SQLPD.COM WEBSITE GENERAL TERMS OF USE
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General
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The SQL POLICE DEPARTMENT website (the "SITE") and the
SQL POLICE DEPARTMENT game ("the GAME") are owned and
operated by Wrapped Castle Limited (the "Owner" or
"We").
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Use of this Site and participation in games offered on
the site are governed by these General Terms of Use, by
any additional terms appearing on the Site, and by the
SQL POLICE DEPARTMENT Privacy Policy found at
https://sqlpd.com/privacy. These
documents should be read carefully and in their entirety
before advancing to any of the pages or other areas of
this site or participating in a Game. If you have any
questions regarding these Terms of Use, the Site or the
Game please contact us at
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These Terms of Use apply to all users of the Site and/or
its client side scripts and game engine run locally in
the browser, whether you are simply browsing, using a
premium area, submitting data or content, participating
in a game or any other interactive area of the site,
either remotely or locally in your browser, or using the
Site in any other way. Therefore, the term "USER" or
"USERS" applies to anyone performing any of the above
actions and the term "SITE" also includes its scripts,
client side scripts and game engine.
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By using this site and/or submitting contents, you agree
to all the Terms of Use. If any of the Terms of Use is
unacceptable to you, please leave the site and refrain
from using it in any way.
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This site is operated at the internet address: sqlpd.com
("the Domain"). The Terms of Use apply to all pages and
other areas of the site, operating under the domain, any
sub-domains, its linked databases or from our server,
including if accessed through certain applications that
we may develop or use, including applications designed
to be used on smart phones, tablets, hand-held devices
and other devices. The Owner may transfer or copy the
site, in whole or in part, to any other domain and/or
change the name of the site. The Terms of Use shall
continue to apply whether the site is operated on this
or another domain, and whether operated under the
current name or any other name.
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The Owner may amend these Terms of Use at any time,
without giving any prior or later notice to users. All
amendments will come into effect and bind users once
posted on this site. Therefore, Users are encouraged to
check the Terms of Use frequently for amendments.
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If you are under 18 years of age, you may not use this
site unless you have received permission from your
parent or guardian.
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Access and Use of this Site
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The Owner grants you a license to use this Site for your
personal, non-commercial use only, on the condition that
you accept and abide by all the Terms of Use.
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Use of some or all areas of this Site may be by
registration only. This may require creation of an
account, or receipt of a user name (which we may require
to be your email address) and/or password. Please read
section 3 which explains how accounts work.
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The Owner may cease or terminate the operation of this
site, or any area of the site, including its client side
scripts, either temporarily or permanently, and may
transfer this site, in whole or in part, to another
domain at any time at the Owner's discretion.
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You may not: (i) alter, modify, reverse-engineer or
amend any part of this site, other than by submitting
User Content (as defined hereunder), under the rules set
out in these Terms of Use; (ii) use this site or any
information on or about other users obtained from this
site to send any spam or other unauthorized or
unsolicited commercial communications or publicity
materials, solicitations, chain-letters and the like or
other unauthorized communications; (iii) transmit to or
by way of this site any content which contains any
software viruses, bugs, Trojan horses, worms or other
computer program or content that is or could be harmful
to other computers or computer programs or could
interrupt their use; (iv) otherwise interfere with the
regular operations of this Site.
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You may not circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere
with any technological measures used on this Site, which
are designed to prevent or restrict use of, or access to
any content or materials, or any copying or distribution
of content or materials, or to protect the privacy of
users.
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Users agree not to operate or use any automated system
or program, including any robot ("bot"), spider, crawler
and the like, that sends user requests to the site in a
quantity that exceeds the number of requests that a
human being, not using such a system or program, would
be able to send in any given period of time using a
standard web browser, or at intervals that are less than
those at which regular requests are sent during the
normal course of browsing, or that exceeds the number of
requests that a reasonable user would send during the
normal course of personal, non-commercial use of the
site. Notwithstanding the following, the operators of
publicly accessible search engines may use industry
standard automated programs that do not unduly burden
this site or our servers solely for the purpose of
indexing this site and its contents in the search
engine.
