Tornado
Films Online Terms of Service
Welcome to “Tornado Films Online.”
(the “Site”). Thank you for visiting and have a great time!
It is important to us that you, and
our other visitors, have the best possible time while using our Site, and
that when you use this Site you are fully aware of our respective legal
rights and obligations. For that reason, we have created these Terms of
Use as the legally binding terms to govern your use of this Site. Please
read these Terms of Use carefully before using the Site, because they affect
your legal rights and obligations.
Your Acceptance of Terms
If you do not agree with any of these
Terms of Use please do not use this Site, because by using this Site you
will be deemed to have irrevocably agreed to these terms.
Areas of this Site within the proprietary
online service offered by Tornado Films Online may be subject to additional
terms and conditions, which you should read carefully before making any
use of those areas. Any such terms will not vary or replace these Terms
of Use regarding any use of this Site, unless otherwise expressly stated.
Please note that these Terms of Use
may be revised and reissued without notice at any time by updating this
posting. You should visit this page regularly to review the current Terms
of Use, since your continued use of the Site will be deemed as irrevocable
acceptance of any revisions. These Terms of Use were last updated on 20
December 2002.
How To Contact Us
This Site is controlled and operated
by Tornado Films Online, PO Box 595, Kechi, Kansas 67067. Please
forward any complaints to customerservice@tornadofilms.8m.com.
Please forward any questions or general correspondence to customerservice@tornadofilms.8m.com.
Your Registration
To access this Site or some of the
resources it has to offer, you may be asked to provide registration details.
It is a condition of use of this Site that all the details you provide
will be correct, current, and complete. If we at Tornado Films Online believe
the details are not correct, current, or complete, we have the right to
refuse you access to the Site, or any of its resources, and to terminate
or suspend your account.
Unless we have received a properly
completed and acceptable parental consent form governing your use of this
Site, we will assume (and by using this Site you warrant that) you have
legal capacity to enter into the agreement set out in these Terms of Use
(i.e., that you are of sufficient age and mental capacity and are otherwise
entitled to be legally bound in contract).
Online Privacy Notice
Your privacy is important to us.
To better protect your privacy, we provide a notice explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information
is collected and used at this site. Click
here to show this notice, which forms part of these Terms of Use.
Trademarks and Copyrights
This Site and all materials incorporated
by Tornado Films Online on this Site (“Material”) are protected by copyrights,
patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights (“Copyrights”). Some
of the characters, logos or other images incorporated by Tornado Films
Online on this Site are also protected as registered or unregistered trademarks,
trade names and/or service marks owned by Tornado Films or others (“Trademarks”).
A list of certain of the Copyrights and Trademarks can be found here, and
that list forms part of these Terms of Use. Tornado Films Online respects
the intellectual property rights of others and asks users of this Site
to do the same.
Your Use of Material
Your right to make use of this Site
and any Material or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance
with these Terms of Use. Modification or use of the Material or any other
content on this Site for any purpose not permitted by these Terms of Use
may be a violation of the Copyrights and/or Trademarks and is prohibited.
You may access and display Material
and all other content displayed on this Site for non-commercial, personal,
entertainment use on a single computer only. The Material and all other
content on this Site may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished,
uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way unless specifically
authorized by Tornado Films Online. Any authorization to copy Material
granted by Tornado Films Online in any part of this Site for any reason
is restricted to making a single copy for non-commercial, personal, entertainment
use on a single computer only, and is subject to your keeping intact all
copyright and other proprietary notices. Using any Material on any other
web site or networked computer environment is prohibited. Also, decompiling,
reverse engineering, disassembling, or otherwise reducing the code used
in any software on this Site into a readable form in order to examine the
construction of such software and/or to copy or create other products based
(in whole or in part) on such software, is prohibited.
