Terms and conditions

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. THIS IS A LICENSE AGREEMENT

THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW (THE “TERMS”) GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB. THESE TERMS ARE A LEGAL CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND VANTANO.COM (“WE” “US”) AND GOVERN YOUR ACCESS TO, AND USE OF THE VANTANO SERVICE LOCATED AT WWW.VANTANO.COM AND ANY OF ITS SERVICES DOWLOADED THROUGH THE OFFLINE PLAYER (THE “SERVICE”). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THIS SERVICE AND/OR ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE SERVICE. YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE AND/OR THE SERVICES ON THIS SITE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE YOUR AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY EACH OF THE TERMS SET FORTH BELOW. VANTANO MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THE SERVICES OFFERED AT ANY TIME, AND VANTANO CAN CHANGE THESE TERMS AT ANY TIME. IF VANTANO CHANGES THESE TERMS, WE WILL POST A CHANGE NOTICE ON THE SERVICE AND WE MAY SEND REGISTERED MEMBERS AN EMAIL NOTICE OF THE CHANGE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SERVICE AFTER SUCH CHANGES HAVE BEEN POSTED MEANS THAT YOU AGREE TO THE NEW TERMS EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOT REVIEWED THEM.

General Use Restrictions

VANTANO provides content and other services through the Service. Certain information, documents, products and services provided on and through the Service, including content, trademarks, logos, graphics and images that are not Presentations (as defined below) (together, the “Materials”) are provided to you by VANTANO and are the copyrighted work of VANTANO or VANTANO’s contributors.

During the term of these Terms, VANTANO grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use and to display the Materials and use the services, the Service and the Software solely for your personal use if you are an individual and solely for your business use if you are an organization or agent of your organization in connection with the creation, storage, display and arrangement of Presentations you create using the Service. You acknowledge and agree that you have no right to modify, edit, copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, alter, enhance or in any way exploit any of the Materials or the Software in any manner. This limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these Terms. Upon termination of this limited license, you agree to immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials or Software. Except as stated herein, you acknowledge that you have no right, title or interest in or to the Service, any Materials or the Software on any legal basis.

Your Registration Obligations

In consideration of your use of the Service, you represent that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service’s registration form (the “Registration Data”) and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or VANTANO has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, VANTANO has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).

By using all or part of this Service, you consent to receiving electronic communications from VANTANO and its partners and affiliates. These electronic communications may include notices about applicable fees and charges, transactional information and other information concerning or related to our Service. These electronic communications are part of your relationship with VANTANO and you receive them as part of your use of the Service. You agree that any notices, agreements, disclosures or other communications that we send you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that such communications be in writing.

Password Restricted Areas of the Service

When a visitor to the Service registers to become a member (“Member”), he or she will select an available user name (“Membership Name”) and a corresponding user password (“Membership Password”) to create a unique, personal account (a “Membership Account”). You will need a Membership Password to login to the Service and use certain functions and areas within the Service (“Restricted Areas”). If you are an authorized Member of the Restricted Areas, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and agree to notify VANTANO if your password is lost, stolen, or disclosed to an unauthorized third party, or otherwise may have been compromised. You are responsible for activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify VANTANO of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security in relation to the Service known to you. You will not use other members’ contact information gathered from Restricted Areas of the Service for commercial purposes and agree not to provide any other Member’s contact information to any third party that is not a Member of VANTANO.

