Terms of Service
Hey! Thanks for visiting GraphicStory, the best website to discover and share information about your favorite comics. When visiting graphicstory.com or other web, application, API, content, property of or managed by GraphicStory, the ''service'', you confirm that you accept the terms and conditions from now on referred as the ''terms.''
When using the service, either as visitor or registered user, you acknowledge the terms of use. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not use the service. The continuous use of the service after the update of this terms is understood as an acceptance of such changes. If you use the service on behalf of a third party, for example, your employer, or other legal entity, then you represent and acknowledge that you have the powers to accept this terms on behalf of that entity. In that case you will be synoymous with that entity.
Updates and use of Service
GraphicStory has the discretion to update these terms at any time. When they are updated a date will indicate the date of update in the upper or bottom part of this page. You will have to check this page with frequency to maintain yourself informed. When using the service, you acknowledge and accept that it's your responsibility to regularly review the terms to be informed of such changes.
The service updates regularly and under our discretion new elements can be added or removed. We will not be responsible of perjury for instances when the service is not available, either momentarily or for extended periods of time.
To access the service you will need to submit information to register. It's necessary that all information is correct, complete and factual. When sharing information with the service you accept the terms and privacy policy of the service, and you accept all action we have in regard to that information in accordance with the terms and privacy policy.
Use of the Web and Registration
The service can be used anonymously or with a registered account. You can use the service anonymously if you are over 16 years old and if you are not forbidden from using this service under any law that applies. If you do not have the legal capacity to enter a contract where you live, then you need to find such authorization from your parents or legal guardian to use the service, and your legal guardian will have to accept this terms of service.
The users have benefits like submitting posts, comments, subscribe, vote, give likes, when registering an account. You have to share your correct and factual information, if this is not the case we reserve the right to suspend or terminate such account. You will notify us immediately if your account is being used without authorization. You are responsible of the actions committed by your account, whether or not you know about them.
When you register an account in the service you confirm that you are:
-Over 16 years old
-That you accept the Terms and Conditions of the Service
-That you accept the Privacy Policy
Interaction with the users and content
You are responsible of your behavior and interactions when using the service. Usually the use of the service is open to the general public and you use and interact with the service and the content uploaded by the users at your own risk and discretion. You accept to cooperate with the service to report and investigate any use that is illegal, fraudulent or dealing with an incorrect activity, without limitation, giving the service access to any necessary information.
Termination
This agreement will be held in effect even after you have left the service, or you account has been terminated. If it is determined that you broke the terms of service or you represent a threat to the community, associates or users, the following actions could take place:
-Removal of content that you or third parties had submitted at any time
-Removal or suspension of your access to the service, or part of it, for any reason, without notice and without responsibility.
-Terminate your account.
-Notify authorities, with or without notice.
The service will not be responsible for the termination of the service or termination of your use. Under every termination or suspension, every content, material, or information that you have submitted to the service will no longer be accessible to you, or guided by the privacy policy. The termination or cancellation of your service does not affect your obligations under the terms of service (such as in relation to author's copyright, indemnity, limitation of liability), that will still be in effect regardless of any suspension or termination. You accept that the service can preserve and reveal information uploaded to the service if the law requires it, or if its reasonably considered required to obey a legal process follow the terms of service, answer demands that such information infringes the rights of third parties; protect the rights, property or security of the service, workers, users, or visitors and the general public.
You can terminate your use of the service at any time by contacting us through the ''Contact'' page and selecting the option ''Delete account''. Your account will stop being accessible but the service in its own discretion will be able to continue reproducing any content that you have not deleted or that is public on the service.
You are solely responsible for the content that you upload, whether this are comments, recommendations, ratings, lists, critics, images, articles, among others, that you upload to the service. You should not:
-Upload content that you do not own or intellectual property that you have not been given permission to use.
-Upload content that violates or infringes the intellectual property, privacy or rights of others.
-Upload any content that is indicated to be sponsored by the service.
-Uploaded any content that is illegal or that promotes illegal activities or that infringe with these terms of service.
The service reserves the right, to its own discretion, and does not have the obligation to monitor your content or the content uploaded by third parties, but will be able to modify, terminate, suspend, or delete such content or part of this at any moment, and to investigate and take the necessary legal measures against those who infringe these terms. The service can not review and verify the veracity of the content uploaded to the service by the users.
You should not use the service to upload or do these actions:
-To manipulate the service, whether by creating distortions with the statistics, rating, views, etc.
-To be deliberately offensive against the community, or promote violence against an user, individual or community.
-To do spamming, create chains, pyramid scheme scams, or anything in that nature.
-Not follow the intellectual property policies
-Promote sites that violate the law of intellectual property
-Upload content that exploits individuals or minors under 18 years old in ways that are violent, sexual or insinuate the gathering of information of minors.
