User-Privacy Agreement

  1. License to download. This Agreement constitutes a license to download and use Covenant Eyes’ software as intended herein. Under the terms of this license, Covenant Eyes’ software, intellectual property, advertising, copyrighted material, or any other Covenant Eyes product may not be re-sold without the express written consent of Covenant Eyes. All users of the Covenant Eyes program must read and agree to the terms of this privacy policy and user agreement.
  2. Acknowledgement of user to use and pay for services; payment schedule. You, as the user of Covenant Eyes’ software, agree that you are the owner of all computers and mobile digital devices, or have been authorized by the owner of all said devices, on which Covenant Eyes’ software is to be installed. You also agree to pay a monthly or annual recurring fee for the services of the Covenant Eyes program, to be billed in advance, before the beginning of the service period. Credit cards will be charged in advance of the service, typically 5 to 7 days before the beginning of the next period of service. Covenant Eyes will provide a statement by e-mail to the e-mail address provided in the signup procedure detailing charges that have been made; no advance invoice will be provided. In the event of termination by you, the user, charges already processed will not be refunded.
  3. Cancellation of service; identification of user. Service may be cancelled at any time by you, the user, for any reason or no reason at all upon notice to Covenant Eyes. Uninstalling Covenant Eyes software does not constitute cancellation of service. In order to cancel, you must call the Customer Support team. Covenant Eyes reserves the right to cancel service for breach of this contract. Moreover, Covenant Eyes, at any time, without advance notice, with or without cause, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to refuse, cancel, and/or discontinue service to any individual or organization. Failure on the part of you, the user, to provide payment for the service of Covenant Eyes will result in termination of service by Covenant Eyes, and until proper Uninstall procedures (provided by Covenant Eyes) are followed, may result in an inability to access the Internet by computers owned and/or operated by user (for the purposes of this agreement, “computer(s)” includes all cell phone devices and/or Personal Digital Devices). In the event Covenant Eyes receives a request to verify any username or password, to cancel any account, or to receive the uninstall code, such will be provided upon our judgment (and solely upon our judgment) that the account holder is the person making such request; it is your responsibility to ensure the security and accuracy of all identification information on your account (including your verification question and its subsequent answer) in this regard.
  4. Refund policy. From the date of first service, users who cancel within the first 30 days of service will, upon request, be refunded the entire amount billed during that first 30 days. Beyond the first 30 days of service, in the event of termination by you, the user, charges already processed will not be refunded once the term of service has begun. Only the Account Administrator or the person whose name is on the account’s credit card can have requests for refunds honored. Any member creating accounts with the intention of bypassing accountability shall forfeit any right for a refund.
  5. Privacy; use of information provided to Covenant Eyes. Covenant Eyes is committed to protecting your privacy concerning any information collected under the terms of your agreement(s). In acknowledging your agreement with this policy, you as the user have agreed to allow Covenant Eyes to monitor your use of the Internet at your own computer. It is Covenant Eyes’ policy that all users should have at least one Accountability Partner; exceptions to this policy will be at the sole discretion of Covenant Eyes. You, the user, agree that your Internet use may be monitored and reported to you and/or your Accountability Partners; monitored Internet use includes, among other things, web browsing, newsgroups, FTP, IP addresses, times of use, and may also include recording and reporting of additional Covenant Eyes accounts owned by you which may have different Accountability Partners. If one or more Accountability Partners are deleted, or if the account is canceled, Accountability Partners may be provided with a then-current report of activity up to the time of deletion or cancellation. In turn, Covenant Eyes promises that any information collected will only be provided to you or your Accountability Partner(s) as per this agreement, except upon specific request by you or your active Accountability Partner(s), and limited to the purposes of said request (except that Covenant Eyes will not make interpretations of data provided in reports). Except as noted above, use by Covenant Eyes will be expressly limited to internal use only for the purposes of data base management or systems operations; in the event that Covenant Eyes uses any data collected for such internal purposes, no such data will be preserved in any format that is associated with your name or account. Accountability data is kept for 30 days, after which it is permanently and irretrievably deleted from our databases. After deletion, the data cannot be recovered by Covenant Eyes. If a permanent record is desired, it is incumbent upon members and/or Accountability Partners either to make an electronic copy or hard copy of detailed logs or other data. Information which will be retained securely and indefinitely by Covenant Eyes includes names, usernames, passwords, billing information (including credit card), demographics (including IP addresses), and other account information. Covenant Eyes will never share any information gathered under this contract with any third party unless requested by you, the user, or unless required to do so by a court of law; this information includes all information regarding your Internet use, demographic data, your personal address/phone/e-mail information, your credit card information, or any other information gathered under the terms of this agreement. In the event that you sign up for the Covenant Eyes program through any organization which is affiliated with Covenant Eyes (including Covenant Eyes’ affiliates, strategic partners, resellers, or licensees), you agree to any/all of the said organization’s user/privacy agreement(s), which may include the release of your personal contact information to said organization(s). In the event that the person signing up for the Covenant Eyes Program is different from the person, persons, and/or organization, persons, and/or organization responsible for payment of the credit card used on the account, it is understood that the phrases “you,” “your,” and/or “you, the user” shall include the person, persons, and/or organization responsible for payment of the credit card used on the account.
