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Effective December 1, 2023
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GENIES TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Updated: December 1, 2023
ARBITRATION NOTICE: Section 7 below has some important rules about how we resolve disputes. If you have an issue with us, you agree to resolve it through private arbitration instead of in court before a judge or jury. You also agree to resolve any such issue on your own, and not as part of a group or class with other users of the Services. You may, however, opt out of arbitration, as explained in Section 7.
1.	INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Genies! We provide you with Services that, among other things, let users create, build, and engage with our avatar experiences, traits framework, and digital wearables, goods, and characters, which can be shared with friends or displayed to the world.
It’s important that you read and understand these Terms because, by using the Services, you’re agreeing to these Terms. We know that reading them is not the most fun thing to do, but these Terms, together with any other terms or policies that are incorporated into these Terms, define your relationship with Genies as you interact with the Services. For example, these Terms explain: (1) what you can expect from Genies; (2) what Genies expects from you; (3) who can do what with Your Creations and on Genies’ Services; and (4) how we will resolve any disputes.
We publish a Privacy Policy which explains what information we collect and why, how we use it, and how you can update, manage, and delete it. The Privacy Policy is also a part of these Terms, meaning you agree to our Privacy Policy by using our Services. We recommend that you read it to better understand how we collect and use the information we may collect.
Genies’ Services are provided by, and you are entering into a binding agreement with, Genies, Inc., located at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069. When we say “Genies,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in these Terms, we mean Genies, Inc., its parents, subsidiaries, and its affiliates, which include any entity owned in whole or in part by Genies. When we say “you” and “your” in these Terms, we mean the person using the Services or, if you are using the Services on behalf of an entity or organization, we mean that entity or organization.
2.	DEFINITIONS
	“AI Terms” means the terms and conditions from third-party providers of AI Tools that apply to use of the AI Tools.
	“AI Tools” means third-party generative artificial intelligence tools, or computer programs made by someone other than Genies that can create Content with input from users.
	“Authenticated Digital Goods” means Digital Goods that use blockchain technology to record ownership of the Digital Goods. The Services may identify a Digital Good as an Authenticated Digital Good through the use of a badge, describing the item as a “1 of 1,” or such other reasonable means selected by Genies in its sole discretion.
	“Avatar” means a digital representation of a human, humanoid, animal, mythical creature, or any character that may embody real, fantasy, or abstract attributes, which may be created, held, shared, displayed, or transferred using the Services.
	“Content” means graphics, pictures, images, artwork, videos, animations, audio, sounds, music, audio-visual effects, text, titles, names, themes, dialogue, characters, stories, concepts, objects, virtual items, patterns, textures, designs, models, concepts, interactive features, code, scripts, software, metadata, digital works, Digital Goods, suggestions, feedback, files, documents, and all other content.
	“Creator” means any person, entity, or organization that contributes Content for inclusion in, or in connection with, the Services or Other Terms, or is defined as a Creator under these Terms or in any Other Terms.
	“Digital Goods” means Avatars, virtual clothing, accessories for Avatars, and certain other digital assets that may be created, held, or transferred using the Services. Digital Goods include but are not limited to Authenticated Digital Goods.
	“Dispute” means any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Genies related to or arising from the Services, Genies’ other products and services, or these Terms.
	“DIYs” means Digital Goods created with the Services by modifying other Digital Goods.
	“IP” means any intellectual property rights in Content, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary interests, whether registered or unregistered, under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
	“Laws” means all laws, rules, codes, statutes, regulations, and legal or regulatory requirements or guidance.
	“Licensed Parties” means Genies and its respective agents, licensees, successors, and assigns.
	“NFTs” means non-fungible tokens residing on a blockchain.
	“Other Terms” means individually or collectively, as applicable, the Privacy Policy, SMS Text Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, Seller Addendum, or any other agreements, addenda, or terms entered into by you and Genies or any other Licensed Party that are governed by, or otherwise incorporate by reference, these Terms.
	“Our Creations” means the Services and any Content provided by or on behalf of Genies, including any software, technology, tools, designs, templates or tools provided to help users create Digital Goods.
	“Persona” means, collectively, name, brand, likeness, image, likeness, social-media handle(s), social media avatars, signature, voice, profile and biographical information.
	“Platform Terms” means the terms of use and other applicable policies for applicable third party platforms.
	“Promotions” means all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions sponsored by Genies.
	“Services” means Genies mobile applications (like the Silver Studio and Genies Party apps), Genies websites (like genies.com and warehouse.genies.com) and any other programming, tools, applications, smart contracts, technical products, features, software, games, experiences, or documentation provided by Genies.
	“Terms” means these Genies Terms of Service.
	“Your Creations” means any Content you create, submit, store, upload, broadcast, or share using the Services, or otherwise provide to Genies or any other Licensed Party under Other Terms, including any Persona (to the extent incorporated therein), but excludes Our Creations or Content provided by other users.
3.	YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GENIES
A.	What you can expect from Genies
Provide Services. We offer a range of Services, and use of the Services is governed by these Terms.
Update, develop, and enhance Services. We may develop new technology or features that improve or modify the Services. To that end, we may add or remove certain features, functionalities, or Services. If we make a significant change that impacts your use of the Services, or if we stop offering a service altogether, we will endeavor to notify you first unless the situation is urgent (for example, to prevent abuse, address security issues, or respond to legal requirements).
Update, clarify, or amend these Terms. If we make a change to these Terms or any Other Terms that significantly affects your rights, we will endeavor to give you advance notice and an opportunity to review the change unless the situation is urgent. If you don’t agree with any updated terms, you should terminate your account and stop using the Services.
B.	What Genies expects from you
Follow all applicable rules. The permission we give you to use the Services lasts as long as you comply with: (1) these Terms; and (2) any Other Terms—which will be controlling if there is any conflict with these Terms—that may apply to specific uses of the Services. For example, you must follow the Community Guidelines, which are designed to foster a safe, welcoming, positive, and engaging community. We will let you know when additional terms apply to your use of the Services.
Provide true information. We may ask you for certain information from time to time, including to open an account with us, and when the law says we have to. You agree to give us true information only, and you understand that lying or not providing certain information may mean that you won’t be able to access or use certain Services.
Give feedback or suggest improvements, if you want. If you give us any comments, feedback, or suggestions, you agree that Genies may use those submissions without notice, payment, or any other obligation to you.
Pay any fees that you owe. Some of the Services may allow you to purchase items or require you to pay a fee, including a transaction fee for certain transactions. If so, you agree to pay the applicable purchase price, fees, and any taxes that you may owe as determined by Genies or third party service providers and under any applicable law. All payments and fees are final and non-refundable.
Make certain promises, also known as representations and warranties. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
- you have the rights and ability to enter into these Terms and any Other Terms;
- your use of the Services and performance under any Other Terms won’t violate any third party’s rights or applicable Laws.
- your use of the Services will be for your personal enjoyment only or for use as outlined in any Other Terms, but not for any investment purposes; and
- you are not located in, or a citizen or resident of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a terrorist supporting country, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you need information to be sure, please review this website.
To the extent you are a Creator, you further represent, warrant, and agree that:
- you are the sole and exclusive owner of Your Creations or, if not, you have all rights, consents, permissions, and authorizations necessary to grant Genies and the other Licensed Parties the rights hereunder (including all sublicense rights);
- Your Creations and the use thereof as set forth herein or in any Other Terms will not violate these Terms, Other Terms, any Laws or Platform Terms, or any rights (including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or rights of publicity) of any third party, or cause Genies or any other Licensed Parties to incur any additional fees; and
- if Your Creation uses any third party’s property (like logos, designs, brand names, or Digital Goods made by other users), such use is expressly permitted by the applicable rights holder or otherwise is permitted by fair use or other applicable Laws.
4.	USING GENIES SERVICES
A.	Age Requirements
To use the Services, you have to be at least 13 years old. If you are not legally considered an adult where you live, please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help; only they are allowed to agree to these Terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a minor to use the Services, then you agree these Terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their and your activity on the Services. You also are responsible for any transactions undertaken by you or the minor.
B.	Your Genies Account
You may need an account with Genies to create, collect, access, share, buy, or sell Digital Goods or other Content using the Services. Only you are responsible for what happens on your account and for keeping your passwords and other account information private and safe. You are only allowed to have one account with Genies. If you think your account was hacked, stolen, or used without your permission, please email us at support@genies.com. If Genies removes or disables your account for any reason, you will only be allowed to create a new account by requesting permission via support@genies.com.
C.	Your Digital Wallet
You may need to connect your account to a certain kind of digital wallet to create, collect, buy, or sell Authenticated Digital Goods using the Services. That digital wallet will be operated by a third party (i.e., not Genies). You are responsible for understanding how your digital wallet works, complying with applicable Platform Terms, and for keeping it safe. Genies is not responsible for your use of the digital wallet, including if anything in your digital wallet is lost or stolen.
D.	Authorized Entities
Sometimes, businesses or other organizations use the Services. To use the Services on behalf of a person, an organization or entity, you need to be an authorized representative of that person, organization or entity and you hereby agree to these Terms on its behalf.
E.	Digital Goods
If you wish to use the Services to create, buy, or sell Digital Goods, you may have to agree to additional terms that apply to those actions. For example, we may partner with people to make Digital Goods available to you, and those Digital Goods may come with extra terms and conditions. We may also work with you to create new Digital Goods under a separate agreement. If there are extra terms and conditions attached to any Digital Goods or that apply to any specific use of the Services, we will let you know before you purchase those Digital Goods or use the Services in that way.
F.	Artificial Intelligence
Genies may integrate into the Services certain AI Tools which may be operated and used pursuant to certain AI Terms. You acknowledge that your use of the AI Tools in the Services may be governed by such AI Terms. If you have any questions about the AI Tools and corresponding AI Terms that may apply to your use of the Services, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
G.	Genies Apps
Some of the Services, like the Silver Studio and Genies Party mobile apps, include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the Services. The license we give you is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, which means there are no royalties paid to us for this license; and
- non-assignable, which means you can’t give it to someone else.
When you use any of Genies’ apps, your phone carrier may charge you for data, text messages, push notifications, or other wireless access. You are responsible for paying those fees, if any. These messages or notifications may include information regarding your account or our products, Services, or promotions. The notifications may be delivered to your device even when the app is running in the background. You have the ability, and it is your responsibility, to control the notifications you do, or do not, receive through your device. It is your responsibility to keep your account information secure when using this feature. Additional terms related to these messages and notifications are here and are incorporated into these Terms.
If you are using any of Genies’ apps from the Apple App Store, please keep the following in mind: These Terms are between you and Genies, not Apple. Genies is solely responsible for its apps and any Content produced thereon, and Apple has no obligation to help with any support or maintenance questions. You must comply with all applicable third-party terms of use when using any Genies app, including all of Apple’s rules; if there are any conflicts between these Terms and the Apple App Store Terms of Service, the Apple App Store Terms of Service will apply. Apple is not responsible for your use of any Genies app and won’t be liable for any related claims or losses. The license granted to you in these Terms to use Genies’ apps is for your own use on Apple-branded products that you own or control. You can’t transfer the apps or the Services to anyone else, but the apps can be used or accessed by other accounts associated with you through family sharing or volume purchasing. If an app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the app to you, but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility. We are responsible for addressing any claims from you or any third party relating to our apps including, but not limited to, product liability claims, any claim that an app fails to conform to any Laws, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with an app’s use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks, if any. In the event of any third party claim that a Genies app or your possession and use of the app infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries to these Terms and have the right to enforce these Terms against you. If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to any of Genies’ apps, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
H.	Promotions
Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to interpret the rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all participants in the Promotion. Genies reserves the right to disqualify any participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the rules of the Promotion. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time.
I.	Using Services Responsibly
You are responsible for your interactions with other users on the Services. Genies reserves the right to monitor interactions between users, but Genies is not obligated to do so, and cannot be held liable for your interactions with other users, or for any user’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release Genies and any other Licensed Parties from claims, and damages of every kind, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you waive any protections that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release.
We have to set some ground rules for the Services so that everyone can enjoy them and we can protect peoples’ rights. Therefore, you agree that:
You WILL:
- follow the Community Guidelines;
- treat Genies and any other Licensed Parties and all users of the Services with respect; and
- comply with all applicable Laws and Platform Terms.
You will NOT, unless you have Genies’ prior written permission or applicable Laws prohibit these restrictions:
- Share, download, copy, modify, license, distribute, transmit, or sell any information or Content you get from the Services, except for Digital Goods or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
- Try to duplicate, change, break, decompile, reverse engineer, decode, overwhelm, burden, damage, disrupt, impair, or negatively impact the Services or any other party’s access to the Services;
- Use any bots, mods, hacks, or unauthorized software in connection with the Services;
- Use or attempt to use another person’s account, digital wallet, or device without their permission;
- Use the Services for anything harmful, hateful, unethical, disruptive, fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, illegal, mean, immoral, or otherwise objectionable;
- Provide the Services to any third party;
- Use the Services in any way that’s not permitted by any applicable Terms; or
- Encourage or enable any other person to do any of the foregoing.
5.	CONTENT ON GENIES SERVICES
A. 	Genies Content
The Services include Our Creations that belong to Genies. As between you and Genies, Genies shall be and remain the sole owner of Our Creations. We give you permission to use Our Creations, including our templates for Digital Goods, to make, upload, and share Your Creations on the Services, subject to these Terms and any Other Terms, but we (or our licensors, as applicable) retain all IP in Our Creations. You agree not to do anything to violate, infringe upon, or misappropriate our IP/Our Creations.
B.	Digital Goods
If you lawfully purchase, acquire, or own a Digital Good and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you hold the Digital Good, you may (i) use the Digital Good in and as permitted by the Services; and (ii) post copies of the Digital Good on your social media account (which posts may remain active even after you no longer hold the Digital Good).
C.	Authenticated Digital Goods and Avatars
If you lawfully purchase, acquire or own an Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you own the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar, you may, in addition to exercising the rights granted above to holders of Digital Goods, (i) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar in connection with any third-party website or application (such as a metaverse platform) that allows you to use your Digital Good; (ii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar to create DIYs; (iii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar outside the Services for both commercial and non-commercial purposes; and (iv) market and sell the Authenticated Digital Good, including its associated NFT, or Avatar, on the Services or any marketplace that honors the collection and payment of creator royalties.
D.	Your Creations
As a Creator, you own the IP in Your Creations, and you can share Your Creations with the world. However, you grant Genies and all other Licensed Parties, including Genies’ users, permission to use Your Creations as set forth in the license below.
Scope. Unless otherwise agreed by Genies in writing, the scope of the license you grant to Genies and all other Licensed Parties to use Your Creations is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning you can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, meaning there are no royalties owed to you for this license (and, for the sake of clarity, Genies may, but has no obligation to, provide or offer you compensation for, or opportunities for you to monetize, Your Creations); and
- irrevocable, meaning you can’t take it back.
Rights. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may (but are not obligated to):
- copy, use, transmit, broadcast, reproduce, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Creations, including to save on our systems and show or make publicly available to other users;
- modify and prepare derivative works based upon Your Creations, including to edit them or make new versions of them;
- associate Your Creations with, or link Your Creations to, NFTs or other digital assets that may be bought, sold, or transferred through the Services;
- otherwise use, distribute, commercialize, and exploit Your Creations; and
- sublicense, meaning grant these rights to other users of the Services or other third parties.
(collectively, the “Rights”).
Purpose. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may exercise the Rights for any lawful purpose including, without limitation, the purposes of:
- operating and improving the Services, including to provide the Services to you and others, allow the Services to work as intended, and create new features and functionalities; and
- promoting and marketing Genies and all other Licensed Parties, the Services, their businesses, Our Creations and Your Creations (including but not limited to any of your Digital Goods).
Duration. The license above continues for as long as Your Creations are protected by intellectual property laws.
E.	Other People’s Content
The Services may give you access to Content that belongs to other people or organizations. You can use that Content in and as permitted by the Services, these Terms and any Other Terms, but you can’t use it in any other way without the owner’s permission.
F.	Infringing Content
If you believe that any user-generated Content, links, or other material made available through the Services violates your copyright, please submit a notification in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, to Genies’ DMCA Agent:
Attn: Genies, Inc., DMCA Agent
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Notices related to trademarks, right of publicity, or IP matters may be sent to the same recipient.
If any of Your Creations are taken down after we receive a DMCA notice, you can send a counter-notification as laid out in section 512(g) of the DMCA, and we may re-post Your Creations in question.
We, in our discretion, when it’s appropriate, will disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe IP.
6.	ISSUES, CLAIMS, RISKS, AND DISPUTES
A.	Warranty Disclaimer
We work continuously to improve the Services and meet your needs. However, for legal reasons, we offer the Services without warranties unless specifically stated in Other Terms. The law says we need to explain this with specific language in capital letters. Here is that explanation: WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
B.	Assumptions of Risk
Using blockchain technology, including NFTs and digital wallets, can raise certain risks. For example, you might lose your NFTs, and some countries might make rules that restrict the use of NFTs. These Terms don’t include a complete list of risks associated with blockchain technology. You understand and accept the risks associated with your use of blockchain technology and that Genies won’t be liable to you for any resulting harm or losses.
You understand that certain portions of the Services are made possible by third parties including but not limited to digital wallet providers, payment processors, and decentralized networks. You agree that Genies does not control any third parties and won’t be responsible for any losses or harm that they cause either directly or indirectly.
C.	Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited. Genies is only liable for breaches of these Terms or Other Terms. In no event will Genies or any other Licensed Party be responsible for any loss of profits, business opportunities, or good will, indirect or consequential losses, punitive or exemplary damages, or losses or damages arising from your use or inability to use the Services or any blockchain technology.
Genies and all Licensed Parties’ total liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms is limited to the greater of (1) one hundred dollars ($100) or (2) the fees you paid to Genies Inc. to use the relevant Services in the twelve (12) months before the Dispute.
Genies will not be required to give you any virtual currency or cryptocurrency as damages at any time. If you try to base your damages on the value of any virtual currency or cryptocurrency, the monetary damages calculation will be based on the lowest value of that currency between the initial incident and the award of damages.
This section applies to the fullest extent allowed by applicable Law regardless of the nature of our Dispute and regardless of whether other terms have been breached. If any specific portion of this section doesn’t apply, the rest of this section will still apply.
D.	What Happens if You Break Genies’ Rules
Before we take any action described below, we’ll try to give you notice unless doing so would cause someone else harm, compromise the Services, or violate any Law. If you violate the Law, these Terms or any Other Terms and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we give up any rights that we may have. We may take appropriate action in the future.
If Your Creations violate these terms, any Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person, we may remove Your Creations.
We have the right to terminate your account and your access to the Services if you avoid paying any fees that you owe or you violate these Terms, Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person. If this happens, any license granted to you in connection with the Services are terminated immediately, and you won’t be entitled to any refunds. We also reserve the right to terminate any other accounts you may create or have created.
	E.	Indemnification
If someone sues Genies or any other Licensed Party because of your misconduct or your use of the Services, you have to pay for defense and legal fees. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Genies and all other Licensed Parties harmless from and against any third-party claims asserted against any of them arising out of or relating to your use or actual or alleged misuse of the Services, violation of these Terms or any Other Terms, or your negligence or misconduct. This applies to all liabilities or expenses arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
7.	RESOLVING DISPUTES; AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS. IT CONTAINS PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
A.	Governing Law and Venue
California law governs, and the venue for any Dispute is Los Angeles, California. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and we expressly agree to adjudicate any claim or Dispute between us arising from or related to the Terms, the Services, or Your Creations exclusively by a state or federal court or arbitral tribunal located in Los Angeles County, California, except as described in the Agreement to Arbitrate or as otherwise mutually agreed by the parties. You and we further acknowledge and agree that this Agreement to Arbitrate affects interstate commerce and that the Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to arbitrations under this Agreement to Arbitrate (despite any other choice of law provision).
B.	Informal Resolution Process
In an effort to help us get to a resolution faster and reduce the costs for both parties, you and Genies agree to first attempt to informally negotiate any Dispute for at least thirty (30) days. Those informal negotiations will start on the day you or Genies receive a written notice of a Dispute as set out below. For the avoidance of doubt, Genies’ decision to suspend or terminate this agreement and/or your access to any Content or any part of the Services if Genies determines you violate any provision of these Terms or any Other Terms is not subject to any informal negotiation process.
If you have a Dispute with us, you will send written notice to Genies, Inc. ATTN: NOTICE OF DISPUTE, 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069 in order to give us the opportunity to resolve the Dispute through informal negotiation. Include your name, account name, or registered email address you use to access the Services, your address, how to contact you, what the problem is, and what you want us to do about it. If we have a Dispute with you, we will send our notice of the Dispute to your registered email address and any billing address you have provided us.
Small claims court is an acceptable alternative. Instead of commencing an arbitration, you or we may also bring claims in your local “small claims” court if the rules applicable to that court allow it. Otherwise, the Dispute must be resolved by binding, individual arbitration.
C.	Disputes We Both Agree to Arbitrate
Background on Arbitration: Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution process that allows you and us to try to resolve Disputes without the formality or expense of litigating in court. Arbitration is often faster and less expensive than formal litigation. Disputes that are subject to arbitration are submitted to a neutral arbitrator, who has the power to award the same damages and relief that a court can,, instead of being presented in court to a judge or a jury. If you wish to opt-out of this binding individual arbitration requirement, you must comply with the opt-out process set forth in the “Opt-Out Right” section below. This binding individual arbitration requirement will not apply to the extent prohibited by the Laws of your country of residence.
Disputes between us will be resolved through binding, individual arbitration. Except as expressly provided herein, you and we agree that any Dispute that cannot be resolved through the procedures set forth above will be resolved through binding arbitration on an individual basis. Class actions and class arbitrations are not allowed. You may bring a claim only on behalf of yourself and cannot seek relief that would affect other users of the services. If there is a final judicial ruling that any particular claim (or a request for particular relief) cannot be arbitrated in accordance with these Terms, then only that particular claim or request for relief may be brought in court. All other claims (or requests for relief) remain subject to this provision. Questions of arbitrability—that is, whether a particular claim is subject to arbitration—shall be resolved by an arbitrator in arbitration.
D.	Arbitration Rules and Procedure
AAA or ICDR rules apply. All Disputes between the parties arising hereunder shall be resolved by arbitration conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), in accordance with the then-current AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single retired judge or professional arbitrator with relevant subject-matter experience. The arbitration shall be conducted at a mutually agreed upon location that is reasonably convenient to both parties. If we are unable to agree upon a mutually convenient location within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration, the determination shall be made by AAA. The arbitration shall allow for the discovery or exchange of non-privileged information relevant to the Dispute. Any arbitral award shall consist of a written statement stating the disposition of each claim or Dispute and provide a concise written statement of the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based. Judgment upon any arbitral award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitration hearing shall be within ninety (90) days, which time period can be modified by the tribunal in its discretion or at the request of any party. The tribunal is under no obligation to modify this time period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) you or we may participate in the arbitration by videoconference, phone, and/or document submission to the fullest extent allowable by the arbitrator; and (ii) if you are outside of the United States, the arbitration will be conducted by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution ("ICDR") in accordance with its International Expedited Procedures. If there is a conflict between AAA Rules (or, as applicable, the ICDR rules) and the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate, the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate will govern.
To initiate an arbitration, you or we must take the following steps:
(1) Write a Demand for Arbitration. The demand must include, among other things, a description of the claim and the amount of damages sought to be recovered. You can find a copy of a Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org.
(2) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration, one copy of these Terms, plus the appropriate filing fee to: American Arbitration Association, Case Filing Services, 1101 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 100 Voorhees, NJ 08043.
(3) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration to the other party.
The arbitration will be decided by a sole arbitrator. In all cases, there shall be one (1) arbitrator, who will be agreed to by the parties within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration. If no single arbitrator can be agreed upon by the parties, the arbitrator shall be selected in accordance with the rules of AAA.
Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA’s rules. If, however, you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, Genies will pay as much of the filing, administration, and arbitrator fees as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive for you. If the arbitrator determines the claim(s) you assert in the arbitration are frivolous, you agree to reimburse Genies for all fees associated with the arbitration that Genies paid on your behalf, which you otherwise would be obligated to pay under the AAA’s rules.
Arbitration proceedings are confidential. Except as may be required by Law, the parties shall preserve the confidentiality of all aspects of the arbitration, and shall not disclose to a third party (other than disclosure to the affiliates of a party on a need-to-know basis and such affiliates are informed of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential), any or all information made known and documents produced in the arbitration not otherwise in the public domain, all evidence and materials created for the purpose of the arbitration, and all awards arising from the arbitration, except, and to the extent that disclosure is required by Law, is required to protect or pursue a legal right or is required to enforce or challenge an award in legal proceedings before a court or other competent judicial authority.
E.	Class Action Waiver and Jury Trial Waiver
You waive the right to bring a class action. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NO ARBITRATION OR OTHER CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS WILL BE JOINED TO ANY OTHER ARBITRATION OR CLAIM, INCLUDING ANY ARBITRATION OR CLAIM INVOLVING ANY OTHER CURRENT OR FORMER USER OF THE SERVICES, AND NO CLASS, COLLECTIVE, AND/OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PERMITTED. Unless both you and Genies agree otherwise, no arbitrator may consolidate or join more than one person’s or party’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a consolidated, representative, or class proceeding. The arbitrator may award any relief permitted by applicable Law only with respect the individual party seeking relief, but to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, may not award relief against either party respecting any person other than that individual party seeking relief. In the event that this Class Action Waiver is deemed unenforceable with respect to any particular claim otherwise subject to arbitration, then that claim will not proceed in arbitration but rather will be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction. If that occurs, however, this Agreement to Arbitrate and this Class Action Waiver still will be fully enforceable as to all other claims, which must be resolved in arbitration on an individual basis.
You and we expressly waive the right to a trial by judge or jury. YOU AND WE AGREE AND UNDERSTAND THAT, BY USING ARBITRATION TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, YOU AND WE ARE GIVING UP ANY RIGHT THAT YOU OR WE MAY HAVE TO A JUDGE OR JURY TRIAL WITH REGARD TO ALL CLAIMS SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE. YOU AND WE FURTHER AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM HEARD IN A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION WILL BE HEARD BY A JUDGE INSTEAD OF A JURY, EXCEPT WHERE A JURY TRIAL WAIVER IS NOT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Actions. You and we understand and agree that, regardless of any statute or other Law to the contrary, any Dispute or other claim against you or us must be filed within two (2) years after such Dispute or claim arose or will be forever barred.
F.	Opt-Out Right
You have the right to opt out of this binding individual arbitration requirement and class action waiver. If you do not wish to be bound by the binding individual arbitration and class action waiver in these Terms, you must notify us in writing of your decision to opt-out within thirty (30) days of the date that you first agree to these Terms or, if we make any changes to this Agreement to Arbitrate which alter your rights, within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such revision to this Agreement to Arbitrate, unless a longer period is required by applicable Law. Your written notification must be sent, postage prepaid, to Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069, Attention: Genies Legal Department. Such notice must include: (1) your full name; (2) your mailing address; (3) your account name, if you have one; and (4) and a clear statement of your intent to opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate. Any opt-out request that is incomplete or received after such deadline will be ineffective and this Agreement to Arbitrate will remain in full force and effect, except as expressly provided above. If you opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate, we also will not be bound by the terms of this Agreement to Arbitrate.
7.	MISCELLANEOUS
You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written permission. Genies may assign or transfer any of our rights or obligations hereunder without your permission and without notice to you.
If any clause within these Terms is found to be invalid, unenforceable, void, voidable, or illegal, that clause will be severed and the remainder of this Dispute Resolution section will be given full force and effect.
These Terms, together with Other Terms, represent the entire agreement between you and Genies and supersede any prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral, between you and Genies.
All provisions of these Terms that would reasonably be expected to survive the termination of this agreement including, without limitation, those related to IP, limitation of liability, and indemnification, will do so.
Effective July 10, 2023 to December 1, 2023
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Genies Terms of Service
ARBITRATION NOTICE: Section 7 below has some important rules about how we resolve disputes. If you have an issue with us, you agree to resolve it through private arbitration instead of in court before a judge or jury. You also agree to resolve any such issue on your own, and not as part of a group or class with other users of the Services. You may, however, opt out of arbitration, as explained in Section 7.
1.INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Genies! We provide you with Services that let users create, design, and personalize dream outfits, accessories, and digital characters, which users can trade, gift, send, buy, sell, or display to the world.
It’s important that you read and understand these Terms because, by using the Services, you’re agreeing to these Terms. We know that reading them is not the most fun thing to do, but these Terms, together with any other terms or policies that are incorporated into these Terms, define your relationship with Genies as you interact with the Services. For example, these Terms explain: (1) what you can expect from Genies; (2) what Genies expects from you; (3) who can do what with Your Creations and on Genies’ Services; and (4) how we will resolve any disputes.
We publish a Privacy Policy which explains what information we collect and why, how we use it, and how you can update, manage, and delete it. The Privacy Policy is also a part of these Terms. We recommend that you read it to better understand how we collect and use the information we may collect.
Genies’ Services are provided by, and you are entering into a binding agreement with, Genies, Inc., located at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069. When we say “Genies,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in these Terms, we mean Genies, Inc., its parents, subsidiaries, and its affiliates, which include any entity owned in whole or in part by Genies. When we say “you” and “your” in these Terms, we mean the person using the Services or, if you are using the Services on behalf of an entity or organization, we mean that entity or organization.
2.DEFINITIONS
“Authenticated Digital Goods” means Digital Goods that use blockchain technology to record ownership of the Digital Goods. The Services may identify Digital Goods as Authenticated Digital Goods through the use of a badge, describing the item as a “1 of 1,” or such other reasonable means selected by Genies in its sole discretion.
“Avatar” means a digital representation of a human, humanoid, animal, mythical creature, or any character that may embody real, fantasy, or abstract attributes, which may be created, held, or transferred using the Services.
“Content” means graphics, pictures, images, artwork, videos, animations, audio, sounds, music, audio-visual effects, text, titles, names, themes, dialogue, characters, stories, concepts, objects, virtual items, patterns, textures, designs, models, concepts, interactive features, code, scripts, software, metadata, digital works, Digital Goods, suggestions, feedback, files, documents, and all other content.
“Creator” means any person, entity, or organization that contributes Content for inclusion in, or in connection with, the Services or Other Terms, or is defined as a Creator under these Terms or in any Other Terms.
“Digital Goods” means Avatars, virtual clothing, accessories for Avatars, and certain other digital assets that may be created, held, or transferred using the Services. Digital Goods include but are not limited to Authenticated Digital Goods.
“Dispute” means any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Genies related to or arising from the Services, Genies’ other products and services, or these Terms.
“DIYs” means Digital Goods created with the Services by modifying other Digital Goods.
“IP” means any intellectual property rights in Content, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary interests, whether registered or unregistered, under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
“Laws” means all laws, rules, codes, statutes, regulations, and legal or regulatory requirements or guidance.
“Licensed Parties” means Genies and its respective agents, licensees, successors, and assigns.
“NFTs” means non-fungible tokens residing on a blockchain.
“Other Terms” means individually or collectively, as applicable, the Privacy Policy, SMS Text Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, Seller Addendum, or any other agreements, addenda, or terms entered into by you and Genies or any other Licensed Party that are governed by, or otherwise incorporate by reference, these Terms.
“Our Creations” means the Services and any Content provided by or on behalf of Genies, including any software, technology, tools, designs, templates or tools provided to help users create Digital Goods.
“Persona” means, collectively, name, brand, likeness, image, likeness, social-media handle(s), social media avatars, signature, voice, profile and biographical information.
“Platform Terms” means the terms of use and other applicable policies for applicable third party platforms.
“Promotions” means all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions sponsored by Genies.
“Services” means Genies mobile applications (like the Silver Studio app), Genies websites (like genies.com and warehouse.genies.com) and any other programming, tools, applications, smart contracts, technical products, features, software, or documentation provided by Genies.
“Terms” means these Genies Terms of Service.
“Your Creations” means any Content you create, submit, store, upload, broadcast, or share using the Services, or otherwise provide to Genies or any other Licensed Party under Other Terms, including any Persona (to the extent incorporated therein), but excludes Our Creations or Content provided by other users.
3.YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GENIES
A.What you can expect from Genies
Provide Services. We offer a range of Services, and use of the Services is governed by these Terms.
Update, develop, and enhance Services. We may develop new technology or features that improve or modify the Services. To that end, we may add or remove certain features, functionalities, or Services. If we make a significant change that impacts your use of the Services, or if we stop offering a service altogether, we will endeavor to notify you first unless the situation is urgent (for example, to prevent abuse, address security issues, or respond to legal requirements).
Update, clarify, or amend these Terms. If we make a change to these Terms or any Other Terms that significantly affects your rights, we will endeavor to give you advance notice and an opportunity to review the change unless the situation is urgent. If you don’t agree with any updated terms, you should terminate your account and stop using the Services.
B.What Genies expects from you
Follow all applicable rules. The permission we give you to use the Services lasts as long as you comply with: (1) these Terms; and (2) applicable Other Terms—which will be controlling if there is any conflict with these Terms—that may apply to specific uses of the Services. For example, you must follow the Community Guidelines, which are designed to foster a safe, welcoming, positive, and engaging community. We will let you know when additional terms apply to your use of the Services.
Provide true information. We may ask you for certain information from time to time, including to open an account with us, and when the law says we have to. You agree to give us true information only, and you understand that lying or not providing certain information may mean that you won’t be able to access or use certain Services.
Give feedback or suggest improvements, if you want. If you give us any comments, feedback, or suggestions, you agree that Genies may use those submissions without notice, payment, or any other obligation to you.
Pay any fees that you owe. Some of the Services may allow you to purchase items or require you to pay a fee, including a transaction fee for certain transactions. If so, you agree to pay the applicable purchase price, fees, and any taxes that you may owe as determined by Genies or third party service providers and under any applicable law. All payments and fees are final and non-refundable.
Make certain promises, also known as representations and warranties. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
- you have the rights and ability to enter into these Terms and any Other Terms;
- your use of the Services and performance under any Other Terms won’t violate any third party’s rights or applicable Laws.
- your use of the Services will be for your personal enjoyment only or for use as outlined in any Other Terms, but not for any investment purposes; and
- you are not located in, or a citizen or resident of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a terrorist supporting country, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you need information to be sure, please review this website.
To the extent you are a Creator, you further represent, warrant, and agree that:
- you are the sole and exclusive owner of Your Creations or, if not, you have all rights, consents, permissions, and authorizations necessary to grant Genies and the other Licensed Parties the rights hereunder (including all sublicense rights);
- Your Creations and the use thereof as set forth herein or in any Other Terms will not violate these Terms, Other Terms, any Laws or Platform Terms, or any rights (including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or rights of publicity) of any third party, or cause Genies or any other Licensed Parties to incur any additional fees; and
- if Your Creation uses any third party’s property (like logos, designs, brand names, or Digital Goods made by other users), such use is expressly permitted by the applicable rights holder or otherwise is permitted by fair use or other applicable Laws.
4.USING GENIES SERVICES
A.Age Requirements
To use the Services, you have to be at least 13 years old. If you are not legally considered an adult where you live, please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help; only they are allowed to agree to these Terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a minor to use the Services, then you agree these Terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their and your activity on the Services. You also are responsible for any transactions undertaken by you or the minor.
B.Your Genies Account
You need an account with Genies to create, collect, buy, or sell Digital Goods using the Services. Only you are responsible for what happens on your account and for keeping your passwords and other account information private and safe. You are only allowed to have one account with Genies. If you think your account was hacked, stolen, or used without your permission, please email us at support@genies.com. If Genies removes or disables your account for any reason, you will only be allowed to create a new account by requesting permission via support@genies.com.
C.Your Wallet
You may need to connect your account to a certain kind of digital wallet to create, collect, buy, or sell Authenticated Digital Goods using the Services. That wallet will be operated by a third party (i.e., not Genies). You are responsible for understanding how your wallet works, complying with applicable Platform Terms, and for keeping it safe. Genies is not responsible for your use of the wallet, including if anything in your wallet is lost or stolen.
D.Authorized Entities
Sometimes, businesses or other organizations use the Services. To use the Services on behalf of a person, an organization or entity, you need to be an authorized representative of that person, organization or entity and you hereby agree to these Terms on its behalf.
