IF YOU DO NOT FULLY AND COMPLETELY AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT AND YOU, AS A RESPONSIBLE USER, CHOOSE TO CONTINUE TO USE THE SERVICES, YOU WILL BE BOUND TO THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
Crikos (also referred herein as “us”, “we” or “our” “our Company”) may modify the Agreement which will become effective immediately upon its posting to the website. Your continued use of the website and any associated services indicates your acceptance of changes to the Agreement and you agree to be bound by such modification or revisions. If you are dissatisfied with anything related to Crikos website, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the Services. You use the Services of Crikos at your own risk. Nothing in the Agreement shall be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.
Which means: The above states that you have read and agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and any future changes, if you use Crikos for yourself now or after modifications to this Agreement.
Ability to Accept Terms of Service
Crikos Free Services are available to anyone over the age of 18, in observance of and compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. If you are under 18 years of age, then do not use the Service. There are lots of other great web sites for you. Talk to your parents about what sites are appropriate for you.
Which means: You’re over 18 and have authority and permission to accept this Agreement.
Content – It’s Yours
When you upload text, graphics, photos, your address and contact information that may be viewed on, or accessed through the Services, we refer to it as “Content”. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to store, share or distribute the Content.
Which means: If you created it, it’s yours. If any piece of it was created by someone else, you swear you have their permission to use or share it. We don’t have any responsibility over what you upload or share.
To enable Crikos to provide the Services, it is necessary for you to hereby grant Crikos a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable limited license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, or display Content in connection with the Services.
Which means: You give us limited permission to do what you need us to do, like show your Content to you or people you share it with, store it on our servers and make redundant backups so there is more than one copy of it.
It’s All You
You control your Content through your account and/or cookies which may be placed on your computer or other devices.
You are solely responsible for your Content and your interactions with other users of the Services.
When you allow other users access to your Content, you, not Crikos, are responsible for what others do with it.
You agree, while using Crikos Services, that you may not:
Alter or modify any part of the Services;
Use the Services for any illegal purpose;
Use our services for illegal and fake/bad purposes;
Use any robot, spider, offline readers, site search and/or retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Services, with the exception of public search engines;
Transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a contaminating or destructive nature;
Distribute any Content that includes code hidden or otherwise contained within the Content which is unrelated to the Content;
Reformat or frame any portion of any web page that is part of the Services without the express permission of Crikos;
Collect or harvest any personal identifiable information or account names or solicit users;
Impersonate another person, whether real or fictional;
Permit any third parties to use your name and password;
Violate or attempt to violate Crikos systems or interfere with the normal use of the Services by users;
Sell Crikos's products and Services;
Post advertisements, promotions or solicitations of business;
Transmit any form of solicitation or Spam;
Distribute any Content that falsely implies sponsorship of the Content by the Services, falsify or delete any author attribution in any Content, or promote any information that you know is false or misleading;
Distribute/Give/ Share an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's trademarked or copyrighted work or even non-copyrighted work;
Distribute Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing, threatening, unlawful or promotes or encourages illegal activity;
Distribute Content that violates the rights of others, such as distributing Content that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or violates any right of privacy or publicity, or that is libelous or defamatory, or that directs any user to the content of a third party without consent of the third party;
Defame or libel any person; invade any person's right of privacy or publicity or otherwise violate, misappropriate or infringe the rights of any person;
Share and Product/Service/Content in violation of the International and European law;
Distribute any links to any external Internet sites that are obscene or pornographic, or distribute pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind.
Content is provided to you AS IS. You understand that when using the Services, you will be exposed to Content from a variety of sources, and that Crikos is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such Content. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Crikos with respect thereto, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, agree to indemnify and hold harmless Crikos, its owners, operators, affiliates, licensors, and licensees to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to any Content and your use of the Services. You acknowledge your use of Content is at your sole risk.
Which means: Play Nice. You are solely responsible for everything you share or any interactions you have through Crikos.
Crikos & Services
Crikos does not endorse any Content, including, but not limited to, its accuracy, completeness, appropriateness or legality, stored on or distributed through the Services and Crikos expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with Content. Content is yours, not ours.
When you take an offering its solely your responsibility and Crikos bears absolutely no responsibility whatsoever regarding the offerings your receive, the condition you receive it in, if you cannot find the member to receive your offering, if what the member had promised was not what you actually received, if the member with the offering was a man etc.
Crikos bears no responsibility to what you expect from other members and their offerings, your safety and your wellbeing has ONLY to do with you and Crikos bears no responsibility to your physical safety EVER.
Crikos Content may contain links to external sites; however, Crikos is not responsible for any availability of or the content on or through any external site.
Crikos maintains multiple copies of active files, however, Crikos bears no responsibility for maintaining your data indefinitely. You bear full responsibility and sole liability for any corrupted, lost or irrecoverable data. You understand and agree that Crikos reserves the right to delete, move, archive (including account information) or edit any Content that it may determine violates the Agreement and/or Privacy Policy or is otherwise unacceptable and may terminate your access to the Services, without prior notice and at its sole discretion.
