Terms of Service

Service provider

MyPolitics services are provided by, and you’re contracting with:

MyPolitics, Inc.

Organized under the laws of the State of California, USA

9440 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 300

Beverly Hills, California 90210

USA

Age requirements

You must be over the age of 16 to have your own MyPolitics account.  If you are under the age of 16, you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use a MyPolitics account.  Please have your parent or legal guardian read these terms with you.

If you’re a parent or legal guardian, and you allow your child to use the services, then these terms apply to you and you’re responsible for your child’s activity on the services.

Your relationship with MyPolitics

 These terms help define the relationship between you and MyPolitics. When we speak of “MyPolitics,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” we mean MyPolitics, Inc. and its affiliates. Broadly speaking, we give you permission to access and use our services if you agree to follow these terms, which reflect how MyPolitics’ business works and how we earn money.

 

What you can expect from us

We’re constantly developing new technologies and features to improve our services. As part of this continual improvement, we sometimes add or remove features and functionalities, increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or stop offering old ones. When a service requires or includes downloadable or preloaded software, that software sometimes updates automatically on your device once a new version or feature is available.

What we expect from you

Follow these terms

The permission we give you to access and use our services continues as long as you comply with these terms.

You also agree that our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our services.

Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the services.

Respect others

We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct:

• comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws
• respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights
• don’t abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others

Don’t abuse our services

Most people who access or use our services understand the general rules that keep the internet safe and open. Unfortunately, a small number of people don’t respect those rules, so we’re describing them here to protect our services and users from abuse. In that spirit: You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our services or systems — for example, by:

• introducing malware
• spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures
• jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection
• accessing or using our services or content in fraudulent or deceptive ways, such as:
  • phishing
  • creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews
  • misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human
  • providing services that appear to originate from you (or someone else) when they actually originate from us
• providing services that appear to originate from us when they do not
• using our services (including the content they provide) to violate anyone’s legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights
• reverse engineering our services or underlying technology to extract trade secrets or other proprietary information, except as allowed by applicable law
• using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages
• using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology
• hiding or misrepresenting who you are in order to violate these terms
• providing services that encourage others to violate these terms

Permission to use your content

Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, or share your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you’re free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is lawful.

License

Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. For example, you have intellectual property rights in the creative content you make, such as reviews you write. Or you may have the right to share someone else’s creative content if they’ve given you their permission.

We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide MyPolitics with that permission through this license.

What’s covered

This license covers your content if that content is protected by intellectual property rights.

What’s not covered

This license doesn’t affect your privacy rights — it’s only about your intellectual property rights

This license doesn’t cover these types of content:

• publicly-available factual information that you provide. That information doesn’t require a license because it’s considered common knowledge that everyone’s free to use.
• feedback that you offer, such as suggestions to improve our services.

Scope

This license is:

• worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world
• non-exclusive, which means you can license your content to others
• royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license

Rights

This license allows MyPolitics to:

• host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content — for example, to save your content on our systems and make it accessible from anywhere you go
• publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if you’ve made it visible to others
• modify and create derivative works based on your content, such as reformatting or translating it
• sublicense these rights to:
  • other users to allow the services to work as designed
  • our contractors who’ve signed agreements with us that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purpose section below

Purpose

This license is for the limited purpose of:

• operating and improving the services, which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities. This includes using automated systems and algorithms to analyze your content:
  • for spam, malware, and illegal content
  • to recognize patterns in data
  • to customize our services for you

This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.

• using content you’ve shared publicly to promote the services.
• developing new technologies and services for MyPolitics consistent with these terms

Duration

This license lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights.

MyPolitics content

Some of our services include content that belongs to MyPolitics. You may use MyPolitics’ content as allowed by these terms, but we retain any intellectual property rights that we have in our content. Don’t remove, obscure, or alter any of our branding, logos, or legal notices. If you want to use our branding or logos, please contact us.

Other content

Finally, some of our services give you access to content that belongs to other people or organizations. You may not use this content without that person or organization’s permission, or as otherwise allowed by law. The views expressed in other people or organizations’ content are theirs, and don’t necessarily reflect MyPolitics’ views.

Software in MyPolitics services

Some of our services include downloadable or preloaded software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services.

The license we give you is:

• worldwide, which means it’s valid anywhere in the world
• non-exclusive, which means that we can license the software to others
• royalty-free, which means there are no monetary fees for this license
• personal, which means it doesn’t extend to anyone else
• non-assignable, which means you’re not allowed to assign the license to anyone else

Some of our services include software that’s offered under open source license terms that we make available to you. Sometimes there are provisions in the open source license that explicitly override parts of these terms, so please be sure to read those licenses.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our services or software.

Warranty disclaimer

We offer our services without warranties. The law requires that we explain this using specific legal language and that we use capital letters to help make sure you see it, as follows:

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT THE CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.

DON’T RELY ON THE SERVICES FOR MEDICAL, LEGAL, FINANCIAL, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. ANY CONTENT REGARDING THOSE TOPICS IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ADVICE FROM A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.

Liabilities

For all users

Both the law and these terms try to strike a balance as to what you or MyPolitics can claim from the other in case of problems. That’s why the law requires everyone to be responsible for certain liabilities — but not others — under these terms.

These terms only limit our responsibilities as allowed by applicable law. These terms don’t limit liability for gross negligence or willful misconduct.

To the extent allowed by applicable law:

• MyPolitics is liable only for its breaches of these terms
• MyPolitics isn’t liable for:
  • loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings
  • indirect or consequential losses
  • punitive damages
• MyPolitics’ total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) $200 or (2) the fees paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the dispute

Removing your content

If any of your content (1) breaches these terms, (2) violates applicable law, or (3) could harm our users, third parties, or MyPolitics, then we reserve the right to take down some or all of that content in accordance with applicable law. Examples include content that facilitates human trafficking or harassment, terrorist content, and content that infringes someone else’s intellectual property rights.

Suspending or terminating your access to MyPolitics services

Without limiting any of our other rights, MyPolitics may suspend or terminate your access to the services or delete your MyPolitics Account if any of these things happen:

• you materially or repeatedly breach these terms
• we’re required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order
• your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or MyPolitics — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you

If you believe your MyPolitics Account has been suspended or terminated in error, you can appeal.

Settling disputes, governing law, and courts

California law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these terms, regardless of conflict of laws rules. These disputes will be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts of Los Angeles County, California, USA, and you and MyPolitics consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

About these terms

By law, you have certain rights that can’t be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights.

These terms describe the relationship between you and MyPolitics. They don’t create any legal rights for other people or organizations, even if others benefit from that relationship under these terms.

If it turns out that a particular term is not valid or enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.

If you don’t follow these terms, and we don’t take action right away, that doesn’t mean we’re giving up any rights that we may have, such as taking action in the future.

We may update these terms (1) to reflect changes in our services or how we do business — for example, when we add new services, features, technologies, pricing, or benefits (or remove old ones), (2) for legal, regulatory, or security reasons, or (3) to prevent abuse or harm.

If we materially change these terms, we’ll provide you with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes, except (1) when we launch a new service or feature, or (2) in urgent situations, such as preventing ongoing abuse or responding to legal requirements. If you don’t agree to the new terms, you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time by closing your MyPolitics Account. If you close your MyPolitics Account and then access or use our services without an account, that access and use will be subject to the most current version of these terms.