Terms of Use

Effective: October 10, 2019

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you (“you”) and GovText LLC (“Company”, “GovText”, “we”, “us” or “our”) that allows you to use our software, subscriptions, applications (“apps”), websites, SMS text messaging platform (the “Platform”), and other products and services, as long as you follow the Terms. By accessing or using the Services (defined below), you signify your agreement to (1) all terms and conditions in these Terms, (2) our privacy policy located on our website (“Privacy Policy”), (3) our Acceptable Use Policy located on our website (“Acceptable Use Policy” or “AUP”), and (4) any other standard policies or community guidelines, if any, posted in our Services, which are all expressly incorporated herein and must also be observed and followed (clauses (1) through (4) collectively, the “Agreement”). As used herein, “you” may refer to our enterprise customer and/or the individual end user subscriber who is a customer of such customer, as the context dictates, and as more fully set forth herein.

To Use Our Services (defined below), You:

May need to register with us to access and use some of our Services
Must not initiate or participate in any activities on our Services that are illegal, harmful, or interfere with anyone’s use of our services, including the sending of e-mail or instant messaging spam

If You Post Content On our Services, You:

May post content that you create or have been given permission to post by the owner, is legal, and doesn’t violate this Agreement
Are responsible for content, data and information that you post to our Services and assume all risks of posting personal information online
Continue to own the content, subject to and in accordance with this Agreement.

I. Description of services

By accessing or using our Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription service(s), website(s), mobile app(s), software, API(s), other product(s), service(s), data, or information supplied to you by the Company (collectively, as applicable, the “Services”), including without limitation by downloading, installing or using any associated software, APIs or apps supplied by the Company, including any for which the purpose is to enable you to use the Services (collectively, the “Software”, which is considered a part of the Services), you agree to the terms of this Agreement. Any reference to the “website(s)”, the “web site(s)”, the “site”, “https://govtext.org”, or other similar references, shall include any and all pages, subdomains, affiliated domains, brands, products or other areas of our website, or any other affiliated sites or domains owned or operated by or on behalf of us, plus any of the online content, information and services as made available in or through the website. The Services include without limitation all aspects of the website, or of any app or other product or service, including but not limited to all products, Software and other applications, features, channels and services offered therein. Any reference to “content” shall include all content in all forms or mediums, such as (without limitation) text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, audiovisual combinations, interactive features and other materials you may view on, access through, or contribute to the Services.

You must be at least 18 years of age, and, where law requires an older legal age, of legal age for contractual consent or older to use this website and/or the other Services. Due to the age restrictions, no content or information from the Services falls within the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPA”) and is not monitored as doing so. All information and services are exchanged electronically, via the internet. You are responsible for maintaining your own access to the internet, and for obtaining and maintaining any equipment and ancillary services needed to connect to, access or otherwise use the Services, including, without limitation, modems, hardware, servers, software, operating systems, networking, web servers and the like (collectively, “Equipment”). You shall also be responsible for maintaining the security of the Equipment. You consent to receiving communications electronically. Company is a privately owned and operated company and does not represent or speak for any governmental office or authority. You may acquire additional products, services and/or content of ours from our websites or Services. We reserve the right to require that you agree to separate agreements as a condition of your use and/or purchase of such additional products, services and/or content, which terms will apply in addition to these Terms.

The Platform may include a service that lets people communicate with one another via text messaging (and may or may not include voice calls). The Platform may include a peer-to-peer communication service (“Peer-to-Peer Service”) that facilitates peer-to-peer text messaging (and possibly voice conversations) over regular 10-digit dialable telephone numbers (“Long Codes”), and may or may not include a short code service that enables individuals to sign up to be contacted and share their information via application-to-person messaging over a common short code (“Short Code Service”). This Agreement governs all use of the Services, including without limitation all use of the Platform by entities and/or individuals who send an SMS or MMS message to a short code (if applicable), or who make a call (if applicable) or send an SMS or MMS message to a long code managed by one of our customers (as further defined herein, an “end user” or “subscriber”).

