API Terms of Service

DialLink API Terms of Service

These API Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of DialLink’s APIs. By accessing or using our APIs, you are agreeing to the Terms below. If there is a conflict between these Terms and additional terms applicable to a given API, the additional terms will control for that conflict.

Under the Terms, “DialLink” means DialLink, Inc., located at 1688 Meridian Ave, Suite 700, Miami Beach, FL 33139. In addition, DialLink has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities. These companies may provide the APIs to you on behalf of DialLink and the Terms will also govern your relationship with these companies.

1. Acceptance of Terms

a. You may accept the Terms and use the APIs only if (a) you are of legal age to form a binding contract with DialLink. If you are using the APIs on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity to the Terms and by accepting the Terms, you are doing so on behalf of that entity.

b. In order to access certain APIs you may be required to provide information as part of the registration process. Any registration information you give to DialLink should always be accurate and kept up to date.

2. Using the APIs

a. You will comply (and will require your end users to comply) with all applicable laws, regulations, and third-party rights (including, without limitation, laws regarding the import or export of data or software, privacy, and local laws). You will not violate any other terms of service with DialLink (or its affiliates).

b. You will only access (or attempt to access) an API by the means described in the documentation of that API. If DialLink assigns you developer credentials, you must use them with the applicable APIs. You will not misrepresent or hide either your identity or your API Client’s identity when using the APIs or developer accounts.

c. DialLink sets and enforces limits on your use of the APIs (including limiting the number of API requests that you may make or the number of users you may serve), in its sole discretion. You agree to, and will not attempt to circumvent, such limitations. If you would like to use an API beyond these limits, you must obtain DialLink’s express consent. To seek such consent, contact the relevant DialLink API team for information.

d. Some of the software required by or included in our APIs may be offered under an open-source license. Open-source software licenses constitute separate written agreements. For certain APIs, open source software is listed in the documentation. To the limited extent the open-source software license expressly supersedes the Terms, the open source license instead sets forth your agreement with DialLink for the applicable open source software.

e. We may send you certain communications in connection with your use of the APIs. Please review the applicable API documentation for information about opting out of certain types of communication. If you provide feedback or suggestions about our APIs, then we (and those we allow) may use such information without obligation to you.

f. The Terms are non-exclusive. You acknowledge that DialLink may develop products or services that may compete with your API Clients or any other products or services.

g. To the extent required by data protection laws applicable to the parties’ processing of personal data under these Terms, the parties agree to the DialLink Data Processing Agreement, as described in DialLink’s Privacy Policy.

3. Prohibitions

When using the APIs, you may not (or allow those acting on your behalf to):

a. Sublicense an API for use by a third party. Consequently, you will not create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the APIs and offer it for use by third parties.

b. Perform an action with the intent of introducing to DialLink products and services any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, malware, or any items of a destructive nature.

c. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others.

d. Interfere with or disrupt the APIs or the servers or networks providing the APIs.

e. Promote or facilitate unlawful online gambling or disruptive commercial messages or advertisements.

f. Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code from any API or any related software, except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.

g. Use the APIs for any activities where the use or failure of the APIs could lead to death, personal injury, or environmental damage (such as the operation of nuclear facilities, air traffic control, or life support systems).

h. Use the APIs to process or store any data that is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations maintained by the U.S. Department of State.

i. Remove, obscure, or alter any DialLink terms of service or any links to or notices of those terms.

j. Encourage or promote illegal activity or violation of third-party rights

4. Termination

a. You may stop using our APIs at any time with or without notice. If you want to terminate the Terms, you must provide DialLink with prior written notice and upon termination, cease your use of the applicable APIs. DialLink reserves the right to terminate the Terms with you or discontinue the APIs or any portion or feature or your access thereto, for any reason and at any time, without liability or other obligation to you.

b. Upon any termination of the Terms or discontinuation of your access to an API, you will immediately stop using the API, cease all use of DialLink Brand Features, and delete any cached or stored content. DialLink may independently communicate with any account owner whose account(s) are associated with your API Client and developer credentials to provide notice of the termination of your right to use an API.

c. When the Terms come to an end, those terms that by their nature are intended to continue indefinitely will continue to apply, including but not limited to: Sections 4b, 5, 8, 9, and 10.

