Brightlines Terms of Service
LAST UPDATED: DECEMBER 2022
The following Terms of Service (“Terms” or “Agreement”) govern your use of Brightlines (“Brightlines”), a service of Brightest Lines, Inc. (“we” or “us”). Brightlines helps protect your privacy. Our Brightlines service allows a client (“client” or “you”) to manage personal information and control how other websites and businesses display such personal information. These Terms of Service describe the terms and conditions on which Brightlines provides the Brightlines service to you.
We strive to make our policies understandable and ask you to read this carefully. IF YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT OR USE THE Brightlines SERVICE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT WITH BRIGHTLINES. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT. Unfortunately, we cannot offer you the Brightlines services if you don’t agree to these terms and conditions.
UPDATES TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE
From time to time, we may update these terms if we make changes to our practices. Anytime we revise this policy, we will update the contents of this page and the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the service following such changes affirms your agreement to any changes we make to this policy with regard to information collected from you in the past and in the future.
USING OUR SERVICE
To use our services, you must agree to these terms as well as our privacy policy:
You agree that all the information you’re submitting to Brightlines in connection with the services is and will be true. If you provide any information that is or that we suspect is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right to suspend our service and refuse any and all current or future use of our services.
You must be 18 years or older to use the Services, and by signing up for Brightlines you represent that you are at least 18 years old. Parents and guardians can request that Brightlines searches and scrubs information on their children.
If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of your company or another legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, in which case "you" will mean the entity you represent.
OWNERSHIP
You retain ownership over all the personal information that you submit to us, and we will never sell it. To fulfill your opt-out requests, we have to send your information to third parties, which necessarily requires sharing your data with them. We can’t control how these third parties will treat your personal information, although it is only provided to them so they can search and find your personal information online, and opt you out of their public databases.
We retain ownership over all of Brightlines proprietary information, including our search and scrubbing processes, our report templates, and anything used in connection with the Brightlines service (“Content”). All the text, images, marks, logos, compilations (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly of information) and other content on Brightlines’ website is proprietary to and owned by us or our affiliates.
Except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms, any use, redistribution, sale, decompilation, reverse engineering, disassembly, translation, or other reduction of such software to human-readable form is prohibited. The marks “Brightlines,” as well as their associated logos, are our trademarks, and you may not use them in connection with any service or products other than those we provide in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Brightlines (although we’re happy to have you use our Content for noncommercial, educational, or news-related use if you contact us first and promise to properly attribute it to us). Any use of such marks will apply to the benefit of their respective owners.
CONFIDENTIALITY
We will maintain the confidentiality of any information that you give us. You understand that in order to perform the services, we may need to disclose some or all of your personal information to third parties (as well as our own team members). No disclosure will be made without your knowledge, and all data will be governed by our privacy and security policies.
We ask that you, in turn, keep information on our processes confidential as well. During the course of your use of Brightlines, you may come across information on how we conduct our searches for personal identifying information and how we scrub this. Any confidential information on these processes will be communicated as confidential.
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
By using our service, you grant Brightlines permission to remove your personal information from data brokers and their websites. Additionally, you explicitly grant Brightlines a Limited Power of Attorney to act on your behalf for the purposes of performing the Brightlines service to control your personal information online, including submitting opt-out requests to and communicating with third-party websites like data brokers or aggregators or other parties who have control over this content, signing opt-out documents, creating accounts for you, and any other action Brightlines reasonably deems necessary to remove, suppress, or opt-out your personal information from unwanted sources in fulfillment of your order. This Limited Power of Attorney will remain in full force and effect until you cancel your service with Brightlines.
PUBLICITY
With Brightlines, your privacy is paramount. We'll never publicly release that you are a client unless we have your permission to do so, or share any other information about you. However, in sales and marketing conversations, we may note that you are a Brightlines user. If you prefer we don't do this, just let us know and we will agree not to.
DISCLAIMER
We’ll do our best to identify and scrub your personal information from the internet, but there are no guarantees. Brightlines allows clients like you to request that third-party websites, such as data brokers and information aggregators, remove or suppress your personal information from their websites. You recognize that Brightlines will use good faith and reasonable efforts to help you submit these opt-out requests, but that we cannot guarantee that third parties will honor the requests or remove your data.
You acknowledge that Brightlines’ removal list depends on the listed websites’ opt-out procedures and business practices and thus is subject to change. Brightlines will not remove all of your information from the Internet. As such, the Brightlines service, content and site are provided on an “as is” basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Consistent with what we stated above regarding damages, you agree that in any event, Brightlines’ liability is limited to fees you actually paid to Brightlines.
You acknowledge that Brightlines will not be liable for any failure to comply with these Terms to the extent that such failure arises from factors outside Brightlines’ reasonable control, such as natural disasters, pandemics, and acts of god or war.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You acknowledge that your use of the Brightlines service may have unintended consequences, possibly including direct, special, indirect, consequential and other damages, and you agree that you won’t hold Brightlines liable for these consequences. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL BRIGHTLINES OR ITS AFFILIATES, CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR THIRD PARTY PARTNERS OR SUPPLIERS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS OR DATA) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THAT RESULT FROM YOUR USE THE SERVICE.
To the extent permissible by law, Brightlines' and its partners’ liability or contribution for any claims under these Terms, including implied warranty, is limited to the amount of one hundred dollars ($100), or the amount you paid to use the Service for the last 12 months, whichever is more.
INDEMNIFICATION
You will indemnify and hold harmless Brightlines, its parents, subsidiaries, customers, vendors, officers, and employees from any liability, damage or cost from any claim or demand associated with your use of our service and your violation of any part of these Terms of Service.
UNLAWFUL & UNAUTHORIZED USES
We don’t allow our Site or Services to be used for illegal activities or activities that we find improper for any reason whatsoever. We reserve the right to take preventive or corrective actions to protect ourselves and our clients from anyone’s unacceptable use. Your failure to comply with our Terms may result in us terminating your access to our services. You are not to:
Impersonate anyone, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or knowingly provide any fraudulent, misleading, or inaccurate information;
Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate others’ rights, including without limitation others’ privacy rights or rights of publicity;
Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the site or services;
“Frame” or “mirror” any portion of the Site or Services;
Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, data mine, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of our site or services;
Harvest or collect any other users’ information from the site or our services;
Use our site or services for any illegal activity; or
Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our site or services, breach their security or authentication measures, or take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our site infrastructure.
ACCOUNT TERMINATION OR CANCELLATION
We don't want you to leave, but you may cancel your Brightlines service at any time. Please note that we do not give any refunds if you cancel your service during a billing period. If you breach any of these Terms, we may immediately without notice cancel or suspend your service.
Upon cancellation or suspension, your right to use the Services will stop immediately. You should download any reports and other information produced by Brightlines prior to your termination, as you will no longer have access to your Brightlines account. Your data will be deleted within 30 days.
GOVERNING LAW
You and Brightlines agree that all matters arising from or relating to the use and operation of our site or services will be governed by the substantive laws of Delaware. You agree that all claims you may have arising from or relating to the operation, use, or other exploitation of the Brightlines service will be heard and resolved in the federal and state courts located in Delaware. You consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts over you, stipulate to the fairness and convenience of proceeding in such courts, and covenant not to assert any objection to proceeding in such courts. If you choose to gain access to our site or services from locations other than Delaware, you will also be responsible for complying with all local laws of any such other location. Finally, you won’t ever use our site or services in violation of US export laws or regulations.