PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SITES AND OUR SERVICES, YOU HEREBY AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND ALL TERMS INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF YOU, THE USER, CUSTOMER, OR PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER TO READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE PROCEEDING TO USE THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT EXPRESSLY AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR SITES OR OUR SERVICES. THIS TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT IS EFFECTIVE AS OF 08/10/2017.
The Site is an online discussion website which has the following description: Social media platform with built-in cryptocurrency tipping Any and all visitors to our site, despite whether they are registered or not, shall be deemed as 'users' of the herein contained Services provided for the purpose of this TOS. Once an individual register's for our Services, through the process of creating an account, the user shall then be considered a 'member.'
The user and/or member acknowledges and agrees that the Services provided and made available through our website and applications, which may include some mobile applications and that those applications may be made available on various social media networking sites and numerous other platforms and downloadable programs, are the sole property of Tipestry Inc.. At its discretion, Tipestry Inc. may offer additional website Services and/or products, or update, modify or revise any current content and Services, and this Agreement shall apply to any and all additional Services and/or products and any and all updated, modified or revised Services unless otherwise stipulated. Tipestry Inc. does hereby reserve the right to cancel and cease offering any of the aforementioned Services and/or products. You, as the end user and/or member, acknowledge, accept and agree that Tipestry Inc. shall not be held liable for any such updates, modifications, revisions, suspensions or discontinuance of any of our Services and/or products. Your continued use of the Services provided, after such posting of any updates, changes, and/or modifications shall constitute your acceptance of such updates, changes and/or modifications, and as such, frequent review of this Agreement and any and all applicable terms and policies should be made by you to ensure you are aware of all terms and policies currently in effect. Should you not agree to the updated, revised or modified terms, you must stop using the provided Services forthwith.
Furthermore, the user and/or member understands, acknowledges and agrees that the Services offered shall be provided 'AS IS' and as such Tipestry Inc. shall not assume any responsibility or obligation for the timeliness, missed delivery, deletion and/or any failure to store user content, communication or personalization settings.
To register and become a 'member' of the Site, you must be at least 18 years of age to enter into and form a legally binding contract. In addition, you must be in good standing and not an individual that has been previously barred from receiving Tipestry's Services under the laws and statutes of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction.
When you register, Tipestry may collect information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, mailing address, occupation, industry and personal interests. You can edit your account information at any time. Once you register with Tipestry and sign in to our Services, you are no longer anonymous to us. FURTHERMORE, THE REGISTERING PARTY HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES, UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES TO:
If anyone knowingly provides any information of a false, untrue, inaccurate or incomplete nature, Tipestry Inc. will have sufficient grounds and rights to suspend or terminate the member in violation of this aspect of the Agreement, and as such refuse any and all current or future use of Tipestry Inc. Services, or any portion thereof. It is Tipestry Inc.'s priority to ensure the safety and privacy of all its visitors, users and members, especially that of children. Therefore, it is for this reason that the parents of any child under the age of 13 that permit their child or children access to the Tipestry website platform Services must create a 'family' account, which will certify that the individual creating the 'family' account is of 18 years of age and as such, the parent or legal guardian of any child or children registered under the 'family' account. As the creator of the 'family' account, s/he is thereby granting permission for his/her child or children to access the various Services provided, including, but not limited to, message boards, email, and/or instant messaging. It is the parent's and/or legal guardian's responsibility to determine whether any of the Services and/or content provided are age-appropriate for his/her child.
Tipestry takes no responsibility for any loss of coins or tokens tipped, held, sent or received via the processes integrated into our web platform. Send and hold cryptocurrencies here at your own risk. Further, holding cryptocurrency in general, especially through a web service or “hot wallet”, involves substantial risk of loss both from malicious actors and technical issues. As a user or member of the Site and service, you herein acknowledge, understand and agree that cryptocurrency used on Tipestry can be lost at any time and that Tipestry is under no obligation to compensate or provide any form of reimbursement in any manner or nature. Further, violating these Terms of Service can result in the forfeiture of any and all coins or tokens held on the platform. “Not your keys, not your Bitcoin.” Until you withdraw cryptocurrency from the platform, they do not actually belong to you.
