TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
1. INTRODUCTION: Welcome to Avid Cycling, a community website where you can read and upload news, take part in community based discussions and more. Avid Cycling is operated and maintained by or on behalf of Avid Integration Technologies.
By accessing Avid Cycling you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions and our privacy policy. If you have any queries about Avid Cycling or these Terms, you can contact us at service@avidintegrationtechnologies.com. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should leave Avid Cycling immediately.
2. ELIGIBILITY AND REGISTRATION: In order to make use of certain parts of Avid Cycling, you will need to register an account with Us. In order to do so, you must (a) satisfy the minimum age requirement; (b) provide Us with complete and accurate registration information; (c) ensure your use of Avid Cycling is in accordance with these Terms and any Applicable Laws (as defined in paragraph 3, below); and (d) select a username and password. By registering an account with Us you warrant that: (a) you meet the minimum age requirement;(b), you have given complete and accurate registration information, and will keep that information updated; and (c) your use of Avid Cycling does not violate these Terms or breach any Applicable Laws. You acknowledge that you will be responsible for all activities which take place under your username and for keeping your password secure. If you become aware of any actual, threatened or suspected unauthorised use of your username and/or any other breach of security, you agree to notify Us immediately. You may cancel your account with Us at any time. We may terminate your account with Us for any or no reason, at any time, with or without notice and without liability.
In order to use Avid Cycling, you will require access to the world-wide web. You are responsible for any connection, service and other fees associated with such access and for providing all equipment necessary to enable you to connect to the world-wide web (including a computer and modem or other access device).
3. GENERAL RULES RELATING TO CONDUCT: Avid Cycling is made available for your own, personal use. Avid Cycling must not be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever or for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. When you use Avid Cycling you must comply with all applicable US laws relating to online conduct (including, without limitation, content which can be posted online) and with any applicable international laws, including the local laws in your country of residence (together referred to as "Applicable Laws").
4. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO Avid Cycling: You are responsible for any information, data, text, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other content ("Content") which you post or upload and/or display (in public or privately) to Avid Cycling. Avid Integration Technologies may (but shall not be obliged to) delete, edit, lock, move or remove any Content without notice and for any reason and/or to record the IP address from which any Content is posted, uploaded and/or displayed without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, Content which, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms or is or may be irrelevant, out of date, inappropriate or objectionable in any way whatsoever, or in respect of which Avid Integration Technologies receives any complaint (whether justified or not). By posting, uploading and/or displaying any Content to Avid Cycling you warrant that: (a) you own all intellectual property and proprietary rights in such Content or that you have a licence from the owner of such rights to post, upload and/or display such Content on Avid Cycling; and (b) the posting, uploading and/or displaying of such Content on Avid Cycling and the grant of the licence to Avid Integration Technologies (on the terms set out below) will not infringe the intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third party.
If you upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content to Avid Cycling, you automatically: (a) grant other users of Avid Cycling the right to access the same and use it in accordance with these Terms, although you can mark Content as private and so restrict access and use to those users to whom you specifically grant access; and (b) grant Avid Integration Technologies a non-exclusive, royalty free, sub-licensable, perpetual, world-wide licence to use, modify, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such Content on and through Avid Cycling and in any other form or medium. You continue to own the Content after it is posted to Avid Cycling.
You acknowledge that Avid Integration Technologies will not screen or otherwise check any Content which is submitted by you or any other user of Avid Cycling before it is posted, not monitor yours or any person's use of Avid Cycling. As such, you as the user of Avid Cycling are responsible for any Content you submit to Avid Cycling and the manner in which Avid Cycling is used under your username. You may take down any Content you have submitted to Avid Cycling at any time. If you become aware of any misuse of Avid Cycling by any person including (without limitation) any posting of Content which violates these Terms, please contact us at service@avidintegrationtechnologies.com.
