Terms Of Service - Corporate SMS Marketing For Privacy-Centric Businesses

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE. JJ Ratings provides a web-based application (“JJ Ratings”) for managing mobile marketing campaigns including mobile messaging capabilities (the “Service”). Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Service shall be subject to this Agreement. You understand and agree that the Service is provided to you on an “AS-IS” basis and that JJ Ratings assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Service and that access and subsequent usage may involve third party fees (such as Internet access to use the Service).

YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS. In consideration of your use of the Service, you represent that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving the Service under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service’s registration form (such information being the “Registration Data”) and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or JJ Ratings has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, JJ Ratings has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). Children under the age of 13 may not sign up for an JJ Ratings account or use any JJ Ratings services.

PAYMENT AND FEES.

A. Payment by Credit Card / Paypal. You hereby authorize JJ Ratings to charge your credit card as set forth in the Payment Method section of the Registration Form to a monthly Services fee, and overage fees to JJ Ratings at the rates set forth on agreed upon rate.

B. Pass Through Charges. If at any time after execution of this Agreement, a Network Operator or other Third-Party changes the Third-Party Charges on Provisioned Phone Numbers then JJ Ratings, at its discretion, may pass through such fees (“Pass Through Charges”) to you at cost.

JJ Ratings PRIVACY POLICY. Registration Data and certain other information about you are subject to our Privacy Policy. For more information, please review our full privacy policy at jjratings.com/data-privacy. You understand that through your use of the Service you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing, and use by JJ Ratings and its affiliates. JJ Ratings may reasonably use your name and logo for its investor relations and marketing purposes.

MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY. You (the “MEMBER”) will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Service’s registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account designation and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account designation. You agree to (a) immediately notify JJ Ratings of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. JJ Ratings cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this section.

MEMBER CONDUCT, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

A. You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, audio, video, messages or other materials (“Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not JJ Ratings, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Service. JJ Ratings does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. Under no circumstances will JJ Ratings be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Service.

JJ Ratings is solely a facilitator of the message traffic and has no visibility into or control over individual Messages as they are transmitted through JJ Ratings and has no responsibility or liability with respect to the content of any individual Message. Except that JJ Ratings may use programmatic means to filter (pre-screen) your messages and block your campaigns or account due to message keywords that JJ Ratings has determined, in it’s sole description, may violate an applicable, rule, regulation, or law.

B. You agree to not use the Service to:

upload, post, text message, email, transmit or otherwise make available any illegal contests or gambling, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;
upload, post, text message, email, transmit or otherwise make available any adult Content or Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, or that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements, or which violates the intellectual property rights of a third party (“Rights”);
forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
upload, post, text message, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any mobile telephone, mobile device, computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
“stalk” or otherwise harass another; and/or
Using any equipment or software that has the capacity to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number generator, in conjunction with your use of the Services;
Using any equipment or software that has the capacity to initiate messages without human intervention, in conjunction with your use of the Services;
Sending any calls to life-line services, such as hospitals, fire, police, 911 or utility- related telephone numbers;
Using strings of numbers as it is unlawful to engage two or more lines of a multi-line business;
Harvesting, or otherwise collecting information about others, without their consent;
Misleading others as to the identity of the sender of your messages, by creating a false identity, impersonating the identity of someone/something else or by providing contact details at do not belong to you;
Transmitting, associating or publishing any unlawful, racist, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, demeaning, immoral, harmful, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or otherwise objectionable material of any kind;
Transmitting any material that may infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties including trademarks, copyrights or other rights of publicity;
Transmitting any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots or y other harmful/deleterious programs;
Interfering with, or disrupting, networks connected to the Services or violating the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
Attempting to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Services, through password mining or any other means;
Abusing the fair use policy with regard to unlimited keywords—that is, registering many keywords without using them for weeks or months, as is determined to be abuse in the sole discretion of JJ Ratings;
Interfering with another’s use and enjoyment of the Services or JJ Ratings Sites; or
Engaging in any other activity that JJ Ratings believes could subject it to criminal liability or civil penalty/judgment.

C. You acknowledge that JJ Ratings may or may not pre-screen Content, but that JJ Ratings and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or move any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, JJ Ratings and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable.

D. You acknowledge, consent and agree that JJ Ratings may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with any subpoena or other legal process; (b) enforce this Agreement; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of JJ Ratings, its users and the public.

