Terms & Conditions
Community Content, License Terms & Conditions
By accessing “CakeCentral.com” (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Cake Central Media Corp.”, “CakeCentral.com”, “http://www.cakecentral.com”, “Cake Central”, “CakeCentral.com Website”, “CakeCentral.com Forum”, “CakeCentral.com Gallery”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use “CakeCentral.com”. We may change these terms at any time and we will do our utmost to inform you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of “CakeCentral.com” after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.RIGHTS TO SUBMITTED CONTENT
Cake Central does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Cake Central Services. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Cake Central Services, you grant Cake Central the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:- With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Cake Central Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Cake Central Services solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Cake Central Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Cake Central Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Cake Central removes such Content from the Cake Central Services.
- With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Cake Central Services other than Cake Central Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Cake Central Services solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Cake Central Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Cake Central removes such Content from the Cake Central Services.
- With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Cake Central Services other than Cake Central Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
- Cake Central is awarded an indefinite and irrevocable license on any content that is entered into, and which earns an award in, a Cake Central Contest.
PROHIBITED CONTENT & ACTIVITIES
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the CakeCentral Services. CakeCentral.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in CakeCentral.com’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the CakeCentral Services and terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of CakeCentral.com:- is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits people in a cruel or violent manner;
- contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
- solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names or email addresses;
- promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- 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 manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, “spimming,” or “spamming”;
- contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- 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, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
- involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, coupons, free products, free trials, surveys, casting calls, soliciting for book/paper research, votes or pyramid schemes;
- includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person’s consent;
- criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
- advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the CakeCentral Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the CakeCentral Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, CakeCentral.com reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which CakeCentral.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the CakeCentral Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to CakeCentral.com, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay CakeCentral.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the CakeCentral Services;
- covering, blocking or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any CakeCentral.com page via HTML/CSS, browser plugin or any other means;
- any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
- interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the CakeCentral Services or the networks or services connected to the CakeCentral Services;
- attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
- using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
- selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using any information obtained from the CakeCentral Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
- using the CakeCentral Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.