Explore Talent User Agreement
This Membership Agreement ("Agreement") will detail
the membership terms between you and Explore Talent. ("Explore
Talent"), with respect to your use of the ExploreTalent.com
service (the "Service"). Please read it carefully.
By signing up for the service, you agree to the following:
1. THE SERVICE
The Service is a casting, audition and online submission
Internet website which provides a modeling gallery, modeling
calendar of events and opportunities, e-mail and administrative
functions to facilitate and promote modeling careers, and
includes all products and services which are described on
the Explore Talent website or which Explore Talent otherwise
agrees to provide to you. Your Casting Calendar provides
you with up-to-the-minute (real time) data/ information/
listings, and the details of all submissions and casting
inquiries made on your behalf by professionals in the industry
that Explore Talent is associated with.
2. MEMBER PRIVACY
Explore Talent's policy is to respect the privacy of its
members. Explore Talent will not monitor, edit, or disclose
any personal information about you or your account, including
its contents, without your prior permission unless Explore
Talent believes that such action is necessary or if it is
required to do so to: (1) conform to legal requirements
or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the
rights or property of Explore Talent; (3) enforce this agreement;
or (4) act to protect the interests of other members or
third parties.
3. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS TO CONTENT
You acknowledge that content, including but not limited
to text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics
or other material accessible to you by virtue of membership
is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents
or other intellectual property rights and laws. Unless you
are expressly authorized to do so, you must not sell, lease,
modify, copy, republish, upload, download, post, broadcast,
transmit, or distribute in any way content available through
the Service, including code and software. You further acknowledge
and agree that any information provided by or through Explore
Talent is for information purposes only and is not intended
to constitute professional advice.
4. CHARGES AND USE OF SERVICE
The cost of the Service you use will be charged to the credit
card, checking account debiting or PayPal account designated
by you. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible
for ensuring that no unauthorized use of your account or
PIN occurs and that any risk associated with the transmission
of information over the Internet or through the Service
is borne by you. You further acknowledge and agree to pay
the charges for use of the Service in accordance with the
then-current pricing structure.
5. APPLICATION AND VARIATION OF TERMS AND PRICING
This Agreement, which includes the registration form, sets
out the terms on which Explore Talent provides the Service.
The current applicable charge is $39.95 per month. Also
currently available are discounted prepaid packages as follows:
US$29.95 per month, US$69.90 per 3 months, US$119.94 per
6 months and US$199.50 per 12 months. Discounted term packages
(3,6,12 month) will be charged as recurring charges for
the whole term and are non refundable (requests for refunds
will be reviewed on a case by case basis with the possibility
of only a rated refund). The initial contracted term of
this Agreement is twelve (12) months, and automatically
renews unless terminated by either party with 30 days written
notice. By accessing the Service you are committed to the
above terms.
6. SUSPENSION OF SERVICE
Explore Talent may, with notice of why and when, suspend
the Service or disconnect, deny or restrict your access
to the Service: (a) during any technical failure of, modification
or maintenance to the Service, but Explore Talent will use
reasonable endeavors to procure the resumption of the Service
as soon as reasonably practicable; or (b) if you use the
Service in breach of this Agreement until the breach (if
capable of remedy) is remedied, or if you do or fail to
do anything which in Explore Talent's opinion may have the
affect of jeopardizing the operation or integrity of the
Service or any other service. Despite suspension, disconnection,
denial or restriction of the Service under this clause you
remain liable for all charges due throughout the period
of suspension, disconnection, denial or restriction.
7. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the extent permitted by law all terms, warranties, undertakings,
inducements and representations relating to the Service
are excluded and Explore Talent will not be liable for any
loss or damage (including without limitation indirect, special
or consequential loss or damage) arising from the Service
whether or not caused by any negligent act or omission.
If any legislation implies any term or warranty that cannot
be excluded, explore Talent's sole liability will be, in
the case of goods or services, to re-supply of the goods
or services, or to pay for the cost of having the goods
or services re-supplied. To the extent permitted by law,
Explore Talent is not liable for the unavailability of the
Service at any time or for any reason, or for any failure
of the Service to submit, receive or accept any calls or
messages. To the extent permitted by law, Explore Talent
disclaims any warranty in relation to the performance, operation,
reliability or availability of the Service. Without limiting
the preceding provisions of this clause, Explore Talent
expressly disclaims liability for any loss, damage, costs,
expenses and liabilities of whatever nature arising (directly
or indirectly) from the use of products proprietary to,
or provided by, third parties, or from any recommendation
by Explore Talent that you use or accept such products.
