User Submissions
User Submissions. The Services may contain message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages or profiles, forums, bulletin boards, or other interactive features that may allow you to submit, post, or upload various forms of media content and written communications, including, without limitation, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials, as well as suggestions, ideas, comments, likes, questions, events, updates, or other information (collectively, “Submissions”). All of your Submissions will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and must comply with these Terms. Masport reserves the right to remove or edit any of your Submissions, but does not regularly review Submissions (including Submissions by you or other users). You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of and otherwise be fully responsible for your Submissions (including the legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness of your Submissions). Masport takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Submissions provided by you or any third party.
Content Standards. Submissions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local, and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, Submissions must not:
(a) contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable;
(b) promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
(c) infringe any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any other person;
(d) violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms and the Privacy Policy;
(e) be likely to deceive any person;
(f) promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote, or assist any unlawful act;
(g) cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm, or annoy or be otherwise injurious to any other person;
(h) impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization;
(i) involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes, and other sales promotions, barter, or advertising;
(j) give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case;
(k) be materially unrelated to the industry/market applicable to the Masport community; or
(l) consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of “spam” or unsolicited commercial electronic messages.
Ownership of Submissions. Masport does not claim any ownership rights in the Submissions posted on or through the Services. You represent and warrant that (a) you own the Submissions posted by you or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth above, (b) the posting and use of your Submissions do not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, contract rights, Intellectual Property Rights or any other rights of any person, and (c) the posting of your Submissions does not result in a breach of contract between you and a third party. By displaying or publishing any Submissions, you hereby grant to Masport a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Submissions and all Intellectual Property Rights contained therein, including, without limitation, distributing part or all of such Submissions in any media formats through any media channels. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your right to enforce against Masport, our assignees, our sub-licensees, and their assignees your Intellectual Property Rights in your Submissions in connection with our, those assignees’, and those sub-licensees’ use of such Submissions.
Monitoring and Enforcement. You agree that Masport has the right, but not the obligation, to (a) monitor at any time, for any reason at its sole discretion, all Submissions and other material and content posted on or through the Services or the usage of the Services, and/or (b) take any action (without prior notice) with respect to any Submissions that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such Submissions violate these Terms, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Services, or the public, or could create liability for Masport, including, without limitation, reviewing, censoring, deleting, or prohibiting the transmission or receipt of any Submissions. During monitoring, data may be examined, recorded, copied, and used by Masport. Use of the Services by you, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to such foregoing monitoring. Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Services, YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS MASPORT AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.
Deleted Submissions. Deleted Submissions may be stored by Masport in order to comply with certain legal obligations and is not retrievable without a valid court order. Consequently, we encourage you to maintain your own backup of your Submissions. In other words, Masport is not a backup service. Masport will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Services, or the loss of any Submissions.
Other Content. While we try to offer reliable data, we cannot promise that any Submissions or other content provided through the Services will always be available, accurate, complete, and up-to-date. You agree that Masport is not responsible for examining or warranting any Submissions or other content provided by other users or third parties through the Services, and you will not attempt to hold us liable for any inaccuracies. It is your responsibility to review and verify any Submissions or other content provided by other users’ or third parties’ submissions and activities. The Submissions or other content provided through the Services may include copyrighted, trademarked or other proprietary materials. You agree not to remove any copyright, proprietary, or identification markings and not to create any derivative works based on such Submissions and other content. If you have any concerns about inappropriate or unsafe Submissions or Submissions that otherwise violate these Terms, you may report such Submissions by sending us written notice in accordance with these Terms. After reviewing reported items, we’ll take them down if we believe necessary.