OPT-OUT.

All subscribers, including you, have the ability to unsubscribe or opt-out of the Service at any time as described below:

Stop messages: To stop receiving text messages and calls from any of our customers, text STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE to the Long Code that you received a message from. You will now be permanently unsubscribed from all future messages.
Email us at info@govtext.org and provide us your own phone number and the number you received calls or messages from, and tell us that you want to unsubscribe.

You may also email us at info@govtext.org in the event you believe that our customer has added your information in error or without your permission.

SMS/MMS USAGE POLICY. This SMS/MMS Usage Policy is designed to prevent fraud and abuse of our subscriptions by a small number of individuals. SMS/MMS usage is limited and any subscriber who sends more than ten (10) messages in a row without receiving a response from our customer may lead to restricted use and possibly termination of the use of the Platform and/or other Services.

II. Passwords and access

In order to access some features of the Services, you may have to register or create an account. You may never use another’s account without permission. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. Registration or subscription to the Services and payment of any applicable fee, authorizes a single individual to use the Services unless otherwise expressly stated. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your account password secure. You must notify Company immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Although Company will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for the losses of Company or others due to such unauthorized use. It is a condition of your use of the Services that all the information you provide will be correct, current, and complete; If we believe the information you provide is not correct, current, or complete, we have the right to refuse you access to the Services or any of its resources, and to terminate or suspend your access at any time, without notice.

You shall not download any content, software or services unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by Company on the Services for that content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of Company or the respective licensors of the content. Company and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Services and their content.

You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Services or the content therein.

III. Your obligations

You represent and warrant that all information that you provide to us will be true, accurate, complete and current, and that you have the right to provide such information to us in connection with your use of the Services. You must comply with the terms of our Acceptable Use Policy.

Company has no obligation to monitor the Services. However, you acknowledge and agree that Company has the right to monitor the Services electronically from time to time, and to disclose any information as necessary or appropriate to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, to operate the Services properly. Company reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, inappropriate or in violation of this Agreement.

With respect to any Software, including without limitation subscription software as a service, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, we hereby grant to you a limited, nonexclusive, non-transferable license to access and use such Software during the term of this Agreement, solely by the number of authorized users, and only up to the approved and mutually agreed usage volumes, as set forth on the applicable ordering document or as otherwise mutually agreed in writing, and solely for internal and non-commercial purposes, provided that you shall also comply at all times with all official documentation, technical manuals, functional manuals, operator and user guides and manuals.

Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, you shall not, and shall not attempt to (and shall not authorize or allow any third party to or attempt to): (a) download or otherwise obtain a copy of the Service (as applicable as such term is used herein, including any portion thereof) in any form; (b) reverse engineer, reverse compile, decompile, disassemble, or translate, exploit, or otherwise derive the source code of the Service or otherwise modify, the Service, or create any derivative works thereof; or (c) sell, resell, lease, license, sublicense, distribute, reproduce, copy, duplicate, or otherwise transfer or exploit the Service or use it as a service bureau; (d) post, send, process or store infringing, obscene, threatening, libelous, or otherwise unlawful or tortuous material, including material violating of third party rights; (e) intentionally post, send, process or store material containing software viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful or malicious computer code, files, scripts, agents or programs; (f) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or related systems or networks; or (g) use, or authorize or permit the use of, the Service except as expressly permitted herein; (h) use the Service to perform any activity which is or may be, directly or indirectly, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, or defamatory, nor to perform any activity which breaches the rights of any third party. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the Service may be used (i) only by the number of persons for whom a license fee has been paid, and all such use may only be by those persons using the Service for the benefit of you in the course and scope of their employment, subject to the terms hereof, and only up to the approved and mutually agreed usage volumes (e.g., preapproved numbers of messages); (ii) only in its original form or combination with other products, services or software except as expressly authorized in any applicable documentation; and (iii) in compliance with all applicable laws and in compliance with all documentation and instructions provided by us. You agree not to copy, duplicate or imitate, in whole or in part, any concept, idea, business model, business process, product, service or other intellectual property or other ideas or content embodied in the Services or learned by you from your use of or access to the Services. You agree not to use the Services to violate any local, state, national or international law or to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with a person or entity.

