Please read these terms of service very carefully before registering for the Have I Been Ransomed? website and service. These terms of service ("Agreement") govern you accessing content and using Have I Been Ransomed?.com. This Agreement between you ("you") and Have I Been Ransomed?, is subject to change by us as described below. By using Have I Been Ransomed? website and service, you (i) accept this Agreement; (ii) agree to be bound by these terms and conditions; and (iii) have entered into a binding agreement between you and Have I Been Ransomed?.
Your use of Have I Been Ransomed?'s products, software, services and websites (referred to collectively as the "Services" in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Have I Been Ransomed? under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Have I Been Ransomed?. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Have I Been Ransomed?, your agreement with Have I Been Ransomed? will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the "Terms".
Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Have I Been Ransomed?, your agreement with Have I Been Ransomed? will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the "Terms".
You can accept the Terms by: (A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Have I Been Ransomed? in the user interface for any Service; or (B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Have I Been Ransomed? will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Have I Been Ransomed?, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services.
Before you continue, you should print off or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.
Where Have I Been Ransomed? has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with Have I Been Ransomed?.
If there is any contradiction between what the English language version of the Terms says and what a translation says, then the English language version shall take precedence.
As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that Have I Been Ransomed? may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally at Have I Been Ransomed?'s sole discretion, without prior notice to you. You may stop using the Services at any time. You do not need to specifically inform Have I Been Ransomed? when you stop using the Services.
Where Have I Been Ransomed? has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with Have I Been Ransomed?.
You acknowledge and agree that if Have I Been Ransomed? disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your account details or any files or other content which is contained in your account.
You acknowledge and agree that while Have I Been Ransomed? may not currently have set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through the Services, such fixed upper limits may be set by Have I Been Ransomed? at any time, at Have I Been Ransomed?'s discretion.
In order to access certain Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree that any registration information you give to Have I Been Ransomed? will always be accurate, correct and up to date.
You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the E.U. or other relevant countries).
You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Have I Been Ransomed?, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Have I Been Ransomed?. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including the use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).
Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Have I Been Ransomed?, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Have I Been Ransomed? has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which Have I Been Ransomed? may suffer) of any such breach.
You acknowledge and agree that in the event any Have I Been Ransomed? information or materials are included with any of Your materials, You must attribute such usage to Have I Been Ransomed?. In addition, You acknowledge and agree that the materials referencing, including or otherwise based on Have I Been Ransomed? information or materials, must clearly indicate Have I Been Ransomed?’s ownership and copyright in the applicable Have I Been Ransomed? materials.
You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services.
Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to Have I Been Ransomed? for all activities that occur under your account.
If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify Have I Been Ransomed? immediately.
Have I Been Ransomed? respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use Have I Been Ransomed?'s search engine services ("Have I Been Ransomed? Search Services"). Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission.
Upon your first visit to Have I Been Ransomed?, Have I Been Ransomed? sends a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. Have I Been Ransomed? uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to understand our user base more. Have I Been Ransomed? does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Have I Been Ransomed? will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Be aware, however, that some parts of the Have I Been Ransomed? Search Service may not function properly if you refuse cookies.
Have I Been Ransomed? does not collect any unique information about you (such as your name, email address, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. Have I Been Ransomed? notes and saves information such as time of day, browser type, browser language, and IP address with each request to our servers. That information is used to verify our records and to provide more relevant services to users and track abuses in the use of the Services. For example, Have I Been Ransomed? may use your IP address or browser language to determine which language to use when showing search results or advertisements.
Have I Been Ransomed? does not log individual search parameters like keywords and filter values. Have I Been Ransomed? does however use anonymous caches for performance reasons. Individual caching entries are not connected to specific users.
You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Services are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the "Content".
You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to Have I Been Ransomed? (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Have I Been Ransomed? or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement.
Have I Been Ransomed? reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.
You understand that by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the Services at your own risk.
You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Have I Been Ransomed? has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Have I Been Ransomed? may suffer) by doing so.
You acknowledge and agree that Have I Been Ransomed? (or Have I Been Ransomed?'s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated confidential by Have I Been Ransomed? and that you shall not disclose such information without Have I Been Ransomed?'s prior written consent.
Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Have I Been Ransomed?, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of Have I Been Ransomed?'s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.