E. You understand and agree that all messages you send via the JJ Ratings service will be sent, and certify that any subscriber list you decide to import into JJ Ratings was collected, in compliance with all applicable federal, provincial, state, and local laws, regulations, and rules governing SMS messages, advertising, and telemarketing, including, without limitation, Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. § 45), the CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 7701-7713), the Telemarketing Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 6101-6108), the Federal Trade Commission Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. § 310 et seq.), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 U.S.C. §§ 227), the Federal Communications Commission regulations (47 C.F.R. 64.1200 et seq.) and orders implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, all federal and state Do Not Call and calling-time restriction laws and regulations, and, as applicable for SMS to Canadian numbers, the CRTC’s Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules, including the CRTC Telemarketing Rules, National DNCL Rules, and Automatic Dialing and Announcing Device Rules, Telecom Decision CRTC 2007-48, as amended.; and all applicable industry guidelines and best practices, including, without limitation, the CTIA Short Code Monitoring Handbook and Messaging Principles and Best Practices (collectively, “Applicable Message Requirements”). JJ Ratings provides the software and carrier-connectivity through which you send your messages; you are solely and exclusively responsible for complying with Applicable Message Requirements (and for defending and indemnifying JJ Ratings from any claims in which it is alleged that you failed to do so). If for any reason JJ Ratings suspects that your use of its Services in any way is contrary to any Applicable Message Requirements, it reserves the right to request a written explanation from you, the client, including the method of collecting the subscriber’s phone numbers and a guarantee signed by you that all the people on your subscriber list provided you prior express written consent to receive text messages from you of the type that you had sent. You agree to provide all such information and documents reasonably requested by JJ Ratings. JJ Ratings reserves the right to take any action it thinks appropriate in the case of non-compliance, including but not limited to suspension and/or cancellation of the account, without any liability to you therefor.

F. You represent and warrant that you are aware that, among other requirements, the TCPA requires prior express written consent from a consumer before you can send them marketing text messages using an autodialer, with no purchase required as a condition of their consent, and such consent must be clear and conspicuous. Furthermore, damages for each message sent in violation of the TCPA is $500 and can be $1500 if the violation is proven to be “willful and knowing.”

G. You agree that you will include clear opt-out/unsubscribe information on your messages when required to do so by any applicable law or regulation and otherwise adhere to the Consumer Best Practices Guidelines promulgated by the Mobile Marketing Association, if applicable to your messages, and that you will promptly process all such do-not-text or do-not-call requests and maintain those numbers on your internal do-not-call/text list.

H. You shall schedule your messages responsibly and in a manner that is courteous to the recipients pursuant to local, state, national, and international calling time rules and regulations. You are solely responsible for obtaining any rights or licenses to any data, including without limitation sound files, pictures or videos for inclusion in any outbound messages. If you are unfamiliar or unclear on the legalities of any message that you intend to initiate through the Services, you must consult with your attorney prior to your use of the JJ Ratings Sites or Services.

I. You represent and warrant that you have all power and authority and have procured all rights and licenses necessary to use and text enable those Phone Numbers utilized for JJ Ratings services. In the case of shared use Phone Numbers, you expressly represent that you are the Phone Number Owner.

DOWNTIME & REFUND POLICY

A. For purposes of this Agreement, a Unit of Downtime is one period of at least 1 day during which access to https://jjratings.com/ is unavailable because of problems with hardware or system software. Downtime does not include:

problems caused by factors outside of our reasonable control
problems resulting from any actions or inactions by you or any third party
problems resulting from your equipment and/or third party equipment not within our sole control, or
network unavailability during scheduled maintenance of our network and/or web servers.

B. In any calendar month, we guarantee that Downtime will not exceed 1 Unit of Downtime excluding, however, regularly scheduled maintenance. Any regularly scheduled maintenance will be performed during the hours of 6pm and 8am. We work to ensure the functioning of all web servers through continuous monitoring by our staff.

C. If Downtime exceeds 1 Units of Downtime in any calendar month, we will, upon your written request, credit your account (a “Downtime Credit”) in an amount equal to the pro-rata price for one (1) day of service, for each instance of Downtime as that term is defined herein.

D. To receive Downtime Credit, you must request such credit by sending an email to [email protected] within seven (7) days after the occurrence of Downtime. The aggregate maximum number of Downtime Credits to be issued for any and all instances of Downtime occurring in a single calendar month will not exceed seven (7). Downtime Credits will be applied upon issue of the first invoice following the request for Downtime Credit, unless the Downtime occurs in your final month of service. In such case, a refund for the dollar value of the Downtime Credit will be mailed to you within thirty (30) days of the expiration of your service agreement.

E. If you are unhappy with any aspect of our service, please contact us and we will attempt to rectify the situation. Because we are providing a service, which starts when you create the account, we can not provide a refund except when the service has not been acceptable. This is at our discretion only. No refunds will be made if we terminate your account due to violation of our Acceptable Use Policy or any other violation of our Terms and Conditions, except as may be provided therein. This does not affect your statutory rights. No bill credit will be given for a period of suspension.

CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE. JJ Ratings does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant to JJ Ratings the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service and elsewhere for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available and also for the purpose of providing and promoting the Service to which such Content was submitted or made available.

