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TERMS OF USE
Character Voices, Inc., a Virginia corporation, provides certain
services upon certain terms and
conditions, all of which are described
in a document entitled Terms of
Use which is posted on its web site, www.voiceoverdirectory.com. The Terms of Use may
be updated at any time in the discretion
of Character Voices, Inc. without
further notice.
Your use of the services provided
by Character Voices, Inc. as they may be
updated from time to time constitutes
acceptance of the Terms of Use then in
effect.
1. Definitions.
a. Content as used in this instrument has the meaning described in
paragraph 7.
b.
Prohibited
Uses as used in this instrument
has the meaning described in
paragraph
9.
c.
Registration
as used in this instrument means the
process by which You
provide information to Us
by completing the on-line form or by
otherwise providing information to Us
to commence or to continue obtaining Service
and by which you indicate your agreement
to be contractually bound by the Terms of Use in effect at the time You first register to commence obtaining Service, or renew your registration to continue obtaining Service,
as the case may be.
d. Service as used in
this instrument means the service
described in paragraph 2.
e. Term as used in
this instrument has the meaning
described in paragraph 3.
f. Terms of Use as
used in this instrument has the meaning
described above.
g. You, Yourself
or Your
as used in this instrument means the
person or entity who goes through the Registration
process to use the Service
by agreeing to the Terms
of Use.
h. We, Us
or Our as used in this instrument means Character Voices, Inc., a
Virginia corporation, and any successor
or assignee thereof.
2. Description of Service. In accordance with the Terms
of Use, We
provide an on-line directory listing for
persons and entities in the voice-over
industry, including Voice Actors,
Voice-Over Copywriters, Voice-Over
Studios, Audio Engineers, Casting
Directors, Voice-Over Directories,
Voice-Over Databases, Voice-Over Talent
Agencies, Audio-Video Equipment
Businesses, Film and Video Production
Houses, Audio-Visual Departments, Radio
and Television Stations, Voice-Over Web
sites, Production Companies, and others.
3. Term. The
initial term for which We
shall provide the Service
to You
is the term you select at Registration.
At the expiration of the initial
term, You
agree that the term shall automatically
renew for successive like terms, unless,
prior to the expiration of the initial
term,
or the then current term, as the case
may be (i) You
notify Us
that You wish to renew for a different term or that you wish to
discontinue the Service;
or (ii) We
notify You that the term will not automatically renew for a like term.
4. Fee. In
consideration of the benefits you
receive from the Service, You agree to pay
a periodic fee for the initial Term
of Service, in the amount, and by
the payment option You select at Registration.
Our fee structure may be changed
from time to time in our sole
discretion.
You will be given notice of any
change in fee structure either by e-mail
or by posting of the changed fee
structure on our web site, www.voiceoverdirectory.com, which posting you agree constitutes sufficient notice to you.
Any change in our fee structure
will apply to You
after the end of your then current Term
of Service.
5. Privacy
Policy. Personal Information about You
is subject to Our
privacy policy which is posted on Our
Web site, www.voiceoverdirectory.com,
at the time You
first register or renew Your
registration, as the case may be.
The term “Personal
Information” as used in the preceding
sentence shall have the meaning defined
in Our
privacy policy.
Notwithstanding anything
contained in our privacy policy, You
acknowledge, consent and agree that We
may access, preserve, and disclose your
account information and Content if
required to do so by law or in a good
faith belief that such access,
preservation, or disclosure is
reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with
legal process, (b) enforce the Terms of
Service; (c) respond to claims that any
Content violates the rights of
third-parties; (d) respond to your
requests for customer service; or (e)
protect the rights, property, or
personal safety of Us, our users, or the
public.
6. User Name, Password and Security. You will select a user
name for Your
account at Registration
and will be sent a password at the
e-mail address you provide at Registration. It is Your
responsibility to carefully enter Your
correct e-mail address at Registration.
We
are not responsible for any damage to You
or others because You
did not do so.
When You log in using Your
user name and password, You
may change Your
password.
