Effective Date: August 1, 2023

Welcome to The Happy Sad Company. We (“we”, “us”, or “The Happy Sad Company”) are delighted to have you on our website and using our application service (the “Services”). Please continue reading to learn about the terms by which you may use our web and/or mobile services (collectively, the “Services”).

YOU (A) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE TERMS OF USE; (B) REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, POWER, AND AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO THESE TERMS OF USE AND, IF ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS OF USE FOR A SCHOOL (DEFINED BELOW), THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO BIND THAT SCHOOL; AND (C) ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY BOUND BY ITS TERMS.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SERVICES AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS.  THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS. THESE TERMS OF USE APPLY WHETHER YOU ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES AS A GUEST OR AS A REGISTERED USER.

These General Terms of Use apply to all: (i) consumers, students, teachers, care providers, schools, school districts, and related entities and organizations that sign up to use the Services, including but not limited to administrators who access the Services on their behalf (each a “School”); (ii) non-School visitors, users, and others, including students, teachers, and their parents or guardians, who use the Services.

By accessing or using the Services, either by checking the box marked [“I Agree”], or by otherwise affirmatively stating your desire to use the Services such as integrating with our Services through a third party SSO platform such as Clever, Google, or ClassLink, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement and to the collection and use of your information as set forth in the The Happy Sad Company Privacy Policy, otherwise you may not use the Services. Because our Services change relatively often, the terms in this Agreement and our Privacy Policy may change too. If you are a Teacher, Student or School using the Services, we will notify you via email in advance of any material changes to the terms. Upon making changes, we will update the “Effective Date” found at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Services after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.

ii) WHAT CONTROL DO I HAVE OVER MY USE OF THE SERVICES?

By providing your email address to us and syncing your account, you consent to our using the email address to send you Services-related notices, including any required legal notices and other messages, such as additions or changes to the Services and/or notices of product offers. While we need your email address to send you important Services-related notices, you can always ask us to stop sending you certain marketing messages by contacting us at help@thehappysadcompany.com. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers.

iii) RESTRICTED USES

Please don’t do anything to harm our product or try to hack our Services. Specifically, by using the Services, you agree not to do any of these things: (i) copy, distribute, or disclose any part of the Services in any medium, including but not limited to by any automated or non-automated “scraping”; (ii) use any automated system, including but not limited to “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to the The Happy Sad Company servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional online web browser; (iii) transmit spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempt to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services; (v) take any action that imposes, or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) transmit any malicious software agents through the Services; (vii) collect or harvest any third-party personally identifiable information, including account names, Teacher, and/or Student Data (as defined below), from the Services; (viii) use the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonate another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfere with the proper working of the Services; (xi) access any content on the Services through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Services; or (xii) bypass the measures we use to prevent or restrict access to the Services, including but not limited to features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Services or related content.

We continually update our Services to offer the best possible product. While we plan to continue to offer and improve our Services, we may, without prior notice, change, cancel, create usage limits for, or permanently or temporarily stop offering or allowing you access to the Services generally (“Service Changes”). While we’ll try to give you advance notice of Service Changes that will adversely affect you, this might not be practical or possible and we retain the right to make Service Changes without notice and liability for any reason. If this Agreement ends, you continue to be bound by it in any interactions you may have with the Services.

You are fully responsible for your interactions with other Users, and we have no liability for your interactions with any other Users, or for any User’s actions or inactions with respect to you.

iv) USER CONTRIBUTIONS

The Services may contain interactive features like personal messaging and product review functions that allow Users to post, submit, publish, display, or transmit (collectively, “Share”) messages, content and other materials (“User Contributions”) to Users or other persons content or materials on or through the Services. All User Contributions must comply with this Agreement.

By Sharing User Contributions through our Services, you agree to allow others to view, edit, share, and/or interact with those User Contributions in accordance with your settings and this Agreement. We have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to monitor and remove any User Contributions that are Shared via our Services. You hereby grant each User a non-exclusive license to access your User Contributions through our Services, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform your User Contributions, which you make available to such User through our Services. You further grant, and represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to us an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), fully paid, royalty-free, and worldwide right and license to use, copy, store, modify, distribute and display your User Contributions: (a) to maintain and provide our Services; (b) other User Contributions submitted as personal messaging, to improve our products and services and for our other business purposes, such as data analysis, customer research, developing new products or features, and identifying usage trends; and (c) to perform such other actions as described in the The Happy Sad Company Privacy Policy or as authorized by you in connection with your use of our Services.

