TERMS
OF USE
1. What is this MemoText® User
Agreement about and why should you read it?
This MemoText® User Agreement (referred to below
as the “Agreement”) describes:
- your rights and obligations when accessing and using the
MemoText® services for which you successfully register
(referred to below as the “MemoText® Services”)
and the MemoText® .com Internet site (referred to below
as “MemoText.com”)
- MemoText® ’s rights and obligations towards
you concerning the MemoText® Services and MemoText.com,
including limitations to MemoText’s liability
- other important details about how the MemoText® Services
are operated, including information about MemoText’s
privacy policy and procedures, security of MemoText.com
and the MemoText® services
By subscribing to MemoText® Services, you will be entering
into a contractual relationship with Enterprising Vision
Inc., the owner and operator of the MemoText® Services
and MemoText.com (referred to in this Agreement as “we”,
“our”, and “us”), on the terms and
conditions contained in this Agreement. This Agreement (and
any modifications to it) will represent the entire agreement
between you and Enterprising Vision Inc. with respect to
the MemoText® Services and MemoText.com and is different
than and completely separate from your Agreement with your
telephone and Internet service providers and from any and
all agreements that MemoText® may have with its service
providers to which you are not a party.
If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions
contained in this Agreement, click on the “I Decline”
button below and you will be returned to the MemoText.com
home page without being registered for the MemoText®
Services that brought you to this Internet page.
2. How will MemoText® update this
Agreement and where will you be able to look at it again?
MemoText® may change, add to or delete any portion
of this Agreement in its discretion at any time. Each of
these changes, additions or deletions (which may also be
referred to as “amendments” will be effective
when notice of them is posted on MemoText.com. Your continued
use of the MemoText® Service and/or MemoText.com after
amendments are posted will be considered acceptance of those
changes. It is your sole responsibility to monitor MemoText.com
to determine whether any such amendments have been posted.
A copy of the most current version of this MemoText®
User Agreement will be available through a link on the “My
MemoText® Homepage” for your convenience and ease
of reference. We recommend that you print and retain a copy
of this Agreement for your records.
3. Registration
By subscribing to MemoText® Services, you verify
that the information provided by you in the registration
process is true, accurate, current and complete to the best
of your knowledge. If you provide any information that is
untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or we have
reasonable grounds to believe that the information is untrue,
inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may terminate
or suspend your account or refuse any or all current or
future use of MemoText.com and/or the MemoText® Services.
MemoText.com may reject any application for registration
for any MemoText® services in its discretion without
explanation.
If MemoText® accepts your application for registration,
MemoText® will set up an account (your “MemoText®
Account”) for you relating to your MemoText® Services
and will send confirmation of your MemoText® Account
and other useful information to the e-mail address used
by you in your application for registration.
4. Access to and use of MemoText.com
If you have a MemoText® Account and have registered
for one or more MemoText® Services, then you may access
and use the password-protected member sections of MemoText.com
that relate to your account using your MemoText.com member
ID and password.
You understand and agree that each message sent using MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services is the sole responsibility
of the person from whom the message originated. This means
that you, not us, are entirely responsible for the messages
and the content of the messages you send using MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services. We do not control the content
in messages sent by MemoText® members, and accordingly,
do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, quality or timeliness
of messages or their content.
You agree that, in using MemoText.com and the MemoText®
Services, you will not:
- send any message or any content that is
offensive, indecent, objectionable, unlawful, harmful, hateful,
racist, threatening, abusive, harassing, invasive of another’s
privacy, tortious, libelous, defamatory, vulgar or obscene;
- “stalk” or otherwise harass
another person;
- impersonate any person or entity or falsely
state or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or
entity;
- send any message or any content that is
unwelcome, including without limitation any unsolicited
advertising, “spam”, junk mail, chain letters,
promotional materials, “pyramid schemes” or
any other form of unwelcome solicitation; or
- interfere with or otherwise attempt to disrupt
or engage in any activity that could reasonably be expected
to disrupt MemoText.com or the MemoText® Services or
any servers or networks directly or indirectly connected
to MemoText.com or any other Internet site or mobile communications
device.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE LIABLE OR
RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR MESSAGES OR THEIR CONTENT, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY MESSAGES
OR CONTENT, OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED
AS A RESULT OF MESSAGES OR CONTENT SENT USING MEMOTEXT.COM
OR THE MEMOTEXT® SERVICES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
ANY MISSED APPOINTMENTS OR ANY REPERCUSSIONS OF MISSED APPOINTMENTS
DUE TO MESSAGE FAILURE FOR ANY REASON.
