Snurtl.com

Terms Of Use

1. GENERAL

1.1. Snurtl.com Terms of Use (hereafter – Terms of Use) are meant for and binding upon each Snurtl.com user, irrespective of whether the user is an Author, registered user or not. Terms of Use are binding for any usage of Snurtl.com(and any usage of the Snurtl.com is interpreted as an acceptance of these Terms of Use.
1.2. The activity of the Snurtl.com website is organized, administrated and coordinated by JSMC Services, (hereafter referred to as Snurtl Team).
1.3. Terms of Use may be changed. It is User’s responsibility to check the Terms of Use for any updates. User’s continued use of Snurtl.com will be interpreted as an acceptance of most current version of Terms of Use.
1.4. Snurtl Team reserves the right to delete User’s account, change password, delete User’s Snurtl Blog or Added Blogs from Snurtl.com in whole or in part, or to discontinue User’s access to Snurtl.com and all its services, if Snurtl Team suspects that User is violating Terms of Use or acts in the way that doesn’t fit the spirit of the site or for any other reason. Snurtl Team is not obliged to explain its decision.
1.5. Snurtl Team makes no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by Users through the service will meet User’s expectations, or that any errors in the software will be corrected.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1. User – any person who uses Snurtl.com as registered user or not and/or as Author.
2.2. Author – user who has created or added content to Snurtl.com.
2.3. Services – all services, provided by Snurtl.com and via Snurtl Team.

Snurtl Team hosts and serves everything on Snurtl.com

3. ACCOUNT CREATION

3.1. User must be at least 18 years old on the date when registration is completed.
3.2. User must indicate his real e-mail and other necessary information.
3.3. By providing another person’s e-mail address to Snurtl.com, a User confirms that the respective person consents to storing his e-mail at the Snurtl.com according to the Personal Data Protection Law.
3.4. User may have only one account. If a User creates more than one account, then they may be deleted.
3.5. Several persons may not be registered as one User.
3.6. Snurtl.com prohibits creation of ‘fake’ accounts, i.e. accounts where a User provides invalid data. Upon establishing the existence of such accounts, Snurtl Team has the right to immediately and without warning delete the ‘fake’ account.
3.7. User and/or Author is responsible for any and all activities occurring or content that is posted under User’s account
3.8. It is up to the User to maintain the confidentiality of password and account. If the User becomes aware of any unauthorized use of User’s account, or any other breach of security, the User must immediately contact the Snurtl Team at Contact Us form. In this case Snurtl Team has the right to give the User a new password.
3.9. Snurtl Team is not liable for any loss or damage arising from the User’s failure to comply with the provisions of these Terms.

4. RULES OF USING Snurtl.com

4.1. User must post with high quality content. User is solely responsible for all content created under User’s name.
4.2. Snurtl.com prohibits the Users from clicking through the ads placed on Snurtl.com many times with ill intent, as well as from trying to persuade other Users.
4.3. User agrees to receive certain communications from Snurtl Team (incl. Snurtl.com newsletters, service announcements, administrative messages). If User doesn’t want to receive such communications he/she can edit setting in his/her account.
4.4. Actions of User can’t interfere with or disrupt normal run of servers or networks connected to Snurtl.com, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to Snurtl.com.
4.5. Users must comply strictly with any law regulations.
4.6. User must not impersonate other Users or any official of Snurtl.com.

5. RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS

5.1. User can’t make any actions which could be seen as spam (redirecting traffic from articles to other pages, introducing viruses to the site, spamming bloggers, e-mail spam to other Users or others etc.).
5.2. Snurtl.com prohibits the Users from clicking through the ads placed on Snurtl.com many times with ill intent, as well as from trying to persuade other Users.
5.3. User can’t use Snurtl.com for gathering or using another User’s e-mail. It is forbidden to collect personal identifiable information about users and sell or transfer that information.
5.4. Use any automatic or manual process to harvest email addresses or other information from Snurtl.com is forbidden.
5.5. It is prohibited for the Users of Snurtl.com to conduct illegal activities or inactions using the website’s functionality. Both criminal and administrative offenses are deemed illegal activities.
5.6. User’s are forbidden to threaten, offend, harass or intimidate other users.
5.7. The following restrictions are set for User’s Snurtl.com
- Posting content for which User does not have the necessary rights is prohibited, including content which either affects or violates the intellectual property rights (copyright etc.) or rights of confidentiality of third persons;
- Content which affects a person’s dignity, esteem, race, ethnic and/or sex and/or sexual equality, or which could be considered religious or racist propaganda or is defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy or provides instructional information about illegal activities, or promotes any act of cruelty to animals or people is forbidden;
- Overly promotional content including excessive linking (banners) to any website or domain is prohibited.
- Use copyrighted content without owner’s permission is prohibited;
- Duplicating content and copy/pasting is prohibited;
- Content must not violate User’s local laws and laws of Republic of Latvia (In case of contravention Laws of the Republic of Latvia overrule all other countries’ laws.);
- Pornographic and erotic content is forbidden;
- Content which encourages or advertises usage of weapons, narcotics, alcohol and cigarettes is prohibited;
- Content which is impolite, offensive, vulgar, abusive or otherwise inflammatory is forbidden;
- Content which promotes acts of violence or other illegal activities, or which rouses hatred between the users and other kinds of hatred is forbidden;
- Content which promotes gambling or links to sites that promote/offer gambling for money is forbidden;
- Content established in order to harm or modify the operation (safety) of the Snurtl.com database, design, electronic communications software is forbidden;
- Content which has the features of surrogate mail (junk mail, spam, chain letter) or unauthorized advertising is forbidden;
- Content or links to any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature are forbidden;
- Links that are not related to topic or theme of Blog are forbidden;
- Content or links which could remove, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any software or data base or use any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the Website architecture of Snurtl.com is forbidden;
- Content which could attack providing services of Snurtl.com is forbidden;
- Politically religious agendas and/or any known associations with hate, criminal and/or terrorist activities are prohibited;
- Pyramid schemes, chain letters and get rich quick and other money making opportunities that offer compensation for little or no investment, including money making schemes positioned as alternatives to part-time or full-time employment are prohibited.
5.8. Text content must be grammatically correct, contain proper sentence structure, be in complete sentences, use correct spelling, include grammatically correct spacing, correct punctuation, use grammatically correct capitalization.
5.9. Text content cannot include excessive repetition, excessive capitalization, incorrect capitalization, repeated and unnecessary punctuation, exclamation points in the title.

6. PRIVACY AND COPYRIGHT

6.1. Software and information used by Snurtl.com in connection with the Services contains proprietary and confidential information and it is property of Snurtl Team and is protected by intellectual property and other laws.
6.2. Snurtl Team reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, without liability to User or any third party.
6.3. Users are not liable to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the service or the software of Snurtl.com, in whole or in part.
6.4. The content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, translation, digital conversion and other matters related to Snurtl.com is property of Snurtl Team and are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by User of any such matters or any part of the Snurtl.com, except if it is clearly permitted, is strictly prohibited.
6.5. Author is fully responsible for all content that is posted under User’s name.
6.6. If any licenses or permissions for using or publishing this content are needed than Author is fully responsible for getting these licenses or permissions.
6.7. With creating content on Snurtl.com the User gives rights to Snurtl Team to display, distribute, promote, reproduce, display, modify, adapt and publish the content of content in part or in whole.
6.8. Snurtl Team has the right to delete content if there are any suspicions of violation of the Terms of Use, or violations of legal rights of third parties or if a third party has informed the Snurtl Team about possible violations.
6.9. Snurtl Team isn’t responsible for the accuracy, integrity or quality of User’s content
6.10. Snurtl Team can’t take responsibility for anything that other users may do in reliance on the content from Users’ Snurtl contnet.
6.11. If User’s Snurtl content has any links to others websites, Snurtl Team isn’t responsible for content of these websites. Only User who placed link is solely responsible for content of this website.
6.12. Snurtl.com will not make public or sell or give to third parties any information that User hasn’t made public (information given to Snurtl.com by registration (name, surname, e-mail, address, Google Adsense ID etc.)). Exception is case of request of court or other competent authorities.

