Terms of Use
Please review these terms and conditions of use carefully before using TUBOUS.com.
This document states the terms and conditions (“Terms”) upon which Particle Media, Ltd.
(the operator of TUBOUS.com), a company organized in the Republic of Seychelles, (“we”
or “us”) will provide service to you on TUBOUS.com (the “Website”). These Terms constitute a
contractual agreement between you and us. By visiting, accessing, using, and/or joining
(collectively “using”) the Website, you express your understanding and acceptance of these
Terms. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, navigate away from the Website and
cease using it. As used in this document, the terms “you” or “your” refers to you, any entity you
represent, your or its representatives, successors, assigns and affiliates, and any of your or their
devices.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use the Website, unless the age of
majority in your jurisdiction is greater than eighteen (18) years of age, in which case you must be
at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Use of the Website is not permitted where
prohibited by law.
2. Grant of Use
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and limited right to access, non-publicly
display, and use the Website including all content available therein (the “Content”) on your
computer consistent with these Terms.
This grant is terminable by us at will for any reason and at our sole discretion, with
or without prior notice. Upon termination, we may, but shall not be obligated to: (i) delete or
deactivate your account, (ii) block your e-mail and/or IP addresses or otherwise terminate your
access to or use of the Website, and/or (iii) remove and/or delete any of your User Submissions
(defined below). You agree not to use or attempt to use the Website after said termination. Upon
termination, the grant of your right to use the Website shall terminate, but all other portions of
these Terms shall survive. You acknowledge that we are not responsible to you or any third
party for the termination of your grant of use.
3. Intellectual Property
The Content, with the exception of User Submissions and Third Party Content (defined
below), including text, graphical images, photographs, music, video, software, scripts and
trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein (collectively “Proprietary Materials”), are
owned by and/or licensed to us. All Proprietary Materials are subject to copyright, trademark and/
or other rights under the laws of applicable jurisdictions, including the United States, foreign
laws, and international conventions. We reserve all our rights over our Proprietary Materials.
Except as otherwise explicitly permitted, you agree not to copy, modify, publish,
transmit, distribute, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works of, or in any
other way exploit, in whole or in part, any Content.
4. User Submissions
You are entirely responsible for any and all materials you submit or otherwise make
available via the Website, including videos or any other communications or profile information,
(collectively, “User Submissions”). User Submissions cannot always be withdrawn. You
acknowledge that any disclosure of personal information in User Submissions may make you
personally identifiable and that we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to User
Submissions.
You shall be solely responsible for any and all of your own User Submissions and any
and all consequences of positing, uploading, publishing or otherwise making them available. For
any of your User Submissions, you affirm, represent and/or warrant that:
- (a) You own or have the necessary licenses, permissions, rights or consents to use and
authorize us to use all trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets or other proprietary rights
in and to User Submissions for any and all uses contemplated by the Website and these
Terms;
- (b) You will not post, or allow anyone else to post, any material that depicts any individual
under the age of eighteen (18) years and that you have inspected and are maintaining
written documentation, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and other laws, to confirm that all
individuals in your User Submission are, in fact, over the age of eighteen (18) years; and
- (c) You have written consent, release, and/or permission from each and every identifiable
individual in the User Submission to use the name and/or likeness of each and every
such identifiable individual to enable use of the User Submission for any and all uses
contemplated by the Website and these Terms.
You further agree that you shall not submit material that:
- (d) Is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or trademark laws, or otherwise subject to third
party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner
of such rights or have permission from the rightful owner to submit the material and to
grant us all of the license rights granted herein;
- (e) Is obscene, vulgar, illegal, unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, libelous, harmful, harassing,
abusive, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, racially or ethnically
offensive, inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate as decided by us in our sole
discretion;
- (f) Depicts illegal activities, promotes or depicts physical harm or injury against any group
or individual, or promotes or depicts any act of cruelty to animals;
- (g) Impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents you in any way, including
creating a false identity;
- (h) Would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, a violation of
the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state,
national or international law; or
- (i) Is unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotion, “spam” or any other form of
solicitation;
We claim no ownership or control over User Submissions or Third Party Content. You
or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all copyrights to User Submissions and you are
responsible for protecting those rights as appropriate. You irrevocably grant us a world-wide,
non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, non-cancelable, sub-licenseable license to reproduce,
publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, adapt, modify, publish, translate and create
derivative works of User Submissions for any purpose, including without limitation any purpose
contemplated by the Website and these Terms. Furthermore, you also grant other users of the
Website a right and license to display, stream and download User Submissions in connection
with their use of the Website and for other personal use. You also irrevocably waive and
cause to be waived against us and any of our users any claims and assertions of moral rights or
attribution with respect to User Submissions.
You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to
grant the rights granted herein to User Submissions. Specifically, you represent and warrant
that you own the title to the User Submissions, that you have the right to upload the User
Submissions to the Website, and that uploading the User Submissions will not infringe upon any
other party’s rights or your contractual obligations to other parties.
