Terms & Conditions
Terms of Service
Welcome and thank you for your interest in Incaendium Initiative Corporation d/b/a Sonic Fire Tech (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”). This Terms of Use Agreement (“Terms of Use”, and together with any applicable Supplemental Terms (as defined in Section 1.3 (Supplemental Terms)), the “Agreement”) describes the terms and conditions that apply to your use of (i) the website located at https://sonicfiretech.com and its subdomains and any of Company’s other websites on which a link to these Terms of Use appears (collectively, the “Website”), (ii) any mobile application(s) that we offer subject to these Terms of Use (each, an “Application”), and (iii) the, services, content, and other resources available on or enabled via our Website or any Application, including the remote monitoring and fire alerts services made available via the Sonic Alert App (collectively, with our Applications and Website, the “Service”).
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. THIS AGREEMENT GOVERNS THE USE OF THE SERVICE AND APPLIES TO ALL USERS VISITING OR ACCESSING THE SERVICE. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE IN ANY WAY, ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT BY CLICKING ON THE “I ACCEPT” BUTTON, COMPLETING THE ACCOUNT REGISTRATION PROCESS, BROWSING THE WEBSITE OR DOWNLOADING THE APPLICATION, YOU REPRESENT THAT: (1) YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT, (2) YOU ARE OF LEGAL AGE TO FORM A BINDING CONTRACT WITH COMPANY, (3) YOU ARE NOT BARRED FROM USING THE SERVICE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, YOUR PLACE OF RESIDENCE OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, AND (4) YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT PERSONALLY OR, IF YOU ARE ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, ON BEHALF OF THE ENTITY IDENTIFIED IN THE ACCOUNT REGISTRATION PROCESS. IF THE INDIVIDUAL ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT IS DOING SO ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, ALL REFERENCES TO “YOU” OR “YOUR” IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL ALSO BE DEEMED TO REFER TO SUCH ENTITY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.
1. USE OF THE SERVICE
The Service and the information and content available on the Service are protected by applicable intellectual property (including copyright) laws. Unless subject to a separate license agreement between you and Company, your right to access and use the Service, in whole or in part, is subject to this Agreement.
1.1 Service Limitations.
In the event of an emergency, including a wildfire emergency, dial 911. The Company designs and provides various services designed to mitigate destruction caused by wildfires. Unfortunately, it is not possible to prepare, plan or install any product or wildfire prevention system that will completely eliminate the risk of loss of life, personal injury or damage to your property by wildfire. Our Services are designed to only mitigate the risk of damage that those properties where our hardware systems have been installed that may suffer from a wildfire. Due to the extreme nature and unpredictability of wildfires, we do not guarantee that our Services will prevent, extinguish or mitigate any particular fire. Notably, high winds, landslides, disruption or damage to power lines and/or the electrical grid, disruption or damage to the air ducts or other events, whether man-made or natural, may impact the efficacy and ability of the Services to mitigate any damage caused by wildfires. Properties where the Company’s wildfire mitigation systems are installed are still at risk of wildfire, and the Services should not be relied upon to detect and notify you of all possible wildfires and other fire hazards, dangers or events.
1.2 Application License.
Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, Company grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download, install and use a copy of the Application on a single Device (as defined below) that you own or control and to run such copy of the Application solely for your own personal purposes.
1.3 Supplemental Terms.
Your use of, and participation in, certain features and functionality of the Service may be subject to additional terms (“Supplemental Terms”). Such Supplemental Terms will either be set forth in the applicable supplemental Service or will be presented to you for your acceptance when you sign up to use the supplemental Service. If these Terms of Use are inconsistent with the Supplemental Terms, then the Supplemental Terms control with respect to such supplemental Service.
1.4 Updates.
You understand that the Service is evolving. As a result, Company may require you to install updates to the Software or Applications that you have installed on the devices through which you access or use the Service (“Device”). You acknowledge and agree that Company may update the Service with or without notifying you. You may need to update third-party software from time to time in order to continue to use the Service. Any future release, update or other addition to the Service shall be subject to this Agreement.
2. REGISTRATION
2.1 Registering Your Account.
In order to access certain features of the Service, you may be required to register an account on the Service (“Account”).
2.2 Registration Data.
In registering an account on the Service, you shall (i) provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by the registration form (the “Registration Data”), and (ii) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete.
2.3 Your Account.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you acknowledge and agree that you have no ownership or other property interest in your Account, and you further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to your Account are and will forever be owned by and inure to the benefit of Company. Furthermore, you are responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. You may not share your Account or password with anyone, and you agree to notify Company immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or any other breach of security. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or not current, or Company has reasonable grounds to suspect that any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or not current, Company has the right to suspend or terminate your Account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). You agree not to create an Account using a false identity or information, or on behalf of someone other than yourself. You shall not have more than one Account at any given time. Company reserves the right to remove or reclaim any usernames at any time and for any reason, including but not limited to, claims by a third party that a username violates the third party’s rights. You agree not to create an Account or use the Service if you have been previously removed by Company, or if you have been previously banned from any of the Service.
2.4 Necessary Equipment and Software.
You must provide all Devices and other equipment or software (excluding Software) necessary to access or use the Service. You are solely responsible for any fees, including internet connection or mobile fees, that you incur when accessing the Service.
3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTENT
3.1 Types of Content.
You acknowledge that any information, data, text, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags and/or other materials accessible through the Service (collectively, “Content”), is the sole responsibility of the party from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not Company, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available (“Make Available”) through the Service (“Your Content”).
