Terms of Service

By using this Website, you agree that all the claims or causes of action arising out of or relating to your use of this Website will be at the jurisdiction of Tel Aviv, Israel only. All disputes are subjected to exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Tel Aviv.

Updates and Amendments

These Terms may be updated, reviewed, or amended from time to time, at the sole discretion of ConvertFiles. Material changes (if any) to these Terms will be indicated by notice on our home page. You should periodically refer to any changes made to these Terms. Continued use of this Website, or use of any of the services or purchase of any product, will thereafter constitute your deemed acceptance of the revised Terms.

Description of Services

The users of this Website are allowed to convert a file (“User File”) from their original format to a format selected by the user. ConvertFiles stores the User File, converts them into the user prescribed format (“Converted File”), and displays on the user’s browser a link from which the user can fetch the Converted File. The user can download the Converted File by clicking on this link.

Users agree that ConvertFiles will have the ability to restrict, amongst others, the maximum number of files a user can convert through the services, the maximum time for which the converted files will be stored on the servers of ConvertFiles, or the maximum number of times the user can access the services within a given period of time.

Intellectual Property

Unless expressly specified to the contrary, the text, graphics, logos, and images displayed on this Website, including the arrangement of content and the “look and feel” of the Website (together, “Content”), is the copyright of ConvertFiles, and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws in Israel and other countries.

You may download selections of this Website or the Content made available on it explicitly for your personal, non-commercial use, without any kind of public reproduction. Reproduction, modification, copying, or distribution of any Content, except as allowed above, is expressly prohibited without written permission from ConvertFiles.

The entire Content of this Website remains our property and is our copyright. All rights are reserved by ConvertFiles. ConvertFiles does not monitor the content of the User Files and will not be held responsible for any damages claimed as a result of the usage of ConvertFiles services. The user is solely responsible for all the User Files and the content of Converted Files generated from the User Files.

Prohibitions

The users of this Website agree not to upload nor download any material that:

Invades another’s privacy
Is obscene, pornographic, or offensive
Is racist, defamatory, spreads terror or torture, harms minors, or promotes illegal activity
Is false or misleading or violates any law or regulation

The users represent and warrant that they will not attempt to reverse engineer the software used by ConvertFiles to provide file conversion services, access or tamper with parts of the Website, send a virus or other destructive mechanism with the intention of crippling the Website, access non-public areas of the Website, or misrepresent or impersonate another entity.

ConvertFiles reserves the right to investigate and, if required, prosecute the above-mentioned violations of these Terms to the fullest extent of the law. Users engaging in these activities may be removed and permanently banned from using ConvertFiles services.

Data Protection and Security

While we try to ensure that our services are error-free, you agree that any material downloaded or otherwise accessed through this Website is at your own risk. ConvertFiles will not be responsible for any damage to computer systems, failure to convert a User File, failure to store a User File or a Converted File, corruption of data, or any loss in data arising from accessing the services provided on this Website.

In the absence of negligence on our side, ConvertFiles cannot be held liable for any unauthorized access to protected information by third parties.

No Assurance of Uninterrupted Service

We do not warrant that your subscription to the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the modes of service would be free of computer viruses or other harmful components.

We shall not be liable at any time for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft, or any type of loss or damage that may arise to you or any other person from the subscription of our service.

You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the service.

Third Party Sites

Our Website may contain links to other third-party sites. As these third-party sites are beyond our control, we do not accept any responsibility in connection with such third-party websites which may be accessible or linked through our Website.

By linking a third-party webpage, we do not endorse any of the contents of these third-party websites, nor do we accept any liability for anything encountered therein.

Users are advised to access such third-party sites linked through our Website with caution and at their own risk.

Customer Duties

The Customer shall attend the effective laws of Israel as well as the present conditions when using the services provided by the Provider. He particularly shall:

A) Not use the services of the Provider to view or spread immoral or illegal statements nor pornographic and violent contents.
B) Attend to the effective law of Israel, particularly regulations regarding data and youth protection as well as criminal ordinances.
C) Not violate rights of third parties, particularly copyright and ancillary copyright, trademark, patent and other property and personal rights. Particularly with regard to the use of copyrighted works, the Customer is responsible for obtaining the relevant rights concerning that use. In particular, he should obtain the necessary rights from the GEMA or other right collecting societies as trustees for the administration of these rights.

As far as memory or storage capacity is provided to the Customer, he is not allowed to store any illegal or infringing comments against the law or official regulations or against the rights of third parties. Following contents may neither be written nor offered:

a) Offers, which application, supply or distribution infringes industrial property rights (such as trademark, patents, utility models and design rights), copyright and ancillary copyright and other rights (such as right to the own image, name and personal rights); the offer of plagiarism is not permitted.
b) Pornographic and harmful offers.
c) Propaganda articles and products from any unconstitutional organization.
d) Weapons as defined on the Weapon Act, particularly firearms, cutting and stabbing weapons of any kind as well as ammunition of any sort.
e) Protected live animals, products and preparations of protected animals as well as protected plants and their preparations.
f) Bonds – especially shares – credits, loans and financial aim; money market and financial instruments, except historical bonds not in circulation anymore.
g) Debt obligations and court titles as well as other claims arising from collection legal transactions.
h) Vouchers which are available free of charge for everyone.
i) Goods whose possession is lawful, but their use in the country of delivery is prohibited.
j) Human organs.
k) Goods for a lower price as the statutory fixed price, insofar as the fixed price is not charged and there is no exemption.
l) Land and land rights.
m) The Customer is solely responsible for the contents and for the accuracy of the transferred data.
n) The Customer is not allowed to share his download link or any other way to access his stored files.

Infringing Content Policy

Every user of the website has the possibility to report any violation of its intellectual property rights caused by any content on ConvertFiles.com.

(1) For this purpose, the Provider requires detailed information. This information should contain the following:

a) A statement that contents at ConvertFiles.com infringe intellectual property rights of the user or of third parties who authorized the user to act on their behalf.
b) An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed, indicating a link to the relevant content.
c) Full name, address, telephone number and email address of the user.
d) A statement that the user is either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
e) A statement that the user believes in good faith that the use of the content in the manner complained of has not been allowed by the intellectual property rights owner nor by any other authorized person.

(2) If desired that the complaint should be considered pursuant to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act section 17 paragraph 512(c), those requested in section 9(1) shall be stated under penalty of perjury. Furthermore, an electronic or physical signature is also necessary under the above required information.

Exemption

Customer disclaims the Provider and its employees of all claims, which other customers or third parties might have against the Provider because of violation of their rights through the data posted by the Customer on the website ConvertFiles.com or through provided files from the Customer on the server of the Provider. This includes the costs of reasonable litigations and related expenses. For this purpose, the Customer shall provide an adequate deposit based on the corresponding legal fees. This does not apply if the Customer is not responsible for the infringement.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify us from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, debt, losses, liabilities, obligations, and expenses arising from your use of our service; any violation by you of these Terms; any violation by you of any third-party right; and any claim levied against you that your submission caused damage to a third party.

Jurisdiction

This policy was last modified on April 1, 2017.