When Crikos removes or disables Content for policy violations, the user who posted the Content may receive a strike. The user is notified of the violation. Repeated policy violations may result in account termination. Crikos reserves the right to determine what is harmful to its users, operations, or reputation including any activities that restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Services. Complaints about violators of our policies should be submitted to our contact us form regarding report user. Each complaint will be investigated and appropriate action will be taken.
Crikos reserves the right to terminate your access to any and/or all parts of the Services at any time for any reason without prior notice or liability. The terms of the Agreement and Privacy Policy shall survive any termination of your access to the Services.
Crikos may change, suspend or discontinue all or any aspect of the Services at any time, including the availability of any feature, database, or Content, without prior notice or liability.
Light patterns, like those which might be displayed when using the Services, may result in epileptic seizures in some people. Discontinue use of the Services, if advised by your physician or you experience epileptic symptoms.
Which means: You are solely responsible for your Content. If you are not who you say you are or/and use our services for wrong reasons besides the good of our Community Crikos, you may and will be terminated. Also you are solely responsible for what your offering and receiving others offerings.
Software, Applications, Modifications & License
Crikos Services may include special applications, application programming interfaces, installable software, or developer resources you can download and install on your desktop, mobile phone or other devices with Internet capability to enhance your ability to interact and benefit from the Services (“Software”). This Software may require periodic modifications/updates, which may occur automatically or require you to initiate them. The Software is a copyrighted work of Crikos and is governed by the terms of this Agreement. Crikos grants you a “Limited License” to use the Software solely to interact with the Services.
When you download and/or use the Software, you accept this Limited License. Crikos grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable, worldwide, royalty-free limited license to use the Software on any device you own or control. This Limited License is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Crikos, in the manner permitted by this Agreement. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell, trade, redistribute, assign or sublicense 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. You may not, or permit anyone else to, copy (except as expressly permitted by this license), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the Software, any updates, or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or to the extent as may be permitted by the licensing terms governing use of any open sourced components included with the Software). Any attempt to do so is a violation of the rights of Crikos and its licensors. If you breach this restriction, you may be subject to prosecution and damages. The terms of the Limited License will govern any upgrades provided by Crikos that replace and/or supplement the original Software, unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license, in which case the terms of that license will govern.
Nothing in this Agreement grants you any right, title, or interest in the Services, Software or Content (other than your own) or to use any Crikos trademark, logo, domain name (or any derivative thereof), branding or features.
Which means: Crikos will offer you the ability to download and use new applications from time to time and may update the software periodically. Crikos owns all its software and applications, regardless of who provided input or may make modifications to it, and only you may use it under this licensing agreement.
As-Is Services
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CRIKOS, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF.
NEITHER CRIKOS NOR ANY PROVIDER OF ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT WARRANTS THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE OR MAKES ANY WARRANTY OF THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICES OR CONTENT. BOTH THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. NEITHER CRIKOS NOR ANY THIRD PARTY MAKES ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES OR CONTENT OR ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES GIVEN THROUGH THE SERVICES.
FOR CLARITY, CRIKOS ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR SERVICES, (III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM OUR SERVICES, (IV) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (V) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES. CRIKOS DOES NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE SERVICES OR ANY HYPERLINKED SERVICES OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND CRIKOS WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION.
Which means: Standard contract capitalized language. Internet services are great but nothing is perfect and we’re not responsible if something goes wrong.
Limitation of Liability
NEITHER CRIKOS NOR ANY THIRD PARTY PROVIDER SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL CRIKOSS AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOUR OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICES EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (€100). THE LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN CRIKOS AND YOU.
The Services are controlled and offered by Crikos from its facilities in Greece. Crikos makes no representations that the Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Services from other jurisdictions do so at their own volition and are responsible for compliance with local law.
Which means: Also standard contract capitalized language. This clarifies that we limit our responsibility if something goes wrong.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Crikos and its affiliates, and both Crikos and their respective officers, directors, owners, employees, agents, information providers and licensors harmless from and against any and all claims, liability, losses, damages, obligations, costs and expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred by any Crikos Party in connection with any Content or use of the Services, whether via your password and by any other person, whether or not authorized by you. Crikos reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with Crikos defense of such claim. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms of Service and your use of the Services.
Which means: If we get in trouble because of something you did or should have done, you’ll defend us in court or help us defend ourselves.
Miscellaneous Legal
The Agreement, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by Crikos without restriction.
These Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Policy and any other legal notices published by Crikos on the Services, the Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. If any inconsistency exists between the terms of the Agreement and any additional terms and conditions posted on the Services, such terms shall be interpreted as to eliminate any inconsistency, if possible, and otherwise, the additional terms and conditions shall control. If any provision of the Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, (i) such provision shall be interpreted in such a manner as to preserve, to the maximum extent possible, the intent of the parties, (ii) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and (iii) such decision shall not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of such provision under other circumstances.
No failure in delay in exercising or enforcing this policy shall constitute a waiver of the Agreement or any other right or remedy. If any provision of the Agreement is deemed unenforceable due to law or change in law, such a provision shall be disregarded and the balance of the Agreement shall remain in effect.
YOU AND CRIKOS AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ARISES, OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Please submit reports of any violations to info@crikos.com!