about issues relating to the subject matter of these Terms. The arbitration proceeding shall be conducted in English and all documentation shall be presented and filed in English. All documents, materials and information in the possession of each party that are in any way relevant to the dispute shall be made available to the other party for review and copying no later than 30 days after the notice of arbitration is served. The arbitrator shall not have the authority to modify any provision of these Terms or to award punitive damages. The arbitrator shall have the power to issue mandatory orders and restraint orders in connection with the arbitration. The decision rendered by the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties, and judgment may be entered in conformity with the decision in any court having jurisdiction. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable legal costs relating to that aspect of its claim or defense on which it prevails, and any opposing costs awards shall be offset. The agreement to arbitration shall be specifically enforceable under the prevailing arbitration law. During the continuance of any arbitration proceeding, the parties shall continue to perform their respective obligations under these Terms. The parties agree that, notwithstanding any otherwise applicable statute(s) of limitation, any arbitration proceeding shall be commenced within two years of the acts, events, or occurrences giving rise to the claim.
Indemnification of OurBigAdventure
You, agree to defend, indemnify and hold OurBigAdventure, its affiliates and its sponsors, partners, other co-branders and the respective directors, officers and employees of each harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities and costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to your breach of any of these Terms or use by you or any third party of the Services. OurBigAdventure reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.
General
These Terms constitute the entire understanding of the parties and supersede all prior and contemporaneous written and oral agreements with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any rule of construction stating that ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party will not be applied in the construction or interpretation of these Terms. If one or more of the provisions herein shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforcement of the remaining provisions shall not be affected or impaired. Any inconsistency between these Terms in English and these Terms in any other language shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be resolved by reference to the English version. The failure to enforce or the waiver by either party of a default or breach of the other party shall not be considered to be a waiver of any prior, subsequent or other default or breach.