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» Terms and Condition Policy 
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Welcome to TVRage. We provide the TVRage service to you, subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice. You can review the most current version of the TOS at any time at: http://www.tvrage.com/tos.php

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
TVRage currently provides users with access to a collection of on-line resources related to collecting and displaying movie and television show information (the "Service"). Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Service, including the release of new TVRage resources, shall be subject to the TOS. In order to use the Service, you must obtain access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must provide all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device.

3. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
In consideration of use of the Service, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (such information being the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or TVRage has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, TVRage has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).

4. PRIVACY POLICY
Please see our full privacy policy at http://www.tvrage.com/privacy.php.

5. MEMBER CONDUCT
You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not TVRage, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post or otherwise transmit via the Service. TVRage does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

You agree to not use the Service to:

  1. upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  2. harm minors in any way;
  3. impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a TVRage official, show editor, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  4. forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service or develop restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to from another accessible page);
  5. upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
  6. upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
  7. upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas of the Service that are designated for such purpose;
  8. upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  9. disrupt the normal flow of dialog, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
  10. interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;
  11. intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law;
  12. "stalk" or otherwise harass another;
  13. collect or store personal data about other users;
  14. promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, but is not limited to, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons;
  15. engage in commercial activities except in those areas designated for such a purpose. This includes but is not limited to:
    • offering for sale any products or services;
    • soliciting for advertisers or sponsors;
    • conducting raffles or contests that require any type of entry fee;
    • displaying a sponsorship banner of any kind, including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services; and
    • displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web sites.


6. SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO TVRage
TVRage does not claim ownership of the Content you place on the TVRage Site. By submitting Content to TVRage for inclusion on the web site, you grant TVRage royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.


8. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold TVRage, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Content, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another.

9. NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.

10. GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
You acknowledge that TVRage may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Service.

11. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE
TVRage reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that TVRage shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance
of the Service.

12. TERMINATION
You agree that TVRage, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, use of the Service or use of any other related service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if TVRage believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. TVRage may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that TVRage may immediately deactivate or delete the web site and all related information and files and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service. Further, you agree that TVRage shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.

13. ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
TVRage runs advertisements and promotions. By contributing to the web site, you agree that TVRage has the right to run such advertisements and promotions. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by TVRage is subject to change. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that TVRage shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.

14. LINKS
The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because TVRage has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that TVRage is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that TVRage 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 such site or resource.

15. TVRage PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or information presented to you through the Service or advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by TVRage or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Software, in whole or in part.

16. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
(a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TVRage EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(b) TVRAGE MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
(c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM TVRAGE OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.

17. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT TVRAGE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF TVRAGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

18. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
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 ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 16 AND 17 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

19. NOTICE
Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. The Service may also provide notices of changes to the TOS or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Service.

20. COPYRIGHTS
TVRage respects the intellectual property rights of others and we ask our users to do the same. Please see our copyright policy at http://www.tvrage.com/copyright.php.

21. GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOS constitute the entire agreement between you and TVRage and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and TVRage (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the TOS). You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate or other TVRage services, third-party content or third-party software. The TOS and the relationship between you and TVRage shall be governed by Belgian laws without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and TVRage agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Belgium. The failure of TVRage to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

22. VIOLATIONS
Please report any violations of the TOS via email to [email protected].

23. Factual Information
You agree and understand that factual information such as, but not limited to Air Dates, Episode Titles could be incorrect and TVRage shall not be liable to you.
» Privacy Policy 
This Document is part of our Terms Of Service.

General

For each visitor to our Web Site our webserver will automatically:

  • Collect and save your IP address to help diagnose problems and administer our Web Site.
  • Set Cookies (Definition) to keep track of your sessions and save information required to log in.
  • Collect and save the web site you were redirected from
  • Collect and save the web pages you visit within TVRage

Personal Information

When registering to our Web Site, Users are required to give us their contact information (such as Name, E-Mail Address, Demographic Information such as country/age). This information is used to contact visitors when necessary. Demographic and Profile Data is also collected at our web site, this information can be shared with advertisers.(Information such as E-Mail, Name, Address, Telephone will never be shared with third-parties).

Third Parties

Third Parties are used to provide ads on our web site and may use information about your visits to this and other Web Sites in order to provide advertisement on this web site of products that may be of interest to you. Cookies can be set by our third-party advertisers.
* Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
* Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
* Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Security

To our best ability this web site has set appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you.

Public Forums/Chat

This web site includes chat rooms, forums and other ways of people to interact with each other. Take notice that information that is disclosed in these areas become public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Contact

If you have any questions concerning privacy on this Web Site, you can contact us at [email protected].

Opt-Out
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
» Copyright 
This Document is part of our Terms Of Service.

TVRage respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. TVRage has no responsibility for content on other web sites that you may find or access through TVRage products or services. Material available on or through other web sites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those web sites, and not the TVRage Terms of Service, govern your use of that material.

20.1 Content

All content included on this site, such as but not limited to graphics, logos, button icons, images, data compilations is the property of TVRage or it's content suppliers.

20.2 User Violations

It is TVRage's policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of TVRage and/or others.

20.3 Member Submissions

Items not included in the above categories such as long text passages that are the original works of a TVRage member remains copyrighted by that member.
By contributing the information on TVRage.com, the member has granted TVRage (Sebria) the right to use that work on the web site and in other circumstances to improve TVRage or any Sebria projects

20.4 Factual Information

It is our belief information such as but not limited to Show Names, Episode Titles, Air Dates, Cast And Crew are not able to be copyrighted.

20.5 Third Party Images

The pictures found in here such as, but not limited to, TV Show Images, Person Images, are believed to be covered under Fair Use, which means that they are used strictly to illustrate or promote shows/individuals, and for non-profit purposes. TVRage does not have explicit permission to use them, so please do not link to them. This site is made by fans and for fans, and all profits grossed from the pay per click advertisements go exclusively towards the maintenance of the site, i.e., adding new features and improving the layout designs. No copyright infringement is intended.

20.6 Copyright Violations

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please send an E-mail through the contact form with the following information:

  1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;

  2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

  3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the TVRage site, with enough detail that we may find it on the web site;

  4. your address, telephone number, and email address;

  5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;

  6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.