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Welcome to the
Babes and Ballers web site at "http://www.babesnballers.com" which is owned by ECA Management Inc.("PM"). The Site may also
include materials owned by third parties and posted on the Site by virtue of a
license, grant or some other form of agreement between the third party and PM. Push Media has created this site and or events, parties, contests for your
personal enjoyment, entertainment and education. These Terms and Conditions of
Use constitute a legal agreement ("Agreement") between you and
Pointed. Use of the Site is also governed by the PM Privacy Policy which is incorporated into this Agreement by
this reference. By using the site, or participating in events, contests,
services or parties, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a
"Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Site) or you are a
"Member" (which means that you have registered with BabesnBallers.com).
The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only
authorized to access this Site or to use the materials and services contained
in the Site (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree
to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this
Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave
this Site immediately and not participate in any business with above listed
companies. Any questions or comments regarding, or problems with, this Site
should be sent to the Site dministrator sitemaintenance@babesnballers.com. PM reserves the right to modify or amend this Agreement without notice at any
time, and such modification will be effective upon posting by PM on the Site.
You agree to be bound by any changes to this Agreement when you use the Site
after any such modification is posted. It is therefore important that you read
this page regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes. If you become aware of misuse of this Site by any person, please contact the
Site Administrator at sitemaintenance@babesnballers.com with your
concerns.
ACCESS
AND USE All materials contained in this Site are protected by international trademark
and copyright laws and must only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes.
This means that you may only view or download material from this Site for your
own use and you must keep all copyright and other proprietary notices attached
to the downloaded material. The reproduction, duplication, distribution (including by way of email,
facsimile or other electronic means), publication, modification, copying or
transmission of material from this Site is STRICTLY PROHIBITED unless you have
obtained the prior written consent of PM or unless it is expressly permitted by
this Site. The material covered by this prohibition includes, without limitation,
any text, graphics, logos, photographs, audio or video material or stills from
audiovisual material available on this Site. The use of materials from this
Site on any other web site or networked computer environment is similarly
prohibited. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found
on this Site can be made by contacting Push Media Group at
info@babesnballers.com. You are also strictly prohibited from creating works or materials that derive
from or are based on the materials contained in this Site including, without
limitation, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes, on-line
postcards and greeting cards and unlicensed merchandise. This prohibition
applies regardless of whether the derivative materials are sold, bartered or
given away.
CONTENT
POSTED ON THE SITE You are welcome to post, transmit or submit messages and other materials (which
include uploading files, inputting data or any other materials,
"blogging," or engaging in any form of communication in connection
with this Site) (collectively "Content") to bulletin boards, chat
rooms or other public areas within, or in connection with, this Site
(collectively "Forums"). You are solely responsible for such Content.
PM accepts no responsibility whatsoever in connection with or arising from such
Content. PM does not endorse and has no control over the Content submitted by others to
Forums. Content submitted to Forums is not necessarily reviewed by PM prior to
posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of PM. PM
makes no warranties, express or implied, as to such Content or its accuracy and
reliability. Nonetheless, PM reserves the right to prevent you from submitting
Content to Forums and to edit, restrict or remove such Content for any reason
at any time. PM may remove any form of cursing contained in the Content with a
PM swear filter application if and to the extent you do not otherwise opt out
of such filter. PM assumes no responsibility for actively monitoring Forums for inappropriate
Content. If, at any time PM chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the
Forums, PM nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation
to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the
conduct of the user submitting any Content. In submitting Content to Forums,
you agree to strictly limit yourself to discussions about the subject matter
for which the Forums are intended. You agree that PM accepts no liability
whatsoever if it determines to prevent your Content from being submitted or if
it edits, restricts or removes your Content. You also agree to permit any other
user of this Site to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that
other user's personal use and not to restrict or inhibit the use of the Site by
any other person. You agree to release PM, its parents and affiliates together with their
respective employees, agents, officers, directors and shareholders, from any
and all liability and obligations whatsoever in connection with or arising from
your use of Forums. If at any time you are not happy with the Forums or object
to any material within Forums, your sole remedy is to cease using them. Please refer to the "Rules of Discussion" for additional explanation
regarding the posting of Content to Forums.
PROPRIETARY
RIGHTS IN CONTENT POSTED ON THE SITE General. You agree that
any Content whatsoever posted by you to the public areas of the Site (excluding
blogs) becomes the property of PM and may be used, copied, sublicensed,
adapted, transmitted, translated, distributed, publicly performed, displayed or
deleted as PM sees fit. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content
posted by you on the Site, (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy
rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, intellectual property rights, or
any other rights of any person, and (iii) the posting of your Content on the
Site does not result in a breach of any contract between you and a third party.
You agree to pay for all royalties, fees and any other monies owing any person
by reason of any Content you post on the site.
PROHIBITED
CONTENT AND/OR ACTIVITY You must use the Site in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws
and regulations. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is
illegal or prohibited on the Site. PM reserves the right to investigate and
take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who
violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
Content from the Site and terminating the membership of such violators.
Prohibited Content includes Content that: 1. Is obscene, patently offensive, or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or
physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; 2. Harasses or advocates harassment of another person; 3. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter; 4. Involves the transmission of "junk mail" or "chain
letters" or unsolicited mass mailing; 5.Promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal
activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or
libelous; 6. Exploits people in a sexual or violent manner; 7. Solicits personal information from anyone under 18; 8. Provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses, including in your Member profile; 9. Violates the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of
any other person; 10. Furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides
instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying
illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer
viruses; 11. Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or
unlawful purposes from other Users; or 12. Involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written
consent such as contests, sweepstakes, solicitation of donations, barter,
advertising, or pyramid schemes. The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or
prohibited on the Site. PM reserves the right to investigate and take
appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates
this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement
authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to: 1. Advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products
or services through the Site. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk
email to other Members. Although PM cannot monitor the conduct of its Members
off the Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information
obtained from the Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in
order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior
explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or
solicitation, PM reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a
Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which PM
deems appropriate in its sole discretion; 2. Any automated use of the system; 3. Attempting to impersonate another User or person; 4. Using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or
disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to
access your account; 5. selling or otherwise transferring your profile; 6. Covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on Forums, or any PM page
via HTML/CSS or any other means; or 7. Interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the site or the
networks or services connected to the Site.
UNSOLICITED
SUBMISSIONS PM and Babes and Ballers does not knowingly accept unsolicited submissions
including, without limitation, submissions of scripts, story lines, articles,
fan fiction, characters, drawings, information, suggestions, ideas or concepts.
PM’s policy is to simply delete any such submission without reading it or
forwarding it to other PM staff. Therefore, any similarity between an
unsolicited submission and any elements in any PM creative work including,
without limitation, a film, series, story, title or concept would be purely
coincidental. If unsolicited submissions are sent to PM via this Site, however, these
submissions become the property of PM and may be used, copied, sublicensed,
adapted, transmitted, distributed, publicly performed, published, displayed or
deleted as PM sees fit. You agree that you are not entitled to any
compensation, credit or notice whatsoever and that by sending an unsolicited
submission you waive the right to make any claim against PM, its parents or
affiliates relating to unsolicited submissions, including, without limitation,
unfair competition, breach of implied contract or breach of confidentiality.
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES Babes and Ballers and or PM may, from time to time, post employment
opportunities on the Site and/or invite users to submit resumes to it. If you
choose to submit your name, contact information, resume and/or other personal
information to Babes and Ballers in response to employment listings, you are
authorizing PM to utilize this information for all lawful and legitimate hiring
and employment purposes. Push Media also reserves the right, at its sole
discretion, to forward the information you submit to its parents, subsidiaries
and affiliates for legitimate business purposes. Nothing in this Agreement or
contained in the Site shall constitute a promise by PM to interview, hire or
employ any individual who submits information to it, nor shall anything in this
Agreement or contained in the Site constitute a promise that Push Media/ECA
Management will review any or all of the information submitted to it by users.
LINKED
SITES AND ADVERTISING In establishing hypertext links, you must not represent in any way, expressly
or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support
of this Site or BabesnBallers, including its respective employees, agents,
directors, officers and shareholders. If
Babes and Ballers has provided links or pointers to other web sites, no
inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be implied
that Babes and Ballers is connected
with, operates or controls these web sites. Babes and Ballers is not
responsible for the content or practices of third party web sites that may be
linked to this Site and makes no representation or warranty regarding such web
sites or their content. This Site may also be linked to other web sites
operated by companies affiliated or connected with Babes and Ballers. When
visiting other web sites, however, you should refer to each such web site's
individual "Terms of Use" and not rely on this Agreement. Babes and
Ballers takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted
on this Site, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services
provided by its advertisers.
DISCLAIMER
OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTIES While Babes and Ballers does its best to ensure the optimal performance of the
Site, you agree that you use this Site and rely on material contained in this
Site at your own risk. The Site, and all materials in this Site and events
conducted off this site, are provided "as is" and, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, are provided without warranties of any kind either
express or implied. This means, without limitation, that Babes and Ballers DOES
NOT WARRANT that the Site is fit for any particular purpose; that the functions
contained in the materials in the Site will be uninterrupted; that defects will
be corrected; that the Site is free of viruses and other harmful components or
that the Site is accurate, error free or reliable. You acknowledge that PM, its parents and affiliates together with their
respective employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders, ARE NOT
LIABLE for any delays, inaccuracies, failures, errors, omissions,
interruptions, deletions, defects, viruses, communication line failures or for
the theft, destruction, damage or unauthorized access to your computer system
or network. You acknowledge that Babes and Ballers
is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct or
material found in connection with this Site, including such conduct or material
transmitted by any means by any other person. You acknowledge that Babes and Ballers is not liable for any damages, including,
without limitation, direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive
damages, in connection with or arising from your use or from your inability to
use the Site.
INDEMNITY You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Babes and Ballers, its parents
and affiliates together with their respective employees, agents, directors,
officers and shareholders, from and against all the liabilities, claims,
damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees and costs) arising
out of your use of this Site or anything associated with the Push Media Group
or Babes and Ballers name; your failure to use the Site or read the terms of
our site which includes events, contests, parties on or off the site is at your
own risk; your breach or alleged breach of this Agreement or your breach or
alleged breach of the copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of
third parties.
TERMINATION Babes and Ballers reserves the right to immediately terminate your use of, or
access to, this Site or services at any time if Babes and Ballers decides at
its sole discretion that you have breached this Agreement or any relevant law,
rule or regulation or you have engaged in conduct that Babes and Ballers
considers to be inappropriate or unacceptable. TRADEMARK Babes and
Ballers name, logo, website and events are registered trademarks with the
United States Trademark /Patent Office, Serial Number 77/102,815 and operates
under International Classes 41. It appears under Section 12a and is in
accordance with the Trademark Act of 1946.
OTHER This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any
provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision
is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability
of any remaining provisions.
This Agreement
is governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Maryland, Virginia and California without giving effect to
any principles of conflicts of law. You agree to submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Maryland or, if appropriate, the
United States District Court for Montgomery County Maryland for resolution of
any dispute, action or proceeding arising in connection with this Agreement or
your use or non-use of the Site, and you further irrevocably waive any right
you may have to trial by jury in any such dispute, action or proceeding. ECA
Management and Pointed Magazine are not liable for any oral agreements that are
associated with any of its entities in reference to the above listed website
and its partnerships. Our staff, owners, partners and any outside contractors
or individuals will not contractually agree to anything associated with our
site without prior written notification from a contracted party. A contract is
defined as an agreement signed by any member of management, ownership or
outside contractor associated with ECA Management, Push Media Group, Babes and
Ballers and its entities. COPYRIGHTS (C) / TRADEMARKS (tm) (C) 2008 Push Media Group, Babes and
Ballers, On Point Communications, ECA Management and Pointed Magazine, LLC. All
trademarks are owned by ECA Management and its related entities or are used
under license. All rights reserved. Use of this Site assumes acceptance of the
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. All materials contained in web sites are
protected by copyright and trademark and shall not be used for any purpose
whatsoever other than private, non-commercial viewing purposes. Reproduction,
duplication, distribution, derivative works, and other unauthorized copying or
use of stills, audio, video footage, or any other materials contained herein
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