Viraltag.com is a service provided by Viraltag Inc., to help your online marketing efforts. Currently we only offer paid plans at different monthly prices depending on features and volume of usage. We have designed Viraltag to give you as much control and ownership of your content and data as possible. However, we need to impose some restrictions on how you use Viraltag in order to insure the highest quality service for all of our customers. In particular, make sure that you or your users are not sharing any of the prohibited items listed below through Viraltag (such as spam, viruses, or hate content). If you find Viraltag powered link that you believe violates our terms of service, please contact legal@viraltag.com (The below Terms of Service are largely based on those of WordPress.com, which the nice people at Automatic were kind enough to make available under a Creative Commons Share alike license. So, you are welcome to repurpose them for your own use. But if you do, be a good sport and shout out the team at Automatic with a link toWordPress.com somewhere on your site.)
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Viraltag website (the "Website") and all content, services, and products available through the Website, including, but not limited to, the Viraltag Developer APIs ("Developer APIs") and any code we provide you to embed on your site ("Embeddable Code") (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is owned and operated by Viraltag, Inc., a Delware C-Corporation ("Viraltag Inc."). The Service is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Viraltag's Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Viraltag (collectively, the "Agreement"). Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Service. By completing the registration process and/or accessing or using any part of the Service, you (either an individual or a legal entity that you represent as an authorized employee or agent) ("you" or "You") are stating that you are eligible for an account to access the Service (an "Account") and that you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, then you may not access the Service in any form. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Viraltag, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Service is available to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
Your access to the Service is licensed and not sold. This Agreement does not transfer from Viraltag to you any Viraltag or third party intellectual property. Subject to the terms of this Agreement and upon your registration for an Account, Viraltag hereby grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable Account enabling you to access and use the Service and the Website. o Except for the limited licenses expressly granted herein, Viraltag expressly reserves all right, title and interest in and to the Service, the content of the Website, and all processing, analytics, and other software and technology used by Viraltag in the provision of the Service (including, but not limited to, the Embeddable Code) (collectively, the "Viraltag Technology"). All content on the Website, including text, graphics, logos, icons, images, and video clips, is the exclusive property of Viraltag or its content suppliers and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on the Viraltag website is the exclusive property of Viraltag and is also protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The content on the Website may be used as a resource. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the content on the Website is strictly prohibited. o Viraltag, viraltag.com, the viraltag.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with viraltag.com or the Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of Viraltag or Viraltag licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Service may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Service grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Viraltag or third-party trademarks. 2. Your viraltag Account and credentials. If you create an Account on the Service, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your Account and login credentials (including, but not limited to, your username/password combination, Account API Key, or any users you invite to have access your Account pursuant to your paid service plan (each a "Permitted User")), and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your login credentials or any other actions taken in connection with the Account. You must not name your username, Account, or custom domain in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Viraltag, in its sole discretion, may change or remove any names that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Viraltag liability. You must immediately notify Viraltag of any unauthorized uses of your Account, login credentials or any other breaches of security. Viraltag will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
If you operate an Account, share materials through the Service, post material to a site containing our Embeddable Code, post comments, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Service (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, a video file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that: o the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party; o if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content; o you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms; o the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content; o the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawfully acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing); o the Content does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; o links created via the Service are not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods; o the domain you use with the Service and the links you create via the Service are not named in a manner that misleads others into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your Account's custom domain is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and o you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Viraltag or otherwise. By submitting Content to Viraltag for sharing via viraltag.com, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted) to Viraltag a royalty-free, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, redistribute, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate, transmit, publish and/or broadcast, publicly perform or display any such Content solely for the purposes of displaying and distributing links you have authorized Viraltag to share on your behalf, alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether by any means and in any media now known or hereafter developed and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicenses. You agree that you shall have no recourse against Viraltag for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your communication to us. You further acknowledge and agree that no compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your comments, as provided herein, that Viraltag may remove any comment at any time in its sole discretion. Further, when you submit any Content on the Website, you authorize and direct Viraltag to make such copies thereof as Viraltag deems necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of such Content on the Website. You may remove any Content you post from the Website at any time. If you choose to remove your Content, the license granted above will automatically expire and Viraltag will use reasonable efforts to disable such Content (or links thereto), however you acknowledge that Viraltag may retain archived copies of the Content and that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Viraltag has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Viraltag' sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Viraltag' reasonable opinion, violates any Viraltag policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Service to any individual or entity for any reason, in Viraltag' sole discretion. Viraltag will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
You expressly agree: (i) that Viraltag has the right to suspend and/or terminate your Account and refuse any and all current or further use of the Service if Viraltag determines, in its sole discretion, that any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, not current and/or incomplete; (ii) to protect your username, password and API Key at all times and to require each Permitted User to protect their respective username, password and API Key at all times; (iii) to notify Viraltag immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other need to deactivate your or any Permitted User's username and/or password due to security concerns; (iv) that Viraltag shall not be responsible for unauthorized access to or alteration of your data; (v) to maintain a valid authorized credit card with your Account; and (vi) that Viraltag retains the right to suspend your Account in the event the credit card on file is pending expiration and no other payment sources are available. Your username and password are personal to you and under no circumstances may you allow any others to use your username and/or password. We are not liable for any harm caused or related to the theft or misappropriation of your username and/or password, disclosure or your username and/or password, or your authorization of anyone else to use your username and/or password. From time to time, Viraltag may find it necessary to access your account. For instance, Viraltag may access your account for support, maintenance or security-related reasons. In such event, Viraltag will, if possible, provide you notice of its intent to use your username and password to do so. Regardless of whether such notice is provided, you acknowledge and consent to such access. Furthermore, 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 and to comply with any other local laws affecting the transmission or posting of content or affecting the privacy of persons.
