TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Last updated March 6, 2023. 

 

AGREEMENT TO TERMS

These Terms & Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Trust & Safety Professional Association (“TSPA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the trustcon.net website ( the “Site”). 

 

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD, AND, AS A CONDITION TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY, THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE. IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, OR DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS, THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO USE THE SITE. YOUR USE OF THE SITE, AND TSPA’s PROVISION OF THE SITE TO YOU, CONSTITUTES AN AGREEMENT BY TSPA AND BY YOU, TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE. 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. ELIGIBILITY

2. LICENSES

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

4. FEEDBACK

5. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY

7. MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

8. TERM AND TERMINATION

9. EFFECT OF TERMINATION

10. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

11. DISCLAIMER

12. PRIVACY POLICY

13. ADDITIONAL TERMS

14. MISCELLANEOUS

15. CONTACT US

 

1. ELIGIBILITY

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Site. By agreeing to these Terms & Conditions, you represent and warrant to us that: (i) you are at least 18 years of age; (ii) you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Site; and (iii) your use of the Site is in compliance with any and all applicable laws and regulations. If you are an entity, organization, or company, the individual accepting these Terms & Conditions on your behalf represents and warrants that they have authority to bind you to these Terms & Conditions and you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions.

The information provided on the Site is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. 

2. LICENSES

Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with these Terms & Conditions, TSPA grants you, solely for your personal, non-commercial use, a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Site. Except and solely to the extent such a restriction is impermissible under applicable law, you may not: (i) reproduce, distribute, publicly display or publicly perform the Site; (ii) make modifications to the Site; or (iii) interfere with or circumvent any feature of the Site, including any security or access control mechanism. If you are prohibited under applicable law from using the Site, you may not use it. 

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site and any content it contains (the “Content”) is our proprietary property and the trademarks, Site marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions. Except as expressly provided in these Terms & Conditions, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be used or distributed without our express prior written permission. TSPA reserves all right in and to the Content and the Site not granted expressly in these Terms & Conditions.

4. FEEDBACK 

If you choose to provide input and suggestions regarding problems with or proposed modifications or improvements to the Site (“Feedback”), then you hereby grant TSPA an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free right to exploit the Feedback in any manner and for any purpose, including to improve the Site and create other products and Sites.

5. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Site may contain (or you may be sent via the Site) links to other websites (“Third-Party Websites”) as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (“Third-Party Content”). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Site or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us.  

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY

If you have an intellectual property rights-related complaint about material posted on the Site, you may contact our Designated Agent at:

Trust & Safety Professional Association
ATTN: Legal Department
2021 Fillmore Street #11255    
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 322-3552
Email: contact@tspa.org

Any notice alleging that materials hosted by or distributed through the Site infringe intellectual property rights must include substantially the following:

  • an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right being infringed;
  • a description of the intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  • a description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it 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 use of the materials on the Site of which you are complaining is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; and
  • a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the intellectual property owner’s behalf.

TSPA’s intellectual property policy is to: (i) remove or disable access to material that TSPA believes in good faith, upon notice from an intellectual property rights owner or his or her agent, is infringing the intellectual property rights of a third party by being made available through the Site; and (ii) in appropriate circumstances, to terminate the accounts of and block access to the Site by user who repeatedly or egregiously infringe other people’s copyrights or other intellectual property rights.

7. MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

We reserve the right to change these Terms & Conditions on a going-forward basis at any time. Please check these Terms & Conditions periodically for changes. If a change to these Terms & Conditions materially modifies your rights or obligations, we may require that you accept the modified Terms & Conditions in order to continue to use the Site. Material modifications are effective upon your acceptance of the modified Terms & Conditions. Immaterial modifications are effective upon publication. Disputes arising under these Terms & Conditions will be resolved in accordance with the version of these Terms & Conditions that was in effect at the time the dispute arose.

8. TERM AND TERMINATION

THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT WHILE YOU USE THE SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE TERMS OF USE, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE TERMS OF USE OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION. 

9. EFFECT OF TERMINATION

Upon termination of these Terms & Conditions: (i) your license rights will terminate and you must immediately cease all use of the Site; and (ii) the Sections titled Eligibility, Intellectual Property Rights, Feedback, Third Party Websites and Content, Effect of Termination, Governing Law and Jurisdiction, Disclaimer, Privacy Policy and Miscellaneous will survive.

10. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms & Conditions and your use of the Site are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law principles. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with this agreement is San Francisco County, California, or the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and our dispute will be determined under California law.

11. DISCLAIMER

THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND OUR SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SITE’S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE SITE AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SITE, (5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (6) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SITE. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE SITE, ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.  

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO NO MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

12. PRIVACY POLICY

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully for information relating to our collection, use, storage, disclosure of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy is incorporated by this reference into, and made a part of, these Terms & Conditions.

13. ADDITIONAL TERMS

Your use of the Site is subject to all additional terms, policies, rules, or guidelines applicable to the Site or certain features of the Site that we may post on or link to from the Site (the “Additional Terms”). All Additional Terms are incorporated by this reference into, and made a part of, these Terms & Conditions.

14. MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms & Conditions and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Site or in respect to the Site constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us regarding your use of the Site. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms & Conditions shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Terms & Conditions operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms & Conditions is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms & Conditions and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Terms & Conditions or use of the Site.  

15. CONTACT US 

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Site or to receive further information regarding use of the Site, please contact us at: 

Trust & Safety Professional Association
ATTN: Legal Department     
2021 Fillmore Street #11255    
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 322-3552
Email: contact@tspa.org