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CATCHMODELS.com
Terms of Service Agreement
Welcome to CATCHMODELS.com.
THE FOLLOWING
DESCRIBES THE TERMS UNDER WHICH CATCHMODELS.com OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO ITS
SERVICES. You must be at least 18 years old to become a CATCHMODELS.com
member and/or use any CATCHMODELS.com services. In addition, before you
can become a CATCHMODELS.com member and/or use the CATCHMODELS.com Web
site if you parents or guardians wants to use CATCHMODELS.COM service
for the models below the ages of 18, they must mention their name in the
registration form and accept all the responsibilities for the model.
If
you want to become a CATCHMODELS.com member, please review this Terms
of Service Agreement. By registering to become a CATCHMODELS.com member
and/or otherwise using the CATCHMODELS.com Web site you agree to the terms,
conditions, notices and guidelines contained in this Terms of Service
Agreement and, where applicable, you represent that you have obtained
permission from your parent or guardian. Please be advised that we may
amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on our site.
The amended terms shall be automatically effective immediately after they
are initially posted on our site. This Agreement may not otherwise be
amended except in a writing signed by both parties. This Agreement was
last revised on February 16, 2004.
1. DESCRIPTION
OF SERVICE
CATCHMODELS.com
provides a variety of online services of home pages, professional directories
and online portfolios, accessible through URL CATCHMODELS.com. These services
are usable by all registered users and may be viewed by non-registered
users. Modeling agency scouts using the CATCHMODELS.com Agency Services
(hereinafter "Professional Members") may also be able to view your online
portfolio. CATCHMODELS.com is not a Talent Agency. CATCHMODELS.com does
not represent you or its members as an agent, manager or otherwise. Your
CATCHMODELS.com portfolio may be seen by Professional Members who use
CATCHMODELS.com's services. CATCHMODELS.com does not offer services directly
related to any member's future employment, and CATCHMODELS.com does not
take any commissions or other fees from its members in connection with
any employment a member might obtain.
2. REGISTRATION
OBLIGATIONS
In order
to use CATCHMODELS.com's resources, you must obtain access to the world
wide web, pay any service fees associated with such access, and supply
all equipment necessary to make a connection with the World Wide Web.
By using any of CATCHMODELS.com's services, you agree to: (a) provide
true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted
by the service's registration form and (b) maintain and promptly update
the registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
CATCHMODELS.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account if
you violate the above or CATCHMODELS.com has reason to believe that you
have violated the above.
3. AGE
REQUIREMENT
CATCHMODELS.com
does not permit models under the age of 18 to become members, post home
pages or web sites or online portfolios or obtainour service without their
parents permission.
4. MEMBER
PRIVACY
CATCHMODELS.com
does provide certain user information in aggregate form to third parties,
including its advertisers, for demographics. However, you agree that CATCHMODELS.com
may access your account, including its contents, as stated above or to
respond to service or technical issues.
5. MEMBER
CONDUCT
You
understand and are aware that all information, data, text, photographs,
graphics, messages or other materials (hereinafter "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 CATCHMODELS.com, are entirely responsible for all content that you
upload, post, or otherwise transmit via any of CATCHMODELS.com's services.
CATCHMODELS.com does not control the content posted on its services and
therefore does not guarantee its accuracy, integrity or quality. You understand
that by using the Service, you may be exposed to content that is offensive,
indecent or objectionable. The opinions and views expressed by CATCHMODELS.com's
members or visitors do not necessarily represent those of CATCHMODELS.com.
CATCHMODELS.com reserves the right to modify or remove anything submitted
to its service and to cancel any membership, at any time, for any reason
and without prior notice. In addition, CATCHMODELS.com, in its sole discretion,
may terminate your account, or block your access to certain member features
including but not limited to the member forums, for violation of the letter
or spirit of the TOS. You agree to notify CATCHMODELS.com immediately
of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.
The following
is a non-exclusive list of actions and content that are prohibited on
CATCHMODELS.com's site:
(a) Any use
of copyrighted, trademarked, patented, or otherwise service marked material
without the express permission of the author or owner, the commission
of any acts of copyright , trademark or any other intellectual property
infringement, or contributing to, inducing, or facilitating such infringement.