You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions, have the right to grant the licenses granted above, and all of your User Contributions do and will comply with this Agreement.

You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you Share, and you, not we, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness. We are not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other User.

We have the right to:

• Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions in our sole discretion.

• Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates this Agreement, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the safety of Users or the public, or could create liability for us.

• Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Services.

• Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of this Agreement.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Services. This next sentence is surrounded by stars because it is important: *** You, release, waive and hold us and our affiliates, licensees, and service providers, harmless from any claims resulting from any action or omission of ours, or our affiliates, licensees, and service providers. ***

We cannot review all User Contributions before they are Shared, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. We assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications, or content provided by any User or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described above.

vi) ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO OUR APP

To use our App you must have a device that is compatible with the App. The Happy Sad Company does not warrant that our App will be compatible with your mobile device. You may use mobile data in connection with our App and may incur additional charges from your wireless provider for these services. You agree that you are solely responsible for any such charges. The Happy Sad Company hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use a compiled code copy of our App for one The Happy Sad Company User account on one mobile device owned or leased solely by you, for your personal use. You may not: (i) modify, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer our App, except to the extent that such restriction is expressly prohibited by law; (ii) rent, lease, loan, resell, sublicense, distribute or otherwise transfer our App to any third party or use the App to provide time sharing or similar services for any third party; (iii) make any copies of our App; (iv) remove, circumvent, disable, damage or otherwise interfere with security-related features of our App, features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content accessible through our App, or features that enforce limitations on use of our App; or (v) delete the copyright and other proprietary rights notices on our App. You acknowledge that The Happy Sad Company may from time to time issue upgraded versions of the App, and may automatically electronically upgrade the version of the App that you are using on your device. You consent to such automatic upgrading on your mobile device, and agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement will apply to all such upgrades.  Any attempt by you to transfer any of the rights, duties or obligations hereunder, except as expressly provided for in this Agreement, is void. The Happy Sad Company reserves all rights not expressly granted under this Agreement. You agree to comply with all United States and foreign laws related to use of our App and the Services.

SECTION 2. RIGHTS IN OUR CONTENT

“Student Data” and “Teacher Data” is any information (in any format) that is directly related to any identifiable current or former student that is maintained by a School, and may include “educational records” as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) that Schools provide to us. While we may need to access Student Data to provide the Services to you, Schools own the Student Data and remain responsible for it. Our additional privacy policy includes details on how we store and utlize data. 

“Intellectual Property Rights” means all worldwide patent rights, copyright rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all related applications and registrations, renewals and extensions.

Except for Student Data, the Services and all materials made available to you in connection with them, including, but not limited to, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music, and any content belonging to other Users (the “The Happy Sad Company Content”), and all related Intellectual Property Rights, are the exclusive property of The Happy Sad Company and its licensors. Except as specified in this Agreement, nothing may be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any The Happy Sad Company Content. To be clear: any use of the The Happy Sad Company Content for a purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

If you send us ideas or comments about our Services, you agree that we may freely use or reference those ideas and comments and we do not owe you any payment or have any other obligation of any kind for such ideas or comments.

SECTION 3. GENERAL LEGAL TERMS

i) The Happy Sad Company DATA

Certain parts of the Services may allow you to obtain or access analytics or other data or information associated with your account (“The Happy Sad Company Data”). The data elements we collect and use to create The Happy Sad Company Data depends on what students and courses the Teacher syncs from their Clever account. You can find the data elements used by each application by going to your Clever dashboard.

