Terms of Use

The following describes the terms under which Greater Northshire Access Television, Inc.. (“GNAT”), offers you access to the content and services at www.gnat-tv.org and other services it may make available from time to time (collectively the “Service”). THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT. PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICE. BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE.

YOU MAY USE THIS SERVICE IF YOU ARE AT LEAST 13 YEARS OF AGE. HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18) OR NOT ABLE TO ENTER INTO LEGAL AGREEMENTS UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, YOU MUST HAVE A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN CAREFULLY READ AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT ON YOUR BEHALF.

THE SERVICE

Your Information. As used in this Agreement, the term “Your Information” means any information you provide to GNAT or other users in using the Service, including in any registration process, in any public message area or through any email or messaging feature. You are solely responsible for Your Information.

Your Information may not:

  1. be false, inaccurate, misleading or fraudulent;
  2. infringe any anyone’s copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  3. violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation;
  4. be obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, abusive or harassing, or encourage any of the foregoing;
  5. promote any commercial product the sale of which you stand to benefit from;
  6. contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, Easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, intercept or use any system, data or personal information in an unauthorized way; or
  7. create liability for GNAT or cause it to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its ISPs or other suppliers.

You grant GNAT a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media now existing or later invented.

Privacy. GNAT will only use Your Information according to our Privacy Policy as may be established from time to time, the provisions of which are expressly incorporated into and made a part of this Agreement.

PROHIBITED USES

Improper Conduct. You agree that you will not: (a) impersonate any other individual, including without limitation another user or a GNAT staff member; (b) engage in harassment of any form, including without limitation through improper language or excessive frequency or size of messages; (c) send messages of any kind to any individual who has stated or in any other way demonstrated that he or she does not wish to receive messages; (d) copy or post any personal messages sent to you via the Service; (e) use the Service for any unlawful purpose; or (f) otherwise use the Service in a deceptive, abusive or otherwise disruptive manner.

Copyright Infringement. You agree that you will not use the Service to infringe upon or misappropriate the intellectual property rights, including without limitation the copyrights, of any party. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DETERMINE WHICH RIGHTS ARE NECESSARY AND TO OBTAIN ALL NECESSARY RIGHTS FOR ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT TO THE SERVICE. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GNAT, its affiliates, suppliers, and each of its and their employees, officers, directors, successors, licensees, assigns, and advisors (collectively the “GNAT Parties”) from and against any and all claims, damages, demands, or liabilities, including but not limited to attorneys fees and costs arising out of any claim that Your Information, and any other content of any kind that you create using the Service or upload in any way infringes upon or misappropriates, violates, or infringes any party’s personal or proprietary rights of any kind.

Interference and Unauthorized Access. You agree that you will not: (a) attempt to circumvent user authentication or the security of any GNAT account; (b) use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy GNAT’s web pages or the content contained in them; (c) use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service; or (d) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on GNAT’s infrastructure, including without limitation “denial of service attacks.”

If you in any way violate any system or interfere with network security you may incur criminal or civil liability. GNAT will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.