Terms of Use Terms of Use Last Updated: 12/12/2024 PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITES, APPS, OR OTHER SERVICES. A&E Television Networks, LLC and its subsidiaries, doing business as A+E Global Media™ (collectively, “A+E Global Media”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) owns, operates and/or provides this and other U.S.-based digital properties, such as websites, apps, games, and other online products, services and platforms, that include an authorized link to or disclosure of these Terms of Use (each, a “Site”, and collectively, the “Sites”) subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth herein. You agree that both your access to and use of the Sites are governed by these Terms of Use (the “Terms”). These Terms are a legal contract between you and A+E Global Media, and by accessing and/or using the Sites, including registering for an account, interacting with the Sites, or submitting feedback through the Sites, you agree to follow and be bound by the Terms and to abide by all rules, terms, conditions, restrictions, and notices in the Terms. Promotions, sweepstakes, giveaways, contests, or other interactions with the Sites (each, a “Promotion”) are governed by these Terms unless specifically superseded by Promotion-specific terms. THESE TERMS CONTAIN A CLASS ACTION WAIVER AND CHOICE OF LAW PROVISION (SECTION 1), DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES (SECTION 14), AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY (SECTION 15). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Sites. 1. DISPUTE RESOLUTION PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT LIMITS THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU AND A+E GLOBAL MEDIA CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM EACH OTHER AND REQUIRES ALL DISPUTES TO BE BROUGHT SOLELY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS A CLASS ACTION OR ANY OTHER KIND OF REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. (a) Governing Law and Venue. These Terms and any Disputes (defined below) between you and us will be governed by New York law, without regard to its principles of conflicts of law that might require the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. You and A+E Global Media agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in New York County, New York, and you and A+E Global Media agree to submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any applicable Dispute. The United Nations Conventions on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall have no applicability to these Terms. (b) “Disputes” are any disputes, claims, actions, and other controversies between you and A+E Global Media or between you and the affiliates or agents of A+E Global Media that, in either case, arise out of or relate to these Terms, the Sites, or any other products or services related thereto, whether based in contract, tort, warranty, fraud, misrepresentation, statute, regulation, or another legal or equitable basis. (c) Informal Dispute Resolution Prior to Litigation. If you have a Dispute with A+E Global Media or if A+E Global Media has a Dispute with you, you or A+E Global Media must first attempt to resolve the Dispute through informal negotiation for a period of 60 days, or such longer period as mutually agreed in writing (email suffices) by the parties (“Informal Resolution Period”) from the day either party receives a written notice of a Dispute from the other party (a “Claimant Notice”) in accordance with these Terms. The Informal Resolution Period is designed to allow the party who has received a Claimant Notice to make a fair, fact-based offer of settlement if it chooses to do so. The statute of limitations and any filing fee deadlines for a Dispute will be tolled for the duration of the Informal Resolution Period for that Dispute so that the parties can engage in this informal dispute-resolution process. A valid Claimant Notice must be in writing and include all of the following: (i) the name, address and email address of the party giving notice, (ii) a description of the nature and facts of the Dispute, (iii) the relief requested, including the damages sought, if any, and a detailed calculation of them, (iv) an acknowledgement that the Dispute is subject to these Terms, and (v) a personally signed statement from the claimant (and not their counsel) verifying the accuracy of the contents of the notice. A Claimant Notice must be individualized, meaning it can only concern yours or A+E Global Media’s Dispute and no other person’s or entity’s Dispute. You will send any Claimant Notice to A+E Global Media at the following address: A+E Global Media Attn: Legal Operations, Legal & Business Affairs 235 E. 45th Street New York, NY 10017 Re: Notice of Dispute With a copy by email to [email protected], with the subject heading: “Notice of Dispute” We will send any Claimant Notice to you at the contact information we have for you. If a party receives a Claimant Notice, the receiving party will acknowledge receipt of the Claimant Notice and make a good faith effort during the Informal Resolution Period to either resolve the Dispute or explain why the claimant is not entitled to relief. Neither you nor A+E Global Media may commence any court action or other legal proceeding regarding a Dispute before the end of the Informal Resolution Period. If you or A+E Global Media file a court action or other legal proceeding regarding a Dispute without complying with the requirements in Section 1, including waiting until the conclusion of the Informal Resolution Period, the other party may (i) seek relief from a court to enjoin the filing until the requirements in this Section are fully met and (ii) seek damages from the party that has not followed the requirements in this Section to reimburse it for any costs incurred as a foreseeable consequence of that breach. (d) Meet and Confer. The recipient of a Claimant Notice may request an individualized telephone or video settlement conference, and both parties shall personally