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We permit links to this site, provided the link is made
and used in an acceptable and non-misleading manner and
that this site is not framed by the linking site. We
reserve the right to revoke permission to any site to
link to this site in our absolute discretion. We do not
allow links from any site that promulgates, promotes or
encourages illegal activity, acts of hate or violence,
or discrimination on the basis of race, religion,
gender, sexual preference or age, or content that is
obscene or unsuitable to the general public.
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We provide links to certain sites on the web that are
not owned or operated by the Owner. These links are
provided as a service to our users, because we think
those sites may be of interest to them. We do not
endorse such sites or warrant or approve of any content
contained therein and will not in way be responsible for
them or their contents.
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Use of forums, blogs, chats and other areas of this site
allowing speech is granted on condition that you abide
by the rules of these features. Comments that you make
using these features will be regarded as User Content
and will be governed by the rules applying to User
Content as more fully set out in Section 5.
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Accounts, Licenses and Payments
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In order to play a game or games on this site, beyond
any free levels that we may offer, you must establish an
Account and pay the required License fee by using one of
our pay service affiliates, such as Paypal® and
Auth0®.
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Licenses will be activated after confirmation of payment
and, unless specified otherwise on the "buy license" or
registration screen, or otherwise approved by the Owner,
will remain active for six months from the date of
activation, subject to these Terms of Use. A License can
be reactivated by payment of the then effective fee.
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All information supplied by you to obtain an Account or
License, user name or password must be true, full and
accurate.
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All accounts, licenses, user names and passwords are
personal. You may not transfer an account, license, user
name or password to anyone else or allow someone else to
use your account, license user name or password.
Similarly, you may not use the account, license, user
name or password of anyone else.
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You are responsible for all activity on your account. If
you become aware of any unauthorized use of your
account, user name or password, you should immediately
notify the Owner. Such notification will not however
render the Owner responsible for any unauthorized use,
whether occurring before or after such notification.
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Unless otherwise specified on the "buy license" or
registration screen, License Fees will accord access to
features of games existing at the time of purchase of
the License. The Owner reserves the right to set
separate fees for access to or use of features added
after that date, or to special features, such as Bonus,
Gold or Premium levels.
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In order to ensure compliance with these Terms of Use,
we may require you to provide an IP that will be used
for identification and may limit access to your Account
to that IP. You may amend the IP if you change your
computer of device by giving us written notice of the
new IP. Permission for access to the old IP will then be
deactivated. In addition, we may require re-activation
of an account or License at certain intervals of time
chosen by us, the changing of a password, or provision
of other information that will allow us to verify that
the account or license is being used by the registered
purchaser only and compliance with other aspects of
these Terms of Use.
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The Owner may refuse registration of any user at its
complete discretion. Under the provisions of the
Consumer Protection Law, 1981, you may cancel any
purchase of an Account within 14 days of purchase,
provided that there has been no activity on the Account.
Cancellation must be in writing and arrive within the
said 14 days. Upon receipt of a cancellation and after
we verify that there has been no use on the Account, we
will refund your purchase fee less a processing fee as
permitted by law. Once there has been any activity on
the Account, the Account may not be cancelled.
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We may terminate your access to the site, or any area of
the site, or an Account, user name or password, at any
time if the Owner becomes aware that you have breached
these Terms of Use or has reason to suspect such breach,
including due to unusual playing activity which may
indicate that the Account is being used by a user or
users other than the registered account holder, or for
any other reason, at its complete discretion. If your
account or access is terminated due to breach or
suspected breach of these terms you will not be eligible
for a refund. However, you may dispute such breach and
we shall carefully review such dispute, but reserve the
right to make the final determination. If your account
or access is terminated for another reason, including a
decision of the Owner to cease operation of the Site,
you will be entitled to a refund of the proportional
part of any payment made by you that reflects the unused
balance of the period of use on your Account (for
instance, if you purchased an Account with a six month
validity and the Account is terminated after three
months, you will be entitled to a refund of fifty
percent of the Account fee that you paid).
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The Owner reserves the right to amend Account fees,
periods and other terms from time-to-time at his
discretion. Such amendment shall have effect from the
date published on the Site.
