Welcome to Rate Your Judge (the “Website”). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”). Please read these Terms carefully before using the Website.
By using the Website, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You agree not to:
Use the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
Use the Website to harass, abuse, defame, or otherwise infringe upon the rights of others.
Post or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
Use the Website to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party.
Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
Interfere with or disrupt the Website or servers or networks connected to the Website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Website.
The Website allows users to post content, such as reviews and comments. You are solely responsible for any content that you post on the Website. By posting content on the Website, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content in any form, media, or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed.
You represent and warrant that:
You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use any content you post on the Website.
Your content does not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or any other rights of any third party.
The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof), are owned by Rate Your Judge or its licensors and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Rate Your Judge, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms, or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the Website using your account.
The Website is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any warranty for information, services, uninterrupted access, or products provided through or in connection with the Website, including without limitation the software licensed to the Website and the results obtained through the Website. Specifically, we do not warrant that the Website will be error-free or uninterrupted.
Under no circumstances shall Rate Your Judge be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the Website, including but not limited to reliance by a user on any information obtained from the Website or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or email, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from acts of God, communications failures, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to our records, programs, or services.
We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Website at any time, without notice, for any reason, including without limitation a breach of these Terms.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. You agree that any dispute arising from or relating to the Website or these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California.
We reserve the right to modify or update these Terms at any time, without notice, by posting the modified Terms on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after any such modification constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Rate Your Judge with respect to the Website and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral, written, or electronic, between you and Rate Your Judge with respect to the Website.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at contact@rateyourjudge.org.
