Terms of Service

Please read these Terms of Service fully and carefully before using http://vid.lu (the “Site”) and the services, features, content or applications offered by this Site (“we”, “us”) (collectively with the Site, the “Services”). These Terms of Service set forth the legally binding terms and conditions for your use of the Site and the Services.

1. Acceptance of Terms
Each time you use or cause access to this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, and as amended from time to time with or without notice to you. In addition, if you are using a particular service on or through this web site, you will be subject to any rules or guidelines applicable to those services and they shall be incorporated by reference into these Terms of Service.

2. Modification.
We reserves the right, at sole discretion, to modify or replace any of these Terms of Service, or change, suspend, or discontinue the Services (including without limitation, the availability of any feature, database, or content) at any time. We may also impose limits on certain features of the Services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Service periodically for changes. Your use of the Services following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.

3. Service Description
Service vid.lu allows you to shorten and track URLs using our domain as the link. You understand and agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that We assume no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. Service is provided as a free service, and as such carries no warranty of any kind. Service is not liable for any loss or problem you might suffer due to using the Service. This includes losses in the event that the service stops operating, is unavailable or slow, suffers data loss, or any other issue which might be considered detrimental to you.

4. Registration.
While some features of the Service are available to unregistered users, for broader access to the Services you must register with us (creating an “Account”). In order to register, you must provide an accurate e-mail address.

5. Account Security.
You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your Account, and for keeping your Account secure. You are not permitted to use another Account without permission. You must notify us immediately of any breach of security or other unauthorized use of your Account. You should never publish, distribute or post login information for your Account.

6. Content.
All Content added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted to the Services by users, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (collectively “User Content”), is the sole responsibility of the user who originated it. You acknowledge that all Content accessed by you using the Services is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to you or any other party resulting therefrom. When you delete your User Content, it will be removed from the Services. However, you understand that (i) certain User Content will remain available and (ii) any removed User Content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not following removal be shared with others).
We reserve the right to remove any shortened Urls which we deem to have violated our terms and conditions, or that we believe violate the spirit of our terms or of fair usage (at our discretion). We may if we choose report use that is forbidden by our terms and conditions to the relevant governmental or law enforcement agencies, including relevant information such as the IP address of the link creator. We also reserve the right to block any abusers from using our service in future. In addition, shortened Urls may be removed retroactively if they later appear on any of the blacklists that Shortener consults.

7. User Conduct
a. You promise not to use the Services for any purpose that is prohibited by these Terms of Service. You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Services.
b. You shall not, and shall not permit any third party to, either (a) take any action or (b) upload, download, post, submit or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any Content (including User Content) on or through the Service that:
i. infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other right of any other person or entity or violates any law or contractual duty.;
ii. is unlawful, such as content that is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, or tortuous;
iii. constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail (“spamming”);
iv. contains software viruses or any other computer codes, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, limit or interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any system, data, password or other information of Site or any third party;
v. impersonates any person or entity, including any employee or representative of Site;
vi. includes anyone’s identification documents or sensitive financial information; or
vii. is otherwise determined by Service to be inappropriate at its sole discretion.
c. You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by Us in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Site’s (or its third party providers’) infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services or any activities conducted on the Services; (iii) bypass any measures Site may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services (or other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Services); (iv) run any form of auto-responder or “spam” on the Services; (v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl” or “spider” any page of the Site; (vi) harvest or scrape any Content from the Services; or (vii) otherwise take any action in violation of Site’s guidelines and policies.
d. You shall not (directly or indirectly): (i) decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any aspect, feature or part of the Services, except to the limited extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction; (ii) modify, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the Services; or (iii) copy, rent, lease, distribute, or otherwise transfer any of the rights that you receive hereunder. You shall abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations.
e. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce these Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) respond to user support requests; or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Site, its users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam prevention.

8. Termination.
We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your Account. If you wish to terminate your Account, you may do so by following the instructions on the Site. All provisions of these Terms of Service which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

9. Warranty Disclaimer.
You release Us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. The Services may contain, or direct you to websites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. We make no representations concerning any Content contained in or accessed through the Services, and it will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Services. We has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding which users gains access to the Services, what Content you access via the Services, what effects the Content may have on you, how you may interpret or use the Content and what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. We make no guaranty of confidentiality or privacy of any communication or information transmitted on the Services or any website linked to the services. We will not be liable for the privacy of e-mail addresses, registration and identification information, disk space, communications, confidential or trade-secret information, or any other Content stored on Site’s equipment, transmitted over networks accessed by the Services, or otherwise connected with your use of the Services.

10. Cookies.
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites.
We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience.You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our Site from functioning properly. The following is strictly necessary in the operation of our Site.

11. Advertising.
Third party advertising may be included on the Site. Such advertisers may use technologies such as cookies or web beacons which may allow them to access information such as your IP address, ISP, browser etc. to be used in the course of displaying advertising or selecting advertising to display.

12. Violations.
Please report any violations of these Terms of Service to the contact us form.