Please read very carefully these Terms of Use before reading, commenting on, subscribing to, downloading, uploading, transmitting, copying, reproducing, translating, publishing, altering materials of any kind, posting information, linking to (COLLECTIVELY “Using or Use”) any content of this Website in any way. If you Use this Website, it will indicate that you agreed to these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, please do not Use this Website. The content (“Content”) includes but is not limited to the text, video, photos, sounds, music, audiovisual combinations, graphics, software, scripts or any other materials you may view on, access through, or contribute to the “Website” (also referred to as “Spill”). The denomination Spill also includes the following Website at spillqualitea.com, and any sub-domain, international version, widget or mobile version. Spill is the property of AWED Corp. By AWED Corp. we are referring to the company, the directors (also referred to as “we”, “us” and “our”), the employees, the features, the products and services we make available including Spill and any other AWED Corp. branded websites, sub-domains, international versions, widgets and mobile versions.
Although we will try to notify you when a change is made to the Terms of Use, it is your responsibility to periodically review them. AWED Corp. may modify or revise the Terms of Use at any time and you agree to be bound by these modifications or revisions. Nothing in these Terms of Use can be interpreted to give any rights or benefits to a third-party.
INTRODUCTION
This agreement (“Agreement”) between you and AWED Corp. consists of the following Terms of Use (“Terms”). “You”, “Reader”, “User” or “Commenter” means any entity identified by its comments, personal information, posts (which includes the videos, the links, and the pictures you submit), e-mail, registration information or IP address. If you Use this Website on behalf of your employer, organization or company, they shall also be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
RESTRICTIONS
All Users have to be at least 14 years old in order to Use this Website. However, Users under 14 years old can access the Website under parental supervision only.
WEBSITE CONTENT
The Content available on the Website is not pre-authorized by AWED Corp. and does not represent the view of AWED Corp. or any organizations, businesses or institutions affiliated with AWED Corp.. The Content of this Website is not intended to cause harm. AWED Corp. cannot be taken responsible for displaying any inappropriate Content (including but not limited to video, pictures and comments). Disagreeing with the Content of the Website does not constitute sufficient ground for you to ask us to remove or modify any parts of this Website. The User is responsible for all the Content they add to the Website (including but not limited to videos, pictures and comments). AWED Corp. reserves the right to remove any Content from the Website if it is believed to be inappropriate. The User has the responsibility to report any Content found on the Website that could be considered as inappropriate. If you come across any inappropriate Content, please report it immediately by sending us an email with a complete description of the Content and its location on the Website. The Website may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or associated with AWED Corp.. AWED Corp. will assume no responsibility for the Content, the policies or the practices of any of these third- party websites. By using this Website, you agree to relieve AWED Corp. from all liability arising from the Use of any third party website. We encourage our Users to carefully read the terms of use and the privacy policies of any third party website that you visit. We encourage our Users to provide us some useful feedbacks or suggestions but we reserve the right to accept them or not and we are not obligate to compensate the Users in any way for sharing this information with us even if we use it.
Spill is an online magazine that features News and Entertainment. Spill is intended for entertainment, marketing, and promotional services.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
Concerning all the Content posted by Users on the Website that can be covered by intellectual property (including, but not limited to, videos, pictures or comment), the User gives us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to Use any of that information.
All the Content being part of this Website is property of AWED Corp., unless noted otherwise. All logos and trademarks are property of their respective owners. You are not allowed to reproduce, sell, and modify any part of this Website. You are welcome to link to this Website, and to discuss its Contents in a respectful manner. When you quote or link to this Website, please provide a link including Spill’s name, the name of the page you are linking to, and a permanent link (“Permalink”) to that page. Simply linking back to the Website is not considered proper acknowledgment. You are not authorized to Use parts or the entire Content of the Website for personal profit or in any way that could harm AWED Corp.. UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, MODIFICATION, REPUBLISHING, TRANSLATING, UPLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING OR DUPLICATING OF ANY OF THE CONTENT IS PROHIBITED.
Whenever copyrighted material is mentioned or used, AWED Corp. is doing so according to fair dealing practices. Use of material from this Website according to fair dealing practices requires proper acknowledgment. If you believe that the pictures or any of the Content of the Website infringes your copyrights, please contact us for the full removal of that Content. Please take note that if AWED Corp. is not the copyright holder of images posted on the Website, we believe that these images are covered under fair use.
POST POLICY
AWED Corp. is not responsible for the Content or any comments made by the Commenter(s). AWED Corp. is also not responsible for knowing whether the content of your comment, video or other post is breaking the law in other countries or jurisdictions. AWED Corp. reserves the right to edit, delete, or not publish a comment or any other Content if this is deemed to be potentially illegal or to potentially cause harm (this includes, but is not limited to comments containing hateful, libellous, and defamatory content). AWED Corp. has the right to delete a user account if the User does not respect the Terms of Use. If a user account has been disabled by AWED Corp., the User cannot create a new account without the written permission of AWED Corp.. All comments on this Website have to be written in English. Do not endanger yourself or break the law when you comment or post a link. Videos, pictures, comments or any other posts intending to advertise and/or off-topic (“SPAM”) will be deleted. AWED Corp. also reserves the right to block Commenter(s) who have previously published offensive or inappropriate videos, comments, illegal content, or SPAM.
FORBIDDEN ACTIONS
AWED Corp. is engaged to respect a certain security level that is being used in other similar websites. We will do our best to protect the User’s personal information and make the Website as secure as possible. However, all the Users of Spill engage themselves to respect the “following” commitments:
You are not authorized to (i) Use this Website under the age of 14 without a parental supervision, (ii) to infringe any policies of this Website or these Terms of Use, (iii) to attack this Website using malicious software and/or upload viruses and/or Use this Website for data mining (iv) to access this Website using automated means (such as robots, spider, harvesting bots or scrapers) (v) to post videos, pictures, comments or any other posts intending to advertise any product or service of any kind (such as spam) (vi) to access an account or to solicit login information that is not yours (vii) to intimidate or harass our Users (viii) to post any pornographic, threatening, or hateful content and/or gratuitous violence and/or any mature content (viiii) to commit any illegal, misleading, malicious or discriminatory actions while using the Website, or against this Website, (x) to solicit or send email invitations to Users or non-users without our written consent (xi) to restrict access to this Website, (xii) to impede the normal functioning of this Website and (xiii) to menace AWED Corp. with, or cause physical or financial harm to AWED Corp..
CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF USE
AWED Corp. reserves the right to change these Terms at any time. You will only be notified by an “Updated Terms of Use” label in the Terms of Use page, NOT IN PERSON. It is your responsibility to make sure that you agree with the new Terms, whenever changes have been announced. Changes to the Terms will be effective 48 hours after the notice has been posted on the Website. If you do not agree with the Terms, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.
NO GUARANTEE
AWED Corp. makes no guarantee regarding the validity of the Content of the Website including publicities. If you find inappropriate Content, please report it. In addition, AWED Corp. does not guarantee that the Website will be accessible at all times or during any down time (i) caused by outages to any public Internet backbones, networks or servers, (ii) caused by any failures of your equipment, systems or local access services, (iii) for previously scheduled maintenance or (iv) relating to events beyond AWED Corp.’s control such as but not limited to strikes, riots, fires, floods, explosions, war, terrorism, governmental action, labor conditions, natural and/or man-made disasters, or interruptions in Internet services to an area where AWED Corp. or Your servers are located. Although AWED Corp. will try to moderate videos, pictures and comments quickly, AWED Corp. makes no guarantee to the User that their comments, posts or trackbacks will be displayed promptly, without modifications, or that they will be displayed at all, as all comments and posts will be published to the discretion of AWED Corp..
NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION; LINKS.
AWED Corp. makes NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. We do not guarantee that AWED Corp. will be safe or secure. AWED Corp. is not responsible for the actions, Content, information or data of third parties and you release AWED Corp. (including the directors and the employees) from any charges or claims and/or damages known and unknown. If you choose to access the Website, you do so AT YOUR OWN RISK. To the extent links and external Content are based on or displayed in connection with the Website, AWED Corp. SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISPLAY OF SUCH LINKS AND SEARCH RESULTS, whether this external Content is breaking the law in this or other jurisdictions. YOU AGREE TO USE THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK, and that You will not consider the Websites’s Content to be a suitable substitute for professional advice.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL AWED CORP. BE LIABLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES, direct or indirect, even if we have been advised of the possibility of causing damages AND AWED CORP.’S LIABILITY TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY CLAIM IS LIMITED TO 30$. Each party acknowledges that the other party has entered into this Agreement relying on the limitations of liability stated herein and that those limitations are an essential part of the Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, AWED Corp. shall not have any liability for any failure or delay resulting from any condition beyond the reasonable control of AWED Corp., including but not limited to governmental action, labor conditions, power failures, natural and/or man-made disasters. AWED Corp. is not liable for the Content of any videos, comments or posts the Commenter might leave on this Website (see Comment policy).
OBLIGATION TO INDEMNIFY
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold AWED Corp., its agents, and applicable third parties (collectively “Indemnified Person(s)”) harmless from and against any and all third party claims, liability, loss, and expense (including damage awards, settlement amounts, and reasonable legal fees, brought against any Indemnified Person(s), arising out of, related to or which may arise from Your Use of the Website and/or Your breach of any term of this Agreement. In Quebec, this will include judicial and extra-judicial costs and fees; elsewhere in Canada, legal fees on a solicitor and its own client basis.
APPLICABLE LAWS; VENUE
AWED Corp. operates the Website from the Province of Quebec, Canada and makes no representations that materials in the Website are appropriate or available for Use in other locations. Access to the Website from any location where the Content is illegal is prohibited. Any claim related to the Use of the Website or to the Website materials shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec. Any action related to the access, Use, Content, or existence of this Website shall be filed only in the appropriate court located within the Province of Quebec. The Use of this Website constitutes Your express permission and consent to the jurisdiction of the provincial and/or federal courts of the Province of Quebec for purposes of such actions.
LEGAL NOTICES AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If You are intending to carry out legal action of any kind against the Website or AWED Corp., you are required to contact AWED Corp. SEVEN BUSINESS DAYS before any legal claim is made. Please remember that AWED Corp. means to do NO HARM to You or anyone else by writing this Website. If You feel that your rights have been infringed, please contact AWED Corp. and allow SEVEN BUSINESS DAYS for the reply to be received. AWED Corp. will do its best to address Your concerns.
If you have any questions or concerns about our Terms of Use, please contact us here.
Part of the above terms of use were inspired from Giovanna Di Sauro’s disclaimer
Privacy Policy
At Spill, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by Spill and how it is used.
All the information send or received through the internal mailing system cannot be accessed or viewed by the public. When a User leaves a comment; Spill is automatically notified and receives IP, WHOIS, and e-mail information pertaining to this User.
This Website is hosted in San Antonio, TX, USA. Be aware that laws regarding personal information and privacy may differ from your location.
Log Files
Like many other websites, Spill makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Affiliate Program: As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Spill does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page Content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
The DoubleClick Cookie
– Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a User’s prior visits to Spill.
– Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Spill and/or other sites on the Internet.
– Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the ads preference manager.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads on our site. Our advertising partners include:
Google Adsense
Amazon
– Users may opt out of other third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Other technologies (such as JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by these third-party ad servers or ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and links and/or to personalize the advertising Content that You see. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
Spill has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Spill’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If You wish to disable cookies, You may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
If You require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us here.
