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Terms of Use/User License

Last Updated September 12, 2007

THIS TERMS OF USE/USER LICENSE (THIS “AGREEMENT”) CONSTITUTES A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND SLIDE, INC. (“SLIDE”). CONTINUED USE OF THE SLIDE SERVICE, AS DEFINED BELOW, CONSTITUTES ASSENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AS SUCH TERMS MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. YOUR FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THE TERMS AND OBLIGATIONS INCLUDED HEREIN SHALL CONSTITUTE A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, WHICH MAY RESULT IN PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR YOU UNDER THE INDEMNITY SET FORTH BELOW AND/OR IN IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT AND, AT SLIDE'S SOLE DISCRETION, THE DELETION OF ALL CONTENT RELATED THERETO.

Slide is the owner and operator of the website located at http://www.slide.com, and any linked pages or applications (the “Slide Site”), and is the provider of the services which are available to You though Slide, including Widgets, such as the “Slide Ticker”, the “Slide Screensaver” and applications created by Slide and available through social networking sites (“SNS Apps”). The availability of any SNS Apps on a social networking site does not indicate any relationship or affiliation between Slide and such social networking site (the “Slide Services”).

1. Eligibility Criteria and Representations. You hereby represent that the following are all true:
1. You are at least 13 years old, and if You are less than 18 years old, You have the permission of Your parents or legal guardian to use the Slide Service. (Please be aware that Slide may create certain areas on the Slide Site that contain adult or mature content. You must be at least 18 years of age to access and view such areas.) If You are not at least 13 years old, please discontinue using the Slide Site and the Slide Services immediately.
2. You have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and
3. You have the right to display each and every item of content (whether images, links, documents, “Skins”, or files – “content”) which You have released to the Slide Site, including the right to display all copyrights, trademarks, trade names and similar intellectual property interests reflected therein or thereon. Your sharing of content constitutes permission for reproduction/printing of such image by any recipient for his or her personal use and by Slide solely to provide the Slide Service to You and others, to market the Slide Service and/or the Slide Site, and to illustrate the operation of the Slide Service and/or the Slide Site. You understand that the Slide Service may involve the transmission of content over various networks and changes to content to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks, devices or display media. See also, discussion of “Skins” below.
2. License Grant.
1. LICENSE. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Slide hereby grants You a limited, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, nonexclusive license to use the software that You have downloaded or are about to download, any software that You have embedded on a third party web site or are about to embed (“Slide Widgets”), any SNS Apps, and any software running on Slide's server (“Slide Software”). You may (and in fact are encouraged to) download, install and/or use the Slide Software on a single computer or on a website that is operated and maintained by You, or by someone else who has agreed to be bound by this Agreement. As between the parties, title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the Slide Software, and any copies or portions thereof, shall remain in Slide and its suppliers or licensors. You understand that Slide may modify or discontinue offering the Slide Software at any time.
2. SUPPORT AND UPGRADES. This Agreement does not entitle You to any support, upgrades, updates, add-ons patches, enhancements, or fixes for the Slide Software (collectively, “Updates”). Slide, however, may occasionally provide You with automatic Updates to the Slide Software at its sole discretion (and without any advanced notification to You). Any such Updates for the Slide Software shall become part of the Slide Software and subject to this Agreement.
3. GOVERNMENT USE. If You are a part of an agency, department, or other entity of the United States Government (“Government”), the use, duplication, reproduction, release, modification, disclosure or transfer of the Slide Software is restricted in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations as applied to civilian agencies and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement as applied to military agencies. The Slide Software is a “commercial item,” “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation”. In accordance with such provisions, any use of the Slide Software by the Government shall be governed solely by the terms of this Agreement.
3. Your Obligations. In exchange for Your being able to use the Slide Software, the Slide Services and/or the Slide Site, You agree to be bound by the following obligations:
1. Registration:
1. If You choose to register with Slide, You will provide us with an email address You own and use, a password and a username (“User ID”). You shall be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password. You will also update Your registration information on the Slide Site from time to time so that it remains true, correct and complete.
2. You may not:
1. use a false name or an email address owned or controlled by another person with the intent to impersonate that person or for any other reason;
2. use as a User ID a name subject to any rights of a person other than Yourself without appropriate authorization; or
3. otherwise submit false or misleading information to Slide.