While most of the Services are not permitted to be resold or used for the benefit of third parties, the Platform may be used by you, subject to all other terms and conditions herein, to offer to and for the use of your customers (including without limitation, any call centers, B2B clients, universities, political campaigns and other entities), and your customers’ customers / end users, (collectively, “end users”). You may elect to allocate liability between you and end users in your discretion provided that we are not responsible for any such liability. You (and not we) are solely responsible for all content and any messages you send or try to send to, from or between, end users. We shall have no liability whatsoever to end users. We are not responsible for any disputes between you and your end users. All disclaimers, warranty limitations, and limitations of liability, by us herein, or otherwise with respect to us and/or the Services, are applicable not only to you but also to end users. With respect to use of the Platform, end users are responsible for and subject to all the same terms as herein, which must be fully disclosed to them by you. You shall not state or imply otherwise. You shall be responsible for clearly and conspicuously notifying and disclosing to your end users (including without limitation in any posted terms and conditions and policies and in any written agreements with your end users), all of the foregoing requirements and limitations. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any for any allegation, loss, liability, claim made against us by any end users or otherwise arising out of any breach of this paragraph and for any allegations, claims or disputes by, or between you and end users.

We grant to you a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to our publicly available portions of the Services, subject to the terms hereof, provided that the link does not portray us or our products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or offensive matter, and provided you do not i-frame them or alter the content therein or in any way imply a relationship therewith. You may not use any logo, trademark, or tradename that may be displayed on this site or other proprietary graphic image in the link without our prior written consent.

Each Party will keep and protect any of the Confidential Information of the other party as confidential, using at least the same efforts you use to protect its own confidential information and in no event less than reasonable and industry standard efforts. “Confidential Information” includes the Services, documentation and information about the Services and their operation, and any other information obtained from or about a Party or from or about the Services, or any other information which a reasonable person would or should understand to be confidential or proprietary in nature. Each Party agrees to return or destroy the Confidential Information of the other party when this Agreement is over. Each Party acknowledges and agrees that the other party shall be entitled to seek equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction without the necessity of posting bond and in addition to such other remedies as may be available under law or in equity. The confidentiality obligations shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement.

While this Section highlights some of your key obligations, headers and section titles are for convenience only, and you are bound by all the terms of this Agreement.

IV. Public postings and licensed materials

We will use reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality of certain personally identifiable information you submit to us (e.g., your address and credit card information submitted by you initially for the purpose of subscribing to the Service) (“Personally Identifiable Information”), in accordance with the Privacy Policy posted on our website.

Certain material you may post on our Services is or may be available to the public, including without limitation any public profile data, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, uploads, blog entries, ratings, reviews, images, videos, poll answers, etc., in any form or media, that you post via the Services or otherwise (collectively, “Public Postings”). These Public Postings will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary. You are responsible for any Public Postings and the consequences of sharing or publishing such content with others or the general public. This includes, for example, any personal information, such as your address, the address of others, or your current location. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF PUBLICLY SHARING OR POSTING ANY PERSONAL OR OTHER INFORMATION ON THE SERVICES.

By providing any Public Posting, you (i) grant to Company a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works (including products) from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in all media and you license to us all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such content for publication on the Services pursuant to this Agreement; (ii) agree that we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts or techniques embodied therein for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing and marketing products or services incorporating such ideas, concepts, or techniques, without attribution, without any liability or obligation to you; (iii) grant to Company the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content. In addition, you hereby waive all moral rights you may have in any Public Posting.

