Terms of Service, Conditions, and Policies

By undertaking our Services, it is understood that you have agreed to the following statements. MySafeAlley Inc. reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms, Conditions, and Policies at any time. You are responsible for checking these Terms and Conditions periodically for changes. Your continued use (such as this visit) of mysafealley.com (herein: the Website) and our Services after MySafeAlley Inc. has made changes will mean that you agree to the changes. You agree that the entire risk arising out of use of our Products and Services remains solely with you, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. Your use of this Website, our Products, and Services enters you into the following agreement automatically. We have made every effort to keep the following Terms of Service clear and easy to understand. If English is not your first language or you do not possess a good command of the English language, we strongly recommend you to seek assistance from persons who are fluent in English and understand our Terms of Service and all other content of this website and explain to you before using our Products and Services. At this time, our Products and Services are only available in the English language. We are currently working with a team of developers and translators to introduce our Products and Services in other commonly spoken languages. You must read, understand, and accept this document in its entirety. We hope that you will use our Products and Services, but if you do not agree to our Terms of Service and do not want to create or be a part of the MySafeAlley community, you can leave this website and/or delete your account at any time. 

Our Good Intentions

Welcome to MySafeAlley!

The name says it all! We believe in the safety and security of all person around the world. We believe that every person and their property has the right to be safe from harm, and to make that possible, we are introducing to the modern world, a first-ever platform where we connect neighbours, build stronger and safer communities, identify and prevent crime, and promote and improve levels of safety in all the neighbourhoods of this world.

The Use of Our Services

When people make well-informed choices, they feel empowered and develop a sense of accountability and responsibility. At MySafeAlley, we are creating a safe environment in all neighbourhoods where responsible individuals from our society take charge and stand up when they see an activity or an action taking place by ill-informed individuals that harm our society. We want responsible individuals like you to report matters that would matter to any reasonably prudent person. For this reason, you must:

• Provide accurate information about yourself; 
• Use the same name that you use in everyday life;
• Provide your own telephone number and an e-mail address to register on our website;
• Provide accurate information on any and all activities that you report including pictures and/or videos that you upload;
• Create only one account (your own);
• Not share your username or password, or give access to your MySafeAlley account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else;
• Accept these Terms of Service and use the Services and Products on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and have the authority to bind such entity to these Terms of Service, in which case the words “you” and “your” as used in these Terms shall refer to such entity;
• Note that MySafeAlley is not an emergency service, or to be used in lieu of an emergency service; 
• Are encouraged to also report all illegal activities to your local police service, in case of an emergency, call the emergency line designated for your area;
• As a business owner with a physical location of business such as a retail store, and you choose to post identifiable information of a shoplifter, you must post a visible notice at the entrance of your business clearly stating the following: 

• Who owns/operates the CCTV system;
• The purpose(s) of the surveillance; (e.g. to prosecute shoplifters, and/or report them to any social media including this website, mysafealley.com);
• Whether images are being monitored live, or recorded, or both;
• Contact details for a timely response from the responsible privacy officials (e.g. a title and a phone number);
• Relevant legal jurisdiction;
• Inform customers that they have the right to not enter your establishment if they do not wish to be recorded or reported.

We try to make MySafeAlley broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use MySafeAlley if:

• You are under 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products and Services).
• You currently participate, or encourage participation of others in any activities that harm the safety and security of any neighbourhoods and the persons who reside there. 
• You have served or are currently serving a federal/criminal offence in your country of residence and a pardon has not been granted.
• We have previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms of Service, Conditions, and Policies.
• You are prohibited from receiving our Products, Services, or software under applicable laws.

Conditions Around Reporting Activities

You agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so): You may not use our Services and Products to do or share anything that violates these Terms of Service, our Community Standards, and other Terms and Policies that apply to your use of MySafeAlley. 

• You may not upload viruses, malicious code, or do anything that could disable, spam, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products and Services.
• You may not access or collect data from our Products and Services using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.
• We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions.
• If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms of Service, Conditions, and Policies or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
• You shall not misue or abuse any Services such as the notification option of an active shooter call when there isn't actually one.

To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our Terms of Service and Policies.

We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to MySafeAlley Inc.

