Terms of Service

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

INQdrop, Inc. provides the following service to you, subject to these Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated periodically without prior notice. Failure to comply with these TOS may result in account revocation.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE

INQdrop is a web-based service that allows its users to create and update online articles (herein referred to as "INQdrop", or the "Service"). The Service may be used through a web browser or any other online means (the "Software"). Once registered with INQdrop, each user receives his or her own profile to post articles, data, messages, and/or other information. This Content may reside on INQdrop's servers or on the servers of a third party.

ACCOUNT STRUCTURE

INQdrop currently has a three-tier account structure.

Basic accounts: INQdrop accounts are available for free to all valid registrants. Basic accounts offer a profile page with access to article creation and all access to INQdrop articles.
Sponsored accounts: Sponsored accounts are available for term-based fee and offer users basic INQdrop features as well as extended and enhanced features. Sponsored accounts are nontransferable and non-refundable.
Once a username is chosen and paid for, that user generally retains it until the account is deleted, whether by INQdrop or the user. Please contact the INQdrop Team to further inquire about acquiring a Sponsored account.
Permanent accounts: These accounts have access to all the paid account features for as long as the Service continues to run. These accounts are generally bestowed upon the INQdrop founders, administrators, or those that have earned a Permanent account by virtue of "Excellence" for INQdrop and its Users.

YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS

Account registration and verification is required in order to create a INQdrop account. During registration, all users are required to provide accurate, complete and current information about themselves in all required fields. Should any of your own information change after submitting it to INQdrop, you are required to update that information as soon as possible. Should INQdrop suspect that your personal information is not complete, current, or accurate, your account may be subject to suspension or termination. Should you feel that INQdrop's privacy policy is not sufficient for you to complete the registration form truthfully, please email your policy concerns toadmin@INQdrop.com. Users under 13 years of age are required to have a parent or guardian review and complete the registration process, which may include age verification steps in addition to the standard process.

INQDROP.COM PRIVACY POLICY

Your use of the Service is subject to INQdrop's privacy policy. INQdrop is founded upon the philosophy of social democracy, that is, the contents of the site are determined primarily by the contents that the users of the site contribute. The moderators of the site have no access whatsoever to your password and will not release any personal information given to any third party networks. Information given at time of sign up is solely for the purposes of how much the user wishes to reveal about oneself in order to appeal to others who may share similar interest and thus be of interest to come in contact with.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold INQdrop, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any alleged claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Content, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another, whether you are a registered user or not. The user is solely responsible for his or her actions when using the Service, including, but not limited to, costs incurred for Internet access.

SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE

Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE

You acknowledge that INQdrop may be required to send you emails regarding your use of the Service; however, we will never ask you to submit additional personal information or to verify the status of information related to your account in any such email. You acknowledge that INQdrop may establish limits concerning use of the Service and may modify these limits at any time.

MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

INQdrop reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice at any time. You agree that INQdrop shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service.

NO RESALE OF SERVICE

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.

TERMINATION

You agree that INQdrop, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, journal, or account, and remove and discard any content within the Service, for any reason, including and without limitation, the lack of use, or if INQdrop believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Any contracts, verbal or written or assumed, in conjunction with your deleted journal and all its parts, at INQdrop's discretion, will be terminated as well. INQdrop may also, in its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that INQdrop may immediately deactivate or delete your INQdrop journal and all related information and files. INQdrop reserves the right to bar any further access to such files or the Service. You agree that INQdrop shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Paid accounts that are terminated will not be refunded.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

You understand and agree that some or all of the Service may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for INQdrop to provide the Service. You also understand and agree that you will not obscure any advertisements from general view via HTML/CSS or any other means. By using the Service, you agree that INQdrop has the right to run such advertisements with or without prior notice, and without recompense to you or any other user. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by INQdrop on your Content and throughout the Service are subject to change at INQdrop's discretion. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that INQdrop shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.

LINKS

The Service, or relevant third parties, may provide links to other web sites or resources. Because INQdrop has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that INQdrop is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that INQdrop shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

ARTICLE CONTENT

You agree to follow the following guidelines for posting Content to your online journal:

