The Buzzen Website & Services are owned and operated by Buzzen©. By using our services you are agreeing to abide by this Terms of Use document (commonly referred to as TOU) as well as numerous other disclaimers, terms and conditions found throughout the network. Your use of our services constitutes as an agreement to such terms. We reserve the right to amend these terms at any time without notice. We recommend you review these terms regularly.
Intellectual Property:
All information, text, material, graphics, advertisements and software found on the network are Copyright ©2004 - 2024 Buzzen. Unless indicated otherwise, refer to (Proprietary Rights-User License in Content on Buzzen). The content is protected by both Canadian and International Laws. You must not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, frame, upload to a third party any of the content found within this network without written consent from Buzzen or it's affiliates.
You must not use the network for any purpose or manner which is unlawful.
Advertising Links to third party websites & services:
The Buzzen website contains hyperlinks to websites made by third parties. Buzzen does not control the content nor can guarantee the content is suitable. It makes every effort to prevent advertisements in violation of our disclaimers. These advertisements are supplied for your own convenience and it's existence on our website does not confirm our endorsement of the website which is hyperlinked.
All advertisements found on the Buzzen website are paid for, and therefore are not recommendations or endorsements by Buzzen. or any of it's affiliates. Any queries relating to the advertisement or the product it's advertising should be directed to the company in question NOT Buzzen.
Any offers made by the advertising organization in their advertisements are not endorsed or controlled by Buzzen. The third party advertiser is solely responsible to you for the delivery of any goods or services you purchase on the third party website.
At times, out of good will, we will provide advertisements linking to
charities and other non-profit organizations. We will not charge such
organizations with advertising rights. We will endorse such organizations as an
act of good-will but we cannot control the content found on such websites.
Termination:
The Terms of Use are in effect until terminated by Buzzen.
This may be done at any time without notice. Your access to the network can also
be terminated without notice; in this case you will no longer be able to access
the network yet all disclaimers, limitations and licenses will survive.
Communication:
The network contains chat rooms, message boards and email services, which provide delayed, and real time conversations.
Through the use of such communication services you should not:
- Restrict another user from enjoying the provided forums.
- Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, obscene, abusing, defamatory,
vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information including, without
limitation any conduct which constitutes or encourages conduct that would appear
as a criminal offence or civil liability.
- Download any file posted by another user if you know that the file condones or
endorses any illegal activity.
- Post any content with the sole intent of increasing product sales and other
commercial reasons.
- Post or transmit any files that may cause harm on another's computer.
- Post or transmit any files that invade another's basic human rights this
includes, but is not limited to the invasion of privacy or publicity rights.
These rights include trademarked and copyrighted material.
Buzzen reserves the right to edit, refuse to post or remove any content in it's sole discretion any materials that it feels are in violation of the law and it's Terms of Use. Buzzen has no obligation to monitor content found within user created areas, but still checks on such areas regularly.
Buzzen will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any jurisdiction in
respect of any lawful direction or request to disclose the identity or any other
information on users whom are violating the relevant laws.
Trademarks:
All items or names, containing the trademark logo infer that it is in fact
trademarked property. All trademarked properties found in advertisements remain
that of the respective owner and not of Buzzen.
Nudity and pornography
The following types of images are not allowed:
Sexually gratifying content
Images that are sexually suggestive and/or intended to cause sexual arousal. are not allowed. Examples of content that may be considered sexually gratifying include, but are not limited to:
Fetishes and sexual aids
No promotion, selling, or discussing sexual fetishes, aids, devices, or enhancement tools.
A fetish may be an obsession or sexual desire in which gratification is dependent upon specific objects (diapers, food items, etc.), materials (leather, latex, etc), parts of a body (feet, toes, ears, etc.), or situations. Examples of types of fetishes and fetishistic practices may include, but are not limited to:
Buzzen may consider something to be a sexual aid, device, or enhancement tool if it is used for sexual pleasure and/or to improve sexual experiences. This includes, but is not limited to:
Buzzen may remove any image that violates the above standards. Buzzen also reserves the right to remove any image considered not appropiate for public viewing. Violating the image policies may result your warnings and/or removal of account.
If Buzzen Staff feel an image contains a person under the age of 18, the image will be removed.
Groups:
You may elect to delete your Group at any time for any reason or for no reason.
All Group Member Data relating to a deleted Group, as well as any content made available in or on the applicable Group, will no longer be accessible by means of the Buzzen Platform following the effective date of deletion. Please be advised that none of the content posted in or on your Group on or before the effective date of deletion will be able to be accessed or recovered by you or any Members once your Group is deleted. Buzzen shall have no obligation or liability to you with respect to the deletion or loss of any such Group Member Data.
You acknowledge and agree that the deletion of your Group(s) and related service(s) offered by Buzzen hereunder is your sole right and exclusive remedy with respect to any dispute that you may have with Buzzen that relate in any manner to the Buzzen Platform, including, without limitation, any dispute arising from or in connection with
Group Termination
Buzzen has the right (at its sole discretion) for any reason to (i) delete, disable or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Buzzen Platform or any Group, (ii) remove and discard any Group Code or Content within any Group or anywhere on the Buzzen Platform or (iii) shut down a Group, with or without notice, and with no liability of any kind to you.
