The Normanby Hotel. ("we," "us") owns and operates the thenormanby.com.au web site (our
"Site"), on which we provide a fun way for you to get the general public's opinion
of how you look, a way for users to meet each other, the opportunity to view and
rate how others look and various other services (our Site and such services, collectively,
our "Service"). Your use of our Service is subject to the following Terms and Conditions
of Use (these "Terms"). WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AT ANY
TIME. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR SERVICE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES.
ACCORDINGLY, YOU SHOULD REVIEW THESE TERMS FROM TIME TO TIME FOR SUCH CHANGES.
1. USER CONDUCT
A. In your use of our Service, you agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating
the exercise of good judgment. For example and without limitation, you agree not
to: (a) violate any applicable law or regulation, (b) infringe the rights of any
third party, including without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, publicity
or contractual rights, (c) use the information available through our Service for
any unauthorized purpose, (d) interfere with or damage our Service, including, without
limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code,
flood pings, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or
electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology, (e) use our
Service to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other
person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others, personal
contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers, (f) use our
Service in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email ("Spam")
or advertisements, (g) "stalk" or harass any other user of our Service, (h) collect
or store any information about any other user other than in the course of the permitted
use of our Service, (i) use our Service for any commercial purpose whatsoever or
(j) assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.
B. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of our Service.
We will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions
with other users of our Service. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to
monitor interactions between you and other users of our Service and take any other
action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any material that
we or another user of our Service may consider to be obscene, lewd, lascivious,
filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable.
2. PRIVACY
We understand the concerns that you may have about your privacy and respect your
right to protect your personal information while online. However, our Service is
designed to allow users to post photographs and information about themselves for
public review and comment. Accordingly, by submitting your photograph and/or any
personal information, you thereby waive any privacy expectations you have with respect
to our use of your likeness or personal information provided to us. If you do not
wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed by or disclosed to
others, do not use our Service. We may collect certain other personal information
from you that we do not post on our Site. In most cases, we do not intentionally
transfer this information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent. However,
we reserve the right to transfer such information without your consent to prevent
an emergency, to protect or enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights
of a third party or in response to a court order or subpoena as otherwise required
or permitted by law. In addition, we provide this personal information to third-party
service providers who help us maintain our Service and deliver information and services
to you and other users of our Service.
3. MINORS
Our Service is intended for persons 18 years or older and we will not knowingly
permit anyone under the age of 18 to use our Service.
4. USER CONTENT
A. By submitting any content (including without limitation, your photograph) to
our Site, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free
right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute,
have distributed and promote such content in any form, in all media now known or
hereinafter created, anywhere in the world, and for any purpose.
B. You are solely responsible for any content that you submit, post or transmit
via our Service. You agree not to post or submit any content that: (a) is libelous,
defamatory or slanderous, (b) contains sexually explicit content (including nudity),
(c) may denigrate any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group by stereotypical
depiction or otherwise, (d) exploits images or the likeness of individuals under
18 years of age, (e) encourages or otherwise depicts glamorized drug use (including
alcohol and cigarettes), (f) makes use of offensive language or images, (g) characterizes
violence as acceptable, glamorous or desirable, or (h) contains any of your personal
contact information other than your email address.
C. We have no obligation to post any content that you or anyone else submits. In
addition, we may, in our sole and unfettered discretion, edit, remove or delete
any content that you post or submit.
5. THIRD PARTY CONTENT
In your use of our Service, you may access content from third parties ("Third Party
Content"), either via our Service or through links to third party web sites. We
do not control Third Party Content and make no representations or warranties about
it. You agree that by using our Service, you may be exposed to Third Party Content
that is false, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. Under no circumstances
will we be liable in any way for any Third Party Content, including, without limitation,
any errors or omissions in any Third Party Content or any loss or damage of any
kind incurred as a result of the use of any Third Party Content posted, stored or
transmitted via our Service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks
associated with, Third Party Content, including without limitation, profiles of
other users of our Service.
6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
A. You agree that all content and materials available on our Site are protected
by rights of publicity, copyright, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets
or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by us, you
agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit,
publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works
from materials or content available on our Site. Notwithstanding the above, you
may use the content and materials on our Site in the course of your normal, personal,
non-commercial use of our Service.
B. You agree not to systematically retrieve data or other content or any materials
from our Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation,
database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of "bots"
or otherwise. You agree not to use of any of our trademarks as metatags on other
web sites. You agree not to display any of our Site in a frame (or any of our content
via in-line links) without our express written permission, which may be requested
by contacting us at info@thenormanby.com.au. You may, however, establish ordinary
links to the homepage of our Site without our written permission.
