Terms and Conditions of
Use and End User
License Agreement
The Sony
WHEN YOU ACCESS, BROWSE, OR USE THE SERVICE, PRODUCT, SOFTWARE, AND/OR SITE, YOU ACCEPT, WITHOUT LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATION, THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN, SONY’S PRIVACY POLICY POSTED ON THE SITE, AND ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE SET FORTH IN ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE AND SITE (COLLECTIVELY THE “AGREEMENT”). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, SONY DOES NOT GRANT THE LIMITED RIGHTS HEREIN, AND PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SERVICE, PRODUCT, SOFTWARE, AND/OR SITE.
1.Ownership
The Software and all materials on the Service and/or Site, including but not limited to images, software and text (the “Content”) are protected by copyright under U.S. copyright law, international conventions, and other copyright laws. You cannot use the Software, Service, Product, Content, and Site except as specified herein. There may be proprietary logos, service marks, and trademarks found on this Service or Site. By making them available on the Service and/or Site, Sony is not granting you any license to utilize those proprietary logos, service marks, or trademarks. Any unauthorized use of the Service, Site, Content or Software may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and civil and criminal statutes. All title and copyright in and to the Software or materials on the Service/Site and any copies of the Software, are owned by Sony, its licensors, or suppliers. All rights not specifically granted under this Agreement are reserved by Sony, its licensors, and suppliers.
2.Your Rights & Limited License
The Service, Site, Software, Content, and Product are only for your personal use. You are responsible for all your activities hereunder, including all legal liability incurred from your use of the Service or others who use the Service via your Product or Account (as defined below). You may use the Service, Site, Software, Content and Product for lawful purposes only. You may not distribute, exchange, modify, sell, or transmit anything you may copy from the Service or Site, including but not limited to any text, images, audio, and video, for any business, commercial, or public purpose. As long as you comply with the terms of this Agreement, Sony grants you a
3.User Account & Privacy
As part of your usage of the Product, Service, Site, and/or Software, Sony may require that you establish a user account (“Account”) for which you must provide Sony true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself and maintain/ promptly update such information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any and all of your passwords associated with the Account. You agree to notify Sony immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or any
other breach of security related to the Service, Site, and/or Software.
Sony’s Privacy Policy is posted on the Site and at http://products.sel.sony.com/SEL/legal/privacy.html, the terms of which are incorporated herein, and applies to your use of the Account, Product, Service, Site, and Software.
4.Automatic Update
The Software contains a functionality by which it is updated automatically when the Product is connected to a server belonging to Sony or to a third party designated by Sony. When you specify your intention not to use this automatic update functionality, or when the setting asking whether you wish to update automatically is activated and you decline to execute updates, it is assumed that you agree that the security functionality improvements, error corrections, other functional updates or any other changes offered by Sony through such updates would not be made to the Software and that your current and further use of the Software may be affected thereby.
When the automatic update functionality described in the previous paragraph is activated, it is assumed that you agree (a) that the Software will be automatically updated as necessary to improve security functionality, to correct errors, to improve update functionality, or for other purposes, and (b) that this updating of the Software may be accompanied by the augmenting, modifying, or removing of functionality of the Software.
5.Additional Terms Governing Product Software
You may use the Software solely in conjunction with the Product that accompanied the Software. The Software is licensed, not sold. In addition to the terms set forth in other portions of this Agreement, the Software is subject to the following:
Use of Software. You may use the Software in conjunction with the Product for personal use.
Limitation on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation and
Disassembly. You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software in whole or in part. Separation of Components.The Software is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one device unless expressly authorized by Sony. Data Files. The Software may create data files automatically for use with the Software. Any such data files will be deemed as part of the Software.
Rental. You may not rent or lease the Software.
Software Transfer. You may permanently transfer all of your rights under this Agreement only as part of a sale or transfer of Software accompanying the sale or transfer of your Product, provided you retain no copies, transfer all of the Software (including all copies, component parts, the media and printed materials, all versions and any upgrades of the Software and this Agreement), and the recipient agrees to the terms of this Agreement.
Dependent Software. The software, network services or other products other than Software upon which the Software’s performance depends on might be interrupted or discontinued at the discretion of the suppliers (software suppliers, service providers or Sony).
High Risk Activities. The Software is not
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