By offering our Products and Services to you, and your acceptance of these Terms of Service, we take for granted that you shall not post or report, in any manner, any harmful, false, misleading, defaming, derogatory, racist, sexist, or any misleading comment(s)/video(s)/or image(s) that would hurt reputation of any and all persons of this world. (e.g. After a dispute, you cannot falsely report other persons for theft or any other crime to defame them or their character on MySafeAlley. This website is not a platform for you to take revenge, but a platform to build stronger relationships between communities).

Additionally, you cannot post or report:

• Any hearsay, or any information that you know or ought to have known to be false or inaccurate;
• Nudity and/or pornographic material, unless it is part of a criminal activity that you are reporting;
• Pictures or videos of children without the consent of their parents or guardian.
• Pictures of victims of sexual assault unless the victim of a sexual assault may choose to report the offender to protect others around them.

Content on the Services

Although we make every reasonably effort and encourage individuals to share truthful content, however, at times, people may violate our contract such as these Terms of Service; therefore, you are responsible for your use of the Products and Services and for any Content you provide, including compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others.

Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via MySafeAlley or obtained by you through MySafeAlley is at your own risk. We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or communications posted via MySafeAlley or endorse any opinions expressed via MySafeAlley. You understand that by using MySafeAlley, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. All Content is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such Content. We may not monitor or control the Content posted via MySafeAlley and, we cannot take responsibility for such Content.

We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the Terms of Service, including for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment. If you wish to report any harmful content, please click “Report” on the post. 

The Content and Rights

You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through MySafeAlley. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through MySafeAlley, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for MySafeAlley to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through MySafeAlley available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our Terms of Service for such Content use. Such additional uses by MySafeAlley or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through MySafeAlley as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.

Deletion of Content

You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. 

When you delete content, it’s no longer visible to other users, however it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where:

• immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in which case, your content will be deleted within a maximum of 90 days from when you delete it);
• 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 immediate 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);
• 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).

In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.

Account Suspension and/or Termination

We want MySafeAlley to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to share videos, comments, and images of possibly harmful activities that threaten the safe network of their neighbourhood that they have created. 

If we determine that you have clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms of Service or Policies, including in particular our Community Standards, we may suspend or permanently disable access to your account. We may also suspend or disable your account if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons.

Where we take such action we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; or where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.

You can learn more about what you can do if your account has been disabled and how to contact us if you think we have disabled your account by mistake.

Limits On Liability

You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MySafeAlley Inc., its employees, vendors, directors, and officers from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) in connection with: (i) any use or alleged use of this Site under your password by you or any other person, whether or not authorized by you, (ii) your breach of these Legal Terms and Conditions; (iii) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party arising out of your use of this Site, (iv) MySafeAlley Inc. reserves the right to assume, at their own expense, the exclusive control and defense of any claims, demands and actions arising in connection with this indemnity and you agree to cooperate with MySafeAlley Inc. defense of these claims, demands and actions.

Any persons who have been reported on this website for whatever reason, agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any and all liability, damage, loss, loss of reputation, claim and expense (including reasonable legal fees) howsoever caused by our actions. If you believe that a comment, picture, or a video is incorrect or misleading, you may choose to contact us for its removal, and we reserve the right to take appropriate actions that we see fit. 

You agree that you or anyone shall not bring an action or claim (even by a third party) against MySafeAlley Inc., its employees, vendors, directors and officers. 

You agree that you shall not, directly or indirectly, make, cause, or ratify same even by a third party, any defamatory comments, slander, or remarks in writing, orally, or electronically about the MySafeAlley Inc, its employees, its partners, its sub-contractors, directors, officers, and any and all of its Products and Services.

Your use of this Website is not intended and shall not be deemed to create any legal relationship of any kind between you and MySafeAlley Inc. or the Affiliates.

We work hard to provide the best Products and Services we can and to specify clear guidelines for everyone who uses them. Our Products and Services, however, are provided "as is," and we make no guarantees that they always will be safe, secure, or error-free, or that they will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections. 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 do not control or direct what people and others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any content they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content).

We cannot predict when issues might arise with our Products. Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent, and under no circumstance will we be liable to you for any lost profits, loss of reputation, loss of employment and revenues, loss of information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, or the MySafeAlley Inc. Products and Services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

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Disputes

We try to provide clear Terms of Service so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, you may contact us at arbitration@mysafealley.com

Note

The use of our Website, Products, and Services shall always remain free. If you sign up for text message notifications, standard rates may apply. In addition, the use of our Website, Products, and Services may require an active internet connection at your cost.

Date of Last Revision: October 10, 2020