Further, wallets included with Tipestry accounts are virtual and do not actually hold cryptocurrency. Tips on Tipestry and the balances shown in wallets are only an approximate representation of cryptocurrency credit, and neither entitle the account owner to any real cryptocurrency, nor are an actual transfer of cryptocurrency when tipped to another user. Until an account owner successfully makes a withdrawal to a live cryptocurrency wallet, these coins are virtual representations and neither belong to the user, nor entitle the user to any form of compensation.
Forfeiture of cryptocurrency credit on the platform can result from the following reasons: attempting to game the system though any means including, but not limited to using multiple accounts; not withdrawing cryptocurrency credit within 6 months or receipt; violating any rules under the Conduct section of these Terms and Conditions; asking Tipestry agents or other users for cryptocurrency or for upvotes; making any false representations or spamming comments on Tipestry or other platforms.
As a user or member of the Site, you herein acknowledge, understand and agree that all information, text, software, data, photographs, music, video, messages, tags or any other content, whether it is publicly or privately posted and/or transmitted, is the expressed sole responsibility of the individual from whom the content originated. In short, this means that you are solely responsible for any and all content posted, uploaded, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available by way of the Tipestry Services, and as such, we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. It is expressly understood that by use of our Services, you may be exposed to content including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content posted, and/or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available by Tipestry. FURTHERMORE, YOU HEREIN AGREE NOT TO MAKE USE OF TIPESTRY INC.'S SERVICES FOR THE PURPOSE OF:
Tipestry Inc. herein reserves the right to pre-screen, refuse and/or delete any content currently available through our Services. In addition, we reserve the right to remove and/or delete any such content that would violate the TOS or which would otherwise be considered offensive to other visitors, users and/or members. TIPESTRY INC. HEREIN RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCESS, PRESERVE AND/OR DISCLOSE MEMBER ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND/OR CONTENT IF IT IS REQUESTED TO DO SO BY LAW OR IN GOOD FAITH BELIEF THAT ANY SUCH ACTION IS DEEMED REASONABLY NECESSARY FOR:
Tipestry Inc. herein reserves the right to include the use of security components that may permit digital information or material to be protected, and that such use of information and/or material is subject to usage guidelines and regulations established by Tipestry Inc. or any other content providers supplying content services to Tipestry Inc.. You are hereby prohibited from making any attempt to override or circumvent any of the embedded usage rules in our Services. Furthermore, unauthorized reproduction, publication, distribution, or exhibition of any information or materials supplied by our Services, despite whether done so in whole or in part, is expressly prohibited.
Due to the global nature of the internet, through the use of our network you hereby agree to comply with all local rules relating to online conduct and that which is considered acceptable Content. Uploading, posting and/or transferring of software, technology and other technical data may be subject to the export and import laws of the United States and possibly other countries. Through the use of our network, you thus agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws, statutes and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Export Administration Regulations (http://www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html), as well as the sanctions control program of theUnited States (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx). Furthermore, you state and pledge that you:
Tipestry Inc. shall not lay claim to ownership of any content submitted by any visitor, member, or user, nor make such content available for inclusion on our website Services. Therefore, you hereby grant and allow for Tipestry Inc. the below listed worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licenses, as applicable:
Those areas which may be deemed 'publicly accessible' areas of Tipestry Inc.'s sites are those such areas of our network properties which are meant to be available to the general public, and which would include message boards and groups that are openly available to both users and members. However, those areas which are not open to the public, and thus available to members only, would include our mail system and instant messaging.