This prohibition includes all forms of software piracy;
(b) uploading,
posting or otherwise transmitting any content that is unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene,
libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or racially, ethnically
or otherwise objectionable. This also includes content that promotes illegal
activity in any way. CATCHMODELS.com reserves the right to report violations
of this provision to, and will cooperate with, law enforcement authorities;
(c) the
harming of minors in any way;
(d) the manipulation
of identifiers in any way in order to disguise the origin of any content
transmitted through CATCHMODELS.com's services or develop restricted or
password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
(e) the
uploading, posting or transmission of 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, hardware
or telecommunications equipment;
(f) intentionally
or unintentionally violating any applicable local, state, national or
international law;
(g) the
collection or storage of personal data about other users;
(h) impersonating
any person or entity, including but not limited to, a CATCHMODELS.com
official, forum leader, guide or host, or misrepresentation of your affiliation
with a person or entity;
(i) uploading,
posting or otherwise transmitting any content that you do not have the
right to transmit under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationships
(such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information
learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure
agreements);
(j) uploading,
posting or otherwise transmitting any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising,
promotional materials, "junk mail", "SPAM", "chain letters", pyramid schemes",
or any other form of solicitation;
(k) disrupting
the normal flow of dialogue, causing a screen to "scroll" faster than
other users of the service are able to type, or otherwise acting in a
manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real
time exchanges;
(l) using
your home page (or directory) as storage for remote loading or as a door
or signpost to another home page, whether inside or beyond CATCHMODELS.com
and its affiliates;
(m) having
multiple CATCHMODELS.com portfolios with different names or innacurate
or inconsistent information; posting any incomplete, false or inaccurate
portfolio information or information which is not your own accurate portfolio
(living individual seeking modeling employment on a full-time or part-time
basis on his or her own behalf).
(n) the selling
or placement of advertising on your CATCHMODELS.com home page or portfolio
page to anyone or any commercial third party;
(o) taking
any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load
on the CATCHMODELS.com Web Site's infrastructure;
(p) if you
have a password allowing access to a non-public area of the CATCHMODELS.com
Web Site, disclosing to or sharing your password with any third parties
or using your password for any unauthorized purpose;
(q) notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, using or attempting to use
any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including
without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents)
to navigate or search the CATCHMODELS.com Web Site other than the search
engine and search agents available from CATCHMODELS.com on this Web Site
and other than generally available third party web browsers (e.g., Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Explorer); or
(r) attempting
to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software
comprising or in any way making up a part of the CATCHMODELS.com Web Site.
6. CONTENT
SUBMITTED TO CATCHMODELS.com
CATCHMODELS.com
does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your CATCHMODELS.com
Portfolio or in other sections of the CATCHMODELS.com Site. By submitting
Content to CATCHMODELS.com for inclusion on your CATCHMODELS.com Portfolio
or in other sections of the CATCHMODELS.com Site, you grant CATCHMODELS.com
the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce,
modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying,
distributing and promoting your CATCHMODELS.com Portfolio and/or the CATCHMODELS.com
section your portfolio is listed in and/or your content on CATCHMODELS.com's
Internet properties. This license exists for as long as you continue to
be a CATCHMODELS.com member and shall be terminated when you request from
us by email that your content be removed and you have received confirmation
from CATCHMODELS.com of the removal of your content. You also represent
that you have full power and authority to comply with this Terms of Service
Agreement without violating the rights of others and agree that your use
of CATCHMODELS.com and its services will comply with this Terms of Service
Agreement without violating the rights of others.
7. CHARGES
AND BILLING
CATCHMODELS.com
charges its members USD$ 2.00 / per month on recurring basis. Every month
member will be charged USD$2.00 automatically via paypal. If user wants
to cancel their account please send an email to info@catchmodels.com or
pritesh.davda@catchmodels.com. PLEASE NOTE ONLY DELETING PROFILE WILL
NOT STOP PAYMENT PROCESSING. DO LET US KNOW BY EMAIL ONLY ATLEAST 1 WEEK
IN ADVANCE. DO NOT REQUEST REFUNDS.
8. NO
SPAM:DAMAGES
CATCHMODELS.com
will immediately terminate any account which it believes, in its sole
discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any spam or
unsolicited bulk email. In addition, because damages are often difficult
to quantify, you agree to pay CATCHMODELS.com liquidated damages of $5
for each piece of spam addressed to any individual recipient or unsolicited
bulk email transmitted from or otherwise connected with your CATCHMODELS.com
account, or CATCHMODELS.com's actual damages, whichever is greater.
9. SPECIAL
WARNINGS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Due to 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.
10. INDEMNIFICATION
You agree
to indemnify and hold CATCHMODELS.com, and its parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, other partners, and employees, harmless from any
claim, demand or damages, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by
any third party due to or arising out of your content, your use of the
service, your connection to the service, your violation of the TOS, or
your violation of any rights of another.
11. NO
RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree
not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, rent, resell or exploit any portion
of the service, use of the service or access to the service.
