Terms and Conditions
CONTENTS
1. About Us
2. How We Work
3. Accounts
4. Access
5. Account Termination
6. Intellectual Property
7. Terms of Use
8. Content Policy
9. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
10. Links to the Websites
11. Links from the Website
12. Referral Program
13. Disclaimer and Limitations of Liability
14. Indemnification
15. Contract between Parties
16. Contacts
17. Delivery
18. About Us
1.0 Readease.net as a property of Long Island Zone ltd. operates under the jurisdiction of the Law of Bulgaria.
1.1 The current Website is a platform for:
– creative writers (hereinafter – the “Author”), which is available per request, see “Become an Author”, and allow Authors to upload their content like text and photos;
– curious readers (hereinafter – the “User”), available upon registration, and allow to get full access to the content, fund User’s personal account in order to view paid content provided by Author’s, and use all other functions provided by readease.net
1.2 The current terms define the rules of usage of the readease.net website and all its services. Any User who creates the account at readease.net automatically agrees to these Terms. If you do not accept the terms or any part of them, you shall not create an account at readease.net
1.3 Any other information provided on the Website, including How It Works, FAQ, etc., do not have any legal power, unlike the terms provided in the current Terms and Conditions section.
1.4 The Website and any part of the content uploaded to the Website shall be available only to persons who are 18 years or older. If you are younger than 18, please, do not create an account at readease.net and do not use the Website.
1.5 The current terms can be altered, changed, or modified by readease.net officials at any time, without prior notice and at our sole concern. The changes take effect as soon as they appear on the Website. By using the readease.net website, you agree to accept any changes made by Website officials. We recommend visiting the Terms and Conditions page from time to time to keep up with possible updates.
1.6 All the registered Users and Authors agree to receive information, messages, and notices from the readease.net website. This information can be specified via emails, electronic messages, or posted on the Website. If you want to stop receiving some of the communications, you need to specify your request to [email protected]
1.7 readease.net does not have rights for the content provided by the Author, does not take any sides, or promotes any specific Users or their content, and does not represent the views that can be expressed by any of Authors as well.
All content is provided by Authors in accordance to Author’s License Agreement, whereas the Author agrees to grant Us a perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish, republish, distribute, sell, license, transfer, transmit, and publicly display copies of, and otherwise use the content on readease.net.
1.8 When the User makes a payment to get access to the Author paid content, the access will be opened according to the chosen tariff plan – for 3, 7, or 30 days. After payment is processed the User shall get access to purchased content (-s) of the chosen Author.
1.9 readease.net reserves the exclusive right to:
1.9.1 change, modify, or delete any part of readease.net;
1.9.2 restrict access to readease.net or any part of it;
1.9.3 delete any piece of content provided by the Author if readease.net officials classify the content as such that contradicts current Terms and Conditions or Author’s License Agreement;
1.9.4 monitor any content that you provide to your customers to verify it’s compliance with the Website policies and terms;
1.9.5 disclose any information collected if required by legal authorities.
1.9.6 investigate any breaches of terms, suspicious or unlawful activity, and cooperate with law-enforcing authorities to investigate any fact of a law violation.
1.9.7 add and remove payment providers without prior notice and at our sole discretion. At the same time, we will apply all reasonable efforts to inform the User about the changes made.
1.10 From time to time, some parts of the Website or the whole Website may be inactive or restricted for some Users.
1.11 Company details: Company Name “Long Island Zone ltd”, Address “Bulgaria, Sofia, 1000, Knyauginia Maria Louise 9-11, floor 2, office 4”. The company operates under the jurisdiction of Bulgaria.
How We Work
2.1 readease.net is a platform for:
2.1.1 Authors who can create unique content.
2.1.2 Users who are interested in such content on a pay basis.
2.2 readease.net provides services to all Users of the platform with technical support of the Website and its filling with high-quality content thanks to a collaboration with the most interesting Authors.
Accounts
3.1 To get access to the User’s functions at readease.net, you need to create a personal account first. Every User is required to provide valid, correct, and accurate personal information, email address, etc. It is also a User’s obligation to keep all information in the personal account complete and up to date.
3.2 Every User agrees that all the personal data provided must comply with the rules provided in the Privacy Policy section that governs the use of the personal data at readease.net.
3.3 To get access to any paid content on the Website, you must provide your payment method information. You can choose any of the currently available methods of payment in the corresponding category on the Website.
3.4 If you are a registered Author, you also will have to provide some of your personal information to readease.net officials.
3.5 By creating an account at readease.net, you confirm that:
3.5.1 all the personal information provided by you is truthful, up-to-date, correct, and complete, and that you do not violate any copyright rights of a third party;
3.5.2 your account at readease.net wasn’t terminated due to your breaching of these Website terms before.
