Terms of Service

Last Updated: June 18, 2024

The Gist

We at LightOver are dedicated to providing a thriving forum community at forums.lightover.com. Our goal is to foster engaging discussions and share valuable information in a respectful and safe environment. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) outline your rights and responsibilities when using our services. Please read them carefully and contact us if you have any questions. By using our services, you agree to these Terms.

Terms of Service

These Terms govern your access to and use of the forums.lightover.com website and related services (our “Services”). Please read these Terms carefully before accessing or using our Services. By accessing or using any part of our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and all other policies and procedures that we may publish from time to time (collectively, the “Agreement”).

1. Who’s Who

“You” means any individual or entity using our Services. If you use our Services on behalf of another person or entity, you represent that you are authorized to accept this Agreement on their behalf.

2. Your Permission to Use the Forum

Subject to these terms, the company gives you permission to use the forum. Everyone needs to agree to these terms to use the forum.

3. Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

  • You must be at least thirteen years old.
  • You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
  • You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

4. Acceptable Use

  • You may not break the law using the forum.
  • You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.
  • You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.
  • You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
  • You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
  • You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
  • You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
  • You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.
  • You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.
  • You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with < iframe >.
  • You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
  • You may not strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.
  • You may not impersonate others through the forum.
  • You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

5. Content Standards

  • You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, abusive, or hateful conduct.
  • You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
  • You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
  • You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
  • You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

6. Enforcement

The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

7. Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing [email protected].

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

8. Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.

Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.

Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the forum.

When content you submit is removed from the forum, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the forum again.

Others who receive content you submit to the forum may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that the company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

9. Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

10. Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the forum and content on the forum. As far as the law allows, the company and its suppliers provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

The forum may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. The company does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

11. Limits on Liability

Neither the company nor its suppliers will be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages their personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

As far as the law allows, the total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the forum or content on the forum will be limited to $50.

12. Feedback

The company welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the forum. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.

You agree that the company will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that the company won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

13. General Representation and Warranty

You represent and warrant that your use of our Services will comply with all applicable laws and regulations and will not infringe on the rights of others.

14. Intellectual Property

The Agreement does not transfer any intellectual property rights from LightOver to you. All rights, titles, and interests in our Services remain solely with LightOver.

15. Third-Party Services

Our Services may include third-party services. We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them is at your own risk.

16. Changes

We may modify these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will notify you through our Services or other means. By continuing to use our Services after changes are made, you agree to the new Terms.

17. Termination

We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause or notice. You can stop using our Services at any time. If you violate these Terms, we may terminate your access immediately without notice.

18. Disclaimers

Our Services are provided “as is.” We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, to the maximum extent allowed by law.

19. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

The Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions. The proper venue for any disputes arising out of the Agreement will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, U.S.A.

20. Limitation of Liability

In no event will LightOver be liable for any special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with the Agreement.

21. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LightOver, its contractors, and its licensors, from any claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of our Services.

22. Miscellaneous

The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between LightOver and you. If any part of the Agreement is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part is severable from the Agreement. LightOver may assign its rights under the Agreement without condition.