Disclaimer of Warranties
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR
OWN RISK. TORNADO FILMS ONLINE AND ALL THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE,
FACILITIES, SERVICES AND OTHER CONTENT IN TORNADO FILMS ONLINE ARE PROVIDED
“AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW,
TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DOES NOT
WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THIS SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT TORNADO FILMS ONLINE’S
WEB SITES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR
OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE
ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE
MATERIAL, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT
IN TORNADO FILMS ONLINE OR ANY SITES LINKED TO TORNADO FILMS ONLINE IN
TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. TORNADO
FILMS ONLINE MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT IN TORNADO FILMS ONLINE
WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND TORNADO FILMS ONLINE ASSUMES
NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS,
INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT OF TORNADO
FILMS ONLINE. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SOME
OR ALL OF THE ABOVE IMPLIED WARRANTIES TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS
WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Liability
TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DOES NOT ACCEPT
ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHERWISE) RESULTING FROM
ANY USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, TORNADO FILMS ONLINE OR THE MATERIAL,
INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON TORNADO
FILMS ONLINE, REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS UPON WHICH LIABILITY IS CLAIMED AND
EVEN IF TORNADO FILMS ONLINE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
LOSS OR DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOU (AND NOT TORNADO FILMS ONLINE)
ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION
IN THE EVENT OF ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES
NOT ALLOW ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO APPLY
TO YOU, THE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Forums
THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND OPINIONS
INCLUDED AND/OR EXPRESSED IN OR ON BULLETIN BOARDS, CHAT ROOMS, COMMUNITY
PAGES OR OTHER FORUMS ON THIS SITE (“FORUMS”) ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE
OF TORNADO FILMS ONLINE OR ITS AFFILIATED OR RELATED ENTITIES OR CONTENT
PROVIDERS. TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO MONITOR OR REVIEW
FORUMS, AND THE CONTENT OF FORUMS IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TORNADO
FILMS ONLINE. TORNADO FILMS ONLINE MAY REMOVE OR MODIFY ANY CONTENT WITHOUT
NOTICE OR LIABILITY AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. ANY USE OF THE
FORUMS WILL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE DISCLAIMERS
AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY SET OUT ABOVE.
Submissions, Postings and E-mails
Tornado Films Online is interested
in hearing from you. It is, however, our policy that we will not accept
or consider unsolicited submissions of concepts, stories, or other potential
content. Therefore, please do not send Tornado Films Online any unsolicited
submissions.
From time to time, areas on this Site
may expressly request submissions of concepts, stories, or other potential
content from you (‘Invited Submissions’). Where this is the case, please
carefully read any specific rules or other terms and conditions which appear
elsewhere on this Site to govern those submissions (‘Additional Terms’),
since they will affect your legal rights. If no Additional Terms govern
those submissions, then these Terms of Use will apply in full to any Invited
Submissions you make.
In any event, any material you send
to us will not be treated as confidential.
Please act responsibly when using
this Site. You may only use this Site and its contents for lawful purposes
and in accordance with applicable law and you are prohibited from storing,
distributing or transmitting any unlawful material through this Site. You
may not collect or store personal information regarding other users. You
recognize that storing, distributing or transmitting unlawful material
could expose you to criminal and/or civil liability. You agree that if
a third party claims that material you have contributed to the Site is
unlawful, you will bear the burden of establishing that it is lawful. You
understand and agree that all materials publicly posted (other than by
Tornado Films Online) or privately transmitted on or through this Site
are the sole responsibility of the sender, not Tornado Films Online, and
that you are responsible for all material you upload, post or otherwise
transmit to or through this Site.
We at Tornado Films Online require
that you do not post e-mails or submit to or publish through Forums or
otherwise make available on this Site any content, or act in a way, which
in our opinion:
(a) libels, defames, invades privacy,
stalks, is obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening
or offensive;
(b) seeks to exploit or harm children
by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable
details or otherwise;
(c) infringes any intellectual property
or other right of any entity or person, including violating anyone’s copyrights
or trademarks or their rights of publicity;
(d) violates any law or may be considered
to violate any law;
(e) you do not have the right to
transmit under any contractual or other relationship (e.g., inside information,
proprietary or confidential information received in the context of an employment
or a non-disclosure agreement);
(f) advocates or promotes illegal
activity;
(g) impersonates or misrepresents
your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise manipulates
headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;
(h) advertises any commercial endeavor
(e.g., offering for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in
any commercial activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying
sponsorship banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as specifically
authorized on this Site;
(i) solicits funds, advertisers or
sponsors;
(j) includes programs which contain
viruses, worms and/or ‘Trojan horses’ or any other computer code, files
or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of
any computer software or hardware or telecommunications;
(k) disrupts the normal flow of dialogue,
causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are able to type, or
otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage
in real time activities via the Site;
(l) copies any other pages or images
on this Site except with appropriate authority;
(m) includes MP3 format files;
(n) amounts to a ‘pyramid’ or similar
scheme;
(o) amounts to ‘data warehousing’
(i.e., using any web space made available to you as storage for large files
which are only linked from other sites). You must provide a reasonable
amount of content to accompany such material in order that at least some
of the traffic to your site comes directly via us;
(p) disobeys any policy or regulations
established from time to time regarding use of this Site or any networks
connected to this Site; or
(q) contains links to other sites
that contain the kind of content, which falls within the descriptions set
out at (a) to (p) above.
