1.1 Tech Hunt – an online puzzle game
Tech Hunt is an online game consisting of puzzles, riddles, meant to test your test your problem-solving skills, general knowledge, with a special inclination towards tech-related knowledge, issues and methods.
1.2 For your information we list below the address details of Lateral Inc:
110 Wall Street, New York City, NY 10005
E-Mail: hello@lateral-inc.com
2.1 Our services are available only to individuals who have the capacity to form legally binding contracts under the law applicable to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use our services and no contract will be formed between you and Lateral Inc. Further, our services are not available to temporarily or indefinitely suspended Tech Hunt members.
3.1 In order that a legally binding contract can be formed between Lateral Inc and a member eligible under clause 2 above, the member is required to accept these Terms and Conditions unconditionally by simply using the website.
3.2 Lateral Inc in their absolute discretion reserves the right to refuse, suspend or cancel membership or access of any member.
3.3 These Terms and Conditions shall override any contrary terms or conditions published by Lateral Inc or appearing on this web site pertaining to members.
4.1 The Services shall be made reasonably available to you, subject to these Terms and Conditions and subject to technical errors and downtime which may be associated with the Internet and the Site. You acknowledge and accept that Lateral Inc has no control over the Internet, which is a global decentralized network of computer systems. Access to the Site and Services shall not, therefore, be error free or uninterrupted and may be disrupted and very variable.
4.2 The Site is maintained in partnership with Lateral Inc's hosting service providers. Every effort is made to ensure the continuity of the Site and Services, but some occasional technical downtime beyond our control and/or the control of our hosting service provider may occur. You acknowledge and accept that such downtime may prevent the Site being viewed and may restrict access to your account or the ability to access the Services from time to time.
4.3 You acknowledge and accept that the disclaimers and limitation of liability relating to the Site and Services set out in clause 11 will apply.
4.4 In the event that any individual component of the Services is disputed then the parties shall endeavor in good faith to reach agreement in relation to the disputed Services. In the event that such dispute cannot be resolved, the matter shall be referred for resolution to an independent expert as appointed on application by either party by the American Arbitration Association in the United States of America (“U.S.A.”). The parties agree to be bound by the decision made by such independent expert.
5.1 Lateral Inc reserves the right to change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and availability of any part of the Site at its sole discretion and without notice. It is the member's responsibility to refer to and update itself in relation to any changes made. Any such changes will become effective upon posting by Lateral Inc.
5.2 Where Tech Hunt provides hyperlinks to a third party's website, Lateral Inc shall not take any responsibility for nor does it make any warranties, representations or undertakings about the content of any other web-site which may be referred to or accessed by the hyperlink and Lateral Inc does not endorse or approve the content of such third parties websites.
5.3 Lateral Inc makes no warranty as to the continuous availability of the Site, but shall use reasonable endeavors to keep down time to a minimum.
6.1 Notwithstanding and subject to the remaining terms and conditions herein, the following conditions govern our acceptance of all forms for digital content (text, photos, links, videos) you submit to us
6.2 If you submit any digital content (text, photos, links, videos) to us on the Site, you warrant to us that the digital content:
By submitting digital content to us, you agree to license it to us, free of charge, on a full royalty-free license, transferrable, worldwide.
6.3 Lateral Inc has the right to carry out a manual review of each digital content submitted by you.
7.1 "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to Tech Hunt during registration, in any areas allowing you to post content, through feedback or any e-mail or form features.
7.2 Your Information and conduct (or any items listed therein) shall not:
7.3 To enable Lateral Inc to use Your Information supplied, such that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant Lateral Inc a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license and the right to sub-license (through multiple tiers) to use the copyright, publicity and other intellectual property rights you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known. Lateral Inc will only use Your Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy to the Site.
7.4 You are responsible for all statements made and acts that occur through the use of your membership and password. Please don't disclose your password to anyone. If your password has been stolen, you must let us know. Lateral Inc may at any time, and at its sole discretion, terminate your membership without prior notice to you for violating the above provisions.
7.5 While Lateral Inc cannot review all transmissions by members on the Site, we reserve the right to, and may from time to time, monitor any information transmitted or received through our service. Lateral Inc, at our sole discretion and without further notice to you, may review, remove, or otherwise block any that we deem inappropriate or that violates any of this agreement.
8.1 You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without the prior written consent of Lateral Inc.
8.2 You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site.
8.3 You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure.
8.4 Much of the information on the Site is proprietary or is licensed to Lateral Inc by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior written consent of Lateral Inc or the appropriate third party, with the exception of downloading or printing a single copy for yourself for offline viewing.
9.1 Without limiting other remedies, Lateral Inc may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide the Services to you if:
10.1 The Site including, without limitation, its contents, functionality, performance and features are provided on an "as available basis" at the member's sole risk and without representations or warranties of any kind and to the full extent permitted by law. Lateral Inc and other parties involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site expressly exclude all warranties, conditions or terms express or implied, statutory or otherwise including without limitation any warranty as to satisfactory quality or any warranty or commitment that access or use will be uninterrupted or error free.
