Terms of Use

Terms of Use

  1. This User Agreement governs your relationship with Blurp("Company", "we", "us") and your use of and access to all services and products provided by Blurp (collectively, the Services). You agree that by accessing or using any part of the Services you are bound by the terms of this User Agreement (the Terms), including the applicable Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines incorporated herein.
  2. You may not use the Services unless all of the following apply to you, and you affirm that all of the following apply to you:
    1. You are at least 13 years old;
    2. You are either an adult over the age of 18 years old, an emancipated minor, or you have express permission from your parent or legal guardian to use the Services;
    3. You are legally allowed to use the Services where you live;
    4. You currently reside in the continental United States. If you reside in another country outside of the US, you the user are responsible for your access to the Services and your country and jurisdictions laws and regulations.
    5. You are not using the Services or accepting the Terms on behalf of any other entity, such as a company or organization, unless you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms;
    6. You have not been banned by Blurp from using the Services.
  3. The Blurp Privacy Policy (https://blurp.online/terms/privacy-policy) describes what Blurp can do with information about you received by Blurp when you use the Services. You agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, including the transfer of information to other countries for storage, processing, and use.
  4. Any content that you post to the Services must satisfy all of the following criteria, and you affirm that any content posted, submitted, or otherwise provided by you to the Services satisfies these criteria:
    1. You have the legal right to post the content to the Services.
    2. The content and the purpose for posting it complies with all laws, rules, and regulations that may apply.
    3. The content does not infringe the intellectual property rights (such as copyrights and trademark rights) of any other person or entity.
    4. The content does not include non-public personal private information belonging to someone else, such as another person’s birthdate, home address, or telephone number.
    5. The content complies with the Blurp Community Guidelines. You are responsible for your use of the Services and for any content that you post. Blurp does not endorse, support, represent, or affirm the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of the content posted through the Services, nor does Blurp endorse any opinions expressed through the Services. All content is the sole responsibility of the person who originated the content, and Blurp does not take responsibility for such content.
    6. With respect to any content you contribute that uses YouTube services via Blurp, you affirm that—in addition to complying with Blurp's own Terms and Community Guidelines—you are also complying with YouTube's more restrictive Terms. (Users are encouraged to use Blurp's own native video capabilities whenever they wish to avoid the application of these more restrictive terms.)
  5. You grant to Blurp a license to any content posted by you to the Services, including a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute your content. You agree that Blurp or its service providers or partners may display advertising in connection with your content and otherwise monetize your content without compensation to you. You warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant these rights to Blurp and Blurp users. You also grant a limited non-exclusive, royalty-free license to any user of the Services to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute any content posted by you to the Services solely in connection with that users use of the Services. The licenses granted by you hereunder do not include any moral rights or right of attribution.
  6. Virtual Items. You understand that at times you may earn buy or purchase virtual tokens for use in the Services (Virtual Items). You agree and acknowledge that you do not in fact own the Virtual Items and the amounts of any Virtual Item do not refer to any credit balance of real currency or its equivalent. Rather, you may purchase or earn a limited right to exchange Virtual Items for a limited license to use certain features of the Services. Any virtual token balance shown in your account does not constitute a real-world balance or reflect any stored value, but instead constitutes a measurement of the extent of your ability to procure such limited license to use certain features made available via the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, from time to time Blurp may make available a feature where Virtual Items may be redeemed for cash. Blurp prohibits and does not recognize any purported transfers of Virtual Items effectuated outside of the Services, or the purported sale, gift, or trade in the real world of anything that appears or originates in the Services, unless otherwise expressly authorized by Blurp in writing. Accordingly, you may not sublicense, trade, sell, or attempt to sell Virtual Items for real money, or exchange Virtual Items for value of any kind outside of the Services, without Blurp’s written permission. Any such transfer or attempted transfer is prohibited and void, and will subject your user account to termination. You are responsible for all taxes arising out of your use of the Services, including without limitation any taxes due upon your redemption of the Virtual Items for cash. If you redeem Virtual Items for cash, you may be required to supply a social security number and/or tax identification number prior to the issuance of the cash redemption to you. Blurp may file an IRS form 1099 or similar form with the Internal Revenue Service or the appropriate tax filing with a governmental entity for the fair market value of any cash redemptions issued to you in exchange for the Virtual items.
  7. Copyright infringement is not allowed on the Services, and Blurp will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the account of any repeat infringer. If your copyright has been infringed by any content on the Services and you did not grant a license for this use by uploading your copyrighted work to the Services, you may submit a notice that meets all of the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3), to our Copyright Manager at info@blurp.online or through our contact form located here. Your notice must include: (1) electronic or physical signature of the copyrighted work owner (or person authorized by the copyright owner), (2) a description of the copyrighted work, including the URL where the infringing content is available, or a copy of it, (3) contact details of the person submitting the notice, including email address, telephone, and mailing address, (4) statement in “good faith belief” that the work is not authorized by the copyright owner, and (5) a statement by the sender that all of the above information is accurate, and that the person sending the notice is either the copyright owner or is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Upon receiving a notice satisfying these requirements, Blurp will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the services.
  8. You may not interfere with the Services in any way, such as by accessing the Services through automated means in a manner that puts excessive demand on the Services; by hacking the Services; by accessing without authorization areas of the Services that are protected by technical measures designed to prevent unauthorized access; by testing the vulnerability of the Services; by impersonating Blurp or the Services; by accessing the Services for any purpose that competes with the interests of Blurp; by spamming the users of the Services; by failing to respond to operational communications or requests from Blurp; or through any other type of interference with the Services or Blurp’s relationships with others.
  9. Blurp may remove any content and terminate your access to the Services at any time and for any reason to the extent Blurp reasonably believes (a) you have violated these Terms or Blurp’s Community Guidelines, (b) you create risk or possible legal exposure for Blurp, or (c) you are otherwise engaging in unlawful conduct—although Blurp endeavors to allow all free speech that is lawful and does not infringe the legal rights of others. Any invitation made by Blurp to you to use the Services or submit content to the Services, or the fact that Blurp may receive a benefit from your use of the Services or provision of content to the Services, will not obligate Blurp to maintain any content or maintain your access to the Services. Blurp will have no liability to you for removing any content, for terminating your access to the Services, or for modifying or terminating the Services.
  10. The Blurp Community Guidelines We have put together some basic and fundamental Community Guidelines and Community Guideline Terms and Meanings to further help you undertand what is and isn't acceptable to blurp.
  11. Monitoring, Enforcement, and or Termination We strive to ensure that the First Amendment remains the Website’s standard for content moderation. We will make best efforts to ensure that all content moderation decisions and enforcement of these terms of service does not punish users for exercising their God-given right to speak freely. We collect comparatively little data on our users relative to other social networking sites. Our default position is that we should implement no prior restraints on any User Contribution. Please see: Community Guidelines and Community Guideline Terms and Meanings for complete details.
  12. Linking to the Blurp Website and Social Media Features You may link to the Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part without our express written consent. This Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
    1. Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Website.
    2. Send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this Website.
    3. Cause limited portions of content on this Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.
  13. You agree to receive communications from Blurp, including communications sent by phone, email, text message, or other means of communication. If you provided a phone number to Blurp, you are required to notify Blurp when you cease to own or control that number to help prevent Blurp from sending communications to others who may acquire that number.
  14. The Services are provided to you as-is and at your own risk. The Services come with no express or implied warranties, except those that cannot be disclaimed under the law.

