Welcome to Smart Things Guide, its affiliates (collectively \u201cSmart Things Guide,\u201d \u201cus,\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d). These Terms of Use, along with our Privacy Policy, Cookies (collectively \u201cTerms\u201d) govern your use of our website, applications, and other products and services offered by Smart Things Guide or its affiliates that include an authorized link to these Terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please review these Terms carefully before using Smart Things Guide, because they affect your rights. By using Smart Things Guide, you accept these Terms and agree to be legally bound by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These Terms are effective as of the Effective Date above. If you have not reviewed the Terms of Use applicable to a Service since the Effective Date, please review these updated Terms carefully before using any Service. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is a new material we will try to provide at least 6days’ys notice before any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion, so we encourage you to review periodically the Terms of Use applicable to each Service you use. The most current version of the applicable Terms of Use will be linked from each of the Services. By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you should immediately stop using the Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional Terms Our Privacy Policy<\/a> describes our practices concerning data that you provide or that we may collect about you through Smart Things Guide, and you consent to our use of data in compliance with the Privacy Policy. Additional terms may apply to your use of certain Services. We will provide these terms to you or post them on the Services to which they apply, and they are incorporated by reference into these Terms. If there is a conflict between these Terms and any additional terms that apply to a particular Service, the additional terms will control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we request registration information from you to set up a user account, you must provide us with accurate and complete information and must update the information when it changes. You may not access any age-restricted Services unless you are above the required age. In no case are persons under the age of thirteen permitted to use the Services. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user account login names and passwords, and must not permit the use of your account by anyone other than members of your household. You accept responsibility for all activities, charges, and damages that occur under your account, including the use of your account by other members of your household, and unauthorized use of your account. If you have reason to believe that someone is using your account without your permission, you should contact us <\/a>immediately. We are not responsible for any loss or damage resulting from unauthorized use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audio and video materials, photographs, text, graphics, logos, layouts, designs, interfaces, software, data, and other content associated with the Services (\u201cContent\u201d) are protected by intellectual property and other laws in other countries. You must comply with all such laws and applicable copyright, trademark, or other legal notices or restrictions. You shall not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other legal notices marked on the Content. As between you and Smart Things Guide, Smart Things Guide will retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Services and the Content. No transfer of ownership to any portion of the Content shall be made as a result of any access you are granted. Except as specifically provided below, we reserve all rights to the Services and Content. You are only permitted to access and view the Content for personal, non-commercial purposes by these Terms, and may not build a business or other enterprise utilizing any of the Content, whether for profit or not. Except as provided in otherwise expressly authorized by us in writing, you may not either directly or through the use of any software, device, internet site, web-based service or another means download, stream capture, store in a database, archive, or otherwise copy any part of the Services or Content; upload, sell, rent, lease, lend, broadcast, transmit or otherwise disseminate, distribute, display or perform any part of the Services or Content; license or sublicense any part of the Services or Content; or in any way exploit any part of the Services or Content. You are strictly prohibited from modifying Content; creating, distributing, or advertising an index of any significant portion of the Content; or otherwise creating derivative works or materials that otherwise are derived from or based in any way on the Content, including mash-ups and similar videos, montages, translations, desktop themes, fonts, icons, wallpaper, greeting cards, and merchandise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Viral Distribution; <\/strong>We may expressly authorize you to redistribute certain Content on a personal, non-commercial basis. We will identify the Content that you are authorized to redistribute and describe ways you may redistribute it (such as via email, blogs, or embedded players, or by producing Mash-Ups). If you redistribute such Content, you must be able to edit or delete such publicly posted Content and you must edit or delete it promptly upon our request. When expressly authorized by us in writing, you may embed videos using the Video Player, provided you do not embed the Video Player on any website or other location that (i) contains or hosts content that is inappropriate, profane, vulgar, offensive, false, disparaging, defamatory, obscene, illegal, infringing, threatening, sexually explicit, racist, that promotes violence, racial hatred, or terrorism, or that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be otherwise objectionable or (ii) links to infringing or unauthorized content, or any content described in (i). You may not embed the Video Player into any hardware or software application, even for non-commercial purposes. As determined by us in our sole discretion, we reserve the right