ToS - Privenote.org
Welcome to PriveNote! These terms of use (the "Terms of Use") are a legal agreement between you and PriveNote, a Montreal-based company ("PriveNote," "we," "us," or "our") setting forth, among other things, the terms and conditions for your access and use of the privenote.org website, and any related sub-domains, operated by PriveNote (the "Website" or "PriveNote").
PLEASE READ ALL THE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY Use of the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to the provisions of the Terms of Use without any reservations, modifications, additions or deletions. If you do not agree to any provisions contained in the Terms of Use, you are not authorized to use the Website. You may be denied access to the Website, with or without notice to you if you do not comply with any provisions of the Terms of Use.
Amendments. We may from time to time modify the Terms of Use and will post a copy of the amended Terms of Use on the Website, so we encourage you to review them periodically. If we make any substantial changes to the Terms of Use, we will notify you by sending a notice to the email address specified in your account or by posting a prominent notice on our pages. If you do not agree to, or cannot comply with, the Terms of Use as amended, you are not authorized to use the Website. You will be deemed to have accepted the Terms of Use as amended if you continue to use the Website after any amendments are posted on the Website. We reserve the right to refuse to provide our Services to anyone at any time.
1. Resources Used for the Provision of Services
User accounts have fixed limits in order that we can provide a well functioning service for all users. We can disable your account should there be any attempt to use the service in a way that we deem to be unreasonable and that affects the usage of the service by others. What consists of 'reasonable use' is completely at our discretion and your account may be disabled without prior notice if your usage is disruptive and if deemed necessary to restore a quality of service.
2. Protection of Privacy, User Data
As spelled out in our Privacy Policy personal and account information will never be disclosed to third parties under any circumstances other than to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, as required by law, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We will never sell or share any of this data.
Once a secret has been received by a recipient, we have no way of retrieving said secret again, nor do we log or keep any data that tracks the sender or receiver's IP address beyond 14 days. Necessary data that attaches the contents of a secret to a user account is kept only until the secret is received, at which point it is destroyed permanently.
3. License, Restrictions and Prohibited Acts
Grant of License. PriveNote grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and make personal use of the Website and the Services in accordance with the terms set forth in the Terms of Use. PriveNote reserves all right, title and interest not expressly granted under this license to the fullest extent possible under applicable laws. You may not sublicense, assign, or transfer the license granted to you under the Terms of Use, and any attempt to sublicense, assign, or transfer any part of your rights under the Terms of Use is void.
Restrictions and Prohibited Acts. So that the Website is available for all users to enjoy, you may not, and hereby represent, warrant and covenant that you will not or permit or enable third party to:
use the Website in any way that (i) violates the terms of the Terms of Use; (ii) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, tortious, defamatory, libellous, abusive, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, fraudulent or malicious; (iii) involves the transmission of 'junk mail,' 'chain letters,' or unsolicited mass mailing or 'spamming'; (iv) involves the sending of any virus, Trojan horse, worm, harmful code, shutdown mechanism or similar mechanism; (v) interferes with or disrupts the Website or any server or network involved with the operation of the Website; or (vi) otherwise violates any local, national or other applicable law or regulation; use our Services to harm, in any way, the operation of any website that you do not own or operate, including, without limitation, by generating recurring traffic to such website through the conduct of tests using our Services; modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the content of the Website in whole or in part, except as expressly permitted; or use automated tools to operate the Services on the Website (scripts, etc.). Sanctions. ANY USE OF THE WEBSITE NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED UNDER THE TERMS OF USE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT, AT PRIVENOTE'S DISCRETION, IN THE SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR THE BLACKLISTING OF YOUR IP ADDRESS.
Contact. Any misuse of the Services may be reported to [email protected].
4. Service Interruptions
Interruptions. You acknowledge that: (i) your access to and use of the Website and/or the provision Services may be suspended for the duration of any unanticipated or unscheduled downtime or unavailability of any portion or all of the Website for any reason, including as a result of power outages, system failures or other interruptions; and (ii) we shall also be entitled, without any liability to you, to suspend access to any portion or all of the Website and/or the Services at any time (a) for scheduled downtime to permit us to conduct maintenance or make modifications to any service; (b) in the event of a denial of service attack or other attack on the Website or other event that we determine, in our sole discretion, that a risk to the applicable service, to you or to any of our other users may be created if the Service were not suspended; or (c) in the event that we determine that any Service is prohibited by law or we otherwise determine that it is necessary or prudent to do so for legal or regulatory reasons (collectively, "Service Suspensions"). We shall have no liability whatsoever for any damage, liabilities, losses (including any loss of data or profits) or any other consequences that you may incur as a result of any Service Suspension.
Watch of Interruptions. To the extent we are able, we will endeavour to post updates on the Website regarding any Service Suspension and resumption of service following any such suspension, but shall have no liability for the manner in which we may do so or if we fail to do so.
5. Security
Your Responsibility for Security. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account Information and for restricting access to your computer while logged into the Website. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or from your computer.
No Security Guarantee. We endeavour to use reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to your account. We cannot, however, guarantee absolute security of your account or the personal information we collect, and we cannot promise that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally accessing the Website or its contents. You agree to immediately notify PriveNote of any unauthorized use or your account, or any other breach of security, and you accept all risks of unauthorized access to the Website, your Account Information and any other information you provide to PriveNote.
Disclaimer and Indemnity. PriveNote will not be responsible for any losses arising out of the unauthorized use of your account and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless PriveNote, its shareholders, officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and/or licensors, as applicable, for any improper, unauthorized or illegal uses of your account.