Our
intellectual property
We
are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all
source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text,
photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the
"Content"), as well as the trademarks,
service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").
Our
Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various
other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties in the United
States and around the world.
The
Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services
"AS IS" for your
personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose only.
Your use of
our Services
Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "PROHIBITED
ACTIVITIES
" section
below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable
license to:
- access the Services; and
- download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which
you have properly gained access.
solely
for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business
purpose.
Except
as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no
Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced,
aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded,
translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited
for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written
permission.
If
you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this
section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, please address your request to:
info@geocadict.com. If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or
publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or
licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice
appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.
If you provide
any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the
right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use
of the Services (or any portion thereof).
You may not
access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the
Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors
except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.
As
a user of the Services, you agree not to:
- Systematically
retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile,
directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or
directory without written permission from us.
- Trick,
defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any
attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user
passwords.
- Circumvent,
disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related
features of the Services, including features that prevent or
restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce
limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content
contained therein.
- Disparage,
tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the
Services.
- Use
any information obtained from the Services in order to
harass, abuse, or harm another
person.
- Make
improper use of our support services or submit false reports
of abuse or misconduct.
- Use
the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable
laws or regulations.
- Engage
in unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Services.
- Upload
or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses,
Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of
capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of
repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s
uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies,
impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use,
features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the
Services.
- Engage
in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to
send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots,
or similar data gathering and extraction
tools.
- Delete
the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any
Content.
- Attempt
to impersonate another user or person or use the username of
another user.
- Upload
or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any
material that acts as a passive or active information
collection or transmission mechanism, including without
limitation, clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels,
web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes
referred to as "spyware"
or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms"
).
- Interfere
with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or
the networks or services connected to the
Services.
- Harass,
annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or
agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to
you.
- Attempt
to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent
or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the
Services.
- Copy
or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited
to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other
code.
- Except
as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile,
disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software
comprising or in any way making up a part of the
Services.
- Except
as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet
browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any
automated system, including without limitation, any spider,
robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that
accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or
other software.
- Use
a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the
Services.
- Make
any unauthorized use of the
Services, including collecting usernames and/or email
addresses of users by electronic or other means for the
purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user
accounts by automated means or under false pretenses
.
- Use
the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or
otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any
revenue-generating
endeavor or
commercial enterprise.
-
Use the Services to advertise or offer to sell goods
and services.
5. USER
GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS
The
Services does not offer users to submit or post content.
We may provide you
with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display,
transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast
content and materials to us or on the Services,
including but not limited to text, writings, video,
audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or
personal information or other material (collectively,
"Contributions").
Contributions may be viewable by other users of the
Services and through third-party websites. When you create or
make available any Contributions, you thereby represent
and warrant that:
- The creation, distribution, transmission, public
display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your
Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but
not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights
of any third party.
- You are the creator and owner of or have the
necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and
permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other
users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by
the Services and these Legal Terms.
- You have the written consent, release, and/or
permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your
Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable
individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any
manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
- Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or
misleading.
- Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional
materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms
of solicitation.
- Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd,
lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing,
libelous, slanderous, or
otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
- Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock,
disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
- Your Contributions are not used to harass or
threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote
violence against a specific person or class of people.
- Your Contributions do not violate any applicable
law, regulation, or rule.
- Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or
publicity rights of any third party.
- Your Contributions do not violate any applicable
law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or
well-being of minors.
- Your Contributions do not include any offensive
comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference,
or physical handicap.
- Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or
link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any
applicable law or regulation.
Any
use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms
and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your
rights to use the Services.
You and
Services agree that we may access, store, process, and use any information and personal
data that you provide and your choices (including
settings).
By submitting
suggestions or other feedback regarding the Services, you agree that we can use and share
such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.
We do not assert
any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your
Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated
with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your
Contributions provided by you in any area on the Services. You are solely responsible for
your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all
responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.
7. THIRD-PARTY
WEBSITES AND CONTENT
The Services may
contain (or you may be sent via the Site) links to other websites (
"Third-Party Websites") as well as
articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information,
applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third
parties ("Third-Party Content"). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored,
or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for
any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or
installed from the Services, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions,
reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or
permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or
endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Services and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk, and
you should be aware these Legal Terms no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms
and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you
navigate from the Services or relating to any applications you use or install from the Services.
Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites
will be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no responsibility
whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable
third party. You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered
on Third-Party Websites and you shall hold us
blameless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you
shall hold us blameless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or
resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content
or any contact with Third-Party Websites.
8. ADVERTISERS
We allow advertisers
to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Services, such as
sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements. We simply provide the space to place such
advertisements, and we have no other relationship with advertisers.
9. SERVICES
MANAGEMENT
We reserve the
right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2)
take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these
Legal Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3)
in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability
of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion
thereof; (4) in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the
Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way
burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our
rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.
10.
PRIVACY POLICY
We care about data
privacy and security. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy posted
on the Services, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms. Please be advised the Services
are hosted in
Kenya
. If you access the Services from any other region of the
world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure
that differ from applicable laws in
Kenya
, then through your continued use of the Services, you are
transferring your data to
Kenya
, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred
to and processed in
Kenya
.
11. TERM
AND TERMINATION
These Legal Terms
shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER
PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT
NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP
ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR
BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY
APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR
DELETE
ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE
DISCRETION.
If we terminate or
suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new
account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you
may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your
account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation
pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
12. MODIFICATIONS
AND INTERRUPTIONS
We reserve the
right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at
our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on
our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third
party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.
We cannot guarantee
the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other
problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions,
delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or
otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree
that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your
inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services.
Nothing in these Legal Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the
Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.
13. GOVERNING
LAW
These Legal Terms
shall be governed by and defined following the laws of
Kenya
. Geocadict Limited and yourself irrevocably consent that
the courts of
Kenya
shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute which may arise in connection
with these Legal Terms.
14. DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
Binding Arbitration
Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Legal Terms, including any question regarding
its existence, validity, or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by the
International Commercial Arbitration Court under the European Arbitration Chamber (Belgium,
Brussels, Avenue Louise, 146) according to the Rules of this ICAC, which, as a result of referring
to it, is considered as the part of this clause. The number of arbitrators shall be one (1). The seat, or legal place, or arbitration shall be
Nairobi,
Kenya
. The language of the proceedings shall be English. The
governing law of these Legal Terms shall be substantive law of
Kenya
.
Restrictions
The Parties agree that any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the Parties
individually. To the full extent permitted by law, (a) no arbitration shall be joined with any other
proceeding; (b) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action
basis or to utilize
class action procedures; and (c) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought
in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.
Exceptions to Arbitration
The Parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject
to the above provisions concerning binding arbitration: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or
protect, or concerning the validity of, any of the intellectual property rights of a Party; (b) any
Dispute related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized
use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief. If this provision is found to be illegal or
unenforceable, then neither Party will elect to arbitrate any Dispute falling within that portion of
this provision found to be illegal or unenforceable and such Dispute shall be decided by a court of
competent jurisdiction within the courts listed for jurisdiction above, and the Parties agree to
submit to the personal jurisdiction of that court.
15. CORRECTIONS
There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or
omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve
the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information
on the Services at any time, without prior notice.
16.
DISCLAIMER
THE
SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE
SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR
COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES' CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES OR MOBILE APPLICATIONS
LINKED TO THE SERVICES AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS,
MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF
ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES, (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL
INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE
SERVICES, (5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR
THROUGH THE SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (6) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND
MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT
POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE,
GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD
PARTY THROUGH THE SERVICES, ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION
FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS
OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY
ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE.
17. LIMITATIONS
OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS
BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA,
OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
18. INDEMNIFICATION
You
agree to
defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries,
affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and
employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or
arising out of:
(1) use of the Services; (2) breach of these Legal Terms; (3) any breach of your representations and
warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (4)
your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual
property rights; or (5) any overt harmful act
toward any other user of the Services with whom you connected via the Services.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the
exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are
required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense
of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or
proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.
19. USER
DATA
We
will maintain
certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the
performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we
perform regular routine backups
of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that
relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree
that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such
data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such
loss or corruption of such data.
20. ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES
Visiting
the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic
communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all
agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via
email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.
YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND
TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED
BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes,
regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original
signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of
credits by any means other than electronic means.
21. MISCELLANEOUS
These
Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to
the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure
to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver
of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law.
We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be
responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond
our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is
determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is
deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of
any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency
relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services.
You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted
them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of
these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal
Terms.