3.2 Storage.
Unless expressly agreed to by Company in writing elsewhere, Company has no obligation to store any of Your Content. Company has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or accuracy of any Content, including Your Content; the failure to store, transmit, or receive transmission of Content; or the security, privacy, storage, or transmission of other communications originating with or involving use of the Service. Certain features and functionality of the Service may enable you to specify the level at which the Service restricts access to Your Content. In such cases, you are solely responsible for applying the appropriate level of access to Your Content. If you do not choose a level of access, the system may default to its most permissive setting. You agree that Company retains the right to create reasonable limits on Company’s use and storage of Content, including Your Content, such as limits on file size, storage space, processing capacity, and similar limits described on the Service and as otherwise determined by Company in its sole discretion.
4. OWNERSHIP
4.1 The Service.
Except with respect to Your Content, you agree that Company and its suppliers or licensors own all rights, title and interest in the Service. You shall not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying any the Service.
4.2 Your Content.
Company does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, when you Make Available any Content on or to the Service, you represent that you own and/or have sufficient rights to Your Content to grant the license set forth in Section 4.3 (License to Your Content).
4.3 License to Your Content.
Subject to any applicable Account settings that you select, you grant Company a non-exclusive, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers of sublicensees) right (including any moral rights) and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display and derive revenue or other remuneration from Your Content (in whole or in part) for the purposes of operating and providing the Service to you and to our other users.
4.4 Feedback.
You agree that submission of any ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals to Company through its suggestion, feedback, forum, or similar pages (“Feedback”) is at your own risk and that Company has no obligations (including without limitation obligations of confidentiality) with respect to such Feedback. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit the Feedback. You hereby grant to Company a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, adapt, modify, re-format, create derivative works of, and otherwise commercially or non-commercially exploit in any manner, any and all Feedback, and to sublicense the foregoing rights, in connection with the operation and maintenance of the Service and/or Company’s business.
5. USER CONDUCT AND CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS
As a condition of use, you agree not to use the Service for any purpose that is prohibited by this Agreement or by applicable law. You shall not (and shall not permit any third party) to: (i) license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, reproduce, distribute, host or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or any portion of the Service; (ii) frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo located on the Service or any other portion of the Service (including images, text, page layout or form); (iii) use any metatags or other “hidden text” using Company’s name or trademarks; (iv) modify, translate, adapt, merge, make derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Service except to the extent the foregoing restrictions are expressly prohibited by applicable law; (v) use any manual or automated software, devices or other processes (including but not limited to spiders, robots, scrapers, crawlers, avatars, data mining tools, or the like) to “scrape” or download data from any web pages contained in the Service (except that we grant the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Service for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (vi) remove or destroy any copyright notices or other proprietary markings contained on or in the Service; (vii) impersonate any person or entity, including any employee or representative of Company; (viii) interfere with or attempts to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service or use the Service in any way not expressly permitted by this Agreement, including but not limited to violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Service, introducing viruses, worms, or similar harmful code into the Service, or interfering or attempting to interfere with use of the Services by any other user, host, or network, including by means of overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing” the Service; or (ix) take any action or Make Available any Content on or through the Service that: (A) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, obscene, offensive, or profane; (B) constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk email; or (C) involves commercial activities and/or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes without Company’s prior written consent. The rights granted to you in this Agreement are subject to your compliance with the restrictions set forth in this section. Any unauthorized use of the Service terminates the licenses granted by Company pursuant to this Agreement.
6. THIRD-PARTY SERVICE
6.1 Third-Party Application Access.
With respect to any Application accessed through or downloaded from the Apple App Store (an “App Store Sourced Application”), you shall only use the App Store Sourced Application (i) on an Apple-branded product that runs the iOS (Apple’s proprietary operating system) and (ii) as permitted by the “Usage Rules” set forth in the Apple Media Terms of Service, except that such App Store Sourced Application may be accessed, acquired, and used by other accounts associated with the purchaser via Apple’s Family Sharing function, volume purchasing, or Legacy Contacts function.
7. FEES AND PURCHASE TERMS
7.1 Third-Party Service Provider.
The Company may use third-party service providers for payment services (e.g., card acceptance, merchant settlement, and related services) (“Third-Party Service Provider”). If you make a purchase on the Service, you will be required to provide your payment details and any additional information required to complete your order directly to our Third-Party Service Provider.
7.2 Payment.
You shall pay all fees or charges (“Fees”) to your Account in accordance with the fees, charges and billing terms in effect at the time a Fee is due and payable.
7.3 Subscriptions.
If you purchase access to certain features and functionality of the Services on a time-limited basis (a “Subscription”), the Fee for such Subscription (“Service Subscription Fee”) will be billed at the start of the Subscription (“Subscription Service Commencement Date”) and at regular intervals in accordance with your elections at the time of purchase.
8. INDEMNIFICATION
You shall indemnify and hold Company, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners, suppliers, and licensors (each, a “Company Party” and collectively, the “Company Parties”) harmless from any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of any and all of the following: (i) Your Content; (ii) your use of, or inability to use, the Service; (iii) your violation of this Agreement; (iv) your violation of any rights of another party, including any user; or (v) your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations.
9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK, AND THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
10.1 Disclaimer of Certain Damages.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE OR DATA, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES with respect to the Service, or any communications, interactions or meetings with other users of the Service or third parties, on any theory of liability.
11. TERM AND TERMINATION
11.1 Term.
The term of this Agreement commences on the date when you accept this Agreement (as described in the preamble above), and continues in full force and effect while you use the Service, unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Agreement.
12. INTERNATIONAL USERS
The Service may be accessed from countries around the world and may contain references to services and Content that are not available in your country.
13. ARBITRATION AGREEMENT
Please read this section (the “Arbitration Agreement”) carefully. It is part of your contract with Company and affects your rights. It contains procedures for MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
14. GENERAL PROVISIONS
14.1 Electronic Communications.
The communications between you and Company may take place via electronic means, whether you visit the Service or send Company emails, or whether Company posts notices on the Service or communicates with you via email.