Terms Of Use
Terms of Use - Last modified: May 9th, 2022
Granza, Inc. ("Granza") provides software, various products and services for the purpose of networking, email marketing, advertising, communication, storage, surveys and events.
This Terms of Use (TOU), No Spam Policy and Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Agreement") may be amended by Granza from time to time and subsequently or inked from emails generated from Granza or otherwise furnished to you. By posting updated versions of the Agreement on the granza.com web site, or otherwise providing notice to you, Granza may modify the terms of the Agreement and may discontinue or revise any or all other aspects of the products and services at its sole discretion. Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement, all such changes shall become effective upon the posting of any associated elements of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check for updates. Continued use of Granza following any update will constitute affirmative consent to all new terms.
No portion of Granza may be used for the sending of unsolicited email (sometimes called "spam") or for the hosting of illegal or prohibited content. Granza is void where prohibited by law.
The following are required for access to all Granza products and services. By clicking the 'Sign Up' button on the Join Now page, you accept the Agreement
The Granza site, and the information which it contains, is the property of Granza, its affiliates and licensors, are protected from unauthorized copying and usage of any kind by United States copyright law, trademark law, international conventions, patents, patent pendings and any other customary protections. Granza is covered by patents 10,643,240 10,235,691.
By way of example only, and not as a limitation, "Granza" and the Granza logos are registered trademarks of Granza under the applicable laws of the United and/or other countries. Other Granza product or service names or logos appearing in this web site are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Granza and/or its affiliates. The absence of a product or service name or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of Granza's trademark or other intellectual property rights that name or logo.
Granza is available only to persons or entities that can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, Granza is not available to individuals under the age of 18. If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use Granza. If you are using Granza in your capacity as an employee, you must have the authority to bind your employer by your use of Granza. You must complete the registration form on the Granza sign up page in order to use Granza. You shall provide and maintain true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as requested in the registration form and elsewhere with Granza. You may elect, from time to time to provide Granza's service personnel with remote access to your computers and other systems for the purpose of troubleshooting issues that arise in your use of Granza. You hereby waive any claim for damages from any problems that may arise from such access, including without limitation any disruption, damage caused by Granza or its personnel.
If you are accessing or using Granza through a third party service or web site, you agree and acknowledge that Granza is not responsible or liable for any actions of such third party or for any aspect or result of such service. Your use of third party services is at your own risk. You further agree and acknowledge that Granza may terminate such third party services ability to interact with Granza at any time, with or without notice, and in Granza's sole discretion, with no liability to you or third parties.
Subject in each case to the terms listed in the remainder of this Agreement, you hereby represent, acknowledge and agree that:
Granza may never be used for the sending of unsolicited email (sometimes called "spam"). You acknowledge and agree that you are the sole or designated "sender" (as such term is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any rules adopted under such act) of any email message sent by you using Granza. Every email message sent by you in connection with Granza must contain the Granza "unsubscribe" or "opt out" link that allows recipients to remove themselves from your mailing list. Granza may only be used for lawful purposes. Granza may not be used for hosting content, including images and documents, that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others, including copyright, trademark and patent infringement, or that includes any obscene or libelous material or other material that violates any applicable law or regulation. You agree you will not access or otherwise use third party mailing lists or otherwise prepare or distribute unsolicited email, in connection with Granza. You agree to import, access or otherwise use only lists for which all listed parties have consented to receive correspondence from you ("Permission Based Lists") in connection with your use of Granza. Persons who have previously made a purchase from you are not considered “opt in” subscribers. A person or entity participating in a survey or registering for an event is not consent to receive unrelated correspondence from you. Participants to your surveys or events consent to receive other correspondence from you is evidenced by the participant clicking on your opt in link. You will comply with the email content and other activities restrictions using Granza as set forth or referenced in this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that not all email messages sent through use of Granza will be received by their intended recipients, as a variety of factors can affect the delivery of such. You agree that the "from" line of any email message sent by you using Granza will accurately and in a non-deceptive manner identify you, your organization, your product or your service. You agree that the "subject" line of any email message sent by you using Granza will not contain any deceptive or misleading content regarding the overall subject matter of the email message. You agree to provide Granza with your valid physical address, which may also be a valid post office box, meeting all of the registration requirements as established by the United States Postal Service. In your use of Granza, you agree to represent you or your organization accurately and will not impersonate any other person, whether actual or fictitious. You will adopt and maintain the Granza Privacy Policy, which may be modified by Granza from time to time without notice. You agree to not interfere with or disrupt this web site or any related Granza web sites or servers or networks connected to this web site or any related Granza web sites. You agree to opt-in for Granza administrative and account maintenance emails. These include but are not necessarily limited to email verifications, account change notifications, account lock notifications, username/password resets, minimum account balance notifications, resource usage notifications, statistics, changes in polices, or other Granza products and services that may become available from time to time. Marking these emails as spam is cause for the immediate termination of your user account. If you are accessing or using Granza through a third party service, you will abide by this Agreement regardless of anything to the contrary in your agreement with such third party. You shall not use such third party service to avoid any portion of this Agreement.