11.1 Nothing in this agreement is intended to limit or exclude any liability on the part of Lateral Inc where and to the extent that applicable law prohibits such exclusion or limitation.
11.2 Subject to the above statement and any clauses relating to limitation of liability elsewhere in these terms and conditions, in no event shall Lateral Inc or its suppliers be liable for any: lost profits; lost sales; lost business; lost opportunity; lost information; lost anticipated savings; or special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising, including as a result of negligence) arising out of or in connection with this agreement including the Site or Services.
11.3 Accordingly, subject to clause 12.1, you agree not to bring a claim of any nature against Lateral Inc in relation the use of or access to the Site and use or access to the Services, except where such a claim cannot be excluded by law. You acknowledge and agree that Lateral Inc will have the right (subject to the discretion of the Court) to a stay of proceeding if you bring any claim against Lateral Inc in breach of the foregoing.
11.4 Lateral Inc shall not be liable or responsible in any way for any damage caused by any misuse of the Site by you or any third party, or caused by any Service.
11.5 Lateral Inc shall be free to modify, temporarily suspend or cancel the Services and to reasonably amend these Terms and conditions at any time in writing which amendments will be deemed to be agreed by you upon using the Site and Services. Subject to clause 11.1 above, Lateral Inc shall not be liable for any damage or expenses incurred by you or any other person as a result of such modification, suspension or cancellation of any game or reasonable amendment to these Terms and Conditions.
11.6 You acknowledge that information, software and other material accessible over the Internet via the Site may contain viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other harmful and destructive components. Lateral Inc shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or other loss or damages which result or may result from your access to or use of the Internet, Site or Services.
12.1 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Lateral Inc and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, from and against any claim, demand, liability, cost, damage or lost it may incur, including legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
13.1 You shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service.
14.1 You agree that you and Lateral Inc are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
15.1 All notices required to be served on the Site shall be sent to the contact address stated in clause 1 or to the e-mail address of Lateral Inc as set out in clause 1 or as otherwise notified on the Site from time to time for such purpose.
16.1 Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or Lateral Inc's Services shall be settled by an arbitration tribunal designated by Lateral Inc. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the U.S.A., and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or Lateral Inc may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the U.S.A. necessary to protect the rights or property of you or us pending the completion of arbitration.
17.1 You acknowledge that the ownership in any intellectual property rights (including, for the avoidance of doubt, patents, copyright, rights in databases, trademarks and trade names whether registered or unregistered and subsisting anywhere in the World) in the Site belongs to Lateral Inc or its third-party licensors. Accordingly, any part of this Site (or its source HTML or any other code) may not be used, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner other than for the purposes of using this Site and the Services, meaning that you may only display it on your computer screen and print it out on your printer for the sole purpose of viewing its content in connection with the Services.
17.2 Subject to the terms and conditions herein, copyright and all other intellectual property rights subsisting in each and every piece of information provided on the Site is owned by Lateral Inc or the third-party providers of such information. You may use information retrieved from the Site only for the purposes of the Services.
17.3 Lateral Inc reserves the right in accordance with the license granted under clause 7.3 to license and republish the material contributed by you.
17.4 No person other than the rightful owner or licensee of any copyright and other intellectual property rights may:
17.5 You agree and accept that Lateral Inc may publish or otherwise distribute Your Information and you therefore grant to Lateral Inc an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to publish Your Information and all content contained therein on or within the Site, on any other media whatsoever and in its own advertising and promotion.
17.6 You therefore hereby undertake to Lateral Inc to indemnify and hold harmless Lateral Inc in full and defend at its own expense Lateral Inc against all claims, liabilities, costs and losses whatsoever and howsoever incurred by Lateral Inc, its servants or nominees arising out of any claim made against it in any jurisdiction in the world for infringement of any intellectual property rights of any third party caused by your use of the Site and your Information.
17.7 Lateral Tech Hunt and the Lateral Tech Hunt logo are trade names or trademarks of Lateral Inc, the use of which is expressly forbidden by any other persons without the express permission of Lateral Inc.
17.8 Lateral Inc makes no warranty or representation in respect of any other trade mark or trading name, symbol or device, all of which are hereby acknowledged. If you have any questions in relation to the use of any marks contained within the Site Services please contact Lateral Inc at the address below.
18.1 This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of U.S.A. as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within U.S.A. The parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S.A. courts.
18.2 If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out of these Terms and Conditions and the remaining provisions shall remain in force. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Lateral Inc's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
18.3 The laws of your country may be different from those of U.S.A. in numerous respects. There is no practical way for Lateral Inc to monitor the laws of every country in detail. Please do not assume that you are allowed to do what other members do. Lateral Inc does not approve or validate transactions, advice or communications, and you accept sole responsibility for the legality of your actions under laws applying to you.