5. Your API clients

a. The APIs are designed to help you enhance your websites and applications (“API Client(s)”). YOU AGREE THAT DIALLINK MAY MONITOR USE OF THE APIS TO ENSURE QUALITY, IMPROVE DIALLINK PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, AND VERIFY YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS. This monitoring may include DialLink accessing and using your API Client, for example to identify security issues that could affect DialLink or its users. You will not interfere with this monitoring. DialLink may use any technical means to overcome such interference. DialLink may suspend access to the APIs by you or your API Client without notice if we reasonably believe that you are in violation of the Terms.

b. You will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect user information collected by your API Client, including personal data, from unauthorized access or use and will promptly report to your users any unauthorized access or use of such information to the extent required by applicable law.

c. DialLink does not acquire ownership in your API Clients, and by using our APIs, you do not acquire ownership of any rights in our APIs or the content that is accessed through our APIs.

6. User privacy and API clients

a. You will comply with (1) all applicable privacy laws and regulations including those applying to personal data and (2) the DialLink Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement, which governs your use of the APIs when you request access to DialLink user information. You will provide and adhere to a privacy policy for your API Client that clearly and accurately describes to users of your API Client what user information you collect and how you use and share such information (including for advertising) with DialLink and third parties.

b. Unless otherwise specified in writing by DialLink, DialLink does not intend use of the APIs to create obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as amended (“HIPAA”), and makes no representations that the APIs satisfy HIPAA requirements. If you are (or become) a “covered entity” or “business associate” as defined in HIPAA, you will not use the APIs for any purpose or in any manner involving transmitting protected health information to DialLink unless you have received prior written consent to such use from DialLink.

7. Confidentiality

a. Developer credentials (such as passwords, keys, and client IDs) are intended to be used by you and identify your API Client. You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be embedded in open-source projects.

b. Our communications to you and our APIs may contain DialLink confidential information. DialLink confidential information includes any materials, communications, and information that are marked confidential or that would normally be considered confidential under the circumstances. If you receive any such information, then you may not disclose it to any third party without DialLink’s prior written consent. DialLink confidential information does not include information that you independently developed, that was rightfully given to you by a third party without confidentiality obligation, or that becomes public through no fault of your own. You may disclose DialLink confidential information when compelled to do so by law if you provide us reasonable prior notice, unless a court orders that we not receive notice.

8. Content

a. Our APIs may contain third party content (such as text, images, videos, audio, or software). This content is the sole responsibility of the person that makes it available. We may sometimes review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies or the Terms, and we may remove or refuse to display content. Content accessible through our APIs may be subject to intellectual property rights, and, if so, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so by the owner of that content or are otherwise permitted by law. Your access to the content provided by the API may be restricted, limited, or filtered in accordance with applicable law, regulation, and policy.

b. Some of our APIs allow the submission of content. DialLink does not acquire any ownership of any intellectual property rights in the content that you submit to our APIs through your API Client, except as expressly provided in the Terms.

c. For the sole purpose of enabling DialLink to provide, secure, and improve the APIs (and the related service(s)) and only in accordance with the applicable DialLink privacy policies, you give DialLink a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to Use content submitted, posted, or displayed to or from the APIs through your API Client. “Use” means use, host, store, modify, communicate, and publish. Before you submit content to our APIs through your API Client, you will ensure that you have the necessary rights (including the necessary rights from your end users) to grant us the license.

d. When a user’s non-public content is obtained through the APIs, you may not expose that content to other users or to third parties without explicit opt-in consent from that user.

e. DialLink supports data portability. For as long as you use or store any user data that you obtained through the APIs, you agree to enable your users to export their equivalent data to other services or applications of their choice in a way that’s substantially as fast and easy as exporting such data from DialLink products and services, subject to applicable laws, and you agree that you will not make that data available to third parties who do not also abide by this obligation.

d. Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do the following with content returned from the APIs:

• Scrape, build databases, or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header;
• Copy, translate, modify, create a derivative work of, sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, publicly display, or sublicense to any third party;
• Misrepresent the source or ownership; or
• Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices; or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.

