Terms of Use
ReadON APP is a Web3 content reading app (APP) launched by Real Matrix PTE. LTD. (Company).
Access to, and use of, the App and the services available through the App (Services) are subject to the following terms, conditions and notices (Terms of Use). By using the Services, you are agreeing to all of the Terms of Use, as may be updated by us from time to time. You should check this page regularly to take notice of any changes we may have made to the Terms of Use.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Real Matrix PTE. LTD., a Singapore corporation, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies (collectively, “ReadON,” “we,” “us,” and “our”). These Terms apply to your use of the ReadON services through the ReadON website, mobile application, and related products and services (the “Services”). All references to “you” or “your,” as applicable, mean the person who accesses, uses, and/or participates in the Services in any manner, and each of your heirs, assigns, and successors. By using ReadON services, or by registering an account, you agree to these Terms.
Depending on how you use the Services, other terms might also apply to you if you use specific services, such as the Ad Platform Terms of Service, Advertising Policy, Publisher Platform Terms of Service, Creator Program Terms of Service, Creator Content Requirements, Creator Monetization Policy or Monetization Terms. Additional terms may also apply for promotions, sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, or similar programs. If these Terms are inconsistent with any such policies or additional terms, the terms of the applicable policy or the additional terms shall apply.
Amendments to Terms of Use
The Company reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use from time to time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon notification on the App or through the Services. Your continued use of the App and the Services following such notification will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Terms of Use as amended.
ELIGIBILITY
To use the Services you must be, and represent and warrant that you are, of legal age (18 years of age or older or otherwise of legal age in your jurisdiction, or, if you have parental consent, 13 years of age) and competent to agree to these Terms.
The App and the Services are offered only for your personal, non-commercial use. When interacting with the App or the Services, you should exercise caution and common sense to protect your personal safety and health. You agree that the Company is not responsible or liable for any loss, damage, injury, or other matters of any sort incurred as the result of interacting with the App or the Services.
By using the App or the Services you represent and warrant that:
you are not a current resident of the China (Mainland), Cuba, Crimea and Sevastopol, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, Antigua and Barbuda; and
your access to and use of the App and Services is lawful in your country of residence in the manner in which you access and use them.
If ReadON has previously prohibited you from accessing or using the Services, you are not permitted to access or use the Services absent the express, written consent of ReadON.
ACCOUNT REGISTRATION AND USE
Account Registration and Confidentiality
You may be required to create an account to use the Services. If so, during the registration process, you must select a username and password and provide us with additional information, such as your email and physical address. You agree to provide us with accurate, complete, and current registration information about yourself. It is your responsibility to ensure that your password remains confidential and secure. By registering, you agree that you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. We may assume that any communications we receive under your account have been made by you. You may choose to access our Services through a third-party, such as Facebook or Google, and if you do this, you give us permission to access and use certain information from that third-party account. By using our Services, you are permitting us to collect, store, keep, and use any of the information you permitted the third-party to provide to us. You can control the amount of information accessible to ReadON by adjusting your privacy settings within your third-party account. We will use this data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. ReadON has no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any third-party site or service that may be enabled within the Service.
Unauthorized Account Use
You are responsible for notifying us at hello@readon.me if you become aware of any unauthorized use of or access to your account. You understand and agree that we may require you to provide information that may be used to confirm your identity and help ensure the security of your account. ReadON will not be liable for any loss, damages, liability, expenses or attorneys’ fees that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge and/or authorization, and regardless of whether you have or have not advised us of such unauthorized use. You will be liable for losses, damages, liability, expenses and attorneys’ fees incurred by ReadON or a third party due to someone else using your account.
OUR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
For purposes of these Terms, the term "Content" includes, without limitation, any information, data, text, photographs and other images, videos, audio clips, written posts, articles, comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through the Services. For the purposes of these Terms, "Content" also includes all User Content (as defined below).
The Services and all Content within our Services which are provided by ReadON, our partners, or our users are protected by United States copyright laws, international treaty provisions, trademarks, service marks and other intellectual property laws. The Services are also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other law and treaties. You agree to abide by all applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in the Services or in any Content accessed through the Services (“Protected Content”). The trademarks, logos, trade names, trade dress, and service marks, whether registered or unregistered (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Services are Trademarks of ReadON and its third-party partners. Nothing contained on the Services shall be construed as granting by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any Protected Content or Trademarks displayed on the Services without the written permission of ReadON or such third party that may own the Protected Content or Trademarks. Any unauthorized commercial use of the Content or Trademarks will violate the intellectual property rights of ReadON and/or third parties associated with ReadON and will be subject to ReadON’s and/or those third party’s full legal rights and remedies.
