USER AGREEMENT
Welcome to dogpeopleinc.com! PLEASE READ THIS USER AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE. By using this Web site, you signify your agreement to all terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein (the "Terms of Use"). If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, please do not use this Web site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the dogpeopleinc.com Web site following the posting of changes to these terms, including the dogpeopleinc.com Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes. A COPY OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE MAY BE DOWNLOADED, STORED OR PRINTED.
RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS
This Web site is owned and operated by dogpeople, inc. (referred to as "dogpeople," "we," "us," or "our" herein). No material from the dogpeopleinc.com Web site or any Web site owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by dogpeople may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, noncommercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of dogpeople's copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these Terms of Use, the use of any such material on any other Web site, online service or other service is prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to dogpeople, inc.
In the event you download software from the dogpeopleinc.com Web site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed on a nonexclusive, nontransferable basis to you by dogpeople. dogpeople does not transfer title to the Software to you. You may own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but dogpeople retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
SUBMISSIONS
dogpeople always welcomes suggestions and comments regarding dogpeople's online activities from the users of our Web site. Any comments or suggestions submitted to dogpeople, either online or offline, will become dogpeople's property upon its submission. This policy is intended to avoid the possibility of future misunderstandings when projects developed by dogpeople's professional staff might seem to others to be similar to their own creative work. If at our request you send certain specific submissions (e.g., postings to bulletin or message boards, story lines for interactive stories, postings to our Gallery or games/drawings/contests) or, if you send us any unsolicited creative ideas, suggestions, photographs, notes, drawings, concepts or any other information or materials (collectively, the "Submissions"), the Submissions shall be deemed, and shall remain, the property of dogpeople. None of the Submissions shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of dogpeople, and dogpeople shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions. Without limitation of the foregoing, dogpeople shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights in and to the Submissions of every kind and nature throughout the universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Submissions.
FORUMS AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
"Forum" means a chat area, bulletin board, or e-mail function offered as part of the dogpeopleinc.com Web site. You shall not upload to, distribute through, or otherwise publish through the dogpeopleinc.com Web site any content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening, racist, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise give rise to liability or violates any law. If you do, we reserve the right to remove the postings that defame or insult anyone as well as notes that are abusive or hateful, although we have no duty to do so. In addition, we also reserve the right to remove notes that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be inappropriate, off the subject or not in English. You may not suggest or encourage illegal activity while visiting the dogpeopleinc.com Web site. Spamming is not permitted. Moreover, any postings that might be construed as stalking will be deleted and made available to the proper law enforcement officials.
The Forums shall be used only in a noncommercial manner. You shall not, without our express approval, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, promotion, advertising, or solicitation for goods or services. You specifically acknowledge that soliciting other dogpeopleinc.com Web site users to join or become members of any commercial online service or other organization is expressly prohibited.
It is our policy to respect the privacy of all guests. Please see our privacy policy which discloses our information collection and use practices. We ask that our guests respect each other's privacy by not posting names, phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers, or any other private information. If you do not want the world to know something, please do not post it on the Internet in any way.
You represent to us that you own, or have the right to submit to us in accordance with this Agreement, all material that you post on our Forums. By uploading materials to any Forum or submitting any materials to us, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) dogpeople a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that all so-called moral rights in those materials have been waived.
When you access our Web site and participate in our interactive applications, you participate at your own risk. You take responsibility for postings made under your user name. We take no responsibility for the content or opinions posted on our Web site by users accessing our Web site.
JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
All applicable federal, state and local laws govern user access to this Web site. This Web site is controlled and operated by dogpeople from its offices within the State of California, United States of America. dogpeople makes no representation that materials on the Web site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this Web site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. All information available on the Web site is subject to U.S. export control laws and may also be subject to the laws of the country where you reside.
TERMINATION
This Agreement is effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by destroying all materials obtained from the dogpeople Web site and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise. This Agreement will terminate immediately without notice from dogpeople if in dogpeople’s sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this Agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this Web site and all copies thereof, whether made under this Agreement or otherwise.
You agree that dogpeople, in its sole discretion, may terminate your registration to the Web site (or any part thereof) or use of the Web site or any portion of the Web site, and remove and discard any Submissions, for any reason, without limitation, including if dogpeople believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this User Agreement, including the Privacy Statement. dogpeople may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing access to the Web site, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Web site under any provision of this User Agreement may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that dogpeople may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Web site. Further, you agree that dogpeople shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Web site.