Tipestry Inc. provides an area for our users and members to contribute feedback to our website. When you submit ideas, documents, suggestions and/or proposals ('Contributions') to our site, you acknowledge and agree that:
You herein acknowledge that Tipestry Inc. may set up any such practices and/or limits regarding the use of our Services, without limitation of the maximum number of days that any email, message posting or any other uploaded content shall be retained by Tipestry Inc., nor the maximum number of email messages that may be sent and/or received by any member, the maximum volume or size of any email message that may be sent from or may be received by an account on our Service, the maximum disk space allowable that shall be allocated on Tipestry Inc.'s servers on the member's behalf, and/or the maximum number of times and/or duration that any member may access our Services in a given period of time. In addition, you also agree that Tipestry Inc. has absolutely no responsibility or liability for the removal or failure to maintain storage of any messages and/or other communications or content maintained or transmitted by our Services. You also herein acknowledge that we reserve the right to delete or remove any account that is no longer active for an extended period of time. Furthermore, Tipestry Inc. shall reserve the right to modify, alter and/or update these general practices and limits at our discretion.
Any messenger service, which may include any web-based versions, shall allow you and the individuals with whom you communicate with the ability to save your conversations in your account located on Tipestry Inc.'s servers. In this manner, you will be able to access and search your message history from any computer with internet access. You also acknowledge that others have the option to use and save conversations with you in their own personal account on www.tipestry.com. It is your agreement to this TOS which establishes your consent to allow Tipestry Inc. to store any and all communications on its servers.
As a member of www.tipestry.com, you may cancel or terminate your account, associated email address and/or access to our Services by submitting a cancellation or termination request to feedback@tipestry.com.
As a member, you agree that Tipestry Inc. may, without any prior written notice, immediately suspend, terminate, discontinue and/or limit your account, any email associated with your account, and access to any of our Services. The cause for such termination, discontinuance, suspension and/or limitation of access shall include, but is not limited to:
Furthermore, you herein agree that any and all terminations, suspensions, discontinuances, and or limitations of access for cause shall be made at our sole discretion and that we shall not be liable to you or any other third party with regards to the termination of your account, associated email address and/or access to any of our Services. THE TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT WITH WWW.TIPESTRY.COM SHALL INCLUDE ANY AND/OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
You do hereby acknowledge and agree that Tipestry Inc.'s Services and any essential software that may be used in connection with our Services (Software) shall contain proprietary and confidential material that is protected by applicable intellectual property rights and other laws. Furthermore, you herein acknowledge and agree that any Content which may be contained in any advertisements or information presented by and through our Services or by advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Therefore, except for that which is expressly permitted by applicable law or as authorized by Tipestry Inc. or such applicable licensor, you agree not to alter, modify, lease, rent, loan, sell, distribute, transmit, broadcast, publicly perform and/or created any plagiaristic works which are based on Tipestry Inc. Services (e.g. Content or Software), in whole or part.
Tipestry Inc. herein has granted you personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive rights and/or license to make use of the object code or our Software on a single computer, as long as you do not, and shall not, allow any third party to duplicate, alter, modify, create or plagiarize work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise make an attempt to locate or discern any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in and/or otherwise transfer any such right in the Software. Furthermore, you do herein agree not to alter or change the Software in any manner, nature or form, and as such, not to use any modified versions of the Software, including and without limitation, for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to our Services. Lastly, you also agree not to access or attempt to access our Services through any means other than through the interface which is provided by Tipestry Inc. for use in accessing our Services.
YOU EXPLICITLY ACKNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT TIPESTRY INC. AND OUR SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE RELATED TO THE LOSS OF ANY PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA AND/OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF SUCH POSSIBILITY THAT SAID DAMAGES MAY OCCUR, AND RESULT FROM:
Tipestry Inc. will always respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask that all of our users do the same. With regards to appropriate circumstances and at its sole discretion, Tipestry Inc. may disable and/or terminate the accounts of any user who violates our TOS and/or infringes the rights of others. If you feel that your work has been duplicated in such a way that would constitute copyright infringement, or if you believe your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, you should provide to us the following information:
Mailing Address:
3835 East Thousand Oaks Blvd
Suite 158
West Lake Village, CA 91362
Email: feedback@tipestry.com
Mailing Address:
3835 East Thousand Oaks Blvd
Suite 158
West Lake Village, CA 91362
Email: feedback@tipestry.com