If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with Have I Been Ransomed?, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement and any applicable provisions of the Terms.
Have I Been Ransomed? acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Have I Been Ransomed?, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Have I Been Ransomed? has no obligation to do so on your behalf.
You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trademark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.
Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Have I Been Ransomed?, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trademark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.
Have I Been Ransomed? gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Have I Been Ransomed? as part of the Services as provided to you by Have I Been Ransomed? (referred to as the "Software" below). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Have I Been Ransomed?, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Have I Been Ransomed?, in writing.
Unless Have I Been Ransomed? has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.
The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Have I Been Ransomed? as set out below.
If you want to terminate your legal agreement with Have I Been Ransomed?, you may do so by (a) notifying Have I Been Ransomed? at any time and (b) closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use, where Have I Been Ransomed? has made this option available to you.
Have I Been Ransomed? may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if: (A) you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of the Terms); or (B) Have I Been Ransomed? is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or (C) the partner with whom Have I Been Ransomed? offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with Have I Been Ransomed? or ceased to offer the Services to you; or (D) Have I Been Ransomed? is transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service; or (E) the provision of the Services to you by Have I Been Ransomed? is, in Have I Been Ransomed?'s opinion, no longer commercially viable.
Nothing in this Section shall affect Have I Been Ransomed?'s rights regarding provision of Services under Section 4 of the Terms.
When these Terms come to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and Have I Been Ransomed? have benefited from, been subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the Terms have been in force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the provisions of paragraph 17.7 shall continue to apply to such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
Nothing in these terms, including sections 12 and 13, shall exclude or limit Have I Been Ransomed?'s warranty or liability for losses which may not be lawfully excluded or limited by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or conditions or the limitation or exclusion of liability for loss or damage caused by negligence, breach of contract or breach of implied terms, or incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, only the limitations which are lawful in your jurisdiction will apply to you and our liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
You expressly understand and agree that your use of the services is at your sole risk and that the services are provided "as is" and "as available."
In particular, Have I Been Ransomed?, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors do not represent or warrant to you that: (a) your use of the services will meet your requirements, (b) your use of the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error, (c) any information obtained by you as a result of your use of the services will be accurate or reliable, and (d) that defects in the operation or functionality of any software provided to you as part of the services will be corrected.
Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the services is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or other device or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from Have I Been Ransomed? or through or from the services shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the terms.
Have I Been Ransomed? further expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
Subject to overall provision in paragraph 12.1. above, you expressly understand and agree that Have I Been Ransomed?, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors shall not be liable to you for: (a) any direct, indirect, incidental, special consequential or exemplary damages which may be incurred by you, however caused and under any theory of liability. This shall include, but not be limited to, any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, any loss of data suffered, cost of procurement of substitute goods or services, or other intangible loss; (b) any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage as a result of: (i) any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the services; (ii) any changes which Have I Been Ransomed? may make to the services, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the services (or any features within the services); (iii) the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the services; (iii) your failure to provide Have I Been Ransomed? with accurate account information; (iv) your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential;
The limitations on Have I Been Ransomed?'s liability to you in paragraph 13.1. above shall apply whether or not Have I Been Ransomed? has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.
It is Have I Been Ransomed?'s policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable international intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.
The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. Have I Been Ransomed? may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than Have I Been Ransomed?.
You acknowledge and agree that Have I Been Ransomed? is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
You acknowledge and agree that Have I Been Ransomed? is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
Have I Been Ransomed? may make changes to the Terms from time to time.
You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the Terms have changed, Have I Been Ransomed? will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Terms.
Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, the Terms do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.
The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Have I Been Ransomed? and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any services which Have I Been Ransomed? may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Have I Been Ransomed? in relation to the Services.
You agree that Have I Been Ransomed? may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services.
You agree that if Have I Been Ransomed? does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which Have I Been Ransomed? has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Have I Been Ransomed?'s rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Have I Been Ransomed?.
If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, roles that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.
You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of companies of which Have I Been Ransomed? is the parent shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and that such other companies shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the Terms which confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) them. Other than this, no other person or company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms.
The Terms, and your relationship with Have I Been Ransomed? under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of Cyprus without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and Have I Been Ransomed? agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Cyprus to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms. Notwithstanding this, you agree that Have I Been Ransomed? shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.