Subscription / Enterprise Pricing and Changes

When a Member of the Services chooses to become a subscriber, he or she will choose a subscription type and enter additional data, including payment information within their Membership Account. With respect to Software or Services provided on a subscription basis, Subscriber agrees that VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, may from time to time either increase or decrease the fee(s) for all or any portion thereof, and that any such adjustment, when made by VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, shall apply effective as of the expiration of the then-current subscription term. If Subscriber objects to any fee change, Subscriber’s sole remedy shall be to elect not to renew the Software or Service at the expiration of the then-current subscription term. Each subscription term begins on the day VANTANO receives full payment of the applicable fees from Subscriber or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, and expires either 14 days or 1 year later, depending on the subscription type selected in the applicable order. The subscription term will automatically renew for additional periods unless Subscriber elects not to renew on or before the expiration date. If Subscriber purchases additional subscription Software or Services, the subscription term for such additional Software or Services will be coterminous with the preexisting subscription term. The fee for any additional subscriptions purchased in the middle of a billing month will be charged in full for that billing month. Reductions will be effective at the end of the then-current term. No refunds or credit adjustments will be given. You acknowledge that VANTANO reserves the right to limit the maximum number of free licenses and total storage capacity for each user account. Furthermore, VANTANO, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to adjust the starting price per license.

Payment method; Credit Card Authorization

You must provide VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, with valid credit card or approved purchase order information. VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, may require, and Subscriber agrees that such fees shall be paid by means of credit card payments or other forms of electronic funds transfers, and to implement measures enabling VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, to initiate such electronic funds transfers. If you are paying by credit card, only valid credit cards acceptable to VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, may be used by you to make payment, and all authorized refunds will be credited to the same card. Until all amounts due have been paid in full, you hereby authorize VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, to charge any credit card provided by you all amounts due under the Agreement from time to time, including without limitation, ongoing Subscription and installment and other payments, taxes, and additional fees. If the credit card cannot be verified, is invalid, is declined, or is not otherwise acceptable or if VANTANO does not receive payment from its authorized resale partner for your purchase or subscription, the Software and Services may be terminated, deferred, suspended, or cancelled by VANTANO without notice at VANTANO’s discretion and VANTANO may generate invoices for payment. You agree to update your credit card information to keep it current at all times and that VANTANO or VANTANO’s authorized resale partner, as applicable, may submit charges for processing even if the card appears to have expired. A credit card authorization form must be completed for all payments made by credit card. All prices are given and must be paid in the currency listed. All payment obligations are non-cancelable and all amounts paid are nonrefundable. Unless otherwise provided by law or in connection with any particular service offer, all charges are non-refundable.

Taxes

All fees are exclusive of all taxes, fees, levies, duties or similar charges arising out of or relating to the Agreement, and you shall be responsible for payment of all such taxes, fees, levies, duties or similar fees, excluding only taxes based solely on VANTANO’s income.

Conversion of Trial Period Offers

You may have received a complimentary trial Subscription to the Software or Service or some other trial period offer. Unless we notify you otherwise, if you are participating in any trial period offer, your trial period will expire at the end of the trial term and access to the Subscription-based Software or Service will be suspended. You will then be prompted to either become a Subscriber or be limited to the Member version of the Software or Services.

Termination

VANTANO may, at any time, terminate this Agreement in its sole discretion, including, without limitation, for breach by you of any of your representations, warranties or obligations under this Agreement, or for inactivity as it relates to the Service for a period of 90 days. You may, at any time, terminate this Agreement by logging into your Membership Account on the Service and selecting to cancel your VANTANO account. In the event termination is by VANTANO, VANTANO shall notify you of such termination. VANTANO reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your Membership Account at any time, including, without limitation, deactivating your Membership Name and Membership Password.

Effect of Termination

Upon any termination of this Agreement:

(a) Your Membership Account shall be cancelled and closed and your Membership Name and Membership Password shall be deactivated;

(b) All items uploaded by you shall be removed from the Service;

(c) VANTANO will permanently delete your Presentations and Materials within 24 hours of the effective date of termination.

Termination of this Agreement shall not relieve you of any payment obligations that may have arisen prior to such termination, or any other obligations pursuant to any other agreement that has not been specifically terminated.

Suspension

VANTANO reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend your Membership Account at any time and for any length of time. In the event, and for so long as, VANTANO suspends your Membership Account, you shall have no ability to purchase any Marketplace Items or other goods or services on the Service, but you may continue to access your Membership Account using your Membership Name and Membership Password. For clarification purposes, VANTANO shall not remove any Marketplace Items or other goods or services you have purchased prior to suspension of your Membership Account and such Marketplace Items or other goods or services shall continue to be available.