7. REVENUE

Revenue from Blogging

7.1. Users can get ad impressions by providing content for Snurtl.com. Immediately after the User has published content, he/she is entitled to receive ad impressions.
7.2. Snurtl.com will share 80% of Adsense Revenues for User’s Channel.
7.3. Snurtl Team reserves the right to change the percentages or details of ad impressions. Also Snurtl.com reserves the right to start or to discharge cooperation with any third party ad revenue sharing service (Google Adsense, Amazon etc.)
7.4. Snurtl Team reserves the right to stop or start sharing ad impressions with Users using certain third party ad revenue services.
7.5. There are additional terms imposed by the third parties (Google Adsense, etc.) with whom User chooses to do business. User must uphold these additional terms and conditions.

8. DISCLAIMER

User understands and agrees that:
- User’s use of the service is at his sole risk.
- The website and service may contain bugs, errors, problems or other limitations.
- Snurtl Team makes no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the service will meet Users expectations, or that any errors in the software will be corrected.

9. INDEMNIFICATION

A User of Snurtl.com must do everything possible in order to ensure the protection of the legal interests of Snurtl Team against all claims or complaints by third parties filled against Snurtl Team and associated in any way with the use of the website by the relevant User.
User agree to indemnify all loss, and expense, including legal costs, attorney’s fees related to your violation of these Terms or use of the Website.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

User agrees that Snurtl Team will not be liable for any damages, loss of profits, goodwill or other losses (even if advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from:
- the use or inability to use Snurtl’s services;
- unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data;
- access to Snurtl.com also will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from User’s failure to comply with the provisions of these Terms;
- statements or conduct of any third party on the services, or any other matter relating to the services.
Snurtl Team also will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from User’s failure to comply with the provisions of these Terms of Use.

11. PRIVACY POLICY

Information We Collect

We collect the following information:
- All data the user provides in his/her account and data which was requested by the Snurtl Team;
- When you surf Snurtl.com and use its Service, we may collect and store Cookies and your IP address.
Snurtl Team will not make public or sell or give to third parties any information that User hasn’t made public (information given to Snurtl.com by registering an account or Snurtl Team’s request (name, surname, e-mail, address, bank account number, PayPal e-mail etc. (from here Personally Identifiable Information.)). Exception in case of request of court or other competent authorities.

Any data the user made public in his Snurtl Blog, bio, added blog, comments, username etc., becomes public information and is not protected as “Personally Identifiable Information.”
Cookies and IP addresses are regarded as Non-Personally Identifiable Information because the User can’t be identified using this information.

Use of Information

Snurtl Team may use your Personally Identifiable Information for administrative purposes.
Snurtl Team may provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information to our subsidiaries, affiliated, marketing companies, or others.
Snurtl Team may use all collected data to defend against any third-party claims and/or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our Service, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Snurtl Team, our Users or others.

Data Security

Snurtl Team can’t guarantee the security of any information that is being transmitted over the Internet or stored on our servers. As a result, user provide such information at their own risk.

12. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

- If your content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact the Snurtl Team at Contact Us form and provide the following information:
- A description of the copyrighted work ;
- Provide the User’s Username who infringed your copyright or url of his/her profile.
- An url where the copyright infringing content is is located on Snurtl.com and the original source;
- A statement by User that User has a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- A statement by User made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in User’s Notice is accurate and that User is the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

13. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

If a dispute arises the User should first try to resolve it by contacting the Snurtl Team using the contact form, describing the problem in detail and steps how to resolve it.