In addition, you are prohibited from
removing any sponsorship banners or other material inserted by Tornado
Films Online anywhere on this Site (e.g., on any web space made available
for your use).
System Abuse
Without limitation, you agree not
to send, create or reply to so called “mailbombs” (i.e., emailing copies
of a single message to many users, or sending large or multiple files or
messages to a single user with malicious intent) or engage in “spamming”(i.e.,
unsolicited emailing for business or other purposes) or undertake any other
activity which may adversely effect the operation or enjoyment of this
Site by any other person.
You may not reproduce, sell, resell
or otherwise exploit any resource, or access to any resource, contained
on this Site.
Security
Any passwords used for this Site
are for individual use only. You shall be responsible for the security
of your password (if any). Tornado Films Online shall be entitled to monitor
your password and, at its discretion, require you to change it. If you
use a password that Tornado Films Online considers insecure, Tornado Films
Online will be entitled to require this to be changed and/or terminate
your account.
You are prohibited from using any
services or facilities provided in connection with this Site to compromise
security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution
of tools designed for compromising security (e.g. password guessing programs,
cracking tools or network probing tools) are strictly prohibited. If you
become involved in any violation of system security, Tornado Films Online
reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at
other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents.
Investigations
Tornado Films Online reserves the
right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use, including
without limitation any violation arising from any submission, posting or
e-mails you make or send to any Forum. Tornado Films Online may seek to
gather information from the user who is suspected of violating these Terms
of Use, and from any other user. Tornado Films Online may suspend any users
whose conduct or postings are under investigation and may remove such material
from its servers as it deems appropriate and without notice. If Tornado
Films Online believes, in its sole discretion, that a violation of these
Terms of Use has occurred, it may edit or modify any submission, posting
or e-mails, remove the material permanently, cancel postings, warn users,
suspend users and passwords, terminate accounts or take other corrective
action it deems appropriate. Tornado Films Online will fully cooperate
with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing
Tornado Films Online to disclose the identity of anyone posting any e-mails,
or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed
to violate these Terms of Use. BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU WAIVE AND
HOLD HARMLESS TORNADO FILMS ONLINE FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION
TAKEN BY TORNADO FILMS ONLINE DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS
AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER
TORNADO FILMS ONLINE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Service
In order to use this Site, you must
obtain access to the World Wide Web and pay any service fee associated
with that access. You will need to provide all equipment necessary to connect
to the Site on the World Wide Web (including a computer, modem and/or other
access devices).
Tornado Films Online, reserves the
right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any
part of this Site and/or any software, facilities and services on this
Site, with or without notice, and/or to establish general guidelines and
limitations on their use.
Local Regulations
Tornado Films Online makes no representation
that Materials or other content in the Site are appropriate or available
for use outside the United States, its territories, possessions and protectorates.
If you choose to access the Site from other locations you do so on your
own initiative and at your own risk. You are responsible for complying
with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. You specifically
agree to comply with all applicable laws concerning the transmission of
technical data exported from the United States or the country you reside
in.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless
Tornado Films Online and its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors
and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities,
costs or expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, resulting from
your breach of any of the foregoing provisions, representations or warranties,
and/or from your placement or transmission of any content onto Tornado
Films Online’s servers, and/or from any and all use of your account.
