PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES PROVIDED ON WEBOPENINGS.COM. BY
USING WEBOPENINGS.COM, YOU AGREE TO BECOME BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CONTAINED HEREIN AND WEBOPENINGS, LLCS ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR USE OF THE
WEBOPENINGS.COM WEBSITE IS EXPRESSLY CONDITIONED UPON YOUR CONSENT TO THESE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
These Terms and Conditions, as
such may be modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions below
(the Terms), constitute a legal agreement between WEBOPENINGS,
LLC (WebOpenings or we) and users (Users
or you) of WebOpenings.com and its subdomains (collectively, the Site).
In consideration of using and accessing the Site and the other promises and
obligations contained herein, you agree to these Terms and understand and
acknowledge that you are bound by the following provisions. If you do not agree
to these Terms, do not access or use the Site. You may receive a copy of these
Terms by e-mailing us at Contact@WebOpenings.com.
I. Generally.
It is our desire for the Site to
be used as a mechanism for participating service providers (each a Participating
Business) to market certain available services to you and facilitate
your ability to retain a Participating Business to render their applicable
services to you. The Participating Businesses are neither employees nor agents
of WebOpenings. Further, in no event shall WebOpenings be deemed a broker or
booking agent of a Participating Business. Should you have a dispute with any
Participating Business, you must address such dispute with the Participating
Business directly and WebOpenings shall have no further liability or obligation
with respect thereto. The rights and responsibilities of WebOpenings and the
Users are described in these Terms and shall promote the ideas outlined in this
Section I.
II. Agreement.
You acknowledge and agree that
your access to and use of the Site is subject these Terms (as such Terms may be
modified from time to time as provided for herein). WebOpenings shall have the
right at any time and without prior notice, at its sole discretion, to amend
and revise these Terms or to impose new terms and conditions with respect to
access to or use of the Site (the Modified Terms). The Modified
Terms shall be effective upon its posting on the Site. Each User is responsible
for visiting the Site periodically to review the Terms. Any access or use of
the Site by you after the posting the Modified Terms (and, if applicable, any
notice relating to the Modified Terms) shall constitute your agreement to the
Modified Terms.
III. Use of Site.
(a) License
to Use. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, WebOpenings hereby
grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, personal and revocable
license to access and use the Site for your personal and noncommercial use.
Specifically, you agree to use the Site to find specific Participating
Businesses offering services and to make reservations with such Participating
Businesses for such services. You acknowledge that the Site utilizes usernames
and passwords to enable access to the Site and that you should only have the
right to use a single username and password that you designate and identify to
WebOpenings. As a condition for using the Site and receiving a password, the
User shall provide WebOpenings with accurate, complete and updated registration
information, including, Users e-mail address. WebOpenings reserves the right to
refuse registration of, or cancel use of the site by, any User, as determined
in WebOpeningss sole discretion. Each User is solely responsible for any use of
or action taken under a Users password and accepts full responsibility for all
activity conducted through Users account and hereby releases WebOpenings from
any and all liability concerning such activity. Unauthorized access to or use
of the Site is a breach of these Terms and a violation of law. Further, by
accessing and using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are not
located under the control of, or a national or resident of any country or on
any list which, according to United States law, would prohibit or restrict you
from using or accessing the Site. You agree not to use any automated means,
including, without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access,
monitor or copy any part of the Site.
(b) Restrictions
and Limitations. You are solely responsible for accessing the Site, using
the Site and for your interactions with other Users and, if applicable,
Participating Businesses with whom you interact through the Site. Any
fraudulent, abusive or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for immediate
termination of your right to use the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, you
may not, in whole or in part: (a) copy, distribute, transmit, display,
perform, reproduce, publish, license, rewrite, create derivative works from,
transfer, or sell any Content (as defined below) or other material contained on
this Site; (b) reverse engineer, make alterations, decompile, disassemble
or make derivative works based on the Site or any part thereof, except as
otherwise permitted by law; (c) use, rent, loan, sub-license, lease,
distribute or attempt to grant other rights to the Site or any part thereof to
third parties; (d) use the Site to act as an application service provider,
or to permit remote access to the Site to any third party; (e) falsify or
delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary
designations or labels of the origin or the source of any User Content; (g)
restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any public area
within the Site; (h) collect or store personal information about other users of
the Site, or post personal information about any person on the site without
their express permission; (i) frame the Site or putting pop-up windows over its
pages; (j) use any automated means to access or use the Site or to collect any
Content contained therein; (k) publish any product or service review more than
once, or publishing any product or service review for a product or service for
which you have a direct or indirect financial or other interest; (l) modify or
create variant versions of WebOpeningss name, trademarks or logos; (m)
interfere with or disrupt the Site or its infrastructure; (n) impersonate any
person or entity, including, but not limited to a WebOpenings representative,
or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or
entity; (o) take any action that imposes an unreasonably or disproportionately
large load on the Site or its infrastructure; (p) engage in antisocial,
disruptive, or destructive acts, including flaming, spamming, flooding,
trolling, and griefing as those terms are commonly understood and used on the
Internet; or (q) engage in any acts or omissions that could constitute a
violation of these Terms or any applicable laws, statutes, regulations, rules
or ordinances. Without limiting any term or provision herein, your failure to
comply with any of the foregoing conditions (as determined by WebOpenings, in
its sole and absolute discretion) shall constitute a violation of these Terms
and result in the immediate revocation of your license to use the Site without
further notice and may result in WebOpenings availing itself of all remedies
available to it at law, in equity or any combination thereof, and such shall
require you to reimburse and indemnify WebOpenings of all costs and expenses
incurred by WebOpenings (including all attorneys fees.)
