Welcome to Snirch’s (“Snirch”) Snirch.com website (the “Site”). By using or accessing the Site and the services provided through or accessed on the Site (collectively, the “Services”), you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service"), and in return, Snirch grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive limited license to access and use the Services:

You may use the Services only if you can form a binding contract with Snirch and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions. You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations.

1. You must comply with all the terms of these Terms of Service in order to use the Services.
2. You must be 13 years or older to use the Services.
3. Should you create an account (a “Snirch Account”), you must provide accurate and complete registration information, and you are responsible for any activity that occurs under your username.
4. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.
5. You must not use the Services to abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate, intimidate or otherwise violate the legal rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
6. You must not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
7. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, account name, profiles, or links ("Content") that you submit, post, display and/or distribute on or through the Services.
8. You must not modify, adapt, create derivative work of, reverse engineer, or hack the Site or the Services (including any of its subpages or software provided on or through the Site) or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Snirch.
9. You must not create or submit unwanted email to any of Snirch’s members ("Spam").
10. You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
11. You must not, in the use of the Services, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including, but not limited to, proprietary rights and copyright laws).
12. You agree that neither Snirch nor its contributing users are responsible for any content linked to from the Site. Additionally, Snirch and its contributing users do not offer any endorsement or warranty for links or recommended queries on the Site and/or content linked to from the Site.

Violation of any of these Terms of Services will result in the termination of your Snirch Account(s). While Snirch prohibits such conduct and content on its Site, you understand and agree that Snirch cannot be responsible for the Content posted on its Site by members (or linked to by its members), and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the Services at your own risk.

1. We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Service at any time. If the alterations constitute a material change to the Terms of Service, we will notify you via internet mail. What constitutes a "material change" will be determined at our sole discretion, in good faith and using common sense and reasonable judgment.
2. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
3. We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
4. We encourage you to use discretion while browsing the Internet using links initiated at the Site. Links presented on the Site may unintentionally lead to other sites containing information that some people may find inappropriate or offensive; sites which contain inaccurate information, false or misleading advertising; sites that include malware; or sites containing information which violates copyright, libel or defamation laws.
5. These Terms of Services are effective as of the time you first access the Site and shall continue in full force and effect until terminated as follows:
6. You may terminate your Snirch Account for any reason or no reason at any time. Account termination requests should be sent to info (at) snirch (dot) com. In the event you have registered for a Snirch Account to use the Services, once you terminate your membership, you shall have no further rights or privileges to use the Services; or Snirch may suspend or terminate your Snirch Account and access to or use of the Services for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, at any time.

1. Snirch’s Registered and Unregistered Trademarks. Unless there is a written agreement between you and Snirch, you understand and agree that nothing in these Terms of Service gives you the right to use Snirch's trademarks, tradenames, service marks, logos, domain names, and any other distinctive brand features. You are however granted a right to responsibly link to any Snirch search guide (created by you or others).
2. Your Snirch account is owned by Snirch. Upon creation of an account you select a Snirch Contributor ID for your sole use. The account (and Contributor ID) is revokable, suspendable and/or transferable by Snirch at our sole discretion at any time for any reason. Common reasons for account termination or revokation include, but are not limited to, intellectual property violations and general violations of the terms of service.
3. You give Snirch permission to use your Content. By submitting any Content to the Site, you agree to grant Snirch and its users permission to access and use your Content. As such, you hereby grant to Snirch a non-exclusive, worldwide, assignable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to publish, use, reproduce, distribute, transmit, adapt, modify, create derivative of, provide user access to, publicly perform and publicly display, in every manner and medium now or hereafter known, any and all Content (in whole or in part) solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted. This license shall be in effect for so long as such Content remains on the Site, and will terminate at the time you or Snirch removes such Content from the Site.
4. Snirch shall have no obligation to use or take any action with respect to any Content.
5. You can notify Snirch of possible copyright infringement or trademark violations. Snirch undertakes to obey all relevant copyright and trademark laws. We will review all claims of copyright or trademark infringement received and remove content or terminate accounts deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws. To make a claim, please provide us with the following: A physical or an electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest that is allegedly infringed; A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site reasonably sufficient to permit Snirch to locate the material. In most cases, this should consist of the page url and a brief description of the alleged offending material; Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email; A statement by you that you have 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; and A statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you, made under penalty of perjury, are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf. Claims can be sent to the email address info (at) snirch (dot) com.

You agree to the following terms when creating or publishing search guides in Services:

1. You will never create a search guide that is the result of payment or sponsorship of any kind from a third party.
2. It is your responsibility not to intentionally or unintentionally upload any content that causes damage to Snirch's hardware, software, or data, or the hardware, software or data of Snirch's users;
3. You will initially review all recommended keywords included in your search guides to assure that you do not link to malicious websites or other undesirable content;

Snirch actively encourages its users to promote our Services. You agree not to spam in any manner through any medium. This includes unsolicited email to people you do not know, and posting on websites in a manner that does not add any value or is against the website's terms of service. Snirch explicitly reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts and/or listings as a result of any violations of the promotion terms.

Snirch intends to share revenues resulting from advertising from its search pages with its top contributers. In the future, it is Snirch's intention to begin to serve advertising on expert search results after we have sufficiently grown our user base. Snirch reserves the right to modify the revenue sharing terms at our sole discretion at any time for any reason.

Snirch disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material displayed in the SERVICES. Snirch disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material. Snirch disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material on the Internet through the SERVICES.

THE SERVICES, AND ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. SNIRCH AND ITS LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. SNIRCH AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES. SNIRCH AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM, ANY WARRANTIES FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES. SNIRCH AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES FOR SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED BY THE SERVICES, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SERVICES.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIAL OR DATA THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.

SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL SNIRCH OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES. ARISING FROM ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, (EVEN IF SNIRCH OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SNIRCH SERVICES, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SNIRCH SERVICES, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES). THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SERVICES, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SERVICES. THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL FURTHER APPLY WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY INFORMATION OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO, THE SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall Snirch or its licensors be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

1. These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Virginia, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms of Service to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms of Service will continue in full force and effect.
2. These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed by Snirch.
3. The terms of the sections labeled “General Conditions,” “Proprietary Rights,” “Limitations and Exclusions,” “Indemnification,” and “Miscellaneous” shall survive any termination or expiration of these Terms of Services.
4. No waiver of any term, provision or condition of these Terms of Service in any one or more instances, shall be deemed to be, or shall constitute, a waiver of any other term, provision or condition hereof, nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver of any such term, provision or condition hereof. No waiver shall be binding unless executed in writing by the party making the waiver. You agree that if Snirch does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms of Service (or which Snirch has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Snirch's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Snirch.
5. If any action in law or in equity is necessary to enforce the terms of these Terms of Service, the prevailing party will be entitled to reasonable fees of attorneys, accountants, and other professionals, and costs and expenses in addition to any other relief to which such prevailing party may be entitled.
6. Snirch may assign its rights and duties under these Terms of Services to any party at any time without notice to you. You may not transfer or assign any of your rights and duties under these Terms of Service without the prior written consent of Snirch.
7. You agree that Snirch may provide you with any notices by e-mail, regular mail, or postings through the Site.

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