E.Digital Goods
If you wish to use the Services to create, buy, or sell Digital Goods, you may have to agree to additional terms that apply to those actions. For example, we may partner with people to make Digital Goods available to you, and those Digital Goods may come with extra terms and conditions. We may also work with you to create new Digital Goods under a separate agreement. If there are extra terms and conditions attached to any Digital Goods or that apply to any specific use of the Services, we will let you know before you purchase those Digital Goods or use the Services in that way.
F.Silver Studio app
Some of the Services, like the Silver Studio app, include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the Services. The license we give you is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, which means there are no royalties paid to us for this license; and
- non-assignable, which means you can’t give it to someone else.
When you use the Silver Studio app, your phone carrier may charge you for data, text messages, push notifications, or other wireless access. You are responsible for paying those fees, if any. These messages or notifications may include information regarding your account or our products, Services, or promotions. The notifications may be delivered to your device even when the Silver Studio app is running in the background. You have the ability, and it is your responsibility, to control the notifications you do, or do not, receive through your device. It is your responsibility to keep your account information secure when using this feature. Additional terms related to these messages and notifications are here and are incorporated into these Terms.
If you are using the Silver Studio app from the Apple App Store, please keep the following in mind: These Terms are between you and Genies, not Apple. Genies is solely responsible for the Silver Studio app and any Content produced on it, and Apple has no obligation to help with any support or maintenance questions. You must comply with all applicable third-party terms of use when using the Silver Studio app, including all of Apple’s rules; if there are any conflicts between these Terms and the Apple App Store Terms of Service, the Apple App Store Terms of Service will apply. Apple is not responsible for your use of the Silver Studio app and won’t be liable for any related claims or losses. The license granted to you in these Terms to use the Silver Studio app is for your own use on Apple-branded products that you own or control. You can’t transfer the Silver Studio app or the Services to anyone else, but the Silver Studio app can be used or accessed by other accounts associated with you through family sharing or volume purchasing. If the Silver Studio app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the Silver Studio app to you, but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Silver Studio app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility. We are responsible for addressing any claims from you or any third party relating to the Silver Studio app including, but not limited to product liability claims, any claim that the Silver Studio app fails to conform to any Laws, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with the Silver Studio app’s use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks. In the event of any third party claim that the Silver Studio app or your possession and use of the Silver Studio app infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries to these Terms and have the right to enforce these Terms against you. If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Silver Studio app, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
G.Promotions
Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to interpret the rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all participants in the Promotion. Genies reserves the right to disqualify any participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the rules of the Promotion. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time.
H.Using Services Responsibly
You are responsible for your interactions with other users on the Services. Genies reserves the right to monitor interactions between users, but Genies is not obligated to do so, and cannot be held liable for your interactions with other users, or for any user’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release Genies and any other Licensed Parties from claims, and damages of every kind, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you waive any protections that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release.
We have to set some ground rules for the Services so that everyone can enjoy them and we can protect peoples’ rights. Therefore, you agree that:
You WILL:
- follow the Community Guidelines;
- treat Genies and any other Licensed Parties and all users of the Services with respect; and
- comply with all applicable Laws and Platform Terms.
You will NOT, unless you have Genies’ prior written permission or applicable Laws prohibit these restrictions:
- Share, download, copy, modify, license, distribute, transmit, or sell any information or Content you get from the Services, except for Digital Goods or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
- Try to duplicate, change, break, decompile, reverse engineer, decode, overwhelm, burden, damage, disrupt, impair, or negatively impact the Services or any other party’s access to the Services;
- Use any bots, mods, hacks, or unauthorized software in connection with the Services;
- Use or attempt to use another person’s account, wallet, or device without their permission;
- Use the Services for anything harmful, hateful, unethical, disruptive, fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, illegal, mean, immoral, or otherwise objectionable;
- Provide the Services to any third party;
- Use the Services in any way that’s not permitted by any applicable Terms; or
- Encourage or enable any other person to do any of the foregoing.
5.CONTENT ON GENIES SERVICES
A. Genies Content
The Services include Our Creations that belong to Genies. As between you and Genies, Genies shall be and remain the sole owner of Our Creations. We give you permission to use Our Creations, including our templates for Digital Goods, to make, upload, and share Your Creations on the Services, subject to these Terms and any Other Terms, but we (or our licensors, as applicable) retain all IP in Our Creations. You agree not to do anything to violate, infringe upon, or misappropriate our IP/Our Creations.
B.Digital Goods
If you lawfully purchase, acquire or own a Digital Good and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you hold the Digital Good, you may (i) use the Digital Good in and as permitted by the Services; and (ii) post copies of the Digital Good on your social media account (which posts may remain active even after you no longer hold the Digital Good).
C.Authenticated Digital Goods and Avatars
If you lawfully purchase, acquire or own an Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you own the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar, you may, in addition to exercising the rights granted above to holders of Digital Goods, (i) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar in connection with any third-party website or application (such as a metaverse platform) that allows you to use your Digital Good; (ii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar to create DIYs; (iii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar outside the Services for both commercial and non-commercial purposes; and (iv) market and sell the Authenticated Digital Good, including its associated NFT, or Avatar, on the Services or any marketplace that honors the collection and payment of creator royalties.
D.Your Creations
As a Creator, you own the IP in Your Creations. However, you grant Genies and all other Licensed Parties, including Genies’ users, permission to use Your Creations as set forth in the license below.
Scope. Unless otherwise agreed by Genies in writing, the scope of the license you grant to Genies and all other Licensed Parties to use Your Creations is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning you can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, meaning there are no royalties owed to you for this license (and, for the sake of clarity, Genies may, but has no obligation to, provide or offer you compensation for, or opportunities for you to monetize, Your Creations); and
- irrevocable, meaning you can’t take it back.
Rights. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may (but are not obligated to):
- copy, use, transmit, broadcast, reproduce, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Creations, including to save on our systems and show or make publicly available to other users;
- modify and prepare derivative works based upon Your Creations, including to edit them or make new versions of them;
- associate Your Creations with, or link Your Creations to, NFTs or other digital assets that may be bought, sold, or transferred through the Services;
- otherwise use, distribute, commercialize, and exploit Your Creations; and
- sublicense, meaning grant these rights to other users of the Services or other third parties.
(collectively, the “Rights”).
Purpose. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may exercise the Rights for any lawful purpose including, without limitation, the purposes of:
- operating and improving the Services, including to provide the Services to you and others, allow the Services to work as intended, and create new features and functionalities; and
- promoting and marketing Genies and all other Licensed Parties, the Services, their businesses, Our Creations and Your Creations (including but not limited to any of your Digital Goods).
Duration. The license above continues for as long as Your Creations are protected by intellectual property laws.
E.Other People’s Content
The Services may give you access to Content that belongs to other people or organizations. You can use that Content in and as permitted by the Services, these Terms and any Other Terms, but you can’t use it in any other way without the owner’s permission.
F.Infringing Content
If you believe that any user-generated Content, links, or other material made available through the Services violates your copyright, please submit a notification in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, to Genies’ DMCA Agent:
Attn: Genies, Inc., DMCA Agent
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Notices related to trademarks, right of publicity, or IP matters may be sent to the same recipient.
If any of Your Creations are taken down after we receive a DMCA notice, you can send a counter-notification as laid out in section 512(g) of the DMCA, and we may re-post Your Creations in question.
We, in our discretion, when it’s appropriate, will disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe IP.
6.ISSUES, CLAIMS, RISKS, AND DISPUTES
A.Warranty Disclaimer
We work continuously to improve the Services and meet your needs. However, for legal reasons, we offer the Services without warranties unless specifically stated in Other Terms. The law says we need to explain this with specific language in capital letters. Here is that explanation: WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
B.Assumptions of Risk
Using blockchain technology, including NFTs and digital wallets, can raise certain risks. For example, you might lose your NFTs, and some countries might make rules that restrict the use of NFTs. These Terms don’t include a complete list of risks associated with blockchain technology. You understand and accept the risks associated with your use of blockchain technology and that Genies won’t be liable to you for any resulting harm or losses.
You understand that certain portions of the Services are made possible by third parties including wallet providers, payment processors, and decentralized networks. You agree that Genies does not control any third parties and won’t be responsible for any losses or harm that they cause either directly or indirectly.
C.Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited. Genies is only liable for breaches of these Terms or Other Terms. In no event will Genies or any other Licensed Party be responsible for any loss of profits, business opportunities, or good will, indirect or consequential losses, punitive or exemplary damages, or losses or damages arising from your use or inability to use the Services or any blockchain technology.
Genies and all Licensed Parties’ total liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms is limited to the greater of (1) one hundred dollars ($100) or (2) the fees you paid to Genies Inc. to use the relevant Services in the twelve (12) months before the Dispute.
Genies will not be required to give you any virtual currency or cryptocurrency as damages at any time. If you try to base your damages on the value of any virtual currency or cryptocurrency, the monetary damages calculation will be based on the lowest value of that currency between the initial incident and the award of damages.
This section applies to the fullest extent allowed by applicable Law regardless of the nature of our Dispute and regardless of whether other terms have been breached. If any specific portion of this section doesn’t apply, the rest of this section will still apply.
D.What Happens if You Break Genies’ Rules
Before we take any action described below, we’ll try to give you notice unless doing so would cause someone else harm, compromise the Services, or violate any Law. If you violate the Law, these Terms or any Other Terms and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we give up any rights that we may have. We may take appropriate action in the future.
If Your Creations violate these terms, any Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person, we may remove Your Creations.
We have the right to terminate your account and your access to the Services if you avoid paying any fees that you owe or you violate these Terms, Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person. If this happens, any license granted to you in connection with the Services are terminated immediately, and you won’t be entitled to any refunds. We also reserve the right to terminate any other accounts you may create or have created.
E.Indemnification
If someone sues Genies or any other Licensed Party because of your misconduct or your use of the Services, you have to pay for defense and legal fees. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Genies and all other Licensed Parties harmless from and against any third-party claims asserted against any of them arising out of or relating to your use or actual or alleged misuse of the Services, violation of these Terms or any Other Terms, or your negligence or misconduct. This applies to all liabilities or expenses arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
7.RESOLVING DISPUTES; AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS. IT CONTAINS PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
A.Governing Law and Venue
California law governs, and the venue for any Dispute is Los Angeles, California. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and we expressly agree to adjudicate any claim or Dispute between us arising from or related to the Terms, the Services, or Your Creations exclusively by a state or federal court or arbitral tribunal located in Los Angeles County, California, except as described in the Agreement to Arbitrate or as otherwise mutually agreed by the parties. You and we further acknowledge and agree that this Agreement to Arbitrate affects interstate commerce and that the Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to arbitrations under this Agreement to Arbitrate (despite any other choice of law provision).
B.Informal Resolution Process
In an effort to help us get to a resolution faster and reduce the costs for both parties, you and Genies agree to first attempt to informally negotiate any Dispute for at least thirty (30) days. Those informal negotiations will start on the day you or Genies receive a written notice of a Dispute as set out below. For the avoidance of doubt, Genies’ decision to suspend or terminate this agreement and/or your access to any Content or any part of the Services if Genies determines you violate any provision of these Terms or any Other Terms is not subject to any informal negotiation process.
If you have a Dispute with us, you will send written notice to Genies, Inc. ATTN: NOTICE OF DISPUTE, 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069 in order to give us the opportunity to resolve the Dispute through informal negotiation. Include your name, account name, or registered email address you use to access the Services, your address, how to contact you, what the problem is, and what you want us to do about it. If we have a Dispute with you, we will send our notice of the Dispute to your registered email address and any billing address you have provided us.
Small claims court is an acceptable alternative. Instead of commencing an arbitration, you or we may also bring claims in your local “small claims” court if the rules applicable to that court allow it. Otherwise, the Dispute must be resolved by binding, individual arbitration.
C.Disputes We Both Agree to Arbitrate
Background on Arbitration: Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution process that allows you and us to try to resolve Disputes without the formality or expense of litigating in court. Arbitration is often faster and less expensive than formal litigation. Disputes that are subject to arbitration are submitted to a neutral arbitrator, who has the power to award the same damages and relief that a court can,, instead of being presented in court to a judge or a jury. If you wish to opt-out of this binding individual arbitration requirement, you must comply with the opt-out process set forth in the “Opt-Out Right” section below. This binding individual arbitration requirement will not apply to the extent prohibited by the Laws of your country of residence.
Disputes between us will be resolved through binding, individual arbitration. Except as expressly provided herein, you and we agree that any Dispute that cannot be resolved through the procedures set forth above will be resolved through binding arbitration on an individual basis. Class actions and class arbitrations are not allowed. You may bring a claim only on behalf of yourself and cannot seek relief that would affect other users of the services. If there is a final judicial ruling that any particular claim (or a request for particular relief) cannot be arbitrated in accordance with these Terms, then only that particular claim or request for relief may be brought in court. All other claims (or requests for relief) remain subject to this provision. Questions of arbitrability—that is, whether a particular claim is subject to arbitration—shall be resolved by an arbitrator in arbitration.
D.Arbitration Rules and Procedure
AAA or ICDR rules apply. All Disputes between the parties arising hereunder shall be resolved by arbitration conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), in accordance with the then-current AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single retired judge or professional arbitrator with relevant subject-matter experience. The arbitration shall be conducted at a mutually agreed upon location that is reasonably convenient to both parties. If we are unable to agree upon a mutually convenient location within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration, the determination shall be made by AAA. The arbitration shall allow for the discovery or exchange of non-privileged information relevant to the Dispute. Any arbitral award shall consist of a written statement stating the disposition of each claim or Dispute and provide a concise written statement of the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based. Judgment upon any arbitral award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitration hearing shall be within ninety (90) days, which time period can be modified by the tribunal in its discretion or at the request of any party. The tribunal is under no obligation to modify this time period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) you or we may participate in the arbitration by videoconference, phone, and/or document submission to the fullest extent allowable by the arbitrator; and (ii) if you are outside of the United States, the arbitration will be conducted by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution ("ICDR") in accordance with its International Expedited Procedures. If there is a conflict between AAA Rules (or, as applicable, the ICDR rules) and the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate, the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate will govern.
To initiate an arbitration, you or we must take the following steps:
(1) Write a Demand for Arbitration. The demand must include, among other things, a description of the claim and the amount of damages sought to be recovered. You can find a copy of a Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org.
(2) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration, one copy of these Terms, plus the appropriate filing fee to: American Arbitration Association, Case Filing Services, 1101 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 100 Voorhees, NJ 08043.
(3) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration to the other party.
The arbitration will be decided by a sole arbitrator. In all cases, there shall be one (1) arbitrator, who will be agreed to by the parties within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration. If no single arbitrator can be agreed upon by the parties, the arbitrator shall be selected in accordance with the rules of AAA.
Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA’s rules. If, however, you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, Genies will pay as much of the filing, administration, and arbitrator fees as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive for you. If the arbitrator determines the claim(s) you assert in the arbitration are frivolous, you agree to reimburse Genies for all fees associated with the arbitration that Genies paid on your behalf, which you otherwise would be obligated to pay under the AAA’s rules.
Arbitration proceedings are confidential. Except as may be required by Law, the parties shall preserve the confidentiality of all aspects of the arbitration, and shall not disclose to a third party (other than disclosure to the affiliates of a party on a need-to-know basis and such affiliates are informed of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential), any or all information made known and documents produced in the arbitration not otherwise in the public domain, all evidence and materials created for the purpose of the arbitration, and all awards arising from the arbitration, except, and to the extent that disclosure is required by Law, is required to protect or pursue a legal right or is required to enforce or challenge an award in legal proceedings before a court or other competent judicial authority.
E.Class Action Waiver and Jury Trial Waiver
You waive the right to bring a class action. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NO ARBITRATION OR OTHER CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS WILL BE JOINED TO ANY OTHER ARBITRATION OR CLAIM, INCLUDING ANY ARBITRATION OR CLAIM INVOLVING ANY OTHER CURRENT OR FORMER USER OF THE SERVICES, AND NO CLASS, COLLECTIVE, AND/OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PERMITTED. Unless both you and Genies agree otherwise, no arbitrator may consolidate or join more than one person’s or party’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a consolidated, representative, or class proceeding. The arbitrator may award any relief permitted by applicable Law only with respect the individual party seeking relief, but to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, may not award relief against either party respecting any person other than that individual party seeking relief. In the event that this Class Action Waiver is deemed unenforceable with respect to any particular claim otherwise subject to arbitration, then that claim will not proceed in arbitration but rather will be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction. If that occurs, however, this Agreement to Arbitrate and this Class Action Waiver still will be fully enforceable as to all other claims, which must be resolved in arbitration on an individual basis.
You and we expressly waive the right to a trial by judge or jury. YOU AND WE AGREE AND UNDERSTAND THAT, BY USING ARBITRATION TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, YOU AND WE ARE GIVING UP ANY RIGHT THAT YOU OR WE MAY HAVE TO A JUDGE OR JURY TRIAL WITH REGARD TO ALL CLAIMS SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE. YOU AND WE FURTHER AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM HEARD IN A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION WILL BE HEARD BY A JUDGE INSTEAD OF A JURY, EXCEPT WHERE A JURY TRIAL WAIVER IS NOT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Actions. You and we understand and agree that, regardless of any statute or other Law to the contrary, any Dispute or other claim against you or us must be filed within two (2) years after such Dispute or claim arose or will be forever barred.
F.Opt-Out Right
You have the right to opt out of this binding individual arbitration requirement and class action waiver. If you do not wish to be bound by the binding individual arbitration and class action waiver in these Terms, you must notify us in writing of your decision to opt-out within thirty (30) days of the date that you first agree to these Terms or, if we make any changes to this Agreement to Arbitrate which alter your rights, within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such revision to this Agreement to Arbitrate, unless a longer period is required by applicable Law. Your written notification must be sent, postage prepaid, to Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069, Attention: Genies Legal Department. Such notice must include: (1) your full name; (2) your mailing address; (3) your account name, if you have one; and (4) and a clear statement of your intent to opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate. Any opt-out request that is incomplete or received after such deadline will be ineffective and this Agreement to Arbitrate will remain in full force and effect, except as expressly provided above. If you opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate, we also will not be bound by the terms of this Agreement to Arbitrate.
7.MISCELLANEOUS
You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written permission. Genies may assign or transfer any of our rights or obligations hereunder without your permission and without notice to you.
If any clause within these Terms is found to be invalid, unenforceable, void, voidable, or illegal, that clause will be severed and the remainder of this Dispute Resolution section will be given full force and effect.
These Terms, together with Other Terms, represent the entire agreement between you and Genies and supersede any prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral, between you and Genies.
All provisions of these Terms that would reasonably be expected to survive the termination of this agreement including, without limitation, those related to IP, limitation of liability, and indemnification, will do so.
Effective July 10, 2023 to July 10, 2023
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Genies Terms of Service
Last Updated: July 11, 2023
ARBITRATION NOTICE: Section 7 below has some important rules about how we resolve disputes. If you have an issue with us, you agree to resolve it through private arbitration instead of in court before a judge or jury. You also agree to resolve any such issue on your own, and not as part of a group or class with other users of the Services. You may, however, opt out of arbitration, as explained in Section 7.
1.	INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Genies! We provide you with Services that let users create, design, and personalize dream outfits, accessories, and digital characters, which users can trade, gift, send, buy, sell, or display to the world.
It’s important that you read and understand these Terms because, by using the Services, you’re agreeing to these Terms. We know that reading them is not the most fun thing to do, but these Terms, together with any other terms or policies that are incorporated into these Terms, define your relationship with Genies as you interact with the Services. For example, these Terms explain: (1) what you can expect from Genies; (2) what Genies expects from you; (3) who can do what with Your Creations and on Genies’ Services; and (4) how we will resolve any disputes.
We publish a Privacy Policy which explains what information we collect and why, how we use it, and how you can update, manage, and delete it. The Privacy Policy is also a part of these Terms. We recommend that you read it to better understand how we collect and use the information we may collect.
Genies’ Services are provided by, and you are entering into a binding agreement with, Genies, Inc., located at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069. When we say “Genies,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in these Terms, we mean Genies, Inc., its parents, subsidiaries, and its affiliates, which include any entity owned in whole or in part by Genies. When we say “you” and “your” in these Terms, we mean the person using the Services or, if you are using the Services on behalf of an entity or organization, we mean that entity or organization.
2.	DEFINITIONS
	“Authenticated Digital Goods” means Digital Goods that use blockchain technology to record ownership of the Digital Goods. The Services may identify Digital Goods as Authenticated Digital Goods through the use of a badge, describing the item as a “1 of 1,” or such other reasonable means selected by Genies in its sole discretion.
	“Avatar” means a digital representation of a human, humanoid, animal, mythical creature, or any character that may embody real, fantasy, or abstract attributes, which may be created, held, or transferred using the Services.
	“Content” means graphics, pictures, images, artwork, videos, animations, audio, sounds, music, audio-visual effects, text, titles, names, themes, dialogue, characters, stories, concepts, objects, virtual items, patterns, textures, designs, models, concepts, interactive features, code, scripts, software, metadata, digital works, Digital Goods, suggestions, feedback, files, documents, and all other content.
	“Creator” means any person, entity, or organization that contributes Content for inclusion in, or in connection with, the Services or Other Terms, or is defined as a Creator under these Terms or in any Other Terms.
	“Digital Goods” means Avatars, virtual clothing, accessories for Avatars, and certain other digital assets that may be created, held, or transferred using the Services. Digital Goods include but are not limited to Authenticated Digital Goods.
	“Dispute” means any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Genies related to or arising from the Services, Genies’ other products and services, or these Terms.
	“DIYs” means Digital Goods created with the Services by modifying other Digital Goods.
	“IP” means any intellectual property rights in Content, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary interests, whether registered or unregistered, under the Laws of any jurisdiction.
	“Laws” means all laws, rules, codes, statutes, regulations, and legal or regulatory requirements or guidance.
	“Licensed Parties” means Genies and its respective agents, licensees, successors, and assigns.
	“NFTs” means non-fungible tokens residing on a blockchain.
	“Other Terms” means individually or collectively, as applicable, the Privacy Policy, SMS Text Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, Seller Addendum, or any other agreements, addenda, or terms entered into by you and Genies or any other Licensed Party that are governed by, or otherwise incorporate by reference, these Terms.
	“Our Creations” means the Services and any Content provided by or on behalf of Genies, including any software, technology, tools, designs, templates or tools provided to help users create Digital Goods.
	“Persona” means, collectively, name, brand, likeness, image, likeness, social-media handle(s), social media avatars, signature, voice, profile and biographical information.
	“Platform Terms” means the terms of use and other applicable policies for applicable third party platforms.
	“Promotions” means all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions sponsored by Genies.
	“Services” means Genies mobile applications (like the Silver Studio app), Genies websites (like genies.com and warehouse.genies.com) and any other programming, tools, applications, smart contracts, technical products, features, software, or documentation provided by Genies.
	“Terms” means these Genies Terms of Service.
	“Your Creations” means any Content you create, submit, store, upload, broadcast, or share using the Services, or otherwise provide to Genies or any other Licensed Party under Other Terms, including any Persona (to the extent incorporated therein), but excludes Our Creations or Content provided by other users.
3.	YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GENIES
A.	What you can expect from Genies
Provide Services. We offer a range of Services, and use of the Services is governed by these Terms.
Update, develop, and enhance Services. We may develop new technology or features that improve or modify the Services. To that end, we may add or remove certain features, functionalities, or Services. If we make a significant change that impacts your use of the Services, or if we stop offering a service altogether, we will endeavor to notify you first unless the situation is urgent (for example, to prevent abuse, address security issues, or respond to legal requirements).
Update, clarify, or amend these Terms. If we make a change to these Terms or any Other Terms that significantly affects your rights, we will endeavor to give you advance notice and an opportunity to review the change unless the situation is urgent. If you don’t agree with any updated terms, you should terminate your account and stop using the Services.
B.	What Genies expects from you
Follow all applicable rules. The permission we give you to use the Services lasts as long as you comply with: (1) these Terms; and (2) applicable Other Terms—which will be controlling if there is any conflict with these Terms—that may apply to specific uses of the Services. For example, you must follow the Community Guidelines, which are designed to foster a safe, welcoming, positive, and engaging community. We will let you know when additional terms apply to your use of the Services.
Provide true information. We may ask you for certain information from time to time, including to open an account with us, and when the law says we have to. You agree to give us true information only, and you understand that lying or not providing certain information may mean that you won’t be able to access or use certain Services.
Give feedback or suggest improvements, if you want. If you give us any comments, feedback, or suggestions, you agree that Genies may use those submissions without notice, payment, or any other obligation to you.
Pay any fees that you owe. Some of the Services may allow you to purchase items or require you to pay a fee, including a transaction fee for certain transactions. If so, you agree to pay the applicable purchase price, fees, and any taxes that you may owe as determined by Genies or third party service providers and under any applicable law. All payments and fees are final and non-refundable.
Make certain promises, also known as representations and warranties. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
- you have the rights and ability to enter into these Terms and any Other Terms;
- your use of the Services and performance under any Other Terms won’t violate any third party’s rights or applicable Laws.
- your use of the Services will be for your personal enjoyment only or for use as outlined in any Other Terms, but not for any investment purposes; and
- you are not located in, or a citizen or resident of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a terrorist supporting country, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you need information to be sure, please review this website.
To the extent you are a Creator, you further represent, warrant, and agree that:
- you are the sole and exclusive owner of Your Creations or, if not, you have all rights, consents, permissions, and authorizations necessary to grant Genies and the other Licensed Parties the rights hereunder (including all sublicense rights);
- Your Creations and the use thereof as set forth herein or in any Other Terms will not violate these Terms, Other Terms, any Laws or Platform Terms, or any rights (including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or rights of publicity) of any third party, or cause Genies or any other Licensed Parties to incur any additional fees; and
- if Your Creation uses any third party’s property (like logos, designs, brand names, or Digital Goods made by other users), such use is expressly permitted by the applicable rights holder or otherwise is permitted by fair use or other applicable Laws.
4.	USING GENIES SERVICES
A.	Age Requirements
To use the Services, you have to be at least 13 years old. If you are not legally considered an adult where you live, please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help; only they are allowed to agree to these Terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a minor to use the Services, then you agree these Terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their and your activity on the Services. You also are responsible for any transactions undertaken by you or the minor.
B.	Your Genies Account
You need an account with Genies to create, collect, buy, or sell Digital Goods using the Services. Only you are responsible for what happens on your account and for keeping your passwords and other account information private and safe. You are only allowed to have one account with Genies. If you think your account was hacked, stolen, or used without your permission, please email us at support@genies.com. If Genies removes or disables your account for any reason, you will only be allowed to create a new account by requesting permission via support@genies.com.
C.	Your Wallet
You may need to connect your account to a certain kind of digital wallet to create, collect, buy, or sell Authenticated Digital Goods using the Services. That wallet will be operated by a third party (i.e., not Genies). You are responsible for understanding how your wallet works, complying with applicable Platform Terms, and for keeping it safe. Genies is not responsible for your use of the wallet, including if anything in your wallet is lost or stolen.
D.	Authorized Entities
Sometimes, businesses or other organizations use the Services. To use the Services on behalf of a person, an organization or entity, you need to be an authorized representative of that person, organization or entity and you hereby agree to these Terms on its behalf.
E.	Digital Goods
If you wish to use the Services to create, buy, or sell Digital Goods, you may have to agree to additional terms that apply to those actions. For example, we may partner with people to make Digital Goods available to you, and those Digital Goods may come with extra terms and conditions. We may also work with you to create new Digital Goods under a separate agreement. If there are extra terms and conditions attached to any Digital Goods or that apply to any specific use of the Services, we will let you know before you purchase those Digital Goods or use the Services in that way.
F.	Silver Studio app
Some of the Services, like the Silver Studio app, include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the Services. The license we give you is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, which means there are no royalties paid to us for this license; and
- non-assignable, which means you can’t give it to someone else.
When you use the Silver Studio app, your phone carrier may charge you for data, text messages, push notifications, or other wireless access. You are responsible for paying those fees, if any. These messages or notifications may include information regarding your account or our products, Services, or promotions. The notifications may be delivered to your device even when the Silver Studio app is running in the background. You have the ability, and it is your responsibility, to control the notifications you do, or do not, receive through your device. It is your responsibility to keep your account information secure when using this feature. Additional terms related to these messages and notifications are here and are incorporated into these Terms.
If you are using the Silver Studio app from the Apple App Store, please keep the following in mind: These Terms are between you and Genies, not Apple. Genies is solely responsible for the Silver Studio app and any Content produced on it, and Apple has no obligation to help with any support or maintenance questions. You must comply with all applicable third-party terms of use when using the Silver Studio app, including all of Apple’s rules; if there are any conflicts between these Terms and the Apple App Store Terms of Service, the Apple App Store Terms of Service will apply. Apple is not responsible for your use of the Silver Studio app and won’t be liable for any related claims or losses. The license granted to you in these Terms to use the Silver Studio app is for your own use on Apple-branded products that you own or control. You can’t transfer the Silver Studio app or the Services to anyone else, but the Silver Studio app can be used or accessed by other accounts associated with you through family sharing or volume purchasing. If the Silver Studio app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the Silver Studio app to you, but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Silver Studio app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility. We are responsible for addressing any claims from you or any third party relating to the Silver Studio app including, but not limited to product liability claims, any claim that the Silver Studio app fails to conform to any Laws, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with the Silver Studio app’s use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks. In the event of any third party claim that the Silver Studio app or your possession and use of the Silver Studio app infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries to these Terms and have the right to enforce these Terms against you. If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Silver Studio app, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
G.	Promotions
Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to interpret the rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all participants in the Promotion. Genies reserves the right to disqualify any participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the rules of the Promotion. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time.
H.	Using Services Responsibly
You are responsible for your interactions with other users on the Services. Genies reserves the right to monitor interactions between users, but Genies is not obligated to do so, and cannot be held liable for your interactions with other users, or for any user’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release Genies and any other Licensed Parties from claims, and damages of every kind, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you waive any protections that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release.
We have to set some ground rules for the Services so that everyone can enjoy them and we can protect peoples’ rights. Therefore, you agree that:
You WILL:
- follow the Community Guidelines;
- treat Genies and any other Licensed Parties and all users of the Services with respect; and
- comply with all applicable Laws and Platform Terms.
You will NOT, unless you have Genies’ prior written permission or applicable Laws prohibit these restrictions:
- Share, download, copy, modify, license, distribute, transmit, or sell any information or Content you get from the Services, except for Digital Goods or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
- Try to duplicate, change, break, decompile, reverse engineer, decode, overwhelm, burden, damage, disrupt, impair, or negatively impact the Services or any other party’s access to the Services;
- Use any bots, mods, hacks, or unauthorized software in connection with the Services;
- Use or attempt to use another person’s account, wallet, or device without their permission;
- Use the Services for anything harmful, hateful, unethical, disruptive, fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, illegal, mean, immoral, or otherwise objectionable;
- Provide the Services to any third party;
- Use the Services in any way that’s not permitted by any applicable Terms; or
- Encourage or enable any other person to do any of the foregoing.
5.	CONTENT ON GENIES SERVICES
A. 	Genies Content
The Services include Our Creations that belong to Genies. As between you and Genies, Genies shall be and remain the sole owner of Our Creations. We give you permission to use Our Creations, including our templates for Digital Goods, to make, upload, and share Your Creations on the Services, subject to these Terms and any Other Terms, but we (or our licensors, as applicable) retain all IP in Our Creations. You agree not to do anything to violate, infringe upon, or misappropriate our IP/Our Creations.
B.	Digital Goods
If you lawfully purchase, acquire or own a Digital Good and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you hold the Digital Good, you may (i) use the Digital Good in and as permitted by the Services; and (ii) post copies of the Digital Good on your social media account (which posts may remain active even after you no longer hold the Digital Good).
C.	Authenticated Digital Goods and Avatars
If you lawfully purchase, acquire or own an Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar and comply with these Terms (and any applicable Other Terms), for as long as you own the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar, you may, in addition to exercising the rights granted above to holders of Digital Goods, (i) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar in connection with any third-party website or application (such as a metaverse platform) that allows you to use your Digital Good; (ii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar to create DIYs; (iii) use the Authenticated Digital Good or Avatar outside the Services for both commercial and non-commercial purposes; and (iv) market and sell the Authenticated Digital Good, including its associated NFT, or Avatar, on the Services or any marketplace that honors the collection and payment of creator royalties.
D.	Your Creations
As a Creator, you own the IP in Your Creations. However, you grant Genies and all other Licensed Parties, including Genies’ users, permission to use Your Creations as set forth in the license below.
Scope. Unless otherwise agreed by Genies in writing, the scope of the license you grant to Genies and all other Licensed Parties to use Your Creations is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world;
- non-exclusive, meaning you can give the same license to other people;
- royalty-free, meaning there are no royalties owed to you for this license (and, for the sake of clarity, Genies may, but has no obligation to, provide or offer you compensation for, or opportunities for you to monetize, Your Creations); and
- irrevocable, meaning you can’t take it back.
Rights. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may (but are not obligated to):
- copy, use, transmit, broadcast, reproduce, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Creations, including to save on our systems and show or make publicly available to other users;
- modify and prepare derivative works based upon Your Creations, including to edit them or make new versions of them;
- associate Your Creations with, or link Your Creations to, NFTs or other digital assets that may be bought, sold, or transferred through the Services;
- otherwise use, distribute, commercialize, and exploit Your Creations; and
- sublicense, meaning grant these rights to other users of the Services or other third parties.
(collectively, the “Rights”).
Purpose. Genies and all other Licensed Parties may exercise the Rights for any lawful purpose including, without limitation, the purposes of:
- operating and improving the Services, including to provide the Services to you and others, allow the Services to work as intended, and create new features and functionalities; and
- promoting and marketing Genies and all other Licensed Parties, the Services, their businesses, Our Creations and Your Creations (including but not limited to any of your Digital Goods).
Duration. The license above continues for as long as Your Creations are protected by intellectual property laws.
E.	Other People’s Content
The Services may give you access to Content that belongs to other people or organizations. You can use that Content in and as permitted by the Services, these Terms and any Other Terms, but you can’t use it in any other way without the owner’s permission.
F.	Infringing Content
If you believe that any user-generated Content, links, or other material made available through the Services violates your copyright, please submit a notification in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, to Genies’ DMCA Agent:
Attn: Genies, Inc., DMCA Agent
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Notices related to trademarks, right of publicity, or IP matters may be sent to the same recipient.
If any of Your Creations are taken down after we receive a DMCA notice, you can send a counter-notification as laid out in section 512(g) of the DMCA, and we may re-post Your Creations in question.
We, in our discretion, when it’s appropriate, will disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe IP.
6.	ISSUES, CLAIMS, RISKS, AND DISPUTES
A.	Warranty Disclaimer
We work continuously to improve the Services and meet your needs. However, for legal reasons, we offer the Services without warranties unless specifically stated in Other Terms. The law says we need to explain this with specific language in capital letters. Here is that explanation: WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
B.	Assumptions of Risk
Using blockchain technology, including NFTs and digital wallets, can raise certain risks. For example, you might lose your NFTs, and some countries might make rules that restrict the use of NFTs. These Terms don’t include a complete list of risks associated with blockchain technology. You understand and accept the risks associated with your use of blockchain technology and that Genies won’t be liable to you for any resulting harm or losses.
You understand that certain portions of the Services are made possible by third parties including wallet providers, payment processors, and decentralized networks. You agree that Genies does not control any third parties and won’t be responsible for any losses or harm that they cause either directly or indirectly.
C.	Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited. Genies is only liable for breaches of these Terms or Other Terms. In no event will Genies or any other Licensed Party be responsible for any loss of profits, business opportunities, or good will, indirect or consequential losses, punitive or exemplary damages, or losses or damages arising from your use or inability to use the Services or any blockchain technology.
Genies and all Licensed Parties’ total liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms is limited to the greater of (1) one hundred dollars ($100) or (2) the fees you paid to Genies Inc. to use the relevant Services in the twelve (12) months before the Dispute.
Genies will not be required to give you any virtual currency or cryptocurrency as damages at any time. If you try to base your damages on the value of any virtual currency or cryptocurrency, the monetary damages calculation will be based on the lowest value of that currency between the initial incident and the award of damages.
This section applies to the fullest extent allowed by applicable Law regardless of the nature of our Dispute and regardless of whether other terms have been breached. If any specific portion of this section doesn’t apply, the rest of this section will still apply.
D.	What Happens if You Break Genies’ Rules
Before we take any action described below, we’ll try to give you notice unless doing so would cause someone else harm, compromise the Services, or violate any Law. If you violate the Law, these Terms or any Other Terms and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we give up any rights that we may have. We may take appropriate action in the future.
