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Terms of Use
We have taken every effort to design our Web site to
be useful, informative, helpful, honest and fun. Hopefully we’ve
accomplished that — and would ask that you let us know if
you’d like to see improvements or changes that would make
it even easier for you to find the information you need and want.
All we ask is that you agree to abide by the following
Terms and Conditions. Take a few minutes to look them over because
by using our site you automatically agree to them. Naturally, if
you don’t agree, please do not use the site. We reserve the
right to make any modifications that we deem necessary at any time.
Please continue to check these terms to see what those changes may
be! Your continued use of the PowderGames.com Web site means that
you accept those changes.
Restrictions on Use of Our Online Materials
All Online Materials on the PowderGames.com site, including,
without limitation, text, software, names, logos, trademarks, service
marks, trade names, images, photos, illustrations, audio clips,
video clips, and music are copyrighted intellectual property. All
usage rights are owned and controlled by PowderGames.com. You, the
visitor, may download Online Materials for non-commercial, personal
use only provided you 1) retain all copyright, trademark and propriety
notices, 2) you make no modifications to the materials, 3) you do
not use the materials in a manner that suggests an association with
any of our products, services, events or brands, and 4) you do not
download quantities of materials to a database, server, or personal
computer for reuse for commercial purposes. You may not, however,
copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute
Online Materials in any way or for any other purpose unless you
get our written permission first. Neither may you add, delete, distort
or misrepresent any content on the PowderGames.com site. Any attempts
to modify any Online Material, or to defeat or circumvent our security
features is prohibited.
Everything you download, any software, plus all files,
all images incorporated in or generated by the software, and all
data accompanying it, is considered licensed to you by PowderGames.com
or third-party licensors for your personal, non-commercial home
use only. We do not transfer title of the software to you. That
means that we retain full and complete title to the software and
to all of the associated intellectual-property rights. You’re
not allowed to redistribute or sell the material or to reverse-engineer,
disassemble or otherwise convert it to any other form that people
can use.
Submitting Your Online Material to Us
All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, comments,
or other information that you send to PowderGames.com through our
site (other than information we promise to protect under our privacy
policy becomes and remains our property, even if this agreement
is later terminated.
That means that we don’t have to treat any such
submission as confidential. You can’t sue us for using ideas
you submit. If we use them, or anything like them, we don’t
have to pay you or anyone else for them. We will have the exclusive
ownership of all present and future rights to submissions of any
kind. We can use them for any purpose we deem appropriate to our
PowderGames.com mission, without compensating you or anyone else
for them.
You acknowledge that you are responsible for any submission
you make. This means that you (and not we) have full responsibility
for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness,
originality, and copyright.
Limitation of Liability
PowderGames.com WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR
INJURY THAT ACCOMPANY OR RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF ANY OF ITS SITE.
THESE INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) DAMAGES OR INJURY
CAUSED BY ANY:
USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SITE
USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) ANY SITE TO WHICH YOU HYPERLINK
FROM OUR SITE
FAILURE OF OUR SITE TO PERFORM IN THE MANNER YOU EXPECTED
OR DESIRED
ERROR ON OUR SITE
OMISSION ON OUR SITE
INTERRUPTION OF AVAILABILITY OF OUR SITE
DEFECT ON OUR SITE
DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OF OUR SITE
COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE FAILURE
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING:
DAMAGES INTENDED TO COMPENSATE SOMEONE DIRECTLY FOR A LOSS
OR INJURY
DAMAGES REASONABLY EXPECTED TO RESULT FROM A LOSS OR INJURY
(KNOWN IN LEGAL TERMS AS "CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.")
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS DAMAGES AND EXPENSES RESULTING DIRECTLY
FROM A LOSS OR INJURY (KNOWN IN LEGAL TERMS AS "INCIDENTIAL
DAMAGES.")
WE ARE NOT LIABLE EVEN IF WE’VE BEEN NEGLIGENT
OR IF OUR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES OR BOTH.
EXCEPTION: CERTAIN STATE LAWS MAY NOT ALLOW US TO LIMIT
OR EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR THESE "INCIDENTAL" OR "CONSEQUENTIAL"
DAMAGES. IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THOSE STATES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION
OBVIOUSLY WOULD NOT APPLY WHICH WOULD MEAN THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THE
RIGHT TO RECOVER THESE TYPES OF DAMAGES.
HOWEVER, IN ANY EVENT, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL
LOSSES, DAMAGES, INJURIES, AND CLAIMS OF ANY AND EVERY KIND (WHETHER
THE DAMAGES ARE CLAIMED UNDER THE TERMS OF A CONTRACT, OR CLAIMED
TO BE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER WRONGFUL CONDUCT, OR THEY’RE
CLAIMED UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY) WILL NOT BE GREATER THAN THE
AMOUNT YOU PAID IF ANYTHING TO ACCESS OUR SITE.
Links to Other Sites
We sometimes provide referrals to and links to other
World Wide Web sites from our site. Such a link should not be seen
as an endorsement, approval or agreement with any information or
resources offered at sites you can access through our site. If in
doubt, always check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address provided
in your WWW browser to see if you are still in a PowderGames.com-operated
site or have moved to another site. PowderGames.com is not responsible
for the content or practices of third party sites that may be linked
to our site. When PowderGames.com provides links or references to
other Web sites, no inference or assumption should be made and no
representation should be inferred that PowderGames.com is connected
with, operates or controls these Web sites. Any approved link must
not represent in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that
you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of any
PowderGames.com site or endorsement, sponsorship or support of PowderGames.com,
including its respective employees, agents or directors.
Termination of This Agreement
This agreement is effective until terminated by either
party. You may terminate this agreement at any time, by destroying
all materials obtained from all PowderGames.com Web site, along
with all related documentation and all copies and installations.
PowderGames.com may terminate this agreement at any time and without
notice to you, if, in its sole judgment, you breach any term or
condition of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy
all materials. In addition, by providing material on our Web site,
we do not in any way promise that the materials will remain available
to you. And PowderGames.com is entitled to terminate all or any
part of any of its Web site without notice to you.
Jurisdiction and Other Points to Consider
If you use our site from locations outside of the United
States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local
laws.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by, construed
and enforced in accordance with the laws of the California, as it
is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely
within such jurisdiction.
To the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened
to violate PowderGames.com and/or its affiliates' intellectual property
rights, PowderGames.com and/or its affiliates may seek injunctive
or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the
State of California, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and
venue in such courts.
Any other disputes will be resolved as follows:
If a dispute arises under this agreement, we agree to
first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon
mediator in the following location: Los Angeles, California. Any
costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation
will be shared equally by each of us.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory
solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding
arbitration at the following location: Los Angeles, California,
under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Judgment
upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any
court with jurisdiction to do so.
PowderGames.com may modify these Terms of Use, and the
agreement they create, at any time, simply by updating this posting
and without notice to you. This is the ENTIRE agreement regarding
all the matters that have been discussed.
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