WebsitePlus and all related services are owned and operated by StudioHDV, Inc. d/b/a Practical Social Media, Practical Social Media University and are collectively referred to in this document as “PSM” and the “PSM Website” (including getwebsiteplus.com). Certain content and material available on the PSM Website and related services are provided by license from third parties.
By accessing, browsing and/or using the PSM Website or related services, you agree that you are bound by these terms and conditions of use (“Terms of Use”). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, leave the PSM Website immediately and do not access, browse or use the PSM Website or related services.
PAID MEMBER ACCOUNTS
Certain sections
By registering as a paid member, you agree and acknowledge that you voluntarily subscribed to the PSM
By enrolling as a paid member, you agree and acknowledge that UNTIL YOU CANCEL YOUR ACCOUNT IN WRITING, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE CHARGED THE MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP FEE TO THE CREDIT CARD YOU PROVIDED. You also agree and acknowledge that PSM DOES NOT PROCESS REFUNDS. ALL SALES ARE FINAL, AND PSM DOES NOT RETROACTIVELY PROCESS REFUNDS EVEN IF YOU FAIL TO USE THE PSM SERVICE.
You agree that PSM shall be permitted to charge your credit card on a monthly basis in advance of providing its services or as needed for prepayments, for your subscription fee, any applicable sales taxes, and any other charges you may incur in connection with your use of PSM services. The monthly membership fee is billed in full on the first day of your paid membership and monthly thereafter, unless and until you cancel your subscription. If your billing date lands on a day not contained in a given month, you will be billed on the last day of that month. For example, if your paid subscription began on March 31st, your next billing date would be April 30th.
PSM is not responsible for any additional bank fees, interest charges, finance charges,
Each paid registration is for your personal use only. We do not permit (a) any other person using the registered sections under your name; or (b) access through a single name being made available to multiple users on a network. You are responsible for preventing such unauthorized use.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS | TRADEMARKS
The material and content on the PSM Website (“PSM Content”) may not be reproduced, distributed, displayed, used for derivative works, or transmitted in any way, except as expressly permitted by PSM.
The PSM Content is proprietary and subject to copyright and other legal protection by PSM or its third party licensors. Nothing in this Terms of Services grants or confers any title or ownership of, or exclusive use-rights to, any intellectual property right in and to the PSM Content. If you are NOT a paid subscriber to the Practical Social Media University, PSM grants you a limited license to view the PSM Content provided to the public by PSM on the PSM Website. If you are a paid subscriber to the Practical Social Media University, PSM grants you a view of the public PSM Content and a limited non-transferrable license to view and use the subscriber PSM Content solely for original purchaser’s own purposes.
PSM and the PSM logos are trademarks of PSM and all rights are reserved. All other PSM trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos, and company names referred to on the PSM Website are the property of PSM or its licensors. Other
USER SUBMISSIONS AND USER CONTENT
PSM welcome’s user comments and videos on its blog and the PSM Website (“User Content”). In exchange for allowing you to publish (“User Content”) on the PSM Blog, you grant and assign to PSM a perpetual,
PSM has no duty to treat any User Content as confidential. PSM retains the right to review, edit, or delete from the PSM Website any User Content that PSM in its sole discretion considers illegal, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
Your Submission, including any personally identifiable information, is voluntary and subject to the Privacy Policy. You are responsible for the content of the Submission and agree to defend (at PSM option and at your sole expense), indemnify and hold PSM harmless from any damages, losses, costs, or expenses, including attorneys’ fees, which PSM may incur as a result of your Submission. If you are viewing the PSM Website on a public computer or are otherwise using a computer to which multiple people have potential access, be sure to follow all relevant instructions to ensure you are sufficiently disconnected and logged off the PSM Website and the computer system you are using to prevent unauthorized Submissions. PSM retains the right to review, edit, or delete from the PSM Website any Submission which PSM in its sole discretion considers illegal, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE
PSM reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service with or without notice to the Member. PSM shall not be liable to Member or any third party should PSM exercise its right to modify or discontinue the Service. Member acknowledges and accepts that PSM does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our website and operation of our website may be interfered with or adversely affected by numerous factors or circumstances outside of our control.
PSM reserves the right to deny or revoke access to the PSM Website, or any part thereof, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without cause. PSM endeavors to make
DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE INFORMATION ON THE PSM WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURATE INFORMATION AND PSM DOES NOT MAKE ANY PROMISES, COVENANTS, REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE RESULTS USERS MAY ACHIEVE BY USING THE INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE, LICENSED AND SOLD ON THE PSM WEBSITE. ALL INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON THE PSM WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS OF ANY KIND, AND PSM EXCLUDES ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE CONDITIONS IMPLIED BY LAW OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND THE USE OF REASONABLE CARE AND SKILL, WHICH, BUT FOR THESE TERMS OF USE MIGHT HAVE EFFECT IN RELATION TO THE SITE.
