Terms of Use
Terms of Use
Welcome to ForeignAccent!
These Terms of Use (or "Terms") govern your use of ForeignAccent, except where we expressly state
that separate terms (and not these) apply, and provide information about the ForeignAccent Service
(the "Service"), outlined below. When you create an ForeignAccent account or use ForeignAccent, you agree
to these terms. The ForeignAccent Terms of Service do not apply to this Service.
The ForeignAccent Service is one of the The The ForeignAccent Service is one of the ForeignAccent
Products, provided to you by ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an
agreement between you and ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc. Service is one of the ForeignAccent Products,
provided to you by The ForeignAccent Service is one of the ForeignAccent Products, provided to you by
The ForeignAccent Service is one of the ForeignAccent Products, provided to you by ForeignAccent Platforms,
Inc. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an agreement between you and ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc.
Platforms, Inc. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an agreement between you and ForeignAccent Platforms,
Inc. Platforms, Inc. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an agreement between you and ForeignAccent
Platforms, Inc. Products, provided to you by ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc. These Terms of Use therefore
constitute an agreement between you and ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc.
ARBITRATION NOTICE: YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING,
INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR
CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION. WE EXPLAIN SOME EXCEPTIONS AND HOW YOU CAN OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION BELOW.
The ForeignAccent Service
We agree to provide you with the ForeignAccent Service. The Service includes all of the ForeignAccent products,
features, applications, services, technologies, and software that we provide to advance ForeignAccent's mission:
To bring you closer to the people and things you love. The Service is made up of the following aspects:
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Offering personalized opportunities to create, connect, communicate, discover and share.
People are different.
So we offer you different types of accounts and features to help you create, share, grow your presence, and
communicate with people on and off ForeignAccent. We also want to strengthen your relationships through shared
experiences that you actually care about. So we build systems that try to understand who and what you and
others care about, and use that information to help you create, find, join and share in experiences that
matter to you. Part of that is highlighting content, features, offers and accounts that you might be
interested in, and offering ways for you to experience ForeignAccent, based on things that you and others
do on and off ForeignAccent.
Fostering a positive, inclusive, and safe environment.
We develop and use tools and offer resources to our community members that help to make their experiences positive
and inclusive, including when we think they might need help. We also have teams and systems that work to combat
abuse and violations of our Terms and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behavior. We use all the information
we have-including your information-to try to keep our platform secure. We also may share information about misuse or
harmful content with other ForeignAccent Companies or law enforcement. Learn more in the Privacy Policy.Developing and using technologies that help us consistently serve our growing community.
Organizing and analyzing information for our growing community is central to our Service. A big part of our Service
is creating and using cutting-edge technologies that help us personalize, protect, and improve our Service on an
incredibly large scale for a broad global community. Technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning
give us the power to apply complex processes across our Service. Automated technologies also help us ensure the
functionality and integrity of our Service.Providing consistent and seamless experiences across other ForeignAccent Company Products.
ForeignAccent is part of the ForeignAccent Companies, which share technology, systems, insights, and information-including the
information we have about you (learn more in the Privacy Policy) in order to provide services that are better,
safer, and more secure. We also provide ways to interact across the ForeignAccent Company Products that you use, and designed
systems to achieve a seamless and consistent experience across the ForeignAccent Company Products depending on your choices.Ensuring access to our Service.
To operate our global Service, we must store and transfer data across our systems around the world, including outside
of your country of residence. The use of this global infrastructure is necessary and essential to provide our Service.
This infrastructure may be owned or operated by ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc., ForeignAccent Platforms Ireland Limited, or their
affiliates.Connecting you with brands, products, and services in ways you care about.
We use data from ForeignAccent and other ForeignAccent Company Products, as well as from third-party partners, to show you ads,
offers, and other sponsored content that we believe will be meaningful to you. And we try to make that content as
relevant as all your other experiences on ForeignAccent.Research and innovation.
We use the information we have to study our Service and collaborate with others on research to make our Service
better and contribute to the well-being of our community.
The Privacy Policy
Providing our Service requires collecting and using your information. The
Privacy Policy
explains how we collect,
use, and share information across the ForeignAccent Products. It also explains the many ways you can control your information,
including in the ForeignAccent Privacy and Security Settings. You must agree to the Privacy Policy to use ForeignAccent.
Your Commitments
In return for our commitment to provide the Service, we require you to make the below commitments to us.