You shall be solely responsible for your own content and any Pubic Postings. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish content you post or submit. You further agree that content you submit via Public Postings will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant us all of the license rights granted herein. You further agree that you will not submit to the Services any content or other material that is contrary to any posted “community guidelines” or similarly titled document, if any, which may be updated from time to time, or contrary to applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations.

We do not endorse any content submitted to the Services by any user or other licensor, or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with content. We do not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on the Services, and we will remove all content if properly notified that such content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights as set forth herein below. We reserve the right to decide whether your content violates this Agreement for reasons other than copyright infringement, such as, but not limited to, pornography, obscenity, or excessive length. We may at any time, without prior notice and at our sole discretion, remove such content and/or terminate a user’s account or otherwise block access for submitting such material in violation of this Agreement.

We are not responsible for end user error or errors in inputs or for errors in any user supplied data. We do not independently verify the truthfulness or accuracy of any data or content input into the Services and are not responsible for the fraud, misrepresentation, negligence or misconduct of any end user or other third party.

Neither party shall issue or release any announcement, statement, press release or other publicity or marketing materials relating to this Agreement or otherwise use the other party’s trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, domain names or other indicia of source, affiliation or sponsorship, in each case, without the prior written consent of the other party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Additionally, upon your consent, we may prepare a case study relating to your access and use of the Services, including but not limited to one or more testimonials from you or your users, aggregated data of the results of your use of the Services, and other informational material as determined by us. You agree to provide reasonable assistance to us and timely responses in our preparation of said case study and you will own the content.

V. Fees and payments

If and to the extent any portion of the Services may require a fee payment or incremental payment or subscription, you agree to pay Company any applicable fees posted for the Services. By completing and submitting any credit card or other payment authorization through the Services, you are authorizing Company to charge the fees to the account you identify. You must keep all billing information, including payment method, up to date. You agree to pay us for all charges incurred under your account, including all applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges. You authorize and direct us to charge your designated payment method for these charges or, if your designated payment method fails, to charge any other payment method you have on file with us. Further, you authorize and direct us to retain information about the payment method(s) associated with your account. If we do not receive payment from your designated payment method or any other payment method on file, you agree to pay all amounts due upon demand by us. You will be responsible for accrued but unpaid charges, even if your account is canceled by you or terminated by us. During any free trial or other promotion, if any, you will still be responsible for any purchases and surcharges incurred using your account.

After 30 days from the date of any unpaid charges, your fee-based Services will be deemed delinquent and we may terminate or suspend your account and Services for nonpayment. We reserve the right to assess an additional 1.5 percent late charge (or the highest amount allowed by law, whichever is lower) per month if your payment is more than 30 days past due and to use any lawful means to collect any unpaid charges. You are liable for any fees, including attorney and collection fees, incurred by us in our efforts to collect any remaining balances from you.

You are responsible for all charges incurred under your account, including applicable taxes, fees, surcharges, and purchases made by you or anyone you allow to use your account (including your children, family, friends, or any other person with implied, actual, or apparent authority) or anyone who gains access to your account as a result of your failure to safeguard your username, password, or other authentication credentials or information. Except as otherwise mutually agreed in writing, we reserve the right to change our fees with 30 days’ notice.

Any text messages sent and/or received via the Platform are subject to standard text messaging rates. Additionally, text messages or voice calls sent and/or received via the Platform may count towards a quota depending on your carrier’s plan. Text messaging, and voice rates, and quotas can normally be found by asking your carrier.

VI. Warranties and limitations of warranties

With respect to any fee-based Services, if you signed up for designated term or timeframe, you will still be responsible for payment for the full term. If you did not subscribe for any minimum period, then you may cancel at any time on 30 days advance notice, and cease to use the Services, then you will not be charged any additional amounts after the effective date of such termination. In any case, you will be responsible for any and all charges and activity accrued prior to your Services termination date, and those obligations will survive your termination of the Services. Company undertakes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the information it provides is current and accurate, however, Company does not warrant the accuracy of information. Company also undertakes commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality of any confidential information you provide, in accordance with the Privacy Policy, however, Company does not guarantee the confidentiality of such information against unauthorized third party access or system failure. Services may be temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance or for unscheduled emergency maintenance, either by us or by third-party providers, or because of other causes beyond our reasonable control. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the Services.

