TERMS OF SERVICE
Welcome to Blacktop Hoops – Vinci Games. Please read these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy carefully before using Vinci Games, Inc.’s Services.
By using our Services, whether as a guest, as a registered user, or otherwise, you agree that these Terms of Service will govern your relationship with Vinci Games, Inc. If you do not completely agree to these Terms of Service then you must not use any of our Services.
1. Definitions
“Dispute” means, any controversy related to this agreement, including without limitation claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of the relationship between you and Company, claims that arose before this agreement, and claims that may arise after the termination of this agreement; however, this does not include claims related to or arising from the enforcement or protection of Intellectual Property Rights, and is subject to any applicable statutory consumer rights laws in your local jurisdiction.
“Company” means, Vinci Games, Inc. References to “Us,” “We,” or “Our” means Vinci Games, Inc., including any and all subsidiaries parent companies, joint ventures, and other corporate entities under common ownership and/or any of their agents, consultants, employees, officers, and directors. Company does not include Company Affiliates or third parties (analytics or ad tech companies, or similar organizations).
“Company Affiliate” (or “Company Affiliates”) means, Company’s third-party content providers, distributors, licensees, or licensors.
“Game” means the virtual reality game known as Blacktop Hoops.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means, any and all right, title, and interest of every kind whatsoever, whether now known or unknown, registrable or otherwise, in and to patents, trade secret rights, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade dress and similar rights of any type under the laws of any governmental authority, including, without limitation, all applications and registrations relating to the foregoing.
“Notice” means, a delivered writing by e-mail or courier delivery to the other party at their respective address and will be effective upon receipt.
“Privacy Policy” means, Company’s policy regarding privacy, which also governs your use of the Services and is incorporated herein by reference. The current version is available on our website.
“Service” (or “Services”) means, any website provided by Company and Company Affiliates, including without limitation the following websites and all sub-pages thereof: ________________________________ [website].
“Terms of Service” (or “Terms”) means, the terms and conditions in this agreement.
2. Ownership and Limited License
Ownership. The Services are owned or licensed by Company and are protected by Intellectual Property Rights and other proprietary rights laws. Company reserves all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, including without limitation all Intellectual Property Rights and other proprietary rights, that are not explicitly granted to you in these Terms. Your permitted use of the Services is limited by the Intellectual Property Rights of Company.
License. Subject to your agreement and continuing compliance with these Terms of Service and any other relevant Company policies, Company grants you a non-commercial, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license, subject to the limitations in these Terms, to access and use the Services for your own entertainment and informational purposes. You agree that you will not use the Services for any other purpose.
License Limitations. Any use of the Services in violation of the law, these Terms of Service, or these License Limitations is strictly prohibited, and may result in the immediate revocation of your limited license at Company’s sole judgment or may subject you to liability for violations of law.
You acknowledge you will not directly or indirectly:
Partake in any activity or action that Company deems to be against the spirit or intent of the Services;
Copy, modify, edit, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, transmit, or distribute the Services or any other material obtained through the Services;
Lease, sell, rent, or otherwise exploit for commercial purposes any part of the Services, including without limitation access to or use of the Services;
Delete, alter, or obscure any Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from the Services;
Attempt to harass, threaten, bully, embarrass, abuse, or harm, or advocate or incite harassment, abuse, or harm of another person, group, Company itself or Company Affiliates;
Organize or participate, in conjunction with your use of the Services, in any activity or group that is hateful, harmful, or offensive towards a race, sexual orientation or preferences, religion, heritage or nationality, disability or other health class, gender, age, or similar classes determined by Company;
Initiate, assist, or become involved in any form of attack or disruption to the Services, including without limitation distribution of a virus, worm, spyware, time bombs, corrupted data, denial of service attacks upon the Services, or other attempts to disrupt the Services or other person’s use or enjoyment of the Services;
Use robots, spiders, crawlers, man-in-the-middle software, or any other automated process to access, use, reverse engineer, or manipulate the Services, or Company;
Use of access services to obtain, generate, or infer any business information about Company or Company Affiliates, including without limitation information about sales or revenue, staff, technical stack, or statistics about users;
Promote, encourage, or participate in any activity involving hacking, phishing, distribution of counterfeit Services, or taking advantage of or creating exploits, cheats, bugs, or errors, except for the sole purpose of privately and directly notifying Company;
Make available through the Services any material or information that infringes any intellectual property right, right of privacy, right of publicity, or other right of any person or entity or impersonates any other person, including without limitation celebrities and Company employees;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to Services; and
Use the Services where it is prohibited by law.
3. Term
Unless modified or amended by Company, this agreement and its provisions shall remain in full force and effect. Termination of any license granted by Company under this agreement does not affect any other provisions of this agreement.
4. Access and Permissible Assignment
By using the Services, you warrant and represent that you: 1) are at least 18 years of age and otherwise legally competent to read, understand and accept the provisions of this agreement; or 2) are a minor who has been authorized under the provisions of Section 4(b) below.
