Terms and Conditions

Welcome to IrishCentral.com. The IrishCentral.com web site and service (the “Website”) which is operated by Irish Studio LLC  These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to IrishCentral.com, as well as any other sites on which a link to these Terms of Service appears (collectively, the “Website”).   By using or visiting this Website, or submitting your comments or other content on this Website (“User Content”), you are agreeing that these Terms shall govern your use of this Website.  The term “You” or “Your” refers to the user or viewer of the Website.  As used herein, “we,” “us” and “our” refers to Irish Studio LLC.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before registering or using the Website. These Terms of Service may be modified at any time and from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. You agree that your use of the Website is subject to the Terms of Service then in effect. Continued access to the Website by you following any modification in the Terms of Service will constitute your acceptance of the Terms of Service as modified. If you do not agree with the Terms of Service, please do not use the Website.

Other portions of Irish Studio LLC websites may be governed by different or additional terms and conditions. In the event of a conflict between any provision of these Terms of Service, on the one hand, and any other terms and conditions, on the other hand, the applicable provision of these Terms of Service shall prevail with respect to your use of the Website.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

In order to use the Website, you may be requested to provide specific personal data to us, as further described in our Privacy Policy.  Irish Studio LLC has established a Privacy Policy, as modified from time to time, whichexplains how information is collected on the Website and used. The Privacy Statement is part of these Terms of Service and is incorporated herein by reference.

REGISTRATION

You may use the Website without registration, but in order to take advantage of some aspects of the site, you will need to register for an account. Registration is required in order to provide User Content to the Website.   You acknowledge and agree that by accepting the Terms of Service and completing the registration process, you are becoming a member of the Website. You agree to maintain the confidentiality of your user account information and password(s) and you agree not to use your user account(s) or password(s) for any unauthorized purpose. By creating any user account, you represent, warrant and certify that you are at least thirteen (13) years of age.

As part of the registration process, you must select a screen name and password.  You agree to register only once and use a single screen name.  The information that you supply during the registration process must be accurate and complete and you agree to not (i) register under the name of another person; (ii) choose a screen name that constitutes or suggests an impersonation of any other person or entity or that you are a representative of an entity when you are not, or that is offensive; (iii) choose a username for the purposes of deceiving or misleading other visitors and/or the Website as to your true identity;

USER CONDUCT AND CONTENT

Irish Studio LLC may provide users an opportunity to transmit or post text, videos, photographs, images, sound files and/or other content to the website (collectively, “User Content”) and may provide for the hosting, sharing and/or publishing of such User Content. Irish Studio LLC is under no obligation to monitor the User Content areas.   However, we reserve the right to review all User Content and to remove or refuse to display any User Content at our sole discretion. Irish Studio LLC does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, or agree with User Content and expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with any User Content.

As a registered member enabled to contribute User Content, please respect and engage with others as you would in any public arena by using mature and healthy dialogue.  Disruptive and egregiously offensive conduct is prohibited. A determination of what conduct is considered egregiously offensive, or otherwise in violation of these Terms of Service is up to the management of the Website. Anyone found violating this policy, at the sole discretion of management, will have their account terminated.

You shall not transmit or post any User Content that is: (a) unlawful, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, false, inaccurate, deceptive, misleading, offensive, distasteful, inappropriate, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent, invasive of another’s privacy or harmful to minors in any way; (b) constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate and local, state, national, or international law; (c) is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, patent, trademark or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to submit or post the material and to grant Irish Studio LLC all of the license rights granted herein;; (d) refers derisively to the goods or services of others; (e) includes any disruptive elements that may damage or interfere with the Website such as computer viruses, bots, worms, bombs, or trojan horses; (f) includes advertisements or solicitations of business; (g) impersonates another person; (h) includes any person’s full name or personal or identifying information without that person’s authorization; or (i) violates the law or otherwise violates these Terms of Service.

Any communications sent directly to you by Irish Studio LLC regarding your participation and comments in User Content and/or possible violation of these Terms or related matters is intended solely for your reference and use and may not be shared with others. You agree not to post such communications in the User Content areas, elsewhere on the internet or distribute them via email or other means without the consent of the management of Irish Studio LLC.

In connection with any User Content you submit, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize Irish Studio LLC to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Content to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; and (iii) it complies with these Terms of Service.

You understand that all User Content is the sole responsibility of the person who transmits or posts that User Content. This means that you, and not Irish Studio LLC, are entirely and solely responsible for all User Content that you transmit or post and for the consequences of Irish Studio LLC publishing such User Content. Irish Studio LLC does not and cannot review the User Content transmitted or posted by users and is not responsible for such content. However, Irish Studio LLC shall have the right, but not the obligation, to delete, move, remove, or edit any User Content that violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise objectionable, as determined by Irish Studio LLC in its sole discretion and without notice.

