Terms of service

Table Of Contents

  1. Welcome to Rippleboard!
  2. About Creating an Account
  3. Things You Definitely Shouldn’t Do
  4. How Pre-Orders Works
  5. Stuff We Don’t Do and Aren’t Responsible For
  6. Other Websites
  7. Your Intellectual Property
  8. Rippleboard’s Intellectual Property
  9. How We Deal with Copyright Issues
  10. Deleting Your Account
  11. Our Rights
  12. Warranty Disclaimer
  13. Indemnification
  14. Limitation of Liability
  15. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law
  16. The Rest

1. Welcome to Rippleboard!

This page explains our terms of use. When you use rippleboard.com, you’re agreeing to all the rules below. Some of them need to be expressed in legal language, but we’ve done our best to offer you clear and simple explanations.

By using this website (the “Site”) and services (together with the Site, the “Services”) offered by Rippleboard (together with INEEDTHIS LLC, and its and their parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers, and directors—collectively, “Rippleboard,” “we,” or “us”), you’re agreeing to these legally binding rules (the “Terms”). You’re also agreeing to our Privacy Policy and agreeing to follow any other rules on the Site.

We may change these terms from time to time. If we do, we’ll let you know about any material changes, either by notifying you on the Site or by sending you an email. New versions of the terms will never apply retroactively—we’ll tell you the exact date they go into effect. If you keep using the Site after a change, that means you accept the new terms.

2. About Creating an Account

You must be 13 or over to sign up for a Rippleboard Community account. You’re responsible for your account and all the activity on it.

You can browse Rippleboard without registering for an account. But to use some of Rippleboard’s functions, you’ll need to register, choose a username, and set a password. When you do that, the information you give us has to be accurate and complete. Don’t impersonate anyone else or choose names that are offensive or that violate anyone’s rights. If you don’t follow these rules, we may cancel your account on the rippleboard community forum.

You’re responsible for all the activity on your account, and for keeping your password confidential. If you find out that someone used your account without your permission, you should report it to support@rippleboard.com.

To sign up for an account, you need to be at least 13 years old, or old enough to form a binding contract where you live.

3. Things You Definitely Shouldn’t Do

This section is a list of things you probably already know you shouldn’t do—lie, break laws, abuse people, steal data, hack other people’s computers, and so on. Please behave yourself. Don’t do this stuff.

We expect you to behave responsibly and help keep this a nice place. Don’t do any of these things on the Site:

  • Don’t break the law. Don’t take any action that infringes or violates other people’s rights, violates the law, or breaches any contract or legal duty you have toward anyone.
  • Don’t lie to people. Don’t post information you know is false, misleading, or inaccurate. Don’t do anything deceptive or fraudulent.
  • Don’t offer or solicit prohibited items. Don’t offer or solicit any rewards that are illegal, violate any of the Site’s policies, rules, or guidelines, or violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance, or regulation.
  • Don’t victimize anyone. Don’t do anything threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, tortious, obscene, profane, or invasive of another person’s privacy.
  • Don’t spam. Don’t distribute unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material, or any junk mail, spam, or chain letters. Don’t run mail lists, listservs, or any kind of auto-responder or spam on or through the Site.
  • Don’t harm anyone’s computer. Don’t distribute software viruses, or anything else (code, films, programs) designed to interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or equipment on the Site (whether it belongs to Rippleboard or another party).
  • Don’t abuse other users’ personal information. When you use the Site, you may receive information about other users, including things like their names, email addresses, and postal addresses.

We also need to make sure that the Site is secure and our systems function properly. So don’t do any of these things—most of which boil down to “don’t mess with our system.”

  • Don’t try to interfere with the proper workings of the Services.
  • Don’t bypass any measures we’ve put in place to secure the Services.
  • Don’t try to damage or get unauthorized access to any system, data, password, or other information, whether it belongs to Rippleboard or another party.
  • Don’t take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, or on our third-party providers. (We reserve the right to determine what’s reasonable.)
  • Don’t use any kind of software or device (whether it’s manual or automated) to “crawl” or “spider” any part of the Site.
  • Don’t take apart or reverse engineer any aspect of Rippleboard in an effort to access things like source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms.

4. How Pre-Orders Works

This section goes over the details of pre-ordering products and services on the Site.

These are the terms that apply when you’re pre-ordering a product or service:

  • When you pre-order a product or service, we will reserve the charge on your card for up to the full price of the product or service.
  • You can change or cancel your pre-order at any time.
  • The estimated delivery is an estimate. The month and year listed on the Site is an estimate of when we will be able to ship the products and services — not a guarantee to fulfill by that time. The schedule may change as the work progresses on the products and service offerings. We work carefully to set an estimated delivery that we feel confident we can work toward, and will communicate with all customers about any changes.
  • We may need to send you questions about your pre-orders. To deliver products and services that best suit you and your instrument, we may need information from you, like your mailing address to properly ship to the correct address or to confirm other relevant information. We may request that information after the pre-order phase. To receive the pre-order, you’ll need to provide the information in a reasonable amount of time. We will not ask for personal information that is not necessary to provide your pre-ordered item or service.

