1.1 Your use of Dakemi's products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the "Services" in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Dakemi under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Dakemi. "Dakemi" means a businessman residing at 10 Plaza Court, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 7W1, Canada. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.
1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Dakemi, your agreement with Dakemi will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. These are referred to below as the "Universal Terms".
1.3 Your agreement with Dakemi will also include the terms of any Legal Notices applicable to the individual Services, in addition to the Universal Terms. All of these are referred to below as the "Additional Terms".
1.4 The Universal Terms, together with the Additional Terms, form a legally binding agreement between you and Dakemi in relation to your use of the Services. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the "Terms".
1.5 If there is any contradiction between what the Additional Terms say and what the Universal Terms say, then the Additional Terms shall take precedence in relation to that Service.
1.6 Either the Universal Terms or the Additional Terms may change from time to time. In the event of a change you will be given an opportunity to accept or decline the new terms.
1.7 There is an associated privacy policy (described in section 7) that governs how Dakemi will treat and use your data, and your obligations towards maintain the privacy of your data. This privacy policy is considered part of the Additional Terms.
2.1 You may not use the Services if you do not accept the current Terms.
2.2 You can accept the Terms by:
(A) explicitly, by clicking to agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Dakemi in the user interface for any Service; or
(B) implicitly, by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Dakemi will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if you are a person barred from receiving the Services under any laws.
2.4 You should print off or save a copy of the Terms for your records.
3.1 Where Dakemi has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with Dakemi.
3.2 You agree that a translation of the Terms is provided for your convenience, so that if there is any contradiction between what the English language version of the Terms says and what a translation says, then the English language version shall take precedence.
4.1 Dakemi may have subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities around the world ("Subsidiaries and Affiliates"). Sometimes, these companies will be providing the Services to you on behalf of Dakemi itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Services to you.
4.2 Dakemi is constantly innovating in order to improve its Services. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the Services which Dakemi provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you.
4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that Dakemi may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally at Dakemi's sole discretion, without prior notice to you.
4.4 You acknowledge and agree that from time to time there may be interruptions to the Services due to but not limited to the following: maintenance upgrades, server failures, network outages, errors in coding. Dakemi will apply reasonable effort to minimize such outages, but cannot guarantee uptime.
4.5 You acknowledge and agree that if Dakemi disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your account details or any content associated with your account.
4.6 You acknowledge and agree that Dakemi may set a fixed upper limit on the number of transactions or the amount of storage space associated with any Service, and that such fixed upper limits may be set by Dakemi at any time, at Dakemi's discretion.
4.7 Dakemi shall provide support on a best-effort basis via email (support@dakemi.com) or by forums or other collaborative means. No phone support is provided. You acknowledge and agree that some feature requests or bug reports may not be technically or financially feasible to implement.
5.1 You may stop using the Services at any time. You do not need to specifically inform Dakemi when you stop using the Services.
5.2 In order to access certain Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree to always keep this information accurate, correct and up to date.
5.3 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions.
5.4 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Dakemi, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Dakemi. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
5.5 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services or the equipment or infrastructure required to provision the Services.
5.6 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Dakemi, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
5.7 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Dakemi has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which Dakemi may suffer) of any such breach.
5.8 There may be carrier or internet service provider fees that are associated with use of the Services. You acknowledge and agree that any such fees are your responsibility.
5.9 You agree to use the Services in the spirit of constructive collaboration with the other users. Disparaging or damaging content or actions regarding any individual, group or organization of any kind (ethnic, religious, political, gender, orientation, etc.) will be grounds for immediate termination of the agreement, and may result in Dakemi or some other party seeking compensation.
5.10 You agree that your use of the Services is for the benefit of a community of people with whom you are associated. As such, if you are unable or unwilling to use the Services for the benefit of the community, then you grant Dakemi the right to transfer administrative permissions for use of the Services to one or more other individuals who are willing to use the services for the benefit of the community, notwithstanding any personal payments you have made to Dakemi for the Services. No refunds shall be granted in this instance, as you agree that any purchases for the Services are made on behalf of the community.
6.1 You agree and understood that the service may involve the storage of personal information about children, and as such the protection of such data by you is paramount. Accordingly:
(A) You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services.
(B) You agree and understand that computers, laptops and other mobile devices can be lost or stolen, and furthermore that information may be cached on the computer by Dakemi's Services, or other third-party software or hardware such as but not limited to web browsers and proxy servers, and that security of and access to these devices is your responsibility.
(C) Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to Dakemi for all activities that occur under your account, with or without your knowledge.
(D) If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify Dakemi immediately at support@dakemi.com.
7.1 Dakemi has a privacy policy that explains how Dakemi treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Services. This policy is posted at /legal/privacy.html.
7.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with Dakemi's privacy policies.
7.3 The privacy policy may change from time to time, as per clause 1.6.
8.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Services are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the "Content".
8.2 You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Dakemi (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Dakemi or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement.
8.3 Dakemi reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, Dakemi may remove or modify content which is deemed to be objectionable or damaging or disparaging to any group, individual or partner.
8.4 You understand that, despite reasonable efforts by Dakemi, by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the Services at your own risk.
