Legal Terms of Service

We last updated this policy November 01, 2020.

Please Read Carefully Before Using This Website: The following terms of service (“Terms of Service”) govern your use of the CCIS Church Management Software Website (the “Site”) and the CCIS Shield Church Management Software web-based, application integration and data linking service accessed through the Site (“CCIS Shield”), both of which are operated by CCIS Church Management Software, Inc. (“CCIS”). By using the Site and/or the Service, you irrevocably agree that such use is subject to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, you may not use the Site or the Service. If you are entering into these Terms of Service on behalf of an entity, you represent that you have the actual authority to bind such entity to these Terms of Service.

CCIS expressly reserves the right to modify the Terms of Service at any time in its sole discretion, and without prior notice to you, by including such alteration and/or modification in these Terms of Service, along with a notice of the effective date of such modified Terms of Service. Any continued use by you of the CCIS Shield or the Service after the posting of such modified Terms of Service shall be deemed to indicate your irrevocable agreement to such modified Terms of Service. Accordingly, if at any time you do not agree to be subject to any modified Terms of Service, you may no longer use the Site or CCIS Shield.

(a) CCIS Content: Except as may be otherwise noted, the information, materials (including, without limitation, HTML, text, audio, video, white papers, press releases, data sheets, product descriptions, software and FAQs and other content) available on the Site and/or CCIS Shield (collectively, “CCIS Content”) are the copyrighted works of CCIS and its licensors, and CCIS and its licensors expressly retain all right title and interest in and to the CCIS Content, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein and thereto. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms of Service, any use of the CCIS Content may violate copyright and/or other applicable laws.

(b) Third Party Content: In addition to CCIS Content, the Site and/or the Service may contain information and materials provided to CCIS by third parties (collectively, “Third Party Content”). Third Party Content is the copyrighted work of its owner, who expressly retains all right title and interest in and to the Third Party Content, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein and thereto. In addition to being subject to these Terms of Service, Third Party Content may also be subject to different and/or additional terms of use and/or privacy policies of such third parties. Please contact the appropriate third party for further information regarding any such different and/or additional terms of use applicable to Third Party Content.

(c) Limited Site Content License: CCIS grants you the limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the CCIS Content and Third Party Content (collectively, “Site Content”) by displaying the Site Content on your computer, and downloading and printing pages from the Site containing Site Content, under the condition that (i) such activity is solely for your personal, education or other noncommercial use, (ii) you do not modify or prepare derivative works from the Site Content, (iii) you do not obscure, alter or remove any notice of copyright set forth on any Site pages or Site Content, (iv) you do not otherwise reproduce, re-distribute or publicly display any of the Site Content and (v) you do not copy any Site Content to any other media or other storage format.

(d) Trademarks: All trademarks, service marks and logos included on the Site (“Marks”) are the property of CCIS or third parties, and you may not use such Marks without the express, prior written consent of CCIS or the applicable third party.

(e) Monitoring of Site Content and use of Service: CCIS reserves the right, but does not undertake the obligation, to monitor use of the Site and/or the Service, and to investigate and take appropriate legal action against any party that uses the Site in violation of these Terms of Service or applicable law. CCIS reserves the right to accept, reject or modify any Site Content or User Content, but assumes no liability based on its acceptance, rejection, modification or failure to modify any Site Content or User Content.

(f) Copyright Infringement: As a condition of your right to use the Site and the Service, you agree to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Accordingly, you agree not to upload or post to the Site or the Service any copyrighted materials, trademarks or other proprietary information belonging to any third party without the prior written consent of the applicable third party. You acknowledge that CCIS will terminate your access to the Site and/or to CCIS Shield if you repeatedly infringe the copyright of third parties. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been illegally uploaded or posted on the Site or the Service, you may send a written notice to CCIS at support@CCISsoftware.com, and CCIS will respond pursuant to its Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) procedure. CCIS’s DMCA procedure is in accordance with that suggested by DMCA, the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office web site http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf. CCIS reserves all rights to seek damages and fees associated with infringement and or fraud.

(a) Account and Use of Service: You may use your User Account for the Service only in accordance with these Terms of Service and only for lawful purposes. You are responsible for your own communications, including the upload, transmission and posting of information, and are responsible for the consequences of their posting on or through the Service.