5. SPECIFIC RULES RELATING TO CONDUCT: You agree that when using Avid Cycling you will comply with all Applicable Laws (as defined in paragraph 3), these Terms and you acknowledge that you are responsible for all acts and omissions which occur under your user-name. In particular, but without limitation, you agree not to:
Upload, post or otherwise display Content which is or promotes behaviour which violates the rights (including, without limitation, the intellectual property rights) of a third party or which is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, flaming, hateful, offensive (whether in relation to sex, race, religion or otherwise) harassing, hateful, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18 years, or contains any illegal content; or
Upload, post or otherwise display any Content which contains software viruses or any other files or programs that may interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of Avid Cycling or any server or networks connected to Avid Cycling or another's computer, or that contains any chain letters, pyramid-selling schemes, bulk mail, junk mail or similar; or
Upload, post or otherwise display any Content containing a photograph of another person unless you have obtained that person's consent;
Harvest or collect any IP addresses or email addresses or other contact information of any members of Avid Cycling, by electronic means or otherwise; or
Upload, post or otherwise display any Content for any commercial or business purpose including (without limitation) any Content which contains any advertising or promotional materials; or
Restrict or in any way inhibit any other person's use of Avid Cycling; or
Upload, post or otherwise display any Content which is false, misleading, un-necessary and/or repetitive including any Content which is inaccurate, out of date or repeats that previously uploaded, posted or displayed by you or another visitor, unless absolutely necessary; or
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content to a part of Avid Cycling which is irrelevant to the subject matter of the Content; or
Register an account with us under more than one user name and/or user account number; or
Use Avid Cycling in a manner that is inconsistent with these Terms and/or any Applicable Laws in force from time to time or in a manner which promotes or encourages illegal activity; or
Breach the terms of any suspension or ban or seek alternative access; or
In the interests of free speech, bring any action for defamation against Avid Integration Technologies, or any of the companies in the same group; or
Use or solicit any other account holder's personal data for any purpose other than establishing non-commercial, lawful contact that such account holder would reasonably expect to welcome; or
Submit Content owned by a third party without consent from that third party or submit Content in a manner which expressly or impliedly infers that such Content is sponsored or endorsed by Avid Cycling; or
Use Avid Cycling in any unlawful manner or in a manner which promotes or encourages illegal activity or in a manner which could damage, disable, overburden or impair Avid Cycling or Avid Cycling; or
Attempt to gain unauthorised access to Avid Cycling or any networks, servers or computer systems connected to Avid Cycling; or
Modify, adapt, translate or reverse engineer any part of Avid Cycling or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other device to retrieve or index any part of Avid Cycling or re-format or frame any portion of the web pages comprising Avid Cycling, unless permitted by law; or
Remove or obstruct from view any advertisements and/or any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained on or in Avid Cycling; or
Contact any other user of Avid Cycling if they have expressly asked you not to; or
Attempt to impersonate any other user or account holder of Avid Cycling; or
Use the username and/or password of any other account holder of Avid Cycling or disclose your password to any other person; or
Upload, post or otherwise display any Content comprising an advertisement or accept payment or anything of value from any person in exchange for you uploading, posting or displaying any Content or otherwise performing any commercial activity on or through Avid Cycling on behalf of such person (including, without limitation, posting blogs or bulletins for a commercial purpose and/or sending messages to other users of Avid Cycling with a commercial purpose).
You agree to indemnify Avid Integration Technologies and its group companies in full and on demand from and against any loss, damage, costs or expenses which they suffer or incur directly or indirectly as a result of your use of Avid Cycling, and any use of the same under your username other than in accordance with these Terms or Applicable Law.
6. CONTENT: The copyright in all material contained on, in, or available through Avid Cycling including all information, data, text, music, sound, photographs, graphics and video messages, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all source code, software compilations and other material ("Material") is owned by or licensed to Avid Integration Technologies or its group companies. All rights are reserved. You can view, print or download extracts of the Material for your own personal use but you cannot otherwise copy, edit, vary, reproduce, publish, display, distribute, store, transmit, commercially exploit, disseminate in any form whatsoever or use the Material (other than Content posted by you) without Avid Integration Technologies's express permission. You must not frame or link to Avid Cycling or any part of it without our permission.
The trademarks, service marks, and logos ("Trade Marks") contained on or in Avid Cycling are owned by Avid Integration Technologies or its group companies or third party partners of Avid Integration Technologies. You cannot use, copy, edit, vary, reproduce, publish, display, distribute, store, transmit, commercially exploit or disseminate the Trade Marks without the prior written consent of Avid Integration Technologies or the relevant group company or the relevant third party partner of Avid Integration Technologies.
7. LINK TO THIRD PARTIES: Avid Cycling may contain links to websites operated by third parties ("Third Party Websites"). Avid Integration Technologies does not have any influence or control over any such Third Party Websites and, unless otherwise stated, is not responsible for and does not endorse any Third Party Websites or their availability or contents.