Restricted content
In connection with your use of, access to, and/or participation in the Respondent Services, you may have the opportunity to review or access confidential and proprietary information, materials, products, and content (“Restricted Content”) belonging to CV or CV’s clients, partners, or licensors. Restricted Content is and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of the owner of the Restricted Content. In no event shall you obtain or receive any right, title, or interest in or to any Restricted Content. You agree to protect the confidentiality and secrecy of the Restricted Content, and you agree not to modify, copy, reproduce, republish, display, transmit, distribute, reverse engineer, create derivative works of, decompile, or otherwise use, alter, or transfer Restricted Content without the prior express written consent of CV or the owner of the Restricted Content. You acknowledge and agree that Restricted Content may be subject to, and protected by, intellectual property laws, regulations, and codes. You further acknowledge and agree that if you breach or otherwise violate the restrictions, limitations, and prohibitions contained in this Section, in addition to any other rights or remedies available to CV, CV reserves the right to terminate, prohibit, or restrict your use of, access to, and/or participation in the Respondent Services.
Additionally, and without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that CV considers any research conducted for CV and the information that is related to that research, including but not limited to any Surveys, Product Test materials, questionnaires, and the responses of your or any other respondent (collectively, the “Research”), to be Restricted Content. In consideration of your being permitted to participate in the Research, you agree that:
(i) You will not disclose the Research, including your responses and comments and any ideas that are discussed and/or generated as a result of your participation in the Research (collectively, “Your Responses”), to anyone other than CV;
(ii) You will not unless expressly permitted by CV, use any audio and/or visual recording devices during Research;
(iii) All right, title, and interest in the Research and the results thereof, including, for example, all copyrights, trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property rights, are owned by CV, and CV has not granted you any right, title, or interest in the Research or the results thereof, or any portion of either;
(iv) If the ownership of Your Responses does not for any reason vest in CV, you then irrevocably transfer and assign all of your right, title, and interest in Your Responses to CV; and
(v) CV may, in any manner that it desires, use Your Responses as it sees fit, including but not limited to sharing Your Responses with others.
Rewards
In connection with your use of the Respondent Services, you may have the opportunity to accumulate Rewards. Rewards may be in the form of cash, gift cards, coupons, discounts, sweepstakes entries, prize drawing entries, or other items of value. Information, official rules, and terms and conditions governing any Rewards may be described in these Terms, on the Services, at the beginning or end of a Survey or Product Testing materials, in Survey or Product Testing invitations, on websites or webpages designated for redeeming Rewards, and/or in any newsletter or other communication distributed or published by CV.
A CV may modify, alter, delete, or add new terms and conditions related to any Reward at any time without notice. For CV this includes but is not limited to modifying, altering, adding, or deleting available Rewards, and modifying, altering, adding, or deleting any conditions for earning incentives or rewards, at any time without notice. In addition, CV may terminate or cease offering any Reward in connection with the Respondent Services, at any time without notice.
CV makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, regarding any product or service received in connection with Rewards, including but not limited to any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. CV is not, and will not be, liable or responsible for the performance or failure of any product or service given to you as, or redeemed with, a Reward, or for any cost, damage, accident, delay, injury, loss, expense or inconvenience that may arise in connection with such product or service. CV will not replace any lost, stolen, misplaced, or damaged Rewards.
The suppliers or providers of any products or services offered in connection with Rewards, and/or the owners or operators of any website(s) on which you redeem any Reward, may have their own terms and conditions. Please review these terms and conditions carefully.
PII may have to be collected, processed, and/or disclosed in connection with a Reward program and/or any request to redeem a reward or incentive. By agreeing to these Terms, you hereby agree to the collection, processing, and/or disclosure of your PII for such purposes, and all such PII shall be subject to the terms outlined in the Coast Ventures Privacy Policy.
Taxes
You hereby expressly acknowledge and agree that any rewards earned through the respondent services may be subject to taxes, and that such taxes are solely your responsibility.
A CV may provide you and/or the appropriate government agency or taxing authority with information related to any Rewards you earn in connection with the Respondent Services. You agree to provide a CV with all required information to assist the CV in complying with its reporting or withholding obligations. A CV may withhold any tax from any Reward as required by applicable law.
