Ortingo's User Agreement

Revised on February 1, 2023

1. Introduction

1A. Entry of Agreement

1AA. By using our site (the "site", the "platform", the "services", "us", "we", "our", "Ortingo"), whether or not you ("you", "your") are registered as a user, and whether or not you are authenticated (signed in) as a registered user, you are automatically and legally protected by, subject to, and consented to this user agreement (the "agreement", the "policy"), as this agreement, is, with accordance to, and depending on all pertaining and applicable local, city, county, state, provincial, and/or federal law(s) and/or regulation(s) pertaining to the jurisdiction of the usage of our site and/or your legal residence, a legally binding agreement.

2. Age Restrictions

2A. United States

2AA. The minimum age one is allowed to use Ortingo in a general manner, is 13 years. To view adult material, you must be at least 18 years of age. To view material containing mentions of alcohol and tobacco, you must be at least 21 years old.

2B. External Regions & Foreign Legislatures

2BA. Other, external regions and foreign legislatures may or may not allow for individuals of ages less or greater than the minimum age limits specified for the United States, to use our platform. You agree to abide by and comply with all pertaining and applicable local, city, county, state, provincial, and/or federal law(s) and/or regulation(s) pertaining to the jurisdiction of the usage of our site and/or your legal residence.

3. Code of Conduct

3A. General User Behavior

3AA. You are to treat users on this platform in a courteous, respectful, civil, friendly, open-minded and legal manner. Emotionally abusive, hateful, violent, defamatory acts including libel, and suspicious acts, as well as acts of disorderly conduct are never tolerated, and prohibited. Ortingo is a place where people find real, practical, useful, yet engaging content, both by entertainment, and education, that stimulates the mind in a positive way, and to deliver a non-toxic social environment — not otherwise. If someone on our platform commits any such acts towards you or anyone else in any way, please talk to us about the incident immediately. You can always reach out to us at Ortingo Support.

3B. NSFW (Not Safe for Work) Content

3BA. As a diligent, cautious user on our platform, it is your responsibility to ensure the content you view in sensitive environments, such as the workplace, is safe for such settings.

3C. Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

3CA. Your content should never contain personally identifiable information (PII), derivative of sources such as government-issued identification mediums, residential addresses, electronic communication addresses (i.e. email, phone, etc.), etc. that expose an individual to vulnerability by those with malicious intents. If you suspect someone is uploading PII, please contact us at Ortingo Support.

3D. Advice Liability

3DA. Any advice you offer to users through any form of communication, is subject to all pertaining and applicable local, city, county, state, provincial, and/or federal law(s) and/or regulation(s) pertaining to the jurisdiction of the usage of our site and/or your legal residence, in which you are legally liable, responsible and accountable for consequences requiring legal action. Ortingo is not liable, responsible nor accountable for any legal consequences occurring as a result of advice we did not offer.

3E. Copyright & Intellectual Property

3EA. As a user on our platform, your content, being unique, is your copyright — your content should never infringe the copyright, trademark(s), and/or intellectual work or property of third-party entities. All and any trademarks belonging to all and any entity(ies) mentioned in your content are subject to all pertaining and applicable local, city, county, state, provincial, and/or federal law(s) and/or regulation(s) pertaining to the jurisdiction of the usage of our site and/or your legal residence. In the event you want to include someone's work other than your own, it is mandatory that you utilize the correct and proper use of citations in your content. We stand for original content, and their creators, as they deserve their credit in sharing content to educate and entertain people on Ortingo.

3F. Ortingo Branding & Intellectual Property

3FA. Ortingo reserves full rights to its brand (the "brand") and identity(ies), including those of sister, parent and subsidiary entities, being Amerlo, SavantEngine and jet49, i.e. the name, logo, theme colors, and claimed fonts (if and where applicable on the site), etc. of each respective brand. If you're interested in using our brand(s) for commercial or non-commercial purposes, please contact us at Ortingo Support to discuss your proposal further.

If you suspect someone is misusing someone else's content, or our brand(s), please contact us at Ortingo Support.

3G. Names

3GA. Using a pseudonym or alias (unless otherwise clearly included alongside your real name), or fictitious, deceptive, deceitful, misleading, or simply "fake" name upon the creation of your account, or changing your name in your account settings, may be illegal, depending on all pertaining and applicable local, city, county, state, provincial, and/or federal law(s) and/or regulation(s) pertaining to the jurisdiction of the usage of our site and/or your legal residence, in which case you are required to use your real name, as registered in your personal legal documents and records, such as your birth certificate. In the same case, however, only one exception for using a pseudonym or alias is allowed — if you're the owner or operator of a business, company, or any other entity requiring the use of a name not pertaining to an individual, where their name cannot be used due to such limiting circumstances.

3H. Artificial Users

3HA. The malicious acts of spamming or scamming, which come from those known as artificial users, are never tolerated, and prohibited. If you suspect such acts are being committed on our site, please reach out to us at Ortingo Support, and we'll handle the situation. We highly recommend you don't attempt to handle such situations yourself, other than reporting them to us through Ortingo Support.

3I. Automated Scripts & Bots

3IA. The operation of automated scripts (also known as "bots", "robots", "scrapers", "spiders", or "crawlers"), especially those of malicious intent, i.e. distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, are never tolerated, and prohibited. If you engage in such action, however, with only an intent of good faith, you would be fully compliant with this agreement, with respect to the other sections of this agreement, however, only if complying with our robots.txt file, or Robots Exclusion Standard. As a search engine that engages in strict ethical operating standards, when necessary, we operate our crawler, OrtingoBot, based on the legal and technical compliance pertaining to the numerous websites and web pages we crawl, and their operators, and would expect the same from you.

4. Opinion

4A. Collective Opinion

4AA. The opinion(s) reflected in content posted by creators do not necessarily reflect those of Ortingo as a collective entity.

If the above conditions are found to be violated, if applicable, your account will be terminated.

5. Transaction Policy

5A. Billing Policy

5AA. For Ortingo plans, or any product or service sold by Ortingo, payment in the full amount is due immediately for that product or service.

5B. Cancellation & Refund Policy

5BA. Cancellation of an Ortingo plan can be done at any time, no questions asked. To cancel your Ortingo plan, please contact us at Ortingo Support, and we'll be happy to help. If you're under a paid plan right now and want to delete your account, you would need to chat with us at Ortingo Support to cancel your plan, to stop recurring charges.

6. Conclusion

6A. Revision of Policy

6AA. We reserve the right to make any changes to this policy, with or without prior notice. To stay updated on this policy, please revisit this page.