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Intellectual Property Rights
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Any and all intellectual property rights, including
patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade-dress and designs
in this site and any materials on the site, including
its source code, scripts, and all games, texts,
graphics, artwork, photographs, logos, audio-visual and
musical works, sound recordings, interactive materials
and any other materials ("Materials"), other than the
rights in User Content as defined below, are owned by,
or licensed to the Owner, and are protected by law, as
well as under international treaties. All rights in such
material are reserved. No licenses of any kind to such
Materials are granted or implied other than as
specifically set out hereunder. The Site and these
Materials are provided for the personal, non-commercial
use of Users and may not be published, copied,
reproduced, mirrored, publicly performed or displayed,
broadcast, transmitted, or made available to the public,
commercially rented, distributed, sold, licensed or
otherwise exploited without the specific, written
authorization of the Owner, or the Licensor of the
Materials (in regard to all materials used under license
and User Content).
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Certain contents and code are used under a Creative
Commons (CC) Attribution License. The Owner makes no
claim to rights in those contents or code. Please read
the terms of the Creative Commons License in regard to
those.
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The SQL POLICE DEPARTMENT name, mark and logo are the
property of the Owner and may not be used for any
purpose without its prior written consent.
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User Content Submissions and Provisions
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This site may contain materials or content, including
texts, graphics and other materials which is or has been
submitted by Users or by third-party advertisers. Such
materials are referred to as "User Content".
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Users shall retain all copyright and other intellectual
property rights in User Content posted or uploaded by
them.
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By uploading or posting User Content, you the User grant
the Owner, its licensees and affiliates a perpetual,
non-exclusive, fully transferable, royalty free and
payment free license to copy, publish, display, publicly
perform, broadcast, transmit, communicate and make
available to the public, commercially rent and
distribute and otherwise exploit the User Content or any
part of it, including a license to adapt, edit, alter,
change, mix and remix, add to or detract from any User
Content, and to create films, stories, graphics and
other derivative works and articles of merchandise based
on or using the User Content, or any part of it, all of
the above on this or any affiliated Site and in or by
way of any other media or technology, whether now known
or hereafter invented, perpetually, throughout the
universe. In addition, you grant the Owner a perpetual
license to use your name, likeness and voice in
connection with the above. This license shall also apply
to any user designed levels, if the Owner allows them.
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The Owner will use its best efforts to grant credits
appearing on User Content, however Users must recognize
that due to the nature of the site, the Owner will not
be required to grant and will not be liable for any
omission, deletion or alteration of any credit in regard
to User Content. Nonetheless, in case of omission,
deletion or alteration, users are invited to contact the
Owner, who will be happy to correct the same, in as far
as is reasonably possible.
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User declares and affirms that any User Content uploaded
or posted by him is his own original material and is not
copied from any other source and complies with Section F
below.
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Users may not post or upload Materials or content of any
type that: (i) infringe the patent, copyright,
trademark, trade-dress, design rights, trade secrets or
any other intellectual property rights of any third
party; (ii) contain any statements or messages, whether
textual, visual, aural, audio-visual or otherwise that
are defamatory or infringe the right of privacy or the
right of publicity of any third party; (iii) incite,
promote or encourage discrimination on the grounds of
race, religion, age, gender, sexual preference or on any
other grounds; (iv) are inflammatory or incite, promote
or encourage acts of violence, illegal acts, use of
prohibited substances or dangerous acts; or (v) contain
explicit or distasteful depictions of violence, pain,
suffering or illness; (vi) contain nudity or
pornographic, obscene or profane materials; (vii) are
otherwise inappropriate to the general public; (viii)
are menacing, threatening or intimidating; (ix) are
otherwise illegal or could serve as grounds for any
civil or criminal liability against you or the Owner;
(x) advertise or promote, either expressly or impliedly
any product, service, business, political party or other
organization or cause; (xi) depict or refer to any minor
without the prior written consent of his or her parents
or legal guardian or could in any way be harmful to a
minor or his wellbeing; or (xii) contain any address or
contact information of any person other than the User
himself, unless the user has obtained the prior written
consent of such person.
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The Owner is not responsible in any manner for the User
Content, including third-party publicity and advertising
materials. We allow the posting and uploading of user
content as a service to Users for their own and other
Users enjoyment, independent review, assessment,
evaluation and use under these Terms of Use. We do not
endorse or approve any User Content or any materials,
contents, messages or statements contained therein. All
user content and the information contained therein are
the representations, ideas and views of the submitting
users only.