You agree to indemnify Irish Studio LLC and its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, and agents, against, and to hold each of them harmless from, any and all claims and liabilities (including attorney’s fees) that may arise from your use of the Website, your transmission or posting of User Content, your unauthorized use of material obtained from the Website, your breach of these Terms of Service, your violation of any law, regulation or any right of any other person or entity, and any unauthorized use of your account or password. Irish Studio LLC reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter which is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense of such matter.

By transmitting or posting User Content , you grant Irish Studio LLC the perpetual, universal, nonexclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable right and license to use, reproduce, edit, remove, modify, publish, transmit, display, distribute, have distributed, promote, perform, and prepare derivative works of, all or any potion of such User Content in any form, in any medium now existing or hereinafter invented for any purpose, including commercial uses, including without limitation, in connection with the Website,  in connection with Irish Studio LLC’s (and our successors’) business, in connection with promoting and redistributing part or all of the Website (and derivative works thereof) without additional notice, approval, consent, compensation or attribution. You waive any moral rights you may have in having the User Content. You also grant each user of the Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service.

TERMINATION

You acknowledge and agree that we, at our sole discretion, may terminate your use of the Website without prior notice, and remove and discard any User Content, for any reason, with or without prior notice, including, without limitation, if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with these Terms or the Privacy Policy.  In the event that this should occur, you agree not to re-register on the Website.  Furthermore, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to take action – legal, technical or otherwise – to block or deny your ability to register or submit User Content.  You understand that we may exercise this right in our sole discretion.  You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for termination of your access to the Website.

WEBSITE PROVIDED “AS-IS, AS-AVAILABLE”

The materials comprising the Website are provided by Irish Studio LLC as a service to you for your noncommercial, personal use on an "as-is, as-available" basis. The materials may be used by you for informational purposes only. You acknowledge that you are using the Website at your own risk.

Irish Studio LLC assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the materials comprising the Website. Irish Studio LLC makes no commitment to update the information on the Website. No advice or information given by Irish Studio LLC or any other party on the Website shall create any warranty or liability. Further, Irish Studio LLC is not responsible for any content transmitted or posted to the Website by a third party. Any such third party content does not necessarily represent the opinions, beliefs, or positions of Irish Studio LLC. (See below regarding “User Content.”)

Irish Studio LLC periodically schedules system downtime for maintenance and other purposes. Unplanned outages also may occur. Irish Studio LLC shall have no liability for the resulting unavailability of the Website or for any loss of data or transactions caused by planned or unplanned system outages, or any outages of webhost providers.

Irish Studio LLC makes no, and expressly disclaims any, representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the Website, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Irish Studio LLC makes no, and expressly disclaims any, warranties, express or implied, regarding the correctness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and reliability of the text, images, graphics, links to other sites and any other items on the Website or accessed via the Website , or that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of viruses or other harmful components. Under no circumstances shall Irish Studio LLC, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, or any of their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential damages for lost revenues, lost profits, or otherwise, arising from or in connection with this Website, the materials contained herein, or the Internet generally. These disclaimers of warranties and limitations of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Irish Studio LLC does not control, and is not responsible for, any third-party sites to which the Website links.

COPYRIGHT

All materials contained in this Website, including software, text, videos, photographs, images, sound files and other materials (collectively, “Content”), are protected by copyright laws, and may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, transmitted, sold, displayed, broadcast or otherwise exploited in any manner without the express prior written permission of either
Irish Studio LLC or, in the case of licensed by the Irish Studio LLC from third parties, the entity that is credited as the copyright holder of such licensed content. Unauthorized use of Content may violate copyright, trademark and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content and you may not use the Content except as permitted under these Terms of Service. You may download freely-accessible Content (one copy per page) from the Website for your personal and non-commercial use only, without altering or removing any trademark, copyright or other notice from Content. Any third party materials transmitted or posted to the Website become the copyrighted property of Irish Studio LLC, and may be used, reproduced, published, distributed, transmitted, sold, displayed, broadcast or otherwise exploited by the Irish Studio LLC. If you violate these Terms of Service, your permission to access the Website terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Content.

