Terms of Service

Last updated: 02/Jan/2023

These terms of service are entered into by and between You and AirportAbuse.com. ("Company," "we," "our," or "us") and any associated authorized entities. The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively "Terms of Service"), govern your access to and use of www.airportabuse.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through www.airportabuse.com (the "Website").

Please read the Terms of Service carefully before you use the Website. By using the Website [or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Service when this option is made available to you], you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, found at https://www.airportabuse.com/privacy-policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Service, you must not access or use the Website.

BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU:

ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND AND COMPLY WITH THESE TERMS OF SERVICE; YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY UNDER APPLICABLE LAW TO FORM A BINDING CONTRACT WITH US; AND, YOU AGREE IF YOU ACCESS THE WEBSITE FROM A JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS NOT PERMITTED, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Age and Residence Requirements; United States Jurisdiction

The Services are available to individuals age 13 and over. If you are between the ages of 13 and the age of majority where you live, you must review these Terms of Service with your parent or guardian to confirm that you and your parent or guardian understand and agree to it. You may post a report regardless of where you live. The Services are not intended for distribution or use in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject the Company to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. By accessing, you certify that you are not on any list of restricted persons with whom it is unlawful for a United States company to do business. The Company operates the majority of its Services in the United States. The Company makes no representations or warranties that the Services are appropriate for use or access in other locations. Anyone using or accessing the Services from other locations does so on their own initiative and is responsible for compliance with United States' and local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content, if and to the extent such laws are applicable. We reserve the right to limit the availability of the Services and/or the provision of any content, program, product, service or other feature to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction, at any time and in our sole discretion, and to limit the quantities of any such content, program, product, service or other feature that we provide. We will notify you before we exercise these rights, except when we are not required to and when required to protect our reputation, the integrity of our services or if you breach these Terms of Service.

Proprietary Rights

The Services are owned and operated by the Company. Unless otherwise explicitly specified by the Company, all materials that are included in or otherwise a part of the Services, including past, present, and future versions, domain names, source and object code, the text, site design, logos, graphics, bibliographic and citation information, citation guides, icons, and book cover images, as well as the selection, assembly and arrangement thereof and the "look and feel" of the Services (collectively, "the Company Content"), are owned, controlled, or licensed by the Company or the Company's third-party partners. the Company Content is protected from unauthorized use, copying and dissemination by copyright, trademark, patent, and other laws, rules, regulations, and treaties. Any unauthorized use of the Company Content is prohibited. Any unauthorized use of the materials appearing on the Services may violate copyright, trademark, patent, and other applicable laws, rules, regulations, and treaties, and could result in criminal or civil penalties.

Your License to Use the Company Content

Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service, the Company grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-commercial, revocable, and non-transferable license to view the the Company Content. You may only use the Services for your own personal use. You agree not to view, copy, or procure content or information from the Services by automated means (such as scripts, bots, spiders, crawlers, or scrapers), or to use other data mining technology or processes to frame, mask, extract data or other materials from the the Company Content (except as may be a result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage), unless formally authorized by the Company under separate written agreement. No materials from the Services may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, downloaded, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any means without the Company's prior written permission or as expressly provided in these Terms of Service. When you download or use the the Company Content as authorized by these Terms of Service, you must: (a) keep intact any and all copyright and other proprietary notices; (b) make no modifications to the the Company Content; and (c) not copy or adapt any object code associated with the Services or reverse engineer, modify or attempt to discover any source code associated with the Services, or allow or assist any third-party (whether or not for your benefit) to do so. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. The Company may impose reasonable limits on your scope of access to the Company Content, including limits on time or number of materials accessed or machines used to access such Content, to prevent unauthorized third-party access to or use of that Content.

User Content and Activities

When you submit, post, upload, embed, display, communicate, link to, email or otherwise distribute or publish any review, report, problem, suggestion, idea, comment, vote, reply, feedback, message, image, video, text, profile data or other material ("User Content") to the Company, any Company employee or contractor, or a Company Website, you grant the Company and our affiliates, licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other entities or individuals authorized by the Company, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) and fully transferable right to exercise any and all copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future, and to make, use, reproduce, copy, display, publish, exhibit, distribute, modify, sell, offer for sale, create derivative works based upon and otherwise use the User Content.

Note that we may create, facilitate, or display social advertisements, whereby your name, profile and photo may be used to advertise products and services to your network based on your use of the Services and your interactions with the Company.