8. MEMBER CONDUCT
The Service is provided to individuals only. Any unauthorized
commercial use of the Service, or the resale of its services,
is prohibited. You must not use the Service to solicit business
for any competitive service. You agree to abide by all applicable
local, state, national and international laws, regulations,
ordinances, by-laws and rules and are solely responsible
for all acts or omissions that occur under your account
name or password, including, without limitation, the content
of your transmissions through the Service. By way of example,
and not as a limitation, you agree not to: A. use the Service
in connection with chain letters, junk email, spamming,
or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or
otherwise); B. harvest or otherwise collect information
about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
C. create a false identity or forged email address or header,
or otherwise attempt to mislead others as to the identity
of the sender or the origin of a message; D. transmit through
the Service unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening,
harmful, vulgar, obscene, offensive or otherwise objectionable
material; E. transmit any material that may infringe the
intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties,
including without limitation, trade marks or copyright;
F. transmit any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses,
worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or any other harmful or deleterious
programs; G. use the Service to violate any applicable law
restricting the export or import of data, software or any
other content: H. interfere with or disrupt networks connected
to the Service or violate the regulations, policies or procedures
of such networks; I. gain or attempt to gain unauthorized
access to the Service, other accounts, computer systems
or networks connected to the Service, through password mining
or by any other means; or J. interfere with another member's
use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use
and enjoyment of similar services. K. use the Service in
any unethical manner or contrary to accepted community standards.
9. EMAIL STORAGE, OUTBOUND MESSAGES AND OTHER LIMITATIONS
The amount of storage space per member is limited to 10MB,
and some messages may not be processed due to space constraints
or outbound message limitations. You agree that Explore
Talent is not responsible or liable for the deletion of,
failure to store or non-deliveries of email messages.
10. INDEMNITY
You indemnify and will keep indemnified Explore Talent and
its employees, subcontractors and consultants from and against
all actions, claims, demands, costs or expenses made, sustained,
brought or prosecuted or in any manner based upon, occasioned
by or attributable to the Service which may arise from or
as a result of any breach of the terms of this Agreement
by Explore Talent, its employees, subcontractors or consultants
or any unlawful or negligent act or omission of Explore
Talent, its employees, subcontractors or consultants.
11. ENDORSEMENTS
All product and service marks that appear on the Explore
Talent web site that are not Explore Talent marks are the
trademarks of their owners. References to any names, marks,
products or services of third parties or hypertext links
to third party sites or information do not constitute or
imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the
third party information, product or service.
12. GOVERNING LAW
The laws of the State of California govern this Agreement
and the parties irrevocably and unconditionally submit to
the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that jurisdiction.
13. INVALIDITY
If a provision of this Agreement or a right or remedy under
it is invalid or unenforceable in a particular jurisdiction:
(a) it is to be read down or severed in that jurisdiction
only to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability;
and (b) it does not affect the validity or enforceability
of that provision in another jurisdiction or the remaining
provisions in any jurisdiction.
14. TERMINATION
Explore Talent may immediately terminate this Agreement
or the provision of the Service if the Customer's account
is inactive for a period of 12 months since the date on
which the Customer last used the Service. In addition, Explore
Talent may immediately terminate this Agreements or the
provision of the Service if it considers that: (a) you have
breached any term of this greement; (b) you are or may be
or likely to become insolvent or bankrupt; (c) an unauthorized
person is, or may be using, your account; (d) you do not
have any prepaid credit. All outstanding charges will become
immediately due and payable to Explore Talent on giving
of notice of termination and in no circumstances shall the
member be entitled to any refund of payments made except
as set forth in Sections 18 and 19 below.
15. WAIVER
A single or partial exercise of a right does not preclude
a further exercise of that right or the exercise of another
right. Failure by a party to exercise a right or delay in
exercising that right does not prevent its exercise or operate
as a waiver. A waiver is only effective in the specific
instance and for the specific purpose for which it is given.
16. YOUR RIGHT TO CANCEL
You may cancel this contract, without any penalty or obligation,
if notice of cancellation is given, within 7 days from the
date of your signup. To cancel this contract, please visit
http://exploretalent.com/cancel.php
and follow the instructions as provided. You may also cancel
at anytime during business hours 10am - 6pm PST Monday -
Friday by calling (800) 598-7500. When you cancel, your
billing stops immediately, and no new charges will be billed
to you unless
you re-instate your subscription.