    Blurp DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, SUCH AS MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Blurp makes no representation or endorsement about the function of the Services or any content available through the Services. Blurp has no responsibility or liability to you arising from your use of the Services. Blurp has no responsibility or liability to you arising from content provided by you or any other person, even if such content is untrue, harmful, damaging, offensive, inappropriate, fraudulent, tortious, unlawful, contrary to social norms, etc. Although Blurp may make efforts to review or monitor content, you agree that you will not rely on this fact for any purpose. Blurp has no responsibility or liability to you arising from hacking event, data breach, theft, misuse of information, conspiracy, racket, fraud, act of terrorism, misappropriation of information, technical malfunction, interruption of service, or similar event that may cause you to suffer damage, loss, or injury, including without limitation any damage to or loss of your personal property, data, operations, information, reputation, goodwill, profits, etc.

    TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AND REGARDLESS OF THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, Blurp WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR FOR INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING FROM (a) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE) THE SERVICES; (b) FROM THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER PERSONS OR THIRD PARTIES; (c) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES; OR (d) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR CONTENT OR COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF Blurp ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES EXCEED THE GREATER OF TWO HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (U.S. $200.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID Blurp, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, AND SHALL FURTHER APPLY WHETHER OR NOT Blurp HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBLITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY LAID OUT IN THESE TERMS IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
  15. Applicable law and jurisdiction. The laws of the State of West Virginia, excluding its choice of law provisions, will govern these Terms and any dispute that arises between you and Blurp. All disputes related to these Terms or the Services will be brought solely in the state or federal courts located in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.
  16. You affirm that you are competent to agree to be bound by this User Agreement, meaning that you are over the age of 16, an emancipated minor, or have legal parental or guardian consent. Parents of minors should be aware that, in addition to the NSFW filters made available by Blurp, there are a number of Parental Control products and features available on the market, which can help you tailor your child’s experience on our platform. Some examples can be found here and here.
  17. Blurp cannot waive any right to enforce this User Agreement, unless it does so expressly in writing. No waiver of any part of this User Agreement, will be a further or continuing waiver of that part or any other part, and no failure to enforce any part of his User Agreement will be deemed a waiver of any kind.
  18. Blurp may modify the Terms of this User Agreement in any way and at any time without notice to you, and you agree to be responsible for making yourself aware of any modification of the Terms and to be bound by any modification of the Terms when you continue to access or use the Services after any such modification. As a matter of courtesy, Blurp endeavors to inform its users of any such changes. These Terms supersede all prior agreements between you and Blurp pertaining to the Services. Except for the statements in this document and the documents expressly incorporated herein by reference, no statement by Blurp or anyone associated with Blurp, whether verbal or written, can modify or supplement the Terms of this User Agreement unless the modification or supplement is stated expressly in writing by referring to this User Agreement. If any of the Terms in the User Agreement are held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator or by operation of law, the remaining Terms will remain in effect.

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Last Updated: January 16th, 2021.