Who Can Use ForeignAccent. We want our Service to be as open and inclusive as possible, but we also want it to be safe,
secure, and in accordance with the law. So, we need you to commit to a few restrictions in order to be part of the
ForeignAccent community.
- You must be at least 13 years old.
- You must not be prohibited from receiving any aspect of our Service under applicable laws or engaging in payments
related Services if you are on an applicable denied party listing.
- We must not have previously disabled your account for violation of law or any of our policies.
- You must not be a convicted sex offender.
How You Can't Use ForeignAccent.
Providing a safe and open Service for a broad community requires that we all do our part.
You can't impersonate others or provide inaccurate information.
You don't have to disclose your identity on ForeignAccent, but you must provide us with accurate and up to date information
(including registration information), which may include providing personal data. Also, you may not impersonate someone or
something you aren't, and you can't create an account for someone else unless you have their express permission.You can't do anything unlawful, misleading, or fraudulent or for an illegal or unauthorized purpose.
You can't violate (or help or encourage others to violate) these Terms or our policies, including in particular the
ForeignAccent Community Guidelines, ForeignAccent Platform Terms and Developer Policies, and Music Guidelines. If you post branded
content, you must comply with our Branded Content Policies, which require you to use our branded content tool. Learn how to
report conduct or content in our Help Center.You can't do anything to interfere with or impair the intended operation of the Service.
This includes misusing any reporting, dispute, or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent or groundless reports or appeals.You can't attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorized ways.
This includes creating accounts or collecting information in an automated way without our express permission.You can’t sell, license, or purchase any account or data obtained from us or our Service.
This includes attempts to buy, sell, or transfer any aspect of your account (including your username); solicit, collect,
or use login credentials or badges of other users; or request or collect ForeignAccent usernames, passwords, or misappropriate
access tokens.
You can't post someone else’s private or confidential information without permission or do anything that violates someone
else's rights, including intellectual property rights (e.g., copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeit,
or pirated goods).
You may use someone else's works under exceptions or limitations to copyright and related rights under applicable law.
You represent you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share. Learn more, including how
to report content that you think infringes your intellectual property rights, here.
You can’t modify, translate, create derivative works of, or reverse engineer our products or their components.
You can't use a domain name or URL in your username without our prior written consent.
Permissions You Give to Us.
As part of our agreement, you also give us permissions that we need to provide the Service.
We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a license to use it.
Permission to use your username, profile picture, and information about your relationships and actions with accounts,
ads, and sponsored content.
You give us permission to show your username, profile picture, and information about your actions (such as likes) or relationships
(such as follows) next to or in connection with accounts, ads, offers, and other sponsored content that you follow or engage with
that are displayed on ForeignAccent Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show that you liked a sponsored post
created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on ForeignAccent. As with actions on other content and follows of other
accounts, actions on sponsored content and follows of sponsored accounts can be seen only by people who have permission to see
that content or follow. We will also respect your ad settings. You can learn more here about your ad settings.You agree that we can download and install updates to the Service on your device.
Additional Rights We Retain
- If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we may change it if we believe it is appropriate or necessary
(for example, if it infringes someone's intellectual property or impersonates another user).
If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Service (for example, images,
designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share), we retain all rights to our content
(but not yours).
You can only use our intellectual property and trademarks or similar marks as expressly permitted by our Brand Guidelines or
with our prior written permission.
You must obtain written permission from us or under an open source license to modify, create derivative works of, decompile,
or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.
Content Removal and Disabling or Terminating Your Account
We can remove any content or information you share on the Service if we believe that it violates these Terms of Use, our policies (including our ForeignAccent
Community Guidelines), or we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you
(including terminating or disabling your access to the ForeignAccent Products and ForeignAccent Company Products) immediately to protect our community or services, or
if you create risk or legal exposure for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies (including our ForeignAccent Community Guidelines), if you repeatedly
infringe other people's intellectual property rights, or where we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can also terminate or change the Service,
remove or block content or information shared on our Service, or stop providing all or part of the Service if we determine that doing so is reasonably
necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts on us. If you believe your account has been terminated in error, or you want to disable
or permanently delete your account, consult our Help Center. When you request to delete content or your account, the deletion process will automatically
begin no more than 30 days after your request. It may take up to 90 days to delete content after the deletion process begins. While the deletion process
for such content is being undertaken, the content is no longer visible to other users, but remains subject to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.