Links to Third Party Services.

This Service may be linked to other Services that are not VANTANO Services. VANTANO is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and VANTANO is not responsible for the content or links displayed on such Services.

Maximum Storage Limit

You acknowledge that VANTANO reserves the right to limit the maximum storage capacity for each user account. Furthermore, VANTANO, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to adjust the maximum storage limit of any user account, at any time without prior notice.

Presentations

You acknowledge that you are responsible for the information and material that you develop and/or import to the Service and/or through the use of the Software, including, without limitation, any presentations, or portions thereof, that you import, create, store and access on this Service (each, a “Presentation”), and that you, and not VANTANO, will have full responsibility for each such Presentation, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. If you submit Presentations to the Service, you grant VANTANO a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to (in any media now known or not currently known or invented) to use, copy, modify, distribute, display the Presentation and provide access to the Presentation to users that you designate in connection with providing services related to this Service to you. Additionally, if you are a Member, your Presentations will be available for any third party to view at a publicly available URL unless you elect to become a Subscriber and thereafter choose not to make your Presentations public. If you are a Subscriber and have elected to make your Presentations public you acknowledge that third parties may view and have access to your Presentations, and that VANTANO has no control over third parties’ use of your Presentations. Published presentations may be indexed by search engines. Except as set forth in the preceding sentences, VANTANO will not make your Presentations available to any third parties, and VANTANO agrees to provide access to your Presentations only to you and to those certain e-mail addresses you designate as part of your shared distribution list in your user account. VANTANO acknowledges and agrees that you shall have the right to download any Presentations you create on the Service and make such Presentations available on your personal or company website, as applicable. VANTANO agrees to manage your Presentations in accordance with VANTANO’s Privacy Policy.

YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS APPLICABLE TO ANY PRESENTATIONS YOU SUBMIT TO VANTANO. You further agree that you will not upload, post or otherwise make available on the Service any material protected by copyright, trademark, or any other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by any such right is on you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from any Presentation.

You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Presentations posted by you on or through the Service or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Presentations on or through the Service and any other use of your Presentations does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, trademark rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Presentations posted by you to or through the Service or created with the use of the Software.

Content Etiquette

VANTANO asks that you respect the VANTANO online community as well as other individuals participating within the VANTANO online community. Your conduct should be guided by common sense and basic etiquette. To further these common goals, when posting Presentations to or otherwise using the Service and/or the services, you agree not to, without limitation: Post off-topic or disruptive messages. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

Impersonate or represent VANTANO, our staff or other industry professionals. Solicit a member’s password or other account information. Harvest user names, addresses, or email addresses for any purpose other than to conduct VANTANO business. Use racially, ethnically, or otherwise offensive language.

Discuss or incite illegal activity

Use explicit/obscene language or solicit/post sexually explicit images (actual or simulated). Disrupt the flow of chat in any manner, including without limitation vulgar language or abusiveness. Post anything that exploits children or minors or that depicts cruelty to animals. Post any copyrighted or trademarked materials without the express permission from the owner. Disseminate any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, ‘junk mail’, ‘spam’, ‘chain letters’, ‘pyramid schemes’, or any other form of such solicitation. Post any content that is mature or adult in nature.

This list of prohibitions is an example and is not complete or exclusive. These prohibitions do not require VANTANO to monitor, police or remove any Presentations or other information submitted by you or any other user. VANTANO reserves the right to (a) terminate or suspend your access to your account, your ability to post to the Service or the services and (b) refuse, delete or remove any Presentations or move any Presentations from “public” to “private” status; with or without cause and with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, or for any action that VANTANO determines is inappropriate or disruptive to the Service, services or to any other user of the Service and/or services. VANTANO reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which you may send to other members and users to a number that VANTANO deems appropriate in VANTANO’s sole discretion. VANTANO may report to law enforcement authorities any actions that may be illegal, and any reports it receives of such conduct. When legally required or at VANTANO’s discretion, VANTANO will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any investigation of alleged illegal activity on the Internet. You understand that your interactions and dealings with other users of the Service are solely between you and such other user. VANTANO shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such interactions and/or dealings and VANTANO will have no obligation to become involved in such dispute.

