1.ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
reCrib provides a collection of online resources, including classified ads, forums, and various email services, (referred to hereafter as the “Service”) subject to the following Terms of Use (“TOU”). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with the TOU.In addition, when using particular reCrib services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted
guidelines for all reCrib services, which may change from time to time.Should you object to any term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with reCrib in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of reCrib.reCrib has the right, but is not obligated, to enforce the TOU through self-help, community moderation, active investigation, litigation and prosecution.
2.MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time.Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes. You can find the most recent version of the TOU at: [http://www.reCrib.com/about/terms.of.use.html]
3.CONTENT
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, or other materials (“Content”) posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for each individual item (“Item”) of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that reCrib does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Service, and that by using the Service, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the reCrib site and Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of reCrib.reCrib makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site.Your linking to any other webites is at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will reCrib be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You acknowledge that reCrib does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that reCrib shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the TOU or for any other reason.
4.THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The reCrib site and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content which is completely independent of reCrib, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole.
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, representations or warranties associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals.You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties.Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that reCrib is not responsible for, and shall have no responsibility or liability whatsoever under any legal or equitable theory or otherwise with respect to (i) any goods or services sold through the Service, and that your sole recourse for any dangerous, defective or non-conforming goods or services purchased by you and any loss, damage or injury you suffer therefrom shall be to the seller thereof, or (ii) the conduct of any person with whom you have dealings through or as a result of the Service.
You agree that reCrib shall not be responsible or liable in any manner or under any legal or equitable theory or otherwise for any loss, damage or injury of any sort incurred through such dealings.If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that reCrib is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, or otherwise suffer any loss, damage or injury as a result of any product or service you purchase or the conduct of any person with whom you have dealings through or as a result of the Service, you hereby release reCrib, its members, managers, officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and / or our service. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”
5.NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify reCrib’s agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement (“Agent”), at [ abuse @ reCrib.com]
or:
Copyright Agent
reCrib
[Address]
Please provide our Agent with the following information in the Notice:
(i)Identify the material on the reCrib site that you claim is infringing,with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website;
(ii)A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that thedisputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent,or the law;
(iii) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (1)the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (2) that youare the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you areauthorized to act on behalf of that owner;
(iv)Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
(v)Your physical or electronic signature.
reCrib will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the procedures outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
6.PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
reCrib has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used, which is located at the following web address: http://www.reCrib.com/about/privacy_policy
Your use of the reCrib website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that reCrib may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; enforce the TOU; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of reCrib, its users or the general public.
7.CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
(a)that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,defamatory, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, or is harmfulto minors in any way;
(b)that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actualsexual conduct;
(c)that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward anindividual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender,sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
(d)that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limitedto, a reCrib employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresentsyour affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does notapply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody ofpublic figures.);
(e)that includes personal or identifying information about anotherperson without that person’s explicit consent;
(f)that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, orconstitutes “bait and switch”;
(g)that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright orother proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do nothave a right to make available under any law or under contractualor fiduciary relationships;
(h)that constitutes or contains“affiliate marketing,” “link referralcode,” “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” orunsolicited commercial advertisement;
(i)that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitationif: posted in areas of the reCrib sites which are not designated forsuch purposes; or emailed to reCrib users who have not indicatedin writing that it is ok to contact them about other services,products or commercial interests.
(j)that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except asallowed in “services”;
(k)that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the saleof which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law,including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibitedor regulated by New York law.
(l)that contains software viruses or any other computer code, filesor programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit thefunctionality of any computer software or hardware ortelecommunications equipment;
(m)that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessiveamount of Content (flooding attack) to the Service, or thatotherwise negatively affects other users’ ability to use the Service;or
(n)that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers orotherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin ofContent transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
(o)contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or makeunsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose;
(p)“stalk” or otherwise harass anyone;
(q)collect personal data about other users for commercial orunlawful purposes;
(r)use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, datamining tools, or the like to download data from the Service -unless expressly permitted by reCrib;
(s)post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly postthe same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonableor disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
(t)post the same item or service in more than one classified categoryor forum, or in more than one metropolitan area;
(u)attempt to gain unauthorized access to reCrib’s computer systemsor engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of,interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of,the Service or the reCrib website;
(v)use any form of automated device or computer program thatenables the submission of postings on reCrib without eachposting being manually entered by the author thereof (an“automated posting device”), including without limitation, the useof any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk,or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals; or
(w)use any form of automated device or computer program(“flagging tool”) that enables the use of reCrib’s “flagging system”or other community moderation systems without each flag beingmanually entered by the person that initiates the flag (an“automated flagging device”), or use the flagging tool to removeposts of competitors, or to remove posts without a good faithbelief that the post being flagged violates these TOU.
8.POSTING AGENTS
A “Posting Agent” is a third-party agent, service, or intermediary that offers to post Content to the Service on behalf of others. To moderate demands on reCrib’s resources, you may not use a Posting Agent to post Content to the Service without express permission or license from reCrib.Correspondingly, Posting Agents are not permitted to post Content on behalf of others, to cause Content to be so posted, or otherwise access the Service to facilitate posting Content on behalf of others, except with express permission or license from reCrib.