While we do not screen content, you acknowledge
that we may (but are not obligated to), in our sole discretion,
refuse to send or remove any messages or content from MemoText.com
or the MemoText® Services, including without limitation
any messages or content that violate or are inconsistent
with the principles for message content articulated in this
Agreement.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated
with, the use of MemoText.com and the MemoText® Services,
including without limitation, any reliance on the accuracy,
completeness or usefulness of messages sent using MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services.
While a confirmation (including a unique ID code) will be
sent to the e-mail address you supplied when registering
confirming that one or more messages were sent, we cannot
and will not be responsible for delivery of messages by
third party carriers and telecommunications providers. We
are not responsible and do not provide refunds related to
messages sent by us that are not delivered by carriers or
not picked up by recipients for any reason whatsoever. You
acknowledge and understand that the technical processing
and transmission of message will involve transmissions over
various networks and may involve changes to conform and
adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or
devices. For more information, please consult your carrier.
You are solely responsible for obtaining and maintaining
all equipment, Internet browsers and telecommunications
devices necessary to connect to and use the Internet, MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services.
You agree to comply with all applicable local, provincial
and federal laws and regulations that relate to your use
of activities with respect to MemoText® and MemoText.com.
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell
or exploit for any commercial purpose, any portion of MemoText.com,
the MemoText® Services or access to or use of MemoText.com
or the MemoText® Services.
We are concerned about the safety and privacy of all of
our members, especially minors. Parents who wish to permit
their children who are under 18 should assist them in registration
and supervise their use of the MemoText® Services.
5.
Fees
You agree to pay all fees and charges pertaining to your
use of MemoText.com and the MemoText® Services within
all applicable deadlines. You acknowledge and agree that
we may terminate this Agreement and suspend or terminate
your MemoText® Services immediately if you do not pay
all fees and charges as required.
You can upgrade or downgrade your account at any time in
accordance with the current pricing arrangements posted
on MemoText.com. Unused text message reminders that you
are entitled to expire at 11:59:59 on the last day of the
calendar month in which they were purchased.
Once a MemoText® message has been sent, it message cannot
be changed or recalled and you will be responsible for all
fees and other consequences associated with the sending
of that MemoText® message.
Any and all fees pertaining to MemoText.com and/or the MemoText®
Services are in addition to any fees, including airtime
and/or SMS messaging charges, that you or any recipient
of any MemoText® message from you may be charged by
your or their telephone and Internet service providers.
We are not responsible for any such charges.
6.
Security and Third Parties
MemoText.com uses password and database security, including
Secure Socket Layers (SSL) 128 bit encryption technology,
to protect MemoText.com and the integrity and security of
data contained in MemoText.com. However, you acknowledge
and agree that the security and integrity of MemoText.com
cannot be guaranteed. You agree that our security procedures
for the site are reasonable and adequate for your use and
that MemoText® will not incur any liability of any kind
whatsoever with respect to such security measures.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
and security of your Member ID and password. You agree to
maintain your Member ID and password in a secure manner
and to destroy it in a way that will make it unreadable
when you dispose of any materials containing your Member
ID and/or password. Any account activity undertaken with
the use of your Member ID and password shall be conclusively
presumed to be authorized by you. You agree to notify us
in writing immediately at contact@MemoText.com if you know
or suspect that your Member ID and/or password has been
lost, stolen, or the subject of unauthorized use. You are
solely and fully responsible for all actions and communications
undertaken or transmitted under your password and/or MemoText®
Account and you agree to comply with all applicable laws
and regulations in connection with your use of MemoText.com.
It is your sole responsibility to ensure that you exit from
your MemoText® Account by logging out at the end of
each session. While we have no obligation to do so, you
agree that we may log off accounts that are inactive for
an extended period of time and that we will have no liability
for doing so to you or to any third party.
As a convenience to you, MemoText.com may link to web sites
operated by other entities. You acknowledge and agree that,
because we have no control over those sites, we are not
responsible for their availability, security, content, products
or other materials on or available from such sites. Links
do not imply that we endorse or are affiliated with any
linked sites.
7.