Our Use of Content
Tornado Films Online will consider
anything you provide to Tornado Films Online and/or contribute to this
Site as available for our use free of any obligations to you, except where
we have expressly solicited Invited Submissions and those submissions are
expressly governed by Additional Terms appearing elsewhere on this Site
(see ‘Submissions, Postings and E-mails’ above), in which event those Additional
Terms will determine how we will treat your Invited Submissions.
Subject to the provisions of any Additional
Terms, by posting or uploading any content to this Site and/or providing
any communication or material to Tornado Films Online (“User Content”),
you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and assign to Tornado Films
Online any and all rights in the User Content throughout the world including
without limitation all copyright, together with all consents (if any) necessary
to enable its reproduction, distribution, modification, publishing and/or
other exploitation by Tornado Films Online and/or by any person authorized
by Tornado Films Online, by any means and in all media now known or hereafter
devised without payment or other reference to you or any other person,
and to advertise and promote such exploitation, for the full period of
all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and insofar
as possible in perpetuity; (b) waive all moral rights in the User Content
which may be available to you in any part of the world and confirm that
no such rights have been asserted; (c) appoint Tornado Films Online as
your agent with full power to enter into any document and/or do any act
Tornado Films Online may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and
assignment, consent and waiver set out above; (d) warrant that you are
the owner of the User Content and entitled to enter into these Terms of
Use; (e) confirm that no such User Content will be subject to any obligation,
of confidence or otherwise, to you or any other person and that Tornado
Films Online shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User
Content.
Third-Party Sites
This Site may link you to other sites
on the Internet. These sites may contain information or material that some
people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites are not under
the control of Tornado Films Online, and you acknowledge that (whether
or not such sites are affiliated in any way with Tornado Films Online)
Tornado Films Online is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance,
legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such sites. The
inclusion of such a link does not imply endorsement of any site by Tornado
Films Online or any association with its operators.
Tornado Films Online cannot ensure
that you will be satisfied with any products or services that you purchase
from any third-party site that links to or from Tornado Films Online since
other shop channels are owned and operated by independent retailers. Tornado
Films Online does not endorse any of the merchandise, nor has Tornado Films
Online taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability of any of
the information contained in such third-party sites. Tornado Films Online
does not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any
information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal
information) you might be requested to give any third party, and you irrevocably
waive any claim against us with respect to such sites. We strongly encourage
you to make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before
proceeding with any online transaction with any of these third parties.
Proprietary Online Services
Any area of this Site that is accessed
through any proprietary online service is subject to the rules, policies
and guidelines of such proprietary online service.
Jurisdictional Issues
The Materials and all other content
in this Site are presented solely for the purpose of providing entertainment
and information and promoting programs, films, music, and other products
available in the United States, its territories, possessions, and protectorates.
The Site is controlled and operated by Tornado Films Online from its offices
within the State of Kansas, United States of America.
These Terms of Use shall be governed
by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of
Kansas, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed
entirely within Kansas. Any action you, any third party or Tornado Films
Online may bring to enforce these Terms of Use or, in connection with any
matters related to the Site shall be brought only in either the State or
Federal Courts located in Sedgwick County, Kansas, and you expressly consent
to the jurisdiction of said courts.
If any provision of these Terms of
Use shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that
provision shall be deemed sever able for this agreement and shall not affect
the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This is the
entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters contained
herein.
Claims of Infringement
If you believe that any content appearing
on this Site infringes your copyright rights, we at Tornado Films Online
want to hear from you. Please forward the following information in writing
to the Copyright Agent at the address listed below.
(a) your name, address, telephone
number, and e-mail address;
(b) a description of the copyrighted
work that you claim has been infringed;
(c) the exact URL or a description
of each place where alleged infringing material is located;
(d) a statement by you that you have
a good faith belief that the disputed use has not been authorized by you,
your agent, or the law;
(e) your electronic or physical signature
or the electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act
on your behalf; and
(f) a statement by you made under
penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate, that
you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s
behalf.
Copyright Agent
Tornado Films Online
PO Box 595
Kechi, KS 67067
Email: complaints@tornadofilms.8m.com
Tornado Films Online seeks to preserve
any and all exemptions from liability that may be available under the copyright
law, but does not necessarily stipulate that it is a service provider as
defined in USC section 512© or elsewhere.