2. Prohibited Content. You may not (and will not allow any third party to) post or link to any material or content which:
1. is sexually explicit, profane, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise violative of any law (each a “Prohibited Posting”), or
2. constitutes an infringement, misappropriation or violation of the intellectual property, publicity or other proprietary rights of any person or entity (each, an “Infringing Posting”).
3. No Changes to the Software/Prohibited Uses. You may not and may not allow any third party to:
1. modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or structure, sequence and organization of the Slide Software or any portion of the Slide Site or the Slide Service (except where the foregoing is required by applicable local law, and then only to the extent so required under such laws);
2. copy or distribute the Slide Software (except for a version that has this license attached where the user agrees to the terms of this Agreement), provided, however, that You may (and are encouraged to) include any number of Slide Widgets on your website and any number of SNS Apps on your social networking pages.
3. rent, lease, use the Slide Software for timesharing or service bureau purposes, or otherwise obtain a commercial benefit from the the Slide Software unless You inform of Your commercial purpose prior to such use;
4. use the Slide Software in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Slide's Service or another user's use of the Slide Service;
5. remove, obscure or change any copyright, trademark, hyperlink or other proprietary rights notices (“Notices“) contained in or on the Slide Site, Slide Service, Slide code embeddable or embedded on a third party web site and/or the Slide Software and You shall reproduce such Notices exactly on all permitted copies of the Slide Software;
6. collect any information about other users or members (including usernames and/or email addresses) for any purpose;
7. create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses;
8. create or transmit unwanted electronic communications such as “spam,” to other users or members of the Slide Site and/or Slide Service or otherwise interfere with other user's or member's enjoyment of the Slide Site and/or Slide Service;
9. submit any content or material that falsely express or imply that such content or material is sponsored or endorsed by Slide;
10. transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature; or
11. use the Slide Site or Slide Services to violate the security of any computer network or transfer or store illegal material.
4. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Slide (and any employee, officer, director or affiliate of Slide) harmless (including costs and attorneys' fees) from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of Your access to the Slide Site or Service, the violation of this Agreement by You, the infringement by You, or any third party using Your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, or for any content posted on the Slide Site by you (including claims related to defamation, invasion of privacy, or other violation of a person's rights). Your obligations under the foregoing indemnity may not be offset against any other claim You may have against Slide or any Slide Person. You remain solely responsible for all content that You upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise disseminate using, or in connection with, the Slide Software or the Slide Service.
5. Rights of Slide/Exculpation of Slide. By using the Slide Software, the Slide Service and/or the Slide Site, You acknowledge and agree,
1. Slide does not claim any copyright or other ownership in any material or content uploaded by You through the Slide Site (other than solely to provide the Slide Service to You and others, to market the Slide Service and/or the Slide Site, to illustrate the operation of the Slide Service and/or the Slide Site, and an exclusive license in the case of Skins submitted by you (see discussion of Skins, below) simply because You have uploaded it on to the Slide Site. You are solely responsible for protecting your own content from loss.
2. Slide has the right to refuse registration of, or cancel Your user account and/or User ID in its discretion for any reason or for no reason. Any content that has been uploaded onto the Slide Service may be deleted at such time without notice to You.
3. Slide has the right to make changes to this Agreement, its Privacy Policy, its Copyright Policy or the Slide Service at any time without prior notice. Such modifications will be effective no later than the time such the new terms are posted or otherwise implemented on the Slide Site, and may, in certain circumstances, be retroactive.
4. Slide and its licensors own and retain all proprietary rights in the Slide Site, the Slide Services, and all associated software, content and material. The Slide Site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as expressly provided herein), create derivative works based on, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content, software, and/or materials available through the Slide Site or Slide Services in whole or in part without the express written agreement of Slide. Except as expressly provided herein, Slide and its suppliers do not grant You any express or implied rights under any patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secret, or other intellectual or industrial property rights. If You submit any ideas regarding products or services (other than Skins, see below), such ideas automatically become the property of Slide, and You automatically forfeit Your right to the intellectual property of these ideas. If You intend to own the intellectual property rights of Your ideas in any way (patent, trade secrets, copyright, trademark, etc.) please send a message to and describe ONLY the general application – do not submit Your concepts to Slide or its employees through any other medium. Please note that a legal agreement may be required by Slide in order to evaluate Your concept(s).