attend (with counsel, if represented) any conference that is held. You and A+E Global Media agree to work cooperatively to schedule the conference at the earliest mutually convenient time (with the Informal Resolution Period being extended as needed until that time) and to seek to reach a resolution during any such conference. (e) Class Action Waiver. This section 1(e) will apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. NO DISPUTE SHALL BE JOINED TO ANY OTHER DISPUTE, INCLUDING ANY DISPUTE INVOLVING ANY OTHER CURRENT OR FORMER USER OF THE SITES. NO CLASS ACTION PROCEEDINGS OR ANY PROCEEDINGS IN WHICH EITHER YOU OR A+E GLOBAL MEDIA ACTS OR PROPOSES TO ACT IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY SHALL BE PERMITTED, AND NEITHER YOU NOR A+E GLOBAL MEDIA WILL PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS MEMBER IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SITES OR ANY OTHER PRODUCTS OR SERVICES RELATED THERETO. ANY RELIEF MAY BE AWARDED ONLY INDIVIDUALLY AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO REDRESS YOUR OR A+E GLOBAL MEDIA‘S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM(S); RELIEF MAY NOT BE AWARDED ON BEHALF OF OTHERS OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. (f) One Year to Assert Claims. In no event shall you or A+E Global Media send a Claimant Notice or commence litigation over any Dispute more than one (1) year after the Dispute first arose. After such time, the Dispute is permanently barred, which means that you or A+E Global Media will no longer have the right to assert that Dispute. (g) Severability. If any part of this Section 1 is found to be unlawful or unenforceable for any reason, including but not limited to because it is found to be unconscionable, (i) the unenforceable or unlawful provision will be severed from these Terms and (ii) the remainder of these Terms will remain in effect. If the class action waiver in Section 1(e) is found to be unlawful or unenforceable in a state for any reason, to the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, claimants may seek certification only of a class composed of residents of that state. Further, if any part of this Section 1 is found to unlawfully prohibit an individual claim seeking public injunctive relief that provision will have no effect to the extent such relief is allowed to be sought, and the remainder of this Section 1 will be enforceable. (h) Third-Party Beneficiaries. You must resolve Disputes with our past, present, and future affiliates and agents as though they were or are A+E Global Media. Such affiliates and agents are third-party beneficiaries of this Section 1 and can enforce this Section 1 as though they were or are A+E Global Media in the event they become involved in a Dispute with you. Otherwise, these Terms are only for the benefit of, and will only be enforceable by, you and A+E Global Media only and do not give rights to any third parties. 2. OWNERSHIP AND USE OF SITES AND CONTENT The Sites may include information, content, or other materials, including without limitation, audio and video programming (and clips thereof), logos, icons, games, software, applications, data, text, graphics, images, and/or links (collectively, the “Content”). You acknowledge that the Content and the Sites are protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents and other proprietary rights owned by A+E Global Media and/or its licensors, including rights to the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such Content, and that these rights are valid and protected in all media and formats existing now or later developed and under the United States and foreign laws. Except as expressly provided herein, A+E Global Media does not grant you any express or implied rights in or to the Content and/or the Sites, and all right, title and interest that A+E Global Media has in the Content and/or the Sites not explicitly granted to you by A+E Global Media or its licensors are retained by A+E Global Media or its licensors, respectively. Without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to, shall not, and shall not authorize or permit any person or entity to, reproduce, publish, display, distribute, make available, publicly perform, create derivative works of, sell, offer for sale, register, associate, use or otherwise exploit the Sites in any form or format. A+E Global Media hereby grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited license to access and use the Sites on Permitted Devices (as defined below), subject to your complete compliance with the Terms and any and all other terms and policies set forth on or in the Content and/or the Sites, only for as long as each Content or Site is made available by us. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights in or to any of the Sites or the Content by using any of the Sites or Content. “Permitted Device” means any television, laptop, tablet, smartphone, streaming media player or other device on which A+E Global Media makes the Site available. The Sites and Content are provided for your personal and non-commercial use and are intended for informational and entertainment purposes only, and you are prohibited from using, and are expressly not granted the right to use, the Sites or Content for any other purpose. As a condition of your access to and use of the Content and Sites, you agree that you will not use the Content or Sites for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and that you will comply with all applicable laws and any conditions or restrictions imposed by these Terms, including United States export control and economic sanctions requirements. No Content or Site may be modified, copied, adapted, transformed, reverse engineered, decompiled, disassembled, reduced to a human-readable form, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, scraped, displayed, posted, transmitted, transferred, licensed or sold in any form or by any means now known or hereinafter devised, in whole or in part, without A+E Global Media’s or its licenso…