Acceptable Use Policy

Last Updated: March 1, 2022.

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”), is made a part of your Subscriber Terms of Use, in which case it governs the access of the Pietential Platform by you, the Subscriber, or your Users. The AUP is also made a part of the Pietential Website Terms of Use, in which case it governs the access of the Pietential Platform by anyone visiting or otherwise accessing the Pietential Platform (as applicable and as used herein, Subscriber Terms of Use and Website Terms of Use are referred to as the “Terms”). If there is any conflict between the AUP and the Terms, the provisions of the Terms will control. Unless expressly defined in the AUP, all capitalized terms used herein will have the meaning assigned to them in the Terms.

You are responsible for your access to and use of, and each User’s access to and use of, the Pietential Platform. All access and use of the Pietential Platform is subject to the following terms and conditions:

  • Acceptable Use. You may use the Pietential Platform solely as expressly permitted in the Terms, including the AUP. You or all Users must comply with the acceptable use conditions listed below, as well as any acceptable use policy posted by Pietential at its website or made available to you or Users through the Pietential Platform. Pietential reserves the right to modify its AUP at any time by posting the revised AUP on its website or making the revised AUP available through the Pietential Platform. Each use of the Pietential Platform after the posting date of a revised AUP indicates acceptance of the revised AUP by you or any User(s).
  • Restrictions. The content and information on the Pietential Platform (including, but not limited to, messages, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, video, maps, icons, software, code, or other material), as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to us or our licensors. You agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or lease, sell or re-sell or otherwise distribute any such content or information obtained from or through the Pietential Platform. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing limitation or any of the other conditions or restrictions set forth in the Terms, you will not (and if applicable, will not allow Users to):
  • take actions which result in access, or attempts to access, the Pietential Platform from more than one computer at any one time;
  • distribute or share any Pietential Platform user name or password with anyone; or
  • reveal a User’s account password to others, or allow use of a User’s account by others;
  • use the Pietential Platform to operate in or as a time-sharing, outsourcing, service bureau, application service provider or managed service provider environment;
  • remove, modify or obscure any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices which appear in or on the Pietential Platform or any report or other output generated thereby;
  • use the Pietential Platform or any of Pietential’s resources to violate the intellectual property or privacy rights of any person or entity;
  • access, monitor, or copy any content or information of the PietentialL Platform using any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission;
  • violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on the Pietential Platform or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to the Pietential Platform;
  • take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
  • deep-link to any portion of the Pietential Platform for any purpose without our express written permission;
  • frame”, “mirror”, or otherwise incorporate any part of the Pietential Platform into any other website or mobile application without our prior written authorization;
  • attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software programs used by Pietentialin connection with the Pietential Platform or the content we provide; or
  • log in using an alias that masks your true identity.

The Pietential Platform may contain various forums through which you and third parties may interact, communicate, or post or link other content, messages, materials, videos, or other items to the Pietential Platform (“Interactive Areas”). If Pietential provides you access to such Interactive Areas, you are solely responsible for your use of such Interactive Areas and use them at your own risk. By using the Pietential Platform, including any Interactive Areas, you expressly agree not to post, link, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create, or otherwise publish or view through the Pietential Platform any of the following:

  • content that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent, or otherwise objectionable;
  • content that would constitute, encourage, or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national, or international law;
  • content that may infringe or misappropriate any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
  • content that impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity, including Pietential;
  • Political campaigning or advertising, contests, sweepstakes, or raffles;
  • Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, surname (family name), addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information, and credit card numbers;
  • Viruses, corrupted data, or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files; or
  • content or links to your content that, in the sole judgment of Pietential, (i) violates the terms of the AUP, (ii) is objectionable, (iii) restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or the Pietential Platform, or (iv) may expose Pietential or its affiliates or its or their users and/or sublicensees to any harm or liability of any type.

Any use of the Interactive Areas or other portions of the Pietential Platform in violation of the foregoing violates the AUP and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or the Pietential Platform.

Without limiting the foregoing, Pietential takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted, stored, or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any loss or damage thereto, nor is Pietential liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you may encounter. As a provider of interactive services, Pietential is not liable for any statements, representations, or content provided by its users in any Interactive Area or portion of the Pietential Platform. Although Pietential has no obligation to screen, edit, or monitor any of your content posted to or distributed through any Interactive Area, Pietential reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen, or edit, without notice, any content posted or stored on the Pietential Platform at any time and for any reason, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any of your content on the Pietential Platform at your sole cost and expense.

  • Confidentiality. You and all Users shall (a) keep your access credentials (e.g., user names and passwords) confidential, and (b) immediately notify Pietential if the integrity or security of its access credentials is compromised. You will be responsible for all activities and charges incurred under your account, and activity taking place in your account, where such charges and activities were originated using your access credentials. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the issuance of access codes and passwords and that Pietential will only issue access codes or passwords to your Users on your instruction and as your agent. You acknowledge and agree that Pietential is authorized to accept the user identifications and passwords as conclusive evidence that you, or your Users, as the case may be, have accessed, utilized, or otherwise employed the Pietential Platform or Pietential Services.
  • Equipment. You are solely responsible for all equipment and other resources necessary to connect to and communicate with the Pietential Platform. You must obtain access to the world wide web, pay any service fees associated with such access, and provide all equipment necessary to make such a connection, including a computer, a modem, or other access devices.. You acknowledge and agree that such equipment and system requirements, which may change from time to time, are your responsibility, along with all associated costs.