5. Slide has no responsibility for the statements in any message, content or other material posted on or through the Slide Site by any user. If Slide receives notice that an item on the Slide Site is an Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, it will use such efforts as it, in its sole discretion, believes are reasonable, to determine whether such item is an Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, and if it is, to remove all or a portion of such items. You acknowledge, however, that this is a manual process and that Slide cannot evaluate or remove such items immediately. SLIDE HAS NO OBLIGATION TO ACCEPT OR DISPLAY ANY CONTENT, AND CONTENT UPLOADED BY YOU MAY BE DELETED BY SLIDE FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
6. If You believe that any material on the Slide Site constitutes an Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, please notify Slide as soon as possible by sending an email to , or by mailing a letter to: ABUSE, c/o Slide, Inc., Suite 400, 612 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, or by faxing (415) 449-6776. Please also see our Copyright Policy.
7. Slide is exempt from liability to any person for any claim based upon its good faith disabling of access to or removal of any content, including material it believes, in its sole discretion to be an Infringing Posting or a Prohibited Posting, regardless of whether the material ultimately is determined to be infringing or otherwise prohibited. By using the Slide Service, You agree that notice to You through an email to the email address You provided in Your profile constitutes reasonable efforts to notify You of any removal or disabling if such notice is required, and if you have created an anonymous account, you waive the right to notice, if any is required.
8. Slide reserves the right to reveal Your identity (or whatever information we know about You) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message or other content posted by You or where such information is otherwise relevant. Slide may log all internet protocol addresses accessing the Slide Site and other information about users' access, and maintain backup copies of content indefinitely.
9. Slide may collect and collate a variety of information regarding the use of the Slide Site, Slide Software, or Slide Service by You or by people who use the Slide Service through Your website, watch your content through the Slide Service on third-party websites, or visit social network pages on which you have installed SNS Apps, and may cause the Slide Software to communicate to Slide information about its offline operations. Slide is the sole owner of all such information it collects. Collection and management of such information is governed by our Privacy Policy.
10. Slide uses industry-standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the non-public information uploaded to the Slide Site or collected by Slide in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. We cannot and do not guarantee that our security measures will prevent third party “hackers” from illegally accessing our site and obtaining access to content or information thereon.
11. The Slide Site, Slide Software or Slide Service may contain or deliver advertising and sponsorships. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion is accurate and complies with applicable laws. We are not responsible for the illegality or any error, inaccuracy or problem in the advertiser's or sponsor's materials.
12. The Slide Site, Slide Software or Slide Service may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked website on the Slide Site, the inclusion of a Slide Widget on a third party's website, or the incorporation of a SNS App or other piece of Slide Software on a third party's website or within a third party's system does not imply approval or endorsement of that website by us. If you decide to access or post a Slide Widget, SNS App or other piece of Slide Software on these third-party websites, you do so at your own risk.
6. Policies related to Skins. By submitting a Skin to Slide you understand and agree that:
   1. Slide does not claim any ownership right in the Skins you submit to us, except to the extent of the exclusive license described below. Such Skins remain your property, but you may not license them to third parties without our consent.
   2. You warrant that such Skin is your original work and that You have the right to license the same to Company, and that the Skin does not violate any third party’s privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property rights, and You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies that may be owing to any person with respect to any Skin submitted by you to or through the Slide Service.
   3. You grant to Slide an exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and fully paid-up right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute the Skin and any derivative works thereof, together with the right to sublicense. You understand that Slide is not obligated to pay you anything for your Skin, or to feature or otherwise display your Skin on any page of the Slide website.
7. Policies related to SNS Apps. Installing or otherwise using any SNS Apps constitutes consent to be bound by these Terms of Use, as well as Slide's Copyright and Privacy Policies, including all provisions related to (a) collection of information, (b) delivery of advertising, and (c) prohibition on certain activities.
