TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT
Effective Date: August 20th, 2016
Welcome! We are CacheSport, a small company in Kodiak, Alaska. Our mission is to
create a fun way to get people outdoors exploring their communities on a quest
for hidden Caches.
This Agreement
Please read this Terms of Use Agreement carefully. It governs the use of our services. By
accessing or using the services below, you agree to all the terms in this Agreement
and all terms that are incorporated into this Agreement as referenced below. These
terms can be viewed and printed at any time through the “Terms of Use” link at the
top of the main page.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE OUR SERVICES.
Scope. This Agreement applies to the following services of CacheSport:
CACHESPORT.COM website, mobile applications and data accessible via CacheSport.com API
CacheSport participants are responsible for their own safety.
What We Mean. The website and mobile applications above, including all
associated software, content, products and data will be referred to throughout this
Agreement simply as our “services.” References to “content” should be read in the
broadest context possible; content includes among other things text, images, code,
feedback, forum posts, your account details, emails, music, and audiovisual materials.
References to "CacheSport" or "we" include CacheSport's, officers, directors,
shareholders, agents, employees, contractors, representatives, successors, and assigns.
This Agreement applies to “you” as a person accessing or using our services, whether
you are an authorized or unauthorized user or beneficiary of our services under
this or prior agreements between us.
Minors. Our services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone
under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use
our services. If you are under the age of 18 but at least 13, you may only use our
services under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound
by this Agreement.
Privacy Policy. CacheSport’s Privacy Policy explains how we treat your personal
data and protect your privacy when you use our services. If you use a third party
application of one of our API partners, any of the personal data you make accessible
via the application is subject to that party’s Privacy Policy. By using our services,
you agree that CacheSport can use your personal data in accordance with our
Privacy Policy and may store such data on our servers in the United States and elsewhere
outside the European Economic Area. Our services also may also use small data files
called “cookies” to provide a personalized experience on our websites and mobile
applications and to improve our services. By using our services, you agree to our
use of cookies and similar technologies as described in our Privacy Policy. CacheSport’s
Privacy Policy can be found on the Privacy Policy page.
Other Terms. The use of our services may be subject to other terms, policies
or guidelines. In the event there is any conflict between this Agreement and any
other policies or guidelines that appear on our websites or through our mobile applications,
this Agreement will govern. In the event there is any conflict between this Agreement
and any other agreements required to use a specific component of our services, such
as our API License Agreement, the specific terms in conflict will take precedence
over the corresponding terms in this Agreement. If you navigate away from our websites
or application to a third party website or application, the terms and conditions
of use applicable to that website or application will govern your use of that website
or application.
Contact Information. For more information about our company and how to contact
us, visit our Contact Us page.
Use of Our Services
Inherent Risks. CacheSport hunts and other location-based activities facilitated
by our services can be dangerous and may take you to difficult to access or
potentially treacherous locations. When hiding or seeking CacheSport Capsules or
taking part in other location-based activities, you risk property damage, bodily
injury or death. There are many variables that must be considered prior to seeking
or placing a CacheSport Hunt capsule or engaging in other location-based activities,
including: weather, fitness level, terrain features and outdoor experience. Be prepared
and be sure to check the current conditions before heading outdoors. Always exercise
common sense and caution. YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SEEKING A CACHESPORT
CAPSULE AND OTHER LOCATION-BASED ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR SERVICES AND
AGREE TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS CACHESPORT, LANDOWNERS ON WHOSE PROPERTY CACHESPORT
CAPSULES ARE LOCATED, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO SERVE AS REVIEWERS, TRANSLATORS
AND FORUM MODERATORS/ADMINISTRATORS FROM ANY LIABILITY FOR INJURY OR LOSS SUFFERED
BY YOU THROUGH THE USE OF OUR SERVICES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW.
Account Registration. You must create an account and provide certain information
about yourself in order to use many of the features of our services. You are responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password. You are also responsible
for keeping your account data updated and for all activities that occur in connection
with your account. Account information will be treated in accordance with our Privacy
Policy.
License. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, CacheSport hereby
grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, fully revocable license to
view and use our services for your own personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance
with this Agreement and any guidelines or policies posted on our websites or applications.
Additionally, you may access and use our services via the authorized application
of one of our official API partners.
Restrictions. Permission to use our services is subject to the following restrictions.
Whether these restrictions have been violated shall be determined in our sole discretion.
You agree not to:
Use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access our services for
any purpose without our express written permission.
Frame our websites or any portion of our sites on another website or mobile application
without our written permission.
Use our services, including GPX files, for any purpose other than your personal
use without our written permission.
Take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable
or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.
Abuse or exploit bugs, undocumented features, design errors or problems in our services.
Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our services or any
activities conducted on through our services or other measures we may use to prevent
or restrict access to our services.
Upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute (including by emailing us) any content
that threatens or attacks others on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender, religion, age, disability or disease; is unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, profanity, obscene,
libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, embarrassing, harmful to minors;
or is otherwise reasonably objectionable to any person or entity.
Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with any person or entity.
Upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any content that you do not have
a right to under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationship or for which
you have not obtained required consent from third parties.
Upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any content that infringes any patent,
trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property or proprietary
rights of any person, including without limitation under any privacy or publicity
rights.
Upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising,
promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other
form of unauthorized solicitation.
Upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any content that contains viruses
or any other computer code, files or programs which interrupt, destroy, limit the
functionality of, or cause damage to our services or any computer software or hardware
or telecommunications equipment.
Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in our forums or otherwise act in a manner that
negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges.
Interfere with or disrupt our services or servers or networks connected to the services,
or fail to comply with any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of
networks connected to the services.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the software
associated with our services.
Violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.
Violate any of the guidelines or policies associated with our services.
Interfere with the ability of others to enjoy our services.
Stalk, harass, or otherwise harm another user of our services, CacheSport employee
or third party.
Collect, store or distribute personal data about other users of our services.
Promote, distribute or provide instructional information about illegal activities
Promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual or property damage.
Publish on our websites the solutions, hints, spoilers, or any hidden coordinates
for any CacheSport Capsule without consent from the CacheSport.
Misrepresent the location of a CacheSport Capsule.
Registration Fee's for CacheSport hunts. All tangible and non-tangible items
purchased from any shop website on CacheSport.com, are made pursuant to a shipment
contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you
upon our delivery to the carrier. We do not take title to returned items until the
item arrives at our Office. At our discretion, a refund may be issued without requiring
a return. Product availability on our website is not guaranteed. If a product is
not available by the time your order processes, we will notify you via e-mail. We
try to make our product descriptions accurate; however, we do not promise that our
descriptions will be accurate or complete. If a product you purchase from us is
not as described on our website, your only remedy is to return in unused condition.
You consent to receive communications from us electronically via email or notices
posted on your account at CacheSport.com and any third party affiliates. You also agree
that all communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement
that such communications be in writing. All purchases are subject to our Cancellation
and Refund Policy.
Suspension and Termination. We may suspend or terminate your access to our
services, including your account, at any time for any reason without notice and
without liability. As an example, we may suspend or terminate your account if we
suspect you or someone using your account has violated the terms of this Agreement
or any other terms, guidelines or policies associated with our services or are otherwise
not being a good member of the geocaching community. Any suspension or termination
of your account for these reasons applies to you personally; you may not access
our services through any other account that you own or create or through accounts
owned or created by others. We also reserve the right to terminate or suspend user
accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You can stop using our
services and terminate this Agreement at any time. All provisions of this Agreement
which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including,
without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations
of liability.
Changes to Our Services. CacheSport may change, suspend, or discontinue any
portion of our services at any time, including but not limited to: any feature,
database, application, or content. CacheSport may also impose limits on certain
features offered through our services with or without notice. Our services include
software that may update automatically on your device once a new version or feature
is available. We are under no obligation to provide maintenance support or upgrades
for any of our software except where required by applicable law.
Ownership
CacheSport’s Services. Our services are the property of CacheSport or
of its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual
property laws. Using our services does not give you ownership of any intellectual
property rights in our services or the content you access. Do not copy or download
any of the content available through our services (except your own) unless we have
expressly authorized you to do so. All rights not expressly granted in this Agreement
are reserved by CacheSport or by the respective owners of the intellectual
property rights. Do not remove, obscure, or change any legal notices displayed in
or along with our services. We allow limited, non-commercial use of some of our
trademarks as provided in our logo usage guidelines. We also allow limited
use of some of the data available through our services via our API subject
to the terms of our API License Agreement. Please contact us via email with
any questions.
Others’ Content and Products. Our services display content that does not belong
to CacheSport. Except as part our services, you may not use third party content
from our services unless you have our permission, obtain the permission of the content
owner or are otherwise permitted by law. Content available through our services
that does not belong to CacheSport is the sole responsibility of the person
or entity that has made it available. We do not review content available through
our services, although we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably
believe violates our policies or applicable law. Third parties may provide products
for use with our services, such as software or widgets and our website may include
third party products and links to third party sites. To the maximum extent permitted
by applicable law, we do not assume any responsibility or liability for any such
third party websites, widgets, software, products or content (or for removal or
any failure or delay in removing such content).
Your Content. All content you submit through our services remains yours; this
includes pictures, your comments and anything you post to our website. You and not
CacheSport are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post or
otherwise transmit via our services. You represent and warrant that you have all
necessary rights and permissions required for all content you post and for the rights
you grant to us below, and that your content does not violate this this Agreement,
other CacheSport terms, policies or guidelines, the rights of any other party
or applicable law.
The Rights You Grant Us to Your Content. By submitting content to our services,
you grant CacheSport a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
and fully transferable and sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content
in any media now known or created in the future for any purpose. You agree that
we have no obligation to monitor or protect your rights in any content that you
may submit to us, but in the event that someone else takes content you have submitted
through our services without either of our permission, you give us the right to
request that they take the content off of their website or otherwise stop using
it.
Claims of Copyright Infringement. CacheSport respects the intellectual property
rights of others, and asks that you and all users of our services do the same. If
you believe your work has been published on our services in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, you must notify CacheSport's copyright agent by providing
the following information:
A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim
has been infringed.
Identification of the material that you claim is infringing and needs to be removed,
including a description of where it is located on our websites or mobile applications.
Your address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address, so that CacheSport can
contact you about your complaint.
And a physical or electronically signed statement that the above information is
accurate; that you have a good faith belief that the identified use of the material
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and, under penalty
of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright
owner's behalf in this situation.
CacheSports’s copyright agent for claims of copyright or other intellectual property
infringement can be reached as follows:
By Mail:
CacheSport
203A Albatross Ave
Kodiak, AK 99615
Attn: CacheSport
By E-Mail
Robbie@CacheSport.com
No Warranties
OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE AND YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK
AS TO YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES AND THE CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR SERVICES. WE
MAKE NO SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT OUR SERVICES OR CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR SERVICES,
INCLUDING WITH REGARD TO THEIR AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, FUNCTIONALITY, ACCURACY
OR TRUTHFULNESS (WHETHER PROVIDED BY CACHESPORT OR OUR USERS), OR LACK OF VIRUSES
OR ERRORS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES,
REPRESENTATIONS, TERMS OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WHETHER BY STATUTE, COMMON
LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OUR SERVICES AND THE CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR SERVICES,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AVAILABILITY AND LACK OF NEGLIGENCE.
Limitation of Damages
REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OR CAUSE OF ACTION OF THE ALLEGED BASIS OF THE CLAIM, TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CACHESPORT AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO SERVE
AS REVIEWERS, TRANSLATORS AND FORUM MODERATORS/ADMINISTRATORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL
DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, REVENUES OR DATA ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE
OF OUR SERVICES EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES
AND EVEN IF THE REMEDIES OTHERWISE PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, AT LAW, OR IN
EQUITY, FAIL OF THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SHOULD A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION
DETERMINE THAT THE LIMITATION ABOVE IS NOT LEGALLY VALID, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF CACHESPORT AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO SERVE AS
REVIEWERS, TRANSLATORS AND FORUM MODERATORS/ADMINISTRATORS TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ARISING OUT OF OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING FOR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR OUR SERVICES OR THE AMOUNT OF DIRECT DAMAGES
INCURRED BY YOU IN RELIANCE ON OUR SERVICES, WHICHEVER IS LESS. YOU AGREE THAT THIS
IS YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE CACHESPORT AND COMMUNITY
MEMBERS WHO SERVE AS REVIEWERS, TRANSLATORS AND FORUM MODERATORS/ADMINISTRATORS
FROM ALL OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITY, CLAIMS OR DEMANDS IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITATION.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold CacheSport, its officers, employees, agents and
community members who serve as reviewers, translators and forum moderators/administrators
harmless against any and all losses, claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) that CacheSport may incur in connection with: (a) your breach
of any of the terms of this Agreement; (b) your use of the services; or (c) your
violation of applicable law.
Changes to this Agreement
We may make changes to this Agreement from time to time. Unless we make the change
for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccuracy, we will provide
you with notice of the revised Agreement, typically by updating the effective date
at the top of the Agreement. By continuing to use our services, you agree to be
bound by the revised Agreement. If you do not agree to the revised Agreement, you
should stop using our services. Changes will not apply retroactively. If we provide
notice of changes via email, you consent to receiving email notice of such changes.
General Terms (Severability, Waiver, Entire Agreement)
If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid or CacheSport and you agree that the remaining provisions of
the Agreement will remain in full force and effect, and the allocation of risk described
in this Agreement will be given effect to the fullest extent possible. CacheSport's
failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not constitute a waiver
of CacheSport's right to enforce its rights with respect to later or similar breaches.
This Agreement, along with any guidelines, terms or policies posted on our websites
or mobile applications or that we otherwise provide to you, constitutes the entire
agreement between us with regard to your use of our services.