MyBlogSite Terms and Conditions
Note: MyBlogSite.com is a free service. The following conditions are
enforced to ensure the trouble free operation of the software for
everyone. Members that violate these terms will have their Blogs
deleted without prior notices. Keep a back up copy of all of your
photos on your local computer. We hope you enjoy using MyBlogSite.
MyBlogSite.com is a service from FortuneCity.com Inc., for
more information about FortuneCity please visit our web site at
www.fortunecity.com
1. UNACCEPTABLE CONTENT. FortuneCity will delete your account
along with all images without prior notice if you use MyBlogSite for
the following:
a. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information,
data, or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material;
trademarks; trade secrets or other intellectual property rights used
without proper authorization; material that is obscene, defamatory,
constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.
b. To store and/or display pornography or sex-related images of any
kind. It is FortuneCity's sole desecration what constitutes
pornography. Photo Galleries displaying or storing pornography will be
deleted
c. Blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity;
d. Promotion or display of instructional information supporting
illegal activities; this includes, but is not limited to, instructions
for the building or use of weapons, propagation of "spam" email and/or
computer viruses, or any material that infringes the intellectual
property rights of third parties;
e. Promotion of physical harm or injury against any group or individual;
f. Anything illegal including, but not limited to, illegal
software, warez or hacked software, serial numbers, mail fraud, or
pyramid schemes;
g. Material insulting, or that could be considered defamatory or libelous, to other persons, institutions or companies;
h. Material that exploits children;
i. Material which attempts to collect personal information about users;
j. Publishing content or displaying photos for commercial use in any manner;
2. ACCOUNT ACTIVITY. Your account should be active - that is, it
is either receiving visitor traffic or is being updated/posted to on a
regular basis. Sites that either receive no visitor traffic or are not
updated for a period of 90 days will be considered 'inactive' and may
be removed by FortuneCity to make room for other users.
3. ALLOWABLE FILETYPES. The following types of files are allowed in your account:
.gif (CompuServe Graphics Interchange format)
.jpg/.jpeg (JPEG format)
.png (Portable Network Graphics format)
Any other files located by FortuneCity will be automatically deleted.
4. FILESIZE RESTRICTIONS AND STORAGE RESTRICTIONS. As of December 31, 2004
all free MyBlogSite accounts are allotted 10MB of disk space and 100 MB of
data transfer.
5. CONTENT LANGUAGE. The textual content of your account must
be entirely or predominantly in one of the following languages:
English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Catalan, Danish, Swedish or Finnish. Accounts that do not
satisfy this criterion may be removed at FortuneCity's discretion.
6. HOTLINKING. You may not use your account solely for the
purpose of hosting images which are principally displayed within, or
linked from, HTML pages resident upon servers other than those of
MyBlogSite.com. Accounts that are determined to be in violation of
this condition shall be subject to suspension and/or removal, at the
sole discretion of FortuneCity.
7. ACCOUNT INFORMATION. As consideration for the Services, you
agree to: (1) provide certain current, complete and accurate
information about you as required by the registration process and (2)
maintain and update this information as needed to keep it current,
complete and accurate. All such information shall be referred to as
account information ("Account Information"). You hereby grant us the
right to disclose to third parties as needed to maintain your services.
We do not share your information with third parties in an attempt to
monetize your information through advertising, spam, or other devices
that would compromise your trust in MyBlogSite or FortuneCity.com. By
submitting to this Agreement, you represent that the statements you
have made herein are true and you will not use our Services for any
unlawful purpose.
8. SECURITY. Violations of system or network security are
prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples
include but are not limited to the following: unauthorized access, use,
probing, or scanning of systems security or authentication measures,
data, or traffic; interference with service to any user, host, or
network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding,
deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks; forging of
any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an
email or a newsgroup posting.