Privacy
This section covers our treatment of personal information
(as defined in the Personal Information and Protection of
Electronic Documents Act (Canada)) that you enter into MemoText.com
or that we collect when you are on MemoText.com. This section
does not apply to the practices of companies that we do
not own or control or to people that we do not employ or
manage, including without limitation, your telephone service
provider.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible
for ensuring that all information that you enter into MemoText.com
is and collected, used and disclosed in compliance with
the Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents
Act (Canada) and all other applicable privacy laws. We will
have no liability to you or to the recipient of any message
from you to the extent such information is not collected,
used and disclosed by any user in compliance with privacy
laws.
We do not use any personal information you enter into MemoText.com
for any purpose other than to provide the MemoText®
Services and to answer your questions about the MemoText®
Services and MemoText.com. If you choose not to complete
the registration process, we delete all mobile numbers entered
by you into MemoText.com instantly. We will not sell or
rent personal information provided by you to us to anyone.
We will not use or share any of this information with any
third party except: (1) to our service providers, including
telephone service providers, as required to operate MemoText.com
and to provide the MemoText® Services; and (2) as required
by law. In addition, we may communicate with you from time
to time about your MemoText® account, updates and upgrades
to the MemoText® Services and other MemoText® Services
that are available, at your e-mail address provided to us
by you as part of your registration for the MemoText®
Services.
When you visit MemoText.com, our web servers may collect
the name of the domain you used to access the Internet and
the web site you came from and visit next. This information
is used by us to measure the number of visits, average time
spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to
MemoText.com in general. We may set and access cookies on
your computer as necessary for the effective operation of
MemoText.com and the provision of the MemoText® Services.
8. Changes to the Functionality of
MemoText.com
We may change, modify, add, remove, suspend, cancel or discontinue
any aspect of the MemoText® Service or MemoText.com,
including the content of MemoText.com and/or the availability
of any features of the MemoText® Service and/or MemoText.com
at any time in MemoText’s discretion. We may also
impose limits on certain features and services or restrict
your access to all or part of the MemoText® Service
and/or MemoText.com without notice or liability at any time.
MemoText® may terminate your use of all or part of the
MemoText® Service or MemoText.com at any time in its
sole discretion, provided that, as your sole remedy, we
will refund to you any prepaid fees actually paid by you
specifically related to that service or functionality.
9. Indemnity and Liability
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from
and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses,
damages, fines, penalties, costs (including legal costs)
and other liabilities of any kind whatsoever, incurred by
us directly or in directly as a result of or in connection
with: (1) your use of MemoText.com and the MemoText®
Services in any manner that is not fully compliant with
this Agreement; and (2) any content, data or other information
or materials that you send, distribute, transmit or otherwise
make available to any person using MemoText.com and/or the
MemoText® Services.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE PROVIDE
THE MEMOTEXT® SERVICE AND ACCESS TO MEMOTEXT® .COM
ON AN “AS IS” AND AN “AS AVAILABLE”
BASIS, THAT YOUR USE OF MEMOTEXT.COM AND THE MEMOTEXT®
SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND THAT WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES OR COVENANTS WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT THERETO.
FOR GREATER CERTAINTY, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE MEMOTEXT®
SERVICES OR MEMOTEXT.COM WILL BE AVAILABLE, RUN DEFICIENCY-FREE
OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT WE WILL CORRECT ALL ERRORS OR DEFICIENCIES
RELATED THERETO OR THAT ALL MESSAGES SENT BY YOU WILL ARRIVE
AT THEIR INTENDED DESTINATION. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM
ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE MEMOTEXT®
SERVICE AND MEMOTEXT.COM, INCLUDING REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES
AND COVENANTS WITH RESPECT TO MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY
QUALITY, SCALABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
EXCEPT FOR ANY OBLIGATION WE MAY HAVE TO PROVIDE A REFUND
PURSUANT TO SECTION 0, OUR CUMULATIVE LIABILITY, INCLUDING
ANY LIABILITY OF OUR AFFILIATES, AND OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, ADVISORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES
AND THOSE OF OUR AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY, “REPRESENTATIVES”)
TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE AND OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
OR RELATED TO CLAIMS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT,
THE MEMOTEXT® SERVICE AND MEMOTEXT.COM WILL NOT EXCEED
TEN DOLLARS (USD $10).
