Classified-Ads-Online.net User Agreement
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH CLASSIFIED-ADS-ONLINE.NET OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES. Welcome to the user agreement (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement") for Classified-Ads-Online.net ("CAO"). This Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain "classified-ads-online.net" (the "Site"). If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not use or access our services. If you have any questions, you may send email to agreement@classified-ads-online.net. You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this User Agreement and the Privacy Policy, which include those terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before you may offer any goods or services for sale or transfer through the Site. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in the other pages referred to in this document, as they may contain further terms and conditions that apply to you as a user of the Site. Please note: underlined words and phrases are links to these pages and websites. We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. Except as stated below, all amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. This Agreement may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by you and Classified-Ads-Online.net. This Agreement is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on January 1, 2004 for all users. 1. Membership Eligibility. Our services are available only to, and may only be used by individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to children (persons under the age of 18) or to temporarily or indefinitely suspended Site users. If you are under the age of 18, you can use this service only in conjunction with, and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. If you do not qualify, please do not use our Site. Further, your Site account may not be transferred or sold to another party. If you are registering as a business entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement. 2. Fees and Services. Browsing all posted advertisements is free. We do charge a fee for individuals and entities to use this Site as a means of advertising the sale and transfer of goods and services -- that do not knowingly violate any Federal, State, or Local laws -- to the general public. We may change the fees for our services from time to time. Our changes to the policy are effective after we provide you with at least ten (10) days' notice of the changes by posting the changes on the Site. However, we may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services for promotional events (for example, trial period) and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event on the Site. We may, at our sole discretion, change some or all of our services at any time. In the event we introduce a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using our service and the Site and all applicable taxes. 3. This Site is a Venue. 3.1. This Site acts as a venue to allow individuals and entities a service to culminate in the sale and transfer of goods and services. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. As a result, we have no control over the quality, safety or legality of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. We do not guarantee that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction. Consequently, we do not own, therefore cannot transfer, legal ownership of any items from the seller to the buyer. 3.2. Release. Because we are a venue, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you release CAO (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. 3.3. Information Control. We do not guarantee the control of any information provided by other users that is made available through our system. You may find other user's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution and common sense when using the Site. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with underage persons or people acting under false pretense. By using this Site, you agree to accept such risks and CAO is not responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the Site. 4. Listing and Selling. 4.1. Listing Description. You must be legally able to sell the goods or services you list for sale on the Site. You must describe your item and all terms of sale on the listing page of the Site. Your listings may only include text descriptions and pictures relevant to the sale of that good or service. All listed items must be listed in an appropriate category. 4.2. Fraud. Without limiting any other remedies, CAO may suspend or terminate your account if we suspect that you (by conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with the Site. 5. Your Information. 5.1. Definition. "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us in the registration, ordering or listing process or through any email feature. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information. 5.2. Restricted Activities. Your Information (or any items listed) and your activities on the Site shall not: (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (c) infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (d) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising); (e) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (f) be obscene or contain pornography or adult in nature; (g) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; (h) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers; and (i) link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that: (aa) are prohibited under this Agreement; or (bb) you do not have a right to link to or include. Furthermore, you may not list any item on the Site (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using our service) that, by paying to us the listing fee or the final value fee, could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates any portion of this Agreement 5.3. License. Solely to enable CAO to use the information you supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. CAO will only use Your Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. 6. Access and Interference. The Site contains robot exclusion headers. Much of the information on the Site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to CAO by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of CAO and the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iv) bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site. 7. Breach. Without limiting other remedies, we may limit your activity, immediately remove your item(s) listing(s), warn other users of your actions, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if: (a) you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference; (b) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. 8. Privacy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle. We understand clearly that you and your information is one of our most important assets. We store and process your information on computers located in the United States that are protected by physical as well as technological security devices. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles. Our current Privacy Policy is available at http://classified-ads-online.net/privacy.html. If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way, please do not use our services. 9. No Warranty. WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS PROVIDE OUR WEB SITE AND SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other legal rights that vary from state to state. 10. Liability Limit. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR OUR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH OUR SITE, OUR SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE). OUR LIABILITY, AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS, TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAY TO US IN THE 3 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) $50. Some States do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. 11. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. 12. Legal Compliance. You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items. 13. No Agency. You and CAO are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement. 14. Notices. Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail to Classified-Ads-Online.net, Attn: Legal Department, P.O. Box 8100, Fort Collins, CO 80526 (in the case of Classified-Ads-Online.net ) or to the email address you provide to CAO during the registration process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the address provided to CAO during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given three (3) days after the date of mailing. 15. Resolution of Disputes. In the event a dispute arises between you and CAO, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and CAO agree that any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement or our services ("Claims") shall be resolved in accordance with one of the subsections below or as otherwise mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution and we will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation, as an alternative to litigation. 15.1. Binding Arbitration. For any Claim (excluding Claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount of the award sought is less than $10,000, you or CAO may elect to resolve the dispute through binding arbitration conducted by telephone, on-line and/or based solely upon written submissions where no in-person appearance is required. In such cases, the arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with their applicable rules, or any other established ADR provider mutually agreed upon by the parties. Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. 15.2. Court. Alternatively, any Claim may be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Larimer County, Colorado or where the defendant is located (in our case Fort Collins, Colorado, and in your case, your home address or principal place of business). You and CAO agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Larimer County, Colorado. 15.3. Alternative Dispute Resolution. Alternatively, CAO will consider use of other alternative forms of dispute resolution, such as binding arbitration to be held in Larimer County, Colorado or another location mutually agreed upon by the parties. All Claims (excluding requests for injunctive or equitable relief) between the parties must be resolved using the dispute resolution mechanism that is selected in accordance with this Section by the first party to file a Claim. Should either party file an action contrary to this Section 15, the other party may recover attorneys fees and costs up to $1,000, provided that the party seeking the award has notified the other party in writing of the improperly filed Claim, and the other party has failed to withdraw the Claim. 18. Additional Terms. In addition, when using particular functions and services on the Site, you agree that you are subject to any posted policies or rules applicable to services you use through the Site, which may be posted from time to time. All such posted policies or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement. 19. General. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Colorado as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Colorado between Colorado residents. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of the Site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. You agree that this Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically assigned by CAO in accordance with Section 14 "Notices", in our sole discretion, Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof. Sections 2 (Fees and Services) with respect to fees owed for our services, 3.4 (Release), 6.3 (License), 7 (Access and Interference), 12 (Liability Limit), 13 (Indemnity) and 17 (Resolution of Disputes) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement. 20. Disclosures. The services hereunder are offered by Classified-Ads-Online.net, P.O. Box 8100, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526. If you are a Colorado resident, you may have this same information emailed to you by sending a letter to the foregoing address with your email address and a request for this information. Commercially available parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are widely available that may assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. If you are interested in learning more about these protections, information is available through many reputable vendors. Disputes between you and CAO regarding our services may be reported to Customer Support by email at support@classified-ads-online.net. We encourage you to report all user-to-user disputes to your local law enforcement, postmaster general, or a certified mediation or arbitration entity. Additionally, you may report complaints to the Mountain States Better Business Bureau, 1730 S College Ave. Suite 203, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (Phone 800-564-0370) or to the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Colorado, 1525 Sherman St. 7th Floor, Denver CO 80203 (Phone 303-866-4500). Copyright © 2004. Classified-Ads-Online.net. All Rights Reserved. |
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