9.NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to reCrib email addresses or through reCrib computer systems is expressly prohibited by the TOU, will use or cause to be used servers located in New York.Any unauthorized use of reCrib computer systems is a violation of the TOU and certain federal and state laws, including without limitation the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.) and applicable NewYork state law.Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
10.PAID POSTINGS
We may charge a fee to post Content in some areas of the Service. The fee is an access fee permitting Content to be posted in a designated area.Each party posting Content to the Service is responsible for said Content and compliance with the TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the event that Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOU.
11.LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that reCrib may establish limits concerning use of the Service, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that reCrib has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that reCrib reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that reCrib shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
12.ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
reCrib grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use.This license does not include: (a) access to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by reCrib. A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our [robots.txt] file. “General purpose internet search engine” does not include a website or search engine or other service that specializes in classified listings or in any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale, services, or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified ad listing services.
reCrib permits you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website to, individual postings on the Service so long as such use is for noncommercial and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal web blogs or personal online media).If the total number of such postings displayed or linked to on your website exceeds one hundred (100) postings, your use will be presumed to be in violation of the TOU, absent express permission granted by reCrib to do so.You may also create a hyperlink to the home page of reCrib sites so long as the link does not portray reCrib, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.
reCrib may from time to time offer various parts of the Service in RSS format so that users can embed individual feeds into a personal website or blog, or view postings through third party software news aggregators.reCrib permits you to display, excerpt from, and link to the RSS feeds on your personal website or personal web blog, provided that (a) your use of the RSS feed is for personal, non-commercial purposes only, (b) each title is correctly linked back to the original post on the Service and redirects the user to the post when the user clicks on it, (c) you provide, adjacent to the RSS feed, proper attribution to ‘reCrib’ as the source, (d) your use or
display does not suggest that reCrib promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, (e) you do not redistribute the RSS feed, and (f) your use does not overburden reCrib’s systems.reCrib reserves all rights in the content of the RSS feeds and may terminate any RSS feed at any time.
Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by reCrib immediately terminates any permission or license to use the Service.In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from reCrib.
13.TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that reCrib, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if reCrib believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that reCrib shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-17 shall survive termination of the TOU.
14.PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of reCrib. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of reCrib, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse
engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service. “reCrib” is a trademark of reCrib, LLC and is the subject of a pending trademark registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Although reCrib does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to reCrib an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant reCrib all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
15.DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE RECRIB SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE RECRIB SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS
IS” OR “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.ALL
EXPRESS AND IMPLIED 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.TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RECRIB DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE RECRIB SITE AND THE SERVICE.TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RECRIB DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE RECRIB SITE.TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RECRIB DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE.THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO LIMIT ANY OTHER DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THE TOU.Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties.In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
16.LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL RECRIB BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF RECRIB HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM ANY INABILITY TO USE THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE RECRIB SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RECRIB SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE RECRIB SITE.THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO LIMIT ANY OTHER LIMITATIONS, DISCLAIMERS OR RELEASES OF LIABILITY SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THE TOU.In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted.In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
17.INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold reCrib, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, managers, members, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, any product or service you sell through the Service, your violation of the TOU, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, your personal conduct or your violation of any rights of another.
18.GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and reCrib and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and reCrib. The TOU and the relationship between you and reCrib shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and reCrib agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of New York, New York. The failure of reCrib to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOU 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 TOU 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 TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
19.VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the TOU, by flagging the posting(s) for review, or by emailing to:
abuse @ recrib.com
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others shall not give rise to any liability on the part of reCrib and does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, if it becomes necessary for reCrib to pursue legal action to enforce the TOU, you will be liable to pay reCrib the following amounts as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of reCribs’ damages for the specified breaches of the TOU:
(a)If you post a message that (1) impersonates any person or entity;(2) falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with aperson or entity; or (3) that includes personal or identifyinginformation about another person without that person’s explicitconsent, you agree to pay reCrib one thousand dollars ($1,000)for each such message.This provision does not apply to Contentthat constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.
(b)If reCrib establishes limits on the frequency with which you mayaccess the Service, or terminates your access to or use of theService, you agree to pay reCrib one hundred dollars ($100) foreach message posted in excess of such limits or for each day onwhich you access reCrib in excess of such limits, whichever ishigher.
(c)If you send unsolicited email advertisements to reCrib emailaddresses or through reCrib computer systems, you agree to payreCrib twenty five dollars ($25) for each such email.
(d)If you post Content in violation of the TOU, other than asdescribed above, you agree to pay reCrib one hundred dollars($100) for each Item of Content posted.In its sole discretion,reCrib may elect to issue a warning before assessing damages.
(e)If you are a Posting Agent that uses the Service in violation ofthe TOU, in addition to any liquidated damages under clause (d),you agree to pay reCrib one hundred dollars ($100) for each andevery Item you post in violation of the TOU.A Posting Agent willalso be deemed an agent of the party engaging the Posting Agentto access the Service (the “Principal”), and the Principal (byengaging the Posting Agent in violation of the TOU) agrees to payreCrib an additional one hundred dollars ($100) for each Itemposted by the Posting Agent on behalf of the Principal in violationof the TOU.
(f)If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, orotherwise exploit for any purpose any Content (except for yourown Content) in violation of the TOU without reCrib’s expresswritten permission, you agree to pay reCrib three thousand dollars($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct orsuch conduct or circumstance continues.
Otherwise, you agree to pay reCrib’s actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of the TOU, reCrib retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in the TOU, or a temporary restraining order, or a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in the TOU, or any combination thereof.