Unauthorized Activities

Presentations and unauthorized use of any Materials or Third Party Content contained on this Service may violate certain laws and regulations. You shall indemnify and hold VANTANO and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors, and business partners harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) VANTANO or any other indemnified party suffers in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party that your use of the Service or the use of the Service by any person using your user name and/or password violates any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party. Proprietary Rights.

VANTANO is a trademark of VANTANO. All other trademarks, names and logos on this Service are the property of their respective owners.

Unless otherwise specified, all information and screens appearing on this Service including documents, services, Service design, text, graphics, logos, images and icons, as well as the selection and arrangement thereof, are the sole property of VANTANO, Copyright © 2015-12 VANTANO. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, any reproduction, distribution, modification, retransmission, or publication of any copyrighted material is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of the copyright owner. Copyright and Trademark Infringements.

Notification:

VANTANO respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. VANTANO may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, terminate or suspend service and/or access to the Service or Restricted Areas of the Service to users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work is the subject of copyright infringement and/or a trademark infringement and appears on our Service, please provide VANTANO’s copyright agent the following information:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit VANTANO to locate the material.

Information reasonably sufficient to permit VANTANO to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. VANTANO’s agent for notice of claims of copyright or trademark infringement on this Service can be reached as follows: By e mail

Please also note that for copyright infringements under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability. Counter-Notification:

If you elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be a written communication provided to our designated agent that includes substantially the following (please consult your legal counsel or see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g)(3) to confirm these requirements):

A physical or electronic signature of the user. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled. A statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled. The user’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the user consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the user’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the user will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

By e mail:

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability. Only the intellectual property rights owner may report potentially infringing items through VANTANO’s reporting system set forth above. If you are not the intellectual property rights owner, you should contact the intellectual property rights owner and they can choose whether to use the procedures set forth in these Terms.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Your use of this Service, any Software and/or the services is at your own risk. Neither the Materials nor the Third Party Content have been verified or authenticated in whole or in part by VANTANO, and they may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. VANTANO does not warrant the accuracy of timeliness of the Materials or the Third Party Content contained on this Service. VANTANO has no liability for any errors or omissions in the Materials and/or the Third Party Content, whether provided by VANTANO or our licensors

VANTANO, FOR ITSELF AND ITS LICENSORS, MAKES NO EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR GUARANTEES IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE, THE SOFTWARE, THE SERVICES OR ANY MATERIALS OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT. RELATING TO THE QUALITY, SUITABILITY, TRUTH, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE MATERIALS AND THE THIRD PARTY CONTENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE, THE SOFTWARE, THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE” AND “WHERE-IS” BASIS WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. VANTANO DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY WARRANTIES AGAINST VIRUSES, SPYWARE OR MALWARE THAT MAY BE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER.

Limitation of Consequential Damages

VANTANO SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM YOUR DISPLAYING, COPYING, OR DOWNLOADING ANY MATERIAL ON THE SERVICE OR RELATING TO YOUR PRESENTATIONS OR THE SOFTWARE. IN NO EVENT SHALL VANTANO BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, EXTRAORDINARY, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE, PROFITS, USE OR OTHER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE) HOWEVER ARISING EVEN IF VANTANO KNOWS THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Limitation on Damages

IN NO EVENT SHALL VANTANO’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR DIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS (USD $500).

Local Laws; Export Control

You are responsible for following applicable local laws for all and each of the territories where you are distributing the Materials.

General

If any of these Terms is found to be inconsistent with applicable to law, then such term shall be interpreted to reflect the intentions of the parties, and no other terms will be modified. VANTANO’s failure to enforce any of these Terms is not a waiver of such term. The Terms are the entire agreement between you and VANTANO and supersede all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, discussions or agreements between you and VANTANO about the Service. The proprietary rights, disclaimer of warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability and general provisions shall survive any termination of these Terms.