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API Terms of Use

Thank you for using the Remember The Milk application programming interfaces (the "Remember The Milk APIs"). By using the Remember The Milk APIs, you agree to the terms below. If you disagree with any of these terms, Remember The Milk does not grant you a license to use the Remember The Milk APIs. We reserve the right to update and change these terms from time to time without notice. You can always find the most recent version of these terms here: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/terms.rtm

Your license to the Remember The Milk APIs under these terms continues until it is terminated by either party. You may terminate the license by discontinuing use of all or any of the Remember The Milk APIs. Remember The Milk may terminate the license at any time for any reason. Your rights to use the Remember The Milk APIs terminate automatically if (i) you violate any of these terms, (ii) Remember The Milk publicly posts a written notice of termination on rememberthemilk.com, (iii) Remember The Milk sends a written notice of termination to you, or (iv) Remember The Milk disables access to the Remember The Milk APIs to you.

1. Licensed Uses and Restrictions.

The Remember The Milk APIs are owned by Remember The Milk Inc. (hereinafter "Remember The Milk") and are licensed to you on a worldwide (except as limited below), non-exclusive, non-sublicenseable basis on the terms and conditions set forth herein. These terms define legal use of the Remember The Milk APIs, all updates, revisions, substitutions, and any copies of the Remember The Milk APIs made by or for you. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Remember The Milk.

a. You shall:

  1. Comply with the Remember The Milk Terms of Use at https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/terms.rtm
  2. Disclose in your application through a privacy policy or otherwise displayed in the footer of each page, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers.

b. You shall not:

  1. Use Remember The Milk APIs for any application that replicates or attempts to replace the essential user experience of rememberthemilk.com or any other Remember The Milk interface.
  2. Attempt to cloak or conceal your identity or your application's identity when requesting authorization to use Remember The Milk APIs.
  3. Request, collect, solicit, or otherwise obtain access to login names, passwords or other authentication credentials for Remember The Milk other than by directing users to Remember The Milk in the mechanism specifically provided by the Remember The Milk APIs.
  4. Cache or store any Remember The Milk user information other than for reasonable periods in order to provide the service you are providing to Remember The Milk users.
  5. Use Remember The Milk APIs for any application that constitutes, promotes or is used in connection with spyware, adware, other malicious programs or code.
  6. Use Remember The Milk APIs in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law or regulation, any right of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or rights of personality.
  7. Use Remember The Milk APIs in a manner that adversely impacts the stability of Remember The Milk servers or adversely impacts the behavior of other applications using the Remember The Milk APIs.
  8. Sell, lease, or sublicense Remember The Milk APIs or access thereto or derive revenues from the use or provision of Remember The Milk APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, except as set forth below.

2. Commercial Use

a. Rules and Restrictions.

If the primary purpose of your application is to derive revenue, it is considered a commercial application. Remember The Milk reserves the right to make these evaluations at the time that you apply for the license. Remember The Milk may also monitor your site or application over time to ensure continued compliance with the appropriate type of API key.

If you're in doubt about whether your application is commercial, here are a few common examples of commercial use that may provide you some guidance:

  1. Users are charged a fee for your product or service which includes some sort of integration using the Remember The Milk APIs.
  2. Ad revenue is generated by your product or service which includes some sort of integration using the Remember The Milk APIs.
  3. You sell services to Remember The Milk users and use the APIs to bring users' Remember The Milk content into your service.

b. Application for Commercial Use.

If you are interested in commercial use of the API, please share your business proposal via our contact form: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/contact/?ctx=business. You can't be too specific about your intended use of the Remember The Milk Commercial API! Lack of specificity or supporting information could delay your application indefinitely. When in doubt, it's always better to include more detail about your application. Please note that in some cases we may grant your request for a commercial API key subject to your payment of fees, such as to help cover infrastructure costs.

3. Branding Guidelines

You agree to comply with the branding and attribution guidelines for the Remember The Milk APIs which is located at https://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/branding.rtm (or such other URL that Remember The Milk may provide from time to time) (the "Branding Guidelines"). The Branding Guidelines are incorporated into these Terms by this reference.