In the United States, if you receive Rewards the total value of which equals or exceeds $600 in any tax year, you will be required to furnish your taxpayer identification number or complete and return a W-9 form before the awarding of any Reward to comply with IRS tax reporting requirements. CV must file a 1099-Misc form with the United States Internal Revenue Service for such payments. In addition, you will be provided a completed 1099-Misc form for your tax compliance purposes. If you have received Rewards of $600 or more during a tax year, and fail to provide your taxpayer identification number or complete and return a W-9 form CV or its agent has sent you, you may not be eligible to receive further Rewards, regardless of when they were earned, unless and until you provide a CV or its agent with the completed and verified W-9 form or your taxpayer identification number.
CV employees
CV employees and their Immediate Family Members (as defined herein) are not eligible to receive any Rewards for using, participating in, or accessing the Respondent Services. For this Section, the term “Immediate Family Members” includes parents, spouses or spousal equivalents, domestic partners, children, girlfriends, and boyfriends.
CV employees may use, access, or participate in the Respondent Services only after receiving written permission from their respective manager, and only for the sole purpose of improving the Respondent Services. CV employees must always be honest and report accurate information in connection with using, accessing, or participating in the Respondent Services.
Accounts
If accessing content that requires registration, only one person at a time may access the Services using the User’s screen name and password without the prior consent of the CV. When registering an account, you agree to:
(i) Provide true, accurate, current, and complete information;
(ii) Maintain and update this information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete;
(iii) Protect and prevent unauthorized access to your account;
(iv) Not transfer or share your account with any third party,
(v) Immediately notify CV of any suspected or actual unauthorized use of your account or breach of security. Please note that you are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account, whether or not you authorized the activity, and CV is not liable for any loss or damage to you or any third party arising from your failure to comply with any of the foregoing obligations.
If you believe your User name and password have been used to access the Services without your authorization, please contact CV at: (844) 586-0496 or [email protected].
Restrictions and Ownership
You may not use the Services unless you are at least sixteen (16) years old. You acknowledge that any Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content, and Other Content contain copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information. Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content, Other Content, and Services, including the content and the organization, layout, arrangement, and design elements of the Site and each individual page of the Site, and any and all intellectual property relating either directly or indirectly to the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content and Other Content, including but not limited to patents, design rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, database rights (including, but not limited to information provided by you), trade secrets, know-how and all derivative works thereof (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), are and will remain the property of CV or its affiliates and are protected by the United States and international copyright, trademark and other applicable intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, you shall not reproduce, transmit, publicly display, distribute or use for a derivative work any of the Intellectual Property without CV’s written permission. You may not in any manner attempt to obtain any right, title, or interest, by registration, patent, copyright, trademark, or otherwise in or to such Intellectual Property or any derivative thereof. You shall not take any action that jeopardizes, limits, or interferes with CV’s or its affiliate’s ownership of and/or right to use the Intellectual Property. You may not commingle any portion of the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content, or Other Content with any other information and shall not edit, modify or alter any portion thereof. Further, you shall honor any and all reasonable requests by CV to protect CV’s proprietary interests in the Intellectual Property.
All product or service offerings names identified by ®, ™, or (SM) symbols or appearing in a type form different from that of the surrounding text – e.g. in bold or italics – are trademarks, trade names, and service marks owned by or licensed to CV (unless otherwise identified as being owned by another entity) and are subject to state, federal, and/or international trademark protection. Unless expressly authorized by CV, you may not use any trademark, trade name, or service mark that you access through any Service with any product or service that is not provided by CV, or in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or that might disparage or discredit CV and/or its licensors and affiliates.
In addition, the User may not:
- Use the Services for any purpose that is prohibited by any law or regulation, that is harmful, offensive, sexually explicit, obscene, violent, threatening, abusive, falsely representative of your persona, invasive of someone else’s privacy, or otherwise objectionable to CV, or to:
- Use or attempt to use any “deep-link,” “scraper,” “robot,” “bot,” “spider,” “data mining,” “computer code” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, harvest, or monitor any portion of the Services, any data or content found on or accessed through the Services, or any other Service information without prior express written consent of CV;
- Obtain or attempt to obtain through any means any materials or information on the Services that have not been intentionally made publicly available either by public display on the Services or through accessibility by a visible link on the Services;
- Violate any measure employed to limit or prevent access to the Services or its content;
- Violate the security of the Services or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, data, materials, information, computer systems or networks connected to any server associated with the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means;
- Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise represent an affiliation with a person or entity;
- Interfere with, attempt to interfere with or otherwise disrupt the proper working of the Services, any activities conducted on or through the Services or any servers or networks connected to the Services, including accessing any data, content or other information prior to the time that it is intended to be available to the public on the Services;
- Take or attempt any action that, in the sole discretion of CV, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on the Services or the infrastructure of the Services;
- Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Other Content;
- Disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
- Use the Services to stalk, intimidate or harass another;
- Use the Services for any political purpose or commercial purpose not explicitly authorized by CV;
- Reverse engineer or modify the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content or Other Content;
- Infringe any intellectual property right, right of privacy, right of publicity or other right of any third party;
- Use the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content or Other Content in a manner that suggests an unauthorized association or is beyond the scope of the limited license granted to you; or
- Otherwise violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms.
