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Screenplay Readers Agreement and Terms of Service

A. GENERAL TERMS

1. SCREENPLAY READERS MAKES NO CLAIM TO YOUR WORK WHATSOEVER.

By submitting your materials, you are giving us permission to read your materials and provide service. NOTHING MORE. WE DO NOT AND SHALL NOT EVER HOLD ANY CLAIM TO YOUR WORK, nor characters, ideas, settings, situations, etc. contained within. PERIOD.

2. Screenplay Readers provides subjective synopses, subjective loglines, and subjective opinions on your literary work at your request, and will provide subjective, (non-objective) criticism of your submitted work as pertains to character, plot, story, setting, tone, format, and other categories pertaining to screenwriting. Clients submitting literary materials to Screenplay Readers for services agree that in any literary work there are countless details regarding character, plot, story, setting, tone, format, etc. and that it is physically and humanly impossible for any person or service to comprehend, interpret, and/or critique them all, point-by-point.

3. You agree that Screenplay Readers reserves the right to set the scale and scope of their focus on said details based on the level of service ordered. Further, Screenplay Readers is under no obligation to “understand your work” based on terms defined by you, the client. Nor are we are under any obligation to “get the story facts right” in a manner determined by you.

4. You the client agree to hold Screenplay Readers not responsible for any details in your story that the reader may have commented on which you believe to be inaccurate.

5. You understand that you are not entitled to a refund of any kind just because you disagree with the reader’s opinion, or because you believe details in your submitted work were inaccurately commented upon.

6. You understand that if you turn in a spec script for an existing show on tv or cable, or for any other sort of existing franchise, we are under no obligation to know about, be familiar with, or be up-to-date on the aspects of said properties.

7. Screenplay Readers respects your privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. No dissemination of your personal information or work to any third parties will take place.

8. Screenplay Readers is not responsible for your submitted works. We will not disseminate your works in any manner. You are responsible for maintaining the master copy of your submitted works. You agree to hold Screenplay Readers harmless in the event we lose your submitted works for any reason.

9. You understand that our promised turnaround time is between 24 and 72 hours from the time and date of our processing of your script, not from the time and date you placed the order. For example, if we received your script after business hours, or on the weekend, the turnaround time begins on Monday when we return to the office and enter your script into our reader queue. You understand that there is no guarantee that you will receive your script coverage within the 24-72 hour turnaround time, although we have a 99.8% success rate.

B. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT A101 AND SCREENPLAY READERS AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SCREENPLAY READERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM:

(i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SCREENPLAY READERS SERVICE;

(ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SCREENPLAY READERS SERVICE; OR

(iii) ANY OTHER MATTER(S) RELATING TO THE SCREENPLAY READERS SERVICE.

C. MISCELLANEOUS TERMS

The terms of the User Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Screenplay Readers and governs your use of the Screenplay Readers service. Furthermore, the terms of the User Agreement and the relationship between you and Screenplay Readers shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Screenplay Readers agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Los Angeles, California. The failure of Screenplay Readers to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Screenplay Readers service or the Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or you will be barred from raising such a claim(s).