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We (Income.com) run a service called BlogRush. Our basic service is free and we may offer paid upgrades for advanced features in the near future. Our service is designed to help you get more exposure for your blog content by publishing your blog post titles across our network using our "widget" that is displayed on other blogs. Make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on your blog or get linked to from your blog (things like spam, viruses, hate content, etc). Read through the prohibited items list and the rest of the terms and agree with them before you get started.

If you find a BlogRush member that you believe violates our terms of service, please report abuse here.

Terms of Service:

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the BlogRush website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, the use of the BlogRush widget ("Service") on your site. The Website is owned and operated by Income.com, Inc. ("Income.com"). The Website and Service is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Income.com's Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Income.com (collectively, the "Agreement").

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the web site or service. By accessing or using any part of the web site or service, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Income.com, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.

All blogs submitted to BlogRush will be MANUALLY REVIEWED. Approval into the network will be based on the following guidlines and criteria:

BlogRush Quality Guidelines & Criteria

- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.

- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.

- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.

- The blog's primary content must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.

- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.

- The primary content of the blog should not be "scraped" content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.

- The blog's content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.

- BlogRush reserves the right to determine if any blog is suitable for its network or not.

  1. Your BlogRush Account. If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with your account. You must not describe or assign keywords to your blog in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others. You must immediately notify Income.com of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Income.com will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

  2. Active User Requirements. You must maintain an "active" account status in order to continue to use the BlogRush service. All users must display the BlogRush Widget on all primary pages of blogs added to their account. Users will not earn syndication credits or have syndication credits used for their account during the time that the widget is not being displayed. Any user not displaying the widget for a period of 30 days or more may have their account terminated.

  3. Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a blog, comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
    • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
    • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
    • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
    • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
    • the Content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
    • the Content is not obscene, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; and
    • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Income.com or otherwise.

    By submitting Content to Income.com for inclusion in our Service, you grant Income.com a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Income.com will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Service, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

    Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Income.com has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Income.com's sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Income.com's reasonable opinion, violates any Income.com policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Service to any individual or entity for any reason, in Income.com's sole discretion. Income.com will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

  4. Responsibility of Website or Service Visitors. Income.com has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website or Service, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material's content, use or effects. By operating the Website or Service, Income.com does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Income.com disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

  5. Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which BlogRush links, and that link to BlogRush. Income.com does not have any control over those websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a website or webpage, Income.com does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Income.com disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of websites, webpages, or services.

  6. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Income.com asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by BlogRush violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Income.com in accordance with Income.com's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”) Policy. Income.com will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Income.com or others, Income.com may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website or Service. In the case of such termination, Income.com will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Income.com.

  7. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Income.com to you any Income.com or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Income.com. Income.com, BlogRush, the BlogRush logo, the Income.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with BlogRush, or the Website or Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of Income.com or Income.com's licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website or Service may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Income.com or third-party trademarks.

  8. Changes. Income.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website or Service following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Income.com may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website or Service (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

  9. Termination. Income.com may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website or Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your BlogRush account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website or Service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

  10. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website and Service is provided “as is”. Income.com and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Income.com nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website or Service will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

  11. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Income.com, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damagaes; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interpution of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that increase the fees paid by you to Income.com under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the date the cause of the action accrues. Income.com shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

  12. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website or Service will be in strict accordance with the Income.com Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website or Service will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

  13. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Income.com, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Website or Service, including but not limited to out of your violation this Agreement.

  14. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Income.com and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Income.com, or by the posting by Income.com of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website or Service will be governed by the laws of the state of Florida, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Orange County, Florida. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. ("JAMS") by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Orlando, Florida, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys' fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Income.com may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

 
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