8.5 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Dakemi has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Dakemi or any of its partners may suffer) by doing so.
9.1 You acknowledge and agree that Dakemi (or Dakemi's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated confidential by Dakemi and that you shall not disclose such information without Dakemi's prior written consent.
9.2 Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Dakemi, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of Dakemi's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.
9.3 If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with Dakemi, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and Dakemi's brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to time.
9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Dakemi acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Dakemi, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Dakemi has no obligation to do so on your behalf.
9.5 You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trade mark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.
9.6 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Dakemi, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.
10.1 Dakemi gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Dakemi as part of the Services as provided to you by Dakemi (referred to as the "Software" below). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Dakemi, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
10.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Dakemi, in writing.
10.3 Unless Dakemi has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. However, since the Services can only work if the content you submit, post or display is available to appropriate other individuals. Therefore, by submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Dakemi a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services, provided such uses adhere to the posted privacy policy at /legal/privacy.html.
11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Dakemi to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Dakemi has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services. Again Dakemi agrees that such sharing of information will adhere to the posted privacy policy at /legal/privacy.html.
11.3 You understand that Dakemi, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Dakemi to take these actions.
11.4 You confirm and warrant to Dakemi that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.
12.1 The Software which you use may automatically update from time to time. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Dakemi to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.
13.1 The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Dakemi as set out below.
13.2 If you want to terminate your legal agreement with Dakemi, you may do so by (a) notifying Dakemi at any time and (b) closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use, where Dakemi has made this option available to you. Your notice should be sent, in writing, to Dakemi's address which is set out at the beginning of these Terms.
13.3 At your written request, Dakemi will delete any or all of the content from the server or database associated with your account. However, because the Services are collaborative, if other users have an interest in the data or content that you may have provided or contributed to, then Dakemi may deny your request to delete data, and instead render your personal information anonymous. Dakemi is under no obligation to remove any content from backup copies of the data.
13.4 Dakemi may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if:
(A) you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of the Terms); or
(B) Dakemi is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or
(C) the partner with whom Dakemi offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with Dakemi or ceased to offer the Services to you; or
(D) Dakemi is transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service; or
(E) the provision of the Services to you by Dakemi is, in Dakemi's opinion, no longer commercially viable.
13.4 Nothing in this Section shall affect Dakemi's rights regarding provision of Services under Section 4 of the Terms.
13.5 When these Terms come to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and Dakemi have benefited from, been subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the Terms have been in force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the provisions of paragraph 20.7 shall continue to apply to such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
14.1 NOTHING IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING SECTIONS 14 AND 15, SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT DAKEMI'S WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
14.2 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND .AS AVAILABLE..
14.3 IN PARTICULAR, DAKEMI, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:
(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
(B) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM ERROR,
(C) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND
(D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.
14.4 ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
14.5 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM DAKEMI OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
14.6 DAKEMI FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
15.1 SUBJECT TO OVERALL PROVISION IN PARAGRAPH 14.1 ABOVE, YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT DAKEMI, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:
(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY.. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS;
(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:
(I) ANY RELIANCE PLACED BY YOU ON THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY ADVERTISING, OR AS A RESULT OF ANY RELATIONSHIP OR TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR WHOSE ADVERTISING APPEARS ON THE SERVICES;
(II) ANY CHANGES WHICH DAKEMI MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);
(III) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;
(III) YOUR FAILURE TO PROVIDE DAKEMI WITH ACCURATE ACCOUNT INFORMATION;
(IV) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL;
(V) YOUR FAILURE TO SECURE ACCESS TO ANY EQUIPMENT OR SOFTWARE THAT MAY HAVE CACHED DATA;
15.2 THE LIMITATIONS ON DAKEMI'S LIABILITY TO YOU IN PARAGRAPH 15.1 ABOVE SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT DAKEMI HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.
16.1 Some of the Services may be supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may be targeted to the content of information stored on the Services, queries made through the Services or other information.
16.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising by Dakemi on the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you.
16.3 In consideration for Dakemi granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Dakemi may place such advertising on the Services.
17.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. Dakemi may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than Dakemi.
17.2 You acknowledge and agree that Dakemi is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
17.3 You acknowledge and agree that Dakemi is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
18.1 Dakemi may make changes to the Universal Terms or Additional Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, Dakemi will make a new copy of the Universal Terms available at /legal/termsofservice.html and any new Additional Terms will be made available to you from within, or through, the affected Services.
18.2 You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the Universal Terms or Additional Terms have changed, Dakemi will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Universal Terms or Additional Terms.
19.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, the Terms do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.
19.2 The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Dakemi and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any services which Dakemi may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Dakemi in relation to the Services.
19.3 You agree that Dakemi may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services.
19.4 You agree that if Dakemi does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which Dakemi has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Dakemi's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Dakemi.
19.5 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.
19.6 You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of companies of which Dakemi is the parent shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and that such other companies shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the Terms which confers a benefit on (or rights in favour of) them. Other than this, no other person or company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms.
19.7 The Terms, and your relationship with Dakemi under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and Dakemi agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Ottawa, Canada to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms. Notwithstanding this, you agree that Dakemi shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.