4. Ownership and Relationship of Parties.

The Remember The Milk APIs may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, international treaties, and/or other proprietary rights and laws of the U.S. and other countries. Remember The Milk's rights apply to the Remember The Milk APIs and all output and executables of the Remember The Milk APIs, excluding any software components developed by you which do not themselves incorporate the Remember The Milk APIs or any output or executables of the Remember The Milk APIs. You agree to abide by all applicable proprietary rights laws and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in these terms. Remember The Milk owns all rights, title, and interest in and to the Remember The Milk APIs. These terms grant you no right, title, or interest in any intellectual property owned or licensed by Remember The Milk, including (but not limited to) the Remember The Milk APIs and Remember The Milk trademarks.

5. Support.

Remember The Milk may elect to provide you with support or modifications for the Remember The Milk APIs (collectively, "Support"), in its sole discretion, and may terminate such Support at any time without notice to you. Remember The Milk may change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Remember The Milk APIs at any time, including the availability of any Remember The Milk APIs. Remember The Milk may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Remember The Milk APIs or the Remember The Milk Web site without notice or liability.

6. Fees and Payments.

Remember The Milk is committed to free and open access to our APIs. However, providing the APIs does have real costs for Remember The Milk. For uses of Remember The Milk APIs over a certain rate or for certain types of commercial applications, Remember The Milk reserves the right to charge fees for future use of or access to the Remember The Milk APIs.

7. Disclaimer of Any Warranty.

SOME OF THE REMEMBER THE MILK APIS MAY BE EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT TESTED IN ANY MANNER. REMEMBER THE MILK DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ANY REMEMBER THE MILK APIS ARE FREE OF INACCURACIES, ERRORS, BUGS, OR INTERRUPTIONS, OR ARE RELIABLE, ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR OTHERWISE VALID.

THE REMEMBER THE MILK APIS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND AND REMEMBER THE MILK EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AVAILABLILTIY, SECURITY, TITLE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

YOUR USE OF REMEMBER THE MILK APIS IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF ANY REMEMBER THE MILK APIS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA.

8. Limitation of Liability.

REMEMBER THE MILK SHALL NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF THE REMEMBER THE MILK APIS, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS, WHETHER OR NOT REMEMBER THE MILK HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL REMEMBER THE MILK BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY AMOUNT.

9. Exclusions and Limitations.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

10. Release and Waiver.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you hereby release and waive all claims against Remember The Milk, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, licensors, co-branders or other partners, and employees from any and all liability for claims, damages (actual and/or consequential), costs and expenses (including litigation costs and attorneys' fees) of every kind and nature, arising from or in any way related to your use of Remember The Milk APIs. You understand that any fact relating to any matter covered by this release may be found to be other than now believed to be true and you accept and assume the risk of such possible differences in fact. In addition, you expressly waive and relinquish any and all rights and benefits which you may have under any other state or federal statute or common law principle of similar effect, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

11. Hold Harmless and Indemnity.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to hold harmless and indemnify Remember The Milk and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, licensors, co-branders or other partners, and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of Remember The Milk APIs, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and/or consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. Remember The Milk shall use good faith efforts to provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.

12. General Terms.

  1. Relationship of the Parties. Notwithstanding any provision hereof, for all purposes of the Terms of Use, you and Remember The Milk shall be and act independently and not as partner, joint venturer, agent, employee or employer of the other. You shall not have any authority to assume or create any obligation for or on behalf of Remember The Milk, express or implied, and you shall not attempt to bind Remember The Milk to any contract.
  2. Invalidity of Specific Terms. If any provision of the Terms of Use 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 such documents remain in full force and effect.
  3. Location of Lawsuit and Choice of Law. The Terms of Use and the relationship between you and Remember The Milk shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Remember The Milk agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within the County of San Francisco, California.
  4. No Waiver of Rights by Remember The Milk. Remember The Milk's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
  5. Miscellaneous. The section headings and subheadings contained in this agreement are included for convenience only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the terms of the Terms of Use. Any construction or interpretation to be made of the Terms of Use shall not be construed against the drafter. The Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between Remember The Milk and you with respect to the subject matter hereof.