People Search App

This Terms of Use (the "Terms") is a legal agreement between you and checkpeoplesearch.com and its corporate affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions as may change from time to time (collectively, "checkpeoplesearch.com," "we," "us," and "our"). These terms apply to checkpeoplesearch.com's websites, mobile applications, and other digital and interactive services that link to these Terms (together, the "Services").

You acknowledge and agree that, by accessing or using the Services or by uploading or posting any User Content (as defined below) to the Services, you, your heirs, and assigns (collectively, "you") are indicating that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, then you have no right to access or use the Services.

We may, from time to time, modify these Terms. Please check this page periodically for updates. Any changes will be posted on the Services. If you do not agree to, or cannot comply with, the modified Terms, you must stop using the Services. The updated Terms will take effect after their posting and will apply on a going-forward basis, unless otherwise provided in a notice to you, and except as provided in the Mandatory Arbitration and Class Action Waiver section of these Terms. Your continued use of the Services after any such update constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

Additional terms may apply to your use of the Services. We will provide these terms to you or post them on the Services in connection with the features to which they apply; they are incorporated by reference into these Terms. For example, checkpeoplesearch.com's Privacy Policy (which describes how we collect, use and disclose your data and your consent to such collection, use, and disclosure) are incorporated by reference and are a part of these Terms.

1. ELIGIBILITY AND SCOPE

1.1 Eligibility. To use the Services you must be, and represent and warrant that you are, of legal age and competence. By using the Services on behalf of any third party, you are representing to us that you are an authorized representative of that third party and that your use of the Services constitutes that third party's acceptance of these Terms. If you have been previously prohibited from accessing the Services by checkpeoplesearch.com, you are not permitted to access the Services.

1.2 Use Outside the United States of America. The Services are controlled and offered by checkpeoplesearch.com from the United States of America. checkpeoplesearch.com makes no representations that the Services are appropriate for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Services from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with local law.

2. OUR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

2.1 Intellectual Property Rights. The Services are owned and operated by checkpeoplesearch.com and contain material which is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by checkpeoplesearch.com and its partners, as well as other sources, and is 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. You acknowledge that the Services have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by checkpeoplesearch.com and others through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitute valuable intellectual property of checkpeoplesearch.com and such others. You agree to protect the proprietary rights of checkpeoplesearch.com and all others having rights in the Services during and after the term of these Terms and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by checkpeoplesearch.com or its suppliers and licensors of content or otherwise ("Suppliers") to protect their and others' contractual, statutory, and common law rights in the Services.

2.2 Use of Marks. You may not use any of checkpeoplesearch.com's trademarks, trade names, service marks, copyrights, or logos in any manner which creates the impression that such items belong to or are associated with you or, except as otherwise provided herein, are used with checkpeoplesearch.com's consent, and you acknowledge that you have no ownership rights in or to any such items.

3. USER CONTENT AND FEEDBACK

3.1 User Content. The Services may enable you to submit, post, upload, or otherwise make available (collectively, "post") content such as video clips, photographs, reviews, public messages, ideas, comments and other content (collectively, "User Content") that may or may not be viewable by other users. You acknowledge and agree that all User Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom the User Content originated. You further agree that you have all required rights to post such User Content without violation of any third-party rights.

3.2 Our License to User Content. When you post User Content on or through the Services, you grant checkpeoplesearch.com 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. You acknowledge and agree that your user name may be associated with any User Content that you post.

13. MANDATORY ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT.

EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW, YOU AND THE COMPANY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS, DISPUTES OR CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN YOU AND THE COMPANY (including disputes against any agent employee, subsidiary, affiliate, predecessor in interest, successor, or assign of the other), ITS PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES OR RELATED COMPANIES, relating to our Websites, the SERVICES AND MATERIALS published by the Company on or through the Websites, any transaction or relationship between us resulting from your use of our Websites, communications between us, the information provided in connection with our background information services, and your use of our background information services, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TORT AND CONTRACT CLAIMS, CLAIMS BASED UPON ANY FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL STATUTE, LAW, ORDER, ORDINANCE OR REGULATION, AND THE ISSUE OF ARBITRABILITY, SHALL BE RESOLVED BY THE FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION PROCEDURES SET BELOW.

14. Controlling Law and Severability

These Terms will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions. If any part of these Terms is considered invalid, it shall be enforced as effectively as possible while all other provisions remain in full effect.