(c) Participating
Business Webpage. Users may gain access from the Site to a webpage
providing information on a Participating Business (Participating Business
Webpage). WebOpenings makes no representation or warranty about any
content displayed on a Participating Business Webpage and WebOpenings does not
endorse or opine to any product or service offered on any such Participating
Business Webpage. WebOpenings hereby disclaims: (a) all responsibility and
liability for any content displayed on a Participating Business Webpage; and
(b) all responsibility and liability for any services or goods sold on
Participating Business Webpage or any actions by such Participating Business
relating to any goods or services sold thereon. In furtherance thereof, you
hereby irrevocably waive any claim against WebOpenings with respect to such
Participating Business Webpage and third party content.
IV.
Reservations
(a) Reservation Procedure;
Cancellation Policy. The Site enables you to search for services that are
offered by Participating Businesses based upon your individual preferences
including, your preference of time, location and particular service provider.
The availability of the services depends on the inventory of services available
at the time of your reservation request and is subject to change. We make no
representation, warranty or promise relating to any availability of any service
offered by any Participating Business. In the event that you shall desire to
make a reservation on the Site, you may select from one of the available
inventory time slots (each a Time Slot) offered on the Site for
such service. Upon your reservation and selection of a Time Slot (an Appointment),
WebOpenings will immediately and automatically charge your credit card (based
upon the information provided by you to WebOpenings during your registration to
use the Site) an amount equal to the Participating Business Fee (the Fee)
identified when you shall reserve an Appointment. In the event that you shall
cancel your Appointment prior to twenty-four (24) hours of the Appointments
start time, the Fee shall be refunded to you. In the event you should desire to
cancel or modify your reservation request within twenty-four (24) hours of the
Appointments start time, neither the Participating Business nor WebOpenings
shall be obligated to accommodate such request and refund any amounts to you.
For purposes of clarification and the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall
WebOpenings have any liability, responsibility or obligation to take any action
to modify or cancel any Appointment within twenty-four (24) hours of the
Appointments start time and you acknowledge and agree that if you fail to
cancel your reservation in a timely manner or otherwise in accordance with the
cancellation policies set forth in these Terms or identified by the
Participating Business you will be responsible to pay the Fee and all other
costs identified by the Participating Business as being due and payable to it.
(b) Credit Card Information.
In the event that you shall make an Appointment on the Site, you will be
required to provide your credit card information to WebOpenings and the
Participating Business. Your credit card will only be charged should you fail
to cancel your Appointment in a timely manner and otherwise in accordance with
the reservation policies set forth in these Terms and the individual
reservation policies of the Participating Business.
(c) Termination of Account.
Your account with WebOpenings may be terminated if you fail to honor your
Appointments, as determined by us, in our sole and absolute discretion. You
acknowledge that WebOpenings and/or a Participating Business may not accept
your requested Appointment as a result of previous no-shows or late
cancellation(s). You acknowledge and agree that all determinations regarding a
Users failure to cancel a reservation in a timely and proper manner shall be
determined by the Participating Business or WebOpenings, in its sole and
absolute discretion.
(d) Rewards Points.
WebOpenings may, in the future, offer a loyalty reward program for its Users.
The terms and conditions of such reward loyalty program shall be determined in
the future by WebOpenings and, in the event such program is offered, these
Terms will be modified in the manner provided herein.
V. Site Content.
(a) Submission
of User Content.
(i) By
contributing or submitting any text, files, images, materials, information,
ideas, suggestions, ratings, reviews, recommendations or other content to
WebOpenings (whether through its posting on the Site or otherwise),
(collectively, the User Content), you warrant and represent that you are
the owner of all intellectual property and proprietary rights in such User
Content (or you otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this
Section V to the User Consent), and you grant WebOpenings (and our licensees,
distributors, affiliates, partners, agents, representatives and other
authorized users) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free,
transferable, sub-licensable right and license to use, re-use, copy, modify,
delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, host, store, cache, archive, index,
categorize, comment on, broadcast, stream, translate, publicly perform,
publicly display, exhibit, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or
distribute, re-distribute, publish, transmit and disseminate and/or incorporate
or otherwise exploit such User Content in, with, into or through any form,
medium or technology (whether now known or hereinafter developed) without compensation
to you, without obtaining your permission or providing attribution, and for any
and all purposes including, without limitation, news, advertising, promotional,
marketing, publicity, trade or commercial purposes. In addition, you warrant
that all moral rights that you may have in such User Content have been
voluntarily waived by you, and you agree that the license in this paragraph
includes, without limitation, the right for WebOpenings, its affiliates and
partners to use any name, likeness, image and other identifying characteristics
that are embodied or incorporated into any User Content and which shall be
considered part thereof for the purposes of these Terms. None of the User
Content shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of WebOpenings
or any third party. After posting your User Content on the Site, you shall
continue to retain all ownership rights in such User Content and you shall
continue to use your User Content in any way you choose. You agree that any
User Content you provide is not being provided in confidence or trust and that
no confidential or fiduciary relationship is intended or created between you
and us in any way.
(ii) You
acknowledge that you are solely responsible for all User Content that you post
on or disseminate through the Site, including all materials and information
transmitted about Participating Business or to other Users of the Site. You
acknowledge and agree that all User Content, including without limitation, any
recommendations and reviews of Participating Business will be accessible by
other Users and the Participating Business, itself. WebOpenings may in its sole
and absolute discretion screen User Content in advance but is not responsible
for screening or monitoring information or material posted by Users or any
other person or entity. WebOpenings reserves the right to, from time to time,
refuse, move, remove, change, condense or delete any User Content on the Site
(including, without limitation, any reviews, recommendations or other information
pertaining to a Participating Business) in WebOpeningss sole discretion.
Without limiting the foregoing, if notified by a User of any User Content that
does not conform to these Terms, WebOpenings may review the claim and determine
in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the User Content.
WