Hattitude, and any of its affiliates (collectively “Hattitude,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates software services, distributed via social media and our own website located at hattitude.net or at any affiliated web location (the “Services”), used to facilitate an online tipping and revenue generating service for content creators, and any other affiliated websites, applications, or services (collective the services offered, the “Services”).
You (a “User,” “Users,” “you” or “your”) may use our Services as described in further detail in this document. All Users of our Website are subject to the following terms and conditions, and privacy policy (collectively, the “Terms”). Your use of our Services indicates your consent to these Terms, as is furthered specified below.
1. Acceptance.
Please read these terms carefully. They constitute a binding legal agreement between you and us, and may carry important legal rights and implications. If you disagree with these Terms, you may not use our Services. Your continued us of our Services, as evidenced by connecting to or logging into our Website, or by accessing or using our Services in any way, or by any use of our Services not through our Website, serves as our acknowledgement that you have read and understood the Terms contained in this document, and elsewhere on our Website. From time to time, you may be notified of changes to these Terms, either via e-mail or via a prompt on our Website. In such cases, your acquiescence to these Terms may be evidenced by clicking “Yes” or “Accept,” or your continued use of our Website or any of our Services.
You may not use our Website, Services, or Terms if you are (a) below the age of 18; (b) not of the legal age to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction with us; or (c) for any other reason unable to enter into a binding contract with us.
Moreover, your use of affiliated services and websites that may be used in conjunction with our Services may be governed by other agreements, terms of services, or similar between you and other service providers.
At our sole discretion, we may disable your ability to use our Website and Services if we believe you are unable to consent to these Terms, or become inconsistent with policies stated elsewhere in this Agreement.
2. Changes to Our Terms.
From time to time, we may change our Terms. These Terms were last modified on OctoberAugust 165, 2020. Changes to our Terms may occur without notice to you. You may always find an updated version of the Terms at this web location. If you do not agree with any alterations in our Terms, you must discontinue your usage of our Website and our Services. You may also request that your user account, if any, be deleted or permanently disabled, and that we remove any information we may be holding specific to your usage of our Website or Services. Information regarding how to disable your user account and to contact us is contained elsewhere in this document.
3. Description of Our Services.
Hattitude and its affiliated companies and websites facilitate the remuneration of content creators (“Creators”) via the use of a software service through which fans (“Fans”) can financially compensate Creators.
4. User Registration.
During your use of our Services, you, as either a Creator or a Fan may be asked to provide personally identifiable information to us, such as your e-mail address, name, mobile phone number and bank account information in connection with creating a user account on our website, or affiliate websites or for any other purpose. Some of our Services may be unavailable to you without the creation of such a user account.
The accurate submission of your name and e-mail address is required to participate in our Services. You agree to not submit knowingly false, fraudulent, or inaccurate information in connection with creating a user account on our website, and that you are creating a user account on your own behalf, or with the express consent of a third party who is authorized to use our Services and Websites, and agrees to these Terms.
We may collect data regarding your use of our Services, such as information regarding page view, login times, IP addresses, activity on our websites, and other related information, some of which may be associated with your user account, which may contain personally identifiable information. A description of our privacy policy is available via the Privacy Policy portion of the Terms.
We may disable or remove your user account for any reason, at any time, in our sole discretion and without your consent or prior knowledge.
5. Your Password and Security.
You agree and understand that you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords associated with any account you use to access our Services or Website. We will not give your password out to anyone without your express permission or unless required to do so by law. You agree that you will be solely responsible for the activities that occur under your account, even if your account is accessed by another party without your consent.
6. Fees, Payment, and Other Billing Information.
In connection with our Services or our Website, we charge our Users fees , and obtain personal contact information about the User, both in connection with billing, and in the provisioning of our Services. We may remove, alter, increase, decrease, or otherwise change the amount and manner of these fees at any time and, so long as such a change does not require you to pay a different amount for Services you have already purchased or obtained, you may not be notified of any of these changes.
In connection with collecting these fees, we may securely transmit your payment information to one of our payment processors.
Even if not expressly prohibited via any of these Terms, you may not attempt to circumvent, manipulate, or otherwise alter our billing system to change what you may, from the obvious context of your usage of our Services and fee schedule, be required to pay.