THE SERVICES, THE WEBSITE, AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT, AND MATERIALS RELATED TO THE FOREGOING, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, NON-INTERFERENCE, SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND ACCURACY OF DATA. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR VIRUS FREE. ALTHOUGH INFORMATION THAT YOU SUBMIT MAY BE PASSWORD PROTECTED, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION TRANSMITTED TO OR FROM THE SERVICES AND YOU AGREE TO ASSUME THE SECURITY RISK FOR ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE THROUGH THE SERVICES.

VII. Limitations of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS OR DAMAGES ARISING DUE TO BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR FROM LOSS OR INACCURACY OF INFORMATION, INCLUDING IF AND TO THE EXTENT ANY OF THE FOREGOING ARISES IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE AND EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE LIKELY OR POSSIBLE. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF US TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES, EXCEED THE TOTAL FEES PAID TO US BY YOU, IF ANY, DURING THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE DATE OF ANY CLAIM (OR $10 IF THE SERVICES ARE FREE). YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS AN ESSENTIAL TERM BETWEEN YOU AND US RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICE TO YOU AND WE WOULD NOT PROVIDE THE SERVICE TO YOU WITHOUT THIS LIMITATION.

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS US AND OUR AFFILIATED COMPANIES, AND EACH OF OUR AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, AGENTS, AND EMPLOYEES FROM AND AGAINST ALL LOSSES, EXPENSES, DAMAGES, CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS, COSTS, EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, INCURRED BY US OR SUCH PARTIES AND/OR ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM (1) ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED VIOLATION BY YOU OF THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY HEREIN); (2) ANY ACTIVITY RELATED TO YOUR ACCOUNT BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON ACCESSING THE SERVICE WITH YOUR PASSWORD; (3) YOUR USE OF AND ACCESS TO THE SERVICES; (4) YOUR ACTUAL OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY COPYRIGHT, PROPERTY OR PRIVACY RIGHT; (5) YOUR ACTUAL OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ANY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION; AND/OR (6) YOUR CONTENT OR DATA, INCLUDING IF IT CAUSES ANY DAMAGE TO A THIRD PARTY. YOUR DEFENSE, INDEMNIFICATION AND HOLD HARMLESS OBLIGATIONS IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL SURVIVE THIS AGREEMENT AND YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES.

ANY USE OF THE PLATFORM OR OTHER SERVICES BY ANY PARTY, INCLUDING YOU, IS DONE AT THE USER’S OWN RISK, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. DO NOT USE THE SERVICE TO SEND (AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR) ANY EMERGENCY OR HIGH RISK MESSAGES, SUCH AS, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY USE WHERE THE FAILURE OF THE SERVICE COULD CAUSE SERIOUS RISK, INCLUDING RISK OF INJURY TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY, OR A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. Do not use the Platform or other Service to (and we are not responsible if you), provide any regulated advice (such as, without limitation, medical/health, legal, tax or financial advice or services) via the Platform or other Services; and you are responsible for any and all necessary certifications, qualifications, licensing, professional licenses or degrees, and approvals for your services and content, and the Service should not be relied upon as a substitute for consultations with qualified professionals who are familiar with the end user’s individual needs. End users must please consult your lawyer, doctor, financial advisor, tax advisor, accountant, or other applicable professional, as necessary.

You acknowledge that the information on the Website and other Services is provided ‘as is’ for general information only. If you use the Services to provide any services or content or messages in any heavily regulated industry, such as, without limitation, medical, legal, tax or financial advice, you are fully responsible for all such services, and represent and warrant that you are appropriately qualified and certified to do so, possessing all necessary licenses and permits to do so. You indemnify us for any failure by you or your agents to do so and/or to follow any applicable laws, rules and regulations, and/or any industry standards or best practices. You may use the Services for informational purposes only, as an aid, but only as one information source among many, and not as the sole basis for making any decisions; you must conduct proper due diligence and use your own judgment when making any decisions based on any information, analytics or reports derived from the Services.