7. USERNAME AND PASSWORD
You will select a username and password when completing the registration process.
You are solely and fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
username and password, and are solely and fully responsible for all activities that
occur under your username and password. You agree to: (a) immediately notify us
of any unauthorized use of your username and password or any other breach of security
and (b) ensure that you log off from your account at the end of each session. We
cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to
comply with this Section 7.
8. TERMINATION
You agree that we, in our sole and unfettered discretion, may terminate your access
to our Service for any reason, including, without limitation, your breach of these
Terms. You agree that any termination of your access to our Service may be effected
without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate
or delete any of your accounts and all related information and files in such accounts
and/or bar any further access to such files or our Service. Further, you agree that
we will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access
to our Service.
9. DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE
We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently,
any portion of our Service with or without prior notice. You agree that we will
not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification or discontinuance
of our Service.
10. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
You hereby represent and warrant to us that: (a) that you have the full power and
authority to enter into and perform under these Terms, (b) your use our Service
will not infringe the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other legal
right of any third party, (c) you will comply with all applicable laws in using
our Service and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or
connected with these Terms, including, without limitation, contacting other users
of our Service and (d) you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license
the content you submit and that the posting and use of your content by us will not
infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT:
A. IF YOU USE OUR SERVICE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN AND SOLE RISK. OUR SERVICE IS PROVIDED
ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
B. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT (A) OUR SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) OUR SERVICE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (C) ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU
MAY OBTAIN ON OUR SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (D) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS,
SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH OUR
SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, (E) ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE OR WE COLLECT
WILL NOT BE DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTIES OR (F) ANY ERRORS IN ANY DATA OR SOFTWARE
WILL BE CORRECTED.
C. IF YOU ACCESS OR TRANSMIT ANY CONTENT THROUGH THE USE OF OUR SERVICE, YOU DO
SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND YOUR SOLE RISK. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
LOSS OR DAMAGE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ACTIONS.
D. NO DATA, INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED BY YOU IN ORAL OR WRITTEN FORM FROM US
OR THROUGH OR FROM OUR SERVICE WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN
THESE TERMS.
12. LIMITS ON LIABILITY
A. YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING FROM, RELATING TO OR CONNECTED WITH: (A) THE USE OR INABILITY
TO USE OUR SERVICE, (B) THE COST OF REPLACEMENT OF ANY GOODS, SERVICES OR INFORMATION
PURCHASED OR OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM OR TRANSACTIONS
ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM OUR SERVICE, (C) DISCLOSURE OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR CONTENT, (D) STATEMENTS, CONDUCT OR OMISSIONS OF ANY SERVICE
PROVIDERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTY ON OUR SERVICE OR (E) ANY OTHER MATTER ARISING FROM,
RELATING TO OR CONNECTED WITH OUR SERVICE OR THESE TERMS.
B. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OR DELAY IN PERFORMING UNDER THESE TERMS
OF USE WHERE SUCH FAILURE OR DELAY IS DUE TO CAUSES BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL,
INCLUDING NATURAL CATASTROPHES, GOVERNMENTAL ACTS OR OMISSIONS, LAWS OR REGULATIONS,
TERRORISM, LABOR STRIKES OR DIFFICULTIES, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS BREAKDOWNS, HARDWARE
OR SOFTWARE FAILURES, TRANSPORTATION STOPPAGES OR SLOWDOWNS OR THE INABILITY TO
PROCURE SUPPLIES OR MATERIALS.
C. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY MATTER
ARISING FROM, RELATING TO OR CONNECTED WITH OUR SERVICE OR THESE TERMS EXCEED THE
SUM OF TWO HUNDRED ($200) DOLLARS.
D. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION
OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY,
SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 11 AND 12 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
13. INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, action,
damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneysÂ’
fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against us arising
out of your use of our Service or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute
a breach of any provision of these Terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify
us, we will have the right, in our sole and unfettered discretion, to control any
action or proceeding and determine whether we wish to settle it, and if so, on what
terms.
14. ARBITRATION
All disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of our Service
will be exclusively resolved under binding arbitration held in Palo Alto, California
before and in accordance with the Rules of the American Arbitration Association,
except that we will have the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief
in state or federal court located in Santa Clara County, California to enforce these
terms or prevent an infringement of a third partyÂ’s rights. In the event equitable
relief is sought, each party hereby irrevocably submits to the personal jurisdiction
of such court.
15. MISCELLANEOUS
These Terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California
without reference to conflict of law principles. These Terms contain the entire
understanding of the parties regarding their subject matter, and supersede all prior
and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between the parties regarding
their subject matter. No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right, power
or privilege under these Terms shall operate as a waiver thereof. The invalidity
or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability
of any other of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.