We
recommend that You
change Your
password on a regular basis.
It is Your
responsibility to maintain the
confidentiality of Your user name and password. You
are responsible for all activities that
occur in your account, even if someone
else logs on with Your
user name and password.
You
agree immediately to notify Us
of any unauthorized use of Your
account.
You also agree to log off Your
account at the end of each session.
7. Content. You understand that all information, data, text, software,
music, sound, photographs, graphics,
video, messages or other materials
available on the Service
("Content"),
whether publicly posted or privately
transmitted, are the sole responsibility
of the person from which such Content
originated.
You
acknowledge and agree that You
are solely responsible for all Content
that You
upload, post, email, transmit or
otherwise make available on the Service, and You
represent and warrant that all such Content
shall, in all respects, be in compliance
with Our Terms of Use. We
do not control the Content
uploaded, posted, emailed, transmitted
or otherwise made available on the
Service by users of the Service. We do not
guarantee the accuracy, integrity or
quality of such Content.
We
are not responsible or liable because of
such Content, including, but not limited to, errors or omissions in any
such Content;
and loss or damage of any kind incurred
as a result of the use of any such Content. You understand
that by using the Service,
You
may be exposed to Content
that is offensive, indecent or
objectionable to You.
We shall have the right, but not
an obligation, in our sole discretion,
to refuse, or remove any Content
that is available on the Service.
Without limiting the foregoing, we shall
have the right to remove any Content
that is a Prohibited Use or otherwise
violates the Terms of Use. You
agree that You must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of
any Content,
including any reliance on the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of such Content. You acknowledge
that you may not rely on any Content
created by Us
or submitted to Us.
You
acknowledge and agree that the technical
processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content,
may involve transmissions over various
networks which may require format or
other changes to conform and adapt to
technical requirements of connecting
networks or devices.
You
understand that the Service
and software embodied within the Service
may include security components that
permit digital materials to be
protected, and use of these materials is
subject to usage rules set by Us
or by the owners or providers of such
components.
You
may not attempt to override or
circumvent any of the usage rules
embedded into the Service.
During the time you use the Service,
you grant us the
world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive
license to distribute, reproduce,
modify, adapt, publicly perform and
publicly display Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service
so that we may provide the Service
as described in the Terms
of Use.
You acknowledge that in our
sole discretion, We
may change the color scheme, graphics,
fonts, format and other matters relating
to the form, appearance, style and
presentation of the Service,
including Content
provided by You.
You
agree that We
have no responsibility or liability for
the deletion or failure to store any
messages and other communications or
other Content
maintained or transmitted by Us
in connection with the Service.
In addition, the Service may be modified or discontinued generally or your account
may be terminated as otherwise provided
in the Terms of Use.
8.
Personal Information. In order to further
the purpose of the Service, You grant Us
permission to post on our web site, www.voiceoverdirectory.com, certain general information about you, such as your name, your
gender, your “reading age”, your
union affiliation or non-union status,
the City and State where you are
located, your available equipment, and a
sound clip of your voice.
You acknowledge that this information may be used by persons who
misrepresent their identity when
contacting You, including the possibility that such persons could misrepresent
their identity as being Us
when contacting You.
You
also acknowledge that this information
may be used by persons to misrepresent
their identity as being You
when they contact others.
You
acknowledge that We
are not responsible for any such
misrepresentation by others and agree to
hold Us harmless in connection with any such misrepresentation.
We
will cooperate with all law enforcement
agencies having jurisdiction to help
assure that anyone who engages in any
such misrepresentation is fully
prosecuted.