-Upload information of third parties, including addresses, cell phone numbers, physical addresses, personal documents or credit cards.
-Upload content that contains viruses, or any code, file, software, with the intention to interrupt, limit, harm, or destroy the functionality of any computer, software, or telecommunication system.
-Upload content that harms, damages, or overloads the service
-Use any technology, including scripts, to gather information from the service or that interacts in any way with the service.
-Use the service with the intention to activities that are illegal, malicious or discriminatory.
-Use any 'robot', 'spider', 'page-scrape', 'deep-link', or other material, software, algorithm, mythology, or manual method to access, acquire, copy, or monitor a portion or content of the service, in any way reproduce or transgress the structure of navigation or presentation of the service, to obtain any material, document, or information that has not been intentionally presented in an accessible way by the service.
The service will be able, in its own discretion, to add or remove any content to this list, and to remove any such content from the service, with or without mention of the number of days that it will leave such content within the service or the maximum size of the files that can be uploaded to the service. The service has the objective to main information accessibly at every moment, but the service will not be responsibly in case of loss, or forced to maintain copies of content on our servers, you will be solely responsible of creating copies of your own content.
Rights of the Service
The service reserves the right to the name GraphicStory, graphicstory.com, and to all the contents in this such as trademarks, logos, graphics, texts, music, sounds, visual style, code, and design associated to the use of the service. The icons, medals, pages, sections, articles, descriptions, and other data (also known as 'Content') that have been added to the service are property of the service or it's third-party licensors
When sending suggestions you are in agreement that these are gratuitous, unsolicited, and without restrictions and it will not be possible to put the service under any fiduciary obligation, the service can share any criticism or suggestion in an non-confidential manner with anyone, or use such suggestion without compensation. You recognize that the service by using any suggestion does not relinquish the right to use similar or related ideas that the service had already considered, developed or purchased.
You are granted an international license, not exclusive, limited, not transferable, revocable, to access the services and to use them, to download the service's official application in an allowed device and to access the content of GraphicStory. This license ceases the moment your account is terminated.
The service reserves for itself in an absolute form and unconditionally all the rights derived from the terms of service and from the content of GraphicStory or associates with the service, that might have not been expressly granted. By submitting content to the service, you grant the service and it's affiliates, service providers, licensees, successors, and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual, international, royalty-free right to use, republish, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute, and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. You grant the service or associates a royalty-free license to use your username, picture, to identify you as the source for the specific content. You accept that you own or control the rights of the content submitted, and have the right to grant the license above to the service and its affiliates. You accept to not submit content of which you do not have the adequate right or license.
Copyright
If you believe that your intellectual property has been copied in any way that constitutes a violation of the intellectual property right and it is accessible through the service, then please contact us through copyright@graphicstory.com with the following information:
- That you are the owner of such intellectual property or hold the legal authorization to represent such property.
- That you have identified the content in the service that infringes your intellectual property (or the property which you represent) and believe that the way the content is being used does not have your authorization, the copyright's owners, or the law.
- A description of the material that infringes the intellectual property right.
- Specific information, like URLs and dates, which allow us to find the content.
- Information that allows us to contact you, with your name, physical address, phone number, e-mail address. This information might be shared to the demanded party so that they might be able to contact you and negotiate to solve the problem.
- Your physical or digital signature.
- Confirmation that you are the legal representant of such intellectual property and the information provided is veritable and correct.
Indemnification
You recognize and accept to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless of responsibility the service and affiliates, agents, partners, workers, official and directors of every and each of the reclamations, responsibilities, losses, costs and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys' fees and costs derived from the violation of these terms on your part, or by any entity that uses your account, or derivative from a violation of the obligations, declarations and warranties in relation to these terms.
Limitations of Liability
To the fullest extent of the law, in no event, will the service be responsible for any damage, loss of revenue, indirect or direct, loss of data, or other losses of any kind, arising from your access to or use of, or inability to access or use the services. This limitation applies to all matters related to the service, including the ability or inability to offer technical support, or of any kind, whether breach of contract, warranties, negligence or other terms applicable by law. This limitation applies whether or not the service has been informed of such damage.
Disclaimer of Warranties
The service is available ''as-is'' and does not grant you any warranty. The use of the service is at your own risk. We do not give you any warranty that the service functions in a particular way or fulfills a specific requirement.
Security
There is no warranty that the service is safe or free of errors or viruses. You are responsible for implementing sufficient measures and checkpoints to satisfy your individual requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output.
Waiver and Severability
The failure to enforce any provision of these terms by the service shall not be understood as a waiver of such right or provision. If any part of these terms is held to be invalided or unenforceable, the unenforceable part will be given effect to the greatest extent possible, and the remaining parts will remain in full force and effect.
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