df.com: Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

May 1, 2008 by Chris

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS: Welcome to digitalflood.com. Digitalflood.com provides its service to you, subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS" for short herein), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You can review the most current version of the TOS at any time at this web page. In addition, when using particular digitalflood.com services, you and digitalflood.com shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the TOS. Digitalflood.com also may offer other services from time to time, including digitalflood.com sub-sites that are governed by different Terms of Services. The active TOS is always linked at the bottom of any given digitalflood.com page and the user should be forewarned this is considered notice of, which TOS is actively to be adhered to. These TOS do not apply to third party linked sites in our "Links & Propaganda" area or such other non-digitalflood.com administered services. By using our web site (herein referred to as "Service") and its associated content you hereby accept this TOS and you are obligated to follow the TOS.
   
   
2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE: Digitalflood.com Service currently provides users with access to a varied collection of on-line resources, including, various links to music tools, online forums, shopping services, personalized content, and branded programming through its network of properties. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Service, including the release of new digitalflood.com properties, shall be subject to the TOS. You understand and agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that digitalflood.com assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery, or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. In order to use the Service, you must obtain access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must provide all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device. Please be aware that digitalflood.com has created certain areas on the Service that contain adult or mature content. You must be at least 18 years of age to access and view such areas. It is the the the equipment owner's responsibility to ensure this content is not accessed by a minor and failure to do so will be at your own risk. Please refer to your Internet Access Provider's documentation on how to inact these features on your equipment.
   
   
3. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS: In consideration of your use of the Service, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (such information being the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or digitalflood.com has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, digitalflood.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). Digitalflood.com is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, parents of children under the age of 13 who wish to allow their children access to the Service must supervise their children while using the digitalflood.com Service. By viewing the Service you certify that you are at least 18 years old and that you are the legal guardian of the child/children. By allowing your child access to digitalflood.com, you also give your child permission to access all of the Services including, email, message boards, clubs, instant messages and chat (among others). Please remember that the Service is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Accordingly, as the legal guardian, it is your responsibility to determine whether any of the Services and/or Content (as defined in Section 6 below) are appropriate for your child.
   
   
4. DIGITALFLOOD.COM PRIVACY POLICY: Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. Digitalflood.com does not collect any information without consent such as cookies. Digitalflood.com does, however, monitor usage of our Service. That information is limited to IP address, domain origin, reference origin, browser information (type, build, etc...), the number of visits per page, and any publicly available information provided by your machine or ISP. Any confidential information is submitted at the viewer's approval and consent. Any information submitted to the Service is confidential and will not be resold for any purpose to outside vendors. The Service will not disclose any personal information that the Service acquires in any form without written consent of the user. All information is stored on digitalflood.com's servers or machines as securely as possible and are not accessible to outside unauthorized sources legally. Illegal access of this information will be prosecuted by the Service to the full extent of the law. The Service can not be held responsible for confidential information loss or the results incurred by illegal accessing of the information and will not be held responsible for any information that becomes public knowledge/falls into the wrong hands. See Sections 17, 18, and 19 for more information on liability of the Service for more information concerning this. The Service, however, will comply with the law enforcement agencies to provide this information as required to by the law such as a subpoena. No personal information submitted to the Service by children under 13 years of age will be saved for any purposes. Be warned that it is the parent/guardian's responsibility to assure that any information by minors is not submitted to the Service. The Service will not be held responsible for such submissions by minors under 13 years of age. All information by digitalflood.com may be used by the Service to distribute authorized mail, but only with the information holder's consent. If at any time you wished to be removed from a mailing list a contact will be provided to do so on the medium sent to the information holder.
   
   
5. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY: You may receive a password and account designation upon completing a portion of our Service's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately notify digitalflood.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. Digitalflood.com cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this section (Section 5).
   
   
6. MEMBER CONDUCT: You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (hereby labeled "Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not digitalflood.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Service. Digitalflood.com does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. As a viewer you understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will digitalflood.com be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Service. You agree to not use the Service to: (a.) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (b.) harm minors in any way; (c.) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a digitalflood.com official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (d.) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service; (e.) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); (f.) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party; (g.) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose; (h.) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; (i.) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges; (j.) interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service; (k.) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law; (l.) "stalk" or otherwise harass another; or (m.) collect or store personal data about other users. You acknowledge that digitalflood.com does not pre-screen Content, but that digitalflood.com™ and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or move any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, digitalflood.com and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by digitalflood.com or submitted to digitalflood.com, including without limitation information in digitalflood.com Message Boards, digitalflood.com Clubs, and in all other parts of the Service. You acknowledge and agree that digitalflood.com may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of digitalflood.com™, its users and the public. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
   