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User Content may be submitted only under these Terms of
Use. Users will be solely responsible for the User
Content posted or uploaded by them and all materials
contained therein, and for any legal or other results or
consequences of such Materials.
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Although we welcome your submissions, we reserve the
right to refrain from publishing or posting it on the
site.
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When you post or upload materials or content, that
content will or may become available to other users and
may be viewed by them.
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You should post or upload User Content only if you own
all copyrights and other rights in it, including in all
materials contained therein or have received appropriate
licenses for their incorporation and use for all
purposes included in or contemplated by these Terms of
Use, as well as written permission to depict and to use
the name, picture, likeness and voice of any and all
living or deceased persons appearing in the User
Content, or if the User Content is completely Public
Domain.
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The Owner reserves the right to remove or disable access
to any materials that do not comply with the above
conditions or which are otherwise considered by us to be
in bad taste or contradictory to the policies and
purposes of sqlpd.com, or are the subject of a complaint
by a third party, without any need for notice to the
posting User. In case of gross or repeat infringements,
we reserve the right to terminate the account of the
User with no prior notice.
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Complaints of Infringement
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We respect the rights of others and expect you to do so
also.
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If you are the owner of a copyright or the authorized
agent of any copyright holder and you believe that any
content on this site, including any User Content,
infringes upon your copyright, or if you believe that
any content on this site infringes any other
intellectual property right, other than copyright or any
other right of yours, or in any other manner harms you,
or if you have any other complaint regarding the site,
please notify us so that we may review your complaint.
you may submit a written notification to
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All complaints should be sent in writing to the above
address and should give the following details:
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Your full name and contact details, including
physical address and email, and, when available a
fax number and telephone number.
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Full details of the complaint, detailing:
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the rights claimed to have been infringed or
the harm claimed to have been caused to you,
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a statement that you own the rights claimed
to have been infringed, or are the
authorized agent of the owner;
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a detailed statement identifying as fully as
possible the allegedly infringing material
and its location on this site, including by
detailing its URL.
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Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to
contact the complaining party, such as an address,
telephone number, and an electronic mail address at
which the complaining party may be contacted.
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We will review all complaints promptly but reserve the
right to decide whether to act on such complaints.
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Use of Contact Information
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By registering to this site, or any area of the site, or
by submitting your contact details in any other manner,
you grant us your explicit consent to use that
information, including all contact information to send
you information and offers, including commercial or
advertising mail from us and/or our business partners or
affiliates, using all means of communications provided
by you, unless you have clearly indicated that you are
not interested in receiving such communication.
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At any time, you may request us to remove your details
from our mailing list that serves for these
communications by sending a request to
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mailing to you.
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For more information on how we use information submitted
by you, please see our privacy policy at
https://sqlpd.com/privacy.
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Disclaimer of Warranty
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ALTHOUGH WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS
SERVICE, THE OWNER DOES NOT AND CANNOT GUARANTY THAT
THIS SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO USERS AT ALL TIMES. IN
PARTICULAR, THIS SITE MAY BE SHUT DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE
AND REPAIR AND MAY BE TEMPORARILY DISABLED DUE TO
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS, INCLUDING NETWORKING PROBLEMS.
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USE OF THIS SITE IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF USER. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OWNER, ITS
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS, DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE
WEBSITE AND USE THEREOF BY ANY USER.
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THE OWNER ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR
ANY: (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES OR INACCURACIES OF THE CONTENT
OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING USER CONTENT, OR OF ANY SITE
LINKED HERETO; (II) HARM, INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PERSONA OR
PROPERTY OF ANY KIND OR NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY HUMAN ERROR ON OUR PART,
YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING USER
CONTENT; (III) DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SERVERS AND/OR ANY
AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (IV)
DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY INTERRUPTION TO
OR CESSATION OF COMMUNICATION WITH THIS SITE; (V) ANY
DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY VIRUSES, BUGS,
TROJAN HORSES, WORMS AND OTHER HARMFUL PROGRAMS
TRANSMITTED TO, THROUGH OR FROM THIS SITE BY ANY THIRD
PARTY; (VI) ANY OTHER LOSSES, DAMAGES OR HARM RESULTING
FROM USE OF THE SITE, OR FROM HUMAN ERROR,INCLUDING ANY
LOSS OF INCOME, PROFITS, DATA, BUSINESS OR PROSPECTIVE
OPPORTUNITY, LOSS HARM OR DAMAGE TO NAME OR GOODWILL.
