Last revised December 16, 2019

This agreement governs your access to and use of Boardhost.com, Inc.'s (hereafter referred to as "Boardhost") Pollcode.com service's polls, facilities, and services (collectively the "Service"). In consideration for your right to use the Service, you agree as follows:

SERVICE PROVIDED

Boardhost provides the capability of creation and/or use of interactive polls, created and maintained by its customers, to the user, who is at least eighteen (18) years old, or is a minor over the age of thirteen (13) who has parental permission. Service is provided "as is." There may, among other things, be unexpected downtimes, loss of data, delays or interruptions of service. BOARDHOST SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOU MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT OF SUCH INTERRUPTIONS OR DATA LOSSES, OR OTHERWISE AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF BUSINESS.

When you create a poll, Boardhost may provide an HTML code for you to include on your website (or any other page where you include such code, hereafter referred to as "Your website") to use certain features that we provide. Boardhost cannot guarantee that such code will not interfere with other elements of Your website or that such coding will at all times work as described. You may not modify provided codes in any manner, except for changing the color and font to match your website.

Boardhost is not obligated to monitor the Service, but may do so and may remove or edit any poll or comment created through our site, or adjust your access to the Service. Polls or comments that Boardhost may, in its sole discretion, elect to remove or edit include without limitation those which violate the "Restrictions" enumerated herein.

Polls and their results are provided for entertainment only, and are subject to error and innaccuracies. Although polls are intended to allow and limit a unique user to one vote for the period of time specified when it was created, such an outcome cannot be guaranteed. Poll results may be skewed for a variety of reasons, including without limitation the group of users targeted, or the distribution of your poll to groups of users with a particular interest. Under no circumstances shall polls and their results be relied upon for any decision of monetary or other value, including, but not limited to, determining the winner of a contest.

Any URLs that may be assigned to the polls that you create belong to Boardhost and not to you, and are subject to removal and/or reassignment at Boardhost's discretion.

Boardhost will place advertisements on polls in exchange for the service provided. It is Boardhost's sole discretion as to how many advertisements appear, and the form of these advertisements.

If you create a poll and choose to allow third parties to post comments to your poll, you agree to monitor your poll, checking it at least once a day for any content that violates these terms, and removing such content.

CONTENT

Boardhost ordinarily does not review comments or polls before they are posted to its service. Opinions expressed on a poll or its comments are those of the author and not of Boardhost. Likewise, Boardhost makes no representations or warranties concerning the truth or falsity of any assertion of fact made by third-parties on a poll.

BOARDHOST SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOU MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT OF ANY COMMENTS OR CONTENT POSTED BY THIRD PARTIES OR YOU TO OUR SERVICE.

RESTRICTIONS

You must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to post comments to any polls. The following content is not permitted to appear in any polls or comments created through our site:
  • Racism
  • Hatred
  • Harassment
  • Adult content
  • Obscene material
  • Nudity or pornography
  • Material that infringes intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any party
  • Material the posting of which is tortious or violates a contractual or fiduciary obligation you or we owe to another party
  • Piracy, hacking, viruses, worms, or warez
  • Any illegal content or violation of law
  • Any link to or any image from a site containing any material outlined in these restrictions
  • Any material deemed offensive or inappropriate by Boardhost, in its sole discretion, after you have been informed that Boardhost so deems the material (you agree that Boardhost may remove such material or direct you to remove it without prior notice, however)
In addition, you may not use our services if Your website contains any content outlined in this section.

E-MAIL AND UNSOLICITED E-MAIL

Individuals or organizations that promote or use spamming (unsolicited bulk e-mail) or methods thereof are not allowed to use our site. Any reported incident of spamming, or any form of unsolicited e-mail or newsgroup posting that includes a link to or references to a poll, may result in IMMEDIATE termination of any related polls, and a ban from using any future Boardhost services.

Furthermore, you may not include a poll in ANY e-mail message including but not limited to e-mail newsletters. You may not solicit voters or viewers to polls by any means of e-mail communication.

