Terms of Service


Welcome to Lingo Mingle, AKA Beach Bottle Labs. Please read these Terms of Service (the "Terms") and our Privacy Policy carefully because they govern your use of our language learning services, accessible via our mobile device applications with the App Names "Lingo Mingle", "Bottle - Speak & Be Corrected" and "Bottle - Language Exchange". These apps are referred collectively as the "Apps" in the Terms . To make these Terms easier to read, our services and Apps are collectively called the "Services."

Agreement to Terms

By using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy, do not use the Services.

Changes to Terms or Services

We may modify the Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. If we do so, we'll let you know either by posting the modified Terms on the Apps or through other communications. It's important that you review the Terms whenever we modify them because if you continue to use the Services after we have posted modified Terms on the Apps, you are indicating to us that you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If you don't agree to be bound by the modified Terms, then you may not use the Services anymore. Because our Services are evolving over time we may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

Description of Website and Service

The Services allow users to practice speaking in a foreign language and to exchange educational feedback with other users. The Services are open to people of different linguistic and proficiency backgrounds. Therefore, some users will be more capable of teaching than others. The Services cannot guarantee the accuracy of corrections provided by users.

Community Guidelines

People at any level of language ability are welcome to participate in Lingo Mingle, from beginners to advanced students.

Messages a user posts on Lingo Mingle are sent to native speakers of the language being spoken. As a language exchange forum for students, mistakes and misunderstanding are to be expected. In order to foster a supportive environment, all participants need to exercise a basic level of respect for other users.

Most students are happy to receive constructive correction on their choice of words and nuances of speech. However, nobody enjoys being told that he or she is wrong in a curt or dismissive way. Try to be helpful in your tone of voice and choice of words.

Users can respond to topics from the Topic screen or speak their mind on any topic. However, while religion, politics, violence or sexual topics may be lively topics, they may also incite extreme opinions which can alienate some users. Please do not post messages that other users may find offensive.

If you would not say something in a language classroom, think twice before saying it on Lingo Mingle.

Lingo Mingle reserves the right to remove any user submitted content that in its sole judgement deems disruptive to the Services' educational goals.

General Prohibitions and Lingo Mingle's Enforcement Rights

You agree not to do any of the following: Post, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (a) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (b) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (c) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (d) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (e) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (f) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any person or entity; or (g) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances.

Use, display, mirror or frame the Services or any individual element within the Services, Lingo Mingle's name, any Lingo Mingle trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page, without Lingo Mingle's express written consent;

Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Lingo Mingle's computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Lingo Mingle's providers;

Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any Lingo Mingle system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;

Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Lingo Mingle or any of Lingo Mingle's providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Services or Content;

Attempt to access or search the Services or Content or download Content from the Services through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by Lingo Mingle or other generally available third-party web browsers;

Send any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, email, junk mail, spam, chain letters or other form of solicitation;

Use any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing a Lingo Mingle trademark, logo URL or product name without Lingo Mingle's express written consent;

Use the Services or Content, or any portion thereof, for any commercial purpose or for the benefit of any third party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms;

Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Services or Content to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;

Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services or Content;

Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Services;

Collect or store any personally identifiable information from the Services from other users of the Services without their express permission;

Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;

Violate any applicable law or regulation; or

Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.

Although we're not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Services or Content or to review or edit any Content, we have the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Services, to ensure compliance with these Terms, and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove or disable access to any Content, at any time and without notice, including, but not limited to, if we, at our sole discretion, consider any Content to be objectionable or in violation of these Terms. We have the right to investigate violations of these Terms or conduct that affects the Services. We may also consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the law.

Who May Use the Services

Eligibility

No individual under the age of thirteen (13) may use the Services, provide any personal information to Lingo Mingle, or otherwise submit personal information through the Services (including, for example, a name, address, telephone number, or email address). You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Lingo Mingle and are not legally prohibited from using the Services.

Registration and Your Information

If you want to use certain features of the Services you'll have to create a new account with Facebook (your "FB Account") or use your existing FB Account. Lingo Mingle will create your Account by extracting from your FB Account certain personal information such as your name and email address and other personal information that your privacy settings on your FB Account permit us to access.

It's important that you provide us with accurate, complete and up-to-date information for your Account and you agree to update such information, as needed, to keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you don't, we might have to suspend or terminate your Account. You agree that you won't disclose your Account password to anyone and you'll notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Account. You're responsible for all activities that occur under your Account, whether or not you know about them.

Feedback

We welcome feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Services ("Feedback"). You can submit Feedback by emailing us at feedback@beachbottlelabs.com. You grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license under any and all intellectual property rights that you own or control to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon and otherwise exploit the Feedback for any purpose.

Privacy Policy

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for information on how we collect, use and disclose information from our users.

Content and Content Rights

For purposes of these Terms: (a) "Content" means text, music, audio, works of authorship of any kind, and information or other materials that are posted, generated, provided or otherwise made available through the Services; and (b) "User Content" means any Content that Account holders (including you) provide to be made available through the Services. Content includes without limitation User Content.

Content Ownership, Responsibility, and Removal

Lingo Mingle does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your User Content. Subject to the foregoing, Lingo Mingle and any licensors, exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Services and Content, including all associated intellectual property rights. You acknowledge that the Services and Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services or Content.

Rights in User Content Granted By You

By making any User Content available through Services you hereby grant to Lingo Mingle a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, display and distribute your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services and Content to you and to other Account holders.

