Pakzee
Terms of Service
Welcome to Pakzee
1. Your relationship
with Pakzee
1.1 Your use
of Pakzee’s products, software, services
and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services”
in this document and excluding any services provided to
you by Pakzee under a separate written
agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement
between you and Pakzee. “Pakzee”
means Pakzee LLC. 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 Pakzee, your agreement with Pakzee
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 Pakzee
will also include the terms of any Legal Notices applicable
to the Services, in addition to the Universal Terms. All
of these are referred to below as the “Additional
Terms”. Where Additional Terms apply to a Service,
these will be accessible for you to read either within,
or through your use of, that Service.
1.4 The Universal Terms, together with
the Additional Terms, form a legally binding agreement between
you and Pakzee in relation to your use
of the Services. It is important that you take the time
to read them carefully. 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.
2. Accepting the Terms
2.1 In order
to use the Services, you must firstly agree to the Terms.
You may not use the Service if you do not accept the Terms.
2.2 You can accept the Terms by:
(A) clicking
to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is
made available to you by Pakzee in the
user interface for any Service; or
(B) by
actually using the Services. In this case, you understand
and agree that Pakzee 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 (a)
you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with
Pakzee, or (b) you are a person barred
from receiving the Services under the laws of the United
States or other countries including the country in which
you are resident or from which you use the Services.
2.4 Before you continue, you should print
off or save a local copy of the Universal Terms for your
records.
3. Language of the Terms
3.1 Where Pakzee has provided
you with a translation of the English language version of
the Terms, then you agree that the translation is provided
for your convenience only and that the English language
versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with
Pakzee.
3.2 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. Provision of the Services by Pakzee
4.1 Pakzee has subsidiaries
and affiliated legal entities around the world (“Subsidiaries
and Affiliates”). Sometimes, these companies will
be providing the Services to you on behalf of Pakzee
itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and
Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Services to you.
4.2 Pakzee is constantly
innovating in order to provide the best possible experience
for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and
nature of the Services which Pakzee 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 Pakzee may
stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services
(or any features within the Services) to you or to users
generally at Pakzee’s sole discretion,
without prior notice to you. You may stop using the Services
at any time. You do not need to specifically inform Pakzee
when you stop using the Services.
4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if Pakzee
disables access to your account, you may be prevented from
accessing the Services, your account details or any files
or other content which is contained in your account.
4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while
Pakzee may not currently have set a fixed
upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send
or receive through the Services or on the amount of storage
space used for the provision of any Service, such fixed
upper limits may be set by Pakzee at any
time, at Pakzee’s discretion.
5. Use of the Services
by you
5.1 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 that any registration
information you give to Pakzee will always
be accurate, correct and up to date.
5.2 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 (including any
laws regarding the export of data or software to and from
the United States or other relevant countries).
5.3 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 Pakzee,
unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a
separate agreement with Pakzee.
5.4 You agree that you will not engage
in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services
(or the servers and networks which are connected to the
Services).
5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted
to do so in a separate agreement with Pakzee,
you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy,
sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
5.6 You agree that you are solely responsible
for (and that PakzeePakzee
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 Pakzee
may suffer) of any such breach.
6. Your passwords and
account security
6.1 You agree and understand that you are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords
associated with any account you use to access the Services.
6.2 Accordingly, you agree that you will
be solely responsible to Pakzee for all
activities that occur under your account.
6.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized
use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify
Pakzee immediately at security@PakzeePakzeePakzeePakzee.com
7. Privacy and your personal
information
7.1 For information about Pakzee’s
data protection practices, please read Pakzee’s
privacy policy at http://www.Pakzee.com/privacy.html.
This policy explains how Pakzee treats
your personal information, and protects your privacy, when
you use the Services.
7.2 You agree to the use of your data in
accordance with Pakzee’s privacy
policies.
8. Content in the Services
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 Pakzee (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 Pakzee or by the owners of that Content,
in a separate agreement.
8.3 Pakzee 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, Pakzee
may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content.
These tools include the SafeSearch preference settings.
In addition, there are commercially available services and
software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.
8.4 You understand that 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 Pakzee 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 Pakzee may suffer) by doing so.
9. Proprietary rights
9.1 You acknowledge
and agree that Pakzee (or Pakzee’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 Pakzee and that you shall not disclose
such information without Pakzee’s
prior written consent.
9.2 Unless you have agreed otherwise in
writing with Pakzee, nothing in the Terms
gives you a right to use any of Pakzee’s
trade names, trade marks, 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 Pakzee, then you agree that
your use of such features shall be in compliance with that
agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and Pakzee's
brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to time.
9.4 Other than the limited license set
forth in Section 11, Pakzee 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 Pakzee, you agree that you are responsible
for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Pakzee
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 Pakzee, 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. License from Pakzee
10.1 Pakzee
gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable
and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to
you by Pakzee as part of the Services as
provided to you by Pakzee (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 Pakzee,
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 Pakzee,
in writing.