TERMINATION

Boardhost reserves the right to terminate, or take steps to terminate your polls, comments and/or access to the Service, in whole or part, without warning, for any reason at its sole discretion, including without limitation any violation of a provision of these terms. Boardhost further reserves the right to remove any polls or accounts determined in Boardhost's sole discretion to be using excessive server resources.

Any polls you create and their associated data may be removed for inactivity at Boardhost's discretion. Ordinarily, this will occur if no one has voted in your poll for 365 days.

MODIFICATION

Boardhost reserves the right to modify these terms of service at any time. You agree to review these terms of service regularly, and, at a minimum, to review these terms of service at least once every 15 days. Failure to discontinue use of our service within twenty-five (25) days of any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new agreement

NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMED INFRINGEMENT

If you believe that content posted on a poll is violating your rights under U.S. copyright law, you may, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) file a complaint of such claimed infringement with Boardhost's designated agent in the manner described at http://pollcode.com/dmca.html

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BOARDHOST EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER IMPLIED OR EXPRESS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM BOARDHOST (INCLUDING ITS CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS AND AFFILIATES) OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS HEREIN MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

WAIVER OF DAMAGES

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE IN THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OR OTHERWISE, BOARDHOST SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, GOODWILL, DATA, OR OTHER LOSSES (EVEN IF BOARDHOST HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS HEREIN MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Boardhost and its contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, and affiliates from any losses, damages or costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, resulting from any claim or demand arising out of or related to your (including your contractors', agents', employees', officers', directors', shareholders' and affiliates', whether or not on your behalf, and whether or not with your permission) use of the Service, including without limitation claims arising out of or related to your violation of these terms of service, or your violation of the rights of another person, or the content of any comment or poll created through the Service, or your violation of law. Should Boardhost be notified of a pending legal action, or receive notice of the filing of a legal action, Boardhost may seek written confirmation from you concerning your obligation to indemnify Boardhost, and you agree to provide such confirmation promptly.

GENERAL TERMS

Any information that is disclosed on a poll or in a comment on a poll becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to dislose any personal information.

You represent and warrant that your usage of our service and/or content that you provide through our service does not violate any law, rule, policy or regulation.

Under no circumstances may you disclose personally identifying information about or related to a person under the age of thirteen (13).

You agree that Boardhost may preserve content and membership information and may release any or all preserved content or membership information to governmental agencies, courts, or other third-parties if we believe, in our sole discretion, that you have or may have committed illegal activities, violated these terms of service, violated the rights of third-parties, impaired in any respect the ability of Boardhost to operate the Service properly, or endangered in any respect Boardhost or third-parties, or in the event that the information is subpoenaed or subject to other judicial or administrative process.

Boardhost does not claim ownership of content you provide through our service. With respect to your polls, comments, or content that you provide or make available through the Service, however, without limiting any other rights these usage terms afford to Boardhost, you grant Boardhost a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display such content for the purpose of providing and promoting the Service.

You may not, in connection with your use of the Service, impersonate any individual or misrepresent your affiliation with any individual or group.

Boardhost shall have the sole discretion as to what what constitutes a violation of any of these terms.

You may not assign or otherwise transfer this agreement.

This agreement creates no third-party beneficiaries.

CHOICE OF LAW AND FORUM

Pollcode's terms of service shall be governed by the laws of the State of Iowa, USA, exclusive of choice-of-law principles. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Iowa, in Dubuque County, Iowa, USA, or, if subject matter jurisdiction is unavailable there, to the jurisdiction of the Cedar Rapids Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, USA, in any and all disputes arising out of, or related to, your use of Boardhost's services.

SEVERABILITY

If any condition in these terms of service is found unenforceable, Boardhost reserves the right to modify the condition to comply with the law. All remaining conditions shall remain valid and enforceable.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These terms of service contain the entire agreement of the parties and there are no other promises or conditions in any other agreement whether oral or written. These terms of service supersede any prior written or oral agreements between the parties.

NO WAIVER

Boardhost's failure at any time to enforce any provision of these terms of service shall not constitute a waiver or limitation of Boardhost's right subsequently to enforce every provision of the terms of service.

VIEWING, POSTING COMMENTS TO, OR CREATION OF A POLL AND/OR POLLCODE ACCOUNT CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.