The Happy Sad Company Data is licensed to you for your use on a limited basis, and is governed solely by the terms of this Agreement and available for distribution only at our sole discretion. The Happy Sad Company owns the account you use to access the Services along with any rights of access or rights to data stored by or on behalf of The Happy Sad Company on The Happy Sad Company servers (except with respect to any Student Data that we may be storing for you), including but not limited to any data representing any or all of your The Happy Sad Company Data. The Happy Sad Company has the right to manage, control and even eliminate The Happy Sad Company Data, except that The Happy Sad Company may only use Student Data as specifically permitted by this Agreement.

These next sentences are surrounded by stars because they are important: *** You understand and agree that any data, account history and account content residing on The Happy Sad Company’s servers may be deleted at any time for any reason in The Happy Sad Company’s sole discretion, with or without notice and with no liability of any kind. We do not provide or guarantee, and expressly disclaim, any value, cash or otherwise, attributed to any data residing on The Happy Sad Company’s servers. If you’re a School, you should be absolutely sure to keep copies of Student Data in your SIS (Student Information System) or in other secure storage. You should not rely on us to provide copies of or access to your student data. ***

ii) PRIVACY AND SECURITY

We take the privacy of our users, including schools, teachers, parents, and students, seriously. By using the Services you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information (including but not limited to Student Data) as set forth in our Privacy Policy.

 To access the Services or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Services that all the information you provide on the Services is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with the Services or otherwise, including, but not limited to, the App or through the use of any interactive features on the Services, is governed by our Privacy Policy ([insert URL]), and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.

If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures (the “User Credentials”), you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to this Website or portions of it using your User Credentials.

By enrolling in the Services and accessing it using your User Credentials, and any other security and identification methods as we may require from time to time, such as security questions or one-time passcodes, you acknowledge and agree that this system includes security procedures that are commercially reasonable. You further agree to comply with any Renovia procedures and processes to obtain any User Credentials, or to further access or use the Services. 

YOU AGREE TO NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY OF ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF YOUR USER CREDENTIALS OR ANY OTHER BREACH OF SECURITY.

iii) THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Our Services may incorporate or contain links to websites, products, applications, services, related product and service descriptions, marketing materials and/or other content or information made available by Developers or other third party providers (collectively, “Third-party Materials”). Keep in mind that we do not endorse or assume any responsibility for any Third-party Materials (including but not limited to software or applications made available by Other Parties or Developers via the The Happy Sad Company App Store or otherwise). If you access or use any Third-party Materials or engage with a third-party Developer from or within the Services, you understand that you do so at your own risk, and you understand that via this Agreement.

Without limiting the foregoing, with respect to any use of Clever SSO and/or Google Classroom as integrated with the Services, you agree to comply with the Google APIs Terms of Service and/or Clever Terms of Service and such other terms and conditions as Google may provide from time to time.

iv) INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless The Happy Sad Company and its subsidiaries, agents, licensors, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Services, including any data or content transmitted or received by you; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement, including but not limited to your breach of any of the representations and warranties; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including but not limited to any right of privacy or Intellectual Property Rights; (iv) your violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation, including but not limited to FERPA, the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (“PPRA”), and the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (“COPPA”); (v) any content or information that is submitted via your account; or (vi) any other party’s access and use of the Services with your unique username, password or other appropriate security code.

These next few sections are surrounded by stars so we can be sure we have your attention because they are important. Please feel free to contact us at help@thehappysadcompany.com if any of this is unclear or if you have any questions about what these sections mean.

v) WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

*** The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Use of the Services is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, The Happy Sad Company, its subsidiaries, its affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that the The Happy Sad Company Content is accurate, reliable or correct; that the Services will meet your requirements; that the Services will be available at any particular time or location, uninterrupted; that any defects or errors will be corrected; or that the Services are free of viruses or other harmful components. Any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Services is downloaded at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from such download or your use of the Services. ***

Federal law, some states, provinces and other jurisdictions do not allow exclusions and limitations of certain implied warranties, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

vi) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

*** To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall The The Happy Sad Company, its affiliates, agents, directors, employees, suppliers or licensors be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, that result from the use of, or inability to use, the Services. Under no circumstances will The Happy Sad Company be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from hacking, tampering or other unauthorized access or use of the Services or your account or the information contained therein. ***

