Terms of use

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 service offered by Mindsample Ltd 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 April 2006.

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 Mindsample Ltd 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).

Trademarks and Copyrights
This Site and all materials incorporated by Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd on this Site are also protected as registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names and/or service marks owned by Mindsample Ltd 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. Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd. Any authorization to copy Material granted by Mindsample Ltd 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.

Submissions, Postings and E-mails
Mindsample Ltd is interested in hearing from you regarding your questions or comments about our Site. However, Mindsample Ltd and all of its subsidiaries (including Mindsample Ltd) do not accept unsolicited submissions of any kind (e.g., scripts, treatments, concepts or any other materials), in any format, by any means of transmission (including email). Any such submissions are either returned to the sender without being reviewed, or deleted or discarded without being reviewed. Therefore, please do not send unsolicited submissions of any kind to any Mindsample Ltd Company.

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 Mindsample Ltd) or privately transmitted on or through this Site are the sole responsibility of the sender, not Mindsample Ltd, and that you are responsible for all material you upload, post or otherwise transmit to or through this Site.

We at Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd 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). Mindsample Ltd shall be entitled to monitor your password and, at its discretion, require you to change it. If you use a password that Mindsample Ltd considers insecure, Mindsample Ltd 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, Mindsample Ltd reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents.

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).

Mindsample Ltd, 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.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd’s servers, and/or from any and all use of your account.

Our Use of Content
Mindsample Ltd will consider anything you provide to Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd (“User Content”), you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and assign to Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd and/or by any person authorized by Mindsample Ltd, 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 Mindsample Ltd as your agent with full power to enter into any document and/or do any act Mindsample Ltd 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 Mindsample Ltd shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User Content.

Jurisdictional Issues
The Materials and all other content in this Site are presented solely for the purpose of providing entertainment and information. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable 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.