Content will not be deleted within 90 days of the account deletion or content deletion process beginning in the following situations:
where your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case this license will continue to apply
until that content is deleted); or
where deletion within 90 days is not possible due to technical limitations of our systems, in which case, we will complete the deletion as soon as
technically feasible; or
where deletion would restrict our ability to:
investigate or identify illegal activity or violations of our terms and policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our products
or systems);
protect the safety and security of our products, systems, and users;
comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or
comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement, or a government agency;
in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a
case-by-case basis).
Who Is Responsible if Something Happens.
Our Service is provided "as is," and we can't guarantee it will be safe and secure or will work perfectly all the time. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, WE ALSO DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We also don’t control what people and others do or say, and we aren’t responsible for their (or your) actions or conduct (whether online or offline)
or content (including unlawful or objectionable content). We also aren’t responsible for services and features offered by other people or companies,
even if you access them through our Service.
Our responsibility for anything that happens on the Service (also called "liability") is limited as much as the law will allow. If there is an issue
with our Service, we can't know what all the possible impacts might be. You agree that we won't be responsible ("liable") for any lost profits, revenues,
information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms, even if
we know they are possible. This includes when we delete your content, information, or account. Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to
these Terms will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months.
You agree to defend (at our request), indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including
without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with these Terms or your use of the Service. You will
cooperate as required by us in the defense of any claim. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to
indemnification by you, and you will not in any event settle any claim without our prior written consent.
How We Will Handle Disputes.
Except as provided below, you and we agree that any cause of action, legal claim, or dispute between you and us arising out of or related to these Terms
or ForeignAccent ("claim(s)") must be resolved by arbitration on an individual basis. Class actions and class arbitrations are not permitted; you and we may
bring a claim only on your own behalf and cannot seek relief that would affect other ForeignAccent users. If there is a final judicial determination that
any particular claim (or a request for particular relief) cannot be arbitrated in accordance with this provision's limitations, then only that claim
(or only that request for relief) may be brought in court. All other claims (or requests for relief) remain subject to this provision.
Instead of using arbitration, you or we can bring claims in your local "small claims" court, if the rules of that court will allow it. If you don't
bring your claims in small claims court (or if you or we appeal a small claims court judgment to a court of general jurisdiction), then the claims must
be resolved by binding, individual arbitration. The American Arbitration Association will administer all arbitrations under its Consumer Arbitration
Rules.
You and we expressly waive a trial by jury.
The following claims don't have to be arbitrated and may be brought in court: disputes related to intellectual property (like copyrights and trademarks), violations of our Platform Policy, or efforts to interfere with the Service or engage with the Service in unauthorized ways (for example, automated ways). In addition, issues relating to the scope and enforceability of the arbitration provision are for a court to decide.
This arbitration provision is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
You can opt out of this provision within 30 days of the date that you agreed to these Terms. To opt out, you must send your name, residence address,
username, email address or phone number you use for your ForeignAccent account, and a clear statement that you want to opt out of this arbitration agreement,
and you must send them here: ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc. ATTN: ForeignAccent Arbitration Opt-out, 1000 Madison AveNew York, NY 10075.
Before you commence arbitration of a claim, you must provide us with a written Notice of Dispute that includes your name, residence address, username,
email address or phone number you use for your ForeignAccent account, a detailed description of the dispute, and the relief you seek. Any Notice of Dispute
you send to us should be mailed to ForeignAccent Platforms, Inc., ATTN: ForeignAccent Arbitration Filing, 1000 Madison AveNew York, NY 10075. Before we commence
arbitration, we will send you a Notice of Dispute to the email address you use with your ForeignAccent account, or other appropriate means. If we are unable to
resolve a dispute within thirty (30) days after the Notice of Dispute is received, you or we may commence arbitration.
We will pay all arbitration filing fees, administration and hearing costs, and arbitrator fees for any arbitration we bring or if your claims seek
less than $75,000 and you timely provided us with a Notice of Dispute. For all other claims, the costs and fees of arbitration shall be allocated in
accordance with the arbitration provider's rules, including rules regarding frivolous or improper claims.
For any claim that is not arbitrated or resolved in small claims court, you agree that it will be resolved exclusively in the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County. You also agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of either of
these courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim.
The laws of the State of California, to the extent not preempted by or inconsistent with federal law, will govern these Terms and any claim, without
regard to conflict of law provisions.
Unsolicited Material.
We always appreciate feedback or other suggestions, but may use them without any restrictions or obligation to compensate you for them, and are under
no obligation to keep them confidential.
Updating These Terms
We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless
otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review
them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not want to agree to these or
any updated Terms, you can delete your account
