This document outlines the responsibilities of the Customer when using the Services of Briefly.

(a)  Acceptable Use Policy.

The Services may not be used for any of the following prohibited activities (collectively, the “AUP”):

  1. Copying, distributing, selling, reselling, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping”
  2. Using any automated system, including without limitation “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to the Briefly servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on-line web browser (except that Briefly grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy publicly available materials from the Services for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials)
  3. Transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email
  4. Attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services
  5. Taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure
  6. Uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Services
  7. Collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information or other personal information, including account names, from the Services
  8. Using the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes
  9. Impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity
  10. Interfering with the proper working of the Services
  11. Accessing any content on the Services through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Services
  12. Bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Services or the content therein.

You will comply with all terms and conditions of this Agreement, all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and all guidelines, standards, and requirements that may be posted on www.trybriefly.com from time to time, including the AUP.

(b)  Account Use.

You are responsible and liable for all uses of the Services and Documentation resulting from access provided by you, directly or indirectly, whether such access or use is permitted by or in violation of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you are responsible for all acts and omissions of Authorized Users, and any act or omission by an Authorized User that would constitute a breach of this Agreement if taken by you will be deemed a breach of this Agreement by you. You shall use reasonable efforts to make all Authorized Users aware of this Agreement’s provisions as applicable to such Authorized User’s use of the Services and shall cause Authorized Users to comply with such provisions.