The following terms and conditions govern all use of Maya’s Place, the mayasplace.com website/blog, and all content, services and products available at or through the website/blog (the “Website”). The Website is owned and operated by Lenssen Media, registered in Florida, U.S.A. (“Lenssen Media”). The purpose of the Website is to offer lifestyle and entertainment content. 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, our Privacy and Security Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Website by Lenssen Media (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 Lenssen Media, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is intended only for individuals who are at least 13 years old.

1. Fictitious Character. You understand that Maya is a fictitious character created and owned by Lenssen Media. All posts and contents on this Website are a work of fiction. All characters, incidents, places, quotations, and dialogue are products of Lenssen Media’s imagination and any resemblance to events or to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

2. Access to the Website. Lenssen Media may offer to provide the Website for your own use only, and not for the use or benefit of any third party. Lenssen Media may modify, suspend or discontinue the Website, in whole or in part, at any time, including any content, features, graphics or databases. Lenssen Media may also restrict your access to the Website, in whole or in part, without prior notice or liability.
You agree that Lenssen Media will not be liable in any event to you or any other party for any modification, suspension, discontinuance or unavailability of the Website, the Website Content, the Contributors’ Content or any other content, including without limitation advertisements.

3. Content posted by Lenssen Media. All content posted by Lenssen Media, i.e. all content, including text, photographs, graphics, logos, designs, themes, software, code, tools, databases, video, music and sound (“Website Content”), but excluding content posted by non-Lenssen Media contributors (such as comments posted by contributors), is the property of Lenssen Media and/or third parties and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of Lenssen Media and/or third parties. You agree to abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Website Content.
The Website is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, according to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws. Except as expressly provided for in this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit (including, but not limited to, by way of e-mail, facsimile or other electronic means), upload, display, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works based on, distribute, perform, display, or in any other way exploit, any of the Website Content, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Lenssen Media.
You may download or copy the Website Content for your own personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you maintain all author attributions, trademark legends or copyright notices. Downloading, copying, or storing any Website Content for other than personal, noncommercial use is expressly prohibited without prior written consent from Lenssen Media.
No part of the Website Content is intended to malign, threaten or incite violence towards any individual or entity, including, but not limited to, any religion, ethnic group, organization or company.

4. Responsibility of Contributors. If you comment on a post, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Contributors’ Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Contributors’ Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Contributors’ Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, a video file, or computer software. By making Contributors’ Content available, you represent and warrant that:

• if you are an individual (i.e., not a corporate entity), you are at least 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website (including, for example, a name, address, telephone number or email address).
• you shall enter your name and email address in the Comment Form or register with the Website with your name and email address (via the Log-in at the bottom of a page). Comments without your email address shall be deleted without further notice.
• the Contributors’ Content you submit is not pornographic, libelous or defamatory, abusive, harassing, hateful, offensive, does not malign, contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights or any other rights of any third party or any law;
• the Contributors’ Content you submit does not contain links to your own blogs and/or websites in the text (one entry in the URL field of the Comment Form is permitted) and does not represent advertisement via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links or a similar unsolicited promotional method;
• the Contributors’ Content you submit 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 Contributors’ Content you submit is not used in a manner that misleads visitors of the Website into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own.
• the Contributors’ Content you submit does not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party. For example, the avatar picture you use is not the property of a 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 Contributors’ Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Contributors’ Content;
• you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Contributors’ Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
• the Contributors’ Content you submit does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content; and
• if you register with the Website (via the Log-in at the bottom of a page), you shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You shall be solely responsible for any use of or action taken under your password and you hereby release the Lenssen Media any and all liability concerning such activity.

By submitting Contributors’ Content to Lenssen Media for inclusion on the Website, you grant Lenssen Media a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, cache, display, publish, distribute, create derivative works and store the Contributors’ Content. You understand and agree that Lenssen Media is not required, for any reason, to delete any of the Contributors’ Content submitted by you.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Lenssen Media has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Lenssen Media’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any Contributors’ Content that, in Lenssen Media’s reasonable opinion, violates any Lenssen Media 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 Lenssen Media’s sole discretion.

5. Responsibility of Website Visitors. As a visitor of the Website you represent and warrant that, if you are an individual (i.e., not a corporate entity), you are at least 13 years of age. Lenssen Media has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Lenssen Media 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. Lenssen Media 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. Lenssen Media has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material made available through the websites and webpages to which the Website links, and that link to the Website. Lenssen Media does not have any control over non-Lenssen Media websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Lenssen Media website or webpage, Lenssen Media 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. Lenssen Media disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Lenssen Media websites and webpages.

7. Copyright Infringement. As Lenssen Media 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 the Website violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Lenssen Media via this online form. Please provide the following information: (i) identification of the work or material being infringed, (ii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, including its location, enabling Lenssen Media to find the material, (iii) your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number and email address, (iv) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or law, (v) a statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner, (vi) your physical or electronic signature.
Lenssen Media 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 contributor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Lenssen Media or others, Lenssen Media may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website.
As a contributor, you then may send a counter notification to Lenssen Media via this online form stating why your content does not infringe copyrights. Please provide the following information: (i) identification and original location of material that has been deleted by Lenssen Media or to which Lenssen Media has disabled access, (ii) your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number and email address, (iii) a statement under penalty of perjury explaining why the content was removed by mistake or misidentification., (vi) your physical or electronic signature.
Upon receipt of a counterclaim, Lenssen Media will forward it to the party who submitted the original copyright infringement claim. The original complainant will then have 10 days to notify Lenssen Media that he or she has filed legal action relating to the allegedly infringing material. If Lenssen Media does not receive any such notification within 10 days, Lenssen Media may restore the material to the Website.

8. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Lenssen Media to you any Lenssen Media or third-party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Lenssen Media. Any trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website are the property of Lenssen Media and/or their respective owners. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any of these trademarks. This Website uses the open source software WordPress. The design of this Website is based on the arthemia premium theme by Colorlabs Project, which has been adapted by Lenssen Media. Integrated YouTube videos are the property of their respective owners. Any pictures used by Lenssen Media which are not the property of Lenssen Media are displayed with the copyright notice of the respective copyright holder (usually at the end of each post or in the hover text).

9. Changes. Lenssen Media 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. Lenssen Media may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website. Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

10. Termination. Lenssen Media 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 mayasplace.com registration (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. 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”. Lenssen Media and its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, and currentness. Neither Lenssen Media nor its suppliers, make any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you obtain content or services through the Website at your own discretion and risk.

12. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Lenssen Media, or its suppliers, be liable to you or anyone else with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on information obtained from the Website, (ii) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (iii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; or (iv) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data. Lenssen Media 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 Lenssen Media Privacy and Security 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 Lenssen Media, its contractors, 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 Lenssen Media and you concerning the subject matter hereof and may only be modified by the posting by Lenssen Media 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 the state of Florida, U.S.A., 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 Florida, U.S.A. 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 not assign, transfer or sublicense this Agreement, except with Lenssen Media’s prior written consent. Lenssen Media may assign its rights under this Agreement in whole or in part at any time without condition. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind Lenssen Media in any respect whatsoever.