CERTICOS APPROVER TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ESIGNATURE DOCUMENT SIGNING AND STORAGE.
Updated: February 24. 2023
Approver Terms of Service & Terms of Use
Welcome to the Certicosign document platform service offered by Certicos LLC., a Wyoming corporation. The following terms and conditions (the “Terms”) govern your access to and/or use of the document platform, website and Certicos content, services and products available at and/or through the website, including, but not limited to, electronic signature services, online uploads, display, delivery, acknowledgment, and limited storage services for documents and/or electronic contracts. Visit our Home Page and on the footer link and review further the Certicosign site Terms of Service of Use.
Acceptance of Terms
The Services are offered and provided subject to your acceptance of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Certicos’ Privacy Notice) and procedures that may be published from time to time by Certicos related to the services which shall be incorporated herein by reference. By accessing, registering for and/or using the Services in any manner, you agree to the Terms herein. If you do not agree to the Terms, do not use the Services and do not approve this document.
Approver Account
By Approving this document you implement a temporary account with a OTP (One Time Password) which allowed you by email link to see this eSignature Document using your email address. To get back into account after closing Certicos website you will need to re-enter your email and reset your password.
Payment
You do not pay anything to be a Document Approver. After your approval of this document you will receive Certicos Tokens as part of your fee for participating from the Document Creator.
Document Storage
Document Storage is based on the Creator of the documents account. This determines how long the document will remain on the Certicos Platform. The actual document will be located within a Crypto Hash on Certicos’ Decentralized (Interplanetary File Storage System) by reference within the Certicos Blockchain. You will have access by link to the location of the document and may download. DO NOT SHARE THE ACCESS LINK WITH OTHERS TO REMAIN PRIVATE.
License to use our Services
By using the Services and subject to your compliance with the Terms: (i) Certicos and our licensors grant to you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use and/or access the Services; and (ii) you agree not to reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, publicly display, publicly perform, license, sell and/or re-sell any content, software, products and/or services obtained from and/or through the Services without the express prior written permission of Certicos. Neither the Terms nor your access to and/or use of the Services transfers to you and/or any third-party any rights, title and/or interest in any intellectual property rights related to the Services.
Our Services and those of our licensors are protected by applicable intellectual property laws, including United States copyright law and international treaties. Subject to the limited rights expressly granted hereunder, Certicos and/or its third-party providers, licensors, and suppliers reserve all rights, title, and interest in and to the Services, including without limitation, all related worldwide intellectual property rights. No rights are granted to you hereunder other than as expressly set forth herein.
We do not guarantee that any content will be made available on the Services. We reserve the right to, but do not have any obligation to, (i) remove, edit and/or modify any content in our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you and for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims and/or allegations from third parties and/or authorities relating to such content and/or if we are concerned that you may have violated the Terms), and/or for no reason at all and (ii) remove or block any content from the Services.
Deletion of Documents
Documents that are Approved may be deleted from the IPFS Storage location by agreement of all parties (signatories) to the contract. This is a ‘Delete Request’ and can be made within the Document Center. Look for the Document either in your Approved Folder or if more than 30 days and not placed in another folder within your Archived Folder. Only the document itself in pdf format can be deleted if the resulting transaction is permanent and can not be deleted. No refund of Certicos Token’s paid to you or fees for deletion are required.
Restrictions
Except as expressly specified in the Terms, you shall not (i) modify, and/or make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile and/or reverse engineer any part of the Services; (ii) copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, distribute, disclose, encumber, time-share, license, sell, distribute, display, post and/or transmit any part of the Services in any form and/or by any means use or permit the use of, reproduce or otherwise duplicate, disclose, distribute, modify, encumber, time-share, license, sublicense, sell, distribute, assign, rent, lease, or transfer any Services, any portion thereof, and/or otherwise commercially exploit the Services, in whole or in part; (iii) frame and/or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, and/or other portion of the Services (including images, text, page layout, and/or form); (iv) use any metatags and/or other “hidden text” using Certico’s name and/or trademarks; (v) use any manual and/or automated software, devices and/or other processes (including but not limited to spiders, robots, scrapers, crawlers, avatars, data mining tools or the like) to “scrape” and/or download data from any pages contained in the Services (except that we grant the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Services for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such); (vi) use and/or access the Services in order to build a similar and/or competitive website, product, and/or service; (vii) copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post and/or transmit any part of the Services in any form and/or by any means; (viii) remove and/or destroy any copyright notices and/or other proprietary markings contained on and/or in the Services; (ix) intentionally hold Certicos and/or their employees and/or directors up to public scorn, ridicule and/or defamation; (x) promote and/or provide information about illegal activities and/or physical harm and/or injury to any group, individual, institution and/or property; (xi) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion) an unreasonable and/or disproportionately large load on our (and/or our third party providers’) infrastructure; (xii) run any form of auto-responder and/or “spam” on the Services, or use the Services to conduct or forward illegal contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, or unsolicited e-mail or multi-level marketing campaigns ; (xiii) use the Services for any unlawful purpose and/or to violate any federal, state, international law, code of conduct and/or other guidelines which may be applicable to the Services provided; (xiv) access, store, distribute or transmit any viruses, malware, or other harmful material during the course of your use of the Service; (xv) make the functionality of the Services available to multiple users through any means, including, but not limited to distribution of the Services or by uploading the Services to a network and/or file-sharing service and/or through any hosting, application services provider and/or any other type of service, and/or (xvi) circumvent or disable any security or technological features or measures of the Services. You will comply with any technical restrictions on the Services that allow you to use the Services only in certain ways. Any unauthorized use of the Services terminates the rights granted by Certicos pursuant to the Terms.
User content
You represent and warrant that: (i) any information and/or User Content you provide in connection with your access to and/or use of the Services is true, accurate and complete.
Prohibited user content
You agree as an Approver that you will not under any circumstances transmit or undergo an agreement on the Certicos platform any User Content (including software, text, images, or other information) that:
(i) is unlawful and/or promotes unlawful activities;
(ii) defames, harasses, abuses, threatens, or incites violence towards any individual or group;
(iii) is pornographic, discriminatory and/or otherwise victimizes and/or intimidates an individual and/or group on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age and/or disability;
(iv) is spam, is machine- or randomly-generated, constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, chain letters, any other form of unauthorized solicitation and/or any form of lottery and/or gambling;
(v) contains and/or installs any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses and/or other content that is designed or intended to disrupt, damage and/or limit the functioning of any software, hardware, and/or telecommunications equipment and/or to damage and/or obtain unauthorized access to any data and/or other information of any third party;
(vi) infringes on any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity and/or other rights;
(vii) impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives; and/or
(viii) contains payment card data, including credit or debit card data; and/or
(ix) violates the privacy of any third party or PandaDoc employee and/or representative.