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IMPORTANT
DISCLAIMERS AND TERMS OF USE
Welcome to the
PlayStationMuseum.com website. We are dedicated to preserving the history of the
PlayStation. Many of the comments on this website may be subjective in nature
and unless otherwise expressed, should not be construed as historical fact.
PlayStationMuseum.com is subject to your compliance with the terms and
conditions set forth below (the "Agreement"). PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT
CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THE PlayStationMuseum.com WEBSITE. BY
ACCESSING OR USING PlayStationMuseum.com, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE TO BE
LEGALLY BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE
BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE
PlayStationMuseum.com. THE RIGHT TO USE PlayStationMuseum.com IS PERSONAL, AND
CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY.
PLAYSTATION MUSEUM MAY MODIFY THIS
AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME BY POSTING A MODIFIED VERSION AT PlayStationMuseum.com
WITHOUT NOTIFICATION. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT,
THEN YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE PlayStationMuseum.com. YOUR CONTINUED
ACCESS OR USE OF PlayStationMuseum.com FOLLOWING POSTING OF THE MODIFIED
AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED YOUR ACCEPTANCE THEREOF. PlayStationMuseum.com SHALL
ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO CHANGE OR DISCONTINUE ANY ASPECT OR FEATURE
OF PlayStationMuseum.com, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL OF ITS CONTENT, AND
ITS HOURS OF AVAILABILITY.
1. Glossary.
PlayStationMuseum.com is an
interactive online museum on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet, owned
and operated by PlayStationMuseum.com. ("PlayStation Museum"), and consisting of
reviews and evaluations of work of third party experts across multiple
categories, as well as presentations where consumers can obtain conclusions,
recommendations, or suggestions about what products or services are either 'best
bets', 'top-rated', 'suggested', or in some way 'recommended', and rankings of
third party reviews and other information sources across multiple categories.
"Content" means the evaluations, presentations, rankings, reviews, other
information, advertisements, chat room discussions, screenshots, photos, video,
graphics, music and sound contained on, distributed through, linked, downloaded
or accessed from any of the services contained on PlayStationMuseum.com, whether
such Content is owned by PlayStation Museum or third parties. "User" means each
person who establishes or accesses a connection for access and for use of
PlayStationMuseum.com.
2. User Conduct.
(A) User shall use
PlayStationMuseum.com for lawful purposes only. User shall not post or transmit
through PlayStationMuseum.com any material which violates or infringes in any
way upon the rights of others (including intellectual property rights), which is
unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, harassing, invasive of privacy or
publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which
encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil
liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without PlayStation Museum's
express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to
products or services. Any conduct by a User that in PlayStation Museum's
discretion restricts or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying
PlayStationMuseum.com will not be permitted. User shall not use
PlayStationMuseum.com to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation,
including, but not limited to, the solicitation of Users to become subscribers
of other online information services competitive with PlayStationMuseum.com.
(B) PlayStationMuseum.com contains
copyrighted material, trademarks of PlayStation Museum as well as third parties
and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, the Content,
and this Content is protected under the United States copyright laws and
international laws and treaties. User may not modify, publish, transmit,
participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any other
way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part. User may download the
Content for User's personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted
under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or
commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the
express permission of PlayStation Museum and the copyright owner. In the event
of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material,
no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright
notice shall be made. User acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership
rights by downloading copyrighted material.
(C) User shall not upload, post or
otherwise make available on PlayStationMuseum.com any material in violation of
any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, and the burden of
determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with User.
User shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of
copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a
submission. By submitting material to PlayStationMuseum.com, User automatically
grants and warrants that the owner of such material has expressly granted the
royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in
whole or in part) worldwide, and/or to incorporate it in other works in any
form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of
any copyright that may exist in such material. User hereby grants PlayStation
Museum the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made
available on PlayStationMuseum.com by User.
3. Disclaimer of
Warranty; Limitation of Liability.
(A) USER EXPRESSLY AGREES THAT USE
OF PlayStationMuseum.com IS AT USER'S SOLE RISK. THE CONTENT IS NOT PROMISED OR
GUARANTEED TO BE CORRECT, COMPLETE OR UP-TO-DATE. PlayStationMuseum.com IS
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS "AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(B) NEITHER PLAYSTATION MUSEUM, ITS
AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MEMBERS, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT
PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT PlayStationMuseum.com WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM USE OF PlayStationMuseum.com, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY
OF ANY CONTENT PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH PlayStationMuseum.com. FURTHERMORE, THERE
ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE CONTENT.
(C) IN NO EVENT WILL PLAYSTATION
MUSEUM, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING
PlayStationMuseum.com, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES BASED UPON OR
ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE PlayStationMuseum.com. USER HEREBY
ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL OF THE
CONTENT ON PlayStationMuseum.com. IN ANY EVENT, PLAYSTATION MUSEUM'S MAXIMUM
TOTAL LIABILITY TO USER FOR ANY REASON AND UPON ANY CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE
LIMITED TO DIRECT DAMAGES NOT TO EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE PRICE, IF ANY, PAID
BY USER FOR ACCESS TO PlayStationMuseum.com OR 25 DOLLARS ($25.00).