You agree to comply with all local, state, federal, national, foreign, supranational, and international laws, statutes, ordinances, regulations, treaties, directives, and agreements that apply to your use of the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content, and Other Content.
Availability
A CV may suspend or terminate the availability of the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content and Other Content, in whole or in part, to any individual user or all users, for any reason, in CV’s sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability. Upon suspension or termination of your access to the Services, or upon notice from CV, all rights granted to you under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will cease immediately, and you agree that you will immediately discontinue use of the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content and Other Content.
Reservation of rights
All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by CV and its licensors and other third parties. No right or license may be construed, under any legal theory, by implication, estoppel, industry custom, or otherwise. Any unauthorized use of the Services, Coast Ventures LLC’s Own Content or Other Content for any purpose is prohibited.
The user’s content
The User grants to CV the non-exclusive, unrestricted, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, transferrable, and cost-free right and license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, combine with other materials, publish, distribute, create derivative works from, promote, exhibit, broadcast, syndicate, sublicense (including, without limitation, to third party media channels, platforms, and distributors), publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise use and exploit in any manner whatsoever, or grant third parties the right to do any of the foregoing with all or any portion of the material entered in the Services by the User (other than third-party material transmitted through private electronic mail) (“Other Content”) for any purpose whatsoever in all formats, on or through any means or medium now known or hereafter developed, and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed, and to advertise, market and promote the same. The User further irrevocably grants CV the right, but not the obligation, to use the User’s name in connection with the User’s Other Content. The User also agrees to waive any right of approval or inspection for CV’s use of the rights granted herein and agrees to waive any moral rights that the User may have in any Other Content, even if it is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to the User. To the extent not waivable, the User irrevocably agrees not to exercise such rights in a manner that interferes with any exercise of the granted rights.
The User understands that the User will not receive any fees, sums, compensation, consideration, or remuneration for any of the rights granted in this Section. CV’s receipt of the User’s Other Content is not an admission of their novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not impair CV’s right to existing or future intellectual property rights relating to CV’s Own Content. The User waives any and all rights and claims in connection with CV’s consideration, use, or development of any product, content, works of authorship or other materials similar or identical to the User’s Other Content now or in the future.
Users entering Other Content into the Services are responsible for the content of that Other Content. CV has no responsibility for Other Content, including the content of any messages or information posted by Users or others, or for the content of information accessible via direct or indirect hyperlinks from the Services. However, CV retains the right, which it may or may not exercise in its sole discretion, to review, edit, or delete Other Content, which CV deems to be illegal, offensive, in violation of these terms and conditions or otherwise inappropriate.
The User represents and warrants that the User owns or has the necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to grant CV the rights granted in this Section. The User alone, though, retains whatever legally cognizable right, title, and interest that the User has in their Other Content and remains responsible for them.
You may not input, distribute, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Other Content through the Services that:
- Is promotional in nature, including solicitations for funds or business, without the prior written authorization of CV, or constitutes junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or the like;
- Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
- Makes available any information that is considered under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationships to be inside information, proprietary and/or confidential information that is learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements;
- Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, including right of privacy and publicity;
- Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment; and/or
- Is harmful to minors.
If you see any violations of these terms and conditions on the Services, please e-mail us at [email protected].
Copyright infringement
DMCA notification
CV responds to copyright notifications submitted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (“DMCA”). To submit a notice of claimed copyright infringement under U.S. law, provide CV’s designated agent with the following written information:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on his or her behalf;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
- Identification of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate that material;
- Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner asserted is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
CV’s designated agent is:
Legal Department
Coast Ventures LLC
3857 Birch St, #423
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: (844) 586-0496
Email: [email protected]
You can obtain further information from the Copyright Office’s online directory at www.dmca.copyright.gov/osp.
CV will respond to notifications of claimed copyright infringement in accordance with the DMCA.
Counter notification
If you believe that your material has been removed in error in response to a copyright notification, you may submit a counter-notification to CV’s designated agent with the following written information:
- A physical or electronic signature;
- 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 you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
- Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if your address is outside of the U.S., for any judicial district in which CV may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
CV will respond to counter notifications in accordance with the DMCA.