7. Creator Usage.
As a Creator, you may use our Services to collect tip payments from Fans. We handle all payment processing issues related to the collection of payment. Consistent with this, we may delay access to your funds so that we can address issues such as chargebacks, refunds, violations of our policies, reporting issues, legal requirements or other issues, or any other issue at our discretion. We may be required to collect tax information from you to assure our compliance with local tax laws. If required, your accurate submission of requested tax information is required prior to your ability to receive payments. We may also be required to collect taxes from each payment to you, which, if required, shall be automatically deducted from each payment to you. We may also assess fees for the use of these payment processing services and the Services in general. These fees may be deducted from each payment you receive whether a one-time or recurring payment.
8. Fan Usage.
As a Fan, you may use our Services to financially remunerate Creators consistent with the information displayed on a Creator’s web presence or profile via our Services. If you are located within a jurisdiction in which we are required to charge and collect a tax, this tax will be added to the total amount of your tip. We may remit such tax to the appropriate authorities. If you are located within a location, or are using a payment method, which requires a transaction fee, foreign currency fee, or any other fee, you may be assessed this fee without any prior notification from us. In these cases, your financial institution will collect the fee.
9. Refunds. There are no refunds for any transaction, except at the sole discretion of Hattitude.
10. User Submitted Content.
At various times, you may submit content to our Website or Services (the “User Submitted Content”). Such content may contain text, images, hyperlinks, content subject to intellectual property protection such as trademarked information, and other information and media. You represent that you own or control all of the rights to all of the material submitted to our website, including but not limited to images, and that this material does not violate our Terms, or the rights of any third party, or any relevant laws. We will make public any data submitted to us at our sole discretion, even if this data may be noted as private, confidential, trade secret, or otherwise not intended for public display.
You should not submit or share secret material to us with the expectation that this material will remain secret.
You grant us a perpetual, unlimited, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, or display materials you submit on our website in connection with our Services, or in any other manner at any other time, including for promotional or other commercial purposes not connected with our Services.
We may process, use, analyze, or commercialize material you submit in any way, including in ways not yet known, without any compensation, notice, or your consent, at any time, and without the compensation, notice, or consent of any third parties or successors in interest. We may remove or modify material you submit at any time, without your consent or prior notification.
We and our Website and Services are not a repository for your data. We may lose, eliminate access to data you submit, or disable your ability to access this data, at any time, at our sole discretion, without prior notice or your consent. Our display or hosting of data you submit does not create any implied right of any kind. We disclaim all responsibility, and assume no liability for any material posted by any third party, including you, or that may result from a loss, modification, or revocation of access to you, any other User, or a third party, to such data.
We may not monitor the material submitted by you, any User, or any third parties for accuracy or for compliance with these Terms or any other relevant terms or laws. We make no express or implied representations regarding the accuracy of such User Submitted Content or other content.
We are not responsible for future misuse or misappropriation of any content posted on our website by third parties, even if this use is not in compliance with these Terms.
You may not submit content you know or believe to be spam, pornographic, illegal, malicious, intentionally defamatory, intending to harm our Services or Website, harm another user, or harm any third party.
You may submit other content to us, such as but not limited to feedback, ideas, reviews, and comments. These submissions in any form are similarly covered by all terms of this subsection.
11. Prohibited Uses, Generally.
The following uses of our Website and Services are prohibited: (a) the use of automated spiders, crawlers, or scrapers, except in connection for inclusion with publicly available web search engine results online (downloading, crawling, or programmatically accessing our Services or Website in any way with the intent to reproduce our information on another website, a content aggregator, or any similar website, is prohibited without our prior written consent); (b) using our Services or Website with the intent of modifying, verifying, or compiling records of any kind, or the assessment of taxes by any taxation authority, its employees, or agent; (c) using our Services or Website with the intent of harassing us, our users, or any third party; to commit any kind of fraud; to intend to cause any harm to us, our users, or any third party; or to instigate or participate in a denial of service attack or similar malicious attack directed at us, our users, or any third party; (d) using our Services or Website with the intent of infringing on the intellectual property rights of any other party; (e) using our Services or Website with the intent of violating any provision of law, rule, or regulation.
