These Terms of Service (these “Terms”) explain the relationship between Rift Technologies Incorporated (“rift”, “we” or “us”) and you, when you (i) access and use rift and its related domains (together, the "Website ") and/or (ii) download, install, use and in some cases purchase rift’s proprietary email software applications (including all related documentation, updates, and upgrades) and any other services offered by rift (the foregoing items (i) and (ii) together, the “Services”).

You may use the Services only in accordance with these Terms. We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date given above. It is your responsibility to review these Terms frequently and to remain informed of any changes to them. The then-current version of these Terms will supersede all earlier versions. You agree that your continued use of the Website after such changes have been published to our Services will constitute your acceptance of such revised Terms. We may terminate, suspend, or modify the Services, in general or with respect to you, from time to time without cause or prior notice. We may also delete any content or data from the Services at our discretion.

These terms, together with our privacy policy, form an agreement between you and rift. By using the rift Services, you represent to us that you are legally competent to enter into this agreement.

You may use the Services only if you have the legal power and capacity to form a contract with rift. If you are using the rift Services on behalf of your employer, your acceptance of these terms is deemed an agreement between your employer and rift and you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind your employer to these terms. rift reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. The date of this agreement’s last update shall be displayed at the top of this agreement. continued use of the sales beach services is deemed your conclusive acceptance of any changes to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, you are not permitted to use the sales beach services.

You may not access the Services if you are our direct competitor, except with our prior written consent. In addition, you may not access the Services for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes.

Your Data

"Your Data" means any data and content stored or transmitted via the Services by or on behalf of you or your end-users (which may include data you elect to import from third party services you use). This includes messages you send, files you upload, comments on files, and anything else you enter or upload into rift.

In order to use our Services, you must link a 3rd party email account to your Services account and we require that you grant us certain rights with respect to Your Data. For example, with your permission (which you are granting by using the Services), the Service's software will obtain access to your email account in order for you to be able to send emails via the Service and to check for replies on emails you sent. You retain full ownership of Your Data.

We transmit, store and copy Your Data in order to display and index it, to make backups, to prevent data loss, and other technical and functional uses. Your acceptance of these Terms gives us the permission to do so and grants us any such rights necessary to provide the Service to you, only for the purpose of providing the Service (and for no other purpose). This permission includes allowing us to use third-party service providers (such as Google Cloud Services) in the operation and administration of the service and the rights granted to us are extended to these third parties to the degree necessary in order for the service to be provided.

You are solely responsible for your conduct, the content of Your Data and your communications with others while using the Services. For example, it’s your responsibility to ensure that you have all rights and permissions needed to comply with these Terms and to avoid infringement or violation of any rights of others. You will be responsible for your users’ compliance with these Terms and will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of Services, and notify us promptly of any such unauthorized access or use.

All emails uploaded to the Service account may be verified for their validity in order to provide high-quality deliverability standards, lower bounce rates, and maintain a high deliverability reputation for our customers. Email addresses that are detected as invalid will be blocked by the system and the user will not be able to send emails to this address via the Service. In order to provide this safeguard service to our customers, rift can use data regarding the status of email validity and deliverability (i.e., bounced, invalid, valid, risky) for any email that is imported or added manually to an account to improve the internal email validation functionality.

You acknowledge that rift has no obligation to monitor any information on the Services and that we are not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, safety or legality of Your Data or any other information or content you may be able to access using the Services.

Your rift Account

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with your account. You must immediately notify rift of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. You are not allowed to send spam messages via the Services. rift will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions. rift is passing all liability for any spam or other lawsuits that could occur as a result of your activity within the Services to you.

You will use the Services only for your internal business purposes and in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. You are responsible for all of your activities that occur within, through or as a result of your use of the Services. You agree that you will not use the Services for unlawful purposes or to engage in any illegal, offensive, indecent or objectionable conduct, including violation of any third party privacy or other rights.

You hereby warrant, represent and agree that:

1. The Service may not be used for the sending of the unsolicited commercial email (as such term is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any rules adopted under such act - sometimes called "spam").

2. You acknowledge that you are the sole or designated "sender" (as such term is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the “Act”) and any rules adopted under the Act) of any email message sent by you using the Service.

3. The Service may only be used for lawful purposes.

4. You agree you will not access or otherwise use third party mailing lists or otherwise prepare or distribute mass unsolicited commercial email (as such term is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any rules adopted under such act), in connection with the Service.

5. You acknowledge and agree that not all email messages sent through use of the Service will be received by their intended recipients.

6. The "from" line of any email message sent by you using the Service will accurately and in a non-deceptive manner identify your organization, your product or your service.