If Your Creations violate these terms, any Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person, we may remove Your Creations.
We have the right to terminate your account and your access to the Services if you avoid paying any fees that you owe or you violate these Terms, Other Terms or Law, or the rights of another person. If this happens, any license granted to you in connection with the Services are terminated immediately, and you won’t be entitled to any refunds. We also reserve the right to terminate any other accounts you may create or have created.
	E.	Indemnification
If someone sues Genies or any other Licensed Party because of your misconduct or your use of the Services, you have to pay for defense and legal fees. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Genies and all other Licensed Parties harmless from and against any third-party claims asserted against any of them arising out of or relating to your use or actual or alleged misuse of the Services, violation of these Terms or any Other Terms, or your negligence or misconduct. This applies to all liabilities or expenses arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
7.	RESOLVING DISPUTES; AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS. IT CONTAINS PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
A.	Governing Law and Venue
California law governs, and the venue for any Dispute is Los Angeles, California. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and we expressly agree to adjudicate any claim or Dispute between us arising from or related to the Terms, the Services, or Your Creations exclusively by a state or federal court or arbitral tribunal located in Los Angeles County, California, except as described in the Agreement to Arbitrate or as otherwise mutually agreed by the parties. You and we further acknowledge and agree that this Agreement to Arbitrate affects interstate commerce and that the Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to arbitrations under this Agreement to Arbitrate (despite any other choice of law provision).
B.	Informal Resolution Process
In an effort to help us get to a resolution faster and reduce the costs for both parties, you and Genies agree to first attempt to informally negotiate any Dispute for at least thirty (30) days. Those informal negotiations will start on the day you or Genies receive a written notice of a Dispute as set out below. For the avoidance of doubt, Genies’ decision to suspend or terminate this agreement and/or your access to any Content or any part of the Services if Genies determines you violate any provision of these Terms or any Other Terms is not subject to any informal negotiation process.
If you have a Dispute with us, you will send written notice to Genies, Inc. ATTN: NOTICE OF DISPUTE, 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069 in order to give us the opportunity to resolve the Dispute through informal negotiation. Include your name, account name, or registered email address you use to access the Services, your address, how to contact you, what the problem is, and what you want us to do about it. If we have a Dispute with you, we will send our notice of the Dispute to your registered email address and any billing address you have provided us.
Small claims court is an acceptable alternative. Instead of commencing an arbitration, you or we may also bring claims in your local “small claims” court if the rules applicable to that court allow it. Otherwise, the Dispute must be resolved by binding, individual arbitration.
C.	Disputes We Both Agree to Arbitrate
Background on Arbitration: Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution process that allows you and us to try to resolve Disputes without the formality or expense of litigating in court. Arbitration is often faster and less expensive than formal litigation. Disputes that are subject to arbitration are submitted to a neutral arbitrator, who has the power to award the same damages and relief that a court can,, instead of being presented in court to a judge or a jury. If you wish to opt-out of this binding individual arbitration requirement, you must comply with the opt-out process set forth in the “Opt-Out Right” section below. This binding individual arbitration requirement will not apply to the extent prohibited by the Laws of your country of residence.
Disputes between us will be resolved through binding, individual arbitration. Except as expressly provided herein, you and we agree that any Dispute that cannot be resolved through the procedures set forth above will be resolved through binding arbitration on an individual basis. Class actions and class arbitrations are not allowed. You may bring a claim only on behalf of yourself and cannot seek relief that would affect other users of the services. If there is a final judicial ruling that any particular claim (or a request for particular relief) cannot be arbitrated in accordance with these Terms, then only that particular claim or request for relief may be brought in court. All other claims (or requests for relief) remain subject to this provision. Questions of arbitrability—that is, whether a particular claim is subject to arbitration—shall be resolved by an arbitrator in arbitration.
D.	Arbitration Rules and Procedure
AAA or ICDR rules apply. All Disputes between the parties arising hereunder shall be resolved by arbitration conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), in accordance with the then-current AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single retired judge or professional arbitrator with relevant subject-matter experience. The arbitration shall be conducted at a mutually agreed upon location that is reasonably convenient to both parties. If we are unable to agree upon a mutually convenient location within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration, the determination shall be made by AAA. The arbitration shall allow for the discovery or exchange of non-privileged information relevant to the Dispute. Any arbitral award shall consist of a written statement stating the disposition of each claim or Dispute and provide a concise written statement of the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based. Judgment upon any arbitral award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitration hearing shall be within ninety (90) days, which time period can be modified by the tribunal in its discretion or at the request of any party. The tribunal is under no obligation to modify this time period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) you or we may participate in the arbitration by videoconference, phone, and/or document submission to the fullest extent allowable by the arbitrator; and (ii) if you are outside of the United States, the arbitration will be conducted by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution ("ICDR") in accordance with its International Expedited Procedures. If there is a conflict between AAA Rules (or, as applicable, the ICDR rules) and the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate, the rules set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate will govern.
To initiate an arbitration, you or we must take the following steps:
(1) Write a Demand for Arbitration. The demand must include, among other things, a description of the claim and the amount of damages sought to be recovered. You can find a copy of a Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org.
(2) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration, one copy of these Terms, plus the appropriate filing fee to: American Arbitration Association, Case Filing Services, 1101 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 100 Voorhees, NJ 08043.
(3) Send one copy of the Demand for Arbitration to the other party.
The arbitration will be decided by a sole arbitrator. In all cases, there shall be one (1) arbitrator, who will be agreed to by the parties within thirty (30) days of receipt by respondent of a copy of the demand for arbitration. If no single arbitrator can be agreed upon by the parties, the arbitrator shall be selected in accordance with the rules of AAA.
Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA’s rules. If, however, you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, Genies will pay as much of the filing, administration, and arbitrator fees as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive for you. If the arbitrator determines the claim(s) you assert in the arbitration are frivolous, you agree to reimburse Genies for all fees associated with the arbitration that Genies paid on your behalf, which you otherwise would be obligated to pay under the AAA’s rules.
Arbitration proceedings are confidential. Except as may be required by Law, the parties shall preserve the confidentiality of all aspects of the arbitration, and shall not disclose to a third party (other than disclosure to the affiliates of a party on a need-to-know basis and such affiliates are informed of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential), any or all information made known and documents produced in the arbitration not otherwise in the public domain, all evidence and materials created for the purpose of the arbitration, and all awards arising from the arbitration, except, and to the extent that disclosure is required by Law, is required to protect or pursue a legal right or is required to enforce or challenge an award in legal proceedings before a court or other competent judicial authority.
E.	Class Action Waiver and Jury Trial Waiver
You waive the right to bring a class action. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NO ARBITRATION OR OTHER CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS WILL BE JOINED TO ANY OTHER ARBITRATION OR CLAIM, INCLUDING ANY ARBITRATION OR CLAIM INVOLVING ANY OTHER CURRENT OR FORMER USER OF THE SERVICES, AND NO CLASS, COLLECTIVE, AND/OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PERMITTED. Unless both you and Genies agree otherwise, no arbitrator may consolidate or join more than one person’s or party’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a consolidated, representative, or class proceeding. The arbitrator may award any relief permitted by applicable Law only with respect the individual party seeking relief, but to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, may not award relief against either party respecting any person other than that individual party seeking relief. In the event that this Class Action Waiver is deemed unenforceable with respect to any particular claim otherwise subject to arbitration, then that claim will not proceed in arbitration but rather will be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction. If that occurs, however, this Agreement to Arbitrate and this Class Action Waiver still will be fully enforceable as to all other claims, which must be resolved in arbitration on an individual basis.
You and we expressly waive the right to a trial by judge or jury. YOU AND WE AGREE AND UNDERSTAND THAT, BY USING ARBITRATION TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, YOU AND WE ARE GIVING UP ANY RIGHT THAT YOU OR WE MAY HAVE TO A JUDGE OR JURY TRIAL WITH REGARD TO ALL CLAIMS SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE. YOU AND WE FURTHER AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM HEARD IN A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION WILL BE HEARD BY A JUDGE INSTEAD OF A JURY, EXCEPT WHERE A JURY TRIAL WAIVER IS NOT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Actions. You and we understand and agree that, regardless of any statute or other Law to the contrary, any Dispute or other claim against you or us must be filed within two (2) years after such Dispute or claim arose or will be forever barred.
F.	Opt-Out Right
You have the right to opt out of this binding individual arbitration requirement and class action waiver. If you do not wish to be bound by the binding individual arbitration and class action waiver in these Terms, you must notify us in writing of your decision to opt-out within thirty (30) days of the date that you first agree to these Terms or, if we make any changes to this Agreement to Arbitrate which alter your rights, within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such revision to this Agreement to Arbitrate, unless a longer period is required by applicable Law. Your written notification must be sent, postage prepaid, to Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069, Attention: Genies Legal Department. Such notice must include: (1) your full name; (2) your mailing address; (3) your account name, if you have one; and (4) and a clear statement of your intent to opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate. Any opt-out request that is incomplete or received after such deadline will be ineffective and this Agreement to Arbitrate will remain in full force and effect, except as expressly provided above. If you opt-out of this Agreement to Arbitrate, we also will not be bound by the terms of this Agreement to Arbitrate.
7.	MISCELLANEOUS
You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written permission. Genies may assign or transfer any of our rights or obligations hereunder without your permission and without notice to you.
If any clause within these Terms is found to be invalid, unenforceable, void, voidable, or illegal, that clause will be severed and the remainder of this Dispute Resolution section will be given full force and effect.
These Terms, together with Other Terms, represent the entire agreement between you and Genies and supersede any prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral, between you and Genies.
All provisions of these Terms that would reasonably be expected to survive the termination of this agreement including, without limitation, those related to IP, limitation of liability, and indemnification, will do so.
Effective April 18, 2023 to July 10, 2023
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Genies Terms of Service
Last Updated: April 18, 2023
ARBITRATION NOTICE: Section 5 below has some important rules about how we resolve disputes. If you have an issue with us, you agree to resolve it through private arbitration not court. You also agree to resolve any such issue on your own and not as part of a group or class with other users of our Services. You may, however, opt out of arbitration, as explained in Section 5.
DEFINITIONS
a.	“Digital Goods” mean digital characters like avatars or virtual items like clothing and accessories for avatars.
b.	“DIYs” mean Digital Goods created with our tools by modifying other Digital Goods.
c.	“Genies Templates” means templates of Digital Goods that Genies provides for you to make Your Creations.
d. 	“NFTs” means Digital Goods may be minted as non-fungible tokens implemented on a blockchain (such as FLOW) which uses smart contracts to link or associate the token with certain digital content.
e.	“NFT Digital Good” means a Digital Good that is associated or linked through NFTs with Your Creation.
f.	“Terms” means this Terms of Service Agreement, including any addendums you may enter into with Genies.
g.	“Services” means Genies mobile applications (like the Genies app), Genies websites (like genies.com and warehouse.genies.com) and related tools, technical products, and documentation.
h. 	“Your Creations” means any videos, pictures, text and other content you submit, upload and share using the Services or any Digital Goods you create or acquire (which includes but not limited to also gifting or purchasing) using the Services.
i. 	“Other Terms” means individually or collectively Genies Privacy Policy, Genies SMS Text Terms and Conditions, Genies Community Guidelines and any other Genies terms and policies that are linked to and a part of these Terms.
j.	“Promotions” means all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions sponsored by Genies.
k. 	“Participants” means users that are participating in Promotions.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Genies! We provide you with the tools, features, and Services that let you design and personalize your dream outfits and digital characters. You can use our Services to create, buy, sell, and display Digital Goods, NFT Digital Goods, and DIYs.
Please read these Terms. We know that reading them is not the most fun thing to do, but these Terms, together with any other terms or policies that are incorporated into these Terms, define your relationship with Genies as you interact with our Services. For example, these Terms explain: (1) what you can expect from Genies; (2) what Genies expects from you; (3) who can do what with Your Creations and on Genies’ Services; and (4) how we will resolve any disputes. It’s important that you read and understand these Terms because, by using our Services, you’re agreeing to these Terms. By accepting these Terms you also accept to modify any previous versions of the Genies terms of service
We publish a Privacy Policy which explains what information we collect and why, how we use it, and how you can update, manage, and delete it. We recommend that you read it to better understand how we collect and use the information we may collect.
Genies’ Services are provided by, and you are entering into a binding agreement with, Genies, Inc., located at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069. When we say “Genies,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in these Terms, we mean Genies, Inc. and its affiliates which may be any entity majority owned by Genies, Genies employees, and Geniescorporate officers and company directors.
YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GENIES
What you can expect from Genies
Provide Services. We offer a range of Services and use of these Services is governed by these Terms.
Update, develop, and enhance Services. We may develop new technology or features that improve or modify our Services. To that end, we may add or remove certain features, functionalities, or Services. If we make a significant change that impacts your use of our Services, or if we stop offering a service altogether, we will endeavor to notify you first unless the situation is urgent (for example, to prevent abuse, address security issues, or respond to legal requirements).
Update, clarify, or amend these Terms. If we make a change to these Terms or any other Other Terms that significantly affects your rights, we will endeavor to give you advance notice and an opportunity to review the change unless the situation is urgent. If you don’t agree with any updated terms, you should remove your Your Creations, terminate your account, and stop using the Services.
What Genies expects from you
Follow all of the applicable rules. The permission we give you to use our Services lasts as long as you comply with: (1) these Terms and (2) Other Terms, which will be controlling if there is any conflict with these Terms—that apply to specific uses of our Services, like our community guidelines, which are designed to foster a safe, welcoming, positive, and engaging community. We will let you know when additional terms apply to your use of the Services.
Provide true information. We may ask you for certain information from time to time, including to open an account with us when the law says we have to. You agree to give us true information only, and you understand that lying or not providing certain information may mean that you won’t be able to access or use certain Services.
Give feedback or suggest improvements, if you want to. If you give us any comments, feedback, or suggestions, you agree that Genies may use them without notice, payment, or any other obligation to you.
Pay any fees that you owe. Some of our Services may allow you to make a purchase or require you to pay a fee, including a transaction fee for certain transactions. If so, you agree to pay the applicable purchase price, fees, and any taxes that you may owe as determined by Genies or third party service providers and under any applicable law. All payments and fees are final and non-refundable.
Make certain promises, also known as representations and warranties. By using our Services, you represent and warrant that:
- you have the rights and ability to enter into this agreement with Genies;
- your use of the Services won’t violate any third party’s rights or applicable law;
- your use of the Services will not be for investment purposes;
- you are not located in, or a citizen or resident of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a terrorist supporting country, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you need information to be sure, please review this website.
USING GENIES SERVICES
Age Requirements
To use our Services, you have to be at least 13 years old. If you are not an adult where you live, please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help; only they are allowed to agree to these Terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a minor to use the Services, then you agree these Terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their and your activity on the Services. You also are responsible for any use by the minor, including any transactions.
Your Genies Account
You need an account with Genies to create, collect, buy, or sell Digital Goods using our Services. Only you are responsible for what happens on your account, and keep your passwords and other account information private and safe. You are only allowed to have one account with Genies. If you think your account was hacked, stolen, or used without your permission, please email us at support@genies.com. If Genies removes or disables your account for any reason, you will only be allowed to create a new account by requesting permission via support@genies.com.
Your Wallet
You may need to connect your account to a certain kind of digital wallet to create, collect, buy, or sell NFT Digital Goods using our Services. That wallet will be operated by a third party (i.e., not Genies), Dapper Labs. To use that wallet, you must agree to their terms and conditions. You are responsible for understanding how your wallet works and keeping it safe. Genies is not responsible for your use of the wallet, including if anything in your wallet is lost or stolen.
Your Organization or Entity
Sometimes, businesses or other organizations use our Services. To use our Services on behalf of an organization or entity, you need to be an authorized representative of the organization or entity and agree to these Terms on its behalf.
Genies App
Some of our Services, like the Genies app, include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the Services. The license we give you is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people
- royalty-free, which means there are no fees for this license
- non-assignable, which means you can’t give it to someone else
When you use the Genies app, your phone carrier may charge you for data, text messages, push notifications, or other wireless access. You are responsible for paying those fees, if any. These messages or notifications may include information regarding your account or our products, Services, or promotions. The notifications may be delivered to your device even when the Genies app is running in the background. You have the ability, and it is your responsibility, to control the notifications you do, or do not, receive through your device. It is your responsibility to keep your account information secure when using this feature. Additional terms related to these messages and notifications are here and are incorporated into these Terms.
If you are using the Genies app from the Apple App Store, please keep the following in mind: These Terms are between you and Genies, not Apple. Genies is solely responsible for the Genies app and any content produced on it, and Apple has no obligation to help with any support or maintenance questions. You must comply with all applicable third-party terms of use when using the Genies app, including all of Apple’s rules; if there are any conflicts between these Terms and the Apple AppStore Terms of Service, the Apple App Store Terms of Service will apply. Apple is not responsible for your use of the Genies app and won’t be liable for any related claims or losses. The license granted to you in these Terms to use the Genies app is for your own use on Apple-branded products that you own or control. You can’t transfer the Genies app or the Services to anyone else, but the Genies app can be used or accessed by other accounts associated with you through family sharing or volume purchasing. If the Genies app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the Genies app to you, but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Genies app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility. We are responsible for addressing any claims from you or any third party relating to the Genies app including, but not limited to product liability claims, any claim that the Genies app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with the Genies app’s use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks. In the event of any third party claim that the Genies app or your possession and use of the Genies app infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries to these Terms and have the right to enforce these Terms against you. If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Genies app, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
Promotions
Genies reserves the right in its sole discretion to interpret the rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all Participants in the Promotion. Genies reserves the right to disqualify any Participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the rules of the Promotion. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time.
Limitations on Use
We have to set some ground rules for the Services so that everyone can enjoy them and we can protect peoples’ rights. Therefore, you agree that:
You WILL:
- treat Genies and all users of our Services with respect; and
- comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
You will NOT:
- Share, copy, or sell any information or content you get from the Services, unless Other Terms specifically allow it
- Try to change, break, or negatively impact the Services
- Use any bots, mods, hacks, or unauthorized software in connection with the Services
- Use or attempt to use another person’s account or wallet
- Use the Services for anything harmful, hateful, illegal, mean, or immoral
- Use the Services in any way that’s not permitted by Other Terms
- Provide the Services to any third party
- Encourage or enable others to do any of the foregoing
CONTENT ON GENIES SERVICES
Digital Goods and Other Content
If you use our Services to create, buy, or sell Digital Goods, you may have to agree to additional terms that apply to those actions. If you previously created Digital Goods that were gifted or sold on our Services, our Genies Seller Addendum contains additional terms related to those Digital Goods. We cover some of those terms below, for your convenience.
We use technology called blockchain and NFTs to prove and record who owns each NFT Digital Good. NFTs are like certificates of authenticity or receipts for NFT Digital Goods. Each NFT Digital Good is linked to its own NFT on a blockchain. When we talk about buying or selling an NFT, we mean buying or selling the token that proves ownership of that NFT Digital Good .
Sometimes, we partner with people to make Digital Goods available to you, and those Digital Goods may come with extra terms and conditions. For example, you may not be allowed to make DIYs of certain Digital Goods. If there are extra terms and conditions attached to any Digital Goods, we’ll let you know before you buy them.
Unless we agree otherwise in a separate document, you agree to give Genies a license to use Your Creations as detailed in the User Content License below. If you list Your Creations for sale, you also agree to give subsequent owners of Your Creations the Digital Goods License below.
User Content License
If you buy a Digital Good from us, you own the underlying Digital Good and you get a license to use the Digital Good, but you do not own the copyright in the Digital Good. That said, as long as you comply with theseTerms and Other Terms, you can use the Digital Good in connection with a third-party website or application (such as a metaverse platform) that allows for the inclusion or participation of your Digital Good and to create Digital Goods in accordance with these Terms and Other Terms .For NFT Digital Goods, as long as you comply with the Terms and Other Terms if you own the NFT for that Digital, you can use the NFT Digital Good to market and sell the underlying NFT on a marketplace that honors creator royalties to Genies.
Your Content
You do not have to provide Your Creations to use our Services, but some of our Services allow you to make Your Creations publicly available.
You will keep any intellectual property rights you have in Your Creations but you give us permission to use them as set forth in the license below, which we call the user content license. It covers Your Creations and any other content you submit or post using the Services if they are protected by intellectual property rights.
User Content License:
The scope of the license is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people
- royalty-free, meaning there are no fees for this license
- irrevocable, meaning you can’t take it back
Rights. Genies may:
- copy, use, transmit, reproduce, and publicly display Your Creations, including to save on our systems and show or make publicly available to other users
- modify and prepare derivative works based upon Your Creations, including to edit them or make new versions of them
- associate Your Creations with, or link Your Creations to, NFTs or other digital assets that may be bought, sold, or transferred through the Services
- sublicense, meaning grant these rights to other users of the Services or other third parties
Purpose. Genies may exercise these right for the purposes of:
- operating and improving our Services, including to provide our Services to you and others, allow our Services to work as intended, and create new features and functionalities
- promoting and marketing Genies,, our Services, our businesses, and Your Creations (including but not limited to your name, brand, likeness and any of your Digital Goods),
Duration.
The User Content License continues for as long as Your Creations are protected by intellectual property rights.
If Your Creation uses any third party’s intellectual property (like logos, designs, brand names, or Digital Goods made by other users), you agree that you will only use that intellectual property as expressly permitted by the applicable owner.
If you choose to upload or share any content such as pictures, animations or text, you agree that the content is your own or, if not, you have the rights necessary to use the content, and that use of your content will not violate any laws.
Genies Content
Some of our Services include content that belongs to Genies. (for example, Genies Templates). We give you permission to use our content, including Genies Templates, to make Your Creations, in accordance with these terms and any Other Terms, but we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the Genies Templates and other Genies content.
Our Services also include logos, text, content, information, and tools that are protected by copyright or trademark or other laws. We, or the people who give us permission to use those things, own all rights in them, and you agree not to do anything to violate those rights.
Other People’s Content
Our Services may give you access to content that belongs to other people or organizations. You can use that content as allowed by these Terms and any other Other Terms, but you can’t use it in any other way without the owner’s permission.
Infringing Content
If you believe that any user-generated content or other material made available through the Services violates your copyright, please submit a notification in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, to Genies’ DMCA Agent:
Attn: Genies, Inc., DMCA Agent
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Notices related to trademarks, right of publicity, or other intellectual property matters may be sent to the same recipient.
If any of Your Creations are taken down after we receive a DMCA notice, you can send a counter-notification as laid out in section 512(g) of the DMCA, and we may re-post Your Creations in question.
We, in our discretion, when it’s appropriate, will disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual property rights of other people.
Use of Service
You are responsible for your interactions with other users on the Service. Genies reserves the right to monitor interactions between users, but Genies is not obligated to do so, and cannot be held liable for your interactions with other users, or for any user’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release Genies and its affiliates from claims, and damages of every kind, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release You waive any protections that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release.
As a result, you may not do any of the following in connection with your use of the Services unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions or you have Genies prior written permission to do so:
a.	download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, license, offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display purposes, and Digital Goods or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
b.	duplicate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or decode the Services
c.	use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, modifications (mods) or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to establish Accounts, perform any transaction on the Services, or modify or make use of the Services in any way;
d.	access or use the Services or Digital Goods in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, disrupt or impair the Services or interfere with any other party’s access to or use of the Services or use any device, software or routine that causes the same;
e.	attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt the Services, accounts registered to other users, or the computer systems or networks connected to the Services;
f.	use the Services for illegal, harassing, bullying, unethical or disruptive purposes, or otherwise use the Services in a manner that is fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, hateful or otherwise objectionable;
h.	violate any applicable law or regulation in connection with your access to or use of the Services; or
i.	access or use the Services in any way not expressly permitted by these Terms.
ISSUES, CLAIMS, AND DISPUTES
Warranty Disclaimer
We work continuously to improve our Services and meet your needs. However, for legal reasons, we offer our Services without warranties unless specifically stated in Other Terms. The law says we need to explain this with specific language in capital letters. Here is that explanation: WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
Assumptions of Risk
Using blockchain technology, including NFTs and wallets, can raise certain risks. For example, you might lose your NFTs, and some countries might make rules that restrict the use of NFTs. These Terms don’t include a complete list of risks associated with blockchain technology. You understand and accept the risks associated with your use of blockchain technology and that Genies won’t be liable to you for any resulting harm or losses.
You understand that certain portions of our Services are made possible by third parties including wallet providers like Dapper Labs, payment processors, and decentralized networks. You agree that Genies does not control any third parties and won’t be responsible for any losses or harm that they cause either directly or indirectly.
Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited. Genies is only liable for breaches of these Terms or Other Terms. In no event will Genies be responsible for any loss of profits, business opportunities, or good will, indirect or consequential losses, punitive or exemplary damages, or losses or damages arising from your use or inability to use our Services or any blockchain technology.
Genies’ total liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms is limited to the greater of (1) one hundred dollars ($100) or (2) the fees you paid to Genies to use the relevant Services in the twelve (12) months before the dispute.
Genies will not be required to give you any virtual currency or cryptocurrency as damages at any time. If you try to base your damages on the value of any virtual currency or cryptocurrency, the monetary damages calculation will be based on the lowest value of that currency between the initial incident and the award of damages.
This section applies to the fullest extent allowed by applicable law regardless of the nature of our dispute and regardless of whether other terms have been breached. If any specific portion of this section doesn’t apply, the rest of this section will still apply.
Indemnification
If someone sues Genies because of your misconduct, you have to pay for Genies’ defense and legal fees. In other words, you agree to defend and indemnify Genies and its affiliates for any third-party claims asserted against Genies arising out of or relating to your use or misuse of the Services or violation of these Terms or any Other Terms. This applies to all liabilities or expenses arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
What Happens if You Break Genies’ Rules
Before we take any action described below, we’ll try to give you notice unless doing so would cause someone else harm, compromise our Services, or violate any law. If you violate these Terms or any Other Terms and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we give up any rights that we may have. We may take appropriate action in the future.
If Your Creations violate these terms, any Other Terms terms or law, or the rights of another person, we may remove Your Creations.
We have the right to terminate your account and your access to our Services if you avoid paying any fees that you owe or you violate these Terms, other Other Terms or law, or the rights of another person. If this happens, any license granted to you in connection with our Services are terminated immediately, and you won’t be entitled to any refunds. We also reserve the right to terminate any other accounts you may create or have created.
Resolving Disputes
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS. IT CONTAINS PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
If we have a dispute, we will deal with it one-on-one, meaning you can’t join together with other people who have similar issues to file a lawsuit or start arbitration. You and Genies agree that each of us may bring claims against the other only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative action or proceeding. In an effort to resolve any dispute, you and Genies agree to first attempt to informally negotiate a resolution for at least thirty (30) days, except for any disputes: (1) seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any party’s intellectual property rights; (2) any disputes related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy or unauthorized use; and (3) any claim for equitable relief (such as an injunction).
Except as provided below, all disputes between us will be resolved by arbitration, meaning they will be decided by a neutral third party and not by a sitting judge or jury. The American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) will administer the arbitration and will do so according to its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”). You can see the AAA Rules and filing forms online at www.adr.org. These Terms are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
Instead of arbitration, you and Genies may bring an individual action in small claims court.
If for any reason they are not subject to arbitration, disputes between us will be resolved in the federal or state courts of Los Angeles, California. Except as provided above, you and Genies agree that exclusive jurisdiction or location for all disputes that you and Genies are not required to arbitrate will be the state and federal courts located in the Los Angeles County, California, and you and Genies each waive any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
California law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms, Other Terms, or any claims related to the Services, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.
If it turns out that any portion of these Terms or other Other Terms is not enforceable, you and Genies agree that the rest of the terms will still apply.
If you don’t agree to arbitrate any disputes, you can opt-out of this section of these Terms by sending an email about your decision to requests@genies.com, but you have to do so within thirty (30) days of starting to use our Services.
You can only start a dispute or file any cause of action against Genies within one year of the occurrence giving rise to such claim. Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any dispute arising out of or relating, either directly or indirectly, to these Terms or the Services must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or will be forever barred.
Effective March 31, 2023 to April 18, 2023
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Genies Terms of Service
Last Updated: March 29, 2023
ARBITRATION NOTICE: Section 5 below has some important rules about how we resolve disputes. If you have an issue with us, you agree to resolve it through private arbitration not court. You also agree to resolve any such issue on your own and not as part of a group or class with other users of our services. You may, however, opt out of arbitration, as explained in Section 5.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Genies! We provide you with the tools, features, and services that let you design and personalize your dream outfits and digital characters. You can use our services to create, buy, sell, and display digital characters called “Avatars” and virtual items like clothing and accessories for Avatars, which we call “Digital Goods.” You may even use Digital Goods to create new Digital Goods, which we call “DIYs.”
Please read these terms of service (“Terms”). We know that reading them is not the most fun thing to do, but these Terms, together with any other terms or policies linked in these Terms, define your relationship with Genies as you interact with our services. For example, these explain: (1) what you can expect from Genies; (2) what Genies expects from you; (3) who can do what with the content on Genies’ services; and (4) how we will resolve any disputes. It’s important that you read and understand these Terms because, by using our services, you’re agreeing to these Terms.
We also publish a Privacy Policy which explains what information we collect and why, how we use it, and how you can update, manage, and delete it. We recommend that you read it to better understand how we collect and use the information we may collect.
Genies’ services are provided by, and you are entering into a binding agreement with, Genies, Inc., located at 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069. When we say “Genies,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in these Terms, we mean Genies, Inc. and its affiliates.
YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GENIES
What you can expect from Genies
Provide services. We offer a range of services, including mobile applications (like the Genies app), websites (like genies.com and warehouse.genies.com), and related tools, technical products, services, and documentation. Use of these services is governed by these Terms.
Update, develop, and enhance services. We may develop new technology or features that improve or modify our services. To that end, we may add or remove certain features, functionalities, or services. If we make a significant change that impacts your use of our services, or if we stop offering a service altogether, we will endeavor to notify you first unless the situation is urgent (for example, to prevent abuse, address security issues, or respond to legal requirements).
Update, clarify, or amend these Terms. If we make a change to these Terms or any other applicable terms that significantly affects your rights, we will endeavor to give you advance notice and an opportunity to review the change unless the situation is urgent. If you don’t agree with any updated terms, you should remove your content, terminate your account, and stop using the services.
What Genies expects from you
Follow all of the applicable rules. The permission we give you to use our services lasts as long as you comply with: (1) these Terms; (2) other terms—which will be controlling if there is any conflict with these Terms—that apply to specific uses of our services like participating contests or buying, selling, and creating Digital Gods, if you choose to use our services that way; and (3) our community guidelines, which are designed to foster a safe, welcoming, positive, and engaging community. We will let you know when additional terms apply to your use of the services.
Provide true information. We may ask you for certain information from time to time, including to open an account with us when the law says we have to. You agree to give us true information only, and you understand that lying or not providing certain information may mean that you won’t be able to access or use certain services.
Give feedback or suggest improvements, if you want to. If you give us any comments, feedback, or suggestions, you agree that Genies may use them without notice, payment, or any other obligation to you.
Pay any fees that you owe. Some of our services may allow you to make a purchase or require you to pay a fee, including a transaction fee for certain transactions. If so, you agree to pay the applicable purchase price, fees, and any taxes that may you owe under any applicable law. All payments and fees are final and non-refundable.
Make certain promises, also known as “representations and warranties.” By using our services, you represent and warrant that:
- you have the rights and ability to enter into this agreement with Genies;
- your use of the services won’t violate any third party’s rights or applicable law;
- your use of the services, including any Digital Goods and Avatars, is intended for, and will only be for, your individual, entertainment purposes, and not for any investment or commercial purposes;
- you are not located in, or a citizen or resident of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. If you need information to be sure, please review this website.
USING GENIES SERVICES
Age Requirements
To use our services, you have to be at least 13 years old. If you’re not an adult where you live, please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help; only they are allowed to agree to these Terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a minor to use the services, then you agree these Terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their and your activity on the services. You also are responsible for all use by the minor, including any transactions.
Your Genies Account
You need an account with Genies to create, collect, buy, or sell Digital Goods using our services. Only you are responsible for what happens on your account, and keep your passwords and other account information private and safe. You are only allowed to have one account with Genies. If you think your account was hacked, stolen, or used without your permission, please email us at support@genies.com. If Genies removes or disables your account for any reason, you will only be allowed to create a new account by requesting permission via support@genies.com.
Your Wallet
You may need to connect your account to a certain kind of digital wallet to create, collect, buy, or sell Digital Goods using our services. That wallet will be operated by a third party (i.e., not Genies), Dapper Labs. To use that wallet, you must agree to their terms and conditions. You are responsible for understanding how your wallet works and keeping it safe. Genies is not responsible for your use of the wallet, including if anything in your wallet is lost or stolen.
Your Organization or Entity
Sometimes, businesses or other organizations use our services. To use our services on behalf of an organization or entity, you need to be an authorized representative of the organization or entity and agree to these Terms on its behalf.
Genies App
Some of our services, like the Genies app, include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services. The license we give you is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people
- royalty-free, which means there are no fees for this license
- non-assignable, which means you can’t give it to someone else
When you use the Genies app, your phone carrier may charge you for data, text messages, push notifications, or other wireless access. You are responsible for paying those fees, if any. These messages or notifications may include information regarding your account or our products, services, or promotions. The notifications may be delivered to your device even when the Genies app is running in the background. You have the ability, and it is your responsibility, to control the notifications you do, or do not, receive through your device. It is your responsibility to keep your account information secure when using this feature.
If you are using the Genies app from the Apple App Store, please keep the following in mind: These Terms are between you and Genies, not Apple. Genies is solely responsible for the Genies app and any content produced on it, and Apple has no obligation to help with any support or maintenance questions. You must comply with all applicable third-party terms of use when using the Genies app, including all of Apple’s rules; if there are any conflicts between these Terms and the Apple Store Terms of Service, the Apple Store Terms of Service will apply. Apple is not responsible for your use of the Genies app and won’t be liable for any related claims or losses. The license granted to you in these Terms to use the Genies app is for your own use on Apple-branded products that you own or control. You can’t transfer the Genies app or the services to anyone else, but the Genies app can be used or accessed by other accounts associated with you through “Family Sharing” or volume purchasing. If the Genies app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the Genies app to you, but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Genies app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility. We are responsible for addressing any claims from you or any third party relating to the Genies app including, but not limited to product liability claims, any claim that the Genies app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with the Genies app’s use of the HealthKit and HomeKit frameworks. In the event of any third party claim that the Genies app or your possession and use of the Genies app infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries to these Terms and have the right to enforce these Terms against you. If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Genies app, please contact Genies at support@genies.com.
Limitations on Use
We have to set some ground rules for the services so that everyone can enjoy them and we can protect peoples’ rights. Therefore, you agree that:
You WILL:
- treat Genies and all users of our services with respect; and
- comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
You will NOT:
- Share, copy, or sell any information or content you get from the services, unless applicable terms specifically allow it
- Try to change, break, or negatively impact the services
- Use any bots, mods, hacks, or unauthorized software in connection with the services
- Use or attempt to use another person’s account or wallet
- Use the services for anything harmful, hateful, illegal, mean, or immoral
- Use the services in any way that’s not permitted by applicable terms
- Provide the services to any third party
- Encourage or enable others to do any of the foregoing
CONTENT ON GENIES SERVICES
Avatars, Digital Goods, and Other Content
If you use our services to create, buy, or sell Digital Goods, you may have to agree to specific terms that apply to those actions. We cover some of those terms below, for your convenience.
We use technology called blockchain and non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) to prove and record who owns each Digital Good. NFTs are like certificates of authenticity or receipts for Digital Goods. Each Digital Good and Avatar is linked to its own NFT on a blockchain. When we talk about buying or selling a “Digital Good” or “Avatar,” we really mean buying or selling the NFT that proves ownership of that Digital Good or Avatar.
Sometimes, we partner with people to make Digital Goods available to you, and those Digital Goods may come with extra terms and conditions. For example, you may not be allowed to make DIYs of certain Digital Goods. If there are extra terms and conditions attached to any Digital Goods, we’ll let you know before you buy them.
Unless we agree otherwise in a separate document, if you create any Avatars, Digital Goods, or DIYs using the services, which we call “Your Creations,” you agree to give Genies a license to use Your Creations as detailed in the “User Content License” below. If you list Your Creations for sale, you also agree to give subsequent owners of Your Creations the Digital Goods License below.
If you buy an Avatar or Digital Good from us, you own the underlying NFT, but you only get a license to use the Digital Good or Avatar; you don’t own the copyright in the Digital Good or Avatar. That said, as long as you comply with all applicable Terms, and as long as you own the NFT for that Digital Good or Avatar, you can use the Digital Good or Avatar: (1) to market and sell the underlying NFT on a marketplace that honors creator royalties to Genies; (2) in connection with a third party website or application (such as a metaverse platform) that allows for the inclusion or participation of your Digital Good or Avatar; (3) to create DIYs in accordance with these terms and other applicable terms. Together we call those three rights the “Digital Goods License.”
Your Content
You do not have to provide any content to use our services, but some of our services allow you to make content such as Your Creations publicly available.
You will keep any intellectual property rights you have in Your Creations or other content, but you give us permission to use them as set forth in the license below, which we call the “User Content License.” It covers Your Creations and other content you submit or post using the services if they are protected by intellectual property rights.
Scope. This User Content License is:
- worldwide, meaning it’s valid all over the world
- non-exclusive, meaning we can give the same license to other people
- royalty-free, meaning there are no fees for this license
- irrevocable, meaning you can’t take it back
Rights. Genies may:
- copy, use, transmit, reproduce, and publicly display Your Creations and content, including to save on our systems and show or make publicly available to other users
- modify and prepare derivative works based upon Your Creations and content, including to edit them or make new versions of them
- associate Your Creations with, or link Your Creations to, NFTs or other digital assets that may be bought, sold, or transferred through the services
- sublicense, meaning grant these rights to other users of the services or other third parties
Purpose. Genies may exercise these right for the purposes of:
- operating and improving our services, including to provide our services to you and others, allow our services to work as intended, and create new features and functionalities
- promoting and marketing Genies, our services, and our business
Duration. The User Content License continues for as long as Your Creations or your content are protected by intellectual property rights.
If Your Creation uses any third party’s intellectual property (like logos, designs, brand names, or Digital Goods made by other users), you agree that you will only use that intellectual property as expressly permitted by the applicable owner.
If you choose to upload or share any content, you agree that the content is your own or, if not, you have the rights necessary to use the content, and that use of your content will not violate any laws.
Genies Content
Some of our services include content that belongs to Genies. (for example, many of the Digital Goods you see, which we call “Genies Templates.”). We give you permission to use our content, including Genies Templates, to make Your Creations, in accordance with these terms and any other applicable terms, but we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the Genies Templates and other Genies content.
Our services also include logos, text, content, information, and tools that are protected by copyright or trademark or other laws. We, or the people who give us permission to use those things, own all rights in them, and you agree not to do anything to violate those rights.
Other People’s Content
Our services may give you access to content that belongs to other people or organizations. You can use that content as allowed by these Terms and any other applicable terms, but you can’t use it in any other way without the owner’s permission.
Infringing Content
If you believe that any user-generated content or other material made available through the services violates your copyright, please submit a notification in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, to Genies’ DMCA Agent:
Attn: Genies, Inc., DMCA Agent
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Notices related to trademarks, right of publicity, or other intellectual property matters may be sent to the same recipient.
If any content you upload or posted is taken down after we receive a DMCA notice, you can send a counter-notification as laid out in section 512(g) of the DMCA, and we may re-post the content in question.
We, in our discretion, when it’s appropriate, will disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual property rights of other people.
ISSUES, CLAIMS, AND DISPUTES
Warranty Disclaimer
We work continuously to improve our services and meet your needs. However, for legal reasons, we offer our services without warranties unless specifically stated in other applicable terms. The law says we need to explain this with specific language in capital letters. Here is that explanation: WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.
Assumptions of Risk
Using blockchain technology, including NFTs and wallets, can raise certain risks. For example, you might lose your NFTs, and some countries might make rules that restrict the use of NFTs. These Terms don’t include a complete list of risks associated with blockchain technology. You understand and accept the risks associated with your use of blockchain technology and that Genies won’t be liable to you for any resulting harm or losses.
You understand that certain portions of our services are made possible by third parties including wallet providers like Dapper Labs, payment processors, and decentralized networks. You agree that Genies does not control any third parties, and won’t be responsible for any losses or harm that they cause either directly or indirectly.
Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited. Genies is only liable for breaches of these Terms or other applicable terms. In no event will Genies be responsible for any loss of profits, business opportunities, or good will, indirect or consequential losses, punitive or exemplary damages, or losses or damages arising from your use or inability to use our services or any blockchain technology.
Genies’ total liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms is limited to the greater of (1) one hundred dollars ($100) or (2) the fees you paid to Genies to use the relevant services in the twelve (12) months before the dispute.
Genies will not be required to give you any virtual currency or cryptocurrency as damages at any time. If you try to base your damages on the value of any virtual currency or cryptocurrency, the calculation will be based on the lowest value of that currency between the initial incident and the award of damages.
This section applies to the fullest extent allowed by applicable law regardless of the nature of our dispute and regardless of whether other terms have been breached. If any specific portion of this section doesn’t apply, the rest of this section will still apply.
Indemnification
If someone sues Genies because of your misconduct, you have to pay for Genies’ defense and legal fees. In other words, you agree to defend and indemnify Genies and its affiliates for any third-party claims asserted against Genies arising out of or relating to your use or misuse of the services or violation of these Terms or any other applicable terms. This applies to all liabilities or expenses arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees.
What Happens if You Break Genies’ Rules
Before we take any action described below, we’ll try to give you notice unless doing so would cause someone else harm, compromise our services, or violate any law. If you violate these terms or any applicable terms and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we give up any rights that we may have. We may take appropriate action in the future.
If your content violates these terms, any applicable terms or law, or the rights of another person, we may remove that content.
We have the right to terminate your account and your access to our services if you avoid paying any fees that you owe or you violate these Terms, other applicable terms or law, or the rights of another person. If this happens, any license granted to you in connection with our services are terminated immediately, and you won’t be entitled to any refunds. We also reserve the right to terminate any other accounts you may create or have created.
Resolving Disputes
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS. IT CONTAINS PROCEDURES FOR MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
If we have a dispute, we will deal with it one-on-one, meaning you can’t join together with other people who have similar issues to file a lawsuit or start arbitration. You and Genies agree that each of us may bring claims against the other only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative action or proceeding. In an effort to resolve any dispute, you and Genies agree to first attempt to informally negotiate a resolution for at least thirty (30) days, except for any disputes: (1) seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any party’s intellectual property rights; (2) any disputes related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy or unauthorized use; and (3) any claim for equitable relief (such as an injunction).
Except as provided below, all disputes between us will be resolved by arbitration, meaning they will be decided by a neutral third party and not by a sitting judge or jury. The American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) will administer the arbitration and will do so according to its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”). You can see the AAA Rules and filing forms online at www.adr.org. These Terms are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act .
Instead of arbitration, you and Genies may bring an individual action in small claims court.
If for any reason they are not subject to arbitration, disputes between us will be resolved in the federal or state courts of Los Angeles, California. Except as provided above, you and Genies agree that exclusive jurisdiction or location for all disputes that you and Genies are not required to arbitrate will be the state and federal courts located in the Los Angeles County, California, and you and Genies each waive any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
California law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms, other applicable terms, or any related services, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.
If it turns out that any portion of these Terms or other applicable terms is not enforceable, you and Genies agree that the rest of the terms will still apply.
If you don’t agree to arbitrate any disputes, you can opt-out of this section of these Terms by sending an email about your decision to requests@genies.com, but you have to do so within thirty (30) days of starting to use our services.
You can only start a dispute or file any cause of action against Genies within one year of the occurrence giving rise to such claim. Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any dispute arising out of or relating, either directly or indirectly, to these Terms or the services must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose, or will be forever barred.
Effective July 8, 2022 to March 31, 2023
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GENIES, INC.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Revised on April 20, 2022
Welcome to Genies! Please take the time to read our Terms of Service (these “Terms”), as they form an agreement between you and Genies, Inc. (“Genies”, “we” or “us”) when you use our websites, applications, technical products, tools, and related products, services and documentation (the “Services”). The Services include genies.com, the Genies mobile application (the “App”), the Genies Avatar Wearable NFT Warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the App or the Warehouse, or otherwise operated by us. By accessing and/or using the Services, you are agreeing to these Terms. Certain other portions of the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions specified by us from time to time; your use of those specific Services is subject to those additional terms and conditions.
For purposes of these Terms, “User”, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of a company or other entity then “you” includes you and that entity, and you represent and warrant that (a) you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and (b) you agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf.
Section 9 contains a mandatory arbitration clause and class action waiver. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree (a) to resolve all disputes with us related to the Services through binding individual arbitration, which means that you waive any right to have those disputes decided by a judge or jury, and (b) to waive your right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or representative actions in connection with your use of the Services. You have the right to opt-out of arbitration as explained in Section 9.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Services
2. User Accounts and Wallets
3. Location of our Privacy Policy and Additional Policies and Terms
4. Use of the Services
5. Ownership, Content and Your Content
6. Third Party Services and Materials
7. General Terms for Promotion
8. Disclaimers, Assumptions of Risks, Limitations of Liability, Force Majeure and Indemnification
9. Arbitration and Class Action Waiver
10. Additional Provisions
- SERVICES
- Defined Terms. In addition to the capitalized terms used and defined throughout these Terms, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
- “Content” means content, materials, art, design, and drawings (in any form or media, including, without limitation, video or photographs).
- “Genies Wallet” means a digital wallet that is compatible with the applicable blockchain on which the Digital Goods (as defined below) may be stored or transferred.
- “NFT” means a non-fungible token or similar digital item implemented on a blockchain (such as the FLOW blockchain), which uses smart contracts to link or otherwise be associated with certain Content or other data. The NFT is separate and distinct from the Content or any other Third Party IP with which it may be linked or associated.
- “Third Party IP” means any third party copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, know-how, patent rights or any other intellectual property rights recognized in any country or jurisdiction in the world. Third Party IP may include IP developed by other Users.
- Avatars and Digital Goods. The Services allow you to create, showcase, purchase, sell and trade your own digital avatars (“Genies Avatars”), and other digital goods (such as fashion wearables, accessories, digital rooms and various other goods) for use with your Genies Avatars (collectively together with the Genies Avatars, the “Digital Goods”). The Digital Goods may be (i) created and offered by Genies (“Company Digital Goods”), (ii) created and offered by authorized partners that are permitted to offer or sell their Digital Goods on the Services (“Partner Digital Goods”), or (iii) created by you or other Users of the Services (“User Creations”). Your use of Partner Digital Goods may be subject to additional terms and conditions provided by the applicable third party partners who created or distributed such Partner Digital Goods, which additional terms may be displayed on the Services at the point of purchase.
- User Creations, Creation Tools and Remixes. As part of the Services, we provide you with certain tools, technical products, assets documentation and other resources for you to create your own User Creations (collectively, “Creation Tools”). We may also allow you to create User Creations that are revised or remixed versions of other Digital Goods (“Remixes”). You may even be able to create Remixes of prior Remixes. Not all Digital Goods are eligible to be created into Remixes, as we may allow partners and other creators of Digital Goods to restrict their Digital Goods from being created into Remixes. See our [Genies Seller Addendum] for additional information regarding developing, using and selling User Creations, including Remixes.
- Connected Services. You may be able to display and showcase your Genies Avatar and certain other Digital Goods within third party applications and services that have integrated with the Services (“Connected Services”). To be clear, the Connected Services are owned and operated by third parties and are not owned or controlled by us. Thus, we can’t make any guarantee or promise about the functionality or nature of any Connected Services, including whether you’ll be able to display and use your Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods within any Connected Services.
- Digital Goods as NFTs. To ensure that the uniqueness and ownership of Digital Goods is accurately tracked, we use blockchain based NFT technology to demonstrate and record ownership and history of certain Digital Goods (other than, for the time being, Genies Avatars, User Creations and Remixes, and certain free wearables and other items that we may make available). We mint such Digital Goods as an NFT on a publicly available blockchain (such as the Flow blockchain). Once committed to the blockchain, the NFT cannot be edited or changed, including by us or any other third party. Unlike cryptocurrencies and other fungible digital assets, NFTs are not used to make payments and are not mutually interchangeable. These design features limit the usefulness of NFTs as a form of payment or substitute for currency.
- Modifications to Services. Genies has the right, at any time and without liability, to modify, alter, update, or eliminate the features, navigation, appearance, functionality and other elements of the Services, and any aspect, portion or feature thereof. Genies reserves the right, including without prior notice, to limit the available quantity of or discontinue making available any Digital Good (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any User Creation you create or acquire); limit the transferability of any Digital Good, or to refuse to provide any user with any Digital Good.
- Defined Terms. In addition to the capitalized terms used and defined throughout these Terms, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
- USER ACCOUNTS AND WALLETS
- Eligibility. You must be 13 years of age or older to use the Services. Minors under the age of majority in their jurisdiction but that are at least 13 years of age are only permitted to use the Services if the minor’s parent or guardian accepts these Terms on the minor’s behalf prior to use of the Services. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use the Services. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements. In furtherance of our policy of not collecting personal information from persons under the age of 13, Users are not allowed to give the Genies the personal information of any persons under the age of 13 for delivery or any other reason.
- Creating and Safeguarding your Account. You may browse and check out offerings on certain of our websites, the Warehouse and/or the App without creating an Account. However, to actually create, collect and trade in Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods, you will need to create an account (“Account”) on the Services. You agree to provide us with accurate, complete and updated information for your Account. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you have not been identified as a Specially Designated National or placed on any sanctions list by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Commerce Department, or the U.S. Department of State. You are solely responsible for any activity on your Account and any associated wallets (whether a Genies Wallet or otherwise) and for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password. We are not liable for any acts or omissions by you in connection with your Account, and we are not liable for any loss as a result of your Account being compromised. You must immediately notify us at support@genies.com if you know or have any reason to suspect that your Account or password have been stolen, misappropriated or otherwise compromised, or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Account. You agree not to create any Account if we have previously removed your, or we previously banned you from any of our Services, unless we provide written consent otherwise.
- One Account Per User. Each individual user may only have one Account. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to determine whether you have or control more than one Account. Genies further reserves the right to suspend or terminate any Account that it deems to be in excess of the one Account permitted per individual user. During any period of suspension of an Account, you will not be able to perform any actions on the Services through that Account.
- Genies Wallets. To conduct certain transactions on the Warehouse involving Digital Goods, you will need to create an Account and create and link a Genies Wallet with that Account. Each Account can only be associated with one Genies Wallet. The Genies Wallet is a hosted wallet that is operated by Genies’ service providers (such as Dapper Labs or such other service providers that we may elect to use). Your use of the Genies Wallet is subject to the terms and conditions of the actual service provider operator of the Genies Wallet. Users must familiarize themselves with the terms of use, technology, and security protocols of any such third party wallet. For instance the terms and conditions applicable to use of a wallet operated by Dapper Labs are set forth at https://accounts.meetdapper.com/terms. Do not deposit, transfer, upload (or attempt any of the foregoing) any other cryptocurrency, NFTs, or other digital assets from outside the Warehouse into any Genies Wallet, unless Genies or the applicable Genies Wallet service provider expressly permits you to do so as part of the functionality of the Genies Wallet. Any such transferred item or items may be lost, and Genies assumes no responsibility for any such loss. We may terminate the offering or support of Genies Wallets at any time, in our sole discretion. If we believe you still have Digital Goods in your Genies Wallet at the time we determine to cease offering or supporting Genies Wallets, we will attempt to notify you to transfer such Digital Goods out of your Genies Wallet and into an alternative wallet. However, we accept no responsibility or liability if you fail to transfer such Digital Goods after receiving such notice.
- Warehouse. You may be able to sell, purchase, gift and/or trade Digital Goods on the Warehouse. In order to transact on the Warehouse, we or our service providers may require you to provide additional information and documentation as required by applicable law or regulation, including laws related to anti-money laundering. In such cases, we, in our sole discretion, may pause or cancel your transactions within the Warehouse until we, and/or our service providers, have reviewed these documents and accepted them as satisfying the requirements of applicable law. If you do not provide complete and accurate information and documentation in response to such a request, your transactions may not be processed on the Warehouse. You acknowledge that there may also be a time delay between the time when you submit such information and when we and/or our service providers are able to complete any anti-money laundering, know-your-client or similar checks. By listing or selling your own Digital Goods (including User Creations) through the Warehouse, you hereby represent and warrant that you own all necessary rights (including all necessary intellectual property rights) to use, display, reproduce, distribute and sell your User Creations (including any underlying Content therein), or you are legally authorized by the intellectual property owner to do any of the foregoing. You further represent and warrant that you will not mint, provide, display, or sell any Digital Goods that includes or otherwise incorporates into the NFT’s underlying smart contract any virus, bug, malicious code or other code which could be used to commit fraud or otherwise cause harm. The Warehouse may facilitate transactions for Digital Goods between Users that are buyers and Users that are sellers of such Digital Goods. In such instances, Genies may not be a party to the transaction between such buyers and sellers, but Genies reserves the right to be the final decision maker on any disputes arising between such Users that are buyers and Users that are sellers.
- Verification and Payment.
- You acknowledge and agree that all information you provide with regards to a creation, sale or purchase of Digital Goods, including, without limitation, credit card or other payment information that the Services may accept through a third party platform or system from time-to-time, is accurate, current and complete. You represent and warrant that you have the legal right to use the payment method you provide to a third party platform or system that fulfills payments for Digital Goods, including, without limitation, any credit card you provide when completing a transaction. When you purchase a Digital Good via the Services, you (i) agree to pay the price for such Digital Good as set forth in the applicable Service, any charges necessary to the fulfillment of the Digital Good, including any required gas fees, and all applicable taxes (which may include, without limitation, sales, use, value-added and other taxes, duties and assessments other than taxes on our net income) in connection with your purchase (the “Full Purchase Amount”), and (b) authorize us and/or a third party platform or system that fulfills payments for Digital Goods to charge your credit card or other payment method for the Full Purchase Amount.
- You acknowledge that Genies may incorporate functionality into any Digital Good or the Warehouse that imposes a fee on any secondary sales or transfers for value of such Digital Goods by a User (e.g., to another User who collects Digital Goods) based on the value of any such transfer and Genies may charge a listing fee for any transactions taking place on or in connection with the Warehouse.
- All fees and charges are payable in accordance with payment terms in effect at the time the fee or the charge becomes payable. Orders will not be processed until payment has been received in full, and Genies and/or its service provider(s) completes all purchaser identification and registration procedures, including, but not limited to, completing any anti-money laundering and/or anti-terrorism financing checks, that Genies or its service providers may require to their satisfaction, and any holds on your account by any payment processor are solely your responsibility. Your order may be suspended or cancelled for any reason, including if the payment method cannot be verified, is invalid or is otherwise not acceptable, or if in our opinion, you do not satisfy our identification and registration procedures.
- We have no liability to you or to any third party for any claims or damages that may arise as a result of any payments or transactions that you engage in via the Services (including the Warehouse), or any other payment or transactions that you conduct via the Services. We do not provide refunds for any purchases that you might make on or through the Services whether for Digital Goods or anything else.
- You are solely responsible to pay any and all sales, use, value-added and other taxes, duties, and assessments (except taxes on our net income) now or hereafter claimed or imposed by any governmental authority associated with your use of the Services. Except for income taxes levied on us, you: (i) will be solely responsible for reporting any tax obligations when, if ever, such obligations arise as a result of your use of the Services or in relation to a Digital Good; (ii) will pay or reimburse Genies and/or our service provider(s) (as applicable) for all national, federal, state, local or other taxes and assessments of any jurisdiction, including value added taxes and other taxes as may be required, and amounts levied in lieu thereof based on charges set, services performed or payments made hereunder, as are now or hereafter may be imposed under the authority of any national, state, local or any other taxing jurisdiction; and (iii) will not be entitled to deduct the amount of any such taxes, duties or assessments from payments (including blockchain gas fees or similar transaction fees) made to us pursuant to these Terms.
- LOCATION OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND ADDITIONAL POLICIES AND TERMS
- Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle the information you provide to us when you use the Services. For an explanation of our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy located at https://genies.com/privacy.
- Community Rules. Our Community Rules describe our rules of behavior and engagement when you and other Users use the Services, which are intended to foster a positive and engaging community. For a description of our community rules, please visit our Community Rules located at www.genies.com/community.
- Genies Seller Addendum. Our Genies Seller Addendum provides additional information regarding creating, selling, trading and gifting your own Digital Goods (including User Creations) on the Services. A copy of our Genies Seller Addendum is located at www.legal.genies.com/seller-addendum.
- USE OF THE SERVICES
- Interaction with Users on the Services. You are responsible for your interactions with other Users on the Services. While we reserve the right to monitor interactions between Users, we are not obligated to do so, and we cannot be held liable for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more Users, you release us (and our affiliates and subsidiaries, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you expressly waive any protections (whether statutory or otherwise) that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release to include only those claims which you may know or suspect to exist in your favor at the time of agreeing to this release.
- Rules of Conduct. We have to set some ground rules on your use of the Services (including in connection with your use of Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods), so that other Users can enjoy the Services, and to protect our and our licensors’ rights. Accordingly, you may not do any of the following in connection with your use of the Services, unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions or you have our prior written permission to do so:
- download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display purposes, and Content (except for any restrictions our licensors may impose on you with respect to any Content), or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
- duplicate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or decode the Services (including any underlying idea or algorithm or any Genies Component, Creation Tool or Content), or attempt to do any of the same;
- use, reproduce or remove any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name, slogan, logo, image, or other proprietary notation displayed on or through the Services or any Digital Goods, including in connection with creating any Remixes;
- use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, modifications (mods) or any other unauthorized third party software designed to establish Accounts, perform any transaction on the Services, or modify or make use of the Services in any way;
- except as expressly permitted hereunder, exploit the Services for any commercial purpose, including without limitation communicating or facilitating any commercial advertisement or solicitation;
- access or use the Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, disrupt or impair the Services or interfere with any other party’s access to or use of the Services or use any device, software or routine that causes the same;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt the Services, accounts registered to other users, or the computer systems or networks connected to the Services;
- circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any technological measure or content protections of the Services;
- use any robot, spider, crawlers, scraper, or other automatic device, process, software or queries that intercepts, “mines,” scrapes, extracts, or otherwise accesses the Services to monitor, extract, copy or collect information or data from or through the Services, or engage in any manual process to do the same;
- introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other materials that are malicious or technologically harmful into our systems;
- use the Services (including any Genies Avatar or other Digital Goods) for illegal, harassing, bullying, unethical or disruptive purposes, or otherwise use the Services in a manner that is fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, hateful or otherwise objectionable;
- infringe or violate the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone (including Genies or its licensors or other Users) in connection with your use of the Services;
- violate any applicable law or regulation in connection with your access to or use of the Services; or
- access or use the Services in any way not expressly permitted by these Terms.
- Use of the App. You are responsible for providing the mobile device, wireless service plan, software, Internet connections and/or other equipment or services that you need to download, install, and use the App. We do not guarantee that the App can be accessed and used on any particular device or with any particular service plan. We do not guarantee that the App or Services (including the Warehouse) will be available in, or that orders for Digital Goods can be placed from, any particular geographic location. As part of the Services and to update you regarding the status of deliveries, you may receive push notifications, local client notifications, text messages, picture messages, alerts, emails or other types of messages directly sent to you in connection with the App (“Push Messages”). You acknowledge that, when you use the App, your wireless service provider may charge you fees for data, text messaging and/or other wireless access, including in connection with Push Messages. You have control over the Push Messages settings and can opt in or out of these Push Messages (if provided-for) through the Services or through your mobile device’s operating system (with the possible exception of infrequent, important service announcements and administrative messages). Please check with your wireless service provider to determine what fees apply to your access to and use of the App, including your receipt of Push Messages from Genies. You are solely responsible for any fee, cost or expense that you incur to download, install and/or use the App on your mobile device, including for your receipt of push messages from Genies.
- Mobile Software from the Apple App Store. The following terms and conditions apply to you only if you are using the App from the Apple App Store. To the extent the other terms and conditions of these Terms are less restrictive than, or otherwise conflict with, the terms and conditions of this paragraph, the more restrictive or conflicting terms and conditions in this paragraph apply, but solely with respect to your use of the App from the Apple App Store. You acknowledge and agree that these Terms are solely between you and Genies, not Apple, and that Apple has no responsibility for the App or content thereof. Your use of the App must comply with the App Store’s applicable terms of use. You acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the App to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be solely governed by these Terms. You and Genies acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims of yours or any third party relating to the App or your possession and/or use of the App, including, but not limited to: (a) product liability claims, (b) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. You and Genies acknowledge that, in the event of any third party claim that the App or your possession and use of that App infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim to the extent required by these Terms. You must comply with applicable third party terms of agreement when using the App. You and Genies acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third party beneficiaries of these Terms as they relate to your use of the App, and that, upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third party beneficiary thereof.
- Beta Offerings. From time to time, we may, in our sole discretion, include certain test or beta features or products in the Services (“Beta Offerings”) as we may designate from time to time. Your use of any Beta Offering is completely voluntary. The Beta Offerings are provided on an “as is” basis and may contain errors, defects, bugs, or inaccuracies that could cause failures, corruption or loss of data and information from any connected device. You acknowledge and agree that all use of any Beta Offering is at your sole risk. You agree that once you use a Beta Offering, your content or data may be affected such that you may be unable to revert back to a prior non-beta version of the same or similar feature. Additionally, if such reversion is possible, you may not be able to return or restore data created within the Beta Offering back to the prior non-beta version. If we provide you any Beta Offerings on a closed beta or confidential basis, we will notify you of such as part of your use of the Beta Offerings. For any such confidential Beta Offerings, you agree to not disclose, divulge, display, or otherwise make available any of the Beta Offerings without our prior written consent.
- OWNERSHIP, CONTENT AND YOUR CONTENT
- Services. The Services, including their “look and feel” (e.g., text, graphics, images, logos), proprietary content, including the Content, information and other materials, are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You agree that Genies and/or its licensors (which may include other Users, as applicable) own all right, title and interest in and to the Services, Creation Tools, Genies Components (as defined below), and Content (including any and all intellectual property rights therein) (other than Your Content) and you agree not to take any action(s) inconsistent with such ownership interests. We and our licensors reserve all rights in connection with the Services and its content (including the Content) (other than Your Content and Your Copy (as defined below)).
- Genies Avatars and Genies Components. When you create or obtain a Genies Avatar and accessorize it with other Digital Goods via our Services, you have the option to get a copy of your unique Genies Avatar that you create, and except as set forth in the next sentence, you own title in that copy of your Genies Avatar (“Your Copy”). Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms (and any third party licensor terms which the Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods or any Content may be subject to, including with respect to any Third Party IP which may be incorporated into any Content), Genies hereby grants you a worldwide, royalty-free right and license to use, copy, display and create derivative works of Your Copy for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. That said, Your Copy is essentially a compilation of individual features, Content, components, underlying assets and tools that we have made available to you to help you build your Genies Avatar (the “Genies Components”). Your ownership of Your Copy doesn’t mean you own all intellectual property rights in those underlying Genies Components or other related Content which may be incorporated into or featured on your Genies Avatar. However, for so long as we make the Genies Avatar functionality available on the Services, we hereby grant you the right to use and access the Genies Components and Content for Your Copy, as part of your permitted use of Your Copy. If you sell or transfer to another person your ownership of a specific Digital Good which is incorporated into or featured on Your Copy, you may no longer use, copy, display and create derivative works of such Digital Good which is incorporated into or featured on Your Copy, and you will have to create a new Genies Avatar that does not feature such Digital Good or its corresponding Content, and any such new copy you obtain of such new Genies Avatar will then be deemed Your Copy, and you will no longer have any rights to the older version of Your Copy.
- Content in Digital Goods. When you create, purchase or acquire a Digital Good such as a wearable or other accessory, you own the NFT (if any) underlying such Digital Good but you do not own any intellectual property rights in the Content applicable to such Digital Good except for your rights in any of Your Content (as defined below) which may be incorporated therein, and except for any other license grants in such Content as expressly set forth herein. Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms (and any third party licensor terms which the Digital Goods may be subject to), when you purchase a Digital Good from us, we hereby grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use, copy, and display the Content for such Digital Good for the following purposes: (i) as part of a marketplace that we authorize (including any Warehouse that Genies may offer) that permits the purchase and sale of your Digital Good, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each Digital Good owner’s ownership of the Digital Good associated with such Content and respects the smart contract with respect to payments to Genies and our partners and Users; (ii) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of your Digital Good, provided that the website/application cryptographically verifies each Digital Good owner’s ownership of the associated Digital Good to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Content associated therewith, and provided further that such Content is no longer visible once the owner of the Digital Good leaves the website/application, and (iii) to create a Remix in accordance with these Terms (collectively, the “Digital Goods Content License”). Unless we have agreed otherwise in a separate agreement, you agree that if you develop and upload to the Service any Digital Goods and you make such Digital Goods available for purchase by other Users, you hereby grant to us and subsequent owners of such Digital Goods a license in the Content associated with such Digital Good that is consistent with the Digital Goods Content License set forth in the prior sentence. Your rights under the Digital Goods Content Licenses in the Content for any Digital Goods only lasts as long as you are the valid owner and holder of the Digital Goods associated with the licensed Content (other than Your Content which may be incorporated therein). If you sell or transfer the Digital Good to another person, this license will transfer to such other owner or holder of the Digital Good, and you will no longer have the benefits of such license.
- Ownership of Trademarks. The Genies’ name, the Genies’ trademarks and logos, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks of Genies or its affiliates or licensors. Other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans that appear on the Services are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by us.
- Right to Use Services. Except as expressly permitted herein, we hereby permit you to use the Services for your personal non-commercial use only, provided that you comply with these Terms in connection with all such use. If any software, content or other materials owned or controlled by us are distributed to you as part of your use of the Services, we hereby grant you, a personal, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, non-transferrable, and non-exclusive right and license to access and display such software, content and materials provided to you as part of the Services (and right to download a single copy of the App onto your applicable equipment or device), in each case for the sole purpose of enabling you to use the Services as permitted by these Terms, provided that (i) your license in any Content (excluding Your Content) in connection with any Digital Goods is solely as set forth in the Digital Goods Content License and any other license grants and restrictions set forth in this Section 5, and (ii) your rights in the Creation Tools are limited to a non-exclusive right to access and use the Creation Tools solely create User Creations in connection with your use of the Services, as permitted herein. Your access and use of the Services may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of the Service or other actions that Genies, in its sole discretion, may elect to take.
- Content License Grant Restrictions.
- You agree that you may not, nor permit any third party to do or attempt to do any of the foregoing without our (or, as applicable, our licensors’) express prior written consent in each case: (i) use the Content for your Digital Good in connection with images, videos, or other forms of media that depict hatred, intolerance, violence, cruelty, or anything else that could reasonably be found to constitute hate speech or otherwise infringe upon the rights of others; or (ii) attempt to trademark, copyright, or otherwise acquire additional intellectual property rights in or to the Content (other than Your Content) for your Digital Good.
- If the Content associated with your Digital Good contains Third Party IP (e.g., licensed intellectual property from any rights holder, such as third party brands, logos or designs, or Content developed by other Users), you understand and agree as follows: (i) that you will not have the right to use such Third Party IP in any way except (x) as incorporated in the Content for your Digital Good or (y) to create Remixes if that is permitted by the owner of such Third Party IP, and subject to the license and restrictions contained herein; (ii) that, depending on the nature of the license granted from the owner of the Third Party IP, we may need to (and reserve every right to) pass through additional restrictions on your ability to use the Content; and (iii) to the extent that we inform you of such additional restrictions in writing, you will be responsible for complying with all such restrictions from the date that you receive the notice, and that failure to do so will be deemed a breach of the license contained herein.
- Your Content License Grant. In connection with your use of the Services, Genies may provide features and services through which you may be able to modify, “remix”, edit, create, invent, post, upload, or submit pictures, content, comments, images and other content to be stored on your Account or made available for viewing by other Users through the Services (“Your Content”). You own Your Content. For example, if you create a User Creation as specified above, you own Your Content in the User Creation and all copies of such User Creation that you create, excluding any Creation Tools, Third Party IP or other Content that is included therein (such as any original Content that was included in the original Digital Good on which you based your Remix). In order to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license rights in Your Content so that actions we take in operating the Service are not considered legal violations. Accordingly, by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify (for technical purposes, e.g., making sure content is viewable on smartphones as well as computers and other devices) Your Content but solely as required to be able to operate and provide the Services. You agree that these rights and licenses are royalty free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide and irrevocable (for so long as Your Content is stored with us), and include a right for us to make Your Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Services, solely for the purpose of providing such Services, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose Your Content to third parties if we determine such access is necessary to comply with our legal obligations. As part of the foregoing license grant you agree that, if made an available feature by Genies, other Users of the Services shall have the right to comment on and/or tag Your Content and/or to use, publish, display, modify, edit, “remix” or include a copy of Your Content as part of their own use of the Services (e.g., to create their own Remixes of your User Creations, including any Remixes you develop); except that the foregoing shall not apply to any of Your Content that you post privately for non-public display on the Services. We may allow you to restrict other Users from creating Remixes of your Digital Goods, in which case the foregoing license will not apply to any Digital Goods that are restricted in this way. By creating, posting or submitting Your Content through the Services, you represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for Your Content. You agree that Your Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights, unless you have the necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant us the license described above. We have the right to (a) remove, screen, edit, delete, or refuse to post or offer for sale or transfer any of Your Content for any or no reason in our sole discretion; and (b) take any action with respect to Your Content that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that Your Content violates these Terms, infringes any intellectual property right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of Users of the Services or the public, or could create liability for Genies or other Users.
- Notice of Infringement – DMCA (Copyright) Policy
- If you believe that any text, graphics, photos, audio, videos or other materials or works uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification to our copyright agent in accordance with 17 USC 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), by providing the following information in writing:
- identification of the copyrighted work that is claimed to be infringed;
- identification of the allegedly infringing material that is requested to be removed, including a description of where it is located on the Service;
- information for our copyright agent to contact you, such as an address, telephone number and e-mail address;
- a statement that you have a good faith belief that the identified, allegedly infringing use is not authorized by the copyright owners, its agent or the law;
- a statement that the information above is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or the authorized person to act on behalf of the copyright owner; and
- the physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Notices of copyright infringement claims should be sent by mail to: Genies, Inc., Attn: Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069; or by e-mail to copyright@genies.com. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual property rights of others.
- A user of the Services who has uploaded or posted materials identified as infringing as described above may supply a counter-notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. When we receive a counter-notification, we may reinstate the posts or material in question, in our sole discretion. To file a counter-notification with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail or by email) that sets forth all of the items required by sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. Please note that you will be liable for damages if you materially misrepresent that content or an activity is not infringing the copyrights of others.
- If you believe that any text, graphics, photos, audio, videos or other materials or works uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification to our copyright agent in accordance with 17 USC 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), by providing the following information in writing:
- Ownership of Feedback. We welcome feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). You acknowledge and expressly agree that any contribution of Feedback does not and will not give or grant you any right, title or interest in the Services or in any such Feedback. All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of Genies, and Genies may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. You hereby assign to Genies any and all right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, any patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, show-how, know-how, moral rights and any and all other intellectual property right) that you may have in and to any and all Feedback.
- THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND MATERIALS
- Use of Third Party Materials in the Services. Certain Services may display, include or make available content, data, information, applications or materials from third parties (“Third Party Materials”) or provide links to certain third party websites, such as the Connected Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, completeness, availability, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect of such Third Party Materials or websites, including those of any Connected Services. We do not warrant or endorse and do not assume and will not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person for any third party services, Third Party Materials or third party websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties. Third Party Materials and links to other websites are provided solely as a convenience to you.
- GENERAL TERMS FOR PROMOTIONS
- Applicability. This Section 7 applies to all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (each, a “Promotion”) sponsored by Genies, unless modified or superseded by the terms and conditions or the rules written for a specific Promotion (the “Specific Terms”). In the event that any provision of the Specific Terms conflicts with any provision of these Terms, the provision of the Specific Terms shall control. This Section 7 and the Specific Terms are together referred to as the “Official Rules.”
- Decisions of Genies. Genies reserves the right in its sole discretion to interpret the Official Rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all participants in the Promotion (“Participants”). Genies reserves the right to disqualify any Participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the Official Rules. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time. If for any reason a Promotion is not able to be conducted as planned, including, but not limited to, by reason of infection by computer virus, programming errors, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, or any other causes beyond the reasonable control of Genies which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Promotion, then Genies reserves the right at its sole discretion to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate the Promotion, or any part of it, and award the prize or promotional item from valid Entries (as defined below) received up to the suspension or termination date. Genies reserves the right to correct typographical errors and to modify the Official Rules to reflect minor updates to the Promotion.
- Entries and Request Forms. Genies may not acknowledge or return Entries and request forms (“Entries”) for Promotions submitted by Participants. No late, illegible, incomplete, or altered Entries will be accepted. Proof of submission of an entry does not constitute proof of receipt. Any person who attempts to participate with multiple e-mail and/or street or postal addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any scheme, device or artifice to submit multiple Entries in violation of any limitation will be disqualified. In case of dispute, an on-line or email entry will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to submit entry or otherwise associated with the online or social media account used to submit the entry. The “Authorized account holder” is the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address or administering accounts on behalf of such provider.
- Submissions. If the Promotion allows or requires you to submit a drawing, rendering, photo, video, essay, or other creative material (each a “Submission”), your submission must comply in all respects with the following guidelines or your Submission may be disqualified or taken down.
- The Submission must be Participant’s own original work, executed solely by Participant. Unless otherwise expressly specified in the Specific Terms, modifying, enhancing or altering a third party’s pre-existing work does not qualify as Participant’s own work.
- The Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes the rights of another person or entity including, but not limited to, privacy rights, rights of publicity, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights.
- The Submission must not refer to or display the trademarks, brand names, or product names of anyone other Genies.
- You must have written permission from any person that appears in your Submission granting the right to make the Submission and to grant the rights granted in the Official Rules.
- The Submission must not include the names or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, (other than historical or public persons) without permission.
- The Submission must not reveal any personal information about another individual, including another person’s address, phone number, e-mail address, or any other information that may be used to contact or impersonate that individual.
- The Submission must not violate our rules of conduct set forth in Section 4(A) above.
- By submitting a Submission, Participant warrants and represents that the Submission complies with the requirements set forth in the Official Rules and has not been previously published. Genies reserves the right to take down or not otherwise use any Submission.
- Participant hereby grants Genies and its licensees an irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, license and right to reproduce, publish, use, modify, edit, excerpt, and publicly display and perform the Submission in any way, in any and all media, now known or created in the future, and for adverting, marketing, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any right to review or approve any use or changes, and without consideration to the Participant or any third party.
- SUBMISSIONS ARE THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS OF THE PARTICIPANT AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF GENIES. Any Submission will be deemed made at the direction of the Participant within the meaning of the DMCA and the Communications Decency Act. If you think that any Submission infringes on your intellectual property rights, please contact us in accordance with procedure set forth in Section 5(H) above to report it.
- Prizes or Promotional Items. All prizes or promotional items are provided “AS IS” without any warranty of any kind from Genies. All prizes and promotional items are subject to availability and other restrictions. Prizes and promotional items are non-transferable and no cash redemption or substitution allowed, except at Genies’ sole and absolute discretion. Genies reserves the right at any time to substitute any prize or promotional item or a component thereof for any reason with an item of equal or greater value, including, without limitation, at Genies’ sole discretion, a cash award. In no event will more than the stated number of prizes or promotional items be awarded. If for any reason, more prize or promotional award notices are sent, or prizes or promotional items are claimed, than are intended to be awarded, Genies reserves the right to award the actual number of prizes or promotional items through a random drawing from among all verified and validated claims received.
- Prize Notifications. Genies will attempt to notify the potential winners of any prizes as set forth in the Specific Terms but is not responsible for any failure to notify a winner beyond Genies’ reasonable control. Each prize will only be awarded to a verified winner. If, after a good-faith attempt, Genies is unable to award or deliver a prize, the prize may not be re-awarded.
- Taxes. Genies may be required by law to collect or withhold taxes from any winner. All federal, state and local taxes imposed on the acceptance of a prize or promotional item are solely the responsibility of each recipient. If the prize winner in a sweepstakes or contest receives prizes with a value of $600 or more, the winner will be required to provide the winner’s social security number on IRS Form W-9 in order to be issued a form 1099-MISC for tax purposes in the amount of the value of the prizes.
- Communication Failures. Genies is not responsible for any incomplete, lost, stolen, late, misaddressed, misdirected, or undelivered Entries, prize notifications, or other mail, emails or messages, including without limitation e-mails or messages that are not received because of a winner’s privacy or spam filter settings which may block or divert such notifications to a spam or junk folder.
- CAUTION. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT OR ANY THIRD PARTY TO UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, GENIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PARTICIPANT OR THIRD PARTY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
- Publicity Release. Each prize winner consents to the use of his/her name, likeness, biographical information, and voice for promotional purposes and in advertising worldwide without approval rights or additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. Tennessee residents are not required to grant a publicity release as a condition of winning a prize.
- DISCLAIMERS, ASSUMPTIONS OF RISKS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, FORCE MAJEURE AND INDEMNIFICATION
- Disclaimers.
- Your access to and use of the Services are at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, Genies, its parents, affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners and licensors (the “the Genies Entities”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Genies Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (a) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services; (b) any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services; (c) the operation or compatibility with any other application or any particular system or device; (d) whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure or error-free basis; and (e) the deletion of, or the failure to store or transmit, Your Content and other communications maintained by the Services. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from the Genies Entities or through the Services, will create any warranty or representation not expressly made herein.
- THE GENIES ENTITIES TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR ANY CONTENT THAT YOU, ANOTHER USER, OR A THIRD PARTY CREATES, UPLOADS, POSTS, SENDS, RECEIVES, OR STORES ON OR THROUGH OUR SERVICES.
- YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU MAY BE EXPOSED TO CONTENT THAT MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE, ILLEGAL, MISLEADING, OR OTHERWISE INAPPROPRIATE, NONE OF WHICH THE GENIES ENTITIES WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
- Assumption of Risks.
- You acknowledge and agree that there are risks associated with purchasing and holding NFTs and using blockchain technology. These including, but are not limited to, risk of losing access to NFT due to loss of private key(s), custodial error or purchaser error, risk of mining or blockchain attacks, risk of hacking and security weaknesses, risk of unfavorable regulatory intervention in one or more jurisdictions, risks related to token taxation, risk of personal information disclosure, risk of uninsured losses, unanticipated risks, and volatility risks.
- The prices of collectible blockchain assets are extremely volatile and subjective and collectible blockchain assets have no inherent or intrinsic value. Digital Goods have no inherent or intrinsic value. You acknowledge and affirm that you are collecting, trading or purchasing Digital Goods for purposes of acquiring digital collectibles for your personal use and enjoyment, and not for any investment, commercial or speculative purposes. Any economic benefit that may be derived from appreciation in the value of any Digital Good is incidental to obtaining it for its collectible purpose. You agree that Digital Goods are not to be used as a substitute for currency or medium of exchange, resale or redistribution and that you are not acquiring any equity or other ownership or revenue sharing interest in Genies, its affiliates or any brand as a result of your acquisition of Digital Goods. You warrant and covenant that you will not portray the Digital Goods as an opportunity to gain an economic benefit or profit, or as an investment or equity interest.
- All Users acknowledge and agree that there is a risk that a Digital Good that a User acquired from another User may have been stolen or acquired by fraudulent means, and if we believe in our sole discretion, or have reasonable grounds to believe, that under any prior transaction, a Digital Good was stolen, obtained by fraudulent means, with stolen funds or credit card information, or otherwise obtained in violation of these Terms, all Users hereby grant us and our service providers a right to cancel any fraudulent transaction or transfer all such Digital Goods in question from the Genies Wallet or other wallet, to the User who was previously in rightful possession thereof, even if the User who loses possession of the NFT was a good faith holder of the Digital Good.
- We will use commercially reasonable efforts to deploy secure and functional smart contracts underlying Digital Goods created directly by Genies. However, we will not be liable or responsible to you for any failure in the intended function of such smart contracts, or any bugs, viruses, exploits, logic gaps, or malicious code which may be incorporated into any such smart contracts, or which could be used to commit fraud or otherwise cause harm. You acknowledge that you have obtained sufficient information to make an informed decision to purchase an NFT, including carefully reviewing the code of the smart contract and the NFT and fully understand and accept the functions of the same.
- The regulatory regime governing blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies and tokens is uncertain, and new regulations or policies may materially adversely affect the development of the Warehouse, and therefore the potential utility or value of your Digital Goods. Upgrades to any blockchain network or hard forks in such networks, or a change in how transactions are confirmed on such blockchain networks may have unintended, adverse effects on all blockchains, including any that are related to your Digital Goods.
- Any purchase or sale you make, accept or facilitate outside of the Warehouse of any Digital Good will be entirely at your risk. We do not authorize, control or endorse purchases or sales of Digital Goods outside of the Warehouse. We expressly deny and disclaim any liability to you and deny any obligation to indemnify you or hold you harmless for any losses you may incur by transacting, or facilitating transactions, in any Digital Goods outside of the Warehouse
- Limitations of Liability. TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, YOU AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT WILL THE GENIES ENTITIES BE LIABLE (A) FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES), HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER UNDER THESE TERMS OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) EVEN IF THE GENIES ENTITIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, OR (B) FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM, DEMAND OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE DELIVERY, USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES. SOME JURISDICTIONS (SUCH AS THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY) DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE GENIES ENTITIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES FINALLY AWARDED SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00), OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID THE GENIES ENTITIES, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX (6) MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES (OR DIGITAL GOODS PURCHASED ON THE SERVICES) GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY EVEN IF THE ABOVE STATED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
- Force Majeure. We will not be liable or responsible to you, nor be deemed to have defaulted under or breached these Terms, for any failure or delay in fulfilling or performing any of our obligations under these Terms or in providing the Services, including operating the Warehouse, when and to the extent such failure or delay is caused by or results from any events beyond Genies’ ability to control, including acts of God; flood, fire, earthquake, epidemics, pandemics, tsunami, explosion, war, invasion, hostilities (whether war is declared or not), terrorist threats or acts, riot or other civil unrest, government order, law, or action, embargoes or blockades, strikes, labor stoppages or slowdowns or other industrial disturbances, shortage of adequate or suitable Internet connectivity, telecommunication breakdown or shortage of adequate power or electricity, and other similar events beyond our control.
- Indemnification. By entering into these Terms and accessing or using the Services, you agree that you shall defend, indemnify and hold the Genies Entities (as well as any Promotion administrator, prize or promotional item providers, social media channels, and their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, contractors, advertising and promotion agencies, and any other entities directly associated with a Promotion, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents) (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and costs) incurred by the Indemnified Parties arising out of or in connection with: (a) your violation or breach of any term of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation; (b) your violation of any rights of any third party; (c) your misuse of the Services; (d) Your Content (including, for the avoidance of doubt, your User Creations, including any Remixes you create, use, display or sell), (e) your negligence or willful misconduct, or (f) the operation of a Promotion, or any other claim resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of a prize or promotional item or participation in a Promotion or in any Promotion-related activity. If you are obligated to indemnify any Indemnified Party hereunder, then you agree that Genies (or, at its discretion, the applicable Indemnified Party) will have the right, in its sole discretion, to control any action or proceeding and to determine whether Genies wishes to settle, and if so, on what terms, and you agree to fully cooperate with Genies in the defense or settlement of such claim.
- Disclaimers.
- ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
- Informal Process First. You agree that in the event of any dispute between you and Genies Entities, you will first contact Genies and make a good faith sustained effort to resolve the dispute before resorting to more formal means of resolution, including without limitation, any court action.
- Arbitration Agreement. After the informal dispute resolution process, any remaining dispute, controversy, or claim (collectively, “Claim”) relating in any way to your use of Genies’ services and/or products, including the Services, will be resolved by arbitration, including threshold questions of arbitrability of the Claim, except as permitted herein. You and Genies agree that any Claim will be settled by final and binding arbitration, using the English language, administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures and the JAMS Consumer Minimum Standards (together, the “JAMS Rules”) then in effect (those rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this section, and as of the date of these Terms). Arbitration will be handled by a sole arbitrator in accordance with the JAMS Rules. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court that has jurisdiction. You have a right to have the arbitration conducted via telephone, or as an in-person hearing in your hometown area (if you live in the United States) or another location that is reasonably convenient to you.
- Waiver of Class Actions and Class Arbitrations. You and Genies agree that each party may bring Claims against the other party only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, including without limitation federal or state class actions, or class arbitrations. Accordingly, under the arbitration procedures outlined in this section, an arbitrator shall not combine or consolidate more than one party’s claims without the written consent of all affected parties to an arbitration proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you and Genies agree that no dispute shall proceed by way of class arbitration without the written consent of all affected parties.
- Costs of Arbitration. Payment for any and all reasonable JAMS filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be in accordance with the JAMS Rules. If the value of your claim does not exceed $10,000, Genies will pay for the reasonable filing, administrative and arbitrator fees associated with the arbitration, unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose, except that if you have initiated the arbitration claim, you will still be required to pay the lesser of $250 or the maximum amount permitted under the JAMS Rules for arbitration claims initiated by you. You are still responsible for all additional costs that you incur in the arbitration, including without limitation, fees for attorneys or expert witnesses.
- Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out and not be bound by the arbitration and waiver of class provisions set forth in these Terms by sending written notice of your decision to opt-out to requests@genies.com or to the U.S. mailing address listed in the “How to Contact Us” section of these Terms. The notice must be sent to Genies within thirty (30) days of your registering to use the Services or agreeing to these Terms (or if this Section 9 is amended hereafter, within 30 days of such amendment being effective), otherwise you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with these Terms, and the notice must specify your name and mailing address. If you opt-out of these arbitration provisions, Genies also will not be bound by them.
- Exceptions. Notwithstanding anything in these Terms to the contrary, You may instead assert your Claim in “small claims” court, but only if your Claim qualifies, your Claim remains only in such court, and your Claim remains on an individual, non-representative and non-class basis. Further, you and Genies will have the right to bring an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable or conservatory relief, or if the Claim relates to intellectual property infringement or misappropriation.
- In the event of a legal dispute between Users over which User has the right to be in possession of a Digital Good, we reserve the right to block any additional transfers of such Digital Good pending written instructions of all parties to the dispute or the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
- ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS
- Promotions. From time to time, we may offer you the chance to participate in contests, giveaways, surveys, or similar promotions (collectively, “Promotions”) in connection with your use of the Services. The Promotions may be governed by rules that are separate from these Terms. If the rules for a Promotion conflict with these Terms, the Promotion rules will govern.
- SMS Messaging and Phone Calls. Certain portions of the Services may allow us to contact you via telephone or text messages. You agree that Genies may contact you via telephone or text messages (including by an automatic telephone dialing system) at any of the phone numbers provided by you or on your behalf in connection with your use of the Services, including for marketing purposes. You understand that you are not required to provide this consent as a condition of purchasing any items via the Services, including Digital Goods. You also understand that you may opt out of receiving text messages from us at any time, by replying with the word “STOP” using the mobile device that is receiving the messages, or by contacting support@genies.com. If you do not choose to opt out, we may contact you as outlined in our Privacy Policy.
- Updating These Terms. We may modify these Terms from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of these Terms. If we make changes that are material, we will use reasonable efforts to attempt to notify you, such as by e-mail and/or by placing a prominent notice on the Services. However, it is your sole responsibility to review these Terms from time to time to view any such changes. The updated Terms will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as may be specified in the updated Terms. Your continued access or use of the Services after the modifications have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms.
- Termination of License and Your Account. If you breach any of the provisions of these Terms, all licenses granted by Genies will terminate automatically. Additionally, Genies may suspend, disable, or delete your Account (including disabling, invalidating or otherwise rendering inoperable your Genies Wallet) and/or the Services (or any part of the foregoing) with or without notice, for any or no reason. If Genies deletes your Account for any suspected breach of these Terms by you, you are prohibited from re-registering for the Services under a different name. In the event of Account deletion for any reason, Genies may, but is not obligated to, delete any of Your Content. Genies shall not be responsible for the failure to delete or deletion of Your Content. All sections which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms shall continue in full force and effect subsequent to and notwithstanding any termination of these Terms by Genies or you. Termination will not limit any of Genies’ other rights or remedies at law or in equity.
- Injunctive Relief. You agree that a breach of these Terms will cause irreparable injury to Genies for which monetary damages would not be an adequate remedy and Genies shall be entitled to equitable relief in addition to any remedies it may have hereunder or at law without a bond, other security or proof of damages.
- California Residents. If you are a California resident, in accordance with Cal. Civ. Code § 1789.3, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by contacting them in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112 Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
- Export Laws. You agree that you will not export or re-export, directly or indirectly, the Services, the Digital Goods and/or other information or materials provided by Genies hereunder, to any country for which the United States or any other relevant jurisdiction requires any export license or other governmental approval at the time of export without first obtaining such license or approval. In particular, but without limitation, the Services may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S. embargoed countries or any country that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, or (b) to anyone listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties, including the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Person’s List or Entity List. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You are responsible for and hereby agree to comply at your sole expense with all applicable United States export laws and regulations.
- Miscellaneous. If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms and the licenses granted hereunder may be assigned by Genies but may not be assigned by you without the prior express written consent of Genies. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for reference only and shall not be read to have any legal effect. The Services are operated by us in the United States. Those who choose to access the Services from locations outside the United States do so at their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of laws rules, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the arbitration venue set forth in Section 9, or if arbitration does not apply, then the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California. You and Genies agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to the interpretation or construction of these Terms.
- How to Contact Us. You may contact us regarding the Services or these Terms at: Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069 or by phone at (415) 644-5364 or by e-mail at comments@genies.com.
- Promotions. From time to time, we may offer you the chance to participate in contests, giveaways, surveys, or similar promotions (collectively, “Promotions”) in connection with your use of the Services. The Promotions may be governed by rules that are separate from these Terms. If the rules for a Promotion conflict with these Terms, the Promotion rules will govern.
Effective June 21, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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GENIES, INC.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Revised on April 20, 2022
Welcome to Genies! Please take the time to read our Terms of Service (these “Terms”), as they form an agreement between you and Genies, Inc. (“Genies”, “we” or “us”) when you use our websites, applications, technical products, tools, and related products, services and documentation (the “Services”). The Services include genies.com, the Genies mobile application (the “App”), the Genies Avatar Wearable NFT Warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the App or the Warehouse, or otherwise operated by us. By accessing and/or using the Services, you are agreeing to these Terms. Certain other portions of the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions specified by us from time to time; your use of those specific Services is subject to those additional terms and conditions.
For purposes of these Terms, “User”, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of a company or other entity then “you” includes you and that entity, and you represent and warrant that (a) you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms, and (b) you agree to these Terms on the entity’s behalf.
Section 9 contains a mandatory arbitration clause and class action waiver. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree (a) to resolve all disputes with us related to the Services through binding individual arbitration, which means that you waive any right to have those disputes decided by a judge or jury, and (b) to waive your right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or representative actions in connection with your use of the Services. You have the right to opt-out of arbitration as explained in Section 9.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Services
2. User Accounts and Wallets
3. Location of our Privacy Policy and Additional Policies and Terms
4. Use of the Services
5. Ownership, Content and Your Content
6. Third Party Services and Materials
7. General Terms for Promotion
8. Disclaimers, Assumptions of Risks, Limitations of Liability, Force Majeure and Indemnification
9. Arbitration and Class Action Waiver
10. Additional Provisions
- SERVICES
- Defined Terms. In addition to the capitalized terms used and defined throughout these Terms, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
- “Content” means content, materials, art, design, and drawings (in any form or media, including, without limitation, video or photographs).
- “Genies Wallet” means a digital wallet that is compatible with the applicable blockchain on which the Digital Goods (as defined below) may be stored or transferred.
- “NFT” means a non-fungible token or similar digital item implemented on a blockchain (such as the FLOW blockchain), which uses smart contracts to link or otherwise be associated with certain Content or other data. The NFT is separate and distinct from the Content or any other Third Party IP with which it may be linked or associated.
- “Third Party IP” means any third party copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, know-how, patent rights or any other intellectual property rights recognized in any country or jurisdiction in the world. Third Party IP may include IP developed by other Users.
- Avatars and Digital Goods. The Services allow you to create, showcase, purchase, sell and trade your own digital avatars (“Genies Avatars”), and other digital goods (such as fashion wearables, accessories, digital rooms and various other goods) for use with your Genies Avatars (collectively together with the Genies Avatars, the “Digital Goods”). The Digital Goods may be (i) created and offered by Genies (“Company Digital Goods”), (ii) created and offered by authorized partners that are permitted to offer or sell their Digital Goods on the Services (“Partner Digital Goods”), or (iii) created by you or other Users of the Services (“User Creations”). Your use of Partner Digital Goods may be subject to additional terms and conditions provided by the applicable third party partners who created or distributed such Partner Digital Goods, which additional terms may be displayed on the Services at the point of purchase.
- User Creations, Creation Tools and Remixes. As part of the Services, we provide you with certain tools, technical products, assets documentation and other resources for you to create your own User Creations (collectively, “Creation Tools”). We may also allow you to create User Creations that are revised or remixed versions of other Digital Goods (“Remixes”). You may even be able to create Remixes of prior Remixes. Not all Digital Goods are eligible to be created into Remixes, as we may allow partners and other creators of Digital Goods to restrict their Digital Goods from being created into Remixes. See our [Genies Seller Addendum] for additional information regarding developing, using and selling User Creations, including Remixes.
- Connected Services. You may be able to display and showcase your Genies Avatar and certain other Digital Goods within third party applications and services that have integrated with the Services (“Connected Services”). To be clear, the Connected Services are owned and operated by third parties and are not owned or controlled by us. Thus, we can’t make any guarantee or promise about the functionality or nature of any Connected Services, including whether you’ll be able to display and use your Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods within any Connected Services.
- Digital Goods as NFTs. To ensure that the uniqueness and ownership of Digital Goods is accurately tracked, we use blockchain based NFT technology to demonstrate and record ownership and history of certain Digital Goods (other than, for the time being, Genies Avatars, User Creations and Remixes, and certain free wearables and other items that we may make available). We mint such Digital Goods as an NFT on a publicly available blockchain (such as the Flow blockchain). Once committed to the blockchain, the NFT cannot be edited or changed, including by us or any other third party. Unlike cryptocurrencies and other fungible digital assets, NFTs are not used to make payments and are not mutually interchangeable. These design features limit the usefulness of NFTs as a form of payment or substitute for currency.
- Modifications to Services. Genies has the right, at any time and without liability, to modify, alter, update, or eliminate the features, navigation, appearance, functionality and other elements of the Services, and any aspect, portion or feature thereof. Genies reserves the right, including without prior notice, to limit the available quantity of or discontinue making available any Digital Good (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any User Creation you create or acquire); limit the transferability of any Digital Good, or to refuse to provide any user with any Digital Good.
- Defined Terms. In addition to the capitalized terms used and defined throughout these Terms, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
- USER ACCOUNTS AND WALLETS
- Eligibility. You must be 13 years of age or older to use the Services. Minors under the age of majority in their jurisdiction but that are at least 13 years of age are only permitted to use the Services if the minor’s parent or guardian accepts these Terms on the minor’s behalf prior to use of the Services. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use the Services. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements. In furtherance of our policy of not collecting personal information from persons under the age of 13, Users are not allowed to give the Genies the personal information of any persons under the age of 13 for delivery or any other reason.
- Creating and Safeguarding your Account. You may browse and check out offerings on certain of our websites, the Warehouse and/or the App without creating an Account. However, to actually create, collect and trade in Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods, you will need to create an account (“Account”) on the Services. You agree to provide us with accurate, complete and updated information for your Account. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you have not been identified as a Specially Designated National or placed on any sanctions list by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Commerce Department, or the U.S. Department of State. You are solely responsible for any activity on your Account and any associated wallets (whether a Genies Wallet or otherwise) and for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password. We are not liable for any acts or omissions by you in connection with your Account, and we are not liable for any loss as a result of your Account being compromised. You must immediately notify us at support@genies.com if you know or have any reason to suspect that your Account or password have been stolen, misappropriated or otherwise compromised, or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Account. You agree not to create any Account if we have previously removed your, or we previously banned you from any of our Services, unless we provide written consent otherwise.
- One Account Per User. Each individual user may only have one Account. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to determine whether you have or control more than one Account. Genies further reserves the right to suspend or terminate any Account that it deems to be in excess of the one Account permitted per individual user. During any period of suspension of an Account, you will not be able to perform any actions on the Services through that Account.
- Genies Wallets. To conduct certain transactions on the Warehouse involving Digital Goods, you will need to create an Account and create and link a Genies Wallet with that Account. Each Account can only be associated with one Genies Wallet. The Genies Wallet is a hosted wallet that is operated by Genies’ service providers (such as Dapper Labs or such other service providers that we may elect to use). Your use of the Genies Wallet is subject to the terms and conditions of the actual service provider operator of the Genies Wallet. Users must familiarize themselves with the terms of use, technology, and security protocols of any such third party wallet. For instance the terms and conditions applicable to use of a wallet operated by Dapper Labs are set forth at https://accounts.meetdapper.com/terms. Do not deposit, transfer, upload (or attempt any of the foregoing) any other cryptocurrency, NFTs, or other digital assets from outside the Warehouse into any Genies Wallet, unless Genies or the applicable Genies Wallet service provider expressly permits you to do so as part of the functionality of the Genies Wallet. Any such transferred item or items may be lost, and Genies assumes no responsibility for any such loss. We may terminate the offering or support of Genies Wallets at any time, in our sole discretion. If we believe you still have Digital Goods in your Genies Wallet at the time we determine to cease offering or supporting Genies Wallets, we will attempt to notify you to transfer such Digital Goods out of your Genies Wallet and into an alternative wallet. However, we accept no responsibility or liability if you fail to transfer such Digital Goods after receiving such notice.
- Warehouse. You may be able to sell, purchase, gift and/or trade Digital Goods on the Warehouse. In order to transact on the Warehouse, we or our service providers may require you to provide additional information and documentation as required by applicable law or regulation, including laws related to anti-money laundering. In such cases, we, in our sole discretion, may pause or cancel your transactions within the Warehouse until we, and/or our service providers, have reviewed these documents and accepted them as satisfying the requirements of applicable law. If you do not provide complete and accurate information and documentation in response to such a request, your transactions may not be processed on the Warehouse. You acknowledge that there may also be a time delay between the time when you submit such information and when we and/or our service providers are able to complete any anti-money laundering, know-your-client or similar checks. By listing or selling your own Digital Goods (including User Creations) through the Warehouse, you hereby represent and warrant that you own all necessary rights (including all necessary intellectual property rights) to use, display, reproduce, distribute and sell your User Creations (including any underlying Content therein), or you are legally authorized by the intellectual property owner to do any of the foregoing. You further represent and warrant that you will not mint, provide, display, or sell any Digital Goods that includes or otherwise incorporates into the NFT’s underlying smart contract any virus, bug, malicious code or other code which could be used to commit fraud or otherwise cause harm. The Warehouse may facilitate transactions for Digital Goods between Users that are buyers and Users that are sellers of such Digital Goods. In such instances, Genies may not be a party to the transaction between such buyers and sellers, but Genies reserves the right to be the final decision maker on any disputes arising between such Users that are buyers and Users that are sellers.
- Verification and Payment.
- You acknowledge and agree that all information you provide with regards to a creation, sale or purchase of Digital Goods, including, without limitation, credit card or other payment information that the Services may accept through a third party platform or system from time-to-time, is accurate, current and complete. You represent and warrant that you have the legal right to use the payment method you provide to a third party platform or system that fulfills payments for Digital Goods, including, without limitation, any credit card you provide when completing a transaction. When you purchase a Digital Good via the Services, you (i) agree to pay the price for such Digital Good as set forth in the applicable Service, any charges necessary to the fulfillment of the Digital Good, including any required gas fees, and all applicable taxes (which may include, without limitation, sales, use, value-added and other taxes, duties and assessments other than taxes on our net income) in connection with your purchase (the “Full Purchase Amount”), and (b) authorize us and/or a third party platform or system that fulfills payments for Digital Goods to charge your credit card or other payment method for the Full Purchase Amount.
- You acknowledge that Genies may incorporate functionality into any Digital Good or the Warehouse that imposes a fee on any secondary sales or transfers for value of such Digital Goods by a User (e.g., to another User who collects Digital Goods) based on the value of any such transfer and Genies may charge a listing fee for any transactions taking place on or in connection with the Warehouse.
- All fees and charges are payable in accordance with payment terms in effect at the time the fee or the charge becomes payable. Orders will not be processed until payment has been received in full, and Genies and/or its service provider(s) completes all purchaser identification and registration procedures, including, but not limited to, completing any anti-money laundering and/or anti-terrorism financing checks, that Genies or its service providers may require to their satisfaction, and any holds on your account by any payment processor are solely your responsibility. Your order may be suspended or cancelled for any reason, including if the payment method cannot be verified, is invalid or is otherwise not acceptable, or if in our opinion, you do not satisfy our identification and registration procedures.
- We have no liability to you or to any third party for any claims or damages that may arise as a result of any payments or transactions that you engage in via the Services (including the Warehouse), or any other payment or transactions that you conduct via the Services. We do not provide refunds for any purchases that you might make on or through the Services whether for Digital Goods or anything else.
- You are solely responsible to pay any and all sales, use, value-added and other taxes, duties, and assessments (except taxes on our net income) now or hereafter claimed or imposed by any governmental authority associated with your use of the Services. Except for income taxes levied on us, you: (i) will be solely responsible for reporting any tax obligations when, if ever, such obligations arise as a result of your use of the Services or in relation to a Digital Good; (ii) will pay or reimburse Genies and/or our service provider(s) (as applicable) for all national, federal, state, local or other taxes and assessments of any jurisdiction, including value added taxes and other taxes as may be required, and amounts levied in lieu thereof based on charges set, services performed or payments made hereunder, as are now or hereafter may be imposed under the authority of any national, state, local or any other taxing jurisdiction; and (iii) will not be entitled to deduct the amount of any such taxes, duties or assessments from payments (including blockchain gas fees or similar transaction fees) made to us pursuant to these Terms.
- LOCATION OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND ADDITIONAL POLICIES AND TERMS
- Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle the information you provide to us when you use the Services. For an explanation of our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy located at https://genies.com/privacy.
- Community Rules. Our Community Rules describe our rules of behavior and engagement when you and other Users use the Services, which are intended to foster a positive and engaging community. For a description of our community rules, please visit our Community Rules located at www.genies.com/community.
- Genies Seller Addendum. Our Genies Seller Addendum provides additional information regarding creating, selling, trading and gifting your own Digital Goods (including User Creations) on the Services. A copy of our Genies Seller Addendum is located at www.legal.genies.com/seller-addendum.
- USE OF THE SERVICES
- Interaction with Users on the Services. You are responsible for your interactions with other Users on the Services. While we reserve the right to monitor interactions between Users, we are not obligated to do so, and we cannot be held liable for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s actions or inactions. If you have a dispute with one or more Users, you release us (and our affiliates and subsidiaries, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. In entering into this release, you expressly waive any protections (whether statutory or otherwise) that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release to include only those claims which you may know or suspect to exist in your favor at the time of agreeing to this release.
- Rules of Conduct. We have to set some ground rules on your use of the Services (including in connection with your use of Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods), so that other Users can enjoy the Services, and to protect our and our licensors’ rights. Accordingly, you may not do any of the following in connection with your use of the Services, unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions or you have our prior written permission to do so:
- download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display purposes, and Content (except for any restrictions our licensors may impose on you with respect to any Content), or as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms;
- duplicate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or decode the Services (including any underlying idea or algorithm or any Genies Component, Creation Tool or Content), or attempt to do any of the same;
- use, reproduce or remove any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name, slogan, logo, image, or other proprietary notation displayed on or through the Services or any Digital Goods, including in connection with creating any Remixes;
- use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, modifications (mods) or any other unauthorized third party software designed to establish Accounts, perform any transaction on the Services, or modify or make use of the Services in any way;
- except as expressly permitted hereunder, exploit the Services for any commercial purpose, including without limitation communicating or facilitating any commercial advertisement or solicitation;
- access or use the Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, disrupt or impair the Services or interfere with any other party’s access to or use of the Services or use any device, software or routine that causes the same;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt the Services, accounts registered to other users, or the computer systems or networks connected to the Services;
- circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any technological measure or content protections of the Services;
- use any robot, spider, crawlers, scraper, or other automatic device, process, software or queries that intercepts, “mines,” scrapes, extracts, or otherwise accesses the Services to monitor, extract, copy or collect information or data from or through the Services, or engage in any manual process to do the same;
- introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other materials that are malicious or technologically harmful into our systems;
- use the Services (including any Genies Avatar or other Digital Goods) for illegal, harassing, bullying, unethical or disruptive purposes, or otherwise use the Services in a manner that is fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, hateful or otherwise objectionable;
- infringe or violate the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone (including Genies or its licensors or other Users) in connection with your use of the Services;
- violate any applicable law or regulation in connection with your access to or use of the Services; or
- access or use the Services in any way not expressly permitted by these Terms.
- Use of the App. You are responsible for providing the mobile device, wireless service plan, software, Internet connections and/or other equipment or services that you need to download, install, and use the App. We do not guarantee that the App can be accessed and used on any particular device or with any particular service plan. We do not guarantee that the App or Services (including the Warehouse) will be available in, or that orders for Digital Goods can be placed from, any particular geographic location. As part of the Services and to update you regarding the status of deliveries, you may receive push notifications, local client notifications, text messages, picture messages, alerts, emails or other types of messages directly sent to you in connection with the App (“Push Messages”). You acknowledge that, when you use the App, your wireless service provider may charge you fees for data, text messaging and/or other wireless access, including in connection with Push Messages. You have control over the Push Messages settings and can opt in or out of these Push Messages (if provided-for) through the Services or through your mobile device’s operating system (with the possible exception of infrequent, important service announcements and administrative messages). Please check with your wireless service provider to determine what fees apply to your access to and use of the App, including your receipt of Push Messages from Genies. You are solely responsible for any fee, cost or expense that you incur to download, install and/or use the App on your mobile device, including for your receipt of push messages from Genies.
- Mobile Software from the Apple App Store. The following terms and conditions apply to you only if you are using the App from the Apple App Store. To the extent the other terms and conditions of these Terms are less restrictive than, or otherwise conflict with, the terms and conditions of this paragraph, the more restrictive or conflicting terms and conditions in this paragraph apply, but solely with respect to your use of the App from the Apple App Store. You acknowledge and agree that these Terms are solely between you and Genies, not Apple, and that Apple has no responsibility for the App or content thereof. Your use of the App must comply with the App Store’s applicable terms of use. You acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the App to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be solely governed by these Terms. You and Genies acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims of yours or any third party relating to the App or your possession and/or use of the App, including, but not limited to: (a) product liability claims, (b) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. You and Genies acknowledge that, in the event of any third party claim that the App or your possession and use of that App infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Genies, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim to the extent required by these Terms. You must comply with applicable third party terms of agreement when using the App. You and Genies acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third party beneficiaries of these Terms as they relate to your use of the App, and that, upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third party beneficiary thereof.
- Beta Offerings. From time to time, we may, in our sole discretion, include certain test or beta features or products in the Services (“Beta Offerings”) as we may designate from time to time. Your use of any Beta Offering is completely voluntary. The Beta Offerings are provided on an “as is” basis and may contain errors, defects, bugs, or inaccuracies that could cause failures, corruption or loss of data and information from any connected device. You acknowledge and agree that all use of any Beta Offering is at your sole risk. You agree that once you use a Beta Offering, your content or data may be affected such that you may be unable to revert back to a prior non-beta version of the same or similar feature. Additionally, if such reversion is possible, you may not be able to return or restore data created within the Beta Offering back to the prior non-beta version. If we provide you any Beta Offerings on a closed beta or confidential basis, we will notify you of such as part of your use of the Beta Offerings. For any such confidential Beta Offerings, you agree to not disclose, divulge, display, or otherwise make available any of the Beta Offerings without our prior written consent.
- OWNERSHIP, CONTENT AND YOUR CONTENT
- Services. The Services, including their “look and feel” (e.g., text, graphics, images, logos), proprietary content, including the Content, information and other materials, are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You agree that Genies and/or its licensors (which may include other Users, as applicable) own all right, title and interest in and to the Services, Creation Tools, Genies Components (as defined below), and Content (including any and all intellectual property rights therein) (other than Your Content) and you agree not to take any action(s) inconsistent with such ownership interests. We and our licensors reserve all rights in connection with the Services and its content (including the Content) (other than Your Content and Your Copy (as defined below)).
- Genies Avatars and Genies Components. When you create or obtain a Genies Avatar and accessorize it with other Digital Goods via our Services, you have the option to get a copy of your unique Genies Avatar that you create, and except as set forth in the next sentence, you own title in that copy of your Genies Avatar (“Your Copy”). Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms (and any third party licensor terms which the Genies Avatars or other Digital Goods or any Content may be subject to, including with respect to any Third Party IP which may be incorporated into any Content), Genies hereby grants you a worldwide, royalty-free right and license to use, copy, display and create derivative works of Your Copy for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. That said, Your Copy is essentially a compilation of individual features, Content, components, underlying assets and tools that we have made available to you to help you build your Genies Avatar (the “Genies Components”). Your ownership of Your Copy doesn’t mean you own all intellectual property rights in those underlying Genies Components or other related Content which may be incorporated into or featured on your Genies Avatar. However, for so long as we make the Genies Avatar functionality available on the Services, we hereby grant you the right to use and access the Genies Components and Content for Your Copy, as part of your permitted use of Your Copy. If you sell or transfer to another person your ownership of a specific Digital Good which is incorporated into or featured on Your Copy, you may no longer use, copy, display and create derivative works of such Digital Good which is incorporated into or featured on Your Copy, and you will have to create a new Genies Avatar that does not feature such Digital Good or its corresponding Content, and any such new copy you obtain of such new Genies Avatar will then be deemed Your Copy, and you will no longer have any rights to the older version of Your Copy.
- Content in Digital Goods. When you create, purchase or acquire a Digital Good such as a wearable or other accessory, you own the NFT (if any) underlying such Digital Good but you do not own any intellectual property rights in the Content applicable to such Digital Good except for your rights in any of Your Content (as defined below) which may be incorporated therein, and except for any other license grants in such Content as expressly set forth herein. Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms (and any third party licensor terms which the Digital Goods may be subject to), when you purchase a Digital Good from us, we hereby grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use, copy, and display the Content for such Digital Good for the following purposes: (i) as part of a marketplace that we authorize (including any Warehouse that Genies may offer) that permits the purchase and sale of your Digital Good, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each Digital Good owner’s ownership of the Digital Good associated with such Content and respects the smart contract with respect to payments to Genies and our partners and Users; (ii) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of your Digital Good, provided that the website/application cryptographically verifies each Digital Good owner’s ownership of the associated Digital Good to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Content associated therewith, and provided further that such Content is no longer visible once the owner of the Digital Good leaves the website/application, and (iii) to create a Remix in accordance with these Terms (collectively, the “Digital Goods Content License”). Unless we have agreed otherwise in a separate agreement, you agree that if you develop and upload to the Service any Digital Goods and you make such Digital Goods available for purchase by other Users, you hereby grant to us and subsequent owners of such Digital Goods a license in the Content associated with such Digital Good that is consistent with the Digital Goods Content License set forth in the prior sentence. Your rights under the Digital Goods Content Licenses in the Content for any Digital Goods only lasts as long as you are the valid owner and holder of the Digital Goods associated with the licensed Content (other than Your Content which may be incorporated therein). If you sell or transfer the Digital Good to another person, this license will transfer to such other owner or holder of the Digital Good, and you will no longer have the benefits of such license.
- Ownership of Trademarks. The Genies’ name, the Genies’ trademarks and logos, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks of Genies or its affiliates or licensors. Other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans that appear on the Services are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by us.
- Right to Use Services. Except as expressly permitted herein, we hereby permit you to use the Services for your personal non-commercial use only, provided that you comply with these Terms in connection with all such use. If any software, content or other materials owned or controlled by us are distributed to you as part of your use of the Services, we hereby grant you, a personal, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, non-transferrable, and non-exclusive right and license to access and display such software, content and materials provided to you as part of the Services (and right to download a single copy of the App onto your applicable equipment or device), in each case for the sole purpose of enabling you to use the Services as permitted by these Terms, provided that (i) your license in any Content (excluding Your Content) in connection with any Digital Goods is solely as set forth in the Digital Goods Content License and any other license grants and restrictions set forth in this Section 5, and (ii) your rights in the Creation Tools are limited to a non-exclusive right to access and use the Creation Tools solely create User Creations in connection with your use of the Services, as permitted herein. Your access and use of the Services may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of the Service or other actions that Genies, in its sole discretion, may elect to take.
- Content License Grant Restrictions.
- You agree that you may not, nor permit any third party to do or attempt to do any of the foregoing without our (or, as applicable, our licensors’) express prior written consent in each case: (i) use the Content for your Digital Good in connection with images, videos, or other forms of media that depict hatred, intolerance, violence, cruelty, or anything else that could reasonably be found to constitute hate speech or otherwise infringe upon the rights of others; or (ii) attempt to trademark, copyright, or otherwise acquire additional intellectual property rights in or to the Content (other than Your Content) for your Digital Good.
- If the Content associated with your Digital Good contains Third Party IP (e.g., licensed intellectual property from any rights holder, such as third party brands, logos or designs, or Content developed by other Users), you understand and agree as follows: (i) that you will not have the right to use such Third Party IP in any way except (x) as incorporated in the Content for your Digital Good or (y) to create Remixes if that is permitted by the owner of such Third Party IP, and subject to the license and restrictions contained herein; (ii) that, depending on the nature of the license granted from the owner of the Third Party IP, we may need to (and reserve every right to) pass through additional restrictions on your ability to use the Content; and (iii) to the extent that we inform you of such additional restrictions in writing, you will be responsible for complying with all such restrictions from the date that you receive the notice, and that failure to do so will be deemed a breach of the license contained herein.
- Your Content License Grant. In connection with your use of the Services, Genies may provide features and services through which you may be able to modify, “remix”, edit, create, invent, post, upload, or submit pictures, content, comments, images and other content to be stored on your Account or made available for viewing by other Users through the Services (“Your Content”). You own Your Content. For example, if you create a User Creation as specified above, you own Your Content in the User Creation and all copies of such User Creation that you create, excluding any Creation Tools, Third Party IP or other Content that is included therein (such as any original Content that was included in the original Digital Good on which you based your Remix). In order to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license rights in Your Content so that actions we take in operating the Service are not considered legal violations. Accordingly, by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify (for technical purposes, e.g., making sure content is viewable on smartphones as well as computers and other devices) Your Content but solely as required to be able to operate and provide the Services. You agree that these rights and licenses are royalty free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide and irrevocable (for so long as Your Content is stored with us), and include a right for us to make Your Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Services, solely for the purpose of providing such Services, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose Your Content to third parties if we determine such access is necessary to comply with our legal obligations. As part of the foregoing license grant you agree that, if made an available feature by Genies, other Users of the Services shall have the right to comment on and/or tag Your Content and/or to use, publish, display, modify, edit, “remix” or include a copy of Your Content as part of their own use of the Services (e.g., to create their own Remixes of your User Creations, including any Remixes you develop); except that the foregoing shall not apply to any of Your Content that you post privately for non-public display on the Services. We may allow you to restrict other Users from creating Remixes of your Digital Goods, in which case the foregoing license will not apply to any Digital Goods that are restricted in this way. By creating, posting or submitting Your Content through the Services, you represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for Your Content. You agree that Your Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights, unless you have the necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant us the license described above. We have the right to (a) remove, screen, edit, delete, or refuse to post or offer for sale or transfer any of Your Content for any or no reason in our sole discretion; and (b) take any action with respect to Your Content that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that Your Content violates these Terms, infringes any intellectual property right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of Users of the Services or the public, or could create liability for Genies or other Users.
- Notice of Infringement – DMCA (Copyright) Policy
- If you believe that any text, graphics, photos, audio, videos or other materials or works uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification to our copyright agent in accordance with 17 USC 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), by providing the following information in writing:
- identification of the copyrighted work that is claimed to be infringed;
- identification of the allegedly infringing material that is requested to be removed, including a description of where it is located on the Service;
- information for our copyright agent to contact you, such as an address, telephone number and e-mail address;
- a statement that you have a good faith belief that the identified, allegedly infringing use is not authorized by the copyright owners, its agent or the law;
- a statement that the information above is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or the authorized person to act on behalf of the copyright owner; and
- the physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Notices of copyright infringement claims should be sent by mail to: Genies, Inc., Attn: Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069; or by e-mail to copyright@genies.com. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or intellectual property rights of others.
- A user of the Services who has uploaded or posted materials identified as infringing as described above may supply a counter-notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. When we receive a counter-notification, we may reinstate the posts or material in question, in our sole discretion. To file a counter-notification with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail or by email) that sets forth all of the items required by sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DMCA. Please note that you will be liable for damages if you materially misrepresent that content or an activity is not infringing the copyrights of others.
- If you believe that any text, graphics, photos, audio, videos or other materials or works uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification to our copyright agent in accordance with 17 USC 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), by providing the following information in writing:
- Ownership of Feedback. We welcome feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). You acknowledge and expressly agree that any contribution of Feedback does not and will not give or grant you any right, title or interest in the Services or in any such Feedback. All Feedback becomes the sole and exclusive property of Genies, and Genies may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim. You hereby assign to Genies any and all right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, any patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, show-how, know-how, moral rights and any and all other intellectual property right) that you may have in and to any and all Feedback.
- THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND MATERIALS
- Use of Third Party Materials in the Services. Certain Services may display, include or make available content, data, information, applications or materials from third parties (“Third Party Materials”) or provide links to certain third party websites, such as the Connected Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, completeness, availability, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect of such Third Party Materials or websites, including those of any Connected Services. We do not warrant or endorse and do not assume and will not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person for any third party services, Third Party Materials or third party websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties. Third Party Materials and links to other websites are provided solely as a convenience to you.
- GENERAL TERMS FOR PROMOTIONS
- Applicability. This Section 7 applies to all giveaways, sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (each, a “Promotion”) sponsored by Genies, unless modified or superseded by the terms and conditions or the rules written for a specific Promotion (the “Specific Terms”). In the event that any provision of the Specific Terms conflicts with any provision of these Terms, the provision of the Specific Terms shall control. This Section 7 and the Specific Terms are together referred to as the “Official Rules.”
- Decisions of Genies. Genies reserves the right in its sole discretion to interpret the Official Rules of any Promotion, and such interpretation and all decisions by Genies shall be final and binding upon all participants in the Promotion (“Participants”). Genies reserves the right to disqualify any Participant that Genies determines, in its sole discretion, violates the Official Rules. Genies reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate any Promotion, or any part of it, at any time. If for any reason a Promotion is not able to be conducted as planned, including, but not limited to, by reason of infection by computer virus, programming errors, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, or any other causes beyond the reasonable control of Genies which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Promotion, then Genies reserves the right at its sole discretion to modify, extend, suspend, cancel, and/or terminate the Promotion, or any part of it, and award the prize or promotional item from valid Entries (as defined below) received up to the suspension or termination date. Genies reserves the right to correct typographical errors and to modify the Official Rules to reflect minor updates to the Promotion.
- Entries and Request Forms. Genies may not acknowledge or return Entries and request forms (“Entries”) for Promotions submitted by Participants. No late, illegible, incomplete, or altered Entries will be accepted. Proof of submission of an entry does not constitute proof of receipt. Any person who attempts to participate with multiple e-mail and/or street or postal addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any scheme, device or artifice to submit multiple Entries in violation of any limitation will be disqualified. In case of dispute, an on-line or email entry will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to submit entry or otherwise associated with the online or social media account used to submit the entry. The “Authorized account holder” is the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address or administering accounts on behalf of such provider.
- Submissions. If the Promotion allows or requires you to submit a drawing, rendering, photo, video, essay, or other creative material (each a “Submission”), your submission must comply in all respects with the following guidelines or your Submission may be disqualified or taken down.
- The Submission must be Participant’s own original work, executed solely by Participant. Unless otherwise expressly specified in the Specific Terms, modifying, enhancing or altering a third party’s pre-existing work does not qualify as Participant’s own work.
- The Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes the rights of another person or entity including, but not limited to, privacy rights, rights of publicity, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights.
- The Submission must not refer to or display the trademarks, brand names, or product names of anyone other Genies.
- You must have written permission from any person that appears in your Submission granting the right to make the Submission and to grant the rights granted in the Official Rules.
- The Submission must not include the names or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, (other than historical or public persons) without permission.
- The Submission must not reveal any personal information about another individual, including another person’s address, phone number, e-mail address, or any other information that may be used to contact or impersonate that individual.
- The Submission must not violate our rules of conduct set forth in Section 4(A) above.
- By submitting a Submission, Participant warrants and represents that the Submission complies with the requirements set forth in the Official Rules and has not been previously published. Genies reserves the right to take down or not otherwise use any Submission.
- Participant hereby grants Genies and its licensees an irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, license and right to reproduce, publish, use, modify, edit, excerpt, and publicly display and perform the Submission in any way, in any and all media, now known or created in the future, and for adverting, marketing, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any right to review or approve any use or changes, and without consideration to the Participant or any third party.
- SUBMISSIONS ARE THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS OF THE PARTICIPANT AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF GENIES. Any Submission will be deemed made at the direction of the Participant within the meaning of the DMCA and the Communications Decency Act. If you think that any Submission infringes on your intellectual property rights, please contact us in accordance with procedure set forth in Section 5(H) above to report it.
- Prizes or Promotional Items. All prizes or promotional items are provided “AS IS” without any warranty of any kind from Genies. All prizes and promotional items are subject to availability and other restrictions. Prizes and promotional items are non-transferable and no cash redemption or substitution allowed, except at Genies’ sole and absolute discretion. Genies reserves the right at any time to substitute any prize or promotional item or a component thereof for any reason with an item of equal or greater value, including, without limitation, at Genies’ sole discretion, a cash award. In no event will more than the stated number of prizes or promotional items be awarded. If for any reason, more prize or promotional award notices are sent, or prizes or promotional items are claimed, than are intended to be awarded, Genies reserves the right to award the actual number of prizes or promotional items through a random drawing from among all verified and validated claims received.
- Prize Notifications. Genies will attempt to notify the potential winners of any prizes as set forth in the Specific Terms but is not responsible for any failure to notify a winner beyond Genies’ reasonable control. Each prize will only be awarded to a verified winner. If, after a good-faith attempt, Genies is unable to award or deliver a prize, the prize may not be re-awarded.
- Taxes. Genies may be required by law to collect or withhold taxes from any winner. All federal, state and local taxes imposed on the acceptance of a prize or promotional item are solely the responsibility of each recipient. If the prize winner in a sweepstakes or contest receives prizes with a value of $600 or more, the winner will be required to provide the winner’s social security number on IRS Form W-9 in order to be issued a form 1099-MISC for tax purposes in the amount of the value of the prizes.
- Communication Failures. Genies is not responsible for any incomplete, lost, stolen, late, misaddressed, misdirected, or undelivered Entries, prize notifications, or other mail, emails or messages, including without limitation e-mails or messages that are not received because of a winner’s privacy or spam filter settings which may block or divert such notifications to a spam or junk folder.
- CAUTION. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT OR ANY THIRD PARTY TO UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, GENIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PARTICIPANT OR THIRD PARTY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
- Publicity Release. Each prize winner consents to the use of his/her name, likeness, biographical information, and voice for promotional purposes and in advertising worldwide without approval rights or additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. Tennessee residents are not required to grant a publicity release as a condition of winning a prize.
- DISCLAIMERS, ASSUMPTIONS OF RISKS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, FORCE MAJEURE AND INDEMNIFICATION
- Disclaimers.
- Your access to and use of the Services are at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, Genies, its parents, affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners and licensors (the “the Genies Entities”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Genies Entities make no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (a) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services; (b) any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services; (c) the operation or compatibility with any other application or any particular system or device; (d) whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure or error-free basis; and (e) the deletion of, or the failure to store or transmit, Your Content and other communications maintained by the Services. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from the Genies Entities or through the Services, will create any warranty or representation not expressly made herein.
- THE GENIES ENTITIES TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR ANY CONTENT THAT YOU, ANOTHER USER, OR A THIRD PARTY CREATES, UPLOADS, POSTS, SENDS, RECEIVES, OR STORES ON OR THROUGH OUR SERVICES.
- YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU MAY BE EXPOSED TO CONTENT THAT MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE, ILLEGAL, MISLEADING, OR OTHERWISE INAPPROPRIATE, NONE OF WHICH THE GENIES ENTITIES WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
- Assumption of Risks.
- You acknowledge and agree that there are risks associated with purchasing and holding NFTs and using blockchain technology. These including, but are not limited to, risk of losing access to NFT due to loss of private key(s), custodial error or purchaser error, risk of mining or blockchain attacks, risk of hacking and security weaknesses, risk of unfavorable regulatory intervention in one or more jurisdictions, risks related to token taxation, risk of personal information disclosure, risk of uninsured losses, unanticipated risks, and volatility risks.
- The prices of collectible blockchain assets are extremely volatile and subjective and collectible blockchain assets have no inherent or intrinsic value. Digital Goods have no inherent or intrinsic value. You acknowledge and affirm that you are collecting, trading or purchasing Digital Goods for purposes of acquiring digital collectibles for your personal use and enjoyment, and not for any investment, commercial or speculative purposes. Any economic benefit that may be derived from appreciation in the value of any Digital Good is incidental to obtaining it for its collectible purpose. You agree that Digital Goods are not to be used as a substitute for currency or medium of exchange, resale or redistribution and that you are not acquiring any equity or other ownership or revenue sharing interest in Genies, its affiliates or any brand as a result of your acquisition of Digital Goods. You warrant and covenant that you will not portray the Digital Goods as an opportunity to gain an economic benefit or profit, or as an investment or equity interest.
- All Users acknowledge and agree that there is a risk that a Digital Good that a User acquired from another User may have been stolen or acquired by fraudulent means, and if we believe in our sole discretion, or have reasonable grounds to believe, that under any prior transaction, a Digital Good was stolen, obtained by fraudulent means, with stolen funds or credit card information, or otherwise obtained in violation of these Terms, all Users hereby grant us and our service providers a right to cancel any fraudulent transaction or transfer all such Digital Goods in question from the Genies Wallet or other wallet, to the User who was previously in rightful possession thereof, even if the User who loses possession of the NFT was a good faith holder of the Digital Good.
- We will use commercially reasonable efforts to deploy secure and functional smart contracts underlying Digital Goods created directly by Genies. However, we will not be liable or responsible to you for any failure in the intended function of such smart contracts, or any bugs, viruses, exploits, logic gaps, or malicious code which may be incorporated into any such smart contracts, or which could be used to commit fraud or otherwise cause harm. You acknowledge that you have obtained sufficient information to make an informed decision to purchase an NFT, including carefully reviewing the code of the smart contract and the NFT and fully understand and accept the functions of the same.
- The regulatory regime governing blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies and tokens is uncertain, and new regulations or policies may materially adversely affect the development of the Warehouse, and therefore the potential utility or value of your Digital Goods. Upgrades to any blockchain network or hard forks in such networks, or a change in how transactions are confirmed on such blockchain networks may have unintended, adverse effects on all blockchains, including any that are related to your Digital Goods.
- Any purchase or sale you make, accept or facilitate outside of the Warehouse of any Digital Good will be entirely at your risk. We do not authorize, control or endorse purchases or sales of Digital Goods outside of the Warehouse. We expressly deny and disclaim any liability to you and deny any obligation to indemnify you or hold you harmless for any losses you may incur by transacting, or facilitating transactions, in any Digital Goods outside of the Warehouse
- Limitations of Liability. TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, YOU AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT WILL THE GENIES ENTITIES BE LIABLE (A) FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES), HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER UNDER THESE TERMS OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) EVEN IF THE GENIES ENTITIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, OR (B) FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM, DEMAND OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE DELIVERY, USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES. SOME JURISDICTIONS (SUCH AS THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY) DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE GENIES ENTITIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES FINALLY AWARDED SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00), OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID THE GENIES ENTITIES, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX (6) MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES (OR DIGITAL GOODS PURCHASED ON THE SERVICES) GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY EVEN IF THE ABOVE STATED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
- Force Majeure. We will not be liable or responsible to you, nor be deemed to have defaulted under or breached these Terms, for any failure or delay in fulfilling or performing any of our obligations under these Terms or in providing the Services, including operating the Warehouse, when and to the extent such failure or delay is caused by or results from any events beyond Genies’ ability to control, including acts of God; flood, fire, earthquake, epidemics, pandemics, tsunami, explosion, war, invasion, hostilities (whether war is declared or not), terrorist threats or acts, riot or other civil unrest, government order, law, or action, embargoes or blockades, strikes, labor stoppages or slowdowns or other industrial disturbances, shortage of adequate or suitable Internet connectivity, telecommunication breakdown or shortage of adequate power or electricity, and other similar events beyond our control.
- Indemnification. By entering into these Terms and accessing or using the Services, you agree that you shall defend, indemnify and hold the Genies Entities (as well as any Promotion administrator, prize or promotional item providers, social media channels, and their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, contractors, advertising and promotion agencies, and any other entities directly associated with a Promotion, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents) (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and costs) incurred by the Indemnified Parties arising out of or in connection with: (a) your violation or breach of any term of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation; (b) your violation of any rights of any third party; (c) your misuse of the Services; (d) Your Content (including, for the avoidance of doubt, your User Creations, including any Remixes you create, use, display or sell), (e) your negligence or willful misconduct, or (f) the operation of a Promotion, or any other claim resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of a prize or promotional item or participation in a Promotion or in any Promotion-related activity. If you are obligated to indemnify any Indemnified Party hereunder, then you agree that Genies (or, at its discretion, the applicable Indemnified Party) will have the right, in its sole discretion, to control any action or proceeding and to determine whether Genies wishes to settle, and if so, on what terms, and you agree to fully cooperate with Genies in the defense or settlement of such claim.
- Disclaimers.
- ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
- Informal Process First. You agree that in the event of any dispute between you and Genies Entities, you will first contact Genies and make a good faith sustained effort to resolve the dispute before resorting to more formal means of resolution, including without limitation, any court action.
- Arbitration Agreement. After the informal dispute resolution process, any remaining dispute, controversy, or claim (collectively, “Claim”) relating in any way to your use of Genies’ services and/or products, including the Services, will be resolved by arbitration, including threshold questions of arbitrability of the Claim, except as permitted herein. You and Genies agree that any Claim will be settled by final and binding arbitration, using the English language, administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures and the JAMS Consumer Minimum Standards (together, the “JAMS Rules”) then in effect (those rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this section, and as of the date of these Terms). Arbitration will be handled by a sole arbitrator in accordance with the JAMS Rules. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court that has jurisdiction. You have a right to have the arbitration conducted via telephone, or as an in-person hearing in your hometown area (if you live in the United States) or another location that is reasonably convenient to you.
- Waiver of Class Actions and Class Arbitrations. You and Genies agree that each party may bring Claims against the other party only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, including without limitation federal or state class actions, or class arbitrations. Accordingly, under the arbitration procedures outlined in this section, an arbitrator shall not combine or consolidate more than one party’s claims without the written consent of all affected parties to an arbitration proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you and Genies agree that no dispute shall proceed by way of class arbitration without the written consent of all affected parties.
- Costs of Arbitration. Payment for any and all reasonable JAMS filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be in accordance with the JAMS Rules. If the value of your claim does not exceed $10,000, Genies will pay for the reasonable filing, administrative and arbitrator fees associated with the arbitration, unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose, except that if you have initiated the arbitration claim, you will still be required to pay the lesser of $250 or the maximum amount permitted under the JAMS Rules for arbitration claims initiated by you. You are still responsible for all additional costs that you incur in the arbitration, including without limitation, fees for attorneys or expert witnesses.
- Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out and not be bound by the arbitration and waiver of class provisions set forth in these Terms by sending written notice of your decision to opt-out to requests@genies.com or to the U.S. mailing address listed in the “How to Contact Us” section of these Terms. The notice must be sent to Genies within thirty (30) days of your registering to use the Services or agreeing to these Terms (or if this Section 9 is amended hereafter, within 30 days of such amendment being effective), otherwise you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with these Terms, and the notice must specify your name and mailing address. If you opt-out of these arbitration provisions, Genies also will not be bound by them.
- Exceptions. Notwithstanding anything in these Terms to the contrary, You may instead assert your Claim in “small claims” court, but only if your Claim qualifies, your Claim remains only in such court, and your Claim remains on an individual, non-representative and non-class basis. Further, you and Genies will have the right to bring an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable or conservatory relief, or if the Claim relates to intellectual property infringement or misappropriation.
- In the event of a legal dispute between Users over which User has the right to be in possession of a Digital Good, we reserve the right to block any additional transfers of such Digital Good pending written instructions of all parties to the dispute or the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
- ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS
- SMS Messaging and Phone Calls. Certain portions of the Services may allow us to contact you via telephone or text messages. You agree that Genies may contact you via telephone or text messages (including by an automatic telephone dialing system) at any of the phone numbers provided by you or on your behalf in connection with your use of the Services, including for marketing purposes. You understand that you are not required to provide this consent as a condition of purchasing any items via the Services, including Digital Goods. You also understand that you may opt out of receiving text messages from us at any time, by replying with the word “STOP” using the mobile device that is receiving the messages, or by contacting support@genies.com. If you do not choose to opt out, we may contact you as outlined in our Privacy Policy.
- Updating These Terms. We may modify these Terms from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of these Terms. If we make changes that are material, we will use reasonable efforts to attempt to notify you, such as by e-mail and/or by placing a prominent notice on the Services. However, it is your sole responsibility to review these Terms from time to time to view any such changes. The updated Terms will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as may be specified in the updated Terms. Your continued access or use of the Services after the modifications have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms.
- Termination of License and Your Account. If you breach any of the provisions of these Terms, all licenses granted by Genies will terminate automatically. Additionally, Genies may suspend, disable, or delete your Account (including disabling, invalidating or otherwise rendering inoperable your Genies Wallet) and/or the Services (or any part of the foregoing) with or without notice, for any or no reason. If Genies deletes your Account for any suspected breach of these Terms by you, you are prohibited from re-registering for the Services under a different name. In the event of Account deletion for any reason, Genies may, but is not obligated to, delete any of Your Content. Genies shall not be responsible for the failure to delete or deletion of Your Content. All sections which by their nature should survive the termination of these Terms shall continue in full force and effect subsequent to and notwithstanding any termination of these Terms by Genies or you. Termination will not limit any of Genies’ other rights or remedies at law or in equity.
- Injunctive Relief. You agree that a breach of these Terms will cause irreparable injury to Genies for which monetary damages would not be an adequate remedy and Genies shall be entitled to equitable relief in addition to any remedies it may have hereunder or at law without a bond, other security or proof of damages.
- California Residents. If you are a California resident, in accordance with Cal. Civ. Code § 1789.3, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by contacting them in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112 Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
- Export Laws. You agree that you will not export or re-export, directly or indirectly, the Services, the Digital Goods and/or other information or materials provided by Genies hereunder, to any country for which the United States or any other relevant jurisdiction requires any export license or other governmental approval at the time of export without first obtaining such license or approval. In particular, but without limitation, the Services may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S. embargoed countries or any country that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, or (b) to anyone listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties, including the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Person’s List or Entity List. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You are responsible for and hereby agree to comply at your sole expense with all applicable United States export laws and regulations.
- Miscellaneous. If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms and the licenses granted hereunder may be assigned by Genies but may not be assigned by you without the prior express written consent of Genies. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for reference only and shall not be read to have any legal effect. The Services are operated by us in the United States. Those who choose to access the Services from locations outside the United States do so at their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of laws rules, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the arbitration venue set forth in Section 9, or if arbitration does not apply, then the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California. You and Genies agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to the interpretation or construction of these Terms.
- How to Contact Us. You may contact us regarding the Services or these Terms at: Genies, Inc., 8605 Santa Monica Blvd, #22702, West Hollywood, California 90069 or by phone at (415) 644-5364 or by e-mail at comments@genies.com.
- SMS Messaging and Phone Calls. Certain portions of the Services may allow us to contact you via telephone or text messages. You agree that Genies may contact you via telephone or text messages (including by an automatic telephone dialing system) at any of the phone numbers provided by you or on your behalf in connection with your use of the Services, including for marketing purposes. You understand that you are not required to provide this consent as a condition of purchasing any items via the Services, including Digital Goods. You also understand that you may opt out of receiving text messages from us at any time, by replying with the word “STOP” using the mobile device that is receiving the messages, or by contacting support@genies.com. If you do not choose to opt out, we may contact you as outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy
Effective December 1, 2023
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PRIVACY POLICY
GENIES, INC.
Last Updated: December 1, 2023
Thank you for using Genies! We take data protection seriously and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for genies.com, Genies mobile applications (the “Apps”), the Genies avatar wearable NFT warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the Apps, or the Warehouse or otherwise operated by Genies (collectively, the “Service(s)”). The Services are owned, controlled, and operated by Genies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Genies”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). In addition to our own mobile applications and other Services, Genies makes Genies avatars and other content available in our partners’ “Connected Services” (as defined below). By creating a Genies account, you can maintain your Genies avatar and certain content you’ve unlocked and/or purchased across many of these Connected Services, as well as within the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to information Genies collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
This Privacy Policy contains the following sections:
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Disclose Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you register for, or use our Services, or engage with us for customer service, you provide, and we (along with our third-party service providers acting on our behalf) collect, certain information from and about you, such as:
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Date of birth
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies, interests, and traits and preferences that you choose to disclose to Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you and otherwise provide you with tailored content and services.
We also collect information relating to how you use the Services, including how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services. Examples of this type of information we collect are:
- Information you disclose through camera access and photos
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of our Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device in accordance with your device’s privacy settings, including its location services (GPS) and camera roll, and collect information from those features, such as your precise location, or save photos and videos you create or receive on the Services to your mobile device.
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
If you access our Services through a third-party website, application, or social media platform, we may receive information about you from that third-party site, application, or platform, depending on the third-party’s data practices and your settings (for example, your name, username, email address, and comments or content you post). We are not responsible for the content or practices of third-party websites, applications, or platforms. We urge you to read the privacy and security policies of any third-party websites, applications, or social media platforms you choose to use.
We may also receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, marketers, researchers, analysts, social network services, and other parties to help us supplement our records.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect to:
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account - or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Show you ads and or commercial contents
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal bases for processing your information as described in this Privacy Policy are as follows:
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
Combination of Information. For the purposes discussed in this Privacy Policy, we may combine the information that we collect through the Services with information that we receive from other sources, both online and offline, and use such combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
De-Identified Information. We may anonymize or de-identify information so that it no longer directly identifies you or your device. Our use of such anonymized or de-identified information can be used by us and disclosed by us in our sole discretion for any purposes.
3. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content (including through other platforms) or submit profile information or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Certain aspects of the Services may enable you to chat with one or more other users. By participating in a chat, you agree to any and all users that are added to that chat (whether by you or other members of that chat, or by Genies if you choose to participate in Genies’ interest-based matching service that connects users of the Services that we believe have similar hobbies or interests (such interest-based group chats, “Communities”)), collecting information from the chat and the participants in the chat and their devices. You acknowledge and agree that Genies has no control over the other chat participants’ collection, usage, and further disclosure of any information that you decide to disclose during a chat. Accordingly, you understand and assume the risks of revealing any information to other chat participants.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYTICS AND ADVERTISING
To assist us in collecting and storing the information we collect from and about you as discussed in this Privacy Policy, we (or our Service Providers working on our behalf) may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies”, web beacons, and pixels. A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit a website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if you change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information via Cookies automatically, in which case information it receives is subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collections and/or uses of your information. You can read more about these Online Tool Providers here:
Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/privacy
Amazon Web Services and Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
OpenID:https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2020/06/OIDF_PrivacyPolicy_Final_2020-06-30.pdf
We are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience. To achieve this, we may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. This allows us to understand your interests better and provide tailored services or personalized content to enhance your experience with us.
This data tracking is carried out using various technologies like cookies, web beacons, and/or similar tracking technologies. These technologies help us collect data about your behavior, your use of our services, and your interactions with other apps and websites.
Please note, the data we collect is anonymized and aggregated wherever possible to protect your privacy. This means we do not view or store any identifiable personal information about you without your explicit consent.
The Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, demographic data, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests.
We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your device you use to access the Services by such non-affiliated third parties. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. We do not control these opt-out links or whether any particular company chooses to participate in these opt-out programs. We are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, you may have certain rights with respect to your information as further described in this section.
Data Rights. If you would like further information in relation to your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us at privacy@genies.com or the address provided below at any time. Your local laws (e.g., in the EU, Canada, or California) may permit you to request that we:
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate business interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.
Marketing Communications. You may instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by email, postal mail, or phone regarding products, services, promotions, drop announcements and special events that might appeal to your interests by contacting us using the information below. In commercial email messages, you can also opt out by following the instructions located at the bottom of such emails. Please note that, regardless of your request, we may still use and disclose certain information as permitted by applicable law. For example, you may not opt out of certain operational emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding classes in which you are enrolled.6. CHILDREN
The Services are not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information or personal data (as defined by applicable privacy laws) from users under 13 years of age, or otherwise under the age permitted by applicable law in their jurisdiction of residence. We do not authorize users under 13 years of age (or under the applicable age in their jurisdiction of residence) to use the Services.
7. DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
Data Security. We are committed to protecting your information. We use a variety of technical, physical, and organizational security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. When creating an account, it’s important that you select a strong password and do not disclose it to others. Alert us immediately if you have any concerns about unauthorized use of your account.
Data Retention. We retain information for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in this Privacy Policy. We will delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed to fulfill these purposes, unless a longer retention period is required to comply with applicable laws. There may be technical or other operational reasons where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to prevent further processing your information.
8. THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND WEBSITES
Our Services may integrate with social media platforms and other third-party apps and services, including apps and services provided by fashion, clothing, or other lifestyle brands (collectively, “Connected Services”). When you integrate a Connected Service to our Services, we may collect information about that Connected Service and disclose information to that Connected Service as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture. For example, if you wish to purchase digital goods for your Genies avatar through a Connected Service (as further described in Section 2 of our Terms of Service located at www.legal.genies.com/terms), we may disclose to the Connected Service your email address and/or a unique account authentication token, and information about your collection of digital goods for your Genies avatar, such as the clothing in your Genies avatar’s virtual closet. You acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such Connected Service. You should read each Connected Service’s privacy policy.
9. INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS
We operate globally and may transfer, store, and/or process your information to or with other entities within the Genies family of companies or other third parties such as trusted service providers and partners in locations around the world (including the United States) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Wherever your information is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge any such transfer, storage, or processing.
If you have any concerns or complaints about our data processing activities, we urge you to first try to resolve such issues directly with us. However, if applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Revised” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with applicable legal obligations. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST REVISED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
11. CONTACT US
To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Effective July 18, 2023 to December 1, 2023
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PRIVACY POLICY
GENIES, INC.
Last Updated: July 18, 2023
Thank you for using Genies! We take data protection seriously and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for genies.com, the Genies mobile application (the “App”), the Genies avatar wearable NFT warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the App, or the Warehouse or otherwise operated by Genies (collectively, the “Service(s)”). The Services are owned, controlled, and operated by Genies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Genies”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). In addition to our own mobile applications and other Services, Genies makes Genies avatars and other content available in our partners’ “Connected Services” (as defined below). By creating a Genies account, you can maintain your Genies avatar and certain content you’ve unlocked and/or purchased across many of these Connected Services, as well as within the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to information Genies collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
This Privacy Policy contains the following sections:
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for California Residents
- Information for Nevada Residents
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you register for, or use our Services, or engage with us for customer service, you provide, and we (along with our third-party service providers acting on our behalf) collect, certain information from and about you, such as:
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies and interests that you choose to share with Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you.
We also collect information relating to how you use the Services, including how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services. Examples of this type of information we collect are:
- Information you share through camera access and photos
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of our Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device in accordance with your device’s privacy settings, including its location services (GPS) and camera roll, and collect information from those features, such as your precise location, or save photos and videos you create or receive on the Services to your mobile device.
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
If you access our Services through a third-party website, application, or social media platform, we may receive information about you from that third-party site, application, or platform, depending on the third-party’s data practices and your settings (for example, your name, user name, email address, and comments or content you post). We are not responsible for the content or practices of third-party websites, applications, or platforms. We urge you to read the privacy and security policies of any third-party websites, applications, or social media platforms you choose to use.
We may also receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, marketers, researchers, analysts, social network services, and other parties to help us supplement our records.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect to:
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account - or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Show you ads and or commercial contents
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal bases for processing your information as described in this Privacy Policy are as follows:
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
Combination of Information. For the purposes discussed in this Privacy Policy, we may combine the information that we collect through the Services with information that we receive from other sources, both online and offline, and use such combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
De-Identified Information. We may anonymize or de-identify information so that it no longer directly identifies you or your device. Our use of such anonymized or de-identified information can be used by us and shared by us in our sole discretion for any purposes.
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content or submit profile information or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Certain aspects of the Services may enable you to chat with one or more other users. By participating in a chat, you agree to any and all users that are added to that chat (whether by you or other members of that chat, or by Genies if you choose to participate in Genies’ interest-based matching service that connects users of the Services that we believe share similar hobbies or interests (such interest-based group chats, “Communities”)), collecting information from the chat and the participants in the chat and their devices. You acknowledge and agree that Genies has no control over the other chat participants’ collection, usage, and further disclosure of any information that you decide to disclose during a chat. Accordingly, you understand and assume the risks of revealing any information to other chat participants.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYTICS AND ADVERTISING
To assist us in collecting and storing the information we collect from and about you as discussed in this Privacy Policy, we (or our Service Providers working on our behalf) may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies”, web beacons, and pixels. A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit a website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if you change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information via Cookies automatically, in which case information it receives is subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collections and/or uses of your information. You can read more about these Online Tool Providers here:
Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/privacy
Amazon Web Services and Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
OpenID:https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2020/06/OIDF_PrivacyPolicy_Final_2020-06-30.pdf
We are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience. To achieve this, we may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. This allows us to understand your interests better and provide tailored services or personalized content to enhance your experience with us.
This data tracking is carried out using various technologies like cookies, web beacons, and/or similar tracking technologies. These technologies help us collect data about your behavior, your use of our services, and your interactions with other apps and websites.
Please note, the data we collect is anonymized and aggregated wherever possible to protect your privacy. This means we do not view or store any identifiable personal information about you without your explicit consent.
You have the right to opt-out of this tracking at any time. For more information about how to do this, please refer to the "Your Rights and Choices" section of this Privacy Policy.
The Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, demographic data, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests.
We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your device you use to access the Services by such non-affiliated third parties. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. We do not control these opt-out links or whether any particular company chooses to participate in these opt-out programs. We are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.
A note about Do Not Track. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our websites for third-party purposes. Some web browsers offer users a “Do Not Track” privacy preference setting in the web browser. We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals. Learn more about Do Not Track at www.allaboutdnt.com.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, you may have certain rights with respect to your information as further described in this section.
Data Rights. If you would like further information in relation to your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us at privacy@genies.com or the address provided below at any time. Your local laws (e.g., in the EU, Canada, or California) may permit you to request that we:
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate business interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.
Marketing Communications. You may instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by email, postal mail, or phone regarding products, services, promotions, drop announcements and special events that might appeal to your interests by contacting us using the information below. In commercial email messages, you can also opt out by following the instructions located at the bottom of such emails. Please note that, regardless of your request, we may still use and share certain information as permitted by applicable law. For example, you may not opt out of certain operational emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding classes in which you are enrolled.
6. CHILDREN
The Services are not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information or personal data (as defined by applicable privacy laws) from users under 13 years of age, or otherwise under the age permitted by applicable law in their jurisdiction of residence. We do not authorize users under 13 years of age (or under the applicable age in their jurisdiction of residence) to use the Services.
7. DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
Data Security. We are committed to protecting your information. We use a variety of technical, physical, and organizational security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. When creating an account, it’s important that you select a strong password and do not share it with others. Alert us immediately if you have any concerns about unauthorized use of your account.
Data Retention. We retain information for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in this Privacy Policy. We will delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed to fulfill these purposes, unless a longer retention period is required to comply with applicable laws. There may be technical or other operational reasons where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to prevent further processing your information.
8. THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND WEBSITES
Our Services may integrate with social media platforms and other third-party apps and services, including apps and services provided by fashion, clothing, or other lifestyle brands (collectively, “Connected Services”). When you integrate a Connected Service to our Services, we may collect information about that Connected Service and share information with that Connected Service as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture. For example, if you wish to purchase digital goods for your Genies avatar through a Connected Service (as further described in Section 2 of our Terms of Service located at www.legal.genies.com/terms), we may share with the Connected Service your email address and/or a unique account authentication token, and information about your collection of digital goods for your Genies avatar, such as the clothing in your Genies avatar’s virtual closet. You acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such Connected Service. You should read each Connected Service’s privacy policy.
9. INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, California law requires us to provide you with the following additional information about the purpose for which we use each category of “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)) we collect. For more information about each category and purpose of use, please see “The Information We Collect” and “How We Use Your Information” sections above. A chart summarizing this information is as follows:
Category of Personal Information | Purpose of Use |
|---|---|
Contact and Account Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Financial and Transactional Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Location Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Demographic and Interests Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
User-Generated Content | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Information Collected Through Automated Technologies | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Customer Service Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Please note that the CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” personal information to third parties. Based on the definition of sale under the CCPA and under current regulatory guidance, we do not believe that we engage in such activity and have not engaged in such activity in the past 12 months from the effective date of this Policy. If we ever offer any financial incentives in exchange for your personal information, we will provide you with appropriate information about such incentives.
To exercise any rights you may have with respect to your personal information under California law, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section above. You may exercise your rights by completing the form at www.legal.genies.com/ca-privacy-rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. To exercise your rights.
10 INFORMATION FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for “monetary consideration” (as such terms are defined under Nevada law) to a person for that person to license or sell such information to others. We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any future sales under Nevada law by contacting us as at privacy@genies.com. Please note we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request.
11. INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS
We operate globally and may transfer, store, and/or process your information to or with other entities within the Genies family of companies or other third parties such as trusted service providers and partners in locations around the world (including the United States) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Wherever your information is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge any such transfer, storage, or processing.
If you have any concerns or complaints about our data processing activities, we urge you to first try to resolve such issues directly with us. However, if applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Revised” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with applicable legal obligations. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST REVISED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
13. CONTACT US
To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Effective July 14, 2023 to July 18, 2023
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PRIVACY POLICY
GENIES, INC.
Thank you for using Genies! We take data protection seriously and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for genies.com, the Genies mobile application (the “App”), the Genies avatar wearable NFT warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the App, or the Warehouse or otherwise operated by Genies (collectively, the “Service(s)”). The Services are owned, controlled, and operated by Genies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Genies”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). In addition to our own mobile applications and other Services, Genies makes Genies avatars and other content available in our partners’ “Connected Services” (as defined below). By creating a Genies account, you can maintain your Genies avatar and certain content you’ve unlocked and/or purchased across many of these Connected Services, as well as within the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to information Genies collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
This Privacy Policy contains the following sections:
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for California Residents
- Information for Nevada Residents
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you register for, or use our Services, or engage with us for customer service, you provide, and we (along with our third-party service providers acting on our behalf) collect, certain information from and about you, such as:
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies and interests that you choose to share with Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you.
We also collect information relating to how you use the Services, including how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services. Examples of this type of information we collect are:
- Information you share through camera access and photos
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of our Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device in accordance with your device’s privacy settings, including its location services (GPS) and camera roll, and collect information from those features, such as your precise location, or save photos and videos you create or receive on the Services to your mobile device.
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
If you access our Services through a third-party website, application, or social media platform, we may receive information about you from that third-party site, application, or platform, depending on the third-party’s data practices and your settings (for example, your name, user name, email address, and comments or content you post). We are not responsible for the content or practices of third-party websites, applications, or platforms. We urge you to read the privacy and security policies of any third-party websites, applications, or social media platforms you choose to use.
We may also receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, marketers, researchers, analysts, social network services, and other parties to help us supplement our records.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect to:
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account - or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Show you ads and or commercial contents
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal bases for processing your information as described in this Privacy Policy are as follows:
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
Combination of Information. For the purposes discussed in this Privacy Policy, we may combine the information that we collect through the Services with information that we receive from other sources, both online and offline, and use such combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
De-Identified Information. We may anonymize or de-identify information so that it no longer directly identifies you or your device. Our use of such anonymized or de-identified information can be used by us and shared by us in our sole discretion for any purposes.
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content or submit profile information or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Certain aspects of the Services may enable you to chat with one or more other users. By participating in a chat, you agree to any and all users that are added to that chat (whether by you or other members of that chat, or by Genies if you choose to participate in Genies’ interest-based matching service that connects users of the Services that we believe share similar hobbies or interests (such interest-based group chats, “Communities”)), collecting information from the chat and the participants in the chat and their devices. You acknowledge and agree that Genies has no control over the other chat participants’ collection, usage, and further disclosure of any information that you decide to disclose during a chat. Accordingly, you understand and assume the risks of revealing any information to other chat participants.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYTICS AND ADVERTISING
To assist us in collecting and storing the information we collect from and about you as discussed in this Privacy Policy, we (or our Service Providers working on our behalf) may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies”, web beacons, and pixels. A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit a website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if you change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information via Cookies automatically, in which case information it receives is subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collections and/or uses of your information. You can read more about these Online Tool Providers here:
Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/privacy
Amazon Web Services and Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
OpenID:https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2020/06/OIDF_PrivacyPolicy_Final_2020-06-30.pdf
The Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, demographic data, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests.
We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your device you use to access the Services by such non-affiliated third parties. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. We do not control these opt-out links or whether any particular company chooses to participate in these opt-out programs. We are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.
A note about Do Not Track. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our websites for third-party purposes. Some web browsers offer users a “Do Not Track” privacy preference setting in the web browser. We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals. Learn more about Do Not Track at www.allaboutdnt.com.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, you may have certain rights with respect to your information as further described in this section.
Data Rights. If you would like further information in relation to your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us at privacy@genies.com or the address provided below at any time. Your local laws (e.g., in the EU, Canada, or California) may permit you to request that we:
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate business interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.
Marketing Communications. You may instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by email, postal mail, or phone regarding products, services, promotions, drop announcements and special events that might appeal to your interests by contacting us using the information below. In commercial email messages, you can also opt out by following the instructions located at the bottom of such emails. Please note that, regardless of your request, we may still use and share certain information as permitted by applicable law. For example, you may not opt out of certain operational emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding classes in which you are enrolled.
6. CHILDREN
The Services are not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information or personal data (as defined by applicable privacy laws) from users under 13 years of age, or otherwise under the age permitted by applicable law in their jurisdiction of residence. We do not authorize users under 13 years of age (or under the applicable age in their jurisdiction of residence) to use the Services.
7. DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
Data Security. We are committed to protecting your information. We use a variety of technical, physical, and organizational security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. When creating an account, it’s important that you select a strong password and do not share it with others. Alert us immediately if you have any concerns about unauthorized use of your account.
Data Retention. We retain information for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in this Privacy Policy. We will delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed to fulfill these purposes, unless a longer retention period is required to comply with applicable laws. There may be technical or other operational reasons where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to prevent further processing your information.
8. THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND WEBSITES
Our Services may integrate with social media platforms and other third-party apps and services, including apps and services provided by fashion, clothing, or other lifestyle brands (collectively, “Connected Services”). When you integrate a Connected Service to our Services, we may collect information about that Connected Service and share information with that Connected Service as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture. For example, if you wish to purchase digital goods for your Genies avatar through a Connected Service (as further described in Section 2 of our Terms of Service located at www.legal.genies.com/terms), we may share with the Connected Service your email address and/or a unique account authentication token, and information about your collection of digital goods for your Genies avatar, such as the clothing in your Genies avatar’s virtual closet. You acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such Connected Service. You should read each Connected Service’s privacy policy.
9. INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, California law requires us to provide you with the following additional information about the purpose for which we use each category of “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)) we collect. For more information about each category and purpose of use, please see “The Information We Collect” and “How We Use Your Information” sections above. A chart summarizing this information is as follows:
Category of Personal Information | Purpose of Use |
|---|---|
Contact and Account Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Financial and Transactional Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Location Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Demographic and Interests Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
User-Generated Content | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Information Collected Through Automated Technologies | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Customer Service Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Please note that the CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” personal information to third parties. Based on the definition of sale under the CCPA and under current regulatory guidance, we do not believe that we engage in such activity and have not engaged in such activity in the past 12 months from the effective date of this Policy. If we ever offer any financial incentives in exchange for your personal information, we will provide you with appropriate information about such incentives.
To exercise any rights you may have with respect to your personal information under California law, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section above. You may exercise your rights by completing the form at www.legal.genies.com/ca-privacy-rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. To exercise your rights.
10 INFORMATION FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for “monetary consideration” (as such terms are defined under Nevada law) to a person for that person to license or sell such information to others. We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any future sales under Nevada law by contacting us as at privacy@genies.com. Please note we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request.
11. INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS
We operate globally and may transfer, store, and/or process your information to or with other entities within the Genies family of companies or other third parties such as trusted service providers and partners in locations around the world (including the United States) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Wherever your information is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge any such transfer, storage, or processing.
If you have any concerns or complaints about our data processing activities, we urge you to first try to resolve such issues directly with us. However, if applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Revised” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with applicable legal obligations. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST REVISED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
13. CONTACT US
To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Effective April 13, 2023 to July 14, 2023
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PRIVACY POLICY
GENIES, INC.
Last Updated: April 13, 2023
Thank you for using Genies! We take data protection seriously and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for genies.com, the Genies mobile application (the “App”), the Genies avatar wearable NFT warehouse located at warehouse.genies.com (the “Warehouse”), and any content, tools, forums, chat servers, features and functionality offered on or through such websites, the App, or the Warehouse or otherwise operated by Genies (collectively, the “Service(s)”). The Services are owned, controlled, and operated by Genies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Genies”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). In addition to our own mobile applications and other Services, Genies makes Genies avatars and other content available in our partners’ “Connected Services” (as defined below). By creating a Genies account, you can maintain your Genies avatar and certain content you’ve unlocked and/or purchased across many of these Connected Services, as well as within the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to information Genies collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
This Privacy Policy contains the following sections:
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for California Residents
- Information for Nevada Residents
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you register for, or use our Services, or engage with us for customer service, you provide, and we (along with our third-party service providers acting on our behalf) collect, certain information from and about you, such as:
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies and interests that you choose to share with Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you.
We also collect information relating to how you use the Services, including how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services. Examples of this type of information we collect are:
- Information you share through camera access and photos
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of our Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the
- Services Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device in accordance with your device’s privacy settings, including its location services (GPS) and camera roll, and collect information from those features, such as your precise location, or save photos and videos you create or receive on the Services to your mobile device.
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
If you access our Services through a third-party website, application, or social media platform, we may receive information about you from that third-party site, application, or platform, depending on the third-party’s data practices and your settings (for example, your name, user name, email address, and comments or content you post). We are not responsible for the content or practices of third-party websites, applications, or platforms. We urge you to read the privacy and security policies of any third-party websites, applications, or social media platforms you choose to use.
We may also receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, marketers, researchers, analysts, social network services, and other parties to help us supplement our records.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect to:
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account - or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Show you ads and or commercial contents
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal bases for processing your information as described in this Privacy Policy are as follows:
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
Combination of Information. For the purposes discussed in this Privacy Policy, we may combine the information that we collect through the Services with information that we receive from other sources, both online and offline, and use such combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
De-Identified Information. We may anonymize or de-identify information so that it no longer directly identifies you or your device. Our use of such anonymized or de-identified information can be used by us and shared by us in our sole discretion for any purposes.
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content or submit profile information or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Certain aspects of the Services may enable you to chat with one or more other users. By participating in a chat, you agree to any and all users that are added to that chat (whether by you or other members of that chat, or by Genies if you choose to participate in Genies’ interest-based matching service that connects users of the Services that we believe share similar hobbies or interests (such interest-based group chats, “Communities”)), collecting information from the chat and the participants in the chat and their devices. You acknowledge and agree that Genies has no control over the other chat participants’ collection, usage, and further disclosure of any information that you decide to disclose during a chat. Accordingly, you understand and assume the risks of revealing any information to other chat participants.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYTICS AND ADVERTISING
To assist us in collecting and storing the information we collect from and about you as discussed in this Privacy Policy, we (or our Service Providers working on our behalf) may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies”, web beacons, and pixels. A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit a website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if you change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information via Cookies automatically, in which case information it receives is subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collections and/or uses of your information. You can read more about these Online Tool Providers here:
Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com/privacy
Amazon Web Services and Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
OpenID:https://openid.net/wordpress-content/uploads/2020/06/OIDF_PrivacyPolicy_Final_2020-06-30.pdf
The Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, demographic data, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests.
We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your device you use to access the Services by such non-affiliated third parties. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. We do not control these opt-out links or whether any particular company chooses to participate in these opt-out programs. We are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.
A note about Do Not Track. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our websites for third-party purposes. Some web browsers offer users a “Do Not Track” privacy preference setting in the web browser. We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals. Learn more about Do Not Track at www.allaboutdnt.com.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, you may have certain rights with respect to your information as further described in this section.
Data Rights. If you would like further information in relation to your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us at privacy@genies.com at any time. Your local laws (e.g., in the EU, Canada, or California) may permit you to request that we:
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate business interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.
Marketing Communications. You may instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by email, postal mail, or phone regarding products, services, promotions, drop announcements and special events that might appeal to your interests by contacting us using the information below. In commercial email messages, you can also opt out by following the instructions located at the bottom of such emails. Please note that, regardless of your request, we may still use and share certain information as permitted by applicable law. For example, you may not opt out of certain operational emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding classes in which you are enrolled.
6. CHILDREN
The Services are not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information or personal data (as defined by applicable privacy laws) from users under 13 years of age, or otherwise under the age permitted by applicable law in their jurisdiction of residence. We do not authorize users under 13 years of age (or under the applicable age in their jurisdiction of residence) to use the Services.
7. DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
Data Security. We are committed to protecting your information. We use a variety of technical, physical, and organizational security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. When creating an account, it’s important that you select a strong password and do not share it with others. Alert us immediately if you have any concerns about unauthorized use of your account.
Data Retention. We retain information for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in this Privacy Policy. We will delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed to fulfill these purposes, unless a longer retention period is required to comply with applicable laws. There may be technical or other operational reasons where we are unable to fully delete or de-identify your information. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable measures to prevent further processing your information.
8. THIRD PARTY SERVICES AND WEBSITES
Our Services may integrate with social media platforms and other third-party apps and services, including apps and services provided by fashion, clothing, or other lifestyle brands (collectively, “Connected Services”). When you integrate a Connected Service to our Services, we may collect information about that Connected Service and share information with that Connected Service as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture. For example, if you wish to purchase digital goods for your Genies avatar through a Connected Service (as further described in Section 2 of our Terms of Service located at www.legal.genies.com/terms), we may share with the Connected Service your email address and/or a unique account authentication token, and information about your collection of digital goods for your Genies avatar, such as the clothing in your Genies avatar’s virtual closet. You acknowledge and agree that Genies is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such Connected Service. You should read each Connected Service’s privacy policy.
9. INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, California law requires us to provide you with the following additional information about the purpose for which we use each category of “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)) we collect. For more information about each category and purpose of use, please see “The Information We Collect” and “How We Use Your Information” sections above. A chart summarizing this information is as follows:
Category of Personal Information | Purpose of Use |
Contact and Account Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Financial and Transactional Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Location Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Demographic and Interests Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
User-Generated Content | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Information Collected Through Automated Technologies | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Customer Service Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Please note that the CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” personal information to third parties. Based on the definition of sale under the CCPA and under current regulatory guidance, we do not believe that we engage in such activity and have not engaged in such activity in the past 12 months from the effective date of this Policy. If we ever offer any financial incentives in exchange for your personal information, we will provide you with appropriate information about such incentives.
To exercise any rights you may have with respect to your personal information under California law, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section above. You may exercise your rights by completing the form at www.legal.genies.com/ca-privacy-rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. To exercise your rights.
10 INFORMATION FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for “monetary consideration” (as such terms are defined under Nevada law) to a person for that person to license or sell such information to others. We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any future sales under Nevada law by contacting us as at privacy@genies.com. Please note we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request.
11. INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS
We operate globally and may transfer, store, and/or process your information to or with other entities within the Genies family of companies or other third parties such as trusted service providers and partners in locations around the world (including the United States) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Wherever your information is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge any such transfer, storage, or processing.
If you have any concerns or complaints about our data processing activities, we urge you to first try to resolve such issues directly with us. However, if applicable, you may make a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you are based or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Revised” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with applicable legal obligations. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST REVISED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
13. CONTACT US
To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Effective July 8, 2022 to April 13, 2023
DownloadTable of Contents
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for California Residents
- Information for Nevada Residents
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies and interests that you choose to share with Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of your Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services
- Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account- or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content or submit profile information, or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
Category of Personal Information | Purpose of Use |
Contact and Account Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Financial and Transactional Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Location Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Demographic and Interests Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
User-Generated Content | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Information Collected Through Automated Technologies | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Customer Service Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Effective June 21, 2022 to July 8, 2022
DownloadTable of Contents
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytics and Advertising
- Your Rights and Choices
- Children’s Data
- Data Security and Retention
- Third-Party Links and Websites
- Information for California Residents
- Information for Nevada Residents
- Information for International Users
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
- First and last name
- User name and authentication credentials
- IP Addresses
- Unique device IDs, such as account authentication tokens and password token
- Your precise geographic location (in accordance with our legal obligations)
- Email addresses
- Phone number
- Demographic information, such as your age or age range
- Your messages that you send to other users via the Services
- Information about your hobbies and interests that you choose to share with Genies to enable us to suggest Communities that may be of interest to you
- Information about your mobile device, such as its maker or operating system version
- The parts of your Services that you viewed during a visit
- Your browser type and attributes
- What information, content or advertisements you view or interact with using the Services
- Language preferences
- The city and state in which you are located inferred from your IP address
- Unique device and other identifiers
You may choose not to provide information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
- Assist us in providing, customizing, maintaining enhancing, and protecting the Services
- Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use the Services
- Improve our Services
- Process transactions
- Provide customer service
- Communicate with you, such as provide you with account- or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services
- Send (through email, phone, or mail), or display, and measure the effectiveness of, offers and other promotional content from Genies that is customized to your interests or preferences, in accordance with our legal obligations
- Protect the Services, troubleshoot errors, and prevent fraud
- Comply with our legal obligations
- Perform research and analysis about use of the Services aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services
- Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services
- Where use of your information is necessary to perform our obligations under a contract or commitment to you. For example, to provide the services you’ve requested from us, or to comply with our website terms of service
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our Services, operate our business and our Services, make and receive payments, defend our legal rights, and prevent fraud
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations. For example, keeping track of purchases for tax and auditing purposes
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose
We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:
- To provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to post content or submit profile information, or invite another user to chat with you.
- To Service Providers, which are companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
- To Connected Services, if you choose to engage with such connections through your use of the Services.
- To Online Tool Providers, which are licensors of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provide specialized functions or services to us and that require the transmission of information to provide those functions. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use information about you for their own business purposes as further discussed in this Privacy Policy.
- We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
- We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and similar technologies. But if change these settings, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when Cookies are permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without Cookies enabled. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
- provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you
- prevent the processing of your information for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling)
- update information which is out of date or incorrect
- delete certain information which we are holding about you
- restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information
- transfer your information to a third-party provider of services
- revoke your consent for the processing of your information
Category of Personal Information | Purpose of Use |
Contact and Account Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Financial and Transactional Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Location Information | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Demographic and Interests Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
User-Generated Content | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Information Collected Through Automated Technologies | Provide the Services; Marketing and advertising; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Customer Service Information | Provide the Services; Communicate with you; Personalize and improve the services; Business and legal operations; With your consent |
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: privacy@genies.com
Creator Addendum
Effective July 10, 2023
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This Genies Creator Addendum (“Addendum”) constitutes a binding agreement by and between Genies Inc. (“Genies”, “we,” or “us”) and the Creator entering into this Addendum (“you”). This Addendum is separately governed by Genies’ Terms of Service (“Terms”), which are hereby incorporated by reference. Capitalized terms used in this Addendum and not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Terms. Please review the Terms so that you are familiar with those definitions. This Addendum, together with the Terms, shall now collectively be referred to as the “Agreement.”
YOUR CREATIONS
You may choose to create one or more Digital Goods, artworks, interactive experiences, software, or other Content for use in or in connection with Genies’ Services. Any such Content you create shall be deemed Your Creations under the Terms. Genies may assist you in creating Your Creations and may even create Your Creations for you, but Genies has no obligation to do either. In creating Your Creations, you agree to follow any written instructions, guidance, or specifications that Genies provides you. You also agree to work, communicate, and coordinate in good faith with Genies regarding the development, creation, use, marketing, and promotion of Your Creations, including by being reasonably available during regular business hours for calls, meetings, and workshops.
USAGE
In addition to the rights granted to Genies under the Terms, you hereby grant to Genies and any other Licensed Parties the right, but not the obligation, to exercise the Rights to (a) Your Creations, and (b) your Persona as outlined in this Agreement or as you and we otherwise agree in writing.
Even if you and we agree in a separate writing to limit the rights granted in this Agreement to a specific time period, or if the Agreement is otherwise terminated, neither Genies nor any other Licensed Party shall have any obligation to remove any Content from the “historical feed” of any website or social media platform; however, neither Genies nor any other Licensed Party will, after the applicable time period or date of termination, if any, repost or put paid media behind Your Creations or Persona. In addition, Genies and other Licensed Parties may, at any time, use Your Creations, Persona, and Genies-Produced Materials (defined below) for internal purposes, archival purposes, for award show purposes, and as part of case studies about Genies’ campaigns.
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
Genies and any other Licensed Party shall have the right to (a) create any kind of materials related to, and incorporate, reference, post, re-post, link-to, boost, whitelist, and otherwise promote, Your Creations (or any element thereof), your Persona, and/or quotes by you (collectively, “Genies-Produced Materials”), and (b) tag you in any post published on any webpages/social media platforms controlled by Genies or any Licensed Party. For the avoidance of doubt, Genies-Produced Materials shall be considered Our Creations as defined in the Terms, and your representations and warranties regarding any Content shall not apply to Our Creations. You will not have any right to approve any Genies-Produced Materials or any uses made of them.
You agree that if you make any public statements in connection with the Agreement or about Genies or any other Licensed Party, you will clearly and conspicuously—meaning in a way that is obvious or easily noticed—disclose your connection to Genies or the applicable Licensed Party in accordance with all applicable laws and industry standards including the Federal Trade Commission Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonial in Advertising (as may be updated).
COMPENSATION
In full consideration for your contributions and services, you shall be entitled to receive the compensation, if any, that Genies publishes on the Services or otherwise specifies in writing in connection with this Addendum. You will be responsible for your own costs and expenses in connection with this Agreement, unless otherwise agreed by Genies in advance in writing.
TERM; TERMINATION
The “Term” of this Agreement shall begin on the date you accept this Addendum and end if and when this Agreement is terminated in accordance with these terms. Genies shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by written notice to you: (a) immediately if you say anything or engage in any conduct that disparages, denigrates, portrays in an unfavorable light, or brings Genies or other Licensed Parties or their respective products into public disrepute, contempt or scandal; (b) immediately if you breach any obligation, agreement, representation, or warranty hereunder and fail to cure such breach (if it is capable of being cured) within twenty-four (24) hours of written notice describing the breach; or (c) without cause, upon thirty (30) days written notice to you (during which time you shall cease performing any work hereunder).
If this Agreement is terminated, in addition to any other rights and remedies that Genies may have hereunder or at law or in equity, then: (a) if the termination is due to your breach, Genies may, in its discretion, withhold any further compensation, if any, that might have been owed or payable to you had you not breached this Agreement, or (b) if the termination is for any reason other than due to your breach, you shall be entitled only to a pro rata portion of compensation, if any, based on the portion of work you actually performed prior to termination, and if you were previously paid more than such pro rata portion, you shall promptly refund the difference to Genies (as applicable).
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
Your status hereunder is that of an independent contractor, and you shall not be deemed to be an employee of Genies or any Licensed Party.
CONFIDENTIALITY
You agree not to use or disclose to any third party any trade secrets or confidential information of Genies, including, without limitation, any non-public versions of any software development kits or other technology, information about Genies or other Licensed Parties, their respective products or services, your relationship with Genies or other Licensed Parties (except as otherwise approved by Genies in writing), and/or any of the terms of this Addendum. You shall not communicate to the press directly about Genies or other Licensed Parties, or their respective products or services, without Genies’ prior written approval, and you will direct to Genies all press inquiries regarding Genies or the activities hereunder.
MISCELLANEOUS
For the sake of clarity, this Addendum constitutes “Other Terms” as defined under the Terms. If a provision of this Addendum conflicts with a provision of the Terms, this Addendum governs. Except as specifically modified by this Addendum, the Terms remain in full force and effect, and any rights or obligations arising out of the Terms shall remain as if they were fully set forth herein. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of the Agreement shall be limited to an action for monetary damages at law, and under no circumstances shall you be entitled to equitable relief or to restrain or enjoin—meaning stop or prevent—the promotion, sale, or distribution of Your Creations. If and to the extent any lender, representative, or agent of yours enters into this Agreement on your behalf, it is hereby agreed that such party has the legal authority to execute the Agreement and to bind you thereto, and you personally guarantee performance of their obligations under the Agreement. This Agreement may be accepted electronically, including digital signature and click-through acceptance.
Effective April 25, 2023 to July 10, 2023
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SELLER ADDENDUM TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE
GENIES, INC.
Last Updated: April 24, 2023
Welcome to the Genies Premier Seller Program! Please take time to read this Genies Seller Addendum (“Addendum”) to the Genies Terms of Service, currently located at www.legal.genies.com/terms (the “Terms”), as it forms an agreement between you (“Seller”) and Genies when you create User Creations (including Remixes), and/or sell, trade or gift Digital Goods on the Services. Seller and Genies may each be referred to as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties” of this Addendum.
By accessing and using the Services, including the Creation Tools, you are agreeing to this Addendum and the Terms. If you use the Services, including the Creation Tools, on behalf of a company or other entity then you represent and warrant that (a) you are an authorized representative of that entity with the authority to bind the entity to this Addendum and the Terms, and (b) you agree to this Addendum and the Terms on that entity’s behalf. Certain other portions of the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions specified by us from time to time; your use of those specific Services are subject to those additional terms and conditions.
Capitalized terms which are not defined in this Addendum have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms. In the event of a conflict between any provisions in this Addendum and any provisions within the Terms, the terms of this Addendum shall control.
- Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Addendum or the Terms have the meaning set forth below:
- “Digital Goods Gross Revenue” means all amounts collected by Genies in connection with the sales of Digital Goods, whether via the Warehouse, including in connection with Secondary Transactions.
- “Digital Goods Net Revenue” means Digital Goods Gross Revenue less the following deductions: (i) Genies platform and Warehouse fees; (ii) credits, refunds, chargebacks and sales; and (iii) use, value-added and other similar taxes and assessments; provided that due to the uncertainty over whether sales, use, value-added, or other similar taxes or assessments are owed on the sales of NFTs in the jurisdictions where Digital Goods are sold, Genies shall have the right to deduct 10% of Digital Goods Gross Revenue to pay for all potential taxes and assessments incurred in connection with the sale of Digital Goods under this Addendum until such time as the Parties agree that the treatment of sales taxes and similar assessments on NFT sales is more definitively assessed by all applicable jurisdictions.
- “Your IP” means your name, voice, image, signature, and likeness (and if representing a company, also the company’s logo), and all content, designs, and materials provided to Genies hereunder, including but not limited to Your Creations.
- “Primary Transactions” means a transaction in which a Digital Good is first sold directly to end users via the Services (whether sold by Genies or a User that is a seller of such Digital Good).
- “Secondary Transaction” means a secondary sale transaction in which a Digital Good is sold by the owner of such Digital Good to another user either via the Warehouse or any other secondary marketplaces or channels.
- Licenses.
- License to Your IP. Seller hereby grants to Genies the perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable (including to Genies’ service providers, and as further set forth in Section 2(c)) right and license to use, reproduce, transmit, publish, display, distribute and adapt Your IP to host, promote, sell, offer to sell, trade and gift the Digital Goods, including via the App and Warehouse.
- License to Seller: Subject to the terms and conditions of this Addendum and the Terms, Genies hereby grants to Seller a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-assignable, revocable, non-sublicensable right and license to use and access the App and Warehouse, and to use, install and execute the Creation Tools, in each case to create, design, modify, promote, and use the Digital Goods.
- License to Owners of Digital Goods. Genies shall have the right to grant to Users who purchase or otherwise acquire Digital Goods, and subsequent owners thereof (collectively, “Owners”) a personal, worldwide, right and license to use, copy, display, modify, including to remix, create derivative goods of, sell, trade, and gift such Digital Goods (including Your Creations) for the Owner’s personal and commercial purposes: (i) in connection with the use of their Genies Avatar and avatar fashion, accessories, and other Digital Goods made available via the Services, including to create other Digital Goods and content made available via the Services, (ii) as part of a marketplace (including the Warehouse) that permits the purchase and sale of such Digital Goods, or (iii) as part of a third-party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of such Digital Goods.
- Brand Licenses. Each Party hereby grants to each other a license to use each other’s trademarks, logos and brands in the form specified in writing by the licensing Party (the “Marks”) for promotional uses across various online and marketing platforms, provided that all such use shall require prior written consent of the licensing Party. All goodwill arising from use of a Party’s Marks will inure to the Party owning such trademarks. No Party may modify, create derivative works of, seek to register, or create any combination mark using, the other Party’s Marks without the Party’s prior written approval in each case.
- Ownership; Additional Obligations.
- Ownership of Digital Goods. Seller shall own title in and to the Digital Goods created by Seller, prior to their sale or transfer of any Digital Goods to Owners.
- Digital Goods Sales. Seller hereby authorizes Genies to sell the Digital Goods to Users of the Services on behalf of Seller, subject to the revenue share obligations set forth below. Genies may determine the price and quantity of Digital Goods for sale on the Services (though the Seller can set the sale price for Digital Goods it is offering for sale via the Services). Genies shall have the right to restrict the quantity of Digital Goods and may also withhold certain quantities of Digital Goods, including for promotional purposes.
- Representations and Warranties.
- Mutual. Each Party represents and warrants to the other Party that: (i) it has full right and power to enter into this Addendum and to perform fully all of its obligations hereunder; (ii) there are no other agreements, written or oral, with any third Party in conflict herewith, and (iii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Addendum by such Party shall not, directly or indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time) contravene, conflict with or result in a violation of (A) any resolution or other action adopted or taken by the board of directors, managers, managing members, members, owners, partners or the shareholders of such Party, or (B) any applicable law.
- Seller Representations and Warranties. Seller represents, warrants and covenants to Genies that: (i) it is the sole and exclusive owner of Your IP, free and clear of all liens or encumbrances, or otherwise has all necessary rights and authorizations to grant the rights to Genies hereunder (including all sublicense rights); (ii) it is not necessary for Genies to obtain the consent or permission of, or to pay any amounts to, any third party in order to fully enjoy the rights granted under this Addendum by Seller; (iii) there are no claims, litigation or other proceedings pending or threatened which would adversely affect any Digital Goods or Your IP or rights granted hereunder; (iv) the use, display and exploitation of the Your IP as a part of the Digital Goods will not violate any applicable laws, including, but not limited to, infringement or misappropriation of any copyright, patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or property right, false advertising, unfair competition, defamation, or invasion of privacy or publicity rights, moral or otherwise; (v) the Your IP and Digital Goods are, and will at all times be, in compliance with the Genies Terms, including all content guidelines, policies and requirements set forth therein, and (vi) Seller has obtained any and all necessary consents, approvals, licenses, releases and rights from any third parties who appear in, or may otherwise have rights in the Your IP or the Digital Goods.
- Creation Fees.
- Creation Fee for Primary Transactions. With respect to Primary Transactions of Digital Goods, Genies shall pay the Seller 100% of Digital Goods Net Revenue. If the Digital Goods are Remixes or have been otherwise modified by, or includes intellectual property from third party creators, Genies shall pay the Seller 50% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue from such Digital Goods and the remaining 50% shall be paid to the original third-party creator or creators.
- Fee for Secondary Transactions. With respect to Secondary Transactions of Digital Goods [via the Services], Genies shall pay the Seller 5% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue received by Genies for secondary sales of Digital Goods. If the Digital Goods are Remixes or otherwise have been modified or includes intellectual property from third party creators and then is sold in a Secondary Transaction, Genies will pay 2.5% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue from such Digital Goods to the Seller and 2.5% of the Digital Goods Gross Revenue to the additional third-party creator or creators.
- Payment. On a monthly basis within 60 days following the end of each calendar month, Genies shall remit to Seller all applicable royalties set forth above. All payments shall be made in U.S. dollars (using then applicable exchange rates). Seller is responsible for providing accurate and complete information as may be requested by Genies in order for Genies to make payments to Seller.
- Taxes. All payments due under this Addendum are exclusive of taxes, duties, levies, tariffs, and other governmental charges (including, without limitation, VAT), and Seller will be responsible for payment of all such taxes and any related interest and penalties resulting from any payments made hereunder.
- Term and Termination.
- Term. This Addendum shall commence on the Effective Date and will remain in effect unless terminated by either party (“Term”).
- Termination of this Addendum. If you breach any of the provisions of this Addendum, Genies may terminate this Addendum automatically. In addition, you and Genies both will have the right to terminate this Addendum for any reason, with or without cause, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the other party to this Addendum.
- Effect of Termination. Upon termination, the licenses granted hereunder shall terminate except to the extent necessary to allow Owners to continue to exercise their rights in their owned Digital Goods, to permit Genies to complete Primary Transactions of any Digital Goods already listed for sale on the Services at the effective date of termination, and to facilitate Secondary Transactions of Digital Goods by Owners in perpetuity.
- Survival. The rights, obligations, and limitations under this Addendum that the Parties have expressly agreed shall survive termination of this Addendum or that, by their nature, would continue beyond the termination of this Addendum, shall survive the termination of this Addendum for any reason.
- Indemnification. Seller shall indemnify and hold Genies, its affiliates, successors and assigns, and their officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees (the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all third party claims, proceedings, actions, judgments, penalties, fines, interest, damages, costs, expenses and other liabilities and losses (whether under a theory of strict liability, or otherwise) of whatsoever kind or nature (each, a “Claim”) incurred by, or threatened, imposed or filed against, any Indemnified Party to the extent caused by or arising out of or in connection with (i) allegations that the Your IP and Digital Goods or the use thereof infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights, (ii) Seller’s promotional or marketing efforts for any Digital Goods, and (iii) a breach of any of Seller’s representations, warranties or obligations in this Addendum. Seller shall not settle, compromise, or consent to the entry of any judgment or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened Claim in respect of which the Indemnified Party is entitled to indemnification hereunder (whether or not the Indemnified Party is a party thereto), without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party.
- Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF GENIES FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS ADDENDUM EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID BY GENIES TO SELLER HEREUNDER. EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS ARE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE ADDENDUM BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH LIMITATIONS THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THIS ADDENDUM WOULD BE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT.
- Updating This Addendum. We may modify this Addendum from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of this Addendum. If we make changes that are material, we will use reasonable efforts to attempt to notify you, such as by e-mail and/or by placing a prominent notice on the Services. However, it is your sole responsibility to review this Addendum from time to time to view any such changes. The updated Addendum will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as may be specified in the updated Addendum. Your continued access or use of the Services after the modifications have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms.
Effective April 24, 2023 to April 25, 2023
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GENIES, INC.
SELLER ADDENDUM TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Revised on April 20, 2022
Welcome to the Genies Premier Seller Program! Please take time to read this Genies Seller Addendum (“Addendum”) to the Genies Terms of Service, currently located at
www.legal.genies.com/terms (the “Terms”), as it forms an agreement between you (“Seller”) and Genies when you create User Creations (including Remixes), and/or sell, trade or gift Digital Goods on the Services. Seller and Genies may each be referred to as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties” of this Addendum.
By accessing and using the Services, including the Creation Tools, you are agreeing to this Addendum and the Terms. If you use the Services, including the Creation Tools, on behalf of a company or other entity then you represent and warrant that (a) you are an authorized representative of that entity with the authority to bind the entity to this Addendum and the Terms, and (b) you agree to this Addendum and the Terms on that entity’s behalf. Certain other portions of the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions specified by us from time to time; your use of those specific Services are subject to those additional terms and conditions.
Capitalized terms which are not defined in this Addendum have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms. In the event of a conflict between any provisions in this Addendum and any provisions within the Terms, the terms of this Addendum shall control.
- Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Addendum or the Terms have the meaning set forth below:
- “Digital Goods Gross Revenue” means all amounts actually collected by Genies in connection with the sales of Digital Goods, whether via the Warehouse, including in connection with Secondary Transactions.
- “Digital Goods Net Revenue” means Digital Goods Gross Revenue less the following deductions: (i) Genies platform and Warehouse fees; (ii) credits, refunds, chargebacks and sales; and (iii) use, value-added and other similar taxes and assessments; provided that due to the uncertainty over whether sales, use, value-added, or other similar taxes or assessments are owed on the sales of NFTs in the jurisdictions where Digital Goods are sold, Genies shall have the right to deduct 10% of Digital Goods Gross Revenue to pay for all potential taxes and assessments incurred in connection with the sale of Digital Goods under this Addendum until such time as the Parties agree that the treatment of sales taxes and similar assessments on NFT sales is more definitively assessed by all applicable jurisdictions.
- “Your IP” means your name, voice, image, signature, and likeness (and if representing a company, also the company’s logo), and all content, designs, and materials provided to Genies hereunder, including but not limited to Your Creations.
- “Primary Transactions” means a transaction in which a Digital Good is first sold directly to end users via the Services (whether sold by Genies or a User that is a seller of such Digital Good).
- “Secondary Transaction” means a secondary sale transaction in which a Digital Good is sold by the owner of such Digital Good to another user either via the Warehouse or any other secondary marketplaces or channels.
- Licenses.
- License to Your IP. Seller hereby grants to Genies the perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable (including to Genies’ service
providers, and as further set forth in Section 2(c)) right and license to use, reproduce, transmit, publish, display, distribute and adapt Your IP to host, promote, sell, offer to sell, trade and gift the Digital Goods, including via the App and Warehouse.
- License to Seller: Subject to the terms and conditions of this Addendum and the Terms, Genies hereby grants to Seller a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-assignable, revocable, non-sublicensable right and license to use and access the App and Warehouse, and to use, install and execute the Creation Tools, in each case to create, design, modify, promote and use the Digital Goods.
- License to Owners of Digital Goods. Genies shall have the right to grant to Users who purchase or otherwise acquire Digital Goods, and subsequent owners thereof (collectively, “Owners”) a personal, worldwide, right and license to use, copy, display, modify, including to remix, create derivative goods of, sell, trade, and gift such Digital Goods (including Your Creations) for the Owner’s personal and commercial purposes: (i) in connection with the use of their Genies Avatar and avatar fashion, accessories, and other Digital Goods made available via the Services, including to create other Digital Goods and content made available via the Services, (ii) as part of a marketplace
(including the Warehouse) that permits the purchase and sale of such Digital Goods, or
(iii) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of such Digital Goods.
- Brand Licenses. Each Party hereby grants to each other a license to use each other’s trademarks, logos and brands in the form specified in writing by the licensing Party (the “Marks”) for promotional uses across various online and marketing platforms, provided that all such use shall require prior written consent of the licensing Party. All goodwill arising from use of a Party’s Marks will inure to the Party owning such trademarks. No Party may modify, create derivative works of, seek to register, or create any combination mark using, the other Party’s Marks without the Party’s prior written approval in each case.
- Ownership; Additional Obligations.
- Ownership of Digital Goods. Seller shall own title in and to the Digital Goods created by Seller, prior to their sale or transfer of any Digital Goods to Owners.
- Digital Goods Sales. Seller hereby authorizes Genies to sell the Digital Goods to Users of the Services on behalf of Seller, subject to the revenue share obligations set forth below. Genies may determine the price and quantity of Digital Goods for sale on the Services (though the Seller can set the sale price for Digital Goods it is offering for sale via the Services). Genies shall have the right to restrict the quantity of Digital Goods and may also withhold certain quantities of Digital Goods, including for promotional purposes.
- Representations and Warranties.
- Mutual. Each Party represents and warrants to the other Party that: (i) it has full right and power to enter into this Addendum and to perform fully all of its obligations hereunder; (ii) there are no other agreements, written or oral, with any third Party in conflict herewith, and (iii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Addendum by such Party shall not, directly or indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time) contravene, conflict with or result in a violation of (A) any resolution or other action adopted or taken by the board of directors, managers, managing members, members, owners, partners or the shareholders of such Party, or (B) any applicable law.
- Seller Representations and Warranties. Seller represents, warrants and covenants to Genies that: (i) it is the sole and exclusive owner of Your IP, free and clear of all liens or encumbrances, or otherwise has all necessary rights
and authorizations to grant the rights to Genies hereunder (including all sublicense rights); (ii) it is not necessary for Genies to obtain the consent or permission of, or to pay any amounts to, any third party in order to fully enjoy the rights granted under this Addendum by Seller; (iii) there are no claims, litigation or other proceedings pending or threatened which would adversely affect any Digital Goods or Your IP or rights granted hereunder; (iv) the use, display and exploitation of the Your IP as a part of the Digital Goods will not violate any applicable laws, including, but not limited to, infringement or misappropriation of any copyright, patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or property right, false advertising, unfair competition, defamation, or invasion of privacy or publicity rights, moral or otherwise; (v) the Your IP and Digital Goods are, and will at all times be, in compliance with the Genies Terms, including all content guidelines, policies and requirements set forth therein, and (vi) Seller has obtained any and all necessary consents, approvals, licenses, releases and rights from any third parties who appear in, or may otherwise have rights in the Your IP or the Digital Goods.
- Creation Fees.
- Creation Fee for Primary Transactions. With respect to Primary Transactions of Digital Goods, Genies shall pay the Seller 100% of Digital Goods Net Revenue. If the Digital Goods are Remixes or have been otherwise modified by, or includes intellectual property from third party creators, Genies shall pay the Seller 50% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue from such Digital Goods and the remaining 50% shall be paid to the original third-party creator or creators.
- Fee for Secondary Transactions. With respect to Secondary Transactions of Digital Goods [via the Services], Genies shall pay the Seller 5% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue received by Genies for secondary sales of Digital Goods. If the Digital Goods are Remixes or otherwise have been modified or includes intellectual property from third party creators and then is sold in a Secondary Transaction, Genies will pay 2.5% of the Digital Goods Net Revenue from such Digital Goods to the Seller and 2.5% of the Digital Goods Gross Revenue to the additional third party creator or creators.
- Payment. On a monthly basis within 60 days following the end of each calendar month, Genies shall remit to Seller all applicable royalties set forth above. All payments shall be made in U.S. dollars (using then applicable exchange rates). Seller is responsible for providing accurate and complete information as may be requested by Genies in order for Genies to make payments to Seller.
- Taxes. All payments due under this Addendum are exclusive of taxes, duties, levies, tariffs and other governmental charges (including, without limitation, VAT), and Seller will be responsible for payment of all such taxes and any related interest and penalties resulting from any payments made hereunder.
- Term and Termination.
- Term. This Addendum shall commence on the Effective Date and will remain in effect unless terminated by either party (“Term”).
- Termination of this Addendum. If you breach any of the provisions of this Addendum, Genies may terminate this Addendum automatically. In addition, you and Genies both will have the right to terminate this Addendum for any reason, with or without cause, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the other party to this Addendum.
- Effect of Termination. Upon termination, the licenses granted hereunder shall terminate except to the extent necessary to allow Owners to continue to exercise their rights in their owned Digital Goods, to permit Genies to complete Primary Transactions of any Digital Goods already listed for sale on the Services at the effective date of termination, and to facilitate Secondary
Transactions of Digital Goods by Owners in perpetuity.
- Survival. The rights, obligations, and limitations under this Addendum that the Parties have expressly agreed shall survive termination of this Addendum or that, by their nature, would continue beyond the termination of this Addendum, shall survive the termination of this Addendum for any reason.
- Indemnification. Seller shall indemnify and hold Genies, its affiliates, successors and assigns, and their officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees (the
“Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all third party claims, proceedings, actions, judgments, penalties, fines, interest, damages, costs, expenses and other liabilities and losses (whether under a theory of strict liability, or otherwise) of whatsoever kind or nature (each, a “Claim”) incurred by, or threatened, imposed or filed against, any Indemnified Party to the extent caused by or arising out of or in connection with (i) allegations that the Your IP and Digital Goods or the use thereof infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights, (ii) Seller’s promotional or marketing efforts for any Digital Goods, and (iii) a breach of any of Seller’s representations, warranties or obligations in this Addendum. Seller shall not settle, compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened Claim in respect of which the Indemnified Party is entitled to indemnification hereunder (whether or not the Indemnified Party is a party thereto), without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party.
- Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF GENIES FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS ADDENDUM EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID BY GENIES TO SELLER HEREUNDER. EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS ARE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE ADDENDUM BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH LIMITATIONS THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THIS ADDENDUM WOULD BE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT.
- Updating This Addendum. We may modify this Addendum from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of this Addendum. If we make changes that are material, we will use reasonable efforts to attempt to notify you, such as by e-mail and/or by placing a prominent notice on the Services. However, it is your sole responsibility to review this Addendum from time to time to view any such changes. The updated Addendum will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as may be specified in the updated Addendum. Your continued access or use of the Services after the modifications have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms.
SMS Terms and Conditions
Effective April 17, 2023
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GENIES SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please read these terms and conditions carefully. By providing your telephone number(s) and confirming your acceptance of SMS/text messages from Genies, Inc (“Genies) through electronic and/or digital means, you are agreeing to receive recurring non-marketing and marketing text messages from Genies, including text messages made with an automatic telephone dialing system, at the telephone number(s) that you provide. You do not have to consent to this to use Genies. You may opt out of receiving these text messages at any time. Your standard cell phone carrier message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.
You also accept and agree to be bound by these SMS Terms and Conditions, our Terms Of Use, our Privacy Policy, and any other applicable terms and agreements related to your use of Genies services.
Program Description
Genies and its service providers may use an automatic telephone dialing system to deliver text messages to you. Genies text messages are intended to provide you with information about Genies services, including exclusive limited-time offers and community building activities. Genies will be using text messages to keep you updated on big announcements, exclusive giveaways, creator feature opportunities, and app tips.
Cost
Message and data rates may apply to each text message sent or received in connection with Genies text messages as provided in your mobile telephone service rate plan, in addition to any applicable roaming charges. Please contact your mobile telephone carrier for pricing plans. Genies does not impose a separate fee for sending Genies text messages.
How to Opt In
To opt in to receive text messages from Genies, please follow the instructions provided when you enroll via the Genies website or smartphone application.
How to Opt Out
To stop receiving text messages from Genies, use the mobile phone corresponding to the number enrolled in Genies text messages and reply “STOP” in response to a text message from the Genies text messaging program. You will then receive confirmation of your opt-out. This will only opt you out of the specific text messaging program associated with that phone number or five-digit short code, and you will remain opted in to any other text messaging programs where you have enrolled.The opt out does not preclude messaging that Genies sends for necessary services such as two-factor authentication and messaging for identity confirmation purposes.
Your Mobile Telephone Number
You represent that you are the account holder for the mobile telephone number(s) that you provide. You are responsible for notifying Genies immediately if you change your mobile telephone number. You may notify Genies of a number change by emailing support@genies.com.
You agree to indemnify Genies in full for all claims, expenses, and damages related to or caused in whole or in part by your failure to notify Genies if you change your telephone number, and any other unlawful usage of Genies SMS Terms and Conditions Policy such as providing false information. This is included but not limited to all claims, expenses, and damages related to or arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and state telemarketing laws.
Access or Delivery to Mobile Network Is Not Guaranteed
Delivery of information and content to a mobile device may fail due to a variety of circumstances or conditions. You understand and acknowledge that network services, including but not limited to mobile network services, are outside of the control of Genies, and Genies is not responsible or liable for issues arising from them.
Support/Help
For help or support, reply “HELP” in response to a text message from the Genies text messaging program. You may also receive help via email at support@genies.com.
Eligibility
To receive Genies text messages, you must be a resident of the United States and at least 13 years of age or older. Genies reserves the right to require you to prove that you are at least 13 years of age.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
Genies may revise, modify, or amend these SMS Terms and Conditions from time to time. We will provide notice of any such revision, modification, or amendment through reasonable means, including but not limited by email to any email address you provide or by text message to any telephone number you provide. Said revision, modification, or amendment shall not apply retroactively and will not be effective until seven (7) days after we provide notice. If you do not agree to the revision, modification, or amendment, you must opt-out of Genies text messages within the 7-day notice period. If you do not opt-out, you will be deemed to have accepted the revision, modification, or amendment.
Termination of Text Messaging
Genies may suspend or terminate your receipt of Genies text messages for any reason, including if Genies believes you are in breach of these SMS Terms and Conditions. Your receipt of Genies text messages is also subject to termination if your mobile telephone service terminates or lapses. Genies reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any part of Genies text messages, with or without notice.
Communications and Consent to Electronic Notices
You may communicate with Genies via postal mail, telephone, and our website. Genies may issue notices via various channels, including by sending email to an address you provide. You agree that such notices shall have legal effect.
You also agree that notices sent by email satisfy any requirement that notices be provided in writing. If you do not agree, do not use Genies products or services.
Your consent to receive electronic communications applies to this transaction and any future transaction which may arise out of this transaction. You may have the right to withdraw your consent to receive certain electronic communications, and when required by law, Genies will provide you with paper copies upon request at no charge. You may make such a request via any of the channels listed above. If you withdraw your consent, Genies reserves the right to terminate your use of Genies products or services.
To receive, access, and retain the notices that Genies sends via email, you must have Internet access and a computer or device with a compatible web browser. You will also need software capable of viewing files in PDF format. Your device or computer must have the ability to print, or download and store, e-mails and PDF files. By accepting these terms, you confirm that you can receive, access, and retain the notices that Genies may send. You may update your information via support@genies.com
Contact Us
If you have questions regarding these SMS Terms and Conditions, please reach out to us via email at support@genies.com.
Effective March 31, 2023 to April 17, 2023
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GENIES SMS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please read these terms and conditions carefully. By providing your telephone number(s) and confirming your acceptance of SMS/text messages from Genies, Inc (“Genies) through electronic and/or digital means, you are agreeing to receive recurring non-marketing and marketing text messages from Genies, including text messages made with an automatic telephone dialing system, at the telephone number(s) that you provide. You do not have to consent to this to use Genies. You may opt out of receiving these text messages at any time. Your standard cell phone carrier message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.
You also accept and agree to be bound by these SMS Terms and Conditions, our Terms Of Use, our Privacy Policy, and any other applicable terms and agreements related to your use of Genies services.
Program Description
Genies and its service providers may use an automatic telephone dialing system to deliver text messages to you. Genies text messages are intended to provide you with information about Genies services, including exclusive limited-time offers and community building activities. Genies will be using text messages to keep you updated on big announcements, exclusive giveaways, creator feature opportunities, and app tips.
Cost
Message and data rates may apply to each text message sent or received in connection with Genies text messages as provided in your mobile telephone service rate plan, in addition to any applicable roaming charges. Please contact your mobile telephone carrier for pricing plans. Genies does not impose a separate fee for sending Genies text messages.
How to Opt In
To opt in to receive text messages from Genies, please follow the instructions provided when you enroll via the Genies website or smartphone application.
How to Opt Out
To stop receiving text messages from Genies, use the mobile phone corresponding to the number enrolled in Genies text messages and reply “STOP” in response to a text message from the Genies text messaging program. You will then receive confirmation of your opt-out. This will only opt you out of the specific text messaging program associated with that phone number or five-digit short code, and you will remain opted in to any other text messaging programs where you have enrolled.The opt out does not preclude messaging that Genies sends for necessary services such as two-factor authentication and messaging for identity confirmation purposes.
Your Mobile Telephone Number
You represent that you are the account holder for the mobile telephone number(s) that you provide. You are responsible for notifying Genies immediately if you change your mobile telephone number. You may notify Genies of a number change by emailing support@genies.com.
You agree to indemnify Genies in full for all claims, expenses, and damages related to or caused in whole or in part by your failure to notify Genies if you change your telephone number, and any other unlawful usage of Genies SMS Terms and Conditions Policy such as providing false information. This is included but not limited to all claims, expenses, and damages related to or arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and state telemarketing laws.
Access or Delivery to Mobile Network Is Not Guaranteed
Delivery of information and content to a mobile device may fail due to a variety of circumstances or conditions. You understand and acknowledge that network services, including but not limited to mobile network services, are outside of the control of Genies, and Genies is not responsible or liable for issues arising from them.
Support/Help
For help or support, reply “HELP” in response to a text message from the Genies text messaging program. You may also receive help via email at support@genies.com.
Eligibility
To receive Genies text messages, you must be a resident of the United States and at least 13 years of age or older. Genies reserves the right to require you to prove that you are at least 13 years of age.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
Genies may revise, modify, or amend these SMS Terms and Conditions from time to time. We will provide notice of any such revision, modification, or amendment through reasonable means, including but not limited by email to any email address you provide or by text message to any telephone number you provide. Said revision, modification, or amendment shall not apply retroactively and will not be effective until seven (7) days after we provide notice. If you do not agree to the revision, modification, or amendment, you must opt-out of Genies text messages within the 7-day notice period. If you do not opt-out, you will be deemed to have accepted the revision, modification, or amendment.
Termination of Text Messaging
Genies may suspend or terminate your receipt of Genies text messages for any reason, including if Genies believes you are in breach of these SMS Terms and Conditions. Your receipt of Genies text messages is also subject to termination if your mobile telephone service terminates or lapses. Genies reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any part of Genies text messages, with or without notice.
Communications and Consent to Electronic Notices
You may communicate with Genies via postal mail, telephone, and our website. Genies may issue notices via various channels, including by sending email to an address you provide. You agree that such notices shall have legal effect.
You also agree that notices sent by email satisfy any requirement that notices be provided in writing. If you do not agree, do not use Genies products or services.
Your consent to receive electronic communications applies to this transaction and any future transaction which may arise out of this transaction. You may have the right to withdraw your consent to receive certain electronic communications, and when required by law, Genies will provide you with paper copies upon request at no charge. You may make such a request via any of the channels listed above. If you withdraw your consent, Genies reserves the right to terminate your use of Genies products or services.
To receive, access, and retain the notices that Genies sends via email, you must have Internet access and a computer or device with a compatible web browser. You will also need software capable of viewing files in PDF format. Your device or computer must have the ability to print, or download and store, e-mails and PDF files. By accepting these terms, you confirm that you can receive, access, and retain the notices that Genies may send. You may update your information via support@genies.com
Contact Us
If you have questions regarding these SMS Terms and Conditions, please reach out to us via email at support@genies.com.
Community Virtues
Effective May 24, 2023
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Genies’ Community Virtues
One of One | There’s only one you. Own it. Celebrate it. Create it. Expression is the key to actualizing one’s identity. Manifest your own reality and fight to remain authentic. Remember, you are unique. |
All for All | The community is what you help make it. Care for it. Contribute to it. Flourish with it. In all communities, your actions impact others and others' actions impact you. Support and build up others for the greater good. Make this community one where everyone can feel welcome. |
Safety | Set your boundaries. Your identity. Your experiences. Your Control. You’re free to embark on your journey and navigate as you please. Opt-in or opt-out, you’re always in the driver seat. Curate your reality. |
Effective May 24, 2023 to May 24, 2023
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Genies’ Community Virtues
One of One | There’s only one you. Own it. Celebrate it. Create it. Expression is the key to actualizing one’s identity. Manifest your own reality and fight to remain authentic. Remember, you are unique. |
All for All | The community is what you help make it. Care for it. Contribute to it. Flourish with it. In all communities, your actions impact others and others' actions impact you. Support and build up others for the greater good. Make this community one where everyone can feel welcome. |
Safety | Set your boundaries. Your identity. Your experiences. Your Control. You’re free to embark on your journey and navigate as you please. Opt-in or opt-out, you’re always in the driver seat. Curate your reality. |
Effective April 17, 2023 to May 24, 2023
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Genies’ Community Virtues
- One of One
There’s only one you. Own it. Celebrate it. Create it. Expression is the key to actualizing one’s identity. Manifest your own reality and fight to remain authentic. Remember, you are unique.
- All for All
The community is what you help make it. Care for it. Contribute to it. Flourish with it. In all communities, your actions impact others and others' actions impact you. Support and build up others for the greater good. Make this community one where everyone can feel welcome.
- Safety
Set your boundaries. Your identity. Your experiences. Your Control. You’re free to embark on your journey and navigate as you please. Opt-in or opt-out, you’re always in the driver seat. Curate your reality.
Community Guidelines
Effective April 18, 2023
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Genies’ Community Guidelines
Introduction
Genies communities include people from a wide variety of experiences, backgrounds, and mindsets and we offer a wide range of products and experiences. We want to provide a unique experience and safe community for all our users. To achieve this, we have developed the following community guidelines, which outline our rules when it comes to the kind of content that is allowed on our platform.
We strongly support diverse views being expressed on our platform if they are respectful to users with differing opinions. All our users play an important role in safeguarding our community. We will reject expression, content or behavior that violates our community guidelines. Any attempt to violate our community guidelines, may result in deactivation, suspension or restriction of your account. When necessary we may report any likely threat to public or individual safety to law enforcement authorities.
Below, you will find our community guidelines arranged into five (5) sections: intellectual property infringement, illegal content and regulated goods, unsafe content, privacy protection and repeat infringer policy.
Intellectual Property (IP) Infringement
- IP infringement: Genies prohibits any copyright, trademark or other IP right violation by any user. Unauthorized use of a copyright, trademark or any other IP right owned by another person is referred to as IP infringement. Use of contents already in the public domain does not amount to IP infringement. A content is generally considered to be within the public domain if it is ineligible for IP protection or its IP right has expired. If we receive a valid IP infringement request regarding your content, we will remove your content from our platform and may deactivate, suspend or restrict your account.
Unlawful or Illegal Contents and Regulated Goods
- Frauds, scams, and misinformation: Genies prohibits any content that aims to promote or take financial advantage of any community members or groups of persons through Ponzi schemes, phishing, unreasonable investment requests and other types of scams. Genies prohibits misinformation that jeopardizes the safety of our community. This includes but is not limited to any misinformation that could lead to physical injury, illness, death, that incites hate or violence, induces panic, misleads civic processes like elections, and denies globally recognized pandemics.
- False impersonation: Genies prohibits falsely assuming the personal identity of another person. This includes but is not limited to intention to gain a benefit or to cause harm to the other person with the false identity.
- Violent extremism and hateful conduct: Genies prohibits any form of violent extremism or hateful conduct, including but not limited to terrorism, organized hate, threats of violence, incitement to violence, rape, assault, robbery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, organ trafficking, kidnapping, financial crimes, or cybercrime.
- Child exploitation: Genies prohibits any display of nudity, sexually explicit content or conduct of a minor and any activity that promotes abuse, harm, jeopardy, or exploitation of minors on our platform. Any evidence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) will be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or any other relevant government authorities. We consider any person under the age of 18 as a minor.
Unsafe Contents
- Bullying and harassment: Genies prohibits all forms of bullying and harassment, including but not limited to verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, humiliation, and inappropriate sexual behavior.
- Gratuitous violence, gore, or cruelty: Genies prohibits any content that depicts or promotes gratuitous violence, gore, or cruelty, including but not limited to death or accident graphics, physical violence, maimed or dissected human or animal body. We may report any likely threat to public or individual safety to law enforcement authorities.
Privacy Protection
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and privacy invasions: Genies prohibits the posting of other people’s sensitive personal information or privacy without their consent, even if the information is already public. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to birthdates, physical addresses, passwords, identification numbers, bank account information, social security numbers, phone numbers and unauthorized intimate images of others. Please review our Privacy Policy.
Repeat Infringer Policy
In accordance with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable law, Genies may deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account in appropriate circumstances, where the account holder is a repeat infringer. Our repeat infringer policy is executed seriously to take timely actions upon notice against users who repeatedly violate this policy.
- Who is a repeat infringer: Genies considers a repeat infringer to be any user that repeatedly violates our Community Guidelines.
Genies reserves the discretion to deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account considering previous violations.
Our decision to deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account will be based on all available evidence, including such considerations as the complaining party’s allegations, whether the content was removed expeditiously by the user, and any successful appeals against the account deactivation, suspension or restriction.
- Reporting repeat infringer: If you believe that a user is a repeat infringer, please email us at copyright@genies.com and provide information sufficient for us to verify that a user is a repeat infringer.
- Appeal options: If your account was deactivated, suspended or restricted for violating our Repeat Infringer Policy, you may file an appeal by sending an email to appeals@genies.com. Your account may be reactivated or reinstated under a compelling circumstance. In an unsuccessful appeal, your account will remain deactivated, suspended or restricted.
Our product will always be evolving, which will necessitate our community guidelines also being updated to keep up with the needs of our community and products. So, we encourage you to regularly check for updates.
Effective April 17, 2023 to April 18, 2023
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Genies’ Community Guidelines
Introduction
Genies communities include people from a wide variety of experiences, backgrounds, and mindsets and we offer a wide range of products and experiences. We want to provide a unique experience and safe community for all our users. To achieve this, we have developed the following community guidelines, which outline our rules when it comes to the kind of content that is allowed on our platform.
We strongly support diverse views being expressed on our platform if they are respectful to users with differing opinions. All our users play an important role in safeguarding our community. We will reject expression, content or behavior that violates our community guidelines. Any attempt to violate our community guidelines, may result in deactivation, suspension or restriction of your account. When necessary we may report any likely threat to public or individual safety to law enforcement authorities.
Below, you will find our community guidelines arranged into five (5) sections: intellectual property infringement, illegal content and regulated goods, unsafe content, privacy protection and repeat infringer policy.
Intellectual Property (IP) Infringement
- IP infringement: Genies prohibits any copyright, trademark or other IP right violation by any user. Unauthorized use of a copyright, trademark or any other IP right owned by another person is referred to as IP infringement. Use of contents already in the public domain does not amount to IP infringement. A content is generally considered to be within the public domain if it is ineligible for IP protection or its IP right has expired. If we receive a valid IP infringement request regarding your content, we will remove your content from our platform and may deactivate, suspend or restrict your account. Please review our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy.
Unlawful or Illegal Contents and Regulated Goods
- Frauds, scams, and misinformation: Genies prohibits any content that aims to promote or take financial advantage of any community members or groups of persons through Ponzi schemes, phishing, unreasonable investment requests and other types of scams. Genies prohibits misinformation that jeopardizes the safety of our community. This includes but is not limited to any misinformation that could lead to physical injury, illness, death, that incites hate or violence, induces panic, misleads civic processes like elections, and denies globally recognized pandemics.
- False impersonation: Genies prohibits falsely assuming the personal identity of another person. This includes but is not limited to intention to gain a benefit or to cause harm to the other person with the false identity.
- Violent extremism and hateful conduct: Genies prohibits any form of violent extremism or hateful conduct, including but not limited to terrorism, organized hate, threats of violence, incitement to violence, rape, assault, robbery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, organ trafficking, kidnapping, financial crimes, or cybercrime.
- Child exploitation: Genies prohibits any display of nudity, sexually explicit content or conduct of a minor and any activity that promotes abuse, harm, jeopardy, or exploitation of minors on our platform. Any evidence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) will be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or any other relevant government authorities. We consider any person under the age of 18 as a minor.
Unsafe Contents
- Bullying and harassment: Genies prohibits all forms of bullying and harassment, including but not limited to verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, humiliation, and inappropriate sexual behavior.
- Gratuitous violence, gore, or cruelty: Genies prohibits any content that depicts or promotes gratuitous violence, gore, or cruelty, including but not limited to death or accident graphics, physical violence, maimed or dissected human or animal body. We may report any likely threat to public or individual safety to law enforcement authorities.
Privacy Protection
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and privacy invasions: Genies prohibits the posting of other people’s sensitive personal information or privacy without their consent, even if the information is already public. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to birthdates, physical addresses, passwords, identification numbers, bank account information, social security numbers, phone numbers and unauthorized intimate images of others. Please review our Privacy Policy.
Repeat Infringer Policy
In accordance with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable law, Genies may deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account in appropriate circumstances, where the account holder is a repeat infringer. Our repeat infringer policy is executed seriously to take timely actions upon notice against users who repeatedly violate this policy.
- Who is a repeat infringer: Genies considers a repeat infringer to be any user that repeatedly violates our Community Guidelines.
Genies reserves the discretion to deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account considering previous violations.
Our decision to deactivate, suspend or restrict a user’s account will be based on all available evidence, including such considerations as the complaining party’s allegations, whether the content was removed expeditiously by the user, and any successful appeals against the account deactivation, suspension or restriction.
- Reporting repeat infringer: If you believe that a user is a repeat infringer, please email us at copyright@genies.com and provide information sufficient for us to verify that a user is a repeat infringer.
- Appeal options: If your account was deactivated, suspended or restricted for violating our Repeat Infringer Policy, you may file an appeal by sending an email to appeals@genies.com. Your account may be reactivated or reinstated under a compelling circumstance. In an unsuccessful appeal, your account will remain deactivated, suspended or restricted.
Our product will always be evolving, which will necessitate our community guidelines also being updated to keep up with the needs of our community and products. So, we encourage you to regularly check for updates.
DMCA Takedown Policy
Effective April 17, 2023
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Genies’ DMCA Takedown Policy
Introduction
At Genies, Inc., our mission is to empower humans to create and own their own avatar ecosystem. In a bid to promote creativity on our platform, we encourage authenticity from our users. However, in situations where ownership of content posted on our platform is in issue because of alleged copyright infringement, we have created a system in line with the requirement of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
DMCA created a notice-and-takedown system that allows copyright owners to notify Genies about an alleged copyright infringement that may have taken place on Genies’ platform. Genies allow copyright owners to request that content posted on our platform be taken down or denied access, on the belief that it violates their copyright.
The Takedown Process
- When a valid notice is received, Genies will take down or block access to the alleged infringing content.
- Genies will take reasonable steps to contact the user of the alleged infringing content to notify them that their content has been taken down, so that they may file a counter notice, explaining why they disagree with the claims of the complaining party.
- If a valid notice is received from the user of the alleged infringing content, Genies is obligated to promptly forward the counter notice to the complaining party.
- After the counter notice is forwarded to the complaining party, Genies will wait 10-14 days for the copyright owner to file an action seeking a court order against the user of the alleged infringing content. If Genies is not notified that a court action is filed by the complaining party against the user of the alleged infringing content within that time frame, the alleged infringing content will be re-activated or denial of access ceased.
- If no counter notice is filed, the alleged infringing content will stay down, and the case closed.
How to Request for a Takedown
If a copyright owner believes that its work is being infringed on Genies’ platform, the copyright owner may send a notice of the alleged infringement to Genies’ designated agent. For takedown notices to be legally effective, they must be in writing and include substantially the following:
- The legal first and last name of the complaining party.
- The legal name of the complaining party. If that party is an individual, provide the legal first and last name. If the complaining party is a corporation, provide the full corporate name.
- Identification of the copyrighted or protected work claimed to have been infringed, including registration number, if applicable.
- Description of the content that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to enable us to locate the content. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) links to the infringing contents might be crucial here.
- Contact details of the complaining party or its authorized agent, such as mailing address, telephone number and email address.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of a right that is allegedly infringed.
- A physical or electronic signature of the complaining party.
The above elements should be included in a takedown notice, otherwise, it will be at the discretion of Genies to take down the alleged infringing content.
How to File a Counter Notice
A user whose content has been removed based on alleged copyright infringement can file a counter notice, requesting for the removed content to be reinstated, if they believe such removal was done in error. A counter notice must be in writing and include substantially the following:
- A description of the removed content. The URL link of where the content was posted might be helpful here.
- A good faith belief statement under penalty of perjury, that the content was removed by Genies in error.
- Contact details - physical address, telephone number, or email address.
- A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district of the alleged infringer’s residence. Where the alleged infringer resides outside the United States, a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for Los Angeles, California.
- The company name or the full legal name, in the case of an individual.
- Electronic or physical signature.
- After filing a counter notice
Genies will assess the received counter notice for completeness and accuracy. A copy of the counter notice will be sent to the complaining party if it meets our requirements. Note that any personal information included in the counter notice will also be forwarded to the complaining party.
The complaining party will have 10-14 days to file a court action and forward us proof of the same. If we do not receive any proof of court filing within the stipulated timeline, the alleged infringing content will be restored on our platform.
Sending Notification to Genies
If you believe that your work was copied or posted on our platform in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or you believe that your work was removed from our platform in error, please contact us at:
Legal Department
Genies, Inc.
8605 Santa Monica Blvd., #22702
West Hollywood, California 90069
Email: copyright@genies.com