3.5.3 your account can not be sold or transferred to any other person.
3.5.4 readease.net officials may ask you to provide some documents to verify the compliance and truthfulness of the provided information. If the User or Author refuse to provide such documents, the account activity can be restricted.
3.5.5 you will not use any unauthorized payment methods or payment systems to collect the payments from the Website customers.
3.6 Using this Website, a User agrees to keep the account information secret to avoid any unauthorized access to the account. If you suspect that some third party is using your account without your permission, please, inform readease.net officials in the shortest possible terms.
3.7 readease.net reserves the right to delete any of your account details, including password or Username, without prior notice and at its sole discretion.
Purchases
4.1 readease.net acts as a digital service provider for Users and customers. The subject of such services is about giving access to the content on the Website.
4.2 To get access to the paid content at readease.net, you have to provide a payment first. Before the payment is processed, you need to choose the terms of the purchase and press the “Buy” button.
4.3 readease.net has all necessary agreements with Authors for all content on the Website.
4.4 All the payments made by Customers are irreversible, and no refunds are optional.
Account Termination
5.1 You can deactivate or terminate your account at any time in the corresponding section of the Website.
5.2 The user may deactivate account instantly. readease.net officials will terminate or deactivate it in the fastest possible terms.
5.3 As an Author, your account will be deactivated only when all your customers’ payments expire.
5.4 If the User is both a User and an Author, the deactivation of their account will go in two phases (customer account is deactivated first. Author account is deactivated after the expiration of the last payment).
5.5 When your account is successfully deactivated or terminated, we will send a confirmation letter to your email.
Intellectual Property
6.1 All content provided by readease.net except for the content provided by the Authors belongs to readease.net or any third-party content providers and subcontractors. All the non-author content, including (but not limited to) photos, images, written and printed text, trademarks, brand features, buttons, software, etc., is protected by international copyright law.
6.2 As a User, you are not allowed to reproduce, copy, sell, download, store, display in public, or modify any of the content provided at readease.net. The exceptions refer to the following content only:
6.2.1 files stored in your browser automatically, like Cookies and other system and Web files;
6.2.1 some of the Website pages can be copied or reproduced for your personal use only and in strict compliance with the Website’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
6.3 If you copy, reproduce or use the Website content in any other way that is not foreseen by the current Terms, your account may be terminated, and you may be obliged to terminate all the illegal copies of the content.
6.4 readease.net name and brand identity are the property of Long Island Zone ltd.
Terms of Use
7.1 All Users and Authors have to follow the current Terms of Use rules without any exception.
7.2 At readease.net, it is strictly forbidden to:
7.2.1 Use readease.net in any other way rather than for personal use and in strict compliance with the Terms and Conditions;
7.2.2 Make any false statements about readease.net, impersonate any of the readease.net representatives, employees or third-party subcontractors, or and other Users;
7.2.3 Provide false account information;
7.2.4 Use readease.net for any illegal activities or to get illegal benefits from any of its parts, services, users, content, software, etc.;
7.2.5 Copy, modify, sell or benefit from any of the content without written permission provided by the copyrights holder;
7.2.6 Use Website to harm any other person; provide false information about a person or any other entity;
7.2.7 Use the readease.net Website and its functions for illegal promotion or spam;
7.2.8 Use readease.net to conflict with other users, offend users, or provide any illegal or inappropriate content;
7.3 As the Author, you are not allowed to post, create, upload, publish, or send any content that:
7.3.1 can be regarded as obscene, defamatory, libelous, hateful, harassing, or illegal in any other way;
7.3.2 violates copyright laws;
7.3.3 promotes escort services of any kind;
7.3.4 promotes firearms, explosives, drugs;
7.3.5 promotes or incites violence or illegal activities;
7.3.6 intentionally promotes negativity and conflict;
7.3.7 involves any hidden or unobvious advertisement or product placement;
7.3.8 makes an impression that you have the right to speak on behalf of readease.net.
7.4 It is prohibited to use the Website to harm, alter, or influence the use of the Website by other Users.
7.5 It is not allowed to interfere with the software used by readease.net and take advantage of its code.
7.6 It is not allowed to use readease.net to create a similar project, use ideas, concepts, identity, trademark features, principles, or features used at readease.net.
7.7 Any content that can be posted at readease.net that can be identified as inappropriate or as such that violates Terms and Conditions may be deleted, and the account of the Author and/or User who provided this content may be deactivated. If such an incident occurs, we will send a notice to your email that will inform you about the steps that we took to eliminate the breach of Terms and Conditions and/or Author’s License Agreement.
