Last updated: October 6, 2019
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using The Trusty Bookmark website, services, and social media accounts (“Services”). Your access to and use of our Services is conditioned on your acceptance of and adherence to these Terms of Use.
By accessing or using our Services, you agree to abide and be bound by these Terms of Use. If you disagree with any part of these terms, you may not access our Services.
Table of Contents
- Use of Services
- Behavior Limitations & Termination
- Contact Policy
- Commenting Policy
- Offered Services
- Disclaimer
- Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy
- External Links
- Copyright Statement
- Third Party Copyright Infringement
- Limitation of Liability
- Severability
- Governing Law
- Changes To These Terms of Use
- Contact Us
Use of Services
Welcome to The Trusty Bookmark. These Terms of Use govern your access and use of The Trusty Bookmark (“The Trusty Bookmark”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) website, services, and social media sites (“Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you agree to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use. If you are using our Services on behalf of an organization or entity (“Organization”), you are agreeing to these Terms of Use on behalf of that Organization and you warrant that you have the authority to bind the Organization to these terms.
These Terms of Use affect your legal rights and obligations and constitute a legally binding agreement between you and The Trusty Bookmark. To use our Services, you must have the power to enter a binding contract with us and not be barred from doing so under any applicable laws. If you do not agree to or cannot be bound by these Terms of Use, do not access or use our Services.
By using our Services, you agree that you are at least 18 years of age. Our Services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 13. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you may use our Services only under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms of Use.
Behavior Limitations & Termination
Through participation with our Services, you agree to abide by the following:
- You will not display behavior, through comments or other means, that is offensive, hateful, harassing, trolling, spamming, defamatory, abusive, violent, obscene, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, or in any way inappropriate.
- You are forbidden from spamming or in any way harassing other users.
- Your behavior will abide by the Contact Policy and Commenting Policy below.
- You will not misuse our web forms or site in any way nor attempt illegal entry into our site or social media pages.
- You will not attempt to obtain password, account, or private information from other users.
- You will not post anything nor use this website in ways that contradicts any United States’ jurisdiction law.
- You will not post copyrighted material that does not belong to you unless properly accredited with a source link.
- You will not sell, sublicense, or commercialize any material from this site.
- You will not take any action that will unreasonably (defined at our discretion) interfere with our site’s performance or proper functioning or damage our site in any way.
- You will not data scrape, or any similar activity, this website.
- You will not attempt to bypass our efforts to block or ban you from participating and/or commenting on our site or social media accounts.
- You will abide by all our Terms of Use.
We reserve the right at any time to block and/or ban access to any or all of our Services, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach these Terms of Use. Any unauthorized use of our Services not in accordance with these Terms of Use may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offense.
Contact Policy
We provide a contact form and various email addresses for your convenience and ease of use in contacting us. We expect you to send relevant and appropriate information through these options. If your correspondence is considered offensive, hateful, harassing, trolling, spamming, defamatory, abusive, violent, obscene, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, or in any way inappropriate, you will be notified. If your inappropriate correspondence continues, you will be permanently blocked from our email list and from commenting on this site as well as our various social media accounts.
Commenting Policy
The comments sections of this site and our social media accounts allows for the discussion of (possibly differing) opinions on books and other book-related content, and we believe constructive debate is fun and healthy. You are responsible for the content of your comments. If your comments are considered offensive, hateful, harassing, trolling, spamming, defamatory, abusive, violent, obscene, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, or in any way inappropriate they will be removed. Uploading and/or sharing content via comments on our website or social media pages that is not yours without a proper attribution link is forbidden. If your inappropriate or infringing comments continue, you will be blacklisted from commenting on our content (for any or all of our Services). Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to remove all offensive material; therefore, we are not liable for any comments posted on this site and our social media accounts. Additionally, we reserve the right to use your comments (particularly glowing praise!) elsewhere.
Offered Services
The Trusty Bookmark offers various book editing services. Please see each service’s individual policy for details and guidance on the process and your responsibilities. The protection and preservation of information exchanged during these services is described in the applicable section of our Privacy Policy.
Disclaimer
By using our Services and thus agreeing to these Terms of Use, you also accept and are subject to our Disclaimer. This policy discusses the information provided on and through our Site and Services and your use of such information, specifically with regard to the following topics: educational and informational content; not professional advice; no professional-client relationship; user’s personal responsibility; no guarantees; accuracy; reviews; affiliate links; external links; and limitation of liability. Please thoroughly review the full content of this policy here.
Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy
By using our Services and thus agreeing to these Terms of Use, you also accept and are subject to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. These discuss our collection, use, and protection of your data, particularly in reference to contact submissions; subscription to our mailing list and Insider Scoop; giveaways; services offered through our site; records access and removal; data analytics and cookies; security; and external links. Please thoroughly review the full content of these policies.
External Links
Our Services may contain links to external websites or other social media accounts we find relevant or interesting. However, we do not have control over, nor do we assume responsibility for, these external sites or accounts and cannot be responsible for the content, security, or protection of privacy that they provide. You acknowledge and agree that The Trusty Bookmark shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any external websites or services. When you leave our site, you are responsible for your own internet usage and should view the applicable terms of use and privacy policy for each site you visit.
Copyright Statement
All written content, logos, and watermarked images on The Trusty Bookmark (registered and unregistered) is original intellectual property and protected under copyright law. The Trusty Bookmark reserves all rights to such content. Copying or reproduction in any method of any material from this site and our social media accounts without written permission and appropriate credit is illegal and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. All redistribution of material from this site and our social media accounts must be done with proper attribution to the associated social media account or display a visible and functioning link that can be followed back to the original content on our website. No content can be edited to remove our watermark, logo, or name. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you a right or license to use any content except as expressly described in this section of these terms.
Third Party Copyright Infringement
If you discover copyright-protected work on our site or social media accounts that is in violation of yours or another site or person’s copyright code, please notify us as soon as possible through our Contact form or by emailing admin@thetrustybookmark.com. We will remove and/or give credit for (per your or their preference) the offending content immediately.
If you discover our content on another platform in violation of our Copyright Statement, please notify us as soon as possible through our Contact form or by emailing admin@thetrustybookmark.com. We really appreciate you looking out for us!
Limitation of Liability
In no event shall The Trusty Bookmark, nor any of its guest content providers as it pertains to their content posted specifically through our Services, be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of our Services. Your use of any information through our Services is taken entirely at your own risk, for which we will not be liable.
We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information found or offered through our Services for any particular purpose. You acknowledge such information may contain inaccuracies or incompleteness and that we are not liable for such.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use are found to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable under any applicable United States’ law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use, your use of our Services, and any dispute that arises regarding either shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A.
Changes To These Terms of Use
These Terms of Use are effective as of April 24, 2018. They will remain in effect unless changes are made, which will then be effective immediately after being posted to this page. We reserve the right to update or change these Terms of Use at any time and it is your responsibility to check this page periodically for modifications. Your continued use of our Services after any updates to this page will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Terms of Use.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please feel free to contact us at admin@thetrustybookmark.com.