(D) THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR,
OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION,
COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION, UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORD, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT,
TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. THIS
DISCLAIMER FURTHER APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY ERRORS,
INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER DEFECTS IN, OR UNTIMELINESS OR UNAUTHENTICITY
OF, THE CONTENT OR ANY OF THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REFERRED TO IN THE CONTENT.
PLAYSTATION MUSEUM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS OR LOSSES OF
ANY NATURE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY CLAIMS OR LOSSES RELATING TO ANY
PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REFERRED TO AT ANY TIME IN THE CONTENT, LOST PROFITS,
PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. USER SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT
PLAYSTATION MUSEUM IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL
CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES, AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE
FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH USER.
(E) PLAYSTATION MUSEUM DOES NOT
INTEND ANY REFERENCES TO ENTITIES, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES IN THE CONTENT OR ANY
LINKS ON PlayStationMuseum.com TO BE REFERRALS OR ENDORSEMENTS OF SUCH ENTITIES,
PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. PLAYSTATION MUSEUM IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH, OR SPONSORED OR
ENDORSED BY ANY OTHER CONSUMER PRODUCT RATING SERVICE, AND ANY REFERENCE TO SUCH
THIRD-PARTY RATING SERVICES IS SOLELY FOR THE GENERAL INFORMATION AND
CONVENIENCE OF USERS USING PlayStationMuseum.com.
4. Monitoring.
PlayStation Museum shall have the
right, but not the obligation, to monitor the Content of PlayStationMuseum.com,
including future chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with this
Agreement and any operating rules established by PlayStation Museum, and to
satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. PlayStation Museum
shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post, or remove
any material submitted to or posted on PlayStationMuseum.com. Without limiting
the foregoing, PlayStation Museum shall have the right to remove any material
that PlayStation Museum, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the
provisions hereof, or otherwise objectionable.
5.
Indemnification.
User agrees to defend, indemnify
and hold harmless PlayStation Museum, its affiliates and their respective
directors, officers, members and agents from and against all claims and
expenses, including attorneys' fees, based upon or arising out of the use of
PlayStationMuseum.com by User.
6. Termination.
Either PlayStation Museum or User
may terminate this Agreement, and the right to access PlayStationMuseum.com, at
any time. The provisions of Sections 2(B), 2(C), 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10 shall survive
termination of this Agreement.
7. Trademarks.
All trademarks appearing on
PlayStationMuseum.com are the property of their respective owners.
8.
Miscellaneous.
This Agreement and any operating
rules for PlayStationMuseum.com constitute the entire agreement of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or
oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. This
Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Delaware, without
regard to its conflict of laws rules. No waiver by either party of any breach or
default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent
breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and
shall not be given any legal import.
9. Privacy.
The User's privacy is important to
PlayStation Museum. All information gathered from the User in connection with
User's use of PlayStationMuseum.com will be governed by the provisions of the
PlayStationMuseum.com Privacy Policy.
10. Copyrights.
PlayStation Museum respects the
rights of all copyright holders and, in this regard, PlayStation Museum has
adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in
appropriate circumstances of Users who infringe the rights of copyright holders.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please provide PlayStation Museum with: a notice
containing the identification of the protected work claimed to have been
infringed, the identification of the material that is allegedly infringing on
the protected work, the information that would allow the us to contact the owner
of the protected work (including name, address, telephone number, and e-mail
address), a statement by the owner of the protected work indicating that they
have a good faith belief that the use of the work is not authorized by the
owner, its agent, or the law, and a sworn statement from the owner of the
protected work, or from a person authorized to act on their behalf, that states
that all the information is accurate under penalty of perjury.
11. Third-party
sites, products, and Services.
Our sites contain links to other
Internet sites owned by third parties. Your use of each of those sites is
subject to the conditions, if any, that each of those sites has posted. We have
no control over sites that are not ours, and we are not responsible for any
changes to or content on them. Our inclusion on our sites of any third-party
content or a link to a third-party site is not an endorsement of that content or
third-party site.
We do not sell, resell, or license any of the products or the services that we
review, list, or advertise on our sites, and we disclaim any responsibility for
or liability related to them. Your correspondence or related activities with
third parties, including payment transactions and goods-delivery transactions,
are solely between you and that third party. You agree that we will not be
responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result
of any of your transactions with third parties. Any questions, complaints, or
claims related to any product or service should be directed to the appropriate
vendor.
"PlayStation", "PSX", "PSOne" and
"PS1" are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCEI). This Web site is
NOT affiliated with SCEI, or any of its parent companies and/or subsidiaries.
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