12. Prohibited Uses, Creators.
As a Creator, you may not use our Services or Website with the intended purpose of (a) abusing other Users or people; (b) exploiting or using others’ intellectual property, unless you have express permission to use such intellectual property, or your use of this intellectual property does not require such permission; (c) promoting pornographic content , or sexual acts with real people; (d) gambling, raffling or offering prizes based on chance, or any other activity that may be illegal for some or all people in the jurisdiction in which you reside or in which we are located or are operating. We may terminate your Creator account immediately for any actual or suspected violations of these provisions, without prior notice to you.
13. Third Party Websites.
We may provide hyperlinks or references to other websites, or require Users to register with other websites or service providers. The appearance of these links does not constitute our approval or endorsement of these websites. In some cases, we may have no affiliation of any kind with these third parties.
To the extent permissible by law, we may not disclose any financial or other connections we may have with these third party websites.
We are not responsible for the content of third party websites that may be linked from our website or provided to you via our Services. You navigate to any third party website at your own risk, and may be responsible for compliance with terms, policies, or laws relevant to these third parties.
14. Termination.
We may terminate this legal agreement with you, at any time, without notice, and at our sole discretion if (a) you have breached any provision of the Terms, or any law or rule or regulation, or we believe you intend to make such a breach, or we believe you are unable to comply with any provision of the Terms; or (b) we are required to do so by law; or (c) we cease operation or providing the Services or our Website.
You may terminate your legal agreement with us at any time by (a) discontinuing the use of our Services, for example, if you have a user account with us, you must delete your user account or inform us of your desire to delete this account, or (b) affirmatively manifesting to us that you wish to terminate this legal agreement, such as by e-mailing us.
Our or your termination of this Agreement shall not in any way impact the rights you have agreed to as detailed in the Disclaimer of Warranties and General Disclaimer, Indemnity, Default and Remedies, and General Legal Terms sections elsewhere in these Terms, or in any other section that explicitly notes it shall continue to be in effect after the expiration or termination of our relationship. These sections remain in effect, and therefore our protections remain in effect, so long as you or your successors in interest retain the ability to litigate any legal claim you may have against us, or any third party that may in any way implicate or involve us maintains such claims, and so long as you or your successors in interest remain liable for any civil or criminal claim arising out of or in any way implicating us or the use of our Website or Services.
Hattitude does not accept any liability for any loss you may incur resulting from the loss of such information, or Services.
15. Intellectual Property.
All material on our Website, including source code, data, images, information collected from Users, and all other content, is owned by us, unless expressly indicated otherwise. Such owned intellectual property also includes our marks, logos, and similar content, regardless of whether such content is registered. Portions of our content may be licensed or repurposed from other websites, and therefore may be subject to the Terms of Services, Privacy Policies, and other applicable terms from these content providers. If your usage of our website makes you subject to these terms, you are solely responsible for reviewing these associated terms and complying with them. Some websites and data providers may require us to display licensing or marketing information next to the data, which is one indication that we are licensing or using data from third parties, and may make you obligated to comply with the terms of third parties, however we may not always display such information. Such failure to display this information does not obviate you from your obligations to follow the applicable terms and conditions of the content provider.
We may use utilize trademarked graphics, service marks, images, logos, or other promotional material in connection with our Services. These marks and images may be subject to legal protection within the United States or other jurisdictions. To the extent permitted by law, reproduction of these marks is prohibited without our express consent.
We own trade secrets and know-how that contribute to the functionality of our Website and the Services, which may be legally registered, or be eligible to be legally registered, or may otherwise belong to us. Your usage of our Website or Services does not entitle to any right, claim, or other interest whatsoever in these trade secrets and know-how.
16. Misconduct and Intellectual Property Violations.
If you believe that any User has acted inappropriately, which may include, but is not limited to, offensive, violent, illegal, or otherwise inappropriate behavior, you may report such violations to us via e-mail.
We respect the intellectual property rights of our Users, and of third parties. If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been in some way infringed, you may contact us to report such a suspected infringement. We may require you to submit additional information with your query at our future discretion, which may include an identification of the offended material, the basis through which you believe your claim is valid, your contact information, and a sworn statement regarding your status as the true copyright holder.
We may limit access to, or temporarily or permanently remove material we believe to be in violation of copyright laws or of another’s intellectual property, even without complaints from Users or third parties. We will comply with the appropriate provisions of the DMCA to the extent possible in handling alleged copyright violations.
