SHARING YOUR CONTENT
Your content - Anything that you upload or otherwise make available on our Service, including all Intellectual Property Rights (defined below) in such content, is referred to as “User Content.” You retain all of your rights in all of the User Content you post to our Service and you agree that all images, video, music and narrative is your own content, and is not copyrighted elsewhere.
How All Clams On Deck can use your content - You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, display, reproduce, re-post, modify (e.g., re-format), re-arrange, and distribute your User Content for the purposes of operating and providing the Service(s) to you and to our other Users. You agree that content may be displayed or reproduced outside of the Web Site, and may include advertising (online, printed), newsletter posts, posters, booklets, and for editorial purposes. Nothing in these Terms shall restrict All Clams On Deck’s rights under separate licenses to User Content. Please remember that All Clams On Deck’s Service is a public platform, and that other Users may search for, see, use, and/or re-post any User Content that you make publicly available through the Service.
How long we keep your content - All Clams On Deck may retain your User Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes. Furthermore, All Clams On Deck and other Users may retain and continue to display, reproduce, re-post, modify, re-arrange, and distribute any of your User Content that other Users have re-posted to their own boards or other social network properties (e.g., Facebook, twitter, pinterest) or which you have posted to public or semi-public areas of the Service.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CONTENT
To All Clams On Deck and our community - We ask that you review and agree to abide by our Post Etiquette. We must also insist that you only use our Service in a manner that is consistent with All Clams On Deck’s Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove User Content from the Service for any reason, including User Content that we believe violates these Terms or All Clams On Deck’s Privacy Policy.
You shall be solely responsible for User Content that you upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available via the Site and the consequences of submitting and publishing your User Content on the Site. You may post comments, videos, photos and other User Content and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other information, so long as the User Content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam." You may delete any of your User Content at any time.
You agree not to use All Clams On Deck’s Service to:
conduct any commercial business; harm minors in any way; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information); upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation; upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available 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; intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, and any regulations having the force of law; stalk or otherwise harass another; collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in these Terms; or upload, post, link, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that; is offensive, indecent, objectionable, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; contains any nudity at all or is pornographic or obscene; exploits any person, including children or minors; or discloses or contains any personally identifying information (like name or address) about any person who appears to be under the age of 18.
You acknowledge that All Clams On Deck may or may not screen User Content, but that All Clams On Deck and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to screen, refuse, remove, or edit (correcting All Clams On Deck’s Trademarked product names) any User Content that is available via the Site. All Clams On Deck reserves the right to decide, in its sole discretion, whether User Content violates these Terms. Without limiting the foregoing, All Clams On Deck and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms or we believe is otherwise objectionable. You acknowledge, consent and agree that All Clams On Deck may access, preserve and disclose your account information and User Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) enforce the Terms; (iii) respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third parties; (iv) respond to your requests for customer service; or (v) protect the rights, property or personal safety of All Clams On Deck, its Users and the public. You acknowledge that all User Content you post, link or otherwise make available on the Site will be publicly available and will not be deemed confidential under any circumstances.
To third parties - All Clams On Deck values and respects the rights of third party creators and content owners, and expects you to do the same. You therefore agree that any User Content that you post to the Service does not and will not violate any law or infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights (defined below), publicity rights or rights of privacy. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove User Content from the Service for any reason, including User Content that we believe violates these Terms or All Clams On Deck’s Privacy Policy. It is important that you understand that you are in the best position to know if the materials you post are legally allowed. We therefore ask that you please be careful when deciding whether to make User Content available on our Service, including whether you can post or re-post User Content.
Definition of Intellectual Property Rights - When we refer to “Intellectual Property Rights” in these Terms, we mean all patent rights; copyright rights (e.g., images taken by professional photographers); moral rights; rights of publicity; trademark, trade dress and service mark rights (and associated goodwill); trade secret rights; and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications for any of these rights and registrations, renewals and extensions of any of these rights, in each case under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.
Feedback you provide - We value hearing from our Users, and are always interested in learning about ways we can make All Clams On Deck's Service more useful. You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments, ideas or feedback about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products (“Feedback”). By submitting any Feedback, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction; your disclosure will not place All Clams On Deck under any fiduciary or other obligation; and we are free to use, disclose and otherwise exploit the Feedback without any restriction and without additional compensation to you. By acceptance of your submission, All Clams On Deck does not waive any rights to use similar or related Feedback previously known to All Clams On Deck, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
POST ETIQUETTE
The following rules for posting on the Site help keep our community positive and to ensure that every post is helpful to other people:
Only Post Your Own Content. You may only post your own unique experience with All Clams On Deck. You may only post videos & images of your pet that belong to you – if you would like to post professional footage, please note that you must have the photographers approval for the image to be used online and possibly in print material. We may or may not be able to credit work.
Be Respectful. All Clams On Deck is a community of people. We know that individual tastes are personal, but please be respectful in your comments and conversations.
Report Objectionable Content. We do not allow content that we believe is not directly relevant to the purpose of All Clams On Deck If you find content that violates our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, you can submit the content for review by emailing us.
