These Terms of Service govern your use of Nihao Story, our website located at https://nihaostory.com, and any related services provided by Nihao Story, LLC. When you create a Nihao Story account or use Nihao Story, you agree to abide by these Terms of Service and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from further using the app, accessing our website, or using any other services provided by Nihao Story, LLC. If you access or download Nihao Story from Apple App Store you agree to any Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms of Service. We, Nihao Story, LLC, reserve the right to review and amend any of these Terms of Service at our sole discretion. Upon doing so, we will update this page and notify you through the app and/or the email address you provided when you created your account. Any changes to these Terms of Service will take effect immediately from the date of publication.
By using Nihao Story and our website, you warrant on behalf of yourself, any entity who you represent who has entered into these Terms of Service, and your users that you will not:
The intellectual property in the materials in Nihao Story and on our website are owned by or licensed to Nihao Story, LLC. You may download Nihao Story, to view, use, and display the application on your mobile device for your personal use only. This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions or these Terms of Service, and may be terminated by Nihao Story, LLC at any time.
You retain your intellectual property ownership rights over content you submit to us for publication within Nihao Story and/or on its corresponding website. We will never claim ownership of your content, but we do require a license from you in order to use it. When you use Nihao Story or its associated services to post, upload, share, or otherwise transmit content covered by intellectual property rights, you grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly display, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of your content in a manner that is consistent with your privacy preferences and our Privacy Policy. The license you grant us can be terminated at any time by deleting your content or account. However, to the extent that we (or our partners) have used your content in connection with commercial or sponsored content, the license will continue until the relevant commercial or post has been discontinued by us. You give us permission to use your username and other identifying information associated with your account in a manner that is consistent with your privacy preferences, and our Privacy Policy.
You give us permission to download and install updates to Nihao Story on your device in accordance with your privacy preferences. This permission can be revoked at any time by deleting Nihao Story from your device.
Nihao Story and the materials in Nihao Story and on our website are provided on an 'as is' basis. To the extent permitted by law, Nihao Story, LLC makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property, or other violation of rights. In no event shall Nihao Story, LLC or its suppliers be liable for any consequential loss suffered or incurred by you or any third party arising from the use or inability to use Nihao Story, our website, or any other services provided by Nihao Story, LLC or the materials in Nihao Story, even if Nihao Story, LLC or an authorized representative has been notified, orally or in writing, of the possibility of such damage.
The materials appearing in Nihao Story or on our website are not comprehensive and are for general information purposes only. To the extent permitted by law, Nihao Story, LLC does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials in Nihao Story or on our website, or otherwise relating to such materials or on any resources linked to Nihao Story and our website.
Nihao Story, LLC has not reviewed all of the sites linked to Nihao Story or on its corresponding website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, approval, or control by Nihao Story, LLC of the site. Use of any such linked website is at your own risk and we strongly advise you make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those sites.
To the extent that you are using or accessing Nihao Story on an iOS device, you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this clause. You acknowledge that these Terms of Service are between you and Nihao Story, LLC only, not with Apple Inc. (Apple), and Apple is not responsible for Nihao Story and any materials available in Nihao Story. Apple has no obligation to furnish you with any maintenance and support services with respect to Nihao Story. If Nihao Story fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price of the mobile application to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Nihao Story and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our responsibility. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to Nihao Story or your use of Nihao Story, including but not limited to (1) product liability claims; (2) any claim that our mobile application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (3) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
We may suspend or terminate your Nihao Story account and right to use Nihao Story and these Terms of Service immediately upon written notice to you for any breach of these Terms of Service.
These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of USA. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that State or location.
This acceptable use policy covers the products, services, and technologies (collectively referred to as the "Products") provided by Nihao Story, LLC under any ongoing agreement. It's designed to protect us, our customers, and the general Internet community from unethical, irresponsible, and illegal activity. Nihao Story, LLC customers found engaging in activities prohibited by this acceptable use policy can be liable for service suspension and account termination. In extreme cases, we may be legally obliged to report such customers to the relevant authorities.