Additionally, when a breach of this Agreement and/or the Privacy Policy has occurred, Buzzen may take the following actions:
Warn you and request you to remedy the breach; and In case of failure to remedy the breach and after warning you, withdraw your right to use the Buzzen Platform and remove any Content.
Group Acceptable Use
You are solely responsible for your conduct, Your Groups, Your Code, and Your Content on the Buzzen Platform. We want to keep the Groups on Buzzen safe and fun for everyone and the use of the Buzzen Platform for unlawful or harmful activities is not allowed. In defining "safe and fun," you specifically agree that:
The Content you post, email or make available to Users must:
You will not post, email or make available any Content to Users or use the Buzzen Platform:
In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
In a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
To engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines, including to other Users whether on or off the Buzzen Platform in connection with Your Group;
In a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
In a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
In a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
In a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable, as reasonably determined by Buzzen;
To impersonate a Buzzen employee, or any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to a Group or the Buzzen Platform without authorization;
To interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Buzzen Platform or prevent others from using the Buzzen Platform, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Buzzen Platform, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use the Buzzen Platform;
To facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
In a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's consent;
In a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Buzzen Platform or to Users; and
In a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if (1) posted in Your Content; or (2) emailed to Users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additionally, you agree not to:
"Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other Users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any Member of the Buzzen Platform, including Buzzen Account passwords from a Group Manager, or to proxy authentication credentials for any Member of the Buzzen Platform for the purposes of automating logins to the Buzzen Platform;
Use any profanity or the description or name of any illegal activity in the name of Your Group;
Use the name "Buzzen" as any part of the name of Your Group;
Post any Content containing child pornography to any Group;
Post any Content that Buzzen determines, in its sole discretion, depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
Post any Content that Buzzen determines, in its sole discretion, constitutes pornography or is adult in nature;
Post irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Buzzen' infrastructure;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to Buzzen' computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Buzzen Platform; and
Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Buzzen Platform.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use the Buzzen Platform or any of Your Groups (and Your Groups will not be designed) to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree to immediately notify Buzzen in the event of an actual or threatened claim that you have violated any of the covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement.
Miscellaneous:
Buzzen relies on your continued observance of these Terms of Use. If Buzzen suffers any loss or damage or incurs any costs in connection with any breach of these Terms of Use or any other legal obligation then you agree to indemnify Buzzen for those losses, damages and costs.
All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Canada. This agreement also is in accordance with international laws and treaties.
Proprietary Rights-User License in Content on Buzzen.
1.Buzzen does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you transmit, submit, display or publish ("post") on , through or in connection with the Buzzen Services. After posting your Content on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By posting any Content on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services, you hereby grant to Buzzen a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services, including, without limitation, through the Buzzen Services to applications, widgets, websites or mobile, desktop or other services which are linked with your Buzzen account (collectively, "Linked Services"), including, without limitation, distributing part or all of the Buzzen Services and any Content included therein, in any media formats and through any media channels, except that Content marked "private" will not be distributed by Buzzen outside the Buzzen Services and Linked Services. This limited license does not grant Buzzen the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the Buzzen Services or Linked Services. After you remove your Content from the Buzzen Services we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate. If after we have distributed your Content outside of the Buzzen Services, you change the Content's privacy setting to "private," we will cease distribution of such "private" Content outside of the Buzzen Services as soon as practicable after you make the change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you understand and agree that once Content is distributed to a Linked Service or incorporated into other aspects of the Buzzen Services, Buzzen is under no obligation to delete or ask other Users or a Linked Service to delete that Content, and therefore it may continue to appear and be used indefinitely.
2.The license you grant to Buzzen is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to Buzzen), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that Buzzen is not required to pay you or anyone else deriving rights from you for the use on the Buzzen Services of the Content that you post), sub licensable (so that Buzzen is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the Buzzen Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the Buzzen Services are global in reach).
3.You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services, or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this Section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services and/or Linked 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 Content posted by you on or through the Buzzen Services and/or Linked Services.
4.The Buzzen Services contain Content of Buzzen ("Buzzen Content's. Buzzen Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and Buzzen owns and retains all rights in the Buzzen Content and the Buzzen Services. Buzzen hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non sub licensable license to reproduce and display the Buzzen Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the Buzzen Website and using the Buzzen Services.
5.The Buzzen Services contain Content of Users and other Buzzen licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell or otherwise use any Content appearing on or through the Buzzen Services.
6.Buzzen performs technical functions necessary to offer the Buzzen Services, including, but not limited to, the technical processing and transmission of email communications to perform the email service, and transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use throughout the Buzzen Services. In addition, you agree and acknowledge that Buzzen may send messages including, but not limited to, notifications, special offers, promotions, commercial advertisements, and marketing materials, in connection with the Buzzen Services. You can control what type of communications you receive from the Buzzen Services by logging into your account and choosing the appropriate notifications settings or by following the unsubscribe instructions contained at the bottom of commercial emails.
7. Buzzen reserves the right to limit the storage capacity of Content that you post on, through or in connection with the Buzzen Services.