All Content posted to INQdrop in any way, is the responsibility and property of the author. INQdrop is committed to maintaining the Service in a manner reasonably acceptable to all audiences but is not responsible for the monitoring or filtering of any journal Content. Within the confines of international and local law, INQdrop will generally not place a limit on the type or appropriateness of user content within journals. Those users posting material not suitable for all audiences must agree that they are fully responsible for all the Content they have posted anywhere on the Service. Should Content be deemed illegal by such law having jurisdiction over the user, you agree that INQdrop may submit all necessary information to, and cooperate with, the proper authorities;
Should any Content that you have authored be reported to INQdrop as being offensive or inappropriate, INQdrop might call upon you to retract, modify, or protect (by means of private and friends only settings) the Content in question within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the INQdrop staff. Should you fail to meet such a request from INQdrop staff, INQdrop may terminate your account. INQdrop, however, is under no obligation to restrict or monitor journal Content in any way;
INQdrop claims no ownership or control over any Content posted by its users. The author retains all patent, trademark, and copyright to all Content posted within available fields, and is responsible for protecting those rights, but is not entitled to the help of the INQdrop staff in protecting such Content. The user posting any Content represents that it has all rights necessary to post such Content (and for INQdrop to serve such Content) without violation of any intellectual property or other rights of third parties, or any laws or regulations;
INQdrop reserves the right, without limitation except by law, to serve any user Content on the web, through the downloadable clients and otherwise. INQdrop also reserves the right, without limitation, to resell any portion of a user's INQdrop back to that individual;
5. You acknowledge that INQdrop does not pre-screen Content, but that INQdrop and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to remove or refuse to remove any Content that is available through the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, INQdrop and its designates shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable, or that infringes or is alleged to infringe intellectual property rights. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content. Furthermore, INQdrop reserves the right to limit access to your journal, if found in violation of the TOS, including without limitation the Member Conduct described below, by removing the journal and related user information from the member directory, search engine, and all other methods used in conjunction with finding INQdrop's users

INQDROP.COM PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

You acknowledge and agree that the Service, and any necessary software used in connection with the Service (referred to as "Software"), may contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable laws governing intellectual property, proprietary rights and the like. All INQdrop code and specifications, and all other code and specifications for the Software and the operation of the Service, are subject to their express or implied licenses. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or information presented to you through the Service or advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by INQdrop or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Content, the Service or the Software, in whole or in part.

Submission of Unsolicited Ideas and Information

INQdrop does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through this Site or by email. Unless otherwise agreed in writing by an authorized INQdrop representative, any material, information or idea you transmit to INQdrop by any means may be disseminated or used by INQdrop or its affiliates without compensation or liability to you for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products. However, this provision does not apply to Content (as defined herein), or to personal information that is subject to our Privacy Policy.

MEMBER CONDUCT

You understand that all Content, including without limitation, all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. INQdrop does not control Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the validity of such Content. You also understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable. Should Content be found or reported to be in violation with, but not limited to, the following terms, it will be INQdrop's sole discretion as to what action should be taken.

You agree to NOT use the Service to:

Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Harm minors in any way;
Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a INQdrop staff member or volunteer, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with INQdrop or any other person or entity;
Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party;
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any material 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;
Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;
Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
"Stalk" or otherwise harass another person or company;
Collect or store personal data about other users for business purposes;
Promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any governmental entity, group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, but is not limited to, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades, and other weapons or incendiary devices;
Use INQdrop as a forwarding service to another website;
Allow usage by others in such a way as to violate INQdrop's TOS;
Engage in commercial activities within INQdrop or on behalf of INQdrop without prior approval. This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:

Displaying a banner that is designed to profit you or any other business or organization; and
Displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web sites.

Employ tactics to prevent the full and complete display of advertisements on INQdrop pages. These include, but are not limited to, making journal style changes, customizations, or overrides that effectively block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on a Plus account's Content or other pages within the Service.
Solicit passwords or personal identifying information for unintended, commercial or unlawful purposes from other users.
Exceed the scope of the Service that you have signed up for; for example, accessing and using features that you do not have a right to use, or deleting, adding to, or otherwise changing other people's entries or other content when you have not been granted the privileges to do so.
Make excessive or otherwise harmful automated use of the system. See this page for details on our automated use policy: http://www.INQdrop.com/bots/.

If INQdrop determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that any user is in violation of the TOS, INQdrop retains the right to terminate such user's account at any time without prior notice.

VOLUNTEERS AND INQDROP.COM

INQdrop.com thanks all those users that make it possible for this website to stay alive. We depend on each and every one of you for your suggestions and continued support of INQdrop.

But all work and/or suggestions done for INQdrop.com will be considered on a volunteer basis and the volunteer will only receive property if agreed upon beforehand by INQdrop and the person and party.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

(a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. INQDROP EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

(b) INQDROP MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.

(c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER LIABILITYTHAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM INQDROP.COM OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT INQDROP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF INQDROP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS

The materials on INQdrop are provided with "RESTRICTED RIGHTS." Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in applicable laws and regulations. Use of the materials by the U.S. Government constitutes acknowledgment of INQdrop's proprietary rights in them.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The TOS constitutes the entire agreement between you and INQdrop and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and INQdrop (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the TOS) and any prior representations by INQdrop. The laws of the State of California, U.S.A, shall govern the TOS and the relationship between you and INQdrop, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and INQdrop agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. The failure of INQdrop to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS 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 of the TOS remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

VIOLATIONS

Please contact admin@INQdrop.com if you notice a violation or anything that may be a violation.

REVISIONS

INQdrop may at any time revise these Terms of Service by updating this posting. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to determine the then-current Terms of Service to which you are bound.