*** To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, The Happy Sad Company assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of our services; (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein; (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the services; (v) any malicious software agents that may be transmitted to or through our services by any third party; (vi) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the services; and/or (vii) content you create or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party. In no event shall The Happy Sad Company, its affiliates, agents, directors, employees, suppliers, or licensors be liable to you for any claims, proceedings, liabilities, obligations, damages, losses or costs in an amount exceeding the amount you paid to The Happy Sad Company hereunder or $100.00, whichever is greater. ***

*** This limitation of liability section applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if The Happy Sad Company has been advised of the possibility of such damage. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction. ***

The Services are controlled and operated from US-based facilities, and we make no representations that they’re appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access or use the Services from other jurisdictions, you understand that you’re entirely responsible for compliance with all applicable United States and local laws and regulations, including but not limited to export and import regulations. Because we have to say this, you may not use the Services if you are a resident of a country embargoed by the United States, or are a foreign person or entity blocked or denied by the United States government.

vii) GOVERNING LAW

You agree that: (i) the Services will be deemed solely based in California; and (ii) the Services will be deemed passive services that do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over us, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than California. This Agreement will be governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of California, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. You acknowledge that this Agreement evidences a transaction involving interstate commerce. Notwithstanding the preceding sentences with respect to the substantive law, the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16) (“FAA”) governs the interpretation and enforcement of the Arbitration Agreement in Section 3(viii) and preempts all state laws to the fullest extent permitted by law. If the FAA is determined to not apply to any issue that arises from or relates to the Arbitration Agreement, then that issue shall be resolved under and governed by the law of your state of residence. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. You agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in Santa Clara County, California for any actions related to this Agreement. You agree that Santa Clary County, California is the proper and exclusive forum for any appeals of an arbitration award or for trial court proceedings in the event that the arbitration provision below is found to be unenforceable.

viii) ARBITRATION

*** Read this section carefully because it requires Parents to arbitrate their disputes and limits the manner in which they can seek relief from The Happy Sad Company. ***

If you are a Parent, then this section (the “Arbitration Agreement”) applies to and governs any dispute, controversy, or claim between you and The Happy Sad Company that arises out of or relates to, directly or indirectly: (a) this Agreement, including the formation, existence, breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, validity, or enforceability thereof; (b) access to or use of the Services, including receipt of any advertising or marketing communications; (c) any transactions through, by, or using the Services; or (d) any other aspect of your relationship or transactions with us, directly or indirectly, as a consumer (“Claim” or collectively, “Claims”). The Arbitration Agreement shall apply, without limitation, to all Claims that arose or were asserted before or after your agreement to this Agreement.

If you are a new User, you can reject and opt-out of this Arbitration Agreement within 30 days of accepting this Agreement by emailing us at legal@thehappysadcompany.com  with your first and last name and stating your intent to opt-out of the Arbitration Agreement. Note that opting out of this Arbitration Agreement does not affect any other part of this Agreement, including the provisions regarding controlling law or in which courts any disputes must be brought.

For any Claim, you agree to first contact us at legal@thehappysadcompany.com and attempt to resolve the dispute with us informally. In the unlikely event that we have not been able to resolve a Claim after sixty (60) days, we each agree to resolve any Claim exclusively through binding arbitration by AAA before a single arbitrator (the “Arbitrator”), under the Expedited Procedures then in effect for AAA (the “Rules”), except as provided herein. In the event of any conflict between the Rules and this Arbitration Agreement, this Arbitration Agreement shall control. AAA may be contacted at www.adr.org, where the Rules are also available. The arbitration will be conducted in the U.S. county where you live or Delaware, unless we agree otherwise. If you are using the Services for commercial purposes, each party will be responsible for paying any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees in accordance with AAA rules, and the award rendered by the arbitrator shall include costs of arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees and reasonable costs for expert and other witnesses. If you are an individual using the Services for non-commercial purposes: (i) AAA may require you to pay a fee for the initiation of your case, unless you apply for and successfully obtain a fee waiver from AAA; (ii) the award rendered by the arbitrator may include your costs of arbitration, your reasonable attorney’s fees, and your reasonable costs for expert and other witnesses; and (iii) you may sue in a small claims court of competent jurisdiction without first engaging in arbitration, but this does not absolve you of your commitment to engage in the informal dispute resolution process. Any judgement on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. You and The Happy Sad Company agree that the Arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any disputes relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Arbitration Agreement, including any claim that all or any part of this Arbitration Agreement is void or voidable. The Arbitrator shall also be responsible for determining all threshold arbitrability issues, including issues relating to whether the Agreement, any provision of the Agreement, is unconscionable or illusory and any defense to arbitration, including waiver, delay, laches, unconscionability, or estoppel.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed as: preventing us from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief from the courts as necessary to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of our data security, Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights; or preventing you from asserting claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify and so long as the matter remains in such court and advances on only an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis.