You acknowledge that we may at our sole discretion refuse to publish, remove, or block
access to any User Submission for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice.
You agree to defend us against any claim, demand, suit or proceeding made or brought
against us by a third-party alleging that your User Submissions or your use of the Website in
violation of these Terms infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of a third-
party or violates applicable law and you shall indemnify us for any damages finally awarded
against and for reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by us in connection with any such claim,
demand, suit or proceeding provided that we (a) promptly give you written notice of the claim,
demand, suit or proceeding, (b) give you sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim,
demand, suit or proceeding (provided that you do not settle unless the settlement unconditionally
releases us of all liability), and (c) provide you with all reasonable assistance, at your expense.
5. Content on the Website
You understand and acknowledge that, when using the Website, you will be exposed to
Content from a variety of sources including content uploaded to the Website by other users
(collectively, “Third Party Content”) and that we do not control and are not responsible for any
Third Party Content or User Submissions. You understand and acknowledge that you may be
exposed to Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable and you
agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you may have
against us with respect thereto.
You understand and acknowledge that we assume no responsibility whatsoever for
monitoring the Website for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time we choose, in our sole discretion, to
monitor such Content, we assume no responsibility for such Content, have no
obligation to modify or remove any such Content (including User Submissions or Third Party
Content), and assume no responsibility for the conduct of the users submitting any such Content
(including User Submissions or Third Party Content).
All Content on the Website is provided to you “AS-IS” for your information and personal
use only and you shall not use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell,
license or otherwise exploit for any other purpose whatsoever that Content without the prior
written consent of the respective owners/licensors of the Content.
6. User Conduct
You represent and warrant that all the information provided by you to us is accurate and
current and that you have all necessary rights, power and authority to agree to these Terms and to
perform the acts required of you under these Terms.
As a condition of your use of the Website:
- (a) You agree not to use the Website for any unlawful purpose or in any way that is
prohibited by these Terms;
- (b) You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and
regulations;
- (c) You agree not to use the Website in any way that exposes us to criminal or civil liability;
- (d) You agree that you are solely responsible for all acts and omissions that occur as a result
of your use of the Website;
- (e) You agree that all your User Submissions that you provide to us belongs to you and that
you have the right and authority to provide it to us;
- (f) You agree to maintain the security of your login password and to be fully responsible for
any and all use of your account;
- (g) You agree not to use or attempt to use any other party’s account on the Website without
authorization;
- (h) You agree not to use any automated means, including robots, crawlers, data mining tools
or the like, to download, monitor or use data or content from the Website;
- (i) You agree not to use the Website to collect usernames and/or e-mail addresses for
sending unsolicited messages of any kind;
- (j) You agree not to take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our sole discretion,
an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our technology infrastructure or
otherwise make excessive demands on it;
- (k) You agree not to “stalk” or otherwise harass anyone on the Website;
- (l) You agree not to post, link to, or otherwise make available on the Website any material
that contains software viruses or any computer code, file or program designed to
interrupt, destroy, limit or monitor the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or any telecommunications equipment;
- (m)You agree not to forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the
origin of any information you transmit;
- (n) You agree not to disable, circumvent, or otherwise interfere with security related features
of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Content or which
enforce limitations on the use of the Website or the Content therein;
- (o) You agree not to license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute or otherwise
in any way commercially exploit or make available the Website or any of its Contents to
any third party;
- (p) You agree not to “frame” or “mirror” the Website; and
- (q) You agree not to reverse engineer any portion of the Website.
We reserve the right to take appropriate action against any user for any unauthorized use
of the Website, including civil, criminal and injunctive redress and the termination of any user’s
use of the Website. Any use of the Website and our computer systems not authorized by these
Terms is a violation of these Terms and certain federal and state laws, including the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act.
7. Embeddable Player
We may provide an “Embeddable Player” feature which you may use consistent with
these Terms. You may only incorporate the Embeddable Player into your own personal, non-
commercial website for use in accessing materials on the Website. Anytime you use the
Embeddable Player, you must include a prominent hyperlink on the page containing the
Embeddable Player back to this Website. You may not build upon or alter any portion of the
Embeddable Player in any way.
8. Fees
You acknowledge that we reserve the right to charge for any or all of our services and to
change our fees from time to time in our sole discretion. If at any time we terminate your rights
to use the Website because of a breach of these Terms, you shall not be entitled to a refund of
any portion of your fees. In all other respects, such fees shall be governed by additional rules
posted on the Website as may be amended from time to time.
9. Privacy Policy
We retain a separate Privacy Policy and your assent to these Terms also signifies your
assent to the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Policy at any time by
posting such amendments to the Website. The top of the Privacy Policy page will indicate the
date that revisions were last made. No other notification may be made to you about any
amendments. Your continued use of the Website following such amendments will constitute
your acceptance of such amendments, regardless of whether you have actually read them.
