GoPetition - Terms of Use

Definitions:

The services that GoPetition provides to you are subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU").

"User" refers to any individual who loads any material to or from the GoPetition server. "Member" means any person who authors a petition on the GoPetition site or any person who joins the GoPetition community by opening an account.

TOU:

(1). User/Member Agreement: In consideration of being allowed to use the website facilities provided by GoPetition, User/Member agrees that User/Member will not:

A. Use petition and forum facilities for any purpose in violation of local, state or national laws of any country;

B. Post material that is copyrighted, unless User/Member owns them or has the permission of the copyright owner to post it;

C. Post material that reveals trade secrets, unless User/Member owns them or has the permission of the owner of the trade secrets to post it;

D. Post material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;

E. Post material that could be construed by a reasonable person as threatening, obscene, defamatory, unreasonable, hurtful, harassing, or hateful to another User/Member or any other person or entity;

F. Post advertisements or solicitations of business;

G. Post chain letters or pyramid schemes;

H. Impersonate another person.

I. Submit false User/Member information when creating or signing a petition. GoPetition reserves the right to edit, change or remove petitions or signatures or User information when untruthful and inaccurate User/Member information is supplied. This includes but is not limited to Name, Address, City, State, postal code and e-mail address. Members may use alias names and nicknames to protect identity as long as such name(s) do not conflict with this clause and these terms of service.

J. Signature Management and Signature Edits. Members must not edit a signature in any way that compromises the intent of the signer. Petition authors agree to edit signatures only to remedy a spelling or grammatical error, remove an obscenity or remove spam, or delete illegal material.

K. Members must use signature lists (including email addresses) responsibly and legally. Members undertake not to spam their signature list.

L. Will not hold GoPetition responsible for the consequences of any search engine access to public signature list details.

M. Upload a petition about any issue that is currently before the courts, or will soon be before the courts, or use a petition as an instrument to engage in pre-litigation or litigation positioning. Petitions must not discuss evidence before the courts or show contempt of any court in any jurisdiction. A petition may not lobby court official in any matter that is before the courts. A petition cannot lobby jurors or make any comment about them. A petition should not, as a general rule, lobby state or federal prosecutors or judges.

N. Petitions must not show contempt of any court or judge in any jurisdiction.

(2). Regarding a Member's email address:

A. A Member's email address will never be displayed publicly by GoPetition. GoPetition has a strict privacy policy that can be viewed on this website.

B. Members will normally receive email alerts regarding mail sent to their GoPetition mailbox. This alert feature may be switched off at any time by a member.

C. Members may receive periodic emails from GoPetition which relate to site functions.

(4). License and copyright: By posting petitions and other communications, User/Member grants to GoPetition a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, moderate, publish, translate, distribute, perform and display those communications, inclusive of signatures, alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed and sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of licensees. GoPetition reserves any and all intellectual property rights, copyright or otherwise, attached to the publication of petitions, authored by members, on the GoPetition website.

(5). Indemnity: Every User/Member agrees to hold harmless GoPetition and its officers and directors from any and all claims, actions or demands, resulting from User/Member material posted to any facilities provided by GoPetition or any User/Member breach of the terms of this Agreement, or resulting from  publication of Members' details by GoPetition.

(6). Users and Members are subject to the GoPetition Disclaimer. The Disclaimer forms part of these Terms.  The GoPetition Privacy Policy is also subject to the Disclaimer and TOU.

(7). GoPetition at its discretion may release member or signer contact and other identifying details to third parties without notice to the member or signer. This clause would be occasionally invoked, for example, when GoPetition forms an opinion that the release of such information would be fair or equitable or may help in a legitimate legal investigation, criminal or civil.

(8). Construction: Nothing in the Terms and Conditions shall be construed as reducing or limiting GoPetition's rights or interests as set forth in the Disclaimer, or as expanding GoPetition's duties, obligations or liabilities beyond those provided for in the Terms and Conditions.

(9). GoPetition reserves the right to amend or change these terms of service so as to improve the services of GoPetition.

(10). While the services of GoPetition are generally free, we reserve the right to place a sponsor's advertisement on the same page as a Member's petition. We also reserve the right to post a sponsor's url on a Member's petition.

(11) GoPetition may charge for premium services which may vary from time to time according to GoPetition's discretion, use of server resources by a particular feature, and service availability.

(12). GoPetition has the right to moderate site content so that GoPetition Terms are complied with. However, GoPetition does not warrant that moderated content complies with the laws of relevant jurisdictions. GoPetition has the right to remove any site content without notice or reasons in the interests of site integrity.

(13). GoPetition does not necessarily endorse any website or advertiser displayed on the site.

(14). The terms herein shall be governed by the protections afforded by the Supreme Court of California to blog sites against claims for libel or copyright infringement. This website is not liable for any such infringements in relation to materials uploaded by members. Redress against member content lies with direct claims against members/authors, not this website.

(15). GoPetition is a premium content Website. GoPetition agrees to supply a moderated premium content site that displays and enhances petitions of local, national and international significance for the betterment of our members' interests.