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Terms of Use

Date of Last Revision: May 27, 2009

General

Welcome to tangle.com, a global technology company that creates social networking tools for the faith- based and family friendly marketplace, connecting people of similar beliefs from around the world. The tangle.com service and network (collectively, “tangle” or “the Service”) are operated by Big Jump Media, Inc. and its corporate affiliates (collectively, the “Company”). By accessing and using our website www.tangle.com, any other Company websites and/or the mobile versions thereof (collectively, the “Site”) you agree to be and are bound by the Company’s Terms of Use (“Terms of Use” or “Agreement”) as described herein; provided that in certain instances these Terms of Use may be modified by specific written agreement signed by both you and the Company. The Company’s Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy, and any other policies that may be posted on the Site from time to time, (www.tangle.com), are incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use and are applicable to your use of the Service. You understand and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use whether or not you are a registered member of tangle. The Company may modify these Terms of Use from time to time without notice, and such modification shall be effective upon posting on the Site. You agree to be bound by any modifications to these Terms of Use when you access the Site or use the Service, after any such modification is posted to the Site. It is important that you review the Terms of Use regularly.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICE AS THEY CONTAIN IMORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER.

Personal Information

  • Non-Account Activity. You can use the Site and/or Service without having an account. You can also contact us about the Site and/or Service without having an account.
  • Account-Related Activity. Certain activities on the Site require you to have an account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including but not limited to your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. An account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
  • Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, including but not limited to such as when you use the Site and/or Service, the channels, groups and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on the Site (including UI elements, settings and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
  • Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

User Eligibility

The Site is intended for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older. Any registration, use or access to the Site by anyone under the age of thirteen (13) is prohibited by these Terms of Use. By using the Site you represent and warrant that you are thirteen (13) years of age or older.

If you are required to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction, you may not register for a tangle user account.

User Registration

If you choose to register for an account, you agree to provide accurate, complete information about you as requested during the registration process ("Registration Process"). You will provide all content and other materials for posting on the Site in accordance with the Company’s policies in effect from time to time including, without limitation, the manner of transmission to the Company. You will also be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account.

Term

This Agreement, including all revisions, shall remain in full force and effect while, and each and every time, you use the Service and/or Site. Either party may terminate this Agreement at anytime with or without cause. You may terminate this Agreement at anytime by simply going to My Account on the Website and following the termination instructions or by ceasing all use of the Service. However, if you continue use of the Site, then these Terms of Use shall remain applicable.

Advertising

You acknowledge that the Company reserves the right to advertise on any portion of the Service and/or Site at its sole discretion. Some of the Service is supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may be targeted in a variety of ways including but not limited to being based upon the content of information stored on the Service, provided by you, queries made through the Service by you, or other information provided by you, information provided by third parties and/or in similar fashions. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by the Company on the Service are subject to change without specific notice to you. In consideration for the Company granting you access to and use of the Service, you agree that the Company may place such advertising on the Service.

Right to Reject and Retain Content

The Company reserves the right to reject, cancel and/or remove the posting and display of any content or other materials (including URL links) for any reason or no reason whatsoever and at any time, including but not limited to, any violation of these Terms of Use or applicable law. The Company shall have the right to terminate your User Registration without notice to you if any content or other material is repeatedly rejected, cancelled, and/or removed by the Company. By the same token, once any content is posted on the Site, the Company retains the right to continue posting such content at its sole discretion.

User Conduct While on Site

You understand that you will use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use only; unless otherwise agreed to in writing with the Company. You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the Service will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other person or proprietary rights, or contain libelous, defamatory, blasphemous or unlawful material. You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms of Use and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries). You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Company, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with the Company. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Service through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Service. You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Service (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Service). Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with the Company, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Service for any purpose. You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Company has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms of Use and/or for any use of the Service and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which Company may suffer) of any such breach.

Prohibited Content and Activities

While using the Service and/or Site you represent and agree that you will not:

  1. Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Service or the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications.
  2. Use the Service or the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site.
  3. Use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or Site.
  4. Engage in any commercial activity unless expressly approved in writing by the Company.
  5. Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
  6. Engage in unsolicited or unauthorized advertising of promotional materials of any kind.
  7. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or otherwise sexually explicit, graphically violent, gory, depicting gratuitous blood or mutilation, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
  8. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content or material that we deem to be blatantly disrespectful, attacking, insulting, bigoted, ridiculing, mocking, disparaging, libelous and/or hateful.
  9. Register for a User account on behalf of an individual other then yourself without the consent of that individual, or register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity without the consent of the group or entity.
  10. Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity, and/or make any other false or misleading statements of any kind whatsoever.
  11. Upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail”, “spam”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes” and/or any other form of solicitation.
  12. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private information of any third party, including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and/or credit card numbers.
  13. Solicit personal information from anyone under 18 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes.
  14. Upload, post, transmit, share 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.
  15. Engage in any activity which may be deemed as harassment, intimidation, or stalking of any kind.
  16. Upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law.
  17. Use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorization from the Company, or create a false identity on the Service or Site.
  18. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that, in the sole judgment of the Company, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose the company or its users to any harm or liability of any type.
  19. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from the rightful owner to do so.

