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Terms and Conditions
Last Updated: April 2023
Welcome to our online community website ("Wisppal"). These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of the Wisppal site and all content, services, and features offered on or through the Wisppal Site. By accessing or using Wisppal, you agree to be bound by these Terms, which constitute a legally binding agreement between you and us.
Table of Content
- Acceptance of Terms
- Age Requirement
- User Content
- Prohibited Activities
- User Conduct
- Intellectual Property
- Linking to the Wisppal Site
- Termination
- Liability & Site Availability
- Changes to These Terms
Acceptance of Terms
By using the Wisppal Site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these Terms or our Privacy Policy, you should not use the Site.
We may update or revise these Terms from time to time, and your continued use of the Site after we post any changes to the Terms constitutes your acceptance of those changes. Therefore, you should periodically review these Terms to stay informed of any updates or revisions.
We reserve the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site or any features or portions thereof without prior notice. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Site or any features or portions thereof.
These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the use of the Site and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between you and us with respect to the Site. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall be enforced to the fullest extent possible, and the remaining provisions of the Terms shall remain in full force and effect.
Your use of the Site is also subject to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
Age Requirement
You must be at least 16 years old to use the Site. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least 16 years old.
User Content
The Site allows users to publish their own content, such as books, photos, posts, and comments ("User Content") under the following terms:
- You retain all ownership rights in your User Content.
- By submitting User Content on the Wisppal site, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based on, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit in any manner such User Content in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Wisppal Site and our business and on third-party sites and services), without further notice to or consent from you, and without the requirement of payment to you or any other person or entity.
You also represent and warrant that:
- you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorise us to use your User Content as necessary to exercise the licenses granted by you in these Terms;
- Your User Content does not infringe or violate the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other rights of any third party;
- Your User Content complies with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations;
- Your User Content does not contain any viruses, malware, or other harmful components.
- Your User Content, and the use of your User Content as contemplated
herein, does not and will not:
- (a) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right or
- (b) defame, libel, slander, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person.
We have the right to remove any User Content that we determine, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms or is otherwise inappropriate for the Site.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us at: privacy(at)wisppal.com
Prohibited Activities
You agree not to engage in any of the following activities:
- Use the Site for any illegal purpose or in violation of any applicable law;
- Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
- Post, upload, publish, submit, or transmit any User Content that is defamatory, libellous, obscene, pornographic, indecent, harassing, threatening, abusive, inflammatory, or fraudulent;
- Post, upload, publish, submit, or transmit any User Content that would violate, or encourage conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability;
- Post, upload, publish, submit, or transmit any User Content that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful or malicious code or component;
- Use any robot, spider, or other automatic devices, process, or means to access the Site for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Site;
- Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Site, the server on which the Site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Site;
- Attack the Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), or any other similar attack is strictly prohibited and may result in the termination of your account and legal action.
- Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Site;
- Remove or modify any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notice that appears on any portion of the Site;
- Use the Site in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use of the Site, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Site;
- Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Site or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior written consent;
- Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Site or that may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- Use the Site to transmit or facilitate the transmission of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;
- Collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Site;
- Access or attempt to access any of our resources, accounts, servers, or systems by means other than those provided by us;
- Encourage or enable any other person to engage in any of the activities prohibited under these Terms.
User Conduct
You are solely responsible for your conduct on the Site and for any User Content that you post, upload, publish, submit, or transmit on the Site. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in connection with your use of the Site.
You agree not to use the Site to:
- Harass, intimidate, or bully any other user;
- Post or transmit any User Content that is false, misleading, or inaccurate;
- Use the Site to violate any person's privacy rights;
- Use the Site to distribute unsolicited messages or advertisements;
- Post or transmit any User Content that infringes on any third-party rights;
- Engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site;
- Post or transmit any User Content that is harmful, offensive, or otherwise objectionable;
- Use the Site to engage in any commercial activities, such as advertising or marketing;
- Impersonate any person or entity or falsely represent your affiliation with any person or entity;
- Interfere with the proper functioning of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site.
Intellectual Property
All content and materials on the Site, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, are the property of the Wisppal Site or its content suppliers and are protected by United Kingdom and international copyright laws.
You may not use any of our trademarks, trade dress, or copyrighted material without our prior written consent.
Linking to the Wisppal Site
You may link to the Site's homepage, as well as other pages on the site, provided you do so in a way that is fair, legal, and does not damage or take advantage of our reputation. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to link to the Site in a way that goes beyond the terms set out above, please contact us at privacy(at)wisppal.com to obtain written approval before doing so.
Termination
We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Site at any time for any reason, including without limitation any violation of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation. Upon termination, you must immediately stop using the Site and all content obtained from the Site.
Liability & Site Availability
The Wisppal site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without any warranties of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the servers that make the site available are free of viruses or other harmful components
Wisppal gives no guarantee that the website will always be available, or that it will work perfectly. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Wisppal excludes liability for any loss or damage of any kind arising out of your use of wisppal.com. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data on the site or any stories you created.
Changes to These Terms
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time without prior notice. If we make changes to these Terms, we will post the revised Terms on the Site and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms. Your continued use of the Site after the posting of the revised Terms will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to the modified Terms.