  6. Restriction against re-selling license to use Covenant Eyes software. You, as the user, agree not to purchase and then resell the Covenant Eyes Program, nor include the Covenant Eyes Program as any package which you otherwise sell or market, without express written consent of Covenant Eyes. You, as the user, also agree that the ratio of computers on which the Covenant Eyes Program is installed by you or your representatives to the number of usernames on your account shall not exceed 5:1 (for example, if you have one username, you may add the Program to a total of 5 computers at no extra charge, but if added to a 6th computer, there would be an additional charge for an additional username, etc.).
  7. Voluntary provision of information and agreement to disclose; protection of password. You, as the user, are voluntarily providing Covenant Eyes with certain information and with permission to monitor and record use of the Internet at your computer. You, as the user, agree that all users of your computer and user ID will be informed that monitoring/recording is being made, and that in so being informed, other users will not have their privacy invaded. You should recognize the value of your user ID, and that casually allowing others to use your ID can lead to inappropriately ascribing Internet use to your own account; and you, the user, agree that Covenant Eyes is not responsible for maintaining the privacy of the user ID information either of you or your Accountability Partners (see also paragraph 3).
  8. Agreement to comply with laws and restrictions on harmful transmissions. You, as the user, agree that you will comply with all applicable laws regarding Internet use, both now and in the future as laws are generated which may affect use of the Internet. You also agree not to attempt to pursue in any way any transmission of information to Covenant Eyes servers or other equipment which could be harmful to its data base or other functions. The transmission of any material in violation of any state or United States regulations is expressly prohibited, and will result in immediate termination of use.
  9. No warranty or guarantee of service. Covenant Eyes makes no warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, those of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, nondeliveries, misdeliveries or service interruption however caused. Covenant Eyes does not guarantee continuous or uninterrupted monitoring of Internet use. Routine maintenance and periodic system repairs, upgrades and reconfigurations, public emergency or necessity, force majeure, restrictions imposed by law, acts of God, labor disputes and other situations, including mechanical or electronic breakdowns may result in temporary impairment or interruption of service. Every effort will be made to perform routine maintenance between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. (EST).
  10. Limitations on security of e-mail transmissions. The security of any/all e-mail messages sent by Covenant Eyes cannot be guaranteed on the Internet as information can be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Covenant Eyes does not accept liability for any errors, omissions or viruses in the contents of e-mail correspondence sent to you or your Accountability Partner which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
  11. Data provided not to be construed as interpretation of the data. Reports and other data provided by Covenant Eyes to you, the user, or to your Accountability Partners, consist of data without interpretation. The analysis of sites provided by Covenant Eyes’ proprietary scoring or rating procedures and algorithms is, in itself, data corresponding to results of those procedures and algorithms. Similarly, the summaries of reports, which Covenant Eyes refers to as the “Quick Look,” are also data corresponding to a proprietary procedure and algorithm, and are not, nor are they intended to be, an interpretation of any data. The statements “Report Looks Good,” “Review suggested,” and “Close Review Recommended” are summaries of data collected and given in the report, are based wholly on the data of individual sites in the report, and do not indicate a pattern of behavior or intent on the part of the user. It is entirely up to you as the user and to your Accountability Partners to interpret the data (including the Quick Look) in terms of the actual content of any particular site or sites, the appropriateness for the user viewing those sites, or any motivation or pattern of viewing by the user.
  12. Disclosure as to accuracy of rating. Owing to the ever-changing nature of the Internet, no rating system and/or filter application will perform without error 100% of the time. Covenant Eyes does not accept liability and makes no warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, incorrect ratings, which may also result in incorrect blocking and/or allowing websites when the filter is in use, whether the rating is claimed to be too high or too low, of any/all website source code, websites, website domains, website URLs, website titles, and electronic transmissions through any/all Internet protocols. Covenant Eyes strives for perfection in its Dynamic Scoring Filter and Accountability Software applications. Occasionally, but rarely, a website may be rated incorrectly. If you believe a website is rated incorrectly, you may request a rating change. Covenant Eyes reserves the right to accept or deny any/all rating change requests. Final judgment on the score of any particular website will remain at the sole discretion of Covenant Eyes.
  13. Rating Change Request constitutes request to view report. When a rating change request is submitted by a member or Accountability Partner, said request constitutes permission by the member or Accountability Partner to Covenant Eyes to allow Covenant Eyes to view the member report for the purpose of analysis. The rating change request itself shall be retained by Covenant Eyes indefinitely, but the associated report will not be retained, in compliance with paragraph #3 above; however, any portions of reports included in e-mail correspondence between the member or Accountability Partner and Covenant Eyes will be retained by Covenant Eyes for the purposes of documenting the correspondence.
  14. Indemnification, limit of liability. You shall indemnify Covenant Eyes, its shareholders, affiliates, officers, directors, licensees and licensers from any and all claims and expenses, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees arising from any cause. Furthermore, liability of Covenant Eyes shall in any case be limited to and shall not exceed the total amount of monies paid by you, the user, to Covenant Eyes for use of the Covenant Eyes Program. The parties agree that any dispute arising from this agreement shall have as its venue Shiawassee County, Michigan, wherein are located the offices of Covenant Eyes.
  15. Amendments to this agreement. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by Covenant Eyes without notification to users; such amendments may be made either by changes in this Agreement on the Covenant Eyes website, or by e-mail.