7. The "subject" line of any email message sent by you using the Service will not contain any deceptive or misleading content regarding the overall subject matter of the email message.

8. You will include in any email message sent by you using the Services your valid physical address if required by law, which may be a valid post office box meeting the registration requirements established by the United States Postal Service.

9. The Service may not be used for hosting content, including images and documents, that knowingly infringes on the intellectual property rights of others, including copyright, trademark and patent infringement, or that includes any obscene or libelous material or other material that violates any applicable law or regulation.

You are solely responsible for all activities that occur in Your account(s) and for the security of Your passwords. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, rift has no liability of any kind (whether by contract, tort or otherwise) for any unauthorized access to your or your users' accounts as a result of your actions or inactions.

Email Warm-up

The email warm up is a peer to peer tool set up to send emails from your inbox so all the users participating in the warm up will have their domain reputation improve across the board.

Sharing Your Data and Your Privacy

Subject to the limited exceptions specified in our Privacy Policy, until you choose otherwise, all of Your Data remains visible only to you. However, the Services do allow you to share Your Data with others. If you choose to share Your Data, we cannot be responsible for what those other users do with Your Data, so please carefully consider what you share and with whom you share it.

The exception to this can be the rift’s Customer Support and Customer Success teams. When you reach out to them via email or live chat from your account, your permission to access your account is automatically considered as given to those who are working on your case. Unless you explicitly state that you do not give that permission and acknowledge that support might be provided to you in a limited way.

We will maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality, and integrity of Your Data as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not guarantee that Your Data will be free from loss, theft, misuse, or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to use a secure encrypted connection if you wish to protect Your Data when you are transmitting it to us and to keep your own backup copies of Your Data. You are solely responsible for protecting your passwords, limiting access to your computers and devices, and signing out of the rift Services when you are not using them.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Your use of the services and the service content is at your sole risk. the services and the service content each are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We and our suppliers and licensors expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the services or any service content, and you rely on the services and service content at your own risk. Any material that you access or obtain through our services is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer or loss of data that results from the download of any material through our services. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through or from our services will create any warranty not expressly stated in this agreement. Some states may prohibit a disclaimer of warranties and you may have other rights that vary from state to state.

Your Responsibilities

Information and content accessible through the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights of others. Please do not copy, upload, download, or share any information or content unless you have the right to do so. You, not the rift, will be fully responsible and liable for what you copy, share, upload, download or otherwise use while using the Services. You must not upload spyware or any other malicious software to the Service, or use the Service to spam others.

You, and not rift, are responsible for maintaining and protecting all of Your Data. rift will not be liable for any loss or corruption of Your Data, or for any costs, fees, or expenses associated with backing-up or restoring your Data.

If any information related to your account changes, you must notify us promptly and keep your information current. The Services are not intended for use by you if you are under 18 years of age. By agreeing to these Terms, you are representing to us that you are over 18.

You will not engage in activity that would cause rift to violate any of these laws and regulations, and you agree that you will indemnify rift for any fines, penalties or other liabilities incurred by rift for your failure to comply with these provisions.

You shall pay all fees for the rift Services as specified in the billing section of the rift Services, or Order Form, if applicable. Our fees do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any jurisdiction whatsoever. You are responsible for paying all taxes associated with your purchases. You agree that your purchases are not contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features, or dependent on any oral or written public comments made by us regarding future functionality or features.

Promotion Restrictions

You are free to promote your own websites, but naturally, any promotion that mentions rift could be perceived by the public or the press as a joint effort. You should know that certain forms of advertising are always prohibited by rift. For example, advertising commonly referred to as "spamming" is unacceptable to us and could cause damage to our name. Other generally prohibited forms of advertising include the use of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), postings to non-commercial newsgroups and cross-posting to multiple newsgroups at once.

In addition, you may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name, or your return email address. You may use mailings to customers to promote rift so long as the recipient is already a customer or subscriber of your services or website, and recipients have the option to remove themselves from future mailings.

Also, you may post to newsgroups to promote rift so long as the newsgroup specifically welcomes commercial messages. At all times, you must clearly represent yourself and your websites as independent from rift. If it comes to our attention that you are spamming, we will consider that cause for immediate termination of your participation in the rift Partner Program. Any pending balances owed to you will not be paid if your account is terminated due to such unacceptable advertising or solicitation.

