Welcome to Geoland!
These Terms of Use (the “Terms” or the “Agreement“) set forth the binding legal agreement between you and Geoland Inc. The Agreement governs your use of https://geoland.ca/ and all of the related websites, mobile apps, products and services offered by Geoland, including our plug-ins and browser extensions (collectively, the “Geoland Platform“).
These Terms provide important information to you, including your agreement under Section 8 to resolve any disputes by individual arbitration and to waive the right to participate in any kind of class action, unless you choose to opt-out as described in Section 8 below. The Terms also cover your agreement to grant us rights to your content, our limitation of liability to you and, if you choose to provide us with your phone number, your agreement to receive calls and text messages from us in accordance with applicable law. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree to resolve all disputes through binding individual arbitration, which means that you waive any right to have those disputes decided by a judge or jury, and that you waive your right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or any type of representative actions.
We encourage you to review this Agreement carefully. By accessing or using the Geoland Platform in any way, including browsing https://geoland.ca/, you are agreeing to these Terms in their entirety. If you do not agree to any of the Terms, you may not use the Geoland Platform.
1. Using the Geoland Platform.
- Who can use it. You must be at least the age of majority in the state where you live to use the Geoland Platform. Use of the Geoland Platform by anyone under 16 years of age is strictly prohibited!
- Registration. Access to certain functionalities of the Geolan Platform will require you to register with us and to create a profile on our Platform. If you register with Geoland, you agree to provide us with accurate information and update it as needed for accuracy. We will treat personal information you provide as part of registration in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You also may have the option to register for an account by linking your Facebook, Google, or Apple account.
- Privacy Policy. Our privacy practices are set forth in our Privacy Policy. By using the Geoland Platform in any way, you understand and acknowledge that the terms of the Privacy Policy apply to you, regardless of whether you have created an account on Geoland.
- Profile for Professionals. If you are a professional services provider, you may set up a Professional Profile. If you do, you give us the right to list your Professional Profile in our directory of service providers, and you will be able to connect with others on the Geoland Platform while identified by your professional profile. Your professional profile is subject to our Geoland Pro Services Terms and Conditions.
- Acceptable Use Policy. When using the Geoland Platform, you agree to abide by common standards of etiquette and act in accordance with the law, as described further in our Acceptable Use Policy.
- Prohibited Products Policy. If you are a professional, vendor, or seller, who is authorized to offer products through the Geoland Shop, you agree to abide by the Prohibited Products Policy.
- Termination. You may close your account at any time by going to account settings and deactivating your account. We may permanently or temporarily suspend your use of the Geoland Platform at any time for any reason, without any notice or liability to you. We may terminate your account at any time for any or no reason, including if you violate any Geoland policy (including the Acceptable Use Policy or Prohibited Products Policy). Upon termination of your use of the Geoland Platform, certain provisions will survive termination, as detailed in Section 10(m).
- Feedback. We welcome your feedback and suggestions about how to improve the Geoland Platform. Feel free to submit feedback at https://help.Geoland.com. By submitting feedback in this or in any other manner to us, you grant us the right, at our discretion, to use, disclose and otherwise exploit the feedback, in whole or part, without any restriction or compensation to you, as further described in Section 2(b) below.
2. Your Content.
- Definition of Your Content. The Geoland Platform enables you to post materials, including without limitation photos, profile pictures, messages, comments, proposals, invoices, to-do lists, schedules, change orders, time and expense tracking, Room Boards and tear sheets. You may also post reviews of third-party service providers, third-party products, or third-party services. All materials that you post on the Geoland Platform will be referred to collectively as “Your Content.“
- License and Permission to Use Your Content. You hereby grant to us and our affiliates, licensees and sublicensees, without compensation to you or others, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute Your Content, or any portion thereof, throughout the world in any format, media or distribution method (whether now known or hereafter created) for the duration of any copyright or other rights in Your Content. Such permission will be perpetual and may not be revoked for any reason, to the maximum extent permitted by law. Further, to the extent permitted under applicable law, you waive and release and covenant not to assert any moral rights that you may have in Your Content. If you identify yourself by name or provide a picture or audio or video recording of yourself, you further authorize us and our affiliates, licensees and sublicensees, without compensation to you or others, to reproduce, print, publish and disseminate in any format or media (whether now known or hereafter created) your name, voice and likeness throughout the world, and such permission will be perpetual and cannot be revoked for any reason, except as required by applicable law. You further agree that we may use Your Content in any manner that we deem appropriate or necessary.
- Ownership. We acknowledge and agree that you, or your licensors, as applicable, retain ownership of any and all copyrights in Your Content, subject to the non-exclusive rights granted to us in the paragraph above, and that no ownership of such copyrights is transferred to us under this Agreement. Further, with respect to Your Content in the form of photos, and subject to Geoland product and user experience considerations: (a) we will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the attribution of such photos as submitted by you, and (b) we will not license or sublicense to third parties individual photos or collections of photos, except in each case for Geoland Business Purposes. “Geoland Business Purposes” means any use in connection with a Geoland-branded or co-branded website, application, publication or service, or any use which advertises, markets or promotes the Geoland Platform, the services or the information it contains, Geoland, or its affiliates. Geoland Business Purpose specifically includes the use of Your Content on the Geoland Platform in connection with features and functions offered by Geoland to our users that enable them to view and interact with Your Content (such as Sketch, View in My Room and the embed tool).
- Your Responsibilities for Your Content. By posting, uploading, or submitting Your Content on the Geoland Platform, you represent and warrant to us that you have the ownership rights, or you have obtained all necessary licenses or permissions from any relevant parties, to use Your Content in this manner. This includes obtaining the right to grant us the rights to use Your Content in accordance with this Agreement. You are in the best position to judge whether Your Content is in violation of intellectual property or personal rights of any third-party. You accept full responsibility for avoiding infringement of the intellectual property or personal rights of others in connection with Your Content. You are responsible for ensuring that Your Content does not violate Geoland Acceptable Use Policy, Geoland Pro Services Terms and Conditions, Prohibited Products Policy, Copyright and Trademark Policy, or any applicable law or regulation. You agree to pay all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed to any person by reason of Your Content.
- Limits. We reserve the right to remove Your Content, in whole or part, for any reason (which may include a reported violation of our Acceptable Use Policy, Geoland Pro Services Terms and Conditions, Prohibited Products Policy, or Copyright and Trademark Policy). We reserve the right to remove Your Content, in whole or in part, submitted by you for any reason without notice. We do not guarantee that we will publish all of Your Content. If you seek to publish a review, the requirements will be governed by our Review Policy.