9. Prohibited Uses. The following uses of the Service
are prohibited (“Prohibited
Uses”) and You
agree to not use the Service
to:
a.
upload,
post, email, transmit or otherwise make
available any Content that is
unlawful, harmful, threatening,
abusive, harassing, tortious,
defamatory, vulgar,
obscene, pornographic, libelous,
invasive of another's privacy, hateful,
or racially,
ethnically or otherwise
objectionable;
b.
harm
minors in any way;
c.
unlawfully
impersonate or parody any person or
entity, or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with a person or entity;
d.
forge
headers or otherwise manipulate
identifiers in order to disguise the
origin of
any Content transmitted through
the Service;
e. upload,
post, email, transmit or otherwise make
available any Content that you
do not have a right to make
available under any law or under
contractual or
fiduciary relationships (such as
inside information, proprietary and
confidential
information learned or disclosed
as part of employment relationships or
under
nondisclosure agreements);
f.
upload,
post, email, transmit or otherwise make
available any Content that
infringes any patent, trademark,
trade secret, copyright or other
proprietary rights
of any person or entity;
g.
use
information posted on the Service to
email or otherwise transmit or send any
unsolicited or unauthorized
advertising, promotional materials,
"junk mail,"
"spam," "chain
letters," "pyramid
schemes," or any other form of
solicitation;
h.
upload,
post, email, transmit or otherwise make
available any material that
contains software viruses or any
other computer code, files or programs
designed to interrupt, destroy or
limit the functionality of any computer
software
or hardware or telecommunications
equipment;
i. disrupt
the normal flow of dialogue, cause a
screen to "scroll" faster than
other
users of the Service are able to
type, or otherwise act in a manner that
negatively
affects other users' ability to
engage in real time exchanges;
j. interfere
with or disrupt the Service or servers
or networks connected to the
Service, or disobey any
requirements, procedures, policies or
regulations of
networks connected to the
Service;
k. intentionally
or unintentionally violate any
applicable local, state, national or
international law, including, but
not limited to, regulations promulgated
by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, any rules of any national or
other
securities exchange, including,
without limitation, the New York Stock
Exchange,
the American Stock Exchange or
the NASDAQ, and any regulations having
the
force of law;
l. "stalk"
or otherwise harass another;
m. collect
or store personal data about other
users;
n. reproduce,
publish, further distribute or publicly
exhibit any material, in whole or
in part, provided on the Service; or
o. submit
any Content
for inclusion in the Service
which is unrelated to the voice
-over industry, which exceeds
permitted Space
Utilization, or which otherwise
violates the provisions of Our
Terms of Use.
The determination whether a matter constitutes a Prohibited
Use shall be made in Our
sole discretion.
10. Compliance with Laws and Regulations. You agree to comply with the all laws and regulations of all foreign
countries having jurisdiction over You
or
Your use of the Service,
and with the laws and regulations of the
United States, its territories, and all
states and localities having
jurisdiction.
11. General Practices Regarding Use and Storage. You acknowledge that We
may establish general practices and
limits concerning use of the Service,
including without limitation the maximum
number of days that email messages,
message board postings or other uploaded
Content
will be retained by Us, the
maximum number of email messages that
may be sent from or received by an
account on the Service,
the maximum size of any email message
that may be sent from or received by an
account on the Service,
the maximum disk space that will be
allotted on Our
servers on your behalf, and the maximum
number of times (and the maximum
duration for which) you may access the Service
in a given period of time.
You acknowledge that We
reserve the right to log off accounts
that are inactive for an extended period
of time determined in our sole
discretion. You further acknowledge that
We reserve the right to modify
these general practices and limits from
time to time.
12. Modification
or Discontinuance of Service Generally.
We reserve the right at
any time and from time to time to modify
or discontinue, temporarily or
permanently, the Service (or any part
thereof) with or without notice. You agree that We shall
not be liable to You
or to any third party for any
modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Service.
13. Termination. You agree that We may terminate your account and
delete Content relating to You
from Our service at any time,
with or without cause, and without prior
notice to You.
If you have engaged in a Prohibited
Use of the Service, or
otherwise breach or violate the Terms
of Use, We may terminate your
account and delete Content
relating to You for cause.
If we terminate for cause, in
addition to having all rights and
remedies against You which may be
available for violating the Terms of
Use, or which are otherwise
available by law or equity, which rights
may be exercised successively or
concurrently, We shall also have
no obligation to refund any amounts
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