8. Limitations.
1. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. THE SLIDE SERVICE, THE SLIDE SITE AND THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY SLIDE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS. SLIDE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR SOFTWARE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THE SLIDE SITE OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SLIDE SERVICES. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, SLIDE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SLIDE AND ITS LICENSORS AND AFFILIATES FURTHER DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN OR AVAILABLE ON THE SLIDE SITE. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
2. POTENTIAL UNAVAILABILITY. THE SLIDE SERVICE MAY BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE FROM TIME TO TIME FOR MAINTENANCE OR OTHER REASONS. SLIDE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF THE SLIDE SOFTWARE, SLIDE SITE OR SLIDE SERVICE. SUCH FAILURE MAY RESULT FROM ANY CAUSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE BEYOND SLIDE'S REASONABLE CONTROL, SUCH AS MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC OR COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE OR DEGRADATION (INCLUDING “LINE-NOISE” INTERFERENCE). YOU AGREE THAT SLIDE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF MATERIALS, CONTENT, OR ANY MODIFICATION, SUSPENSION OR DISCONTINUANCE OF THE SERVICE.
3. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. SLIDE AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OF LAW, FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND/OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, AND/OR LOSS OF INFORMATION OR DATA. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, SLIDE'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO SLIDE FOR THE SLIDE SERVICES, OR TEN DOLLARS, IF GREATER. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SLIDE IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE CONTENT SUBMITTED BY ANY USER OR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF A THIRD PARTY. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
4. Please note that a small number of people may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns on a computer screen like those displayed when using Slide Software or Slide Services. Consult your physician prior to using the Slide Software or Slide Services if you have had any epileptic symptoms (such as eye or muscle twitches, dizziness, altered vision, disorientation, loss of awareness, involuntary movements or convulsions) and discontinue use of the Slide Software or Slide Services immediately if you experience any such symptoms
9. TERM AND TERMINATION. Unless terminated by Slide, this Agreement will remain in full force and effect while You use the Slide Software, Slide Site and/or Slide Software or Slide Services. Subject to the last sentence of this Section 8, You may terminate this Agreement at any time by deleting the Slide Software from Your computer and from any social networking site or other website on which you have installed any Slide Software and ceasing to use the Slide Software or Slide Service. Slide may terminate this Agreement at any time, particularly if You violate any provision of this Agreement. Any termination of this Agreement shall also terminate the licenses granted hereunder. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, You shall destroy and remove from all computers, and other storage media all copies of the Slide Software. Slide shall have the right to inspect and audit Your facilities to confirm the foregoing. Your representations in Sections 1 and the provisions of Sections 4 through 11 shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
10. THIRD PARTY NOTICES AND LICENSES In order to use the Slide Service, You will have to download a Flash Player from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Use of the Flash Player is subject to Adobe's Terms of Service. See http://www.adobe.com/misc/copyright.html Mapping services may use software and other information from Google Maps (See Google Maps' Terms of Service), Yahoo Maps (see Yahoo Maps' Terms of Service) and/or www.geonames.org.
11. MISCELLANEOUS
1. Privacy. In addition to the terms of this Agreement, You should be aware that use of the Slide Site and/or the Slide Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy. Acceptance of this Agreement constitutes acceptance of Slide's acceptable use policy for content posted on the Slide Site, Slide's Privacy Policy, Slide's Copyright Policy, and any notices regarding the Slide Site, as such policies or notices may be amended from time to time.
2. Disputes. You agree that any dispute relating to your use of the Slide Site, Slide Software and/or Slide Service shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of California, City of San Francisco, and that any action hereunder must be brought, if at all, within one (1) year from the accrual of the cause of action.
3. International Use. Slide makes no representation that the Slide Software is appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States, and accessing it from territories where the Slide Software or any feature of the Slide Services and/or Slide Site is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this website (or any other website on which Slide Software is installed) from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. The Slide Software may be further subject to United States export controls. No Slide Software may be downloaded from the Slide Site or through the Slide Service or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Slide Software is at your sole risk.
4. No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is between You and Slide. No user has any rights to force Slide to enforce any rights it may have against any You or any other User.

Slide is an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user of material of the user's choosing, without modification of the content of the material sent or received (“transitory digital network communications”), as well as system caching, storage of material residing on a system or network at the direction of a user, and referral or linkage of users to an online location using information location tools, each through the website located at http://www.slide.com, and any linked pages or applications owned and operated by Slide.

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