17. RIGHT TO REFUND
If you pay a fee and you fail to receive the services promised
(fully functional site and submission casting calendar),
then Explore Talent shall, upon your written or e-mailed
request, return the amount paid by you within 30 days of
your request for a refund.
18. PHOTO RELEASE
I hearby assign and grant to Explore Talent the right and
permission to use and/or publish photographs or likeness
of me for advertising purposes, promotion or display, in
all forms of media. I hereby release and discharge Explore
Talent, it's owners, and employees, and any persons acting
on behalf of Explore Talent from any liability stemming
from the publishing of said photos, including, but not limited
to, copyright infringement or piracy. I further discharge
ExploreTalent from any and all liability for damages caused
by any blurring, distortion, alteration,optical illusion,
or use in composite form of said picture which may occur
during the taking, processing, or production of said picture
or the finished product. I understand that Explore Talent
shall have the right to terminate my portfolio for any reason
whatsoever. I hereby certify that I am over eighteen years
of age, or, in the alternative, that my parent or guardian
hereby gives their express consent to my entering into this
release.
19. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and Explore
Talent. An understanding, arrangement, representation or
provision not expressly set out in it is not binding. All
correspondence, negotiations and other communications in
relation to its subject matter that precede it are suspended
by it and merged in it.
20. CREDIT CARD DESCRIPTOR
Charges will appear on your credit card statement as: "ExploreTalent
800 495 1212" or "ExploreTal 800 495 1212"
depending on your bank.
Free Trial Agreement
HOW TO REDEEM; OFFER INFORMATION. To redeem your free trial
subscription to ExploreTalent.com ("Trial") you
must go to ExploreTalent.com promo page. After that, appropriately
complete the registration and subscription forms. As part
of the enrollment process for the Trial, you will be required
to submit a valid credit card, checking account or PayPal
information and pick an ExploreTalent.com subscription package.
If you do not cancel your subscription during the Trial
period, you will be billed for the subscription package
to ExploreTalent.com, which you select during the Trial
registration process. Your Trial allows access to all of
ExploreTalent.com's site features and begins immediately
upon approval by ExploreTalent.com of the above information.
ExploreTalent.com reserves the right to refuse any Trial
or subscription for any reason. This offer expires on June
30 2008. Limit one Trial per person while supplies last.
Any attempt by a person to redeem more than one Trial shall
subject such subsequent Trials to disqualification. Void
where prohibited. ExploreTalent.com may discontinue this
offer at any time.
ELIGIBILITY. Eligibility is limited to non-subscribers
of ExploreTalent.com. Current subscribers are not eligible.
Only members that did not cancel their subscription within
the free trial will be eligible for the free business cards.
BILLING UPON EXPIRATION. Upon the completion of your Trial
period, you will be automatically billed for an ExploreTalent.com
subscription for the rate and term you select when you sign
up for your Trial. Thereafter, your subscription will be
automatically renewed until you submit your resignation.
HOW TO CANCEL. In order to avoid any payments to ExploreTalent.com
you must cancel your Trial prior to the end of your Trial
(this is, before the end of the seventh day). To cancel
this contract, please visit http://exploretalent.com/cancel.php
and follow the instructions as provided. You may also cancel
at anytime during business hours 10am - 6pm PST Monday -
Friday by calling (800) 598-7500. When you cancel, your
billing stops immediately, and no new charges will be billed
to you unless you re-instate your subscription.
TERMS OF MEMBERSHIP. Your Trial and any subsequent subscriptions
are governed by all of the terms and conditions on the ExploreTalent.com
site, including but not limited to the ExploreTalent.com
Terms of Use. The Terms of Use can be found by going to
ExploreTalent.com and clicking on the "User agreement"
link on the help page.
PRIVACY. All information supplied by you to ExploreTalent.com
is subject to the ExploreTalent.com Privacy Policy which
can be found a link to on the help page.
LIMITATION ON LIABILITY. ExploreTalent.com is not responsible
for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone
network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers,
computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or redemption
to be received by ExploreTalent.com on account of technical
problems or traffic congestion online or on the Internet
or at any web site, or any combination thereof including
any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's
computer related to or resulting from downloading any materials
consistent with this Trial or subsequent use of ExploreTalent.com.
If, for any reason, the Trial offer is not capable of running
online as planned, including infection by computer virus,
bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical
failures, or any other causes beyond the control of ExploreTalent.com
which threatens or corrupts or adversely affects the administration,
security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this
Trial offer, ExploreTalent.com, reserves the right, in its
sole discretion, to cancel, terminate or suspend the offer
and/or any Trials.
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