Welcome to Rotana.net and its family of websites ( collectively, the ‘ Site ‘ ) which are operated by RMS Worldwide ( ‘ Company ‘ , ‘ our ‘ , ‘ we ‘ or ‘ us ‘ ). The services Company provides on the Site include applications, community pages, message boards, messaging services, and any other features, content, promotions, games or applications offered from time to time by Company (collectively, the ‘ Company Services ‘. ) Company has created the Site and Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment. By visiting the Site you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, including any future modifications, which constitute an agreement ( ‘ Agreement ‘ ) between you and Company and to abide by all applicable laws, rules and regulations (collectively, ‘ Applicable Law ‘ ). Law’). Please read this Agreement carefully. Company reserves right to modify or amend this Agreement without notice at any time, and such modification(s) will be effective upon posting on the Site. All material modifications will apply prospectively only. Your continued use of the Site and/or Company Services following any such modification constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the Agreement as so modified. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly. If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and to abide by Applicable Law, you must immediately leave the Site and discontinue your use of Company Services. Your access to certain Site features may require you to accept additional terms and conditions applicable to such features, in addition to this Agreement, and may require you to download Software or Content (each as defined below) and additional terms may apply to the Message Boards and Public Forums (see Section 5 of this Agreement.)
1. Privacy
Use of the Company Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
2. Your Proprietary
Company does not claim any ownership rights in the User Content that you post, upload, email transmit, or otherwise make available on, through or in connection with the Company Services; provided, however, that User Content shall not include any Content posted by a user that is already owned by Company or any Affiliated Company. By posting any User Content on, through or in connection with the Company Services, you hereby grant to Company and our Affiliated Companies, licensees and authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty- free, sub licensable, irrevocable, transferable (in whole or in part),worldwide license to use, modify, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and compilations based upon, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such User Content on, through or in connection with the Company Services or in connection with any distribution or syndication thereof to Third Party Services (as defined below),on and through all media formats now known or hereafter devised, for any and all purposes including, but not limited to, promotional, marketing, trade or commercial purposes. Company’s use of such User Content shall not require any further notice to you and such use shall be without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity. Company reserves the right to limit the storage capacity of User Content that you post on, through or in connection with the Company Services. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the User Content posted by you on, through or in connection with the Company Services, or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this Section, and (ii) the posting of User Content by you on, through or in connection with the Company Services and Third Party Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by reason of the use of any User Content posted by you on or through the Company Services or Third Party Services.
3. Unsolicited Submissions
Companies does not knowingly accept, via the Site or otherwise, unsolicited submissions including, without limitation, submissions of blog ideas, scripts, story lines, articles, fan fiction, characters, drawings, information, suggestions, proposals, ideas or concepts. Company’s policy is to simply delete any such submission without reading it (or forwarding it). Therefore, any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any elements in any Company creative work (or affiliated company’s creative work) including, without limitation, a film, series, story, title or concept would be purely coincidental. If unsolicited submissions are sent to Company via the Site or Company Services, however, these submissions become the property of Company and may be used, copied, sublicensed, adapted, transmitted, distributed, publicly performed, published, displayed or deleted as Company 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 Company, its parents or affiliates relating to unsolicited submissions, including, without limitation, unfair competition, breach of implied contract or breach of confidentiality.
4. Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property
Company respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. You may not upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other propriety rights of any person or entity. Company has a policy of terminating repeat infringers’ access to the Company Services in appropriate circumstances. If you believe that any material contained in the Site infringes your copyright, please email or fax s a notification of claimed infringement and include the following information: 1. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; 2. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material (or in the case of references or links that are claimed to have infringing material or activity, identification of the reference or link, to material or activity claiming to be infringing, that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate that reference or link); 3. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted; 4. A statement by you that you have 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; 5. A statement by you that the above information in your notification is accurate, and statement by you made under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner of an exclusive right this is allegedly infringed or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; 6. Physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
5. Third Party Links, Services and Advertising
Company may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other websites, applications, resources or other services created by third parties (‘Third Party Services’). When you engage with the Third Party Service, you are interacting with the third party, not with Company. If you choose to use a Third Party Service and share information with it, the Third Party Services may use and share your data in accordance with the Third Party Service’s privacy policy and your privacy settings on such Third Party Service. In addition, the third party providing the Third Party Service may use other parties to provide portions of the application or service to you, such as technology, development or payment services. Company is not responsible for the content or practices of any websites other than the Site, even if the website links to the Site and even if it is operated by an affiliated company or company otherwise connected with the Site. Company makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Third Party Services (including the accuracy and completeness of information supplied or the privacy practices thereof). If you decide to access other websites, you do so at your own risk. If Company has provided links or pointers to other websites on the Site, they are solely as a convenience to you and no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be implied that Company is connected with, operates, controls or endorses these websites. When you access other websites or Third Party Services, Company encourages you not to provide any personally identifiable information unless you know and are comfortable with the party with whom you are interacting and their privacy policy. If you are interested in creating hypertext links to the Site, you must contact Company before doing so. 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 the Site or Company, including its respective employees, agents, directors, officers and/or shareholders. Company takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on the Site, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers.
6. Company Newsletters; Email Alerts
Company may deliver newsletters and email alerts to its Subscribers on a variety of Company services and programming. If you would like to subscribe to any of the newsletters Company offers, you may do so by clicking on the ‘Newsletter’ link near the bottom of all site pages. If you would like to change the e-mail address to which your Company newsletters are delivered, please click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the bottom of any Company newsletter that you receive and then click the ‘General Information’ link on the Member’s Center page. If you would like to unsubscribe from any Company newsletter or email alert, you may do so by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any Company newsletter or email alert that you have signed up to receive.
7. Sweepstakes and/or Contests
Sweepstakes, contests, games and other promotions run on the Site by Company may require the User to provide some personally identifiable information such as full name, date of birth, zip code, e-mail address, and phone number (collectively, ‘PII’),in order to participate. Company may use a reputable third party to manage and administer some or all of its sweepstakes and/or contests. This third party may have access to some or all of the PII that is provided by the User in order to participate in the sweepstakes and/or contest. In those instances, the third party will be instructed by Company to use the PII solely for the specific sweepstakes and/or contest related purpose for which it was requested, and in compliance with the Site’s Privacy Policy. Most often this information is used only to select and contact winners of the sweepstakes and/or contests. Any other use of the PII by the third party is strictly prohibited.
8. Disclaimers
The Site and Company Services are provided ‘AS-IS’ and ‘as available’ and Company does not guarantee or promise any specific results from use of the Site and/or Company Services. Company expressly disclaims any warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In particular, Company makes no warranty that your use of the Site and/or Company Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free or that any information obtained by you on, through or in connection with the Company Services or Third Party Services (including but not limited to, through User Content or third party advertisements) will be accurate or reliable. Under no circumstances will Company be responsible for any loss or damage, including but not limited to, property damage, personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Site and/or Company Services, problems or technical malfunction in connection with use of the Site and/or Company Services, attendance at a Company event, any material downloaded or otherwise obtained in connection with the Site and/or Company Services, any User Content, third party advertisement or Third Party Service posted on, through or in connection with the Site and/or Company Services, or the conduct of any users of the Company Services, whether online or offline. Your use of User Content, third party advertisements, Third Party Services and the goods or services provided by any third parties is solely your responsibility and at your own risk. User Content, third party advertisements and Third Party Services do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Company.