Engaging in any of the above will result in the immediate termination of your User Account and access to the Service and Site without prior notice and at the Company’s sole discretion.

The Company reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a user may send to other users in any twenty-four (24) hour period to a number that tangle.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Site you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to tangle.com that will be difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain. As liquidated damages for such harm, you agree to pay tangle.com twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you sent through the Site. Such liquidated damages shall be in addition to any and all other rights, remedies and damages to which tangle.com and Big Jump Media, Inc. may be entitled to under this Agreement, at law or in equity.

While Company assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Site, it will, when it deems it appropriate, investigate activity in connection with the Site that Company believes may be illegal, unauthorized or a breach of the terms of this Agreement. If deemed appropriate by Company, it will initiate appropriate legal action with respect to such activities, including without limitation, criminal, civil and injunctive redress. Company reserves the right to restrict your activity on, and/or block your access to, the Site at any time for any reason without notice to you.

User Content Posted to the Site

You are solely responsible for the content, profiles (including your name and image), messages, notes, text, information, music, video, advertisements, listings and any and all other content that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, “post”), and the consequences of such posting, transmission or sharing, on or through the Service or the Site, or transmit to or share with others users (collectively the “User Content”). You may not post, transmit or share User Content on the Site or Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree that the Company may, but is not obligated to, review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Site Content or User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including User Content that in the sole judgment of the Company violates this Agreement, applicable law, or which might be offensive, obscene, defamatory, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content you post or store on the Site or provide to the Company. Company will terminate your access to the Site and/or Service if you are determined to be a repeat offender in its sole discretion.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights in and to your User Content (whether through ownership or licenses, consents, and permissions from the owner) required for you to lawfully submit your User Content to the Site and grant the rights to your User Content provided in the Agreement. You further represent and warrant that your User Content posted to the Site has all required licenses, consents, releases and/or permissions to use the name and/or likeness of each identifiable individual person in your User Content in the manner contemplated by the Site and this Agreement and the posting and transmission of your User Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, patents, trademarks, contact rights or any other rights of any person or entity.

User Generated Content – Content License

By Submitting User Content to the site you hereby grant to the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licenseable, transferable and worldwide license to access, use, modify, perform, display, reproduce, copy, prepare derivative works of, transmit, publish and distribute User Content, and all patents, copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights therein, in connection with the Service and the Site and the business of the Company, including without limitation for promoting, transmitting and distributing the Site, the Services, or any part or derivative thereof, in and through any media and channels. By submitting User Content to the Site you further hereby grant to the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable and worldwide license to access, use, modify, perform, display, reproduce, copy, prepare derivate works of, transmit, publish and distribute through any media and channels. You also hereby grant to each user of the Site a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to access, use, modify, perform, display, reproduce, copy, prepare derivate works of, transmit, publish and distribute User Content for their personal, non-commercial use as permitted through the Service and Site. You are solely responsible for User Content and the consequences of User content being posted on the Site and/or distributed through the Service and Site, and the Company’s right to use the User Content under this license shall not lapse even if your association is terminated with the Service and/or Site. Company reserves the right to continue to display User content that it deems appropriate in its sole discretion. You agree that you are solely responsible to pay all royalties, fees, taxes and any monies owing to any entity or person by reason of posting your Content on the Service and/or Site, and agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company from any liability related to such.

Website Administration and Security

The Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide a safe, family-friendly environment for its Users. You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Service. Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to the Company for all activities that occur under your account. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify the Company immediately.

Proprietary Rights

You acknowledge and agree that Company (or Company’s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Service (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Service may contain information which is designated confidential by Company and that you shall not disclose such information without Company’s prior written consent. Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Company, nothing in the Terms of Use gives you a right to use any of Company’s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features. If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with Company, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms of Use and Company's brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to time. Other than as otherwise set forth herein, Company acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms of Use in or to any User Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that User Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Company, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Company has no obligation to do so on your behalf. You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trade mark notices) that may be affixed to or contained within the Service. Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Company, you agree that in using the Service, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.

