LaunchBit Terms of Service (For Advertisers)

This LaunchBit Terms of Service is effective February 1, 2012.

Last modified: February 9, 2012

Welcome to LaunchBit!

Thanks for using our products and services (“Services”). The Services are provided by LaunchBit Inc. (“LaunchBit”), located at 547 Sullivan Drive, Mountain View, CA 94041, United States.

By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read them carefully. By selecting the correct box at the end of this Agreement and typing “I Agree” or otherwise signifying your acceptance, you accept this Agreement either for yourself or on behalf of your employer or the entity that is identified as the account holder, and agree to be bound by its provisions. If you are accepting on behalf of your employer or the entity that is the account holder, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind your employer or such other entity. If you do not have such authority or you do not accept or agree with these terms, do not accept this Agreement.

Using our Services

You must follow the policies made available to you within the Services.

Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.

Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don’t remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.

Our Service integrates your advertisement (“Your Content”) with content (“Publisher’s Content”) provided by others, that is not LaunchBit’s content. We will match Your Content with the Publisher’s Content, selected by us at our sole discretion, based upon criterion you provided, and the category for the Publisher’s Content that the Publisher has selected for integration therewith. The Publisher or its designee, however, has the ultimate authority to decide whether or not to accept Your Content for integration with the Publisher Content, and the manner of integration. The Publisher’s Content is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may review Your Content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may remove or refuse to display Your Content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review Your Content, so please don’t assume that we do. Similarly, we do not necessarily review all Publisher’s Content to which Your Content may be offered to be integrated. So please do not expect us to have reviewed all Publisher’s Content to which we offer Your Content for integration.

Payment For Our Services

You agree to pre-pay the full amount for the anticipated advertisement campaign using our Services prior to the commencement of the campaign. The amount for the Services is based upon the amount you proposed for your advertisement campaign, and accepted by LaunchBit.

You may pay for the Services using a credit card or other banking or financial account. We do not store information regarding the account information for your credit card or banking or financial account, once we have processed the transaction. However, for your convenience, LaunchBit has arranged with a third party to store your credit card account information or other banking or financial account information for any subsequent purchases for our Services. You agree that neither LaunchBit, nor its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates and respective directors, officers and employees, shall have any liability, damages or expenses, arising out of or connected with any actual or threatened lawsuit, claim or legal proceeding based upon any claim that is the result of the third party’s storage of such information.

You will be charged for the advertisements placed, based upon the agreed to metrics, such as CPC or CPM, and the number of ads so placed. The amount charged will be deducted from the pre-paid amount.

Alternatively, if you and the publisher, using our platform, reach agreement on the amount due for a particular advertisement campaign, you will pay us the full agreed to amount. We will remit the amount to the publisher less a certain percentage that we agree with the publisher for the use of our platform by you and the publisher.

Your LaunchBit Account

You will need a LaunchBit Account in order to use our Services. You may create your own LaunchBit Account, or your LaunchBit Account may be assigned to you by an administrator, such as your employer. If you are using a LaunchBit Account assigned to you by an administrator, different or additional terms may apply and your administrator may be able to access or disable your account.

Your Content in Our Services

Our Services allow you to submit Your Content to be embedded in the Publisher’s Content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in Your Content. In short, what you created and belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload or otherwise submit Your Content to our Services, you give LaunchBit (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that Your Content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. You also agree that LaunchBit may use your trademark or logo on its website or other locations, for the limited purpose of providing notice to its publishers of the availability of advertisements from you to be inserted in their publications.

We rely on you to have all necessary rights to Your Content that you give LaunchBit the worldwide license described above. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for Your Content that you submit to our Services. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold LaunchBit, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates and respective directors, officers and employees, its suppliers, distributors, and publishers, from all damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable outside legal fees), arising out of or connected with any actual or threatened lawsuit, claim or legal proceeding based upon any claim that is a breach of the license granted herein.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright.

Modifying and Terminating our Services

We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether.

You can stop using our Services at any time, although we’ll be sorry to see you go. LaunchBit may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time.

Our Warranties and Disclaimers

We provide our Services using a commercially reasonable level of skill and care and we hope that you will enjoy using them. But there are certain things that we don’t promise about our Services.

OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, NEITHER LAUNCHBIT NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS OR PUBLISHERS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS” WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES. LAUNCHBIT DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT ITS USE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICE IS WITH YOU.

Liability for our Services

WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, LAUNCHBIT, AND LAUNCHBIT’S SUPPLIERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND PUBLISHERS, WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF LAUNCHBIT, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND PUBLISHERS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU ARE CHARGED TO USE THE SERVICES (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLYING YOU THE SERVICES AGAIN).

IN ALL CASES, LAUNCHBIT, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND PUBLISHERS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

Business uses of our Services

If you are using our Services on behalf of a business, that business accepts these terms. It will hold harmless and indemnify LaunchBit and its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from any claim, suit or action arising from or related to the use of the Services or violation of these terms, including any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys’ fees.

About these Terms

We may modify these terms or any additional terms that apply to a Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services. You should look at the terms regularly. We’ll post notice of modifications to these terms on this page. We’ll post notice of modified additional terms in the applicable Service. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than ten (10) days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service, you should discontinue your use of that Service.

If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that conflict.

These terms control the relationship between LaunchBit and you. They do not create any third party beneficiary rights.

If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).

If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.

The laws of California, U.S.A., excluding California’s conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and LaunchBit consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

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