Terms of Service

1. Introduction

Welcome to MovieBattle! These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of our website located at MovieBattle.io (the "Site") and the services provided by MovieBattle (the "Service").

2. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use our Service.

3. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting on our Site. Your continued use of the Service after the posting of the revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

4. User-Generated Content

MovieBattle allows users to create, submit, and share content, including rankings, comments, and other materials ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content, but by submitting it, you grant MovieBattle a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, distribute, modify, and display your User Content in connection with the Service.

Contributions

The Site may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionalities. It may also provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions").

Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Site and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you represent and warrant that:

  • The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
  • You are the creator and owner of, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Site, and other users of the Site to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Site and these Terms of Use.
  • You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of such persons to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions as contemplated by the Site and these Terms of Use.
  • Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
  • Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
  • Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
  • Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
  • Your Contributions do not advocate the violent overthrow of any government or incite, encourage, or threaten physical harm against another.
  • Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
  • Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
  • Your Contributions do not contain any material that solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner.
  • Your Contributions do not violate any federal or state law concerning child pornography or other laws intended to protect minors.
  • Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
  • Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Terms of Use, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Site in violation of the foregoing violates these Terms of Use and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Site.

5. Third-Party Content and APIs

The images and data provided on MovieBattle are sourced from various third-party APIs, including but not limited to TMDB. MovieBattle does not own these images and data, and they are subject to the respective third-party terms and conditions.

6. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to use the Service to:

  • Post any content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
  • Infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
  • Post any content that contains viruses or other harmful code.
  • Engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Service.

7. Intellectual Property

All content on MovieBattle, excluding User Content and third-party content, is the property of MovieBattle or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws.

8. Termination

We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to the Service at our sole discretion, without notice, for conduct that we believe violates these Terms or is harmful to other users.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. MovieBattle disclaims all warranties, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

10. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall MovieBattle be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from your use of the Service.

11. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

12. Advertisements

We use advertisements to keep this website running. These advertisements may be tailored to the content of the site or to users based on their browsing habits. By using MovieBattle, you agree to the use of ads on the site.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at info@moviebattle.io.