License from Company

Company gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-transferrable and non-exclusive license to use any application and/or software provided to you by Company as part of the Service as provided to you by Company (referred to as the “Software”). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Company, in the manner permitted by the Terms of Use. You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Company, in writing.

Trademarks

tangle, tangle.com, GodTube, Prayer Wall, Virtual Bible and any and all other Company graphics logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts and service names are registered trademarks, service marks, trade secrets or trade dress of the Company in the U.S. and/or other countries and/or licensed by Company (collectively, the “Marks”). Company’s Marks may not be used in any manner whatsoever by you, including, but not limited to, as part of trademarks, and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Company.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS, WHETHER BASED ON AN ACTION OR CLAIM IN CONTRACT, EQUITY, NEGLIGENCE, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR SERVICES, EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY EVENT, THE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND ASSIGNS TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO THE COMPANY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION WITH THE SITE AND YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF YOUR USE OR $100. NO CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SITE, THE SERVICES, CONTENT OR USER CONTENT MAY BE BROUGHT BY YOU AGAINST THE COMPANY MORE THAN TWO (2) YEARS AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUED. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. 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."

YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER CONTENT OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR LOSS OF INFORMATION, MATERIALS OR CONTENT STORED, HOSTED, STREAMED OR UPLOADED ON OR THROUGH, TRANSMITTED TO, LINKED FROM, POSTED, PUBLISHED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA THE SITE AND/OR SERVICE. YOU SHOULD ENSURE THAT YOU MAINTAIN A COMPLETE AND CURRENT COPY AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT OR MATERIALS POSTED THEREON AT A LOCATION REMOTE FROM THE SITE. COMPANY EXPRESSLY DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION OR MATERIALS STORED, HOSTED, STREAMED OR UPLOADED ON OR THROUGH, TRANSMITTED TO, LINKED FROM, OR POSTED OR PUBLISHED ON THE SITE.

The Site and Services are controlled and offered by Company from its facilities in the United States of America. Company makes no representations that the Site and Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Site and/or Services from other jurisdictions do so at their own volition and are responsible for compliance with local law.

Representations, Warranties and Indemnification

YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT: (A) YOU HAVE ALL RIGHTS IN AND TO YOUR USER CONTENT (WHETHER THROUGH OWNERSHIP OR LICENSES, CONSENTS, AND PERMISSIONS FROM THE OWNER) REQUIRED FOR (I) YOU TO LAWFULLY SUBMIT YOUR USER CONTENT TO THE SITE AND/OR SERVICE AND GRANT THE RIGHTS TO YOUR USER CONTENT PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND (II) YOUR USER CONTENT TO BE POSTED AND TRANSMITTED TO AND THROUGH THE SITE OR HOME PAGES FOR THE PURPOSES CONTEMPLATED BY THE SITE, THE SERVICE AND THIS AGREEMENT; (B) YOU HAVE ALL REQUIRED LICENSES, CONSENTS, RELEASES AND/OR PERMISSIONS TO USE THE NAME AND/OR LIKENESS OF EACH IDENTIFIABLE INDIVIDUAL PERSON IN YOUR USER CONTENT IN THE MANNER CONTEMPLATED BY THE SITE, THE SERVICE AND THIS AGREEMENT, AND (C) THE POSTING AND TRANSMISSION OF YOUR USER CONTENT ON AND THROUGH THE SITE OR HOME PAGES FOR THE PURPOSES CONTEMPLATED BY THE SITE, THE SERVICE AND THIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT VIOLATE THE PRIVACY RIGHTS, PUBLICITY RIGHTS, COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, CONTRACT RIGHTS OR ANY OTHER RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY.

YOU AGREE, AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE, TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS AND AFFILIATES, FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, COSTS, AND LOSSES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS) ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO (A) YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR SERVICES (B) ANY AND ALL OF YOUR USER CONTENT; (C) ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT, MATERIALS OR INFORMATION THAT IS STORED, HOSTED, UPLOADED, STREAMED, DISTRIBUTED, TRANSMITTED, PROVISIONED ON, THROUGH OR TO THE SERVICE OR THE SITE; (D) ANY AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS OR INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE THROUGH ANY LINK; AND (E) A BREACH OF THESE TERMS OF USE BY YOU, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BREACHES OF YOUR REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OBLIGATIONS AND COVENANTS HEREUNDER. THE CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES AND/OR LOSSES COVERED BY THIS INDEMNITY PROVISION INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CLAIM OF TRADEMARK OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, ANY VIOLATION OF ANY PROPRIETARY RIGHT, DEFAMATION, BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY, PRIVACY VIOLATION, HARASSMENT, OR FALSE OR DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING OR SALES PRACTICES.

