dNeero: Terms of Use and Privacy Statement

DNEERO END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT AND PRIVACY STATEMENT

dNeero provides online conversation hosting and other conversation services. There are two primary roles within the dNeero system: 1) Conversation Participant and 2) Researcher.  Each dNeero account can be used in either role or both roles.  Herein, either or both roles may be referred to as "Customer".

CONVERSATION PARTICIPANT

Conversation Participants join conversations and post them to places where their peers, readers, friends, family and/or public can view them.  The term Conversation Participant refers to users of blogs, social networking tools and any other places that dNeero conversations can be posted.

Places conversations are posted are known as Posting Venues.  The general intention of a Posting Venue is to expose and engage peers, readers, friends, family and others to the conversation.  Conversation Participants understand this intention and agree to abide by it.

Posting Venues must contain, in addition to dNeero conversations, other original content and can not exist for the sole purpose of joining dNeero conversations.

Posting Venues must in general be active.  This is defined as having at least one post per week.

Posting Venues must have existed and been active for at least 90 days.

Conversation Participants may not use software to automatically create Posting Venues or content for Posting Venues to fulfill dNeero's requirements.

Conversation Participants may not use dNeero's friend invitation tools for outbound communications not related to dNeero conversations.

Conversation Participants acknowledge that from time to time dNeero must update the manner in which it embeds conversations into Posting Venues.  At times this will involve changing the way that conversations look or act when embedded inside a Posting Venue.

Conversation Participants must embed a conversation into their Posting Venue using the code provided by dNeero for the purpose of embedding.  Conversation Participants may not edit the code provided by dNeero.

Conversation Participants agree that all conversation response data collected is owned by dNeero, who provides it to the Researcher for unlimited, non-exclusive use.  Transmission of conversation response data will include information in the Conversation Participant's profile (demographic information).  It will not include passwords or PayPal addresses.

In order to compensate Conversation Participants for the amount of traffic to their Posting Venue dNeero will collect impression/traffic data.  This data is visible to the Researchers of conversations that the Conversation Participant joins.

Conversation Participants may not artificially increase the number of impressions of their embedded dNeero conversations.  The intention of dNeero is for a real person to view and read the conversation.  Prohibited artificial means include, but are not limited to: computer programs, botnets, embedding in Posting Venue interface, and multiple postings in a single Posting Venue.

Conversation Participants must post in a way that is clearly visible to people visiting their Posting Venue.  This does not mean that it must be visible for all time.  For example, a blog post will roll down the page and eventually become part of the archives.  Conversations can not be posted inside of div tags or other constructs that are designed to hide the conversation.

When the Posting Venue is a blog,  Conversation Participants agree to embed each dNeero conversation in their normal main content area as a separate blog post (i.e., not added to the side column, header or footer, or as part of another blog post.)  Conversation Participants agree to treat the embedded dNeero conversation as normal content and agree to add their own conversation-relevant information to the posting that contains the embedded dNeero conversation.

Conversation Participants agree not to treat the embedded dNeero conversation as an advertisement or for the primary purpose of generating payment to the Conversation Participant.

dNeero reserves the right to remove any impression/traffic from the payable pool of impressions for any reason.  This is generally done when Conversation Participants are caught gaming the system.

dNeero web servers can experience outages or technical issues which cause conversations to not function properly in Posting Venues and impressions to not register in a Conversation Participant's account.  Impressions do not register because an impression was not displayed.  dNeero will not provide refunds for conversations that do not achieve enough days with impressions due to outages.   dNeero only requires impressions for a fraction of the total days in the posting period to qualify for payment.  Even in rare cases where the outage or technical issue extends long enough to prevent a conversation from qualifying for payment dNeero will not make refunds because impressions were not displayed to web readers.

Conversation Participants agree that dNeero, together with Researchers,  may review each joined conversation and may flag inappropriate, irrelevant, hateful, or unintelligible content. This review process is not intended to flag content for having a particular opinion, but is intended to increase the quality of the content created in the conversations.

Conversation Participants may be compensated in different ways and the method or methods used for each specific conversation will be determined by the Researcher.  Current methods include compensation via Conversation Participant's PayPal account, coupons, or charity.  Conversation Participants may redirect a some types of compensation to a charity.  dNeero may add, delete, or combine payment methods at its discretion.

In regard to the Conversation Participant's PayPal account, dNeero will disburse/pay funds when the Conversation Participant's account balance reaches a threshold value.  There are no other compensation options (e.g., dNeero does not disburse via check, cash, money order, wire transfer, EFT, etc,).  Moreover, the PayPal account address entered into dNeero for compensation must be able to accept payment from a US company.

Conversation Participants may not falsely represent their demographic information for any purpose including to gain access to opportunities. Conversation Participants may not change their demographic information more than once per month.

Conversation Participants understand and agree that the names they use and the answers they provide to dNeero will be posted publicly where people without dNeero accounts will be able to view them.

dNeero may engage in secondary sales of data collected from conversation responses, Conversation Participant profiles, Posting Venue traffic data, login data and any other data collected in the due course of business.  Secondary data sales do not include the core business model of joining conversations and posting them to Posting Venues.  Secondary sales may include aggregated depersonalized data or personally identifiable data.  dNeero commits to the following, in order to put Conversation Participants in control of their data:

1) dNeero will give Conversation Participants notice before including their data in any secondary data sale.  Notification may be via email and/or the Conversation Participant's private dNeero account section.  So that the Conversation Participants may make an informed decision notification must include: who is purchasing the data and how the data will be used.

2) dNeero will give Conversation Participants an easy way to opt out of any secondary data sale during that 24 hour period.  dNeero will remove individual Conversation Participant's data from the final data package sent to secondary data purchasers for any Conversation Participant who opts out.  Lack of notification will be interpreted as consent to include Conversation Participant's data in the secondary data sale.

In addition to these commitments which ensure that the Conversation Participant has control of their data, dNeero commits to only working with companies that it deems to be of a high quality and unlikely to damage Conversation Participants.  However, once the 24 hour notification period has passed and the data is transmitted to the secondary data purchaser dNeero assumes no liability for improper usage of the data by third parties.

As of November 22, 2008 dNeero has no plans to sell secondary data and will focus entirely on its core business for the foreseeable future.

RESEARCHERS

Researchers create conversations for Conversation Participants to join.

Researchers may not use the conversation invitation tools for outbound communications not related conversations.

Once a conversation is launched it can not be edited, modified or ended until the pre-defined ending date as defined by the researcher.

Launching a conversation implies willingness and ability to pay for activity generated.

Researchers acknowledge that conversation will be published publicly.

Researchers acknowledge that conversation results will be published publicly.

Researchers agree to pay for services in advance. Researchers agree that submission of credit card information to dNeero constitutes authorization to bill the specified credit card for all fees owed by researcher to dNeero.  If such credit card charges are not accepted by the credit card processor, dNeero will place the researcher's account on hold. An ?On-Hold? status results in suspension of all dNeero services including conversation services.

ALL USERS

You acknowledge that dNeero does not regulate or take any responsibility for the content of information, files, images, or other communication transmitted to or by dNeero.

You warrant that you have all rights necessary to lawfully submit any information or materials that are uploaded to dNeero, including all intellectual property rights.

You agree not to publish or transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or racially or ethnically derogatory content, or any content expressing hate towards any person or groups of persons due to race, religion, color, creed, national origin or sexual orientation.

You, the Customer, agree to indemnify dNeero against actions brought by a third party as a result of such material or information, or as a result of Customer's use in any way of the Services provided by dNeero.

Only one account is allowed per person.

Automated creation of accounts using software or any other method is prohibited.

Any account may be suspended indefinitely at the discretion of dNeero.

Requests to cancel accounts must be made through dNeero's support system.  This is done to prevent spoofed/faked emails from inadvertently shutting down people's accounts.

USE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE PROHIBITED

dNeero is intended solely for the use by persons 13 years of age or older.  All persons under 13 years of age are prohibited from registering on our site.

TERMINATION

If, at any time, we, dNeero, believe you are in breach of any of the terms and conditions contained in this agreement or if you have not logged into your dNeero account within six months, dNeero may immediately terminate this agreement without liability, recovering any balance remaining in your account at that time as it had not met threshold amounts or other conditions for payment via PayPal.

NO WARRANTIES

dNeero makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the services to be provided hereunder.

You, the Customer, agree that dNeero shall not be liable for any losses or damages of any kind to Customer, including, but not limited to, those that may result from service interruptions, delays, non-deliveries, or mis-deliveries. Additionally, dNeero makes no warranties regarding its ability to recover any lost data, lost files, or other information, regardless of how or why the file was lost.

LITIGATION AND ATTORNEY'S FEES

In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to this agreement, such dispute shall be resolved in the U.S. State of Georgia and the prevailing party in any such dispute shall be entitled to reasonable costs, including collection costs, and attorney's fees.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND SEVERABILITY

This represents the complete agreement and understanding between dNeero and Customer with respect to the subject matter herein. In the event that any term or provision of this agreement is held by a court to be unenforceable, then the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Web site and the materials on it are owned by or licensed to Reger, Incorporated, and protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by U.S. Copyright Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/), U.S. Trademark Law (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ tac/tmlaw2.html), international conventions, and other intellectual property laws. Unauthorized use is prohibited. If content originates from other writers, publishers, consultants, and business professionals, that content remains the copyrighted property of those contributors and may not be copied or published without their express permission.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may change this document from time to time.  We will post changes publicly and upon login to the system after a change you will be asked to agree to the changes.  If you do not agree your account may not be used.