10.3 Unless Pakzee 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. Content license from
you
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.
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give
Pakzee 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. This license is for the sole
purpose of enabling Pakzee to display,
distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for
certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those
Services.
11.2 You agree that this license includes
a right for Pakzee to make such Content
available to other companies, organizations or individuals
with whom Pakzee has relationships for
the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content
in connection with the provision of those services.
11.3 You understand that Pakzee,
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 Pakzee
to take these actions.
11.4 You confirm and warrant to Pakzee
that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary
to grant the above license.
12. Software updates
12.1 The Software
which you use may automatically download and install updates
from time to time from Pakzee. 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 Pakzee
to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.
13. Ending your relationship
with Pakzee
13.1 The Terms
will continue to apply until terminated by either you or
PakzeePakzee as set out
below.
13.2 If you want to terminate your legal
agreement with Pakzee, you may do so by
(a) notifying Pakzee at any time and (b)
closing your accounts for all of the Services which you
use, where Pakzeev has made this option
available to you. Your notice should be sent, in writing,
to Pakzee’s address which is set
out at the beginning of these Terms.
13.3 Pakzee 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) Pakzee 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 Pakzee
offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship
with Pakzee or ceased to offer the Services
to you; or
(D) Pakzee
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 Pakzee is, in Pakzee’s
opinion, no longer commercially viable.
13.4 Nothing
in this Section shall affect Pakzee’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 Pakzee 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. Exclusion of Warranties
14.1 The Services
are provided "as is" and Pakzee,
its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, and its licensors give
you no warranty with respect to them.
14.2 In particular, Pakzee,
its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, and 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
14.3 No conditions,
warranties or other terms (including any implied terms as
to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or conformance
with description) apply to the Services except to the extent
that they are expressly set out in the Terms.
14.4 Nothing in the Terms shall affect those statutory
rights which you are always entitled to as a consumer and
that you cannot contractually agree to alter or waive.
15. Limitation of Liability
15.1 Nothing
in these Terms shall exclude or limit Pakzee’s
liability for losses which may not be lawfully excluded
or limited by applicable law.
15.2 Subject to overall provision in paragraph
15.1 above, Pakzee, its Subsidiaries and
Affiliates, and its licensors shall not be liable to you
for:
(A) any indirect
or consequential losses which may be incurred by you. This
shall include any loss of profit (whether incurred directly
or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation,
or any loss of data suffered by you;
(B) any loss or damage which may be incurred by
you 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 Pakzee
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 Pakzee
with accurate account information;
(iv) your failure to keep your password
or account details secure and confidential;
15.3 The limitations
on Pakzee’s liability to you in paragraph
15.2 above shall apply whether or not Pakzee
has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility
of any such losses arising.
16. Copyright and trade
mark policies
16.1 It is
Pakzee’s policy to respond to notices
of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable
international intellectual property law (including, in the
United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and
to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.
16.2 Pakzee operates a
trade mark complaints procedure in respect of Pakzee’s
advertising business.
17. Advertisements
17.1 Some
of the Services are 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.
17.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising
by Pakzee on the Services are subject to
change without specific notice to you.
17.3 In consideration for Pakzee
granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree
that Pakzee may place such advertising
on the Services.
18. Other content
18.1 The Services
may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or
resources. Pakzee may have no control over
any web sites or resources which are provided by companies
or persons other than Pakzee.
18.2 You acknowledge and agree that Pakzee
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.
18.3 You acknowledge and agree that Pakzee
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.
19. Changes to the Terms
19.1 Pakzee
may make changes to the Universal Terms or Additional Terms
from time to time. When these changes are made, Pakzee
will make a new copy of the Universal Terms available at
http://www.Pakzee.com/terms.html and any
new Additional Terms will be made available to you from
within, or through, the affected Services.
19.2 You understand and agree that if you
use the Services after the date on which the Universal Terms
or Additional Terms have changed, Pakzee
will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Universal
Terms or Additional Terms.
20. General legal terms
20.1 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.
20.2 The Terms constitute the whole legal
agreement between you and Pakzee and govern
your use of the Services (but excluding any services which
Pakzee may provide to you under a separate
written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements
between you and Pakzee in relation to the
Services.
20.3 You agree that Pakzee
may provide you with notices, including those regarding
changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings
on the Services.
20.4 You agree that if Pakzee
does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which
is contained in the Terms (or which Pakzee
has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will
not be taken to be a formal waiver of Pakzee’s
rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available
to Pakzee.
20.5 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.
20.6 You acknowledge and agree that each
member of the group of companies of which Pakzee
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 favor of) them.
Other than this, no other person or company shall be third
party beneficiaries to the Terms.
20.7 The Terms, and your relationship with
Pakzee under the Terms, shall be governed
by US law. You and Pakzee agree to submit
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United
States to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms.
Notwithstanding this, you agree that Pakzee
shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies
(or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.
May 16, 2008
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