| Terms of Use | |
| - | LinkToFortune.com shall have the right to modify, add or remove any terms of these Terms of Use without prior notice or liability to you.
The most recent version can always be found on http://www.linktofortune.com/?tab=legal. The last modification was on 10/08/2008 The default currency is US Dollar ($). Information about the ownership can be read at (contact) |
| Disclaimer | |
| - | As owner of LinkToFortune.com I give my best commercial efforts to remove illegal content and keep the service online.
The performance of this website and it's contained information is provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties. DoS attacks, high traffic, maintenance or other unpredictable events can always affect the performance and accessability of the services. |
| - | As a visitor to LinkToFortune.com, you acknowledge and agree that any reliance on or use by you of information available on this website shall be entirely at your own risk.
In no event shall LinkToFortune.com nor any of its data providers be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential or exemplary damages arising from the use or the performance of this website. |
| - | The privacy of any visitors is a high concern for me. You agree to read the Privacy Policy for details. |
| Confidentiality and Transmissions over the Internet | |
| - | The transmission of data or information over the internet is not secure, and is subject to possible loss, interception or alteration while on transit.
Accordingly, I do not assume any liability for any damage you may experience or costs you may incur as a result of any transmissions over the Internet. While I shall take commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of the information you provide us and treat such information in accordance with the Privacy Policy, in no event will this result in any liability to you on my part in the event that third parties were able to gain access to this data. It is technically not possible to guarantee privacy of data on it's route between client and server. |
| User Conduct and Obligations | |
| - | You agree to follow all applicable laws and regulations when using this website.
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| - | Any data you submit to portions of this website shall not come from automated processes.
Automated process means any script, or computer program that has the ability to post/send data in an automated way. |
| - | Also you shall not: |
| - | upload, post or otherwise transmit content that
* is unlawful, offensive, adult or threatening * might infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of others * contains viruses/trojans or any other harmful elements |
| - | disrupt, place excessive loads on, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of this website, its computer systems or networks |
| - | provide false information about yourself, impersonate another person, or otherwise attempt to mislead about your identity or the origin of any content |
| - | transmit junk/spam mail or other unsolicited bulk messages |
| - | sell access or use of this website |
| - | redistribute any content without written permission |
| - | attempt to break any security mechanisms of this website
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| - | By posting summaries you grant permission to redistribute these summaries in any way. |
| - | By ordering an advertisement slot you grant permission to place your advertisement on any location of LinkToFortune.com.
The advertisement information (banner, description, link, name, searchwords, worth) will be used by LinkToFortune.com to give away tickets to participants. As advertiser you have got no rights at all regarding the tickets (drawing, win, price money). The advertisement can generate high traffic from visitors on the linked website, LinkToFortune.com and I am not liable to any damages or costs that might be generated from high traffic. As advertiser you can have your advertisement removed by writing an email to the business contact using "REMOVE" as subject. |
| Indemnification by User | |
| - | You agree to indemnify, defend and hold me and my affiliates, business partners, officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from any loss, liability, claim, demand, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) asserted by any third party relating in any way to your use of this website or breach of these Terms of Use. I reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, which shall not excuse your indemnity obligations. |
| Third Party Websites, Content, Products and Services | |
| - | You acknowledge and agree that your business dealings with any third parties, including any merchants or advertisers, found on, or accessed through my website and any of their services, including payment for and delivery of any related goods and services, are solely as between you and such third parties. You understand and acknowledge that some of services accessible on my website are provided by third parties (including, but not limited to, discount foreign exchange services and online foreign exchange trading services) and that in certain instances, I may receive referral fees and/or other compensation from third parties on a per use or other basis based on your purchase or use of third party goods or services found on or accessed through my website. You acknowledge that in such dealings with third parties, I am not the seller or provider and your agreement of purchase or for services with such third party is solely between you and the third party, and not me or LinkToFortune.com.
I assume no responsibility whatsoever for any charges, losses or liabilities you or any user of your account incurs when making purchases or completing transactions with such third parties. As user/advertiser you acknowledge and agree that I shall not be responsible or liable in any way for any loss or damage of any kind which you or any other user of your account may incur as a result of, or in connection with, any dealings or transactions with such third parties. Links or pointers to other websites and references to products and services offered by third parties are not under my or LinkToFortunes control or responsibility. If you feel a linked service or content is against the law or LinkToFortunes Terms of Use please write an email with details! |
| Proprietary Rights | |
| - | LinkToFortune.com and any identifying marks of LinkToFortune are either trademarks or copyrighted property is protected under international copyright law.
The advertisements and their content are not under my or LinkToFortunes control or responsibility. I or LinkToFortune do not have any liability regarding links or advertisements but any unlawful content will be removed. (see contact page) Any rights not expressly granted to you are reserved. |
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LinkToFortunes policy is to comply with all intellectual property laws and to act expeditiously upon receiving any notice of claimed infringement. If you believe that your work has been reproduced on this website in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide a notice of copyright infringement containing all of the following information:
1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint. 2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. 3. Identification of the material on my website that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity. 4. The address, telephone number or e-mail address of the complaining party. 5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law. 6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice of copyright infringement is accurate, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed. |
| Terms for Advertisement / Advertisers | |
| - | By ordering an advertisement slot you acknowledge and agree that you did not buy any portion of this webpage.