9. Brand features; Attribution

a. “Brand Features” is defined as the trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features of each party. Except where expressly stated, the Terms do not grant either party any right, title, or interest in or to the other party’s Brand Features. All use by you of DialLink’s Brand Features (including any goodwill associated therewith) inures to the benefit of DialLink.

b. DialLink hereby grants to you a nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, nonexclusive license while the Terms are in effect to display DialLink’s Brand Features for the purpose of promoting or advertising that you use the APIs. You must only use the DialLink Brand Features in accordance with the Terms and for the purpose of fulfilling your obligations under this Section.

c. You will not make any statement regarding your use of an API that suggests partnership with, sponsorship by, or endorsement by DialLink without DialLink’s prior written approval.

d. In the course of promoting, marketing, or demonstrating the APIs you are using and the associated DialLink products, DialLink may produce and distribute incidental depictions, including screenshots, video, or other content from your API Client, and may use your company or product name. You grant us all necessary rights for the above purposes.

10. Privacy and copyright protection

a. By using our APIs, DialLink may use submitted information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

b. We provide information to help copyright holders manage their intellectual property online, but we can’t determine whether something is being used legally or not without their input. We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you think somebody is violating your copyrights and want to notify us, you can find information about submitting notices and DialLink’s policy about responding to notices in our Help Center.

11. Liability for our APIs

a. WARRANTIES

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS, NEITHER DIALLINK NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE APIS. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH THE APIS, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE APIS, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE APIS “AS IS.” SOME JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIKE THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THE TERMS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND UNDERTAKINGS.

b. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, DIALLINK, AND DIALLINK’S SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA; FINANCIAL LOSSES; OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF DIALLINK, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE THE APPLICABLE APIS (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLYING YOU THE APIS AGAIN) DURING THE SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY. IN ALL CASES, DIALLINK, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY EXPENSE, LOSS, OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

12. Indemnification

Unless prohibited by applicable law, if you are a business, you will defend and indemnify DialLink, and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and users, against all liabilities, damages, losses, costs, fees (including legal fees), and expenses relating to any allegation or third-party legal proceeding to the extent arising from:

• your misuse or your end user’s misuse of the APIs;
• your violation or your end user’s violation of the Terms; or
• any content or data routed into or used with the APIs by you, those acting on your behalf, or your end users.

13. General provisions

a. We may modify the Terms or any portion to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our APIs. You should look at the Terms regularly. We will post notice of modifications to the Terms within the documentation of each applicable API, to this website, and/or in the DialLink developer console. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than 30 days after they are posted. But changes addressing new functions for an API or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified Terms for an API, you should discontinue your use of that API. Your continued use of the API constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms.

b. The APIs were developed solely at private expense and are commercial computer software and related documentation within the meaning of the applicable U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation and agency supplements thereto.

d. Except as set forth below: (i) the laws of Florida, U.S.A., , will apply to any disputes arising out of or related to the Terms or the APIs and (ii) ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THE APIS WILL BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA, AND YOU AND DIALLINK CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN THOSE COURTS.

d. Except as set forth below: (i) the laws of Florida, U.S.A., will apply to any disputes arising out of or related to the Terms or the APIs and (ii) ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THE APIS WILL BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF MIAMI AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA, AND YOU AND DIALLINK CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN THOSE COURTS.

e. If you are accepting the Terms on behalf of a United States federal government entity, then the following applies instead of the paragraph above: the laws of the United States of America, excluding its conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or related to the Terms or the APIs. Solely to the extent permitted by United States Federal law: (i) the laws of the State of Florida will apply in the absence of applicable federal law; and (ii) FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THE APIS, THE PARTIES CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN, AND THE EXCLUSIVE VENUE OF, THE COURTS IN MIAMI AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.

f. If you are accepting the Terms on behalf of a United States city, county, or state government entity, then the following applies instead of the paragraph above: the parties agree to remain silent regarding governing law and venue.