Terms of Use

Introduction

Welcome to Shorti.es, operated by Skein (Skein Digital Ventures LLC, the Company, "we", "us", or "our"). These Terms of Use govern your use of our service available at https://shorti.es. By accessing or using our service, you agree to comply with and be bound by these terms. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use our service.

Use of the Service

You may use our service for lawful purposes only. You agree not to use our service in any way that:

• Violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation
• Infringes on the rights of others, including their intellectual property rights
• Is fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading
• Harms or exploits minors in any way
• Transmits malware, spam, or other harmful content
• Attempts to gain unauthorized access to our systems or other users' accounts

Your Content

You retain ownership of the content you create and upload to Shorti.es. By posting content, you grant us a limited license to store, display, and distribute that content as necessary to provide our service. You are responsible for ensuring that your content does not violate any third-party rights or applicable laws.

We are not responsible for user-generated content posted, stored, shared, or published through the service. Any opinions, statements, or materials provided by users are solely those of the user who submitted the content and do not reflect our views.

Intellectual Property

All content on our service, including text, graphics, logos, images, and software (excluding user-generated content), is the property of Skein or its content suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any such content without our express written permission.

Usernames and Handles

Your username (the @handle in your profile and page addresses) is licensed to you, not owned by you. You may use it for as long as your account is active and follows these terms, but we can revoke that licence as described below. You may not sell, transfer, rent, or trade your username, or offer to do so.

We may reserve names for our own use or keep them from being registered. We may also change, reclaim, or reassign a username if it:

• is reserved, or is a generic word for a category, place, or type of business;
• is misleading, for example by suggesting a connection to a government office, an official place, or a brand that you don't represent;
• impersonates another person or organization;
• infringes someone else's trademark or other rights;
• is being held without real use, or held in order to sell it; or
• belongs to an inactive account, as described below.

An account is inactive when, for 6 months in a row, its owner hasn't signed in, hasn't edited or published any page, bio, or short link, and doesn't have an active paid plan. Visits to your pages don't count as activity. Before we reclaim a username for inactivity, we'll email the address on your account and give you 30 days to sign in. Signing in keeps your username.

Where practical, we'll notify you first and let you choose a new username. We may act without notice when the law requires it, to protect others, or in cases of impersonation, infringement, or abuse. When your username changes, your account, pages, and content carry over to the new name. Links that use your old username may stop working, especially if that name is later given to someone else. We owe you no compensation for any change, reclamation, or reassignment of a username.

We update our naming rules from time to time. Usernames registered before a rule change can generally keep their names, but we may review them case by case and apply this section where needed.

Copyright, impersonation, and other rights complaints

If you believe content available through the service infringes your copyright, you may send a written notice through our contact page. Your notice should include enough information for us to identify the allegedly infringing material and your ownership claim. We may remove or disable access to content we believe may infringe third-party rights and may terminate repeat infringers' accounts.

Impersonation. You may not use the service to impersonate any individual, company, brand, or other organization. If we reasonably determine that an account or content is used to misrepresent identity without authorization, we may remove or disable that content, suspend or permanently ban the responsible account, and take other steps we consider appropriate—including, where we can verify the affected party and it is technically and legally permissible, reassigning or releasing disputed identifiers (such as usernames or profile URLs) to the verified rights holder. You may report suspected impersonation through our contact page, including enough information for us to evaluate your claim.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Skein, its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your content, your use of the service, or your violation of these Terms of Use or any third-party rights, including intellectual property rights.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Our service is provided "as is" and "as available" without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Skein or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with your use of our service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Account Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these terms or for any other reason at our discretion. You may also close your account at any time through your account settings.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the service after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Wyoming, USA, without regard to its conflict of law principles.