THE FOREGOING LIMITS OF LIABILITY WILL OPERATE NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR
IN ANY STATUTE, REGULATION, GUIDELINE, POLICY, RULE OF LAW
OR OTHER LEGAL INSTRUMENT AND APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS
ON WHICH ANY PERSON IS ENTITLED TO CLAIM, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO BREACH OF CONTRACT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
FUNDAMENTAL BREACH) OR TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
NEGLIGENCE, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION
OR OTHER FAULT OF OURS, OUR AFFILIATES OR OUR OR OUR AFFILIATES
RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES), AND APPLY EVEN IF WE OR OUR
AFFILIATES OR ANY OF OUR RESPECTIVE REPRESENATIVES HAVE
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE LIMITS OF LIABILITY SPECIFIED
IN THIS AGREEMENT WERE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT IN SETTING CONSIDERATION
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
TO THE EXTENT YOUR JURISDICTION DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION
OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR LIMITATIONS OF OR EXCLUSIONS OF
LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, THE
ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
10. Termination
You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, terminate
your password, member ID or account (or any part thereof)
at any time if we believe that you have violated or acted
inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Agreement.
You agree that we may terminate or delete accounts that
are inactive for an extended period of time at our discretion.
You agree that termination of your access to the service
under any provision of this Agreement may be effected without
prior notice and you acknowledge and agree that we may immediately
deactivate or delete your account, including all related
information and pending messages and/or bar any further
access to MemoText.com or the MemoText® Services. You
agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party
for termination of your access to or use of MemoText.com
or the MemoText® Services. You further agree that we
may change these general practices and limits at any time,
in our sole discretion, without notice.
11. International Use and Choice of
Law; Statute of Limitations
Use of the MemoText® Service and access to and use of
MemoText.com is prohibited from locations where the associated
services or content is illegal. You recognize the global
nature of the Internet and you agree to comply with all
local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content
in any jurisdiction from which you are using MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services and any jurisdiction to which
you are sending messages. Specifically, you agree to comply
with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical
data from Canada or the country in which you reside.
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of
Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to the
conflicts of laws provisions. For all disputes arising from
or related to this Agreement, the MemoText® Service
or MemoText.com, you agree to submit to the personal and
exclusive jurisdiction of the provincial and federal courts
located in Ontario. You agree that, regardless of any statute
or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you
may have with respect to your use of the MemoText® Services
and MemoText.com must be commenced within one (1) year after
the claim or cause of action arose or forever be barred.
12. Copyright notice; Ownership
The MemoText.com Internet site is protected by copyright
laws and treaty provisions. The MemoText® name, logo
are trademarks of Enterprising Vision Inc. You agree to
comply with all copyright laws in your use of MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services. No part of the materials
on MemoText.com, including the any and all site text and
graphics, may be reproduced or transmitted without our prior
written consent.
You acknowledge and agree that, as between you and us, MemoText.com
and the MemoText® Services are owned by us and that
you do not acquire any intellectual property or other rights
in them as a result of your use of MemoText.com or the MemoText®
Services. Any access and use rights granted to you by us
with respect to MemoText.com and the MemoText® Services
are not to be construed as a sale, transfer, assignment
or other conveyance by us of our intellectual property and
other rights in MemoText.com or the MemoText® Services.
We do not claim ownership of the content of any message.
13. Assignment
You cannot assign all or part of this Agreement without
first getting our written approval. We can assign all or
part of this Agreement without your consent by telling you
about the assignment in writing, including, if we choose,
by posting notice of the assignment on MemoText.com. This
Agreement will bind you, your successors and your permitted
assigns and us, our successors and our permitted assigns.
14. General
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between
you and MemoText® relating to the MemoText® Service
and MemoText.com and may be amended or modified only as
described herein.
If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds
any provision of this Agreement or portion thereof to be
invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced
to the maximum extent permissible so as to effect the intent
of this Agreement, and the remainder of this Agreement will
continue in full force and effect.
You agree that our conduct, actions or failure to enforce
all or part of this Agreement does not waive any of our
rights hereunder or change your obligations hereunder, unless
you and we agree to and sign an amendment in writing.
The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience
only and have no legal or contractual effect.
15. Violations
Please report any violations of this Agreement to amos@memotext.com
16. For Residents of Quebec
It is agreed that it is the express wish of the parties
that this Agreement and any related documents be drawn up
and executed in English. Il est la volunté expresse
des parties que cette convention et tous les documents s’y
rattachant soient rédigés en anglais. |