Every email message sent in connection with Granza must contain an "unsubscribe" link that allows subscribers to remove themselves from your mailing. The link must remain operational for a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which you send the message and may not be altered. You acknowledge and agree that you will not remove, disable or attempt to remove or disable any required unsubscribe links. Although Granza provides automated opt out links and management, you shall monitor, maintain and are solely responsible for processing all unsubscribe requests received by you directly within ten (10) days of submission, and update the email addresses to which messages are sent through your Granza account. You will comply with the CAN-SPAM Act, also acknowledging that you are responsible for maintaining and honoring the list of unsubscribe requests following termination of your account and this Agreement.
You agree and warrant to only import, access or otherwise use Permission Based Lists in connection with your use of Granza. If you have used the Granza feature that allows you to request a recipient to confirm that you have his or her permission to send emails to him or her, and such recipient has not responded or does not respond affirmatively to such request for confirmation, you agree that you shall not send Granza emails to that recipient.
Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you shall not utilize Granza to send any commercial electronic mail message (as defined in the CAN-SPAM Act) to any person who has opted out or otherwise objected to receiving such messages from you or another sender on whose behalf you may be acting. You cannot mail to newsgroups, distribution lists, publicly available press or media addresses or spam or unsolicited email addresses.
You cannot copy any Granza template or any other features or functionality from Granza products and services and use them for any purpose other than sending email messages directly from Granza. Emails that you send through Granza may generate spam complaints from recipients. As a matter of privacy, Granza not necessarily share with you the email addresses of those who complain about your emails. You are responsible for ensuring that your emails do not generate a number of spam complaints and “email bounces” in excess of the current industry norms. Granza, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether your level of spam complaints or bounces is within industry norms, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive for all purposes under this Agreement. Granza will terminate your use if Granza determines that these levels are higher than industry norms (as determined solely by Granza)
For every email message sent in connection with Granza, you acknowledge and agree that Granza may add an identifying hyperlinked footer or image stating "Powered by Granza", "Free Viral Networking", similar message or some other content at its sole discretion. This hyperlink is embedded with the promo code of the user. Although optional for each Granza user, it is designed specifically to increase the user's subscriber base and downline users.
Documents, text and images ("Assets") or any other content provided by Granza, is subject to intellectual property protection, including copyright, trademark and patents, and may only be used in conjunction with Granza and for no other purpose whatsoever. You may link to your assets that are uploaded/stored in conjunction with the services Granza provides and only direct links via communications sent through/created by the Granza system is allowed. No third party services may link to any Granza Assets. You agree to be fully responsible for any excess storage or bandwidth fees incurred as a result of your use of any third parties. To the extent you use Assets provided by Granza, Granza hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use them in an unaltered state, solely within the Granza system, unless otherwise noted in your personal web based Dashboard.
Granza may not be used by any person or entity that:
Provides, sells or offers products, services or content frequently associated with unsolicited commercial email, a.k.a. spam, or as determined by Granza at its sole discretion.
Provides, sells or offers to sell any of the following products or content (or services related to the same): pornography or illicitly pornographic sexual products, including but not limited to magazines, video and software; escort services; dating services; illegal goods; illegal drugs; illegal drug contraband; pirated computer programs; get rich quick programs; certain franchises; certain multilevel marketing programs; instructions on how to assemble or otherwise make destructive devices or any other weapons.
Displays or markets material that exploits children, or otherwise exploits anyone.
Posts or discloses any personally identifying information or private information about any person without their consent (or their parent or legal guardian’s consent, in the case of a minor).
Sells or promotes any products or services that are unlawful in the location at which the content is posted or received and or where the user is not properly licensed and authorized.
Provides material that is grossly offensive, including expressions of bigotry, prejudice, racism, hatred or excessive profanity or post any obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable content.
Introduces viruses, worms, or any harmful code on the internet.
Engages in any libelous, defamatory, scandalous, threatening, or harassing activity.
Posts any content that advocates, promotes or otherwise encourages violence against any governments, organizations, groups or individuals, person or entity or which provides instruction information or assistance in causing or carrying out such violence.
Markets to voter registration lists.
Provides content, images of artists, authors, photographers or that could or might constitute the intellectual property of others without the express written consent of the content owner.
Granza offers both premium and free advertising options for users, which are created and viewed from within user Dashboards and in emails from Granza to its users. A user's promo code "name" is used in conjunction with their advertisement(s), e.g., BESTBUSINESS. Promo codes are created by the user and are included in Granza's policy regarding prohibited content. Promo codes may be retained by an active user. An active user is defined as one who generally maintains a database of at least 25 opted in contacts, is generally sending emails to all of them at least once every 30 days and is compliant with all other aspects of this Agreement. Any user may, at Granza's sole discretion, have their user account deleted and have their promo code(s) deleted and made available to other users without any obligation to the user. A user may not retain, obtain, or reserve a promo code for "squatting", resale or any similar purpose. If Granza determines that a user or anyone else has obtained or sold a promo code in any unauthorized manner, Granza, at its sole discretion, may have the user account(s) deleted, their promo code(s) deleted and made available to other users without any obligation to anyone.
All Granza users will see 4 small, non-competing advertisements within various places in their dashboard and on occasional emails from Granza administration. Contacts never see anyone else’s advertisement, only their user’s. If a contact chooses to join Granza as new user, they will see their user's advertisement and 3 additional advertisements, for a total of 4 non-competing advertisements. Granza users and contacts may join the email list of any Granza user.
Granza approves all advertising so as to provide its users with the best possible experience. At its sole discretion, Granza maintains the right to modify, disapprove or remove any user advertisement for any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to users who advertise at an unrealistic distance from their location(s), (e.g. a one local store pizza restaurant advertising nationwide.)
Users may create as many different user accounts as they wish, subject to all Granza policies. Additionally, Granza may, at its sole discretion, limit or delete some or any user account(s).
You will not directly or indirectly, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the software source code, object code, algorithms, structure or ideas found in any form, including documentation or data related to Granza, remove any legal, proprietary notices or labels, modify, translate, or create derivative works based on Granza, or copy, distribute, pledge, assign, or otherwise transfer or encumber rights to Granza.
Unless you are an authorized representative of Granza, you may not display, copy, reproduce, or distribute any component of Granza outside the terms of the Agreement. Violation of these restrictions may include, but not be limited to, result in the termination of this agreement and legal action.
Except as described, Granza will not provide your personally identifiable information, including your email contacts or account information to other Granza users or third parties who you have not authorized to receive such information, except as required by law or court order, including without limitation judicial process and law enforcement, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with law or a court order or if your Granza account was terminated due to Agreement violations including unsolicited email being sent from your Granza account. Granza acknowledges your ownership right regarding your contact lists and your private information. If you ever decide to close your Granza account, all information you provided shall be deleted from Granza. This information will never be used or shared, without your permission, for any purpose other than purposes directly related to use of the Granza system.
You shall use Granza only in compliance with this Agreement, the federal CAN-SPAM Act and regulations thereunder and all other applicable U.S., state, local and international laws (including but not limited to policies and laws related to spamming, privacy, obscenity, or defamation, copyright and trademark infringement and child protective email address registry laws). Although Granza has no obligation to monitor the content provided by you or your use of Granza. Granza reserves the right, however, to monitor your use of its system, with or without notice to you. Granza expressly reserves all rights to Granza and may block any email messages or remove any content, or prohibit any use of Granza, in its sole discretion.
You will not submit, upload or transmit any contact lists, content, links, or communications of any type to Granza web pages or in connection with Granza that infringe, misappropriate or violate any rights of any party. You expressly relieve Granza from any liability arising from your use of such and assume all responsibility. You agree to indemnify and hold Granza harmless for any allegation that you have uploaded protected material to its system.
If you ever decide to close your Granza account, all information you provided shall be deleted from Granza. This information will never be used or shared without your permission, for any purpose other than purposes directly related to the Granza system or for legal requirements.
All sections of this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination will survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership, warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.
If your account is classified (at Granza's sole discretion) as inactive, Granza has the right to permanently delete your user account and associated data. Granza will use good faith efforts to contact you via email prior to taking any permanent removal actions.
You hereby agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Granza and its business partners, third party suppliers and providers, licensors, officers, directors, employees, distributors and agents against any damages, losses, liabilities, settlements, and expenses (including without limitation, costs and reasonable attorneys' fees) in connection with any claim or action that arises from any alleged breach of this Agreement, from the content or effects of any messages you distribute or events you host using Granza or arises from your activities or postings, or otherwise arises from or relates to your use of Granza. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that Granza has the right to seek damages from you for unlawful purposes, or uses of Granza in a manner that violates any of these terms of service, in an unlawful manner, and/or in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, and that such damages may include, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, cover, reliance, consequential and/or special damages. In addition, in the event that Granza is required to respond to a third party or law enforcement subpoena, Granza may in its sole discretion require you to reimburse Granza reimbursement for any reasonable expenses associated with complying with such subpoena and other related legal processes.
Any use of Granza, reliance by you, actions taken by you of such reliance is at your sole risk. All use of and reliance on Granza is at your sole risk. Granza is licensed without and warranties or representations, on an “as is” basis. Granza does not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error free, nor does it make a warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of Granza. Granza is provided on an "as is" basis and Granza disclaims any warranties, express or implied, including but limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose and non-infringement. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any actual or perceived failures or non-performance or underperformance of Granza shall be for Granza to make adjustments, accommodations or repairs at its sole discretion.
You hereby warrant that you are not a Restricted Person. For purposes of this Agreement, you are a Restricted Person if you or any officer, director, or controlling shareholder of the entity on behalf of which you are using Granza is (1) a national of or an entity with which U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions, as may be determined from time to time by the U.S. Treasury Department or other authorized government entities; (2) designated as a Specially Designated National or institution of primary money laundering concern by the U.S. Treasury Department; (3) listed on the Denied Persons List or Entity List by the U.S. Commerce Department; (4) engaged in nuclear, missile, chemical, electrical or biological weapons activities to which U.S. persons may not contribute without a U.S. Government license; or (5) owned, controlled, or acting on behalf of a Restricted Person. If you become a Restricted Person during the term of this Agreement, you shall notify Granza within twenty-four (24) hours, and Granza shall have the right to terminate any further obligations to you, effective immediately and with no further liability to you, but not including any and all outstanding obligations to Granza. Your account, in which case all Granza will terminate, but all existing debts and obligations to Granza will survive.
You agree that you shall not utilize Granza to conduct or facilitate any transaction with any Restricted Person, except as may be expressly authorized in advance in writing by the U.S. Government, and further accepted by Granza. You may not remove or export from the United States or allow the export or re-export of Granza, or any direct product thereof, including technical data, in violation of any restrictions, laws, or regulations of the United States or any other country.
This web site may contain links to non-Granza web sites and access to certain third party services. These links are provided to you as a convenience, and Granza is not responsible for the content of any linked web site or use of any third party service. Any non-Granza web site or service accessed from this web site is independent from Granza, and Granza has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policy, terms of use and practices of such web site or service. Any such web site or service may have terms of use and a privacy policy different than this Agreement. In addition, a link to any non-Granza web site or access to a third party service does not imply that Granza endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or use of such web site or service. By using any such web site or service, you expressly relieve Granza from any liability arising from your use of such third party web site and service and any related content and links.
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To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, under no circumstances and under no legal theory, tort, contract or otherwise, shall Granza or any of its underlying service providers, business partners, information providers, account providers, licensors, officers, directors, employee, distributors or agents be liable to you or any other person or entity for any monetary damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, cover, reliance or consequential damages, even if Granza shall have been informed of the possibility of such damages, or for any claims by any other party. In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Granza is found liable to you for damages from any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise, the maximum aggregate liability of Granza to you arising in connection with this Agreement shall be limited to the actual amount you paid to Granza in the 6 months prior to the actual accrual of the applicable claim, less any damages previously paid by Granza, minus any unpaid expenses you incurred in that 6 month period. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so this limitation and exclusion may not apply to you.
In no event shall any reference to any third party or third party product or service be construed as an approval or endorsement by Granza of that third party or of any product or service provided by a third party.
You understand, agree, consent to and acknowledge that Granza may in its sole discretion, but is not obligated to, monitor or record any of your telephone conversations with Granza for purposes of quality control, training of its employees and for its own protection. You acknowledge and understand that not all communications are recorded by Granza, and Granza does not guarantee that recordings of any particular type will be retained or capable of being retrieved.
If you believe any materials accessible on or from Granza infringe your copyright or other intellectual property, you may request removal or access of those materials by contacting Granza and providing the following information:
Your name, address, telephone number and email address. Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and include a copy or the location (URL) of the authorized version of the work. Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and its location. Please describe the material, and provide us with its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the material. A statement that the information that you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that "under penalty of perjury, pursuant to the laws of the State of California, you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. A signature or the electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative. In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, Granza maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users and others of this web site.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the security of your account, passwords, and files. Granza will accept the instructions of any individual who claims to be authorized to direct changes to your account so long as such person presents your username and password or provides other appropriate account identifying information as determined by Granza in its discretion, by email or by phone, or through a third party service, if any, through which you access Granza. Granza has no knowledge of your personal relationships, organizational structure, or if you are a person or entity. Granza shall not be responsible for the actions of anyone or any entity that misuses or misappropriates your contact lists or other assets using your username and password or other appropriate account identifying information.
You acknowledge that this web site contains "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding Granza. These forward looking statements regarding Granza are made as of the date they were first issued and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of Granza management. Words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "should", "hope", "target", "project", "goals", "estimate", "potential", "predict", "will", "might", "may", "could", "intend", variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward looking statements. Forward looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond Granza's control, and therefore Granza nears no liability fir future looking statements
If any provision of the Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
You agree that the Granza Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications, and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, and that all waivers and modifications to this agreement must be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein. No delay or omission by either party in exercising any right or remedy under this Agreement or existing at law or equity shall be considered a waiver of such right or remedy. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of the Agreement, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind Granza in any respect whatsoever.
The Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California, USA without regard to its choice or law or conflict of law provisions. All legal actions in connection with the Agreement shall be brought in state or federal courts located in Ventura County, California.
Thank you,
The Granza Team