We shall not be liable for any circumstances arising out of causes beyond our reasonable control or without our fault or negligence, including, but not limited to, Acts of God, acts of civil or military authority, fires, riots, wars, embargoes, Internet disruptions, hacker attacks, or communications failures, or other force majeure.

If we breach this Agreement, you agree that your exclusive remedy is to recover, from us or any affiliates, resellers, distributors, and vendors, direct damages up to an amount equal to your Services fee for six months (or up to USD$10.00 if the Services are free). YOU CAN’T RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE. These limitations and exclusions apply if this remedy doesn’t fully compensate you for any losses or fails of its essential purpose or if we knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages. To the maximum extent permitted by law, these limitations and exclusions apply to anything related to this Agreement such as, without limitation, loss of content; any virus affecting your use of the Services; delays or failures in starting or completing transmissions or transactions; claims for breach of contract, warranty, guarantee, or condition; strict liability, negligence, misrepresentation, or omission; trespass, or other tort; violation of statute or regulation; or unjust enrichment. Some or all of these limitations or exclusions may not apply to you if your state, province, or country doesn’t allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential, or other damages.

VIII. Duration of terms

Once in effect, this Agreement will continue in operation until terminated by either you or us. However, even after termination, the provisions of sections III through XV of this Agreement will remain in effect in relation to any prior use of the Services by you. You may terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason by providing notice to Company in the manner specified in this Agreement or by choosing to cancel your access to the Services using the tools provided for that purpose within the Services. We may terminate this Agreement without notice or, at our option, temporarily suspend your access to the Services, in the event that you breach this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company also reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason by providing notice to you either through email or other reasonable means. After termination of this Agreement for any reason, you understand and acknowledge that Company will have no further obligation to provide the Services or access thereto. Upon termination, all licenses and other rights granted to you by this Agreement, if any, will immediately cease, but your licenses to us shall survive, and certain of your obligations (including payment obligations, if any) will survive in accordance with the terms hereof.

IX. Modification of terms

Company may change the pricing of Services from time to time. You will be notified of any such changes via e-mail (if you have provided a valid email address) and/or by our posting notice of the pricing changes on the Services (which may consist of publishing the changes on our website). Any such changes will become effective 30 days after notice is received or 30 days after posted on the Services, whichever first occurs. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse will be to terminate this Agreement.

X. Modifications to services

We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Services at any time with or without notice to you, including without limitation by adding or subtracting features and functionality, third party content, etc. Continued use of the Services following notice of any such changes will indicate your acknowledgement and acceptance of such changes and satisfaction with the Services as so modified.

XI. Ownership

We and/or our vendors and suppliers, as applicable, retain all right, title and interest in and to the Services, the website and all information, content, Software, and other software and materials provided by or on behalf of us, including but not limited to all text, images, videos, logos, button icons, audio clips, and the look and feel of the website and our brands and logos, and any data compilations, including without limitation any data input by or on behalf of us or our third party providers, and any aggregate, anonymized, statistical data about messages sent and received, and the nature and success of campaigns you run through us. Personally Identifiable Information that you submit to us, including phone numbers, will remain yours and not be collected or stored by us for the purposes of reselling or monetization.

You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, distribute or create derivative works from any information, content, software or materials provided by us, or remove any copyright or other proprietary rights notices contained in any such information, content, software or materials without the copyright owner’s prior written consent.

Unless otherwise stated, all content in our websites or other Services, is our property or the property of third parties. These contents are protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other copyright laws.

Your feedback is welcome and encouraged. You agree, however, that (i) by submitting unsolicited ideas to us, you automatically forfeit your right to any intellectual property rights in such ideas; and (ii) unsolicited ideas submitted to us or any of our employees or representatives automatically become our property.