(b) Fees: Some features of the Service may only be accessed and used upon the payment of applicable fees (“Fees”). Fees may vary depending on usage in accordance with our current pricing policy. If you do not initially register for a version of the CCIS Shield that requires the payment of a fee, you will nonetheless be permitted to use all of the features of the Service for a period of thirty (30) days (“Free Trial Period”). Upon the expiration of the Free Trial Period, you will only be able to access and use those features of the Service the use of which does not require the payment of a Fee, unless you subsequently upgrade to a paid version of the Service. All Fees are exclusive of all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by taxing authorities, and you shall be responsible for payment of all such taxes, levies, or duties, excluding only United States (federal or state) taxes.

(c) Refunds, Upgrading and Downgrading: Refunds are processed according to our refund policy. Any upgrade or downgrade in your Service use will result in the new Fees being charged at the next billing cycle. There will be no prorating for downgrades in between billing cycles. Downgrading your Service may cause the loss of features or capacity of your User Account. CCIS does not accept any liability for such loss.

(d) Cancellation and Termination: You are solely responsible for properly cancelling your User Account. You can cancel your User Account at any time by calling 800-874-7435 option 1. Remittance of payment for any open invoices, renews, and/or extends the then current support agreement for the following term. Remittance of payment for any new open invoices, initiates a support agreement for a new term. Failing to remit payment for any open invoices for any given service product will automatically make inactive your User Account and you will not be charged again. But there will not be any prorating of unused time or service fees in the paid billing cycle.

(e) Prohibited Conduct: CCIS specifically prohibits any use of the Site or CCIS Shield for: (i) posting any (1) information which is incomplete, false, inaccurate or not your own, (2) trade secrets or material that is copyrighted or otherwise owned by a third party unless you have a valid license from the owner which permits you to post it, (3) material that infringes on any other intellectual property, privacy or publicity right of another, (4) advertisement, promotional materials or solicitation related to any product or service that is competitive with CCIS products or services or (5) software or programs which contain any harmful code, including, but not limited to, viruses, worms, time bombs or Trojan horses; (ii) impersonating another person; (iii) engaging in or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any city, state, national or international law or regulation, or which fails to comply with accepted Internet protocol; or (iv) transmitting or transferring (by any means) information or software derived from the Site or the Service to foreign countries or certain foreign nations in violation of US export control laws. In addition, you are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, the Service or CCIS’s system or network security, including, without limitation, the following: (w) accessing data not intended for users of the Site or the Service, or gaining unauthorized access to an account, server or any other computer system; (x) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures; (y) attempting to interfere with the function of the Site, the Service, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, “flooding”, “mailbombing”, “crashing”, or sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or (z) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Violations of the Site’s or CCIS’s system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.

(f) User Content: If you elect to display, post, submit or otherwise make available to others, on the Site any content or works of authorship, including, without limitation, images, audio files, text, software (but excluding User software) or other materials, (collectively, “User Content”), you hereby grant to CCIS a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license, including the right to grant sublicenses to third parties, to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, prepare derivative works from and distribute such User Content, for any purpose. In addition, you hereby irrevocably represent and warrant to CCIS that (i) you have all necessary power, authority, right, title and/or licenses to grant to CCIS the foregoing right and license and (ii) the posting, submission, display by you of User Content on the Site, and the exercise by CCIS of the foregoing license does not and will not (1) violate any applicable law or government regulation or (2) infringe any right of publicity or invades the privacy of others, or any intellectual property right of any third party, (iii) no User Content you provide (1) will constitute obscene, pornographic, indecent, profane or otherwise objectionable material, (2) is discriminatory, hateful or bigoted toward, or abusive of, any group or individual, or (3) is libelous or defamatory. For the avoidance of doubt, any information or data from your accounts with third party services (i.e., Gmail or Dropbox) that is passes through or is processed by CCIS Shield and which you do not make publically available on CCIS Shield, is not User Content, and CCIS does not receive any rights in such information or data.

(g) Suggestions: You hereby grant to CCIS a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicenseable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use or incorporate into the Site and/or the Service any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback provided by you to CCIS that is related to the Site and/or the Service.

(h) Indemnification: You hereby irrevocably agree to indemnify, defend and hold CCIS, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all loss, costs, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to (i) any third party claim resulting from a breach by you of any of your covenants, representations or warranties contained in these Terms of Use and/or (ii) your use of the Site and/or the Service.

(i) Export Control: You hereby represent and warrant that (i) you understand and acknowledge that some Site Content may be subject to export, re-export and import restrictions under applicable law, (ii) you will not use the Site or any Site Content in a manner that violates the U.S. Export Administration Act of 1979 and the regulations of the U.S. Department of Commerce and (iii) you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country to which the United States has embargoed goods.