   
7. SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE: Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
   
   
8. PUBLIC CONTENT POSTED TO DIGITALFLOOD.COM: (a) For purposes of the TOS, "publicly accessible areas of the Service" are those accessible by the general public. By way of example, a publicly accessible area of the Service would include public digitalflood.com Clubs and digitalflood.com Message Boards, but would not include private digitalflood.com Clubs or private digitalflood.com communication services such as digitalflood.com Web Mail or digitalflood.com Paging. (b) With respect to Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly accessible areas of digitalflood.com Clubs or that consists of photos or other graphics you elect to post to any other publicly accessible area of the Service, you grant digitalflood.com world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Content on the Service solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the specific digitalflood.com to which such Content was submitted, or, in the case of photos or graphics, solely for the purpose for which such photo or graphic was submitted to the Service. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and shall be terminated at the time you delete such Content from the Service. (c) With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant digitalflood.com™ the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
   
   
9. INDEMNITY: You agree to indemnify and hold digitalflood.com, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post to or transmit through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another.
   
   
10. NO RESALE OF SERVICE: You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.
    
    
11. GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE: You acknowledge that digitalflood.com may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Service, including without limitation the maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account on the Service, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account on the Service, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on digitalflood.com's servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Service in a given period of time. You agree that digitalflood.com has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that digitalflood.com reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that digitalflood.com reserves the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice.
    
    
12. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE: Digitalflood.com reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that digitalflood.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
    
    
13. TERMINATION: You agree that digitalflood.com, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if digitalflood.com believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Digitalflood.com may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that digitalflood.com may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service. Further, you agree that digitalflood.com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.
    
    
14. DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS: Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that digitalflood.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.
    
    
15. LINKS: The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources such as (but not limited to) our digitalflood.com New™ and digitalflood.com Links areas. Because digitalflood.com has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that digitalflood.com is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that digitalflood.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
    
    
16. DIGITALFLOOD.COM PROPRIETARY RIGHTS: You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or information presented to you through the Service or advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by digitalflood.com or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Software, in whole or in part. Digitalflood.com grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Service. You agree not to access the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by digitalflood.com for use in accessing the Service.
    
    
17. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT: (a.) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. DIGITALFLOOD.COM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS 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. (b.) DIGITALFLOOD.COM MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. (c.) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE 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 ANY SUCH MATERIAL. (d.) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM DIGITALFLOOD.COM OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.
    
    
18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT DIGITALFLOOD.COM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF DIGITALFLOOD.COM™ HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.
    
    
19. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS: SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 17 AND 18 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
    
    
20. SPECIAL ADMONITION FOR SERVICES RELATING TO FINANCIAL MATTERS: If you intend to create or join any service, receive or request any news, messages, alerts or other information from the Service concerning companies, stock quotes, investments or securities, please read the above Sections 17 and 18 again. They go doubly for you. In addition, for this type of information particularly, the phrase "Let the investor beware" is apt. The Service is provided for informational purposes only, and no Content included in the Service is intended for trading or investing purposes. Digitalflood.com shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, usefulness or availability of any information transmitted via the Service, and shall not be responsible or liable for any trading or investment decisions made based on such information.
    
    
21. NOTICE: Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. The Service may also provide notices of changes to the TOS or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Service.
    
    
22. TRADEMARK INFORMATION: digitalflood.com, the digitalflood.com logo, digitalflood.com in any foreign languages, the "Salvation NOW! crucifix " logo, digitalflood.com -- Jesus Christ was an Anarchist, The "We will drown you" slogan, DF.com, DF.com stylized, df.com, df.com stylized, DigitalFl00d Studios, DigitalFl00d, Fl00d, the anarchy crucifix, the digitflood.com logo, the DigitalFl00d logo, Digitalflood.com, DigitalFl00d.com logo, DigitalFl00d Studios logo, Digitalflood, DigitalFlood, Digitalflood Studios, DigitalFlood Studios, digitalflood, and digitalflood.com trademarks and service marks, and other digitalflood.com logos and product and service names are trademarks of DigitalFl00d Studios. (the "digitalflood.com Marks"). Without digitalflood.com's prior permission, you agree not to display or use in any manner, the digitalflood.com Marks.
    
    
23. COPYRIGHTS and COPYRIGHT AGENTS: Digitalflood.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide digitalflood.com's Copyright Agent the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; your address, telephone number, and email address; a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Digitalflood.com's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site is Christopher Welch who can be reached as by email at: chris@digitalflood.com
    
    
24. GENERAL INFORMATION: The TOS constitute the entire agreement between you and digitalflood.com and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and digitalflood.com. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. The TOS and the relationship between you and digitalflood.com shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and digitalflood.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Orange County New York. The failure of digitalflood.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
    