Disclaimer of Warranties

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR SERVICE SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE, SITE, SOCIAL NETWORKING PAGES, STORAGE AND BANDWIDTH ARE PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY FAILURE BECAUSE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT OR REPRESENT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE, OR COMPLETELY SECURE. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE HOSTED BY A THIRD PARTY OVER WHICH THE COMPANY HAS NO CONTROL. THE COMPANY MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, AND DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS THAT ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THIS SITE'S AND/OR SERVICE’S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY SITES AND/OR SERVICES LINKED TO THIS SITE AND/OR SERVICE AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE OR SERVICE, (III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SITE AND/OR SERVICE, (V) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (VI) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SITE.

Force Majeure

Neither party shall be liable for, or considered in breach of these Terms of Use on account of, any delay or failure to perform as a result of any causes or conditions which are beyond such party’s reasonable control including without limitation, fire, acts of God, riots and insurrections, strikes, boycotts or lockouts, embargoes, judicial action, lack of or inability to obtain resources, power or communication failures and acts of civil or military authorities.

Disputes Between Users

The resolution of disputes that may arise between users is the sole responsibility of the users and Company has no liability or obligation with respect to any such disputes.

Miscellaneous

  1. You agree to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the federal and state courts in Dallas County, Texas to adjudicate all claims, controversies and disputes that may arise between You and the Company or its affiliates related to and/or arising from these Terms of Use, the Site and/or the Service; provided that either You or the Company may demand that such disputes be subject to binding arbitration held in Dallas, Texas before one arbitrator in accordance with the expedited arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, subject to Company’s right to seek injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
  2. This Agreement will be governed by the substantive laws of the United States of America and the State of Texas (without giving effect to any choice-of-law rules that may require the application of the laws of another jurisdiction).
  3. There is no partnership, employee-employer, agency, franchisor-franchisee or joint venture relationship between the Company and any user. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The failure of the Company to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement or exercise any of its rights under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such terms or rights. No waiver of any of the terms or rights in this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such terms or rights.
  4. These Terms of Use may not be assigned by you without the prior written consent of the Company.
 

Privacy Policy

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Date of Last Revision: February 2, 2009

Big Jump Media, Inc. ("We" or "Company") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users and others who use tangle.com or other websites owned or operated by Company (collectively, the “Site”) (collectively or individually “Users”) value their privacy. This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Sites. Company provides this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the Site.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Company Terms of Use. Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Please note that any video, audio, image and/or any other content posted at the direction of Users onto the Site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.

The Information Company Collects

  • When you visit tangle.com, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website. You may provide us with information by such things as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums or in the video comments section, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
  • When you register with tangle.com, you provide us with certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you may provide to us.
  • When you enter tangle.com, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is generally gathered for all tangle visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to tangle. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
  • Log File Information: When you use the Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include, but are not limited to, information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
  • Clear GIFs Information: When you use the Site, we may employ “clear GIFs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
  • When you use tangle, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications and transmit information through various channels as these services are added to the Site. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list.
  • You post User Content (as defined in the Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
  • Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on tangle is a violation of the Terms of Use and should be reported immediately.
  • If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site or our sharing service for videos, photos and similar items, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend’s email address. If it is the invitation service, we will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. If it is the sharing service, tangle will add any email addresses that you share materials with to our database and those individuals may begin receiving tangle emails. tangle stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
  • tangle may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs and other users of the tangle service through the operation of the service (e.g., content tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
  • By using tangle and the Service, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

The Way Company Uses Information

  • When you register with tangle, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on tangle. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by tangle that we think you may find valuable.
  • Profile information is used by tangle primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other tangle users may be able to supplement your profile.
  • Profile information you submit to tangle will be available to users of tangle who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, network names and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the tangle network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request.
  • tangle may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, or someone posts on your profile page, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact. Generally, you may opt out of such emails by clicking the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of any tangle email, though tangle reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
  • tangle may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you tangle. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.
  • We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, tangle Platform developers and other users of tangle, to supplement your profile.
  • Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on uploaded video and/or audio content, in comment areas, in messages and public areas such as People, Ministries, Groups and Music areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the Site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the Site may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general public.
  • If you are a registered User, we may use your email address or other personally identifiable information without further consent to send commercial or marketing messages to you as part of a general or specific program or feature for which you may or may not have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may also use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of Site changes, changes to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, other Company or Site policies and/or for customer service purposes).
  • We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, click stream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality and services by storing, tracking and analyzing User preferences and trends.
  • We use cookies, clear gifs and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions and status in promotions, sweepstakes and contests.

