Overview

We (the lads at Loop Solutions Ltd. or, "Loop Solutions") run a web site hosting service called Jigsoar.com, and we encourage you to give it a go. Our 7 day trial is free, and we offer paid subscriptions for our service. Our service is designed to give you as much control and ownership over what goes on your site as possible and encourage you to express yourself freely. However, be responsible in what you publish. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on your site or get linked to from your site (things like spam, viruses, or hate content).

If you find a Jigsoar.com site that you believe violates our terms of service, please contact us and let us know.

Terms of Service

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Jigsoar.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website ("the Website"). Jigsoar.com is owned and operated by Loop Solutions Ltd. The Website 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, Jigsoar’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Loop Solutions (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the Website, 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 Loop Solutions, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

1. Your Jigsoar.com Account and Site.

If you create a web site on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and web site, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the web site. You must not describe or assign keywords to your site in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Loop Solutions may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Loop Solutions liability. You must immediately notify Loop Solutions of any unauthorized uses of your web site, your account or any other breaches of security. Loop Solutions 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. Responsibility of Contributors.

If you operate a web site, comment on a web site, 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, is not machine- or randomly-generated, 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 pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

your web site is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;

your web site is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your web site’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; 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 Loop Solutions or otherwise.

By submitting Content to Loop Solutions for inclusion on your Website, you grant Loop Solutions a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your web site. If you delete Content, Loop Solutions will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

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

3. Payment and Renewal.

General Terms. Paid services are available on the Website (any such services, a “Subscription”). By selecting a Subscription you agree to pay Loop Solutions the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service. Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis, and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated. Subscription fees are not refundable.

Manual Renewal. All Subscription payments must be made manually - we do not store credit card details, and cannot automatically update Subscriptions. If you Subscription payment isn't made on time, your account will go into debt. Loop Solutions will notify you of this account status, and will remind you to credit your account. If your account remains in debt for more than one (1) month, Loop Solutions reserves the right to take your web site offline until the Subscription is paid so that the balance is out of the negatives. If your account remains in debt for longer than two (2) months, Loop Solutions reserves the right to remove your web site (and all of its Content) from the Jigsoar server. At this point, the web site is unrecoverable. Loop Solutions will always endevour to contact You to remedy the negative account balance, but if no arrangements have been agreed to after two (2) months, the web site may be deleted.

4. Paid Services.

Fees; Payment. By signing up for a paid account you agree to pay Loop Solutions the fees indicated at http://jigsoar.com/pricing (and in the Account section) in exchange for the services you select. Applicable fees will be invoiced starting from the day your Paid Services are established and in advance of using such services. Loop Solutions reserves the right to change the payment terms and fees upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to you. Paid Services can be canceled by you at anytime, simply by not paying for your next months subscription. You agree, however, that if your web site account remains unpaid for longer than two (2) months, your site may be deleted (as outlined in the 'Manual Renewal' section above).

Support. Paid Services include access to priority email support. “Email support” means the ability to make requests for technical support assistance by email at any time (with reasonable efforts by Loop Solutions to respond within one business day) concerning the use of the Paid Services. “Priority” means that support for Paid Services customers takes priority over support for users of the free trial. All Paid Services support will be provided in accordance with Loop Solutions standard Paid Services practices, procedures and policies.

5. Responsibility of Website Visitors.

Loop Solutions has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Loop Solutions 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. Loop Solutions 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.

6. 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 Jigsoar.com links, and that link to Jigsoar.com. Loop Solutions does not have any control over those non-Jigsoar websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Jigsoar website or webpage, Loop Solutions 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. Loop Solutions disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Jigsoar websites and webpages.

7. Copyright Infringement.

As Loop Solutions 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 Jigsoar.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Loop Solutions.

8. Intellectual Property.

This Agreement does not transfer from Loop Solutions to you any Loop Solutions or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Loop Solutions. Loop Solutions, Jigsoar, Jigsoar.com, the Jigsoar.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Jigsoar.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Loop Solutions or Loop Solution’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website 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 Loop Solutions or third-party trademarks.

9. Changes.

Loop Solutions 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 following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Loop Solutions may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (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.

10. Termination.

Loop Solutions may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your Jigsoar.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a Paid Services account, such account can only be terminated by Loop Solutions if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Loop Solutions’s notice to you thereof; provided that, Loop Solutions can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our 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.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties.

The Website is provided “as is”. Loop Solutions 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 Loop Solutions nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website 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.

12. Limitation of Liability.

In no event will Loop Solutions, 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 damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Loop Solutions under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Loop Solutions 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.

13. General Representation and Warranty.

You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Loop Solutions 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 will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

14. Indemnification.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Loop Solutions, 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, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

15. Miscellaneous.

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Loop Solutions and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Loop Solutions, or by the posting by Loop Solutions of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of New Zealand, 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 courts located in New Zealand. Any arbitration shall take place in New Zealand, 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; Loop Solutions 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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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Jigsoar we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy. If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Jigsoar collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Jigsoar’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Jigsoar’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Jigsoar may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Jigsoar also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Jigsoar only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Jigsoar’s websites choose to interact with Jigsoar in ways that require Jigsoar to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Jigsoar gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a site at Jigsoar.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Jigsoar are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Jigsoar collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Jigsoar. Jigsoar does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Jigsoar may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Jigsoar may monitor the most popular sites built on Jigsoar. Jigsoar may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Jigsoar does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Jigsoar discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Jigsoar’s behalf or to provide services available at Jigsoar’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Jigsoar’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Jigsoar will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Jigsoar discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Jigsoar believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Jigsoar, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Jigsoar website and have supplied your email address, Jigsoar may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Jigsoar and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Jigsoar takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Jigsoar uses cookies to help Jigsoar identify and track visitors, their usage of the Jigsoar websites, and their website access preferences. Jigsoar visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Jigsoars’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Jigsoars’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Jigsoar, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Jigsoar goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquiror of Jigsoar may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Jigsoar and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Jigsoar may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Jigsoar’s sole discretion. Jigsoar encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Here's a list of images we've used in our default themes, which are all used under the Creative Commons license.

Mechanics' Institute Library - San Francisco by Mike Behnken

• Mechanic's Institute Library - San Francisco, by Mike Behnken