You can only buy a "slot" on LinkToFortune.com that will host your advertisement and list it in the serach engine. Beside the regular search engine results your advertisement can be listed randomly or on special locations too. Advertisements with higher "worth" are generally listed higher than less expensive advertisements, but I/LinkToFortune.com always can change the order or create special orders (random orders, link of the day orders and similar) |
| - | You agree that once you paid for your ad it will not be modified anymore. The worth as well as description or banner will not be changed on your request.
Exceptions: (I)If there are legal reasons such as lawsuits or copyright violations the ad can be changed by writing an email to the business contact. (II) On your request the advertisement can always be removed without refund. (III) If you got a name change, reconstruction of your website or a domain change you can request a change as well. (IV) A fee of 25$ can be applied, regarding the circumstances or frequency of changes |
| - | As soon as the advertisement is public available on LinkToFortune.com there is no refund possible anymore. |
| - | For requesting an advertisement you need to have the right to submit the information/image of the website you provide. |
| - | It can take up to 12 hours to place your link on the page. Shall this time be exceeded you have the right on a refund, otherwise you have the right to receive 1$ siteworth per hour on your ticket upon your request |
| - | The worth of an advetisement depends on the price of the order per default. All rights are reserved to increase the worth of any advertisement or offer special prices or discounts. |
| - | The contest for the final price money ends one week once 10,000 different advertisements are placed. I and LinkToFortune.com reserve all rights to stop the contest earlier or later, or change the number of advertisements required. The price money can be higher or lower regarding such circumstances. |
| - | The LinkToFortune.com webpage will be available for at least 6 years. I will take any commercially acceptable means to ensure that but can not guarantee this. Lawsuits, changed laws or unpredictable regulations might force a takedown. Such a takedown has to be accepted without refund.
Beside the 6 year uptime I will try to keep this webpage and it's domain available for my lifetime. But i can not be held responsible for the uptime. |
| - | The performance or reachability of this website depends on events out of my control (act of god, power failures, server failures, routing problems, maintenance, etc). Because of this I am not liable for any such outages and there is no guarantee for the performance or accessibility of this website during such events.
Downtimes will be as short and rare as possible! |
| - | I or LinkToFortune.com am not liable for any payment issues related to paypal or the transmission of payment data through the internet. |
| General | |
| - | If any provision of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable in any respect by any court having competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect. No waiver of any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision of these Terms of Use. |
| - | Questions regarding the Terms of Use shall be sent to legal@linktofortune.com |
| Information for participants / ticket hunters | |
| - | LinkToFortune.com is provided free of charge, "as is".
By participating you agree to the Terms of Use and you agree that there are no legal remedies you can use. This term is required for my own protection. |
| - | By participating in LinkToFortune.com you receive "tickets" from clicked advertisements.
Such tickets stay the property of me / LinkToFortune.com and can not be sold or traded without written and signed permission! Tickets that were subject to this can be declared invalid at any time! |
| - | If you disagree with any Terms in this Terms of Use or break any terms your only remedy is to stop accessing this website. The Terms of Use can be changed without notice or liability to you. |
| - | By participating you acknowledge and agree to read this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy regulary. |
| - | A ticket is only valid if it is obtained without automated means (no tools, scripts to generate tickets) and if the summary is written by hand and not copied from any location.
I / LinkToFortune.com reserve all rights to declare any ticket as invalid at any time. There are no possible legal remedies. |
| - | As winner of a small price money or the final huge price money you agree to have a part of your personal information publicized on this website. Your only option is to reject your win and remain completely anonymous.
This term is required to help increase transparency. |
| - | To be a valid winner your ticket needs to contain your real name, and the summary has to be written by yourself. As owner of LinkToFortune.com I reserve all rights to reject a winner and chose a new one if the ticket or provided personal information (from the ticket or the email contact) is suspicious or can not be verified. You agree you have no legal remedies against this term. |
| - | As winner you agree that any fees and costs are recuced from your price money transfer. You might be offered several transfer possibilities (paypal, bank transfer, check) but you have no rights to demand a special way if it is not offered to you from my side. |
| - | When participating you agree to receive information emails by default. You can always opt-out through the myTickets Tab.
You shall never receive spam from LinkToFortune.com, your email address will never be shown to third parties. See our Privacy Policy for details. The emails you receive will contain a link to opt-out and important content of your interest. As example: A winner was drawn or a drawing will happen soon. When you opt-out you will still receive an email in the case one of your tickets was drawn. This is required to handle they money transfer to your account as the only contact to you is your email address. |
| - | Drawings and price money are free of charge. There are no legal remedies available to enforce a drawing or to change the defined price money.
It is my right to change the price money for a drawing and the final drawing at any time without prior notice or liability to a visitor or participant. It is my right to add or skip drawings without prior notice or liability to a visitor or participant. This term is required to be able to adapt price money on the final financial situation. * For each 200 advertisements one related ticket is drawn by me / LinkToFortune.com. The price money for this ticket is 100$ and will be paid immediately after contacting the winner. * As soon as 10,000 advertisments have been placed the final ticket is drawn. The final price money depends on the worth of the specific ticket and the lowest/highest worth within the database of advertisers. The lowest price is 100,000$ (10$ per advertiser), the highest price is 1,000,000$ (100$ per advertiser) Example for clarification: Highest available worth in database: 500$, lowest worth: 200$, ticket-worth:350$ -> price money = 500,000 $ |