We provide our facilities with the assumption your use will be "business as usual", as per our offer schedule. If your use is considered to be excessive, then additional fees may be charged, or capacity may be restricted. We are opposed to all forms of abuse, discrimination, rights infringement, and/or any action that harms or disadvantages any group, individual, or resource. We expect our customers and, where applicable, their users ("end-users") to likewise engage our Products with similar intent.
We regard our customers as being responsible for their own actions as well as for the actions of anyone using our Products with the customer's permission. This responsibility also applies to anyone using our Products on an unauthorized basis as a result of the customer's failure to put in place reasonable security measures. By accepting Products from us, our customers agree to ensure adherence to this policy on behalf of anyone using the Products as their end users. Complaints regarding the actions of customers or their end-users will be forwarded to the nominated contact for the account in question. If a customer — or their end-user or anyone using our Products as a result of the customer — violates our acceptable use policy, we reserve the right to terminate any Products associated with the offending account or the account itself or take any remedial or preventative action we deem appropriate, without notice. To the extent permitted by law, no credit will be available for interruptions of service resulting from any violation of our acceptable use policy.
Copyright infringement and access to unauthorized material Our Products must not be used to transmit, distribute or store any material in violation of any applicable law. This includes but isn't limited to:
The customer is solely responsible for all material they input, upload, disseminate, transmit, create or publish through or on our Products, and for obtaining legal permission to use any works included in such material.
SPAM and unauthorized message activity Our Products must not be used for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk or commercial messages in violation of the laws and regulations applicable to your jurisdiction ("spam"). This includes but isn't limited to sending spam, soliciting customers from spam sent from other service providers, and collecting replies to spam sent from other service providers. Our Products must not be used for the purpose of running unconfirmed mailing lists or telephone number lists ("messaging lists"). This includes but isn't limited to subscribing email addresses or telephone numbers to any messaging list without the permission of the email address or telephone number owner, and storing any email addresses or telephone numbers subscribed in this way. All messaging lists run on or hosted by our Products must be "confirmed opt-in". Verification of the address or telephone number owner's express permission must be available for the lifespan of the messaging list. We prohibit the use of email lists, telephone number lists or databases purchased from third parties intended for spam or unconfirmed messaging list purposes on our Products. This spam and unauthorized message activity policy applies to messages sent using our Products, or to messages sent from any network by the customer or any person on the customer's behalf, that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via our Products.
Unethical, exploitative, and malicious activity Our Products must not be used for the purpose of advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service designed to violate this acceptable use policy, or the acceptable use policy of other service providers. This includes but isn't limited to facilitating the means to send spam and the initiation of network sniffing, pinging, packet spoofing, flooding, mail-bombing, and denial-of-service attacks. Our Products must not be used to access any account or electronic resource where the group or individual attempting to gain access does not own or is not authorized to access the resource (e.g. "hacking", "cracking", "phreaking", etc.). Our Products must not be used for the purpose of intentionally or recklessly introducing viruses or malicious code into our Products and systems. Our Products must not be used for purposely engaging in activities designed to harass another group or individual. Our definition of harassment includes but is not limited to denial-of-service attacks, hate-speech, advocacy of racial or ethnic intolerance, and any activity intended to threaten, abuse, infringe upon the rights of, or discriminate against any group or individual.
Other activities considered unethical, exploitative, and malicious include:
Our Products may not be used by any person or entity, which is involved with or suspected of involvement in activities or causes relating to illegal gambling; terrorism; narcotics trafficking; arms trafficking or the proliferation, development, design, manufacture, production, stockpiling, or use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or missiles; in each case including any affiliation with others whatsoever who support the above such activities or causes.
We prohibit the impersonation of Nihao Story, LLC, the representation of a significant business relationship with Nihao Story, LLC, or ownership of any Nihao Story, LLC property (including our Products and brand) for the purpose of fraudulently gaining service, custom, patronage, or user trust.
This policy outlines a non-exclusive list of activities and intent we deem unacceptable and incompatible with our brand. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time by publishing the revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective from the earlier of: