ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Online Film School Boot Camp (“OFSBC”) provides the following website (“Website”) and Service (as defined below) to you (“User”), subject to the terms and conditions set forth below (“Terms”). Failure to comply with these Terms may result in account revocation. By using or accessing the Website or the Services you agree to the Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should not use the Website. When you create an account you covenant, represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age or are otherwise authorized and able to enter into a validly binding contract. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as the Website is not intended for children under 13.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
OFSBC is a web-based film school. Our service teaches users the independent filmmaking process as interpreted by Trent Duncan, through online courses (“Service”). The Service may be used through a web browser. Once registered with OFSBC, each user will have access to OFSBC proprietary course content (“Subscriber Content”).
If you do not register with OFSBC , you will not have access to Subscriber Content.
YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
To use the Services, you will need to register on the Website and obtain an account, username and password. When you register, the information you provide to us during the registration process will help us in offering content, customer service, and network management. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account(s), username(s) and password(s) (collectively, the “Account”) and for all activities and liabilities associated with or occurring under your Account. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Account and any other breach of security, and ensure that you exit from your Account at the end of each session. We cannot and will not be responsible for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this requirement or as a result of use of your Account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by us or another party due to someone else using your Account. You may not transfer your Account and you may not use anyone else’s Account at any time without the permission of the account holder. For additional information on how we use your information, please see our Privacy Policy.
ACCURACY OF ACCOUNT INFORMATION
In consideration of your use of the Services, you agree to (a) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service’s registration form (such information being “Your Data”), (b) maintain and promptly update Your Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete; and (c) comply with these Terms. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if we believe that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account(s) and refuse or restrict any and all current or future use of the Services.
PRIVACY POLICY
Any personal information submitted in connection with your use of the Website is subject to our Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated into the Terms. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices.
PROMOTIONS
We encourage the use of our Service by offering promotional offers (“Promotions”) to first time customers of the OFSBC Service. Promotions are limited to one per household and may not be combined with other offers. You must have Internet access and a valid credit card or debit card (“Payment Method”) to redeem a Promotions offer. Upon registering for your Promotions, your Payment Method will be authorized to reflect the specific Promotions offer. Your available balance or credit limit may be reduced to reflect the authorization. Some of these Promotions may be offered by third parties in conjunction with the provision of their own products and services. We are not responsible for the products and services provided by such third parties. We reserve the right to modify, terminate or otherwise amend our Promotions.
BILLING
By starting your OFSBC membership, you expressly agree that we are authorized to charge you a membership fee, any applicable tax and any other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the Service to the Payment Method you provided during registration (or to a different Payment Method if you change your account information). Additional charges may include gift subscription purchases you make or service level changes you request. As used in these Terms, “billing” shall indicate either a charge or debit, as applicable, against your Payment Method, including a checking account, where applicable.
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Refunds and Credits. All fees and charges are nonrefundable and there are no refunds or credits for use of Service. At any time, and for any reason, we may provide a refund, discount, or other consideration to some or all of our members (“credits”). The amount and form of such credits, and the decision to provide them, are at our sole and absolute discretion. The provision of credits in one instance does not entitle you to credits in the future for similar instances, nor does it obligate us to provide credits in the future, under any circumstance.
Fee Changes. We may change the fees and charges in effect, or add new fees and charges from time to time, but we will give you advance notice of these changes by email.
MEMBERSHIP
Your OFSBC membership will continue in effect for one (1) year following your purchase date, unless you cancel your membership or we terminate it. For example, if you purchase an OFSBC membership on March 1st 2011, your membership will expire on March 1st, 2012.
CANCELLATION
You may cancel your membership to OFSBC at anytime, and cancellation will be effective immediately. WE DO NOT PROVIDE REFUNDS OR CREDITS FOR ANY PARTIAL-MONTH MEMBERSHIP PERIODS. To cancel, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with “Cancellation” in the subject line and the User’s reason for cancellation in the body of the e-mail. Cancellation may take up to 48 hours for the process to validate. We reserve the right to terminate your account for any reason at our sole discrecion.
CONNECTIVITY COSTS AND EQUIPMENT
You are solely responsible for all service, telephony, and/or other fees and costs associated with your access to and use of the Services and for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware, and other equipment required for such access and use.
SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations regarding online conduct and acceptable Submitted Content. For international users, please note that it may be necessary to transfer your information internationally and your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. For residents of the European Union: the data protection and other laws of other countries outside of the European Union may not be as comprehensive as those of the European Union. By using this site, you agree to have your information used and transferred to the United States as set forth in the Terms and the Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you hereby consent to jurisdiction in the State of Florida, United States, for all applicable law for all purposes.
GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
You acknowledge that OFSBC may be required to send you emails regarding your use of the Service; however, we will never ask you to submit additional personal information or to verify the status of information related to your account in any such email. You acknowledge that OFSBC may establish limits concerning use of the Service and may modify these limits at any time.
MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE
OFSBC reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice at any time. You agree that OFSBC shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service.
NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or otherwise use the Service for any commercial purpose.
NO COMPETITION OF SERVICE
You agree not to create or assist in the creation of any Service, Website, or information that might otherwise compete with the Services and Website offered by OFSBC.
TERMINATION
You agree that OFSBC, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, username, or account, and remove and discard any Submitted Content within the Service, for any reason, including and without limitation, the lack of use, or if OFSBC believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Any contracts, verbal or written or assumed, in conjunction with your deleted account and all its parts, at OFSBC’s discretion, will be terminated as well. OFSBC may also, in its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under any provision of the Terms may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that OFSBC may immediately deactivate or delete your OFSBC account and all related information and files. OFSBC reserves the right to bar any further access to such files or the Service. You agree that OFSBC shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.
ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
You understand and agree that some or all of the Service may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for OFSBC to provide the Service. You also understand and agree that you will not obscure any advertisements from general view via HTML/CSS or any other means. By using the Service, you agree that OFSBC has the right to run such advertisements with or without prior notice, and without recompense to you or any other user. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by OFSBC throughout the Service are subject to change at OFSBC’s discretion. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that OFSBC shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service
LINKS
The Website or the Service may provide links to non-OFSBC websites or resources (the “Third Party Websites”). Because we have no control over Third Party Websites, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of Third Party Websites, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from Third Party Websites. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, advertising, products, services or other materials available on or through any Third Party Websites or for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity they may contain.
LICENSING SUBMITTED CONTENT
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Submitted Content. However, by submitting content or otherwise making available any Submitted Content to OFSBC, you automatically grant and/or warrant that the owner has granted to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable, transferable license with the right to grant sublicenses through multiple tiers of sublicenses to publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, store, transcode, syndicate, broadcast, reproduce, edit, modify, create derivative works, and otherwise use and reuse your Submitted Content (or any portion or derivative works thereof) in any manner, in any medium, for any purpose in connection with the provision of the Service. You hereby waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with the exploitation of the Submitted Content, or any portion thereof, or of your name, personality, likeness, image or voice in connection with the Submitted Content, or any advertising or publicity relating thereto.
OFSBC PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You acknowledge that the Subscriber Content, other content on the Website (except for Submitted Content), the Service, and all underlying technology, software, designs, materials, information, communications, text, graphics, links, electronic art, animations, illustrations, artwork, audio clips, video clips, photos, images, and other data or copyrightable materials, including the selection and arrangements thereof, provided or made available to you by OFSBC (collectively, the “Company Content”) are the proprietary works of OFSBC and/or our affiliates and/or licensors and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright laws. OFSBC reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Company Content.
PROHIBITED USE OF COMPANY CONTENT
Except as expressly authorized by us or in these Terms, you may not copy, reproduce, publish, perform, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, circulate, modify, create derivative works of, rent, lease, sell, assign, sublicense, otherwise transfer, display, transmit, compile or collect in a database, or in any manner commercially exploit the Company Content, in whole or in part. You will not, in any manner, without our prior written approval, disassemble, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of the Company Content. You may not store any significant portion of any Company Content in any form, whether archival files, computer-readable files or any other medium. You may not “mirror” any Company Content on any server. Any unauthorized or prohibited use of the Company Content may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws.
PERMITTED USE OF COMPANY CONTENT
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, royalty-free, limited, non-perpetual, revocable, non-transferable, non-assignable license to access and utilize the Company Content for non-commercial personal or educational purposes while these Terms are in full force and effect. You acknowledge that we, our affiliates and/or our licensors, as applicable, hold all right, title and interest in and to all tangible and intangible aspects of the Company Content, including without limitation, all patents, copyrights and trade secrets pertaining thereto, and that, except for the limited rights set forth above, you do not acquire any intellectual property right or license in any of the foregoing. These rights granted to you are revocable by us in accordance with these Terms.
TRADEMARKS
The trademarks, service marks, and logos (the “Trademarks”) used and displayed in any Company Content are registered and unregistered Trademarks of others and us and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign trademark laws. Nothing in these Terms or otherwise in any Company Content should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Website, without the written permission of the applicable Trademark owner. We aggressively enforce our intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law. You may not use the Trademarks, either others or ours in any way without the prior written permission of the applicable Trademark owner. We prohibit use of our logo as a “hot” link to any other website unless approved by us in advance in writing.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, and our affiliates, officers, directors, agents, partners, employees, licensors, representatives and third party providers (including our affiliates’ respective officers, directors, agents, partners, employees, licensors, representatives, and third party providers), from and against all losses, expenses, damages, costs, claims and demands, including reasonable attorney’s fees and related costs and expenses, due to or arising out of any Submitted Content you submit, post to, email, or otherwise transmit to us or through the Services, your use of the Services, the Company Content or any portion thereof, your connection to the Services, or your breach of these Terms. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to fully cooperate with such defense and in asserting any available defenses.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
(a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. OFSBC EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
(b) OFSBC MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
(c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER LIABILITY THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
(d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM OFSBC OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT OFSBC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF OFSBC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.
REVISIONS
OFSBC may at any time revise these Terms by updating this posting. By using this Website, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to determine the then-current Terms of Service to which you are bound.
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT
OFSBC respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We do not promote, foster, or condone the copying of copyrighted material or any other infringing activity. Any unauthorized use of the Website or its contents will terminate the limited license granted by us.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These Terms and any policies applicable to you posted on the Website constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter. All rights not expressly granted in the Terms are expressly reserved. These Terms shall inure to our benefit and to the benefit of our agents, licensors, licensees, successors, and assigns.
SEVERABILITY
If any provision of these Terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable, these Terms will be deemed curtailed to the extent necessary to make the Terms legal and enforceable and will remain, as modified, in full force and effect.
GOVERNING LAW
These Terms and all matters or issues collateral thereto will be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida applicable to contracts executed and performed entirely therein (without regard to any principles of conflict of laws), you agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to the Website or Services or use of the Website or Services shall be heard exclusively in the courts of the State of Florida and you covenant and agree not to bring suit in any other forum.
NOTICE
Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder by OFSBC will be in writing and given by facsimile, postpaid registered or certified mail return receipt requested, or electronic mail.
NO AGENCY
Nothing in these Terms shall be construed as making either party the partner, joint venture, agent, legal representative, employer, contractor or employee of the other. Neither the Company nor any other party to this Agreement shall have, or hold itself out to any third party as having, any authority to make any statements, representations or commitments of any kind, or to take any action that shall be binding on the other except as provided for herein or authorized in writing by the party to be bound.