You are solely responsible for all your User Content. You represent and warrant that you own all your User Content or you have all rights that are necessary to grant us the license rights in your User Content under these Terms. You also represent and warrant that neither your User Content, nor your use and provision of your User Content to be made available through the Services, nor any use of your User Content by Lingo Mingle on or through the Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

Rights in Content Granted By Lingo Mingle

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Lingo Mingle grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to view, display, stream, and download the Content solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services and solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes.

Rights and Terms for Apps

Rights in Apps Granted by Lingo Mingle

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Lingo Mingle grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable license to download and install a copy of the Apps on a mobile device or computer that you own or control and to run such copy of the Apps solely for your own personal non-commercial purposes. You may not copy the Apps, except for making a reasonable number of copies for backup or archival purposes. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms, you may not: (a) copy, modify or create derivative works based on the Apps; (b) distribute, transfer, sublicense, lease, lend or rent the Apps to any third party; (c) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Apps; or (d) make the functionality of the Apps available to multiple users through any means. Lingo Mingle reserves all rights in and to the Apps not expressly granted to you under these Terms.

Termination

We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you. You may cancel your Account at any time by sending an email to us at help@beachLingo Minglelabs.com. Upon any termination, discontinuation or cancellation of Services or your Account, all provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive will survive, including, without limitation, the sections on Feedback, Content, Ownership, Responsibility and Removal, Warranty Disclaimers, Indemnity, Limitation of Liability, Governing Law, Dispute Resolution, General Terms and this sentence of Termination.

Warranty Disclaimers

THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. We make no warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, timeliness, truthfulness, completeness or reliability of any Content.

Limitation of Liability

NEITHER Lingo Mingle NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SERVICES OR CONTENT WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA OR GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES OR CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT Lingo Mingle HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Governing Law

These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

Dispute Resolution

Agreement to Arbitrate

You and Lingo Mingle agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or the use of the Services or Content (collectively, "Disputes") will be settled by binding arbitration, except that each party retains the right: (a) to bring an individual action in small claims court and (b) to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property rights (the action described in the foregoing clause (b), an "IP Protection Action"). Without limiting the preceding sentence, you will also have the right to litigate any other Dispute if you provide Lingo Mingle with written notice of your desire to do so by email at help@beachBottlelabs.com within thirty (30) days following the date you first agree to these Terms (such notice, an "Arbitration Opt-out Notice"). If you don't provide Lingo Mingle with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice within the thirty (30) day period, you will be deemed to have knowingly and intentionally waived your right to litigate any Dispute except as expressly set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any IP Protection Action or, if you timely provide Lingo Mingle with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice, will be the state and federal courts located in the Southern District of California and each of the parties hereto waives any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Unless you timely provide Lingo Mingle with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice, you acknowledge and agree that you and Lingo Mingle are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action or representative proceeding. Further, unless both you and Lingo Mingle otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding. If this paragraph ("Agreement to Arbitrate") is held unenforceable, then all of the provisions below that constitute the "Dispute Resolution" section (through and including the paragraph "Changes") will be deemed void. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, this "Dispute Resolution" section will survive any termination of these Terms.

Arbitration Rules

The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (the "AAA Rules") then in effect, except as modified by this "Dispute Resolution" section. (The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org/arb_med or by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879.) The Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this Section.

Arbitration Process

A party who desires to initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a written Demand for Arbitration as specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator will be either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law and will be selected by the parties from the AAA's roster of arbitrators. If the parties are unable to agree upon an arbitrator within seven (7) days of delivery of the Demand for Arbitration, then the AAA will appoint the arbitrator in accordance with the AAA Rules.

Arbitration Location and Procedure

Unless you and Lingo Mingle otherwise agree, the arbitration will be conducted in the county where the office of Lingo Mingle resides. If your claim does not exceed $10,000, then the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of the documents that you and Lingo Mingle submit to the arbitrator, unless you request a hearing or the arbitrator determines that a hearing is necessary. If your claim exceeds $10,000, your right to a hearing will be determined by the AAA Rules. Subject to the AAA Rules, the arbitrator will have the discretion to direct a reasonable exchange of information by the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the arbitration.

Arbitrator's Decision

The arbitrator will render an award within the time frame specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator's decision will include the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator based the award. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrator's award of damages must be consistent with the terms of the "Limitation of Liability" section above as to the types and amounts of damages for which a party may be held liable. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the claimant and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the claimant’s individual claim.

Fees

Your responsibility to pay any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be solely as set forth in the AAA Rules.

Changes

Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Modification" section above, if Lingo Mingle changes this "Dispute Resolution" section after the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms), you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email to help@beachbottlelabs.com) within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the "Last Updated" date above or in the date of Lingo Mingle's email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Lingo Mingle in accordance with the provisions of this "Dispute Resolution" section as of the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms).

General Terms

These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Lingo Mingle and you regarding the Services and Content, and these Terms supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Lingo Mingle and you regarding the Services and Content. Except as expressly set forth in the paragraph "Agreement to Arbitrate" above, if any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable (either by an arbitrator appointed pursuant to the terms of the "Dispute Resolution" section above or by court of competent jurisdiction, but only if you timely opt out of arbitration by sending us an Arbitration Opt-out Notice in accordance with the terms set forth above), that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without Lingo Mingle's prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null. Lingo Mingle may freely assign or transfer these Terms without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Any notices or other communications provided by Lingo Mingle under these Terms, including those regarding modifications to these Terms, will be given: (a) via email; or (b) by posting to the Services. For notices made by e-mail, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.

Lingo Mingle's failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of such right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Lingo Mingle. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact Beach Bottle Labs at help@beachbottlelabs.com.

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