You shall not: (i) use, or allow the use of, the Service, except pursuant to the limited rights expressly granted in this Agreement; (ii) use the Service in any manner that is inconsistent with user documentation, if any, supplied to you by Viraltag or inconsistent with Viraltag' standard security procedures, if any, accessible through your Account; (iii) attempt to reverse engineer, hack into, or compromise any aspect of the Viraltag Technology, or attempt to access data of any other customer of Viraltag; (iv) use, reproduce, modify or create derivative works of the Viraltag Technology; (v) remove, obscure or alter any legal notices, including notices of intellectual property rights appearing in or on any materials delivered to you by Viraltag; (vi) use, post, transmit or introduce any device, software or routine which interferes or attempts to interfere with the operation of the Service; (vii) reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, or access to, the Service; (viii) transfer, lease, lend, sublicense, use for timesharing or service bureau purposes, resell or otherwise distribute or allow third party access to all or any portion of the Viraltag Technology, including, but not limited to, by sharing your access username and/or password (except as allowed for Permitted Users); or (ix) use the Service to create links to or embed Embeddable Code on any content that Viraltag, in its sole discretion, determines to be (a) abusive, libelous, defamatory or obscene, (b) fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading, (c) in violation of a copyright or trademark, other intellectual property right of another or (d) offensive or otherwise unacceptable to Viraltag.
General Terms. In registering for an Account, you may choose from various paid service plans to access the Service based on features and usage volume. By choosing a paid service plan you agree to pay Viraltag the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service plan (the "Fees"). Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you sign up for a service plan (except as subject to any free-trial periods specified at the time of sign up) and will cover the use of that service plan for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated. Service plan Fees are not refundable. Viraltag expressly reserves the right to change the Fees at any time, upon notice to you. Automatic Renewal. Unless you notify Viraltag before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel or change a paid service plan, your service plan subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee for such service plan (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on record for you. Paid service plans can be cancelled or changed at any time in the Billing Details section of your Account Settings page. Usage Limits You acknowledge and agree that the service plan you select with your Account is subject to certain usage limits (as specified in such service plan) (the "Usage Thresholds"). You agree to pay Viraltag for any usage of the Service exceeding the Usage Thresholds at the then-current rate charged by Viraltag, as determined by Viraltag in its sole discretion, including any applicable taxes (collectively, the "Overage Fees"). Any Overage Fees are non-refundable and will be invoiced on a monthly basis in arrears. You expressly authorize Viraltag to collect any such Overage Fees upon delivery of the applicable invoice using any credit card or other payment mechanism Viraltag has on record
Viraltag has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, shared via the Service, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the Service, Viraltag does not represent or imply that it endorses the material to which the Service links or pages on which Embeddable Code is run, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer system from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Service may link to content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Service may also link to material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Viraltag disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Service, or from any downloading by those visitors of content linked to via the Service.
As Viraltag asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material linked to by Viraltag violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Viraltag in the manner described below. Viraltag will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by disabling all links to the infringing material. We will also contact the owner of the affected material so that they may make a counter notification. In the case of an Account or user that may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Viraltag or others, Viraltag may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Service. In the case of such termination, Viraltag will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Viraltag. To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a formal communication (by regular mail or email) that includes the items specified below. o Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon. This means a link to the original work or a description of what is being copied. o Identify the material that is infringing on the work in item #1. This means the Viraltag powered links to the material. o Provide your contact information, preferably email and phone number. o Include the statement: "I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." o Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." o Send this information to: legal@viraltag.com.