9. SERVER ABUSE. FortuneCity reserves the right to restrict access to our servers from areas of the globe with a high level of abusive activity. These areas change periodically based on the origins of this inappropriate activity. The current restriction applies to
Russia, Romania, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Belarus, Turkey, China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
10. CUSTOMER CONDUCT. You are solely responsible for the contents of
your transmissions through FortuneCity. Your use of the FortuneCity
service(s) is subject to all applicable local, state, national and
international laws and regulations. You agree:
a. To comply with US law regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States through FortuneCity;
b. Not to use FortuneCity for illegal purposes;
c. Not to interfere or disrupt networks connected to FortuneCity; and
d. To comply with all regulations, policies and procedures of networks
connected to FortuneCity. You agree not to transmit through
FortuneCity's service(s) any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive,
threatening, harmful, or otherwise legally objectionable material of
any kind or nature. You further agree not to transmit any material that
encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise
to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state,
national or international law or regulation. Attempts to gain
unauthorized access to other computer systems are prohibited. You shall
not interfere with another customer's use and enjoyment of
FortuneCity's service(s) or another entity's use and enjoyment of
similar services. FortuneCity may, at its sole discretion, immediately
terminate your service or any agreement with us should your conduct
fail to conform to these terms and conditions.
11. ACTIONS TAKEN BY FortuneCity. Your failure to meet or follow any of
the Terms and Conditions set forth by FortuneCity is grounds for
account deactivation. FortuneCity will be the sole arbiter as to what
constitutes a violation of its Terms and Conditions. FortuneCity
reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. When
FortuneCity becomes aware of an alleged violation of its Terms and
Conditions, FortuneCity will initiate an investigation. During the
investigation, FortuneCity may restrict a customer's access in order to
prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the
severity of the violation, FortuneCity may, at its sole discretion,
restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or
pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense,
FortuneCity will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of
such violation. Should such violation take place, FortuneCity retains
the right to communicate personally identifiable information to other
interested parties in connection with law enforcement operations.
12. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period
of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of
this Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under this
Agreement. Any such revision or change will be binding and effective
immediately on posting of the revised Agreement or change to the
service(s) on our web site, or on notification to you by e-mail or
regular mail as per the Notices section of this agreement, Section 23.
You agree to review our web site, including the Agreement, periodically
to be aware of any such revisions. If you do not agree with any
revision to the Agreement, you may terminate this Agreement at any time
by providing us with notice by e-mail or regular mail as per the
Notices section of this agreement, Section 24. Notice of your
termination will be effective on receipt and processing by us. You
agree that, by continuing to use the Services following notice of any
revision to this Agreement or change in service(s), you abide by any
such revisions or changes.
13. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of your
account information with us, you must use your Username and
Password that you selected when you opened your account with us. Please
safeguard your Username and Password from any unauthorized
use. In no event will we be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse
of your Account Identifier or Password.
14. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We reserve the right to distribute information to
you that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our services and
those of our service partners. These announcements will be
predominately informative in nature and may include notices describing
changes, upgrades, new products and services offered by FortuneCity or
3rd Parties or other information to add security or to enhance your
identity on the Internet. By accepting these Terms and Conditions and
by using FortuneCity's Services you agree to receive these
communications.
15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire liability, and
your exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided under
this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is solely limited to
the amount you paid for such Service(s). We and our contractors shall
not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or
consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use any of
the Services or for the cost of procurement of substitute services.
Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of
liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states, our
liability is limited to the extent permitted by law. We disclaim any
and all loss or liability resulting from, but not limited to: (1) loss
or liability resulting from access delays or access interruptions; (2)
loss or liability resulting from data non-delivery or data
mis-delivery; (3) loss or liability resulting from acts of God; (4)
loss or liability resulting from the unauthorized use or misuse of your
Account Identifier or Password; (5) loss or liability resulting from
errors, omissions, or misstatements in any and all information or
services(s) provided under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability
resulting from the development or interruption of your Web site or
email service. You agree that we will not be liable for interruption of
business, or any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential
damages of any kind (including lost profits) regardless of the form of
action whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise,
even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no
event shall our maximum liability exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
16. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates
harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, of third parties relating to or arising under this
Agreement, the Services provided hereunder or your use of the Services,
including without limitation infringement by you, or someone else using
the E-mail Service with your computer, of any intellectual property or
other proprietary right of any person or entity, or from the violation
of any of our operating rules or policy relating to the service(s)
provided. When we are threatened with suit by a third party, we may
seek written assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify
us; your failure to provide those assurances may be considered by us to
be a breach of your Agreement and may result in termination of our
Services to you.