10. Modification of These Terms
We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time by posting such amended Terms
to the Website. No other notification may be made to you about any amendments. YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE FOLLOWING
SUCH AMENDMENTS WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH
AMENDMENTS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU HAVE ACTUALLY READ THEM.
11. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. You may not infringe the copyright,
trademark or other proprietary informational rights of any party. We may in our sole discretion
remove any Content, User Submissions or Third Party Content we have reason to believe
violates any of the intellectual property rights of others and may terminate your use of the
Website if you repeatedly submit any such Content.
REPEAT INFRINGER POLICY: AS PART OF OUR REPEAT-INFRINGEMENT POLICY A
USER'S ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE AND/OR IT'S UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD FUNCTIONS WILL BE
TERMINATED IF, UNDER APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS, THE USER IS DETERMINED TO INFRINGE REPEATEDLY.
Pursuant to Title 17, Section 512(c)(2) of the United States Code, if you believe that any
of your copyrighted material is being infringed on the Website, we have designated an agent to
receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement. Notifications should be e-mailed to
dmca.alliance@gmail.com or to:
Copyright Agent
6750 N. Andrews Ave., Suite 200
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
United States
Fax: (800) 371-0235
All notifications not relevant to us or ineffective under the law will receive no response
or action thereupon. Pursuant to Title 17, Section 512(c)(3) of the United States Code, an
effective notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication to our agent that
includes substantially the following:
- (a) Identification of the copyrighted work that is believed to be infringed. Please describe the
work and, where possible, include a copy or the location (e.g., a URL) of an authorized
version of the work;
- (b) Identification of the material that is believed to be infringing and its location. Please
describe the material and provide a URL or any other pertinent information that will
allow us to locate the material on the Website;
- (c) Information that will allow us to contact you, including your address, telephone number
and, if available, your e-mail address;
- (d) A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material complained of is
not authorized by you, your agent or the law;
- (e) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and that under penalty of
perjury that you are the owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the work
that is allegedly infringed; and
- (f) A physical or electronic signature from the copyright holder or an authorized
representative.
12. Indemnification and Release
You hereby agree to indemnify us and hold us harmless from any and all third-party
claims and expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising from your use of the Website or from
your breach of these Terms.
In the event that you have a dispute with one of more other users or any third parties, you
hereby release us, our officers, employees, agents and successors-in-right from claims, demands
and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known and unknown, suspected
and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes
and/or the Website.
If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which
states: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect
to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her
must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.”
13. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitations of Liabilities
READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY AS IT LIMITS OUR LIABILITY TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
The Website may contain links to third-party websites which are completely independent
of us. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of and make no
representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of information
contained in any third party websites. We have no right or ability to edit the content of any third
party websites. You acknowledge that we shall not be liable for any and all liability arising from
your use of any third party websites.
The Website is provided “AS-IS” and without any warranty or condition, express,
implied or statutory. We specifically disclaim to the fullest extent any implied warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, information accuracy,
integration, interoperability or quiet enjoyment. We disclaim any warranties for viruses or other
harmful components in connection with the Website. Some jurisdictions do not allow the
disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may
not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF WE
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) RESULTING
FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES
ARISE FROM YOUR USE, MISURE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, FROM
YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE, FROM THE INTERRUPTION
SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION OR COMPLETE DISCONTINUANCE OF
THE WEBSITE OR THE TERMINATION OF SERVICE BY US. THESE LIMITATIONS
ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER
SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
WEBSITE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY. IN
SUCH JURISDICTIONS, SOME OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU.
YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE RIGHT AND REMEDY IN CASE OF
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEBSITE OR ANY OTHER GRIEVANCE SHALL BE
THE TERMINATION OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. IN NO CASE SHALL THE
MAXIMUM LIABILITY OF US ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE
SERVICE EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO US, OR OWED BY US TO YOU,
PURSUANT TO THESE TERMS.
14. Venue
FOR ANY CLAIM BROUGHT BY EITHER PARTY, YOU AGREE TO SUBMIT
AND CONSENT TO THE PERSONAL AND EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION IN, AND THE
EXCLUSIVE VENUE OF, THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED WITHIN THE
REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES.
15. General Terms
- (a) These Terms, as amended from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you
and us and supersede all prior agreements between you and us and may not be modified
without our written consent.
- (b) Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms will not be construed as a waiver of
any provision or right.
- (c) If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to
applicable law, then the invalid and unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded
by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original
provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
- (d) Nothing herein is intended, nor will be deemed to confer rights or remedies upon any
third party.
- (e) These Terms are not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you except with our
prior written consent, but may be assigned or transferred by us without restriction.
- (f) You agree that we may provide you with notices by e-mail, regular mail, or postings to
the Website.
- (g) The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or
contractual effect.
- (h) As used in these Terms, the term “including” is illustrative and not limitative.