OWNERSHIP4.1 Intellectual Property. The Site contains materials that are proprietary and are protected by copyright laws, international treaty provisions, trademarks, service marks, and other intellectual property laws and treaties.
4.1.1 The Site is also protected as a collective work or compilation under copyright and other laws and treaties. You agree to abide by all applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained on the Site. You acknowledge that the Site contains original works that have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by GIC and others through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and which constitute valuable intellectual property of GIC and such others. All present and future rights in and to trade secrets, patents, designs, copyrights, trademarks, database rights, service marks, know-how, and other intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any type, Documentation, any improvements, design contributions, or derivative works thereto, and any knowledge or process related thereto, including rights in and to all applications and registrations relating to the Site, shall, as between you and GIC, at all times be and remain the sole and exclusive property of GIC.
4.1.2 The trademarks, logos, taglines, and service marks displayed on the Site (collectively, the “Trademarks”) are registered and unregistered Trademarks of GIC and others. The Trademarks may not generally be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate GIC's sponsorship of or affiliation with any product, service, event, or organization without GIC's prior express written permission. GIC acknowledges the Trademarks of other organizations for their respective products or services mentioned on the Site. Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by GIC, Inc. Other than as provided in these Terms incorporated herein by reference, your use of the Trademarks, or any other GIC content, is strictly prohibited.
4.1.3 Copyright. GIC respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. If you believe that any content or material on the Site infringes copyrights you own, please notify us in accordance with our Copyright Policy.
4.2 Software Use Restrictions. Software available for downloading through the Site or third-party websites or applications (the “Software”) is the copyrighted work of GIC and third-party providers. Use of the Software is governed by these Terms. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of the Software is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in civil and criminal penalties. Violators may be prosecuted.
4.3 Non-digital contract Content and Submissions/User Content.4.3.1 Submissions. The Site or GIC Services may enable you to submit, post, upload, or otherwise make available (collectively, "Post") content such as questions, public messages, ideas, product feedback, comments, and other content (collectively, "User Content") that may or may not be viewable by other users. If you Post User Content, unless we indicate otherwise, you grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, and fully sublicensable right to access, view, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, copy, and display such User Content throughout the world in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also permit any other user to view, copy, access, store, or reproduce such User Content for that user’s personal use. You grant us the right to use the name and other information about you that you submit in connection with such User Content. You represent and warrant that: (a) you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the User Content that you Post; (b) the User Content you Post is truthful and accurate; and (c) use of the User Content you Post does not violate these Terms or any applicable laws. For the avoidance of doubt, User Content does not include any document, such as a contract, disclosure, or notice that you deposit into the GIC Signature service for processing (“digital contracts”).
4.3.2 Screening & Removal. You acknowledge and agree that GIC and its designees may or may not, at GIC's discretion, pre-screen User Content before its appearance on the Site or GIC Services, but that GIC has no obligation to do so. You further acknowledge and agree that GIC reserves the right (but does not assume the obligation) in its sole discretion to reject, move, edit, or remove any User Content that is contributed to the Site or GIC Services. Without limiting the foregoing, GIC and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable in GIC's sole discretion. You acknowledge and agree that GIC does not verify, adopt, ratify, or sanction User Content, and you agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with your use of User Content or your reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of User Content.
RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF THE SITE5.1 By using the Site, including any GIC Service, you specifically agree not to engage in any activity or transmit any information that, in our sole discretion:
- Is illegal, or violates any federal, state, or local law or regulation;
- Advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
- Violates any third-party right, including, but not limited to, right of privacy, right of publicity, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights;
- Is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, indecent, defamatory, sexually explicit or pornographic, discriminatory, vulgar, profane, obscene, libelous, hate speech, violent or inciting violence, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable;
- Interferes with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Services;
- Attempts to impersonate another person or entity;
- Is commercial in a way that violates these Terms, including but not limited to, using the Site for spam, surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, or other advertising materials;
- Falsely states, misrepresents, or conceals your affiliation with another person or entity;
- Accesses or uses the account of another user without permission;
- Distributes computer viruses or other code, files, or programs that interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or electronic communications equipment;
- Interferes with, disrupts, disables, overburdens, or destroys the functionality or use of any features of the Site, or the servers or networks connected to the Site, or any of the GIC Services;
- “Hacks” or accesses without permission our proprietary or confidential records, those of another user, or those of anyone else;
- Improperly solicits personal or sensitive information from other users including without limitation address, credit card or financial account information, or passwords;
- Decompiles, reverse engineers, disassembles, or otherwise attempts to derive source code from the Site, except as expressly permitted in these Terms or by law, unless and then only to the extent permitted by applicable law without consent;
- Removes, circumvents, disables, damages, or otherwise interferes with security-related features, or features that enforce limitations on use of the Site;
- Uses automated or manual means to violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on the Site, if any, or bypasses or circumvents other measures employed to prevent or limit access, for example by engaging in practices such as “screen scraping,” “database scraping,” or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining lists of users or other information;
- Modifies, copies, scrapes or crawls, displays, distributes, publishes, licenses, sells, rents, leases, lends, transfers, or otherwise commercializes any materials or content on the Site;
- Uses the Services for benchmarking, or to compile information for a product or service;
- Downloads (other than through page caching necessary for personal use, or as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms), distributes, posts, transmits, performs, reproduces, broadcasts, duplicates, uploads, licenses, creates derivative works from, or offers for sale any content or other information contained on or obtained from or through the Site or GIC Services, by any means except as provided for in these Terms or with the prior written consent of GIC; or
- Attempts to do any of the foregoing.
If you believe content on the Site violates the above restrictions, please contact us.