XII. International users

The Services are controlled, operated and administered by us from within the United States. We make no representation that this site is available for access or use at other locations outside the U.S. However, any access or use from outside the U.S. is still subject to this Agreement. Access to the Services is expressly prohibited from territories where this site or any portion thereof is illegal. You agree not to access or use any information or materials on the Services in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations, or in violation of any laws or regulations in the country from which you are accessing the Services. Any personal information which we may collect via the Services may be stored and processed in our servers located in the United States or in any other country in which we, or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or agents maintain facilities. You consent to any such transfer of personal information outside your country of residence to any such location.

XIII. Third party content and services

Certain content (including without limitation advertisements) on the Services may be supplied by third parties. Company does not have editorial control over such content. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information that constitutes part of the content expressed or made available by third parties, including without limitation, suppliers and vendors, advertisers, or any customer or user of the Services, are those of the respective authors or distributors and not of Company or its affiliates or any of its officers, directors, employees, or agents. In many instances, the content available on the Services represents the opinions and judgments of the respective third parties, whether or not under contract with Company. You may enter into correspondence with or participate in promotions of such third parties, such as advertisers promoting their products, services or content on this site. Any such correspondence or participation, including the delivery of and the payment for products, services or content, are solely between you and each such third party. Company neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, submission, posting, or statement made on the Services. Under no circumstances shall the Company, or its affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, or agents, be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on any content or other information obtained through the Services.

The Services may integrate and/or interact with third party services, such as via APIs or browser extensions. For example, the Services may leverage APIs from third parties, and/or rely on third party browser extensions, and the Company has no affiliation, association, endorsement, or sponsorship by any other third party services with which it integrates or interacts from time to time (collectively, “Third Party Services”). Company makes no claim, representation or warranty of any kind, type or nature concerning any Third Party Services, nor Company’s or any User’s compliance with any third party terms of service for any such Third Party Services (collectively, “Third Party Terms”). It shall be each User’s sole responsibility to analyze and interpret any applicable Third Party Terms and comply therewith. Each User is solely responsible for their interpretation of Third Party Terms and their actions relevant to compliance thereof. By using the Services, you hereby release Company and waive any and all claims or claim rights that you may have against Company, and release and indemnify Company against any claims that any third party may have against you, including with respect to your use of any Third Party Services, including if accessed or used via our Services, and with respect to Third Party Terms, applicable privacy policies or any other rules or regulations of such third parties.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we may elect, in our discretion, to utilize social logins, allowing you to login to the Services via other third party authentication services, such as (without limitation) your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, or other account credentials. You understand that these are Third Party Services, and this in no way creates and endorsement of, by or from us to them or vice versa, that we are not responsible for their logins, systems or data, and that by using such third party logins, you may be subject to their respective privacy policies and other terms of use.

You understand that when using the Services, you will be exposed to content from a variety of sources, and that we are not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such content. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against us with respect thereto, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its owners, operators, affiliates, licensors, and licensees to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your use of the Services.

As a convenience to you, Company may provide, in or through the Services, one or more links to third party web sites or services and/or provide email contacts respecting third parties. Company makes no endorsement of such third parties, nor any representation or warranty regarding anything that takes place between you and any such third parties, including, without limitation, visits to third party web sites, services, email correspondence with third parties, and business or other transactions with third parties found through the Services. Please understand that such third parties are independent from and not controlled by Company, even if, for example, a Company link or logo appears on a website linked from this website or our other Services. It is up to you to read those third party sites’ applicable terms of use, privacy, and other applicable policies. For example, without limitation, we may outsource operation of certain aspects of our Services to one or more third parties, and they may have access to certain data by virtue of operating such Services, subject to their own policies.