You further agree that the Company is free to use any ideas or concepts contained in any User Content for any purposes whatsoever, including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services, and creating informational articles, without any payment of any kind to you. You authorize the Company to publish your User Content in a searchable format that may be accessed by users of the Services and the internet. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you (a) waive (to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law) any moral rights you may have in any User Content you submit in favor of the Company and its successors-in-interest, even if such User Content is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you and (b) agree and consent to the Company doing, or refraining to do, any act that would otherwise infringe any moral rights you have (to the extent that any moral rights cannot be waived under applicable law).

The Company is not required to host, display, or distribute, and may remove at any time, any User Content. The Company reserves the right to change the format, sizing, and any other display specifications of the Content as it sees fit.

You represent and warrant that (i) you own the User Content submitted by you on, through or in connection with the Services, or otherwise have the right to grant the licenses set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your User Content on, through or in connection with the Services and/or Linked Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. Upon the Company's request, you will furnish the Company with any documentation, substantiation or releases necessary to verify your compliance with these Terms of Service.

Except as otherwise described in the posted Privacy Policy, or other agreement on the Services presented at the time you provide your User Content (defined below), you agree that your User Content will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will not be returned. You acknowledge and agree that your relationship with the Company is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other type of special relationship, and that your decision to submit any User Content does not place the Company in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public, including with regard to your User Content. None of your User Content will be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of the Company.

It is our policy not to accept or consider content, information, ideas, suggestions, or other materials other than those we have specifically requested, to which certain specific terms, conditions and requirements may apply. This is to avoid any misunderstandings if your ideas are similar to those we have developed or are developing independently.

You agree that the Company has no obligation to monitor or enforce your intellectual property rights to your User Content but has the right to protect and enforce its and its licensees' rights to your User Content. You further acknowledge and agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will not have any obligation to you with regard to User Content and that the Company may or may not monitor, display or accept your User Content and may delete it at any time. We may, but are not obligated to, review User Content prior to posting it on or distributing it through the Services, or allowing them to be distributed through the Services. This includes private messages exchanged by you and other users through the Services. This "User Content and Activities" section shall survive any expiration or termination of your relationship with the Company.

Acceptable Use Policy

You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit, through or in connection with our Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other users and for your interactions with other users. When you contribute, upload, or otherwise provide User Content via the Services, you agree to comply with the following Community Usage Rules. In addition to removing such prohibited materials, the Company may terminate the responsible accounts, and/or report such activities to law enforcement authorities as appropriate.

Prohibited user content includes, but is not limited to, material that the Company determines:
  1. is patently offensive or promotes or otherwise incites racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  2. harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  3. exploits people in a sexual or violent manner or contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult or otherwise objectionable website;
  4. posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person without reasonable justification;
  5. constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  6. constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  7. involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
  8. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page) or solicits or is designed to solicit passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
  9. furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to, making or buying illegal weapons or providing or creating computer viruses;
  10. involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from the Company such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
  11. includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent in non-public setting; or
  12. violates or attempts to violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, patent rights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.
Prohibited activities include, without limitation:
  1. unauthorized advertising to, or solicitation of, any user to buy or sell any products or services;
  2. circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of our Services;
  3. activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network;
  4. modifying, copying, distributing, downloading, scraping or transmitting in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, any content from the Services;
  5. covering or obscuring the banner advertisements and/or safety features (e.g., report problem button) on your personal profile page, or any Company page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
  6. any automated use of the Services, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to send messages or posts;
  7. interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services;
  8. displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on your profile or reports, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity using the Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on review posts or solutions, links to e-commerce sites not authorized by the company, or sending messages with a commercial purpose;
  9. activity unrelated or disruptive to the Services, such as intentionally distributing false reports, submissions that force browsers to scroll horizontally, large blank or content-free submissions, "Bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them a long time after the last post), posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics, hard-to-read topic titles (e.g., ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation), or
  10. multiple hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics; or
  11. using the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable law.

Service Modifications

The Company reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes to or discontinue any of the Services at any time. Any description of the Services provided by the Company is not a representation that the Services are working or will always work in that manner, as the Company is continuously updating the Services, and these updates may not always be reflected in the Terms of Service.

Links

Company Name has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The presence of any link does not imply endorsement by Company Name of the site. The use of any linked website is at the user's own risk.

Site Terms of Service Modifications

Company Name may revise these Terms of Service for its Website at any time without prior notice. By using this Website, you are agreeing to be bound by the current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

Governing Law

Any claim related to Company Name's Website shall be governed by the laws of Delaware, United States of America without regards to its conflict of law provisions.

Users in Specific Jurisdictions

If you are a user for whom the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable, or if you are a user in California for whom the California Do Not Sell or Share law is applicable then you are prohibited from accessing or using any service we offer.