Affiliates utilizing Pay-Per-Click advertising campaigns, or any other digital advertising channel, whether in existence now or invented in the future, that bid on keywords such as rift, rift, rift App, and/or any misspellings or similar alterations of these – be it separately or in combination with other keywords – and do not direct the traffic from such campaigns to their own website prior to re-directing it to ours, will be considered trademark violators, and will be banned from the rift Partner Program. We will do everything possible to contact the affiliate prior to the ban. However, we reserve the right to expel any trademark violator from our affiliate program without prior notice, and on the first occurrence of such PPC bidding behavior.

While actively promoting rift, you may not participate as an affiliate or partner with competing/adjacent products and brands, without explicit approval from rift. If you are already an affiliate or partner with another organization and are unsure of whether or not it is competing/adjacent to rift, please email us and we will advise.

Affiliates are prohibited from offering discounts, promotions, or special offers on rift products or subscriptions, without explicit approval from rift.

Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy

If you believe that material located on or linked to by rift violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify rift at legal@rift.com.

Canceling Your Account

The rift Service is billed in advance in accordance with our pricing schedule and all payments are non-refundable. All subscriptions, whether monthly or annual, will auto-renew on the scheduled renewal date unless a cancellation is requested by the customer prior to the renewal date. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, upgrade/downgrade refunds, or refunds for months unused with an open account. If you cancel, you will not receive a refund for any service already paid for.

You can stop using our Services at any time and we reserve the right to suspend or end the Services to you in whole or part at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice, without incurring the liability of any kind. Without limitation, we may suspend or terminate your use if you are not complying with these Terms, or if you use the Services in any way that may cause us legal liability or disrupt others' use of the Services or damage to our business or reputation, or for any other reason.

If we suspend or terminate your use, we will try to let you know in advance and help you retrieve data, though there may be some cases (for example, repeatedly or flagrantly violating these Terms, a court order, or danger to other users) where we may suspend or terminate your account and access to the Services immediately. You acknowledge that if your access to the Service is suspended or terminated, you may no longer have access to Your Data that is stored with the Service. To cancel the account you should send a request to our support team via support chat in your customer portal or via support@rift.com email.

The phone numbers that were rented for the Services are automatically released after cancellation and available for other users.

The Service is billed in advance in accordance with our pricing schedule and all monthly payments are nonrefundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, upgrade/downgrade refunds, or refunds for months unused with an open account. Upon subscription cancellation, all rented cloud call numbers will be automatically released. If you cancel, you will not receive a refund for any service already paid for.

Notwithstanding anything said elsewhere in these Terms, any modifications to the terms and conditions must be notified to the customer 30 days prior to the changes becoming effective.

Indemnification

You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless rift from any and all third party claims and related losses, liability, damages and/or costs (including attorneys' fees and costs) arising from (i) any content, (ii) your use of the Services, or (iii) breach by you or your content of any law or these Terms.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will rift or its affiliates, officers, employees or agents be liable for (a) any indirect, special, incidental, punitive, exemplary or consequential (including loss of use, data, business, or profits) damages, regardless of legal theory, whether or not rift has been warned of the possibility of such damages, and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose; (b) aggregate liability for all claims relating to the services greater than the amounts paid by you to rift for the past three months for the Services.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between rift and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of rift, or by the posting by rift of a revised version.

Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of Delaware.

Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees.

If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof.

You may not assign your rights under this Agreement to any other party without rift’s express written consent; rift may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

rift Anti-Spam Requirements

As an email service provider, we take spam law seriously, not only for our sake but for yours as well. Spam negatively impacts deliverability rates, and we want to make sure your emails reach their intended recipients as often as possible. We have some very strict rules that must be adhered to in all countries, but you may find that your country has additional requirements.

Below you will find a list (conveniently ordered alphabetically) of countries with specific anti-spam legislation as well as our rules to help maintain platform integrity.

Requirements for All rift Campaigns

1. You must agree to our Terms of Service.

2. We recommend including an opt-out link into your email templates and outreach campaigns for audiences you haven’t contacted previously.

3. You must include your contact information inside every email promotion* that you send, including a physical mailing address or PO Box where you can receive mail. (Not a website or email address.)

4. Your contact information and subject line must be 100% accurate.

5. If you regularly use an integrated service or CRM platform, you need to abide by their terms of use, in addition to our own.

6. It is strongly recommended that your emails comply with the US CAN-SPAM Act. If you break the rules, you could be liable for hundreds of dollars for each recipient that you sent non-compliant messages to.

7. In addition to CAN-SPAM rules, you must comply with the anti-spam laws of the countries your recipients live in. So if you're sending to EU residents and US residents, check the EU spam laws to make sure you're also EU compliant.

* An email promotion is usually a broadcast with a low ratio of text to image area offering discounts or other incentives to purchase a product or service, or to subscribe, register, download or perform some other action intended to drive revenue for the vendor.