XIV. Digital Millenium Copyright Act

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any content in our Services infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, 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;
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;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
A statement 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; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Company’s designated method to receive notifications of claimed infringement is by emailing the Copyright Agent at info@govtext.org. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section your DMCA notice may not be valid.
If you believe that your content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:
- Your physical or electronic signature;
- Identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and
- Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in Washington, D.C., and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, Company may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 or more business days after receipt of the counter-notice, at Company’s sole discretion.

The GovText Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

GovText LLC
Attn: Copyright Agent
3470 E Coast Ave #L-44
Miami, FL 33137
Email: info@govtext.org

XV. Class action waiver and arbitration

THIS SECTION CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS ABOUT HOW TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE WITH US.

Except if you opt-out as expressly permitted below, or except to the extent contrary to applicable law (“Excluded Disputes”), you hereby agree that all disputes between you and us (whether or not such dispute involves a third party) with regard to your relationship with us, including without limitation disputes related to these Terms of Use, your use of the Service, and/or rights of privacy and/or publicity, may, in our discretion, be resolved by binding, individual arbitration under the American Arbitration Association’s rules for arbitration of consumer-related disputes and you hereby expressly waive trial by jury. As an alternative, you may bring your claim in your local “small claims” court, if permitted by that small claims court’s rules. You may bring claims only on your own behalf. You agree that you shall not participate in any class action or class-wide arbitration for any claims covered by this Agreement. You also agree not to participate in claims brought in a private attorney general or representative capacity, or consolidated claims involving another person’s account, if we are a party to the proceeding. This dispute resolution provision will be governed by the US Federal Arbitration Act, to the extent permissible. In the event the American Arbitration Association is unwilling or unable to set a hearing date within one hundred and sixty (160) days of filing the case, then either we or you can elect to have the arbitration administered instead by the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services. Judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having competent jurisdiction. Any provision of applicable law notwithstanding, the arbitrator will not have authority to award damages, remedies or awards that conflict with these Terms of Use. You may opt out of this agreement to arbitrate. If you do so, neither you nor we can require the other to participate in an arbitration proceeding. To opt out, you must notify us in writing within 30 days of the date that you first became subject to this arbitration provision. You must use this address to opt out:

info@govtext.org

You must include your name and residence address, the email address you use for your account with us, and a clear statement that you want to opt out of this arbitration agreement. If and to the extent the prohibition against class actions and other claims brought on behalf of third parties contained above is found to be unenforceable, then such preceding language in this Arbitration section will be null and void. This arbitration agreement will survive the termination of your relationship with us.

XVI. Miscellaneous

You shall comply with all laws, rules and regulations now or hereafter promulgated by any government authority or agency that are applicable to your use of the Services, the messages or content you post or send through the Service, or the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, including without limitation, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), and all industry standards, self-regulatory guidelines and best practices, including without limitation as promulgated by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (“CTIA”). As between you and us, you are solely responsible for compliance with all such laws with respect to your use of the Services, and any messages or content you post or send through the Service and we are solely responsible for compliance with such laws with respect to the Services, as set forth in Article 16 below. You may not assign your rights or obligations hereunder, and any attempt by you to sublicense, assign or transfer any of the rights, duties or obligations hereunder or to exceed the scope of this Agreement is void. In the event that Company is sold to a third party, such a sale will not be deemed a transfer of personal information so long as that third party agrees to assume Company’s obligations as to these Terms of Services and any associated Privacy Policy. This Agreement, the Services, and the rights and obligations of the parties with respect to the Services will be subject to and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, excluding conflict of law principles. By accessing or using any Services you agree that the statutes and laws of Florida , without regard to conflicts of law principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use thereof. You also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive legal jurisdiction and venues of the Courts of the State of Florida with respect to such matters. This is the entire agreement between you and Company with regard to the matters described herein and govern your use of the Services, superseding any prior agreements between you and Company with respect thereto. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect.

XVII. Our Obligations

We represent and warrant that the Services comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations nor or hereafter promulgated by any government authority or agency that are applicable to the Services including, without limitation, the TCPA.