Waze Terms of Use

DATED 2012-07-01 · VERSION 20131108_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20130824_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+**Terms of Use**
+## Terms of Use
 **Welcome to Waze!**
 These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your rights and obligations regarding the use of Waze's Software ("Software") and service (both collectively referred to as the "Service") on the Internet or in cellular media. These Terms constitute a fully binding agreement between Waze Ltd. (including its affiliates and subsidiaries, "Waze" or "We") the proprietor of all rights in and to the Service, and you. It is therefore recommended that you carefully read these Terms.
 By using the Waze Service, you signify your assent to
 **FORBIDDEN POSTS**
 It is forbidden to submit Content of an commercial nature (including advertising), unless such posts pertain to Waze, the Service, or Waze's products and Waze has approved them in advance.
 When you submit Content to be published by the Service, you must make sure it is lawful. Among others, and for illustrational purposes only, you may not submit -any Content -
+- diminishing or infringing proprietary rights of others, including but not limited to copyrights and trademarks;
+- Content creating a risk to a person's safety, security or health;
+- Content identifying other persons without obtaining their consent to the disclosure of their personally identifiable information, or pertaining to minors and identifying them, their personal information or their address and contact information;
+- Content that is unlawful, defamatory, libelous or invades the privacy of others;
+- that is harassing, offensive, threatening or vulgar;
+- that is characterized by, or that encourages racism or unlawfully discriminates on the basis of race, origin, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, occupation, sexual orientation, illness, physical or mental disability, faith, political view or socio-economical class;
+- that encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, or gives rise to civil liability or other lawsuit;
+- that promotes pyramid schemes, chain letters or disruptive commercial messages or advertisements, or anything else prohibited by law or under these Terms;
+- that falsely expresses or implies that such content is sponsored or endorsed by Waze.
 Waze may decline to publish, or immediately delete any Content you submitted, if you have violated these Terms or if you engaged in a commission or omission that is harmful or may be harmful to the Service, its users, Waze or any of its agents or affiliates. In such cases, Waze may also prevent you from posting additional Content on the Service. The provisions of this clause are additional to any rights afforded to Waze by any law.
 **RIGHTS IN CONTENT**
 When you submit Content to be published on the Service, you represent and warrant that you own all intellectual property rights in the Content; that you are permitted to publish the Content and to permit Waze to publish the Content and exploit all intellectual property rights in and to the Submissions. Waze receives no ownership rights in and to the Content of your Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to Waze, you hereby grant Waze and the users of the Service an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, display in public and publicly perform the Content. The license granted to Waze in and to your Submissions is not limited to personal uses, but also extends to any commercial use, at Waze's sole and absolute discretion. Other users may only use your Content for non-commercial purposes, unless otherwise permitted in advance in writing by Waze (for the purpose of which you authorize Waze to be your agent).
 **NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP**
 These Terms of Use and the use of the Service, including uploading any data and contents by you onto the Service including Waze's databases, maps and data do not, and shall not be construed to create any relationship, partnership, joint venture, employer-employee, agency, or franchisor-franchisee relationship in any way and of any kind between the parties hereto. Your use of the Service for your enjoyment and benefit constitutes the sole and sufficient consideration for any contribution you have to the Waze Service, its contents, maps and any other data.
 **CONTACT US**
+You may contact us concerning any question about the Service, through the channels listed on the "About" menu in the Software or through the "Contact Us" page on the Site (web address: www.waze.com/support). We will make our best efforts to address your inquiry promptly.
+You may contact us concerning any question about the Service, through the channels listed on the "About" menu in the Software or through the "Contact Us" page on the Site (web address: [www.waze.com/support](http://www.waze.com/support)). We will make our best efforts to address your inquiry promptly.
+Last modified: May 31, 2012
+Last modified: July 1, 2012