When Company Discloses Information

  • We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
  • We may share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) if you are a registered User with third parties for their commercial or marketing use without further consent.
  • We do share non-personally-identifiable information for all Users (such as anonymous User usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) for use in advertising by the Company and/or third parties and by and with third parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions and/or functionality on the Site.
  • We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena or search warrant.
  • Company also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Company believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our website and to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Company, our Users or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to register as a User and submit personally identifiable information through the Site, in which case Company may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your individual profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the Site cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use. You may be able to opt out of certain communications from the Company and/or its partners.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Please contact Company with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent or your opt-in or opt-out choices using this contact form.

Third-party Advertisers

Advertisements that appear on Sites are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1x1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Company does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Company’s Sites unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Company and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

We use Google, among others, as a third party vendor, and Google in turn uses cookies to serve ads on the Sites. You may opt out of the use of the Google DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

Our Commitment to Data Security

Company uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Company and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Company makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards.

If Company learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Company may post a notice on the Site if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us immediately.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Company does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Site from persons under 13 years of age without the verified consent and permission of a parent or legal guardian. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Site at any time or in any manner. If Company learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the Site, then Company will take prompt and appropriate steps to delete this information. At all times, Company strives to protect children and to provide a family friendly site. Company recommends that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone via the Site and/or Service or otherwise over the Internet.

Special Note to International Users

The Site is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the Site from the European Union, Asia or any other country or region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Site, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer and the processing of same in the U.S.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that Company is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred or used.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and at the Company’s sole discretion with such changes becoming effective upon the applicable revision and thereafter. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your ongoing and continuing agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.

 

General Copyright Info

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Title II, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), creates a safe harbor for online service providers (OSPs, including ISPs) against copyright liability if they adhere to and qualify for certain prescribed safe harbor guidelines and promptly block access to allegedly infringing material (or remove such material from their systems) if they receive a notification claiming infringement from a copyright holder or the copyright holder's agent. OCILLA also includes a counter-notification provision that offers OSPs a safe harbor from liability to their users, if the notice from such users claiming that the material in question is not, in fact, infringing. OCILLA also provides for subpoenas to OSPs to provide their users' identity.

tangle respects the rights of copyright holders and publishers and requires all users and members to affirm that they hold the copyright or have appropriate permission for the content that they upload. If we receive a notice that content infringes another party's copyright, the member's account may be terminated and the content will be removed from tangle.

Copyright Infringement Prevention

tangle makes it clear in our Terms of Use and at the time of the upload of any content that a user must own the copyright to the content they post or have permission from the copyright holder. We take copyright issues seriously and encourage copyright holders to contact us if they have any objections to specific videos, and we will cooperate with them to take down any infringing content promptly. Repeat and flagrant offenders of the Terms of Use are addressed appropriately.

Notification of Claimed Copyright Infringement

If you believe that someone else has uploaded your copyrighted content without your permission, please submit the following information pursuant to 17 U.S.C. (512(c)(3)(A)(i-vi)):

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
  • Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  • A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

You may contact us at:

DMCA Complaints
Attn: DMCA Agent
tangle
5760 Legacy Dr.
Ste B3-352
Plano, TX 75024

You may also send us an email at copyright@tangle.com

Counter Notification

If you believe that you have been falsely accused of copyright infringement, you may file a counter notification to tangle.com. The counter notification must include the following pursuant to 17 U.S.C. (512(g)(3)(A-D)):

  • A physical or electronic signature of the alleged infringer.
  • Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location before removal.
  • A statement under penalty of perjury that the alleged infringer has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  • Their name, address, telephone number and a statement that they consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that they will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under 17 U.S.C. (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

Counter Notification Notice should be sent to:

DMCA Complaints
Attn: DMCA Agent
tangle
5760 Legacy Dr.
Ste B3-352
Plano, TX 75024

You can also email us at copyright@tangle.com

Please note that under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(f) any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing and may be subject to liability for damages.

Please also note that the information provided in this legal notice may be forwarded to the person who provided the allegedly infringing content.

Please finally note that violation of the tangle Copyright Policies may result in termination of your tangle service.

Contest Rules

No contests at this time.