12. NO
GUARANTEE OF SERVICE
CATCHMODELS.com
provides its services on a commercially reasonable basis and does not
guarantee that members and/or users will be able to access or use the
services at times or locations of their choosing. Specifically CATCHMODELS.com
reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue temporarily the
service (or any part of the service) with or without notice. You agree
that CATCHMODELS.com should not be liable to you or to any third party
for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the service.
13. ADVERTISEMENTS
AND PROMOTIONS
CATCHMODELS.com
runs advertisements and promotions on CATCHMODELS.com sites. By creating
your CATCHMODELS.com site, you agree that CATCHMODELS.com has the right
to run such advertisements and promotions in a manner and with such frequency
that is subject to change. Your dealings with the advertisers and their
promotions found on or through the service, including payment and delivery
of related goods or services are solely between you and the advertiser.
You agree that CATCHMODELS.com should 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.
14. LINKS
Links to
the World Wide Web and other resources may be available through CATCHMODELS.com's
services. Because CATCHMODELS.com has no control over such sites and resources,
you acknowledge and agree that CATCHMODELS.com is not responsible for
the availability of these resources and does not endorse any of the content,
products, advertising or any other materials on or available from such
sites or resources. Accordingly, you acknowledge that CATCHMODELS.com
is not liable for any loss or damage which occurs as a result of using
or relying on the content, goods and services found on these other sites.
15. DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES
a) THE MEMBER
AGREES THAT THE USE OF THIS SITE IS ENTIRELY AT THE MEMBER'S OWN RISK.
THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. CATCHMODELS.com ALSO DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES
FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. CATCHMODELS.com DISCLAIMS ANY
WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED
ON THE SITE, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH
THE SITE OR THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SITE. NEITHER CATCHMODELS.com
NOR ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDER MAKES ANY WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO
ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE SITE.
(b) CATCHMODELS.com
MAKES NO IMPLIED OR EXPRESS REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE RELIABILITY,
OR ACCESSSIBILITY OF THE MEMBER PAGES OR THE ASSOCIATED STORAGE FACILITIES.
CATCHMODELS.com IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY LOSS OF ACCESS
TO, DELETION OF, FAILURE TO STORE, FAILURE TO BACK UP, OR ALTERATION OF
MEMBER WEB PAGES; INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING AND
CREATING BACKUPS OF THEIR PAGES.
16. LIMITATION
OF LIAIBILITY
UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CATCHMODELS.com BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF
THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF THE SITE OR RELIANCE ON THE SITE. CATCHMODELS.com
DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE LEGITIMACY OR IDENTITY OF ANY USER, INCLUDING ANY
PROFESSIONAL MEMBER, OR OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE PROVIDED ON CATCHMODELS.com,
INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION OR CONTENT PROVIDED BY PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS
OR ANOTHER THIRD PARTY. CATCHMODELS.com DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY USERS
OR MEMBERS, INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS, WILL USE THE CATCHMODELS.com
WEBSITE PROPERLY OR IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE
TO THEM. CATCHMODELS.com DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY MEMBER WILL SUCCESSFULLY
OBTAIN A CONTRACT, EMPLOYMENT OR SPONSORSHIP OF ANY KIND AS A RESULT OF
MEMBERSHIP IN OR USE OF CATCHMODELS.com. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY
FOR ANY DISPUTE WITH CATCHMODELS.com IS THE CANCELLATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT
AS DETAILED BELOW IN SECTION 19 OR THE TERMINATION OF YOUR USE OF CATCHMODELS.com.
SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES
(EVEN IF CATCHMODELS.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES).
SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM
THE USE OR MISUSE OF THE SITE OR RELIANCE ON THE SITE, FROM INABILITY
TO USE THE SITE OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF
THE SITE OR SERVICES OFFERED ON THE SITE (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED
BY THIRD PARTIES). SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES
INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED
ON THE SITE OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED ON THE SITE. SUCH LIMITATION
SHALL APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY
WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE OR ANY
PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS
LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO, THE SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.
SUCH LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
17. 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 15 AND 16 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
18. 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.
19. GENERAL
INFORMATION
This TOS
constitutes the entire agreement between you and CATCHMODELS.com, Inc.
and governs your use of the service, superseding any prior agreements
between you and CATCHMODELS.com (including, but not limited to any prior
versions of the TOS). You may also be subject to additional terms and
conditions that may apply when you use affiliated services, third-party
content or third-party software. The TOS and the relationship between
you and CATCHMODELS.com shall be governed by the laws of the State of
New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and CATCHMODELS.com
agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts
located within the County of New York, State of New York. The failure
of CATCHMODELS.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.
20. VIOLATIONS
Please report
any violations of the TOS to CATCHMODELS.com via email at info@CATCHMODELS.com
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