Irish Studio LLC does not permit infringement of intellectual property rights on the Website. If you believe that any Content on the Website infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, you may notify Irish Studio LLC by providing the information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512 (c)(3), to Irish Studio LLC’s Copyright Agent:

Kevin Mangan
Irish Studio LLC
347 W 36th st, Unit 1300
New York, NY 10018
212.877.0111
[email protected]

IMPERMISSIBLE USES OF THE WEBSITE

You agree not to: (a) systematically retrieve data or other Content from the Website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction tools or processes or otherwise; (b) use any trademarks, tradenames or other intellectual property of Irish Studio LLC or any other party from the Website as metatags on other websites, to disparage any party or in any manner that may damage any goodwill in the intellectual property; and (c) collect usernames and/or email addresses of other users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or other communications.

The following activities on the Website are expressly prohibited: (i) any use of the Website, which in Irish Studio LLC’s sole judgment, degrades the reliability, speed, or operation of the Website or any underlying hardware or software thereof, and (iii) any use of the Website which is unlawful or in violation of these Terms of Use.

Trademarks

Irish Studio LLC, IrishCentral, and all related trademarks, tradenames, logos and other intellectual property are the property of Irish Studio LLC and cannot be used without Irish Studio LLC’s express prior written permission.

User Content

IrishCentral may provide users an opportunity to transmit or post text, videos, photographs, images, sound files and/or other content to the Website (collectively, "User Content") and may provide for the hosting, sharing and/or publishing of such User Content. The Website does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, or agree with User Content and expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with any User Content.

You shall not transmit or post any User Content that: (a) is unlawful, threatening, harassing, abusive, false, inaccurate, deceptive, misleading, offensive, distasteful, inappropriate, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent, invasive of another's privacy or harmful to minors in any way; (b) constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national, or international law; (c) is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, patent, trademark or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to submit or post the material and to grant IrishCentral all of the license rights granted herein; (d) refers derisively to the goods or services of others; (e) includes any disruptive elements that may damage or interfere with the IrishCentral such as computer viruses, spyware, spiders, crawlers, data mining tools, bots, worms, bombs, or trojan horses; (f) includes advertisements or solicitations of business; (g) impersonates another person; (h) includes any person's full name or personal or identifying information without that person's authorization; or (i) violates the law or otherwise violates these Terms of Service.

In connection with any User Content you submit, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize the Website to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Content to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; and (iii) it complies with these Terms of Service.

You understand that all User Content is the sole responsibility of the person who transmits or posts that User Content. This means that you, and not IrishCentral, are entirely and solely responsible for all User Content that you transmit or post and for the consequences of publishing such User Content. IrishCentral does not and cannot review the User Content transmitted or posted by users and is not responsible for such content. However, IrishCentral shall have the right, but not the obligation, to refuse, delete, move, remove, or edit any User Content that violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise objectionable, as determined by the Website in its sole discretion and without notice. Any specific complaints regarding User Content must be directed to [email protected],

PURCHASES

You may be able to use the Website to purchase optional goods or services by providing a valid credit card or other payment method (your “Payment Method”). By making such a purchase, you authorize Irish Studio LLC to bill your Payment Method. Unless expressly stated otherwise at time of purchase, all purchases are final and nonrefundable. All currency references are in U.S. dollars.

In order to process your Payment Method, Irish Studio LLC may provide information regarding your Payment Method and user account to a third-party processor (the “Payment Processor”), such as PayPal. Irish Studio LLC makes no representations about any Payment Processor’s privacy practices.

If a purchased good or service is subject to shipping, shipping methods and delivery times cannot be guaranteed. You agree that Irish Studio LLC is not responsible for any production or shipment delays beyond its control, including fire, accident, acts of God, strike, carrier delays, power, or system failure.

ADVERTISING

All advertising on the Website is subject to the Online Advertising Terms of Service as modified from time to time.

GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION and CHOICE of FORUM

You agree that any claim, action or proceeding arising out of these Terms of Service, or your use of the Website, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of New York and must brought solely in a state or federal court in New York County, New York and any appellate court from any thereof. You unconditionally submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts for any such action and waive, to the fullest extent you may legally and effectively do so, any objection or defense you may now or hereafter have (including without limitation the defense of an inconvenient forum) to the laying of venue in any such court of any such suit, action or proceeding.

NO WAIVER

The failure of Irish Studio LLC to exercise or enforce any portion of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver or modification of any such right or position.

GENERAL

The section titles used in the Terms of Service are for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof, and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof or be taken into consideration in interpreting or construing the Terms of Service.

If any portion of these Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawful, void, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, then the court shall endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intention as reflected in that portion and the portion shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Service and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining portion, which will remain in full force and effect.

These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between you and Irish Studio LLC with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any other agreements, written or oral.

Last updated: December 6, 2018 Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/services/tos/#ixzz2lJMtcaBL
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