5. Stuff We Don’t Do and Aren’t Responsible For

Rippleboard isn’t liable for any damages or losses related to your use of the Services. We don’t become involved in disputes between users, or between users and any third party relating to the use of the Services. We don’t endorse any content users submit to the Site. When you use the Services, you release Rippleboard from claims, damages, and demands of every kind—known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed—arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and the Services. All content you access through the Services is at your own risk. You’re solely responsible for any resulting damage or loss to any party.

6. Other Websites

If you follow a link to another website, what happens there is between you and them—not us.

The Site may contain links to other websites. (For instance, user profiles and comments may link to other sites.) When you access third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. We don’t control or endorse those sites.

The Site partners with other companies (such as Stripe) for payment processing. When you pre-order or purchase a product or service on the Site, you’re also agreeing to the payment processor’s terms of service.

7. Your Intellectual Property

We don't own the content you post on Rippleboard, but we do have your permission to use or copy it however we need. We generally use it to promote our products and services and to showcase our community. Ultimately, you're responsible for the content you post, and you're vouching to us that it's ok to use.

Rippleboard doesn’t own content you submit to us (your “Content”). But we do need certain licenses from you in order to perform our Services. When you submit a comment or post, you agree to these terms:

  • We can use the Content you’ve submitted. You grant to us, and others acting on our behalf, the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right to use, exercise, commercialize, and exploit the copyright, publicity, trademark, and database rights with respect to your Content. In general, we use this Content to promote our products and services and to showcase our community on the website. There are many factors that we take into consideration before featuring content on our homepage or spotlighting it in other ways. This includes, but is not limited to, informative material, captivating images or videos, an excited community, what we think different users will be interested in, and of course, a lot of creativity. We also may carefully curate sections of the Site to highlight great examples of users’ experiences with Rippleboard products. Any comments or other Content that we decide to feature typically are best-of-the-best—based on factors such as creative innovation, honesty, and alignment with Rippleboard’s mission and charter—but we also use algorithms to surface popular content, postings that other users have found helpful or informative, and content recommended just for you. We may also recommend content on the basis of a user’s prior search terms, browsing history, purchase history and other interactions on the Site, and cookies we have collected during their visits to our website.
  • When we use the Content, we can make changes, like editing or translating it. You grant us the right to edit, modify, reformat, excerpt, delete, or translate any of your Content.
  • You won’t submit stuff you don’t hold the copyright for (unless you have permission). Your Content will not contain third-party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third-party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material, or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material (and to grant Rippleboard all the license rights outlined here).
  • Any royalties or licensing on your Content are your responsibility. You will pay all royalties and other amounts owed to any person or entity based on your Content, or on Rippleboard’s hosting of that Content.
  • You promise that if we use your Content, we’re not violating anyone’s rights or copyrights. If Rippleboard or its users exploit or make use of your submission in the ways contemplated in this agreement, you promise that this will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including (without limitation) any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
  • You’re responsible for the stuff you post. All information submitted to the Site, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom that Content originated.
  • We’re not responsible for mistakes in your Content. Rippleboard will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any Content.

8. Rippleboard’s Intellectual Property

The content on Rippleboard is protected in various ways. You do have the right to use it for certain personal purposes, but you can’t use it for anything commercial without getting permission first.

Rippleboard’s Services are legally protected in various ways, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other rights and laws. You agree to respect all copyright and other legal notices, information, and restrictions contained in any content accessed through the Site. You also agree not to change, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of the Service.

Rippleboard grants you a license to reproduce content from the Services for personal use only. This license covers both Rippleboard’s own protected content and user-generated content on the Site. (This license is worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable.) If you want to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, or store any of this content for a commercial purpose, you need prior written permission from Rippleboard or the relevant copyright holder. A “commercial purpose” means you intend to use, sell, license, rent, or otherwise exploit content for commercial use, in any way.

We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act lays out a system of legal requirements for dealing with allegations of copyright infringement. Rippleboard complies with the DMCA, and we respond to notices of alleged infringement if they comply with the law and the requirements set forth in our Copyright Policy. We reserve the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing, and to terminate accounts for repeat infringers. (We do this when appropriate and at our sole discretion.)

If you’d like to submit a claim of copyright infringement, our designated agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement is:

Rippleboard

copyright@rippleboard.com

10. Deleting Your Account

You can delete your account at any time, but doing so won’t automatically remove some content you’ve already posted.

You can terminate your account at any time through your account settings. We may retain certain information as required by law or as necessary for our legitimate business purposes. All provisions of this agreement survive termination of an account, including our rights regarding any content you’ve already submitted to the Site. (For instance, if you’ve pre-ordered a product or service, deleting your account will not automatically remove the order from our system.) You can contact us at support@rippleboard.com for additional information.

11. Our Rights

To operate, we need to be able to maintain control over what happens on our website. So in this section, we reserve the right to make decisions to protect the health and integrity of our system. We don’t take these powers lightly, and we only use them when we absolutely have to.

To protect the health and integrity of our system and to help ensure that our customers and Site users enjoy a safe and secure environment, Rippleboard reserves these rights:

  • We can make changes to the Site and Services without notice or liability.
  • We have the right to decide who’s eligible to use the Site. We may in limited circumstances impose restrictions or limitations on accounts, or—for particularly significant or repeated violations of our Terms or any other rules on the Site. We may cancel accounts or decline to offer our Services. (Especially if you’re abusing them.) We can change our eligibility criteria at any time. If these things are prohibited by law where you live, then we revoke your right to use the Site in that jurisdiction.
  • We have the right to cancel any purchase or pre-order of any product or service, at any time and for any reason.

Rippleboard is not liable for any damages as a result of any of these actions.

It is our general policy not to comment on the reasons for any such action. However, if we impose restrictions on or limit an account holder’s access to any of our Services or if we intend to cancel an account, we will let the account holder know the reasons for this action and how they can remedy any issues (where appropriate), unless we’re prohibited from doing so by law or in the interest of safety. For account cancellations, we will let the account holder know the reasons for this action at least 30 days in advance, unless we’re canceling for reasons related to illicit or inappropriate content, the safety of the Site and its users, counterfeiting, fraud, malware, spam, data breaches, other cybersecurity risks, or the suitability of a good or service for minors.

12. Warranty Disclaimer

We work hard to provide you with great services, but we can’t guarantee everything will always work perfectly. This site is presented as-is, without warranties.

You use our Services solely at your own risk. They are provided to you “as is” and “as available” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

RIPPLEBOARD SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY ANY COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION (ORAL OR WRITTEN) OBTAINED BY YOU FROM RIPPLEBOARD SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.

13. Indemnification

If you do something on Rippleboard that winds up getting us sued, you have to help defend us.

If you do something that gets us sued, or break any of the promises you make in this agreement, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other legal costs) that arise from or relate to your use or misuse of Rippleboard. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to this indemnification clause, in which case you agree that you’ll cooperate and help us in asserting any defenses.

As part of this, by accepting these Terms of Use, you consent to service of process for any action that could be brought against Rippleboard, for any reason.

14. Limitation of Liability

If something bad happens as a result of your using the Site or our products or services, we’re not liable (beyond a small amount).

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will Rippleboard, its directors, employees, partners, suppliers, or content providers be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, consequential, special, or exemplary damages of any kind, including but not limited to damages (i) resulting from your access to, use of, or inability to access or use the Services; (ii) for any lost profits, data loss, or cost of procurement or substitute goods or services; or (iii) for any conduct of content of any third party on the Site. In no event shall the Site or Rippleboard hold liability for direct damages in excess of (in the aggregate) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100.00).

15. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

We’re located in Florida, and any disputes with us have to be handled in Florida under Florida State law.

We encourage you to contact us if you’re having an issue before resorting to the courts. Our support team is on hand and ready to answer your questions. If you still have questions, you can email support@rippleboard.com so that one of our support team agents can personally reply to you and attempt to resolve your issue. These resources are easily accessible and free.

If you’re a user of the Site based in the European Union and, after contacting us through those channels, you still don’t feel as if your issue has been resolved, we may agree with you to engage in mediation to resolve any complaints in good faith. You may address your complaint with one of these two mediation organizations:

In the unfortunate situation where legal action does arise, these Terms (and all other rules, policies, or guidelines incorporated by reference) will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida and the United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law, and without application of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act or the United Nations Convention of Controls for International Sale of Goods. You agree that Rippleboard and its Services are deemed a passive website that does not give rise to jurisdiction over Rippleboard or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers, or shareholders, either specific or general, in any jurisdiction other than the State of Florida. You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms, or your use or non-use of the Site or Rippleboard, shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Sarasota County in the State of Florida, and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of these courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. You hereby irrevocably waive any right you may have to trial by jury in any dispute, action, or proceeding.

16. The Rest

These are our official terms and our rules for how things work. You can verify any confusing or conflicting information you see elsewhere by referencing what we’ve explained on this page.

These Terms and the other material referenced in them are the entire agreement between you and Rippleboard with respect to the Services. They supersede all other communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and Rippleboard with respect to the Services and govern our future relationship. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under the law, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the Terms otherwise will remain in full force and effect and enforceable. The failure of either you or Rippleboard to exercise any right provided for in these Terms in any way won’t be deemed a waiver of any other rights.

These Terms are personal to you. You can’t assign them, transfer them, or sublicense them unless you get Rippleboard’s prior written consent. Rippleboard has the right to assign, transfer, or delegate any of its rights and obligations under these Terms without your consent. Rippleboard will provide you notice via email, written notice, or by conspicuously posting the notice on our Site.

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Rippleboard Terms of Use Updates

These updated terms went into effect on December 6, 2022 at 12 am Eastern Time, and apply to all aspects of the Rippleboard Site on or after that date.

We want to be as transparent as possible about the changes we make to our Terms of Use. Where available, we’ve also included comparisons of the version to the previous version to make it as easy as possible to see what has changed.