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To the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the English version controls. Please note that Section 16 contains certain changes to the general terms for users outside the United States.</div><div class="mvm uiP fsm"> Date of Last Revision: April 26, 2011.<br/><br/><b style="font-size: 14px; line-height:50px;">Statement of Rights and Responsibilities</b><br/><br/> This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (Statement) derives from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/principles.php">Facebook Principles</a>, and governs our relationship with users and others who interact with Facebook. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement.</div><ol style="margin: 18px auto;"><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Privacy</b><br/><br/> Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/policy.php">Privacy Policy</a> to make important disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help make informed decisions.<br/> </li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Sharing Your Content and Information</b><br/><br/> You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/privacy/">privacy</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php">application settings</a>. In addition: <ol><li> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/privacy/">privacy</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php">application settings</a>: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.</li><li> When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).</li><li> When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/policy.php">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://developers.facebook.com/docs/">Platform Page</a>.)</li><li> When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).</li><li> We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Safety</b><br/><br/> We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments: <ol><li> You will not send or otherwise post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook.</li><li> You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.</li><li> You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on Facebook.</li><li> You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.</li><li> You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.</li><li> You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.</li><li> You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.</li><li> You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based restrictions.</li><li> You will follow our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php">Promotions Guidelines</a> and all applicable laws if you publicize or offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes (“promotion”) on Facebook.</li><li> You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.</li><li> You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of Facebook, such as a denial of service attack.</li><li> You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Registration and Account Security</b><br/><br/> Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account: <ol><li> You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.</li><li> You will not create more than one personal profile.</li><li> If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.</li><li> You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).</li><li> You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.</li><li> You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.</li><li> You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.</li><li> You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.</li><li> You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.</li><li> If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Protecting Other People's Rights</b><br/><br/> We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same. <ol><li> You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.</li><li> We can remove any content or information you post on Facebook if we believe that it violates this Statement.</li><li> We will provide you with tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights. To learn more, visit our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/legal/copyright.php?howto_report">How to Report Claims of Intellectual Property Infringement</a> page.</li><li> If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.</li><li> If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.</li><li> You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665), or any confusingly similar marks, without our written permission.</li><li> If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.</li><li> You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on Facebook.</li><li> You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Mobile</b><br/><br/><ol><li> We currently provide our mobile services for free, but please be aware that your carrier's normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will still apply.</li><li> In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you will update your account information on Facebook within 48 hours to ensure that your messages are not sent to the person who acquires your old number.</li><li> You provide all rights necessary to enable users to sync (including through an application) their contact lists with any basic information and contact information that is visible to them on Facebook, as well as your name and profile picture.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Payments and Deals</b><br/><br/><ol><li> If you make a payment on Facebook or use Facebook Credits, you agree to our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/termsofsale.php">Payments Terms</a>.</li><li> If purchase a Deal, you agree to our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/user_deals_terms.php">Deals Terms</a>.</li><li> If you provide a Deal or partner with us to provide a Deal, you agree to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/https://www.facebook.com/merchant_deals_terms.php">Merchant Deal Terms</a> in addition to any other agreements you may have with us.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Special Provisions Applicable to Share Links </b><br/><br/> If you include our Share Link button on your website, the following additional terms apply to you: <ol><li> We give you permission to use Facebook's Share Link button so that users can post links or content from your website on Facebook.</li><li> You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on Facebook.</li><li> You will not place a Share Link button on any page containing content that would violate this Statement if posted on Facebook.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites </b><br/><br/> If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional terms apply to you: <ol><li> You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform meets our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://developers.facebook.com/policy/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Facebook Platform Policies</span></a> and our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php">Advertising Guidelines</a>.</li><li> Your access to and use of data you receive from Facebook, will be limited as follows: <ol><li> You will only request data you need to operate your application.</li><li> You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will include your privacy policy URL in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/developers/">Developer Application</a>.</li><li> You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user’s data in a manner inconsistent with your privacy policy.</li><li> You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a request.</li><li> You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising creative.</li><li> You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.</li><li> You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer user data outside of your application. </li><li> We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is inconsistent with users’ expectations.</li><li> We can limit your access to data.</li><li> You will comply with all other restrictions contained in our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://developers.facebook.com/policy/">Facebook Platform Policies</a>.</li></ol></li><li> You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's content without that user's consent.</li><li> You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.</li><li> You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise violated their rights.</li><li> You will provide customer support for your application.</li><li> You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on Facebook.</li><li> We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from us.</li><li> You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.</li><li> You will not misrepresent your relationship with Facebook to others.</li><li> You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other public statement so long as you follow our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://developers.facebook.com/policy/">Facebook Platform Policies</a>.</li><li> We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.</li><li> You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable): <ol><li> have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.</li><li> comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and obtain any opt-in consent necessary from users so that user data subject to the VPPA may be shared on Facebook. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the ordinary course of your business.</li></ol></li><li> We do not guarantee that Platform will always be free.</li><li> You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Facebook, including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us into streams, profiles, and user action stories.</li><li> You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including ads, around your application.</li><li> We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing content for search).</li><li> To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.</li><li> We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise compete with, your application.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><div><b>About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook</b><br/><br/> Our goal is to deliver ads that are not only valuable to advertisers, but also valuable to you. In order to do that, you agree to the following: <ol><li> You can use your <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/privacy/">privacy settings</a> to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.</li><li> We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.</li><li> You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.<br/> </li></ol></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers </b><br/><br/> You can target your specific audience by buying ads on Facebook or our publisher network. The following additional terms apply to you if you place an order through our online advertising portal (Order): <ol><li> When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy, the amount you want to spend, and your bid. If we accept your Order, we will deliver your ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the ads to the audience you specify, although we cannot guarantee in every instance that your ad will reach its intended target.</li><li> In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria you specify.</li><li> You will pay for your Orders in accordance with our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/termsofsale.php">Payments Terms</a>. The amount you owe will be calculated based on our tracking mechanisms.</li><li> Your ads will comply with our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php">Advertising Guidelines</a>.</li><li> We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads.</li><li> We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks you will get.</li><li> We cannot control how people interact with your ads, and are not responsible for click fraud or other improper actions that affect the cost of running ads. We do, however, have systems to detect and filter certain suspicious activity, learn more <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=926">here</a>.</li><li> You can cancel your Order at any time through our online portal, but it may take up to 24 hours before the ad stops running. You are responsible for paying for those ads.</li><li> Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand, however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may remain until the users delete it.</li><li> We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional purposes.</li><li> You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship with Facebook without written permission.</li><li> We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.</li><li> If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, we need to make sure you have permission to place those ads, including the following: <ol><li> You warrant that you have the legal authority to bind the advertiser to this Statement.</li><li> You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold you responsible for that violation.<br/> </li></ol></li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Special Provisions Applicable to Pages</b><br/><br/> If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, you agree to our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/terms_pages.php">Pages Terms</a>.<br/> </li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Amendments</b><br/><br/><ol><li> We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance">Facebook Site Governance Page</a>) and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any future changes to this Statement, visit our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance">Facebook Site Governance Page</a> and become a fan.</li><li> For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum of three days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. All such comments must be made on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111124212400/http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance">Facebook Site Governance Page</a>.</li><li> If more than 7,000 users comment on the proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote.</li><li> We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Termination</b><br/><br/> If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We will notify you by email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3, 11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, and 14-18.<br/> </li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Disputes</b><br/><br/><ol><li> You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute (claim) you have with us arising out of or relating to this Statement or Facebook exclusively in a state or federal court located in Santa Clara County. The laws of the State of California will govern this Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Santa Clara County, California for the purpose of litigating all such claims.</li><li> If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim.</li><li> WE TRY TO KEEP FACEBOOK UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING FACEBOOK AS IS WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT FACEBOOK WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. 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OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FACEBOOK WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, FACEBOOK'S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.<br/> </li></ol></li><li style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><b>Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States</b><br/><br/> We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also strive to respect local laws. 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