You agree to comply with all reasonable written requests made by ReadON or its suppliers and licensors to protect their and others’ contractual, statutory, and common law rights in the Services and Content. You agree to notify ReadON immediately upon becoming aware of any claim that the Services or Content infringe upon any copyright, trademark, or other contractual, statutory, or common law rights. All present and future rights in and to trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, know-how, and other proprietary rights of any type under the laws of any governmental authority, domestic or foreign, including without limitation rights in and to all applications and registrations, in each case relating to the Services shall, as between you and ReadON, at all times be and remain the sole and exclusive property of ReadON.
USER CONTENT
User Content.
All Content added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted (“Posted”) to the Services by users (collectively "User Content") is the responsibility solely of the person who originated such User Content. For clarity, subject to the license you provide to ReadON as set forth below, you retain your rights to any User Content you Post on or through the Services. These Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in ReadON's Content, our Services, or other users’ Content on the Services.
Our License to your User Content.
When you Post User Content on or through the Services, you grant ReadON a world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and sub-licenseable license to use, copy, distribute, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, translate, create derivative works from, sell, lease, transmit, disassemble, and publish such User Content, in whole or in part, in any format or medium now known or developed in the future, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels now known or developed in the future. To the extent any User Content you submit includes biographical information, including your name, likeness, voice, or photograph, you acknowledge and agree that this license shall apply to the same.
With respect to your User Content, you are agreeing to appoint ReadON as your irrevocable attorney-in-fact, with the right to execute and deliver any documents, in your name and on your behalf, to ensure that ReadON can own and protect the rights in any work created from your User Content.
User Content Representations.
You acknowledge and agree that all User Content that you Post is your sole responsibility. You further agree that you have all required rights to Post such User Content without violation of any third-party rights. You understand that ReadON does not control, and is not responsible for, User Content, and that by using the Services, you may be exposed to User Content from other users that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Please also note that User Content may contain typographical errors, other inadvertent errors or inaccuracies. You agree that you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless ReadON for all claims resulting from User Content you Post. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of such disputes, and in any event, you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
LICENSE AND PROHIBITED CONDUCT
Your License.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, and revocable right to access and use the Services and Content only for your own internal, personal, or non-commercial use, and only in a manner that complies with all legal requirements that apply to you or your use of the Services. ReadON may revoke this license at any time, in its sole discretion. We may also create limits on the use or storage of User Content.
Prohibited Uses.
Use of the Services for any illegal purpose, or any other purpose not expressly permitted in these Terms, is strictly prohibited. Without limitation, you will not:
Infringe on, remove, or alter any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of publicity or other right of any other person or entity or violates any law or contractual duty;
Post, utilize, or otherwise make available any other party's intellectual property unless you have the right to do so, or remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice contained on the Services;
Collect, Post, or store personal information of others without their consent.
Post User Content or engage in any action that violates our Community Policy, which is incorporated by reference herein;
Use the Services commercially, for benchmarking, or to compile information for a product or service;
Copy, download (other than through page caching necessary for personal use, or as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms), modify, distribute, post, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, broadcast, duplicate, publish, republish, upload, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any Content or other information contained on or obtained from or through the Services, by any means except as permitted in these Terms or with the prior written consent of ReadON;
Scrape, access, monitor, index, frame, link, or copy any Content or information on the Services by accessing the Services in an automated way, using any robot, spider, scraper, web crawler, or any other method of access other than manually accessing the publicly available portions of the Services through a browser or accessing the Services through any API approved by ReadON;
Violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers of the Services, if any, or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to the Services;
Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any ReadON system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;
Post material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
Post or otherwise make available any material that contains any software, device, instructions, computer code, files, programs and/or other content or feature that is designed to interrupt, destroy, harm, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment (including without limitation any time bomb, virus, malware, software lock, worm, self-destruction, drop-device, malicious logic, Trojan horse, trap door, "disabling," "lock out," "metering" device or any malicious code);
Post or do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of the Services;
Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services or Content;
Post material that impedes or otherwise prohibits communication or disrupts user discussion;
Post any trade secrets or other confidential information, or post any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships, including but not limited to inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements;
Falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, or impersonate any person or entity in a manner that does not constitute parody;
Use another person’s account without authorization;
Solicit personal or sensitive information from other users including without limitation address, credit card or financial account information, or passwords;
Send spam or other advertisements or solicitations, surveys, contents, pyramid schemes, promote commercial entities, or otherwise engage in commercial activity on or through the Services;
Frame, inline link, or similarly display the Services or any portion of the Services;
Interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Services; or
Violate any applicable law or regulation.
LEGAL COMPLIANCE
You acknowledge, consent, and agree that ReadON may access, preserve, and disclose your information and/or any User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Services, if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is permitted by ReadON’s Privacy Policy or reasonably necessary or appropriate for any of the following reasons: (1) to comply with legal process; (2) to enforce these Terms, our Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (3) to respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties; (4) to respond to your requests for customer service; and/or (5) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ReadON, its agents and affiliates, its users, or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
ReadON respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks that users of our Services do the same. If you believe any Content accessible on or from the Services infringe your copyright, you may request removal of that Content (or access to it) from the Services by submitting written notification to our copyright agent designated below. The written notification must include (pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512):
An electronic or physical signature of the owner or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
A description of the Content on the Services that you claim is infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (for example, the URL of the webpage).
Your name, address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
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.
ADVERTISING RIGHTS
ReadON reserves the right to sell, licene and/or display any advertising, attribution, links, promotional and/or distribution rights in connection with the Services, and ReadON and its licensors or affiliates will be entitled to retain any and all revenue generated from any sales or licenses of such advertising, attribution, links, or promotional or distribution rights. Nothing in the Agreement obligates or may be deemed to obligate ReadON to sell, license or offer to sell or license any advertising, promotion or distribution rights.
WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS
THE SERVICES, THE CONTENT, AND THE PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES, WHETHER PROVIDED BY READON, ITS LICENSORS, ITS VENDORS OR ITS USERS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ON OR ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, CONDITION, OR GUARANTEE OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS OR GUARANTEES OF QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ALL OF WHICH ARE DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. SPECIFICALLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, READON DOES NOT WARRANT THAT: (i) THE CONTENT IS FREE OF ERRORS; (ii) THE FUNCTIONS OR FEATURES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MECHANISMS FOR THE DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING OF CONTENT) WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR FREE OF ERRORS; (iii) DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR (iv) THE SERVICES OR THE SERVER(S) THAT MAKE THE SERVICES AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
IN NO EVENT SHALL READON OR ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, VENDORS, OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHERWISE (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF USE, COSTS OF OBTAINING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES), SPECIAL, INDRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNIITVE, COMPENSATORY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHASOEVER, OR ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR SIMILAR ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES, ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, OR RECOMMENDATIONS APPEARING ON THE SERVICES, OR ANY LINK PROVIDED ON THE SERVICES, WHETHER OR NOT READON HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND WHETHER BASED UPON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, VIOLATION OF STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE. THIS EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN ANY EVENT, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE HIGHER OF THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO READON FOR THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE TO WHICH THE CLAIM RELATES, OR $100.
EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages such as above in Section 10. Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to you. If you are a New Jersey resident, or a resident of another state or jurisdiction that permits the exclusion of these warranties and liabilities, then the limitations in Section 10 specifically do apply to you.
INDEMNITY
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD READON AND ITS RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, MEMBERS, SHAREHOLDERS, OR REPRESENTATIVES (AND ALL SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING), HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND DISBURSEMENTS, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF YOUR VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OR READON PRIVACY POLICY, YOUR VIOLATION OF AN APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR SUBMISSION, POSTING, OR TRANSMISSION OF USER CONTENT TO THE SERVICES, AND/OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF ANOTHER, INCLUDING CLAIMS FOR DEFAMATION. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, AT OUR OWN EXPENSE, TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF SUCH DISPUTES, AND IN ANY EVENT, YOU WILL COOPERATE WITH US IN ASSERTING ANY AVAILABLE DEFENSES.
MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION
Modification of Services
ReadON reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof), with or without notice. You agree that ReadON shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Services.
Termination
These Terms are effective unless and until terminated by you or us. We may, in our sole and absolute discretion, deny you access to all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason at all, with or without notice to you. If we terminate your right to access the Services, these Terms will terminate and all rights you have to access the Services will immediately terminate; however, certain provisions of these Terms will still apply post termination, including without limitation, the Mandatory Arbitration and Class Action Waiver provisions below in Section 14. Termination of your account may also include, at ReadON's sole discretion, the deletion of your account and/or User Content.
GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE
These Terms shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of Singapore notwithstanding its conflicts of law principles. Except for claims subject to mandatory arbitration, any dispute arising out of these Terms or the use of the Services shall be initiated and conducted in the courts of Singapore and you and ReadON consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.
Some countries have laws that require agreements to be governed by the local laws of the consumer’s country. This paragraph doesn’t override those laws.
GENERAL TERMS
Force Majeure.
Under no circumstances shall ReadON or its licensors or suppliers be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from an event beyond its reasonable control.
No Waiver.
No waiver of any provision of these Terms will be binding unless in writing, no waiver of any provisions of these Terms will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and the failure of ReadON to exercise or enforce any right or remedy in these Terms does not waive that right or remedy. If an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms to be invalid, the parties agree that the court should endeavor to give effect, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Third-Party Beneficiaries/Relationship between the Parties.
You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in these Terms, there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms. No agency or employment between you and ReadON is created as a result of the Terms or your use of the Services.
Statute of Limitations.
Except for residents of New Jersey, you agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the use of the Services and/or these Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
Miscellaneous.
These Terms (and all terms and conditions incorporated herein) constitute the entire agreement between you and ReadON and govern your use of the Services, and supersede any prior agreements between you and ReadON on the subject matter. These Terms, and any rights or licenses granted hereunder, may not be assigned or delegated by you. These Terms, and any rights or licenses granted hereunder, may be assigned or delegated by ReadON without restriction. These Terms bind and inure to the benefit of each party and the party’s successors and permitted assigns. These Terms may not be modified by an oral statement by a representative of ReadON. You agree that any agreements made by and between you and us in electronic form are as legally binding as if made in physical written form. If you are using the Services for or on behalf of the U.S. government, your license rights do not exceed those granted to non-government consumers. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Any provision of these Terms that by its nature is reasonably intended to survive beyond termination of these Terms shall survive.
Notices.
We may deliver notice to you by e-mail, posting a notice on the Services or any other method we choose and such notice will be effective on dispatch. If you give notice to us, it will be effective when received and you must use the following email address: hello@readon.me.
Application License.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, ReadON grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download and install a copy of ReadON mobile app on a device that you exclusively control and to run such copy of the app solely for your own personal use. ReadON reserves all rights in and to the app not expressly granted to you under these Terms. You will not run any version of the app on a jailbroken device. If you have downloaded our app, you agree to promptly download and install any new version that we make available through the iTunes App Store or Google Play store, as applicable. Some new versions may contain updated Terms. Some new versions may contain security fixes and service improvements, whether or not we disclose that they do; accordingly, failure to promptly update your version of the App may in some cases expose you to increased security risks or malfunctions in the Services.
Anti-cheating.
Use of third-party services.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us by email at hello@readon.me.
iOS TERMS
You acknowledge and agree that (i) these Terms are binding between you and ReadON only, and Apple is not a party hereto, and (ii) as between ReadON and Apple, it is ReadON that is responsible for the app and the content thereof. You must use the iOS app only on an Apple-branded product that runs iOS. Your use of the app must comply with the terms of use applicable to the Apple source from which you obtain it (including the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service). You acknowledge that Apple has no obligation to furnish you with any maintenance and support services with respect to the app.
You acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims you have or any claims of any third party relating to the app or your possession and use of the app, including, but not limited to (i) product warranty or liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation; or (iv) claims that the app infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights.
In the event of any failure of the iOS version of the app to conform to any applicable warranty that has not been effectively disclaimed by these Terms, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app (if any) to you; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and, as between Apple and ReadON, any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be ReadON’s responsibility, but only to the extent provided by these Terms. Please read the entire Terms, as other sections of these Terms limit ReadON’s liability in this regard.
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