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Copyright

All information and content displayed on www.Figdatabase.com is protected by copyright, trademark (SN 88857108) and other intellectual property laws. All rights reserved. You may use the content published on this website for your personal use only. You agree not to reproduce, make derivative works of, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate this content to anyone without the express prior written consent of Figdatabase.com.

Nature of Information Provided Through This Website

Figdatabase.com’s mission is to provide information about fig trees and its fruit. Figdatabase.com provides a collection of online resources including original content, third-party auction listings and links to third party sites. All content and listings posted on, transmitted through, or linked to from Figdatabase.com are the sole responsibility of the person or organization from whom such content originated. We have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety or legality of items advertised, the truth or accuracy of listings, the ability of sellers to sell items, or that sellers will actually complete a transaction. Collectors should conduct their own independent research before making a decision to purchase or sell any fig cuttings or trees. Under no circumstances will Figdatabase.com be liable for any claims or losses related to purchasing or selling fig cuttings or trees, or for your interactions or dealings with organizations and/or individuals found on Figdatabase.com. Figdatabase.com is under no obligation to become involved in disputes between participants on Figdatabase.com or between participants on Figdatabase.com and any third party.

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User Accounts

You must create an account and provide us with certain information about yourself in order to use some of the features offered at Figdatabase.com. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password. You are also responsible for all activities that occur in connection with your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. We reserve the right to close your account at any time for any or no reason.

You may not create or use an account for anyone other than yourself, provide an email address other than your own, or create multiple accounts. If you use a pseudonym, please note that others may still be able to identify you if, for example, you include identifying information in your comments or use the same account information on other sites.

By creating an account, you agree to receive certain communications from us related to items you post at Figdatabase.com.

Your Responsibility for Your Content

You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use, your content.

You are responsible for, and assume all risks associated with, your content, including anyone’s reliance on its quality, accuracy, or reliability, as well as any disclosure by you that makes you personally identifiable.

You may expose yourself to liability if, for example, your content contains material that is false, intentionally misleading, or defamatory; violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; contains material that is unlawful, including illegal hate speech or pornography; exploits or otherwise harms minors; or violates or advocates the violation of any law or regulation.

Our Right to Use Your Content

Permissions You Give to Us. As part of our agreement, you also give us permissions that we need to provide the Service.

• We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a license to use it.
  Nothing is changing about your rights in your content. We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, watermark, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content. You can end this license anytime by deleting your account. However, content will continue to appear if you shared it with others and they have not deleted it or if it is displayed on Fig Database as part of your past membership. You also irrevocably grant the users of Figdatabase.com the right to access your content, including the ability to create Collections using your content. Finally, you irrevocably waive, and cause to be waived, against Figdatabase.com and its users, any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your content.
   
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• You agree that we can download and install updates to the Service on your device.

Ownership

You own your content. We own Figdatabase.com content, which includes, but is not limited to, visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, design, compilation, computer code, products, software, aggregate user ratings, and all other elements and components of Figdatabase.com. We also own the copyrights, logo, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world associated with Figdatabase.com, which are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, trademark laws, and all other applicable intellectual and proprietary rights and laws. As such, you may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Figdatabase.com content in whole or in part except as expressly authorized by us. Except as expressly and unambiguously provided herein, we do not grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights to Figdatabase.com are retained by us. Any reproduction, created derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Figdatabase.com content, products and or services in whole or in part or causing confussion with a similar service is a clear violation of our Trademark (SN 88857108).

Other Terms Associated With Your Content

We reserve the right to screen, edit, or remove your content at our sole discretion and without notice to you. For example, we may remove a picture post if our content guidelines change. We have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of your content, nor do we guarantee any confidentiality with respect to your content.

We are under no obligation to enforce the Terms of Use on your behalf against another user. While we encourage you to let us know if you believe another user has violated the Terms of Use, we reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action at our sole discretion.

In particular, you agree not to, and will not assist or enable others at Figdatabase.com to:
* Violate our content guidelines, for example, by posting an item for sale on your profile page;
* Submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, or otherwise subject to third-party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted herein;
* Publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;
* Submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, degrading, racially or ethnically offensive, encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;
* Post advertisements or solicitations of business;
* Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;
* Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
* Threaten, stalk, harm, or harass others, or promote bigotry, discrimination, and hate; or
* Violate any applicable law.

Account Termination

Figdatabase.com reserves the right to decide whether content violates these Terms of Use.

Figdatabase.com will terminate a user’s account if it determines that the user is an infringer.

Figdatabase.com may at any time, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, remove such content and/or terminate a user’s account for submitting such material in violation of these Terms of Use.

If You Believe Your Copyright Has Been Infringed

If you are a copyright owner or agent thereof and believe that any of our content infringes upon your copyright, please submit a notice, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512 ©) to us with the following information:
(I) a signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright;
(II) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(III) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing;
(IV) your address, telephone number, and email address;
(V) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
(VI) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
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Feedback to FigDatabase.com

By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals to Figdatabase.com through its contact page, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) Your feedback does not contain confidential or proprietary information;
(b) Figdatabase.com is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the feedback;
(c) Figdatabase.com shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such feedback for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide
(d) Figdatabase.com may have something similar to the feedback already under consideration or in development;
(e) Your feedback automatically becomes the property of Figdatabase.com without any obligation of Figdatabase.com to you;
(f) You are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Figdatabase.com under any circumstances.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Figdatabase.com and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners, volunteers and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post, transmit, modify or otherwise make available through your use of Figdatabase.com.

No Warranty

THIS WEBSITE, AND ANY CONTENT, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS OBTAINED OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS SITE, ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS. FIGDATABASE.COM AND ITS INFORMATION PROVIDERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE COMPLETENESS, ADEQUACY, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION ON OUR SITE.

Limitation of Liability

NEITHER FIGDATABASE.COM NOR ITS AFFILIATES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, SPONSORS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, SUPPLIERS OR ADVERTISERS WILL BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS AND INVESTMENT LOSSES), PUNITIVE, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE INFORMATION AND SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, OR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THIS WEBSITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO STOP USING IT. IN ALL EVENTS, FIGDATABASE.COM’S LIABILITY UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE CUMULATIVE AMOUNTS THAT YOU HAVE PAID TO FIGDATABASE.COM.

Links to Other Websites

This Figdatabase.com website contains links to websites operated by others. Such links are provided for your reference and convenience only. A link to another web site does not imply or mean that Figdatabase.com endorses the content on that web site or the operator or operations of that site. You are solely responsible for determining the extent to which you may use any content at any such other websites. You agree not to hold Figdatabase.com responsible for the content or operation of such other web sites. Furthermore, Figdatabase.com is not liable for any harm caused by the transmission, through access of this site, of a computer virus, or other computer code or programming device that might be used to access, delete, damage, disable, disrupt or otherwise impede the operation of the site or of any user’s software, hardware, data or property. When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. Figdatabase.com is not owned or operated by eBay Inc. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. Figdatabase.com is a FREE database directory to help fig growers and collectors with information on fig varieties and types. It is also a set of free tools to help track and catalog a users personal collection.

Sponsorships

Sponsoring a giveaway through Figdatabase.com is a great way to get your product or service out in front of thousands of eager gardeners. Gardeners come to Figdatabase's database blog and entire site to learn more about figs, including about new and useful gardening products, news on new fig variety finds, social engagement with other members of the community and for and overall research on businesses providing products and services. Giveaways encourage these visitors and members to share your product with other like minded friends and family, furthering your reach among the gardening world. Plus, a portion of what you spend on a sponsorship will go to help fund Figdatabase.com and it's projects/services created for for the community. If you would like to become a sponsor of Figdatabase.com , please send us a message with your inquiry.

Direct Advertising

Direct advertising is a more traditional way to reach out to our visitors. Through banner ads placed at strategic locations on the site, you can put your message in front of every visitor to Figdatabase.com.

Our main advertising location is under the "Businesses" page. You can see the prices available here for a business ad space on the page. We offer an exceptional form to show the most details you can think of or would need for a succesful business spot from your logo, business banner to industry type, location details, number of employees, website link, social media platform links, description and even services you provide.

Our next offer to share your business on is on Figdatabase's blog. Coming soon.....

Miscellaneous

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Figdatabase.com may change any term in these Terms of Use at any time by posting such changed term on the Figdatabase.com website. Figdatabase.com will not be required to give notice to you of any such change. Figdatabase.com may discontinue or restrict your use of this Web Site for any reason without notice.

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