Terms of use

We welcome you to our site. We ask that you review our Terms of Use, which are a binding license agreement that covers your use of this site ("Agreement"). If you remain at this site, or return thereafter, you agree to be bound by this Agreement in exchange for access to the free content provided by us at this site. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement after you have read it, please leave the site.

1.  Responsible conduct

You agree to act responsibly at this site and to treat other visitors with respect.

2. Limited license/copyright and intellectual property law restrictions

Except for public domain material, the content on this site is protected by intellectual property laws, including U.S. copyright laws. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use the material at this site ("Content") while connected to this site (including, where available, to email individual stories to friends directly from this site). You are also granted a limited license to print copies of any Content posted at the site, but only for your personal use. All other rights are reserved. Except as provided in clause 5, you may not electronically reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform, or display the material at this site except as necessary to review the Content while connected to this site. You may not make changes to the Content or delete author attribution or copyright notices, and may not commercially use the Content. Use of any of our trademarks as metatags on other websites is also strictly prohibited. You may not display this site in frames (or any of the Content via in-line links) without our express written permission. Please e-mail any such requests to [email protected] . You may, however, establish ordinary links to our site without our written permission.

3. Links

We may provide links from our site as a convenience to our visitors. We have no control over linked sites and make no representations about any content or material available at these locations. Links are not intended to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement with the linked site. If you believe that we have provided a link to a site that contains infringing or illegal content or that makes available cracker tools or other circumvention devices, we ask that you notify us so that we may evaluate whether (in our sole discretion) to disable it.

4. Disclaimer of warranties

You expressly agree that use of this site is at your sole risk. There is no warranty that your access to or use of this site will be uninterrupted or error free; or that any particular results may be obtained by use of this site. This site is made available on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or otherwise, other than those which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement. Neither we nor any other person or entity providing content via this site shall be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages.

5. Terms Of Use Specific for User Generated Content

• 5.1       For purposes of this clause 5:
  • 5.1.1     User Generated Content “UGC” means any form of content, including text, images, videos, reviews etc., that is created by you and published in a Notepad, or in any other interactive features that may be available at our site at any time. UGC includes any information included in Notepads shared by you with third parties outside of this site.
  • 5.1.2     A “Notepad” is a function offered on this site for a user to create UGC and share such UGC with third parties.
• 5.2       By posting UGC on this site or sharing UGC with third parties, you agree and warrant that such UGC:
  • 5.2.1     Is your own work and will not be purported to be the work or opinion of us;
  • 5.2.2     Does not infringe copyright, trademark or any other rights of any third party, including Data Protection and privacy laws;
  • 5.2.3     Does not contain any illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, offensive or otherwise objectionable content or materials.
• 5.3       We may moderate UGC and maintain the right to remove any UGC at our sole discretion.
• 5.4       We maintain the right to revoke access to anyone who posts UGC which, in our sole discretions, is deemed inappropriate.
• 5.5       You agree to take responsibility for your own UGC and indemnify us from any damage that may result from such UGC.

6. Modifications/termination

Our employees are not authorized to vary the terms of this Agreement. You agree that we may modify the terms of this Agreement (or discontinue this site) in our sole discretion, without advance notice, and that your right to access this site is conditioned on an ongoing basis with your compliance with the then-current version of these terms of use. You should therefore visit this page frequently.

7. Jurisdiction

The terms of use shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the state of Michigan, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of laws provisions. We reserve the right to add, delete, or modify any or all terms of use at any time with or without notice.