Vodpod Member Agreement

Vodpod.com is an online service that enables our members to build collections of video, and to share those collections with other people on Vodpod, or on their own sites and video collections using our widgets, applications or API.

We'd love for you to use our service. Our basic service is free.

By using the Vodpod.com web site, a service of Remixation, Inc., you are agreeing to be bound by the following Member Agreement and by our Community Guidelines.

You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Member Agreement before you may become a member of Vodpod. We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. This Agreement is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective June 18, 2008 for all users.

What We Ask of You

  1. You are allowed one membership account on Vodpod.
  2. You are responsible for your activity on Vodpod, and any activity that occurs under your member name.
  3. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.
  4. You are over the age of 18; or you are 13 years or older and using the site with the permission of, in conjunction with, and under the supervision of your parents or legal guardians. If you do not qualify, please do not use our Site.
  5. You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Vodpod users.
  6. You agree not to use Vodpod to collect pornography, or videos with excessive violence or hate speech.
  7. You agree not collect video or other content that is spam, or create collections with unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites in order to boost the search engine rankings of third party site.
  8. You agree not to modify, adapt or hack Vodpod.com or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Vodpod.com.
  9. You agree not to create or submit unwanted email to any Vodpod members ("e-mail Spam").
  10. You agree not to transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
  11. You agree you will not, in the use of Vodpod, violate any laws in your jurisdiction.
  12. You agree to abide by our Community Guidelines, which are incorporated by reference into the Member Agreement.

Violation of any of these terms will result in the termination of your Vodpod.com account.

Terms of Service:

We gratefully acknowledge and thank Automattic for making their Terms of Service available under a Creative Commons license. We have used their Terms as a basis for the following terms and conditions that govern all use of the Vodpod.com website ("The Website") and our related services, including our widgets and other applications.

The Website is owned and operated by Remixation, Inc. (“Remixation”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Remixation’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Remixation (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Remixation, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

  1. Your Vodpod.com Account and Site. If you create a video collection on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account collection, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other ctions taken in connection with the video collection. You must not describe or assign keywords to your video collection in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Remixation may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Remixation liability. You must immediately notify Remixation of any unauthorized uses of your video collection, your account or any other breaches of security. Remixation will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
  2. Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a video collection, comment on a video collection, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, or videos you've collected from other websites. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
    • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
    • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
    • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
    • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
    • the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
    • the Content is not obscene, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
    • your video collection is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your video collection’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
    • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Remixation or otherwise.

    By submitting Content to Remixation for inclusion on your Website, you grant Remixation a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your video collection. If you delete Content, Remixation will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Remixation has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Remixation’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Remixation’s reasonable opinion, violates any Remixation policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Remixation’s sole discretion. Remixation will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

  3. Fees and Payment. Vodpod.com is a free service. We may, at some time in the future, add new capabilities and features only available to paying members.
  4. Responsibility of Website Visitors. Remixation has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Remixation does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Remixation disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
  5. Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which Vodpod.com links, and that link to Vodpod.com. Remixation does not have any control over those non-Vodpod websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Vodpod website or webpage, Remixation does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Remixation disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Vodpod websites and webpages.
  6. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Remixation asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by Vodpod.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Remixation.

    In particular, if you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Member Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

    (i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
    (ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
    (iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
    (iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
    (v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
    (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

    Vodpod's designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is:

    DMCA Notice,
    Remixation, Inc.
    130 Bush Street
    San Francisco, CA 94104
    email: Use address "copyright" against the domain vodpod.com, fax: .415. - 445...9193.

    In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Remixation or others, Remixation may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Remixation will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Remixation.

  7. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Remixation to you any Remixation or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Remixation. Remixation, Vodpod, Vodpod.com, the Vodpod.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Vodpod.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Remixation or Remixation’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Remixation or third-party trademarks.
  8. Changes. Remixation reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Remixation may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
  9. Termination. Remixation may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your Vodpod.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
  10. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Remixation and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Remixation nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
  11. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Remixation, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interuption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Remixation under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Remixation shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
  12. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Remixation Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  13. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Remixation, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to out of your violation this Agreement.
  14. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Remixation and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Remixation, or by the posting by Remixation of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Remixation may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.