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These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of all websites or mobile websites owned or operated by SlightlyOffensive.com, including the website currently located at www.SlightlyOffensive.com (the “Site”), any applications (e.g., iPhone applications, iPad applications, Android applications, etc.) offered by SlightlyOffensive.com, and any other applications, interactive features, widgets, and resources offered by SlightlyOffensive.com through traditional internet websites, mobile devices, or other platforms (all of which are collectively referred to as the “Services”). By using the Site or Services, you agree to these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Site or the Services.

2. Additional Terms

Your use of certain Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions (“Additional Terms”). Where Additional Terms apply to a Service, we will make them available for you to read through your use of that Service. By using such Services, you agree to the Additional Terms.

3. Password and Account Security

You may create your own account on the Site by completing the online registration process on the Site. In doing so, you must provide us with accurate and complete registration information and update it if this information changes. Following registration, we will create an account for you and assign you, or allow you to select, a password. You must keep your password confidential. You will be responsible for all use of your password, including, without limitation, any use by any unauthorized third party. You must notify us immediately if you believe your password may be used by any unauthorized person or entity. For security purposes, we recommend you change your password often. Under no circumstances should you respond to a request for your password. Our employees will never ask for your password. You must notify us immediately if you receive such a request. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your use of the Site if we believe that your password is being used without permission or otherwise in a manner that may disrupt the Site.

4. Use of the Site and Services

You are responsible for your use of the Site and Services, and for any use of the Site or Services made using your account. At SlightlyOffensive.com, our goal is to create a positive and safe community experience. To promote this goal, we prohibit certain kinds of conduct that may be harmful to other users or to SlightlyOffensive.com. When you use the Site or Services, you may not:

  • violate any law or regulation;
  • violate or infringe other people’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights;
  • transmit anything that is illegal, abusive, harassing, harmful to reputation, pornographic, indecent, profane, obscene, hateful, racist, or otherwise objectionable;
  • send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or commercial communications, such as spam;
  • transmit any malicious or unsolicited software;
  • stalk, harass, or harm another individual;
  • impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with someone else;
  • use any means to “scrape,” “crawl,” or “spider” any Web pages contained in the Site (although SlightlyOffensive.com may allow operators of public search engines to use spiders to index materials from the Site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials, and SlightlyOffensive.com reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases);
  • use automated methods to use the Site or Services in a manner that sends more requests to the SlightlyOffensive.com servers in a given period than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional Web browser; or
  • interfere with or disrupt the Site or Services.

5. User Content

You own all content and information you post or share using the Site or Services (referred to as “User Content”), such as posting comments, photos, and profile information. You give SlightlyOffensive.com permission to use your User Content as follows: you grant to SlightlyOffensive.com and its affiliates a license to use, copy, display, and perform your User Content in connection with the Site and Services. We may display advertisements in connection with your User Content or on pages where your User Content may be viewed by you or others, and we may use your User Content to advertise and promote SlightlyOffensive.com, the Site, or the Services. Our license to your User Content is non-exclusive, meaning you may use the User Content for your own purposes or let others use your User Content for their purposes. Our license to your User Content is fully paid and royalty-free, meaning we do not owe you anything else in connection with our use of your User Content. We may exercise our rights anywhere in the world. Finally, our license is perpetual, meaning that our license lasts indefinitely.

You promise that:

  • you own all rights to your User Content or, alternatively, that you have the right to give SlightlyOffensive.com the rights described above;
  • you have paid and will pay in full any fees or other payments that may be related to the use of your User Content; and
  • your User Content does not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party.

We may refuse to accept or transmit User Content. We may remove User Content from the Site or Services for any reason.

6. Accuracy of Data

We make no claims or promises about the quality, accuracy, or reliability of any content available on or through the Site or Services. SlightlyOffensive.com is not liable for any loss or damage that might arise from your reliance on any content available on or through the Site or Services.

7. Ownership; Republication Permission

Other than User Content, we own or license the content on the Site and Services, including software, text, visual and audio content (“Content”), SlightlyOffensive.com trademarks, trade names, logos, and brand elements (“SlightlyOffensive.com Marks”) and the trademarks, trade names, logos, and brand elements of third-party goods and services that may be offered on the Site or through the Services (“Third-Party Marks”). The Content, SlightlyOffensive.com Marks, and Third-Party Marks are protected under U.S. and international laws. Except as provided in the following paragraphs regarding permission to republish excerpts of articles (hereinafter “Republication Permission”), you may not reproduce, publish, republish, display, copy, use, distribute, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any SlightlyOffensive.com Marks, Third-Party Marks, articles, or Content from the Site without our prior written consent.

You may republish an excerpt of the text of any article appearing on the Site without our prior written consent, provided that all of the following Republication Permission conditions are met:

  1. the excerpt must consist of no more than 125 words of any article;
  2. the excerpt must be republished in the same form as originally published on the Site, without being rearranged, reworded, paraphrased, or quoted in piecemeal, and not otherwise republished out of context;
  3. you must include a prominent byline attributing the article’s author and indicating that it is published at www.SlightlyOffensive.com (e.g., “Written by John Doe at www.SlightlyOffensive.com”);
  4. the excerpt must come from an article on the Site credited to us or our contributors (permission does not apply to articles credited to the Associated Press or other third-party providers);
  5. you may not republish any article in its entirety on another website;
  6. you are not in violation of these Terms and have not received a notice from us informing you that you may no longer publish excerpts of our articles.

We reserve the right to revoke or modify this Republication Permission.

8. Feedback

We always welcome and appreciate your feedback and suggestions about SlightlyOffensive.com. You understand that we may use such feedback without compensation to you.

9. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

SlightlyOffensive.com respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send SlightlyOffensive.com’s copyright agent a notification of claimed infringement.

10. Privacy

SlightlyOffensive.com respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you.

11. Links

Our Site and Services may contain links to other websites. SlightlyOffensive.com does not endorse or affiliate with third-party sites and is not responsible for any related damage or loss.

12. Changes and Corrections

SlightlyOffensive.com may modify the Site or Services at any time without prior notice.

13. Termination

We reserve the right to deny access to the Site or Services to any user and may terminate any user’s access if they violate these Terms.

14. Disclaimer and Limitations

YOU USE THE SITE AND SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK. SLIGHTLYOFFENSIVE.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND LIMIT LIABILITY AS PROVIDED IN THESE TERMS.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold SlightlyOffensive.com and its affiliates harmless for claims arising from your use of the Site or Services.

16. Other Provisions

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Florida.

17. Changes to these Terms

SlightlyOffensive.com reserves the right to modify these Terms. Continued use of the Site or Services following changes signifies your acceptance of the revised Terms.