INDEMNITY. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold JJ Ratings, and its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees harmless from any proceeding, suit, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party relating to, alleging or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your alleged violation of this Agreement, your alleged violation of any rights of another, or your alleged violation of any law (“Indemnifiable Claims”), and to indemnify JJ Ratings from any damages, awards, attorneys’ fees, and costs awarded against or incurred by JJ Ratings in connection with any such Indemnifiable Claims. As a condition of the foregoing indemnification obligations, (a) JJ Ratings will provide you prompt notice of any such Indemnifiable Claim, provided, however, that the failure to give such prompt notice shall not relieve you of your obligations hereunder except to the extent that you were actually and materially prejudiced by such failure; (b) you will have the sole and exclusive authority to defend or settle any such Claim (provided that you will obtain our consent in connection with any act or forbearance required by JJ Ratings, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld); and (c) JJ Ratings will reasonably cooperate with you in connection with your activities hereunder, at your expense. JJ Ratings reserves the right, at its own expense, to participate in the defense of a Claim. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, you will not settle any Claims for which you have an obligation to indemnify pursuant to this Section admitting liability or fault on behalf JJ Ratings, nor create any obligation on behalf of JJ Ratings without its prior written consent.

GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE. You acknowledge that JJ Ratings may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Service but that JJ Ratings has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the Service.

MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE. JJ Ratings reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that JJ Ratings shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

TERMINATION. You agree that JJ Ratings may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your JJ Ratings account, any associated text message address and/or email address, and access to the Service. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of this Agreement or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to the Service (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (g) your engagement in fraudulent, illegal or improper activities, (h) third party operator requirement, and/or (i) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with the Services. You may terminate your access and use of the Service upon prior written notice to JJ Ratings. In no event shall you be entitled to a refund of any fees paid to JJ Ratings hereunder.

JJ Ratings’S PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. Title, ownership rights and all intellectual property rights in and to the Services shall remain the sole and exclusive property of JJ Ratings. JJ Ratings retains all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. You are prohibited from attempting, or knowingly permitting or encouraging others to attempt, to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to determine source code or protocols from the Services except and only to the extent permissible by applicable law despite such prohibition. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose, any portion of the Service (including your JJ Ratings I.D., account, account designation, password and other JJ Ratings information), use of the Service, or access to the Service.

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. JJ Ratings 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. JJ Ratings 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, (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED (VI) THAT THE INTERNET WILL BE AVAILABLE AND WILL PERFORM.

C. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM JJ Ratings OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

A. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT JJ Ratings SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU 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 JJ Ratings HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (a) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (b) 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; OR (c) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT.

B. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT JJ Ratings’s service providers disclaim all liability with regard JJ Ratings’s customers, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or otherwise, arising out of or related to the use of the services provided under this Agreement. You hereby release JJ Ratings’s service providers from and against all claims, liability and damages arising out of or related to Company Customer’s use of the services provided under this Agreement. Company Customer will be solely responsible for any third party claims, damages and liability arising out of, resulting from or caused by Company Customer’s use of the Services provided under this Agreement including, without limitation, any claims, damages and liability arising out of, resulting from or caused by any Message or Content generated by Company Customer.

EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

NOTICE. JJ Ratings may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Agreement, by either text message, e-mail, regular mail, or postings on the Service.

TRADEMARK INFORMATION. The trademarks, service marks, logos and product and service names of JJ Ratings are trademarks of JJ Ratings, LLC (the “JJ Ratings Marks”). You agree not to display or use in any manner, the JJ Ratings Marks without JJ Ratings’ express prior written consent.

NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT. JJ Ratings respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. JJ Ratings may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide the following information to JJ Ratings’ Copyright Agent:

an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
your address, telephone number, and email address;
a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.

Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement should be addressed to: JJ Ratings. Trinity Chambers PO Box 4301. Road Town, Tortola British Virgin Islands. You may also email us: .

GENERAL INFORMATION

Choice of Law and Forum. This Agreement and the relationship between you and JJ Ratings shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and JJ Ratings agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within Trinity Chambers PO Box 4301. Road Town, Tortola British Virgin Islands.

Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of JJ Ratings to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of this Agreement remain in full force and effect.

Non-Transferability. You agree that your JJ Ratings account is non-transferable, and this Agreement may not be assigned by you without JJ Ratings’s prior written consent.

Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and JJ Ratings and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and JJ Ratings with respect to the Service. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other services from JJ Ratings.

DEFINITIONS

“Network Operator” means any mobile network operator, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, Third Party operator or user of a communications network to and from which SimpleTextng can directly transmit and receive Messages.

“Third Party” means any Person not a Party to this Agreement.

“Third Party Charges” means any fees or charges that any Third Party imposes on JJ Ratings in connection with any Services, including without limitation Service and Transit Fees.

“Transit Fees” means any fees imposed by a Network Operator or Third Party for the delivery of any Message