17. NO GUARANTY. You agree that, by registration or reservation of your
chosen domain name, such registration or reservation does not confer
immunity from objection to either the registration, reservation, or use
of the domain name.
18. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. You agree and warrant that the
information that you provide to us to register for our Services is, to
the best of your knowledge and belief, accurate and complete, and that
any future changes to this information will be provided to us in a
timely manner according to the modification procedures in place at that
time. You agree that your use of our Services is solely at your own
risk. You agree that such Service(s) is provided on an "as is," "as
available" basis. We expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind,
whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your
requirements, or that the Service(s) will be uninterrupted, timely,
secure, or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results
that may be obtained from the use of the Service(s) or as to the
accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through the our
e-mail service or that defects in the Services software will be
corrected. You understand and agree that any material and/or data
downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the our e-mail
service is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be
solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of
data that results from the download of such material and/or data. We
make no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased or obtained
through the e-mail service or any transactions entered into through the
e-mail service. No advice or information, whether oral or written,
obtained by you from us or through the e-mail service shall create any
warranty not expressly made herein. Some jurisdictions do not allow the
exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may
not apply to you.
19. CONTENT LICENSING. By submitting content to FortuneCity's
MyBlogSite service, you grant FortuneCity a royalty-free,
nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy, transmit,
publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, and
distribute such content, for the limited purposes of publishing and
promoting the user's content in connection with the particular service
with which the user has chosen to have the content hosted and for
publishing and promoting such content elsewhere within the FortuneCity
Network. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or
technology now known or later developed. This term will extend only for
the duration of the user's membership with the particular FortuneCity
service. In the event that such membership is terminated, FortuneCity
will relinquish all rights to the user's Content following the duration
of any applicable promotional activities ongoing at the time the
membership is terminated.
20. REVOCATION. You agree that we may terminate your right to
use our Services if the information that you provided to register for
our Services, or subsequently to modify it, contains false or
misleading information, or conceals or omits any information we would
likely consider material.
21. RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right to
refuse to host your website or register you for other Services, or to
terminate the Services we provide you within thirty (30) calendar days
from receipt of your payment for such services. In the event we do not
host your website or register you for other Services within such thirty
(30) calendar day period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s).
You agree that we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that
may result from our refusal to host your website or register you for
other Services.
22. SEVERABILITY. You agree that the terms of this Agreement are
severable. If any term or provision is declared invalid or
unenforceable, that term or provision will be construed consistent with
applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions
of the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions will remain in
full force and effect.
23. NON-AGENCY. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed
as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise
between the parties.
24. NON-WAIVER. Our failure to require performance by you of any
provision hereof shall not affect the full right to require such
performance at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a
breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the
provision itself.
25. NOTICES. Any notice, direction or other communication given under
this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending it via e-mail
or via regular mail. In the case of e-mail, valid notice shall only
have been deemed to be given when the sender has obtained an electronic
confirmation of delivery. E-mail notice shall be sent to you at the
e-mail address you have provided in your registration application or as
updated from time to time. Mail shall be sent to us at FortuneCity Web
Hosting Services, c/o FortuneCity Host Master; 322 8th Avenue, 11th
Floor, New York, NY 10001, United States, and mail shall be sent to you
at the mailing address you have provided in your registration
application or as updated from time to time.
26. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement and the rules and policies
published by us are the complete and exclusive agreement between you
and us regarding our Services. This Agreement supersedes all prior
agreements and understandings, whether established by custom, practice,
policy or precedent.
28. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED
AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS.
ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT IN NEW YORK, NEW
YORK AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
29. INFANCY.If you are 13 years of age or under you may not join MyBlogSite! The protection of children's online privacy is
very important to The FortuneCity Network. For that reason, it is our
policy not to collect or maintain information at our web sites from
those we actually know are under 13 and no part of our web sites is
structured to attract anyone under 13.
30. ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.