By using the PSM Website, you agree
PSM EXCLUDES ALL LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY AMOUNT OR KIND OF LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT MAY RESULT TO YOU OR A THIRD PARTY (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE OR ANY LOSS OF INCOME, PROFITS, GOODWILL, DATA, CONTRACTS, USE OF MONEY, OR LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM OR CONNECTED IN ANY WAY TO BUSINESS INTERRUPTION AND WHETHER IN TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE IN ANY WAY OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THE SITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE SITE, OR THE MATERIAL ON SUCH WEBSITES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE DUE TO VIRUSES THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, DATA OR OTHER PROPERTY ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR BROWSING THE SITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL FROM THE SITE OR ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO THE SITE.
INCOME DISCLAIMER
PSM in no way guarantees any level of success or income from the use of any PSM products or services. Income opportunities depend on an individual’s own efforts, diligence, and skill in creating a total marketing and sales solution around their business.
JURISDICTION | EXCLUSIVE
Access to and use of the PSM Website and these Terms of Use are governed by United States federal laws and the laws of the State of Colorado. By using the PSM Website from anywhere in the World, you agree that any legal action arising out of the relationship you have with PSM, your use of the PSM Website, User Content or the PSM Content shall be filed exclusively in the state or federal court located in Douglas County, Colorado, U.S.A., you agree to submit to jurisdiction of such courts, and you agree to the exclusive selection of such courts as the venue for resolving disputes.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the PSM Website and supersede and replace any prior agreement or communication between you and PSM. PSM shall have no liability to you other than pursuant to these express Terms of Use.
If any part of this Terms of and Conditions is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining provisions.
PSM can modify or revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting. Your use of the PSM Website on or after the effective date of any such modification or update will constitute your acceptance of these Terms of Use as modified and/or updated. These Terms of Use were last revised on December 1, 2010.
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”) NOTICE.
In operating the Web Site, PSM may act as a “services provider” (as defined by DMCA) and offer services as online provider of materials and links to third party
Please provide the following notice:
Identify the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
Identify the material on the Web Site that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that PSM may locate it on the Web Site;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (a) the above information in your notice is accurate, and (b) that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
Your physical or electronic signature.
PSM may give notice to its users of any infringement notice by means of a general notice on any of its websites, electronic mail to a user’s e-mail address in its records, or by written communication sent by first-class mail to a user’s physical address in its records. If you receive such an infringement notice, you may provide counter-notification in writing to the designated agent that includes the information below. To be effective, the counter-notification must be a written communication that includes the following:
Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement from you under the penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your physical address is located, or if your physical address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.
SOURCED INFORMATION
This site contains sourced information from other sites on the Internet. No warranty whatsoever is made that any of the content is accurate. There is absolutely no assurance that any information from another source is true, correct or precise. The sources and
BLOGGING SERVICE
All blogs (websites) that are part of the blogging service offered by Practical Social Media include automatic updates to all WordPress installations and a core set of plugins contained in a central repository. Automatic updates are a service that will provide a greater level of security for every blog on the service. Outdated WordPress installations and plugins are
WHAT ARE THE BLOGGER’S RESPONSIBILITIES TO PROTECT THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL SITES
- UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD – Log into your blog’s dashboard and update your admin account’s password to 8+ digits. The best passwords use upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters (&^%$#*, etc.). You can do that via Dashboard > Users > All Users > Edit
on your personal admin account.
USER CONTENT:
You may be able to upload, store, publish, display and distribute information, text, photos, videos and other content on or through the PSM services (collectively, “User Content”). User Content includes any content posted by you or by users of any of your websites hosted through PSM’s blogging services. You are solely responsible for any and all User Content and any transactions or other activities conducted on or through your website(s). By posting or distributing User Content on or through PSM’s blogging services, you represent and warrant to PSM that (i) you have all the necessary rights to post or distribute such User Content, and (ii) your posting or distribution of such User Content does not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
Solely for purposes of providing the blogging services, you hereby grant to PSM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide right and license
PSM exercises no control
TERMINATION
PSM may terminate your access to any PSM services, in whole or in part, without notice in the event that: (i) you fail to pay any fees due; (ii) you violate this Agreement; (iii) your conduct may harm PSM or others or cause PSM or others to incur liability, as determined by PSM in our sole discretion; or (iv) as otherwise specified in this Agreement. In such event, PSM shall not refund to you any fees paid in advance of such termination, and you shall be obligated to pay all fees and charges accrued prior to the effectiveness of such termination. Additionally, PSM may charge you for all fees due for the services for the remaining portion of the
UPON TERMINATION OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY REASON, USER CONTENT, WEBSITES, AND OTHER DATA WILL BE DELETED.