Welcome to Socially Worth It!
Definitions
For the purposes of these Terms of Service, ‘Us’, ‘Our’ and ‘We’ refer to Socially Worth It. ‘You’, ‘Your’ and ‘Contributor’ refer to you as the customer, visitor, publisher, or service user.
‘Service’ means any Socially Worth It website, mobile application, and related domains operated by us.
‘Content’ means anything that is published, or made available by you, or by us while using our Service.
General
These terms govern your use of our service and all its content and products available. Our service is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of the Policies contained herein and all other operating rules and policies (collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using our service. By accessing or using any part of our service, you agree to become bound by the terms of this agreement together with our Privacy Policy and User Etiquette guidelines. If you do not agree to all the terms of this Agreement, then you may not access our service.
If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of your company, organisation, department, educational institution, or agency, you certify that you have the right and authority to legally bind such entity or organisation to the terms and obligations of this agreement.
You cannot use our service if you are under the age of thirteen, had your account previously disabled or deleted for breaching our Terms or Policies, or if you are a convicted sex offender.
Intellectual property
We ask you to respect our intellectual property rights, as we respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe content located on our service violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify us.
We will respond to all such notices, including as required by removing the infringing content.
You must not describe or assign keywords to your profile or content that is unlawful, or misleading, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others. We may change or remove any description or keyword that we consider inappropriate or unlawful.
Account suspension or termination
We want Socially Worth It to be a place where people share thoughts and other informative content, but most of all we want people to feel happy and safe.
If we determine you have, or repeatedly have breached our Terms of Service, or user etiquette guidelines we may suspend, disable, or delete your account with, or without notice. In the case of such suspension or termination, we will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to us or any points accrued by you.
Limits on liability
Our service is provided “as is” and we cannot guarantee that it will always be continuous, uninterrupted, safe, secure, or error-free.
We have not reviewed, and cannot review all of the content on our service, and cannot, therefore, be responsible for its accuracy, completeness, use, or effects.
It is your responsibility to take all precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, malware, and any other harmful or destructive content.
It is your responsibility to maintain an appropriate alternate backup of all your content, images, information, and data.
We cannot control what others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline), or any content that they publish or share on our service (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other controversial or objectionable content).
Your account obligations
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account and any other actions taken in connection with your account.
You must never share your account password, and you must ensure you always use a strong password.
You must never create accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses.
Unauthorised account use
You must immediately notify us of any unauthorised uses of your account, or any other breaches of security. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
Other obligations
You are entirely responsible for the content and comments published from your account.
Behaviour
As a condition of your use of our service you agree that you will not:
- threaten anyone, incite violence towards individuals or entities;
- name and shame individuals or businesses;
- engage in any, or encourage others to engage, in any unlawful, fraudulent, dishonest acts or business practices;
- use foul language;
- mislead people into thinking you are another person, business or company;
- send other members unsolicited messages or emails;
- breach our User Etiquette guidelines.
Content – General
By making content available to our service, you agree it does not:
- infringe any third party intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights, copyright or trademarks;
- contain defamatory, fraudulent, abusive, obscene, indecent or discriminatory content, hate speech, promote or encourage unlawful behaviour;
- promote pornographic material, relate to pornographic products or services, or contain nudity;
- contain illegal products, illegal services, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia, tobacco or vaping related products or other associated content;
- allow others to personally identify someone or show other sensitive information;
- include animals for sale, re-homing, free, wanted, breeding, or neglect – however, RSPCA and other registered organisations content is accepted;
- include weapons, ammunition, explosives, or graphic images;
- include cryptocurrency, virtual currencies, Blockchain, associated technologies or services;
- market or include weight loss services, products, or cosmetic procedures;
- contain anything that might be considered to be political advertising (e.g. policy comparisons or criticisms, broken promises, promises, voting or election-related, etc).
Content – Additional
As a condition of your use of our service you also agree that you will not:
- post personal sell Ads;
- distribute spam, machine or randomly-generated content, chain letters, unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third-party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third-party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material;
- mislead people in a way that enables you to profit off tragic events, natural disasters, health or other public safety concerns;
- promote pyramid (Multi-Level Marketing) type business or direct selling;
- promote gambling, online gambling (including virtual), online real money, games of skill, or online lotteries.
Additional provisions
By publishing content, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish your content solely for the purpose of promoting our service.
If you delete content, we will use reasonable efforts to remove it from our service, but you acknowledge that caching, or references to it may not be made immediately unavailable, or at all.
We reserve the right (though not the obligation) to, refuse, or remove any content that is reported by Socially Worth It users, or in our reasonable opinion, violates our Terms of Service, Policies, or is in any way harmful, objectionable, or controversial.
How we fund our service
Like many other online platforms, we display advertisements on our service to generate revenue. Some of our ad placement locations include Activity Feeds, Group Profile images, Sidebars, and Group Cover images.
Advertising
Payments for Socially Worth It marketing are non-refundable, and we do not issue pro-rata refunds for fees paid in advance. Once a payment or deposit is made, it is non-refundable as it is applied to costs immediately incurred by us in initiating services.
Before Ads display on Socially Worth It, they are reviewed to make sure they meet our Terms of Service. This process can take up to 24 hours. Once your Ad is approved you will receive an email letting you know it’s approved.
If your Ad isn’t approved, we will send you an email to let you know why. Following that, you can make the necessary edits and resubmit for another review. This process will be done via email, using the email address you provided when you submitted your Ad.
Viruses, Hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our service by introducing or distributing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our service, the server on which the service is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the service. You must not attack the service via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our service will cease immediately.
You must not use any robot spiders, scrapers, or any other automated means to collect content or data from our service for any purpose whatsoever.
You must not impose or contribute to imposing an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of our service, or use any tool that interferes with the normal functioning of our service.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data, or other proprietary material due to your use of our service or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Socially Worth It relationship with users
You acknowledge that we may terminate your account (which is separate from a Group Manager’s right to terminate your group membership), and remove your Data, Content and Group Member Data, as well as disable or limit your access to any and all Groups, and the service, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and our User Etiquette guidelines.
If you are a Group Member, you acknowledge that nothing in any agreement (or related policies) you may be subject to with any Group Manager or other party will alter, impair, supersede, amend or otherwise affect in any way any terms of this Agreement or Socially Worth Its’ Privacy Policy or our User Etiquette guidelines.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Socially Worth It, and its successors, subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, contractors, employees, all third-party advertisers, technology providers, service providers or other partners, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, shareholders, employees and representatives, from and against any third party claim, demand, loss, damage, cost, or liability (including, reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:
- Your Code, Your Content or Your Group;
- Your use of any non-Socially Worth It code or Third Party Applications;
- Your use or misuse of, or connection to our service;
- Your breach or alleged breach of this Agreement;
- Your violation of any rights (including intellectual property rights) of a third party;
- Your use or misuse of any User data (including Member Data and Group Member Data), including, in violation of our Privacy Policy; and
- Your breach or alleged breach of any agreement or policy between you and other Users.
Terms of Service updates
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Terms from time to time. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes.
You might also receive an alert informing you of any changes. We may also, in the future, offer new services and or features through our service (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and or services shall be subject to the Terms of Service of this Agreement.
Your continued use of our service after any change in these Terms will constitute your acceptance of such change.