17. Changes to Our Website and our Services.
From time to time, we may change the Services that we offer, or our Website. For example, we may modify, correct, amend, improve, alter, enhance, or make any other changes to our Website and Services, including discontinuing, on a temporary or permanent basis, our Website and Services. These changes are at our sole discretion, and we may not notify you prior to changes that may directly impact or alter your usage with our Website and Services. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modifications, suspensions, or discontinuances of our Website or our Services.
18. Disclaimer of Warranties and General Disclaimer.
We assume no responsibility for the accuracy of information that appears on our Website or that is delivered to Users via our Services. All information provided on our Website and via our Services is provided “as is” with all faults without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. We hereby disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and noninfringement or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice, as may be applicable, except to the extent such disclaimers are held to be legally invalid. We disclaim any responsibility for ensuring that our Website is or will be secure, timely, present accurate or complete information, or be free of any defects, damaging software or material to you or your devices.
The operation of our Services may cease at any time, for any reason, and we are not liable for damages caused by interruption of our Services, cessation of our Services, or for any other reason related to the provision of our Services.
19. Limitation of Our Liability.
Please read this section carefully, as it may impact important legal rights.
The use of our Services and Website is solely at your own risk. To the maximum extent legally permissible, you agree that Hattitude, its officers, directors, agents, employees, subsidiaries, joint ventures, successor entities, and any other similarly affiliated individuals or entities (“Hattitude and its affiliates”), shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever arising from your use of our Website or Services. Damages for which Hattitude and its affiliates are not liable for include, but are not limited to, direct, indirect, special, punitive, exemplary, incidental or consequence damages of any kind, derived under any legal system or legal theory, regardless of the foreseeability of such damages or your negligence, and regardless of our prior or assumed knowledge regarding the likelihood of such damages.
If such any dispute is adjudicated under laws which may limit a general release of this nature, or you are able to claim the protection of these laws in any way, you agree to waive your protections under these laws, to such an extent such a waiver is legally possible, or you agree that the foregoing limitation shall be amended to the maximum extent legally permissible to effect the intent of this section, which is to limit our liability arising from your usage of our Website and Services.
20. Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents, affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, investors, and employees) harmless from any cost, liability, charge, penalties, claim or demand, including attorneys’ fees, court costs, and other costs of collection, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or incurred by us as a result of your default under these Terms; or in any way related to your use of Hattitude.
Without impacting our rights as stated in this subsection, we reserve the right to assume the exclusive control of any matter subject to indemnification by you. Our assumption of this control does not excuse your indemnity obligations. You covenant that you will cooperate with assisting us in any way, and in asserting any available defense in such a situation. You agree not to settle any matter subject to indemnification by you without first obtaining our prior written consent.
21. Dispute Resolution.
If a dispute arises related to your use of Hattitude, such dispute shall be resolved by binding arbitration. Judgment on the arbitration may be entered into any court with appropriate jurisdiction. No class arbitrations or other grouping of parties is permissible. By agreeing to the Terms, you are waiving your right to a trial by jury, or to participate in a class action or representative proceeding. This Section shall not be interpreted to limit either party’s ability to file, in an appropriate court, injunctive or other equitable relief related to disputes involves intellectual property, or to enforce this Section.
22. General Terms.
(a) The Terms and your relationship with us under these Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware w_ without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
(b) If any provisions of these Terms is found by a court or proceeding of competent jurisdiction or an arbitrator to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified so as to render it enforceable and effective to the maximum extent possible in order to effect the intent of the relevant provision.
(c) You agree that these Terms constitute the entire, complete, and exclusive agreement between you and us. This agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, written or oral, or whether established by custom, practice, policy, or precedent, with respect to the subject matter of these Terms.
(d) To the extent permissible by law, in no circumstance shall you seek or be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief, or to enjoin or restrain the operation of our Services.
(e) You may not assign your rights or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our consent. We may assign or delegate your rights or obligations under this Agreement, fully or partially, at any time without notice to you.
(f) Hattitude is controlled and operated within the United States. We make no representation, warranties, or other promises that our Service may be accessible in any other country, or that our Services do not violate the laws of any other jurisdiction. Your use of our Services in another jurisdiction may subject you to legal obligations or penalties. Hattitude is not responsible for the potential obligations or liability you may assume by accessing our website or using our Services in another jurisdiction.