7.8 Any User who creates an account at readease.net guarantees that:
7.8.1 they have reached 18 years old;
7.8.2 they read the Terms and Conditions and agree to follow terms provided herein;
7.8.3 they take sole responsibility for accessing readease.net via different devices;
7.8.4 they take sole responsibility for the content that they provide and create;
7.8.5 they will not violate any of the internal terms or any other law that can be applied to their use at readease.net.
7.9 If you use readease.net on behalf of a company or brand, you will be required to provide all the needed documents that prove your right for such representation.
Content Policy (for Authors)
8.1 By posting a piece of content on our Website, you automatically grant your customers a non-exclusive right to view your content. By this, we mean only lawful and personal use as it is indicated in the Terms and Conditions and/or Author’s License Agreement. Also, you guarantee that:
8.1.1 you own all the rights for the content that you provide;
8.1.2 you own the rights and permissions to use the content if it shares some features owned by any third party;
8.1.3 you will not post any images or personal references to the person who is younger than 18 years old;
8.1.4 your customers have reached a minimum age of 18 ears to view your content;
8.1.5 your content is not confidential and can be viewed by any of your customers at readease.net.
8.2 You grant the right to readease.net to modify, alter, edit, reproduce, and display all of your content. Note, readease.net requires those rights only to reproduce some of your content on the Website.
8.3 You bear complete responsibility for all the content that you provide. By this, we mean that you assure that none of your content violates any applicable copyright laws, is reliable, accurate, and appropriate.
8.4 If you suffer any financial or reputational losses as a result of your content posted, you need to inform readease.net officials about it in the shortest time.
8.5 readease.net is not responsible for any content posted on the Website.
8.6 Every Author shall manage and maintain all the documents related to their content.
8.7 If you have any additional questions considering our content policy, please address them to us via [email protected].
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
9.1 readease.net respects intellectual property and treats all the private data provided by Users according to provisions presented in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
9.2 Note, a person who is violating DMCA provisions may be eligible for such violation.
Links to the Websites
10.1 You can publish links to certain readease.net pages. As a User, you need to do it legally and fairly without harming our reputation.
10.2 Also, the readease.net website allows you to:
10.2.1 place links that link your or any third-party website with content provided by readease.net;
10.2.2 publish links to the readease.net content on social media or on your website.
10.3 Certain linking operations are forbidden. You can not:
10.3.1 provide links to the website or web page not owned by you;
10.3.2 use such features as framing, deep linking, or in-line linking.
10.4 By using this Website, you agree to cooperate with readease.net in case any dispute or violation of terms arises. Also, you acknowledge that the permission for providing links to the Website may be withdrawn at any time at our sole discretion.
10.5 We reserve the right to disable all the links and all the social media features at any time and at our sole discretion.
Links from the Website
11.1 The links that you can find at the readease.net website are provided for your convenience only. The Website does not bear any responsibility for the content that may be reached via such links.
Referral Program
12.1 readease.net is authorized to reward Users for introducing new people to our service. If you refer to a person who becomes a User, you may be rewarded. To receive such a reward, you need to comply with the following conditions:
12.1.1 you need to have a valid account at readease.net;
12.1.2 you need to use your unique User URL to provide a referral link;
12.1.3 the referred User has to use the link that you provided and go through the registration process;
12.1.4 the reward will not be paid if any of the mentioned above conditions are not met properly, or the User does not join the Website community;
12.1.5 if the referred User creates several accounts, the reward will be given only in relation to the first account created by such a User;
12.2 If the payment was incorrect or some of the terms for referring new Users were not met, readease.net reserves the right to reclaim the rewarded funds from the referrer.
Disclaimer and Limitations of Liability
As a User of readease.net services, you need to acknowledge the following:
13.1 All the services and information provided by readease.net are provided without any warranties or guarantees to the fullest extent permitted by law. readease.net can not guarantee the availability of service, compliance of software and hardware, completeness of service, the suitability of service, its security, operation, and features.
13.2 The Website may be unavailable at a certain time of the day without prior notice due to maintenance procedures.
13.3 If you believe that readease.net is liable for any damages or inconveniences, you need to contact us via email and provide all the details that will allow us to resolve the dispute.
Indemnification
By using readease.net, you agree to indemnify all claims against readease.net or any of our employees or representatives that may arise as a result of:
14.1 your use of readease.net;
14.2 any content provided by Users at readease.net;
14.3 any contact or communication between you and any other readease.net User;
14.4 your violation of readease.net terms or any of the applicable laws.
15. Contract Between Parties
The current terms contain all the provisions that constitute the agreement between the User and readease.net.
16. Contacts
If you have any additional questions or suggestions, please, contact us via [email protected]
17. Delivery
17.1 After the payment is successfully completed the ordered content becomes available on the site.