If this Arbitration Agreement is found to be void, unenforceable, or unlawful, in whole or in part, the void, unenforceable, or unlawful provision, in whole or in part, shall be severed. Severance of the void, unenforceable, or unlawful provision, in whole or in part, shall have no impact on the remaining provisions of the Arbitration Agreement, which shall remain in force, or the parties’ ability to compel arbitration of any remaining claims on an individual basis pursuant to the Arbitration Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Class Action/Jury Trial Waiver below is found to be void, unenforceable, or unlawful, in whole or in part, because it would prevent you from seeking public injunctive relief, then any dispute regarding the entitlement to such relief (and only that relief) must be severed from arbitration and may be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction. All other claims for relief subject to arbitration under this Arbitration Agreement shall be arbitrated under its terms, and the parties agree that litigation of any dispute regarding the entitlement to public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of any individual claims in arbitration.

ix) CLASS ACTION / JURY TRIAL WAIVER

*** With respect to all Parents, regardless of whether they have obtained or used the Services for personal, commercial or other purposes, all claims must be brought in the parties’ individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action, private attorney general action or other representative proceeding. This waiver applies to class arbitration, and unless we agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims. You and The Happy Sad Company agree that the arbitrator may award relief only to an individual claimant and only to the extent necessary to provide relief on your individual claim(s). Any relief awarded may not affect other users. You and The Happy Sad Company further agree that , by entering into this Agreement, you and The Happy Sad Company are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to bring, join, or participate in a class action, collective action, private attorney general action, or other representative proceeding of any kind as a plaintiff or class member. ***

x) DMCA NOTICE

Since we respect artist and content owner rights, it is our policy to respond to alleged infringement notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”). If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible via the Services, please notify our copyright agent as set forth in the DMCA. For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information in writing:

1. An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;

2. Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Services;

4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and, e-mail address;

5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law; and

6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

The above information must be submitted to the following DMCA Agent:

Attn: DMCA Notice

Legal Department

Email: legal@thehappysadcompany.com 

*** Under Federal Law, if you knowingly misrepresent that online material is infringing, you may be subject to criminal prosecution for perjury and civil penalties, including monetary damages, court costs, and attorneys’ fees. ***

This procedure is exclusively for notifying us that your copyrighted material has been infringed. The requirements above are intended to comply with our rights and obligations under the DMCA, but do not constitute legal advice. It may be advisable to contact an attorney regarding rights and obligations under the DMCA and other applicable laws. In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable law, we have a policy of terminating, as appropriate, Users deemed to be repeat infringers. We may also choose to limit access to the Services and terminate the accounts of Users who infringe intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

xi) SEVERABILITY AND WAIVER

This Agreement, and any rights and licences granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by us in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy. This Agreement, together with any amendments and any additional agreements you may enter into with The Happy Sad Company in connection with the Services including other agreements referenced herein, constitute the entire agreement between you and The Happy Sad Company concerning the Services. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which will remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and The Happy Sad Company’s failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If access to the Services is licensed to the United States government or any agency thereof, then the Services will be deemed to be “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” pursuant to DFARS Section 227.7202 and FAR Section 12.212, respectively, as applicable. Any use, reproduction, release, performance, display, or disclosure of the Services and any accompanying documentation by the U.S. Government will be governed solely by this Agreement and is prohibited except to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement. Neither party will hold themselves out to be joint venturers, and neither party is authorized or empowered to act as the agent of the other.

xii) HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us help@thehappysadcompany.com