If you are the legal guardian of a minor, you can choose to allow use of the Services by that minor instead of yourself subject to the following provisions:
You acknowledge, and further agree that the aforementioned minor is entering into an agreement with your consent;
You acknowledge, and further agree you are entirely responsible for all the provisions in these Terms of Service;
You acknowledge, and further agree, you are legally responsible for all actions of that minor, including but not limited to any payments, damages and/or liabilities related to the actions of that minor;
In consideration of Company allowing access to the Service by a minor, and in addition to the provisions of Section 8 below, the foregoing adult hereby guarantees and agrees to pay for any and all liabilities of any nature whatsoever incurred under this agreement and to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company with respect thereto.
If you have been previously banned from using any Company Services then you may not use our Services.
Notwithstanding the above provisions of Section 4, if you are located in a country that requires parental consent for Services to collect or use your data at a higher age than 13 (e.g., certain countries following the General Data Protection Regulation) AND you are under that country’s specified age, you must not use any part of the Services or submit any personal information to Company through the Services or otherwise unless a) consent was given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility of that child and b) you receive a Notice that consent was confirmed from Company.
5. Service Availability and Termination
You acknowledge that:
Company may in its sole and absolute discretion provide subsequent amendments, versions, enhancements, modifications, upgrades or patches related to any part of the Services;
Company has absolute and sole discretion to immediately terminate or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services at any time, for any reason, without Notice and without liability to you;
Access to the Services may be interrupted for reasons within or beyond the control of Company, and that Company cannot and does not guarantee you will be able to use the Services whenever you wish to do so;
Company may not offer the Services in all countries or geographic locations;
You are solely responsible for any internet connection and/or mobile fees that you may incur as a result of using our Services.
7. Intellectual Property
All content included as part of the Services, including but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, the look and feel of the Services, including, without limitation, the text, graphics, code, and other materials contained hereon is property of the Company or its third party suppliers, or is rightfully used subject to a license agreement and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices, legends, or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works of, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, provided on, transmitted through, or found within the Services. Your use of the Services does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any such content, and in particular you shall not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in such content. You shall use the content provided through, transmitted through, and found on the Services solely for your personal use, as outlined in these Terms, and will make no other use of the Content without the express written permission of the Company and/or related third party owners of such content. You acknowledge and agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in the content provided through the Services. Except as provided herein, these Terms do not grant any licenses, express or implied, to such content or any other intellectual property of the Company, its licensors, or any third party owner.
8. Links to Third Party Sites and Services
The Services may contain links to third party websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Company or any part of the Services. Company is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Company is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Company of the website or any association with its operators.
9. Disclaimer, Warranty, and Liability
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMPANY AND COMPANY AFFILIATES ARE NOT LIABLE
(1) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL OR DATA, IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES; OR
(2) FOR THE CONDUCT OF THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING OTHER USERS OF THE SERVICE AND OPERATORS OF EXTERNAL SITES.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY COMPANY TO YOU ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICES, UNLESS SUCH WARRANTIES OR OTHER STATUTORY CONSUMER RIGHTS ARE LEGALLY INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION IN YOUR LOCAL JURISDICTION. THE RISK OF USING THE SERVICES RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU AS DOES THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE SERVICES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY ANY LAW THAT APPLIES, THE DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY IN THESE TERMS APPLY TO ALL DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY THE SERVICES, OR RELATED TO USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES, UNDER ANY CAUSE OF ACTION IN ANY JURISDICTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE).
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF COMPANY AND/OR COMPANY AFFILIATES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID (IF ANY) TO COMPANY AND/OR COMPANY AFFILIATES IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS (180) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT ANY SUCH CLAIM.
IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID COMPANY OR ANY COMPANY AFFILIATE ANY AMOUNT IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS (180) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT ANY SUCH CLAIM, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY DISPUTE WITH COMPANY AND/OR ANY COMPANY AFFILIATE IS TO CEASE USING THE SERVICES.
YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN A COUNTRY THAT IS SUBJECT TO A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EMBARGO, OR THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS A “TERRORIST SUPPORTING” COUNTRY, AND YOU ARE NOT LISTED ON ANY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIST OF PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED PARTIES.
SOME STATES, COUNTRIES, OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES. IN SUCH STATES, COUNTRIES, OR JURISDICTIONS, COMPANY AND COMPANY AFFILIATES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS, SUBJECT TO ANY APPLICABLE STATUTORY CONSUMER RIGHTS LAWS IN YOUR LOCAL JURISDICTION.
10. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company, Company Affiliates, and any third-parties under agreement with Company, and any employee, contractor, vendor, agent, supplier, licensee, customer, distributor, shareholder, director or officer of any of the foregoing, as well as any person using the Services and any person or entity that becomes aware of your use of the Services at any time, with respect to any and all claims, liabilities, judgments, awards, injuries, damages, losses, costs, fees, or expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees and costs) that arise under, from or in any way, directly or indirectly, relate to:
Your failure to comply with any provision of these Terms of Service;
Your use of the Services, including but not limited to economic, physical, emotional, psychological or privacy related considerations; and
Your actions to knowingly affect the Services via any bloatware, malware, computer virus, worm, Trojan horse, spyware, adware, crimeware, scareware, rootkit or any other program installed in a way that executable code of any program is scheduled to utilize or utilizes processor cycles during periods of time when such program is not directly or indirectly being used.
Company and Company Affiliates reserve the right, but not the obligation, at their own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.
You acknowledge, and further agree that Company has no obligation to defend, indemnify or hold harmless you in any way related to this agreement, including but not limited to your use of the Services, use of the Services by any person, or any connection between the foregoing and any other person or entity that becomes aware of your use of the Services at any time.
This Section shall survive the termination of these Terms.
11. Dispute Resolution
Informal Resolution. With respect to any Dispute, you agree to attempt to negotiate the resolution of any Dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating any arbitration or other proceeding, including any legal proceeding in court or before an administrative agency. Such informal negotiations commence upon Company’s receipt of Notice from you.
Mandatory Binding Arbitration. If you are not able to satisfactorily resolve a Dispute informally within a total of thirty (30) days, or if Company, in its sole and absolute discretion, determines that it will not be possible to satisfactorily resolve that Dispute informally within a total of thirty (30) days, you agree that either you or Company may request resolution by final and fully binding arbitration conducted under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. The party requesting that a Dispute be resolved by arbitration under this Section shall be responsible for initiating such a proceeding.
The American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) will run the arbitration between you and Company, and AAA’s rules and procedures (including their Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes, if applicable) will be used. If something in these Terms is different than AAA’s rules and procedures, then we will follow these Terms instead. You can look at AAA’s rules and procedures on their website www.adr.org or you can call them at 1-800-778-7879.
YOU UNDERSTAND, AND FURTHER AGREE, THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONSULT WITH INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING REGARDING THIS AND ANY OTHER PROVISION IN THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT THIS BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION WILL ELIMINATE YOUR LEGAL RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT, TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL, AND/OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH DISPUTE. You and Company both agree that neither shall attempt to have any other arbitration or class action related to any other party joined to any arbitration in which you are involved with Company. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no arbitration proceeding shall be decided on a class-action basis or utilizing class action procedures. You and Company further agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or a class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.
12. Miscellaneous
Changes. It is your responsibility to read, understand, and accept this agreement in connection with your use of the Services. You acknowledge that Company may make changes to these Terms of Service at any time, and that Section headings in this agreement are for purposes of convenience only. Unless Company states otherwise, any changes to these Terms are effective when posted. If you continue to use the Services after any changes are posted then you agree that those changes will apply to your continued use of the Services and that such use constitutes your acceptance of the same. You should check this page regularly to stay informed about any changes.
Complete agreement. This agreement: (1) is the final and complete agreement and understanding of the parties concerning the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and replaces any and all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings with respect thereto; (2) may not be changed, amended, or in any manner modified by you except as authorized in a writing signed by both parties’ authorized agents; (3) is not assignable, except to a successor in interest to substantially all of a party’s business or assets and any other attempt to assign or transfer this agreement or any interest herein is void; and (4) shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto, their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, personal representatives, licensees, and assigns.
Force Majeure. No party shall be responsible for delays or failure of performance resulting from acts beyond the reasonable control of such party, including, war, terrorism, acts of public enemies, strikes or other labor disturbances, power failures, fires, floods, earthquakes, acts of God, and other natural disasters.
Waiver. No act or failure to act by Company will be deemed a waiver of any right contained in this agreement, and any waiver by Company must be in writing and signed by an officer of Company. If Company does expressly waive any provision of this agreement, such waiver shall not be a waiver of any other provisions of this agreement, and the waived provision shall not be waived for all time in the future.
Severability. If any provision or sub-provision of this agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder shall be enforced as fully as possible and the unenforceable provision or sub-provision shall be deemed modified to the limited extent required to permit its enforcement in a manner most closely representing the intention of the parties as expressed herein.
Remedies. You acknowledge and agree that any violation or threatened violation of this agreement will cause irreparable injury to Company, entitling Company to seek injunctive relief without the necessity of proving actual damages, in addition to all other remedies at law or in equity. You specifically acknowledge that money damages alone would be an inadequate remedy for the injuries and damages that would be suffered and incurred by Company as a result of a breach of any of the provisions of this agreement.
Governing Law and Venue. Any dispute or claim arising out of or related to this agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California without reference to any choice or conflict of laws principles. Accordingly, the parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of the Courts in the State of California, and hereby waive any and all jurisdictional or venue defenses otherwise available to them.
Language. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the controlling language for these Terms of Service is English.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about these Terms or our Services, please contact us at: team@vinci-games.com