    
25. MP3/MUSIC, FILES, ARTWORK, LYRICS, AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPRIETARY WORKS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any original "work" (defined as any original content including, but not limited to, all MP3s, web pages, programs, files, logos, written works, music, lyrics, artwork, graphics, text, video, audio, design/layout, web page code, and intellectual properties published in any form by The Service) contain copyrighted information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws as described in The Digital Millennium Act and the United States of America Copyright Law. By using The Service you agree to abide by these laws and any other "intellectual rights" laws that apply to you. The Service provides these posted files of original artwork, music, and writing "AS IS" with no warranties or claims as described in Sections 17, 18, and 19. Any misuse, loss, damage, or other issues that may result from downloading or receiving files or works from The Service is at your own risk. The Service will not take any responsibility for any damage or loss. These works are owned by the individual artists who created them and are licensed for display/transmission by The Service only. Any reproduction, rebroadcast, or other redistribution of these works is strictly forbidden. If you wish to distribute a licensed work please contact Christopher Welch via e-mail: chris@digitalflood.com . Except as expressly authorized by digitalflood.com or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or its proprietary intellectual properties, in whole or in part. Digitalflood.com grants you a personal, nontransferable and non-exclusive right and license to view/listen to/store these works on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, decompile/deface, reverse assemble/engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, distribute, broadcast/retransmit in any manner, transfer, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in these works. You agree not to modify these works in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of these works, including (without limitation) for the purpose of distributing unauthorized reproduction of the Service or its works. By downloading these works you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights to these works. You agree not to access these works by any means other than through the interface that is provided by digitalflood.com for use in accessing the Service. For further information on copyrighted or trademarked works see Sections 22 and 23.
    
    
26. DIGITALFLOOD PIRATE RADIO: The Digitalflood Pirate Radio service is provided as is and requires third party software. While we can suggest the most applicable application to listen to the audio we cannot guarantee that application's functionality or impact on the user's equipment. Furthermore, the audio itself may contain third party works which are copyright protected. It is the user's liability therefore to have such copyrighted works stored on their equipment. Complying properly with local copyright laws, as well as, federal or state laws that may be applicable to such works is the user's responsibility. The Service holds no claims to such works nor receives any monetary reciprocation for such works. The content is given as is for personal non-profit use. Reverse engineering, dissecting, editing, or otherwise altering the audio content is strictly forbidden. Therefore audio is to remain completely intact in its entirety as it was originally produced. Reproducing content, altering it into individual tracks, or otherwise distributing the content is also forbidden. Please be aware doing such may violate copyright laws that govern your state, province, or country. The audio is to be stored for no more than 24 hours on your equipment and should be removed there after. Please be aware that the Service will not be held responsible for any users or organizations failure to comply with these terms of use and holds itself not responsible for a third parties actions if such were to take place. All other terms and conditions stated on this page also apply to this service section. Therefore those terms and conditions must also be complied with in addition to those mentioned in this section. Failure to do so is at your own risk.
    
    
27. DISCLAIMER OF ACCURACY/RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION: The Service reserve the right to use use opinion, editorial content, and satire in the Service's Content/Work without any prior notice to the viewer. All Content contains valid information that at the time was obtained through a trusted source(s) or an opinion (viewpoint) that was created from information available at the time of the Contents' publication. However, even the best sources at times can make erroneous statements available to the Service or new information may arise to contradict Content. If you believe that an error exists in Content on the Service please e-mail: chris@digitalflood.com . If we find that claim valid, the Service will edit the Content/Work as soon as possible and at our discretion. Therefore be aware that The Service provides Content/Work based upon opinion and should be taken as such. Any likeness to people, places, or events is for editorial reference only. The Service takes no responsibility or makes no claims to the accuracy of any content, nor does the Service intend any harm or slander to any individual, place, event, or organization. The content is presented "as is" with no expressed or implied warranties (See Section 17-18). The Service will no be responsible for any loss or damage that may be incurred by using this information nor does the service guarantee the Contents' accuracy. Furthermore, the Service will not be held liable for any damages incurred to an individual(s), organization(s), place(s), or event(s) due to being referenced in any Content/Work on the Service. The Service reserves the right to its opinion and the right to publish that opinion without any repercussion whatsoever in order to provide viewers with an editorial opinion. It is the viewers responsibility to determine the validity and usefulness of that opinion.
    
    
28. RATINGS SYSTEM AND PARENTAL/GUARDIAN CONTROL: The Service has put parental controls in place so that Parents or Guardians can control access to the Service for minors. Information about this internationally accepted system can be found at: http://www.icra.org/labelv02.html. The ICRA rates content based on several categories and will allow you to limit access to Content you may find offensive or inappropriate. Please consult your web browser's support information in order to learn how to enable and configure this built-in feature. Note that while this rating control system is a precaution and aid to prevent minors from accessing material that Parents or Guardians deem inappropriate the Service cannot guarantee that access will be prevented as methods may be applied to circumvent this protection scheme. Therefore, it is the Parents' or Guardians' responsibility to make sure that minors do not access the Service if they feel they should not do so.
    
    
29. VIOLATIONS: Please report any violations of the TOS via e-mail: chris@digitalflood.com .