to prevent embedding to any website or other location that we find inappropriate or otherwise objectionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commercial Licenses; <\/strong>You must obtain our written permission for commercial use of the Content or the Services. If you wish to license Content from the Services, please contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legal Complaints; <\/strong>Smart Things Guide respects intellectual property rights. If you believe that Content on the Services infringes your copyright, please follow our procedures for making a copyright infringement claim<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n User Submissions<\/strong>; Some of the Services may allow you to submit or transmit audio, video, text, or other materials, including so-called \u201cuser-generated content\u201d and \u201cfeedback\u201d (collectively, \u201cUser Submissions<\/strong>\u201d) to or through the Services. When you provide User Submissions, you grant to Smart Things Guide and its affiliates and partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully-sublicensable license to use, reproduce, archive, edit, translate, create derivative works of, make available, distribute, sell, display, perform, transmit, broadcast and in any other way exploit those User Submissions, and any names, voices, likenesses and other identifying information of persons that is part of those User Submissions, in any form, media, software, or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future, including, without limitation, for developing manufacturing, and marketing products. You hereby waive any moral rights you may have in your User Submissions. We respect your ownership of User Submissions. If you owned a User Submission before providing it to us, you will continue owning it after providing it to us, subject to any rights granted in these Terms and any access granted to others. Please note that if you delete a User Submission from the Services:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The User Submission may still exist in our backup copies, which are not publicly available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your User Submission was shared with third parties, those third parties may have retained copies of your User Submissions, and neither we nor our affiliates have any responsibility for any uses of your User Submission that they might make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We retain the license specified above. Thus, for example, if we or one of our sublicensees obtained your user Submission for use in creating a derivative work before you deleted it, we or our sublicensee would remain free to complete the creation of that derivative work and thereafter exploit that derivative work for all purposes and at all times. We may refuse or remove a User Submission without notice to you. However, we have no obligation to monitor User Submissions, and you agree that neither we nor our affiliates will be liable for User Submissions or any loss or damage resulting from User Submissions. Except as provided in the Privacy Policy<\/a>, we do not guarantee that User Submissions will be private, even if the User Submission is in a password-protected area. Accordingly, you should not provide User Submissions that you want to be protected from others. You bear all responsibility for your User Submissions. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant to Smart Things Guide the license above and that your User Submissions do not violate Section 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third-Party Content<\/strong>; We may provide third-party content (including advertisements) or links to third-party websites on the Services. We do not necessarily endorse or evaluate third-party content and websites, and we do not assume responsibility for third parties actions or omissions. You should review third parties\u2019 terms of use and privacy policies before you use their services. In certain instances, you may be able to connect and\/or link your account to certain third-party social media sites (“Social Media Sites<\/strong>“), including, without limitation, Facebook and Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Without limiting any other provision in these Terms, you agree not to do the following, or assist others to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the information on this website is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. Smart Things Guide does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of this information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any action you take upon the information you find on this website is strictly at your own risk. Smart Things Guide will not be liable for any losses and\/or damages in connection with the use of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link that may have gone \u2018bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms that are beyond our control. Please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites before engaging in any business or uploading any information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Limitation of liability that Smart Things Guide does not warrant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, according to the US rules of the FTC, we have to write a \u201cDisclosure Policy\u201d to inform our readers about affiliate links and commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This website may contain affiliate links, which means that we may receive a commission in return if you click on a product link and purchase something that we have recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though Smart Things Guide receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the writers\u2019 own. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smart Things Guide is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. These links operate the same as all referral links on SmartThingsGuide.com. If you use one and buy something, then Amazon will pay Smart Things Guide a percentage of the sale amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3. Registration and Access Controls:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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