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Limitation of Liability
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OWNER, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF
INCOME, PROFITS, DATA, BUSINESS OR OPPORTUNITY, OR ANY
LOSS HARM OR DAMAGE TO NAME OR GOODWILL RESULTING FROM
ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF THE CONTENT
OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING USER CONTENT, OR ANY SITE LINKED
HERETO; (II) HARM, DAMAGE OR INJURY TO PERSON OR
PROPERTY OF ANY NATURE OR KIND WHATSOEVER, RESULTING
FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING USER
CONTENT; (III) DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY
MALFUNCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR
SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED
THEREIN, (IV) DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY
INTERRUPTION TO OR CESSATION OF COMMUNICATION WITH THIS
SITE; (V) ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR HARM RESULTING FROM ANY
VIRUSES, BUGS, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES AND OTHER HARMFUL
PROGRAMS TRANSMITTED TO, THROUGH OR FROM THIS SITE BY
ANY THIRD PARTY; (VI) ANY STATEMENTS OR CONTENTS
CONTAINED IN ANY USER CONTENT, ALL OF THE ABOVE WHETHER
THE CLAIM AGAINST US IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT,
TORT, THE LAW OF PROPERTY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL GROUNDS OR
THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES ARE OR WERE
FORESEEABLE OR FORSEEN BY THE OWNER. THIS LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LIABILITY OF THE OWNER EXCEED THE
DIRECT FEES PAID BY YOU FOR THE ONLINE SERVICES OF THE
OWNER.
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Indemnity
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You agree and undertake to fully indemnify the Owner,
its officers, directors and employees from and against
any and all damages, loses, costs and expenses of
whatever kind, including attorneys fees and any sums
paid under any settlement, incurred or suffered as a
result of any claim, demand or suit by any third party,
whenever and wherever filed, arising out of: (i) your
access and use of this website, including your posting
and/or uploading of any User Content; (ii) any
infringement of these Terms of Use by you; (iii) any
other act or omission of yours, including any
infringement of any intellectual property right or any
other right of any third party.
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Assignment
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The permissions and licenses granted to you hereunder
are personal and may not be assigned by you to any third
party.
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The Owner may assign, transfer, license or sub-license
his rights and any license received by the owner from
you.
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Miscellaneous
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This site is designed to conform to the laws of England
and Wales, although our servers may be located in
another country. When viewing or using this site, please
be aware that you may be transferring information
outside of your state or country. Your continued access
and use of this site will indicate your consent to this.
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This Agreement shall be governed and construed under the
laws of England and Wales. Exclusive jurisdiction over
any dispute arising out of or under these Terms of Use
or the Privacy Policy shall be with the High Court in
London. You hereby waive any right to file a claim in
any other jurisdiction.
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These General Terms of Use and the SQL POLICE DEPARTMENT
privacy policy located at
https://sqlpd.com/privacy,
together with any additional terms or legal notices that
may be posted by the Owner on the site constitute the
entire Agreement between You and the Owner regarding the
Site and your use thereof. Any previous Agreements,
representations or undertaking between the Parties
regarding the subject matter of the Agreement are null
and void.
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Any additional terms or legal notices posted on the Site
after the date of posting of these Terms of Use should
be read as complimenting these General Terms and not as
conflicting with or overriding them. However, in case of
an irreconcilable discrepancy between any of those
additional terms or notices and these General Terms, the
provisions of the additional terms or notices shall
prevail.
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The headings to this Agreement are intended for
convenience only and shall not be used for
interpretation.
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If any provision or provisions of this Agreement should
be held to be unenforceable, such holding will not
affect the other provisions hereof which shall remain in
full force.
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No failure of the Owner to invoke or enforce any of the
Terms of Use shall be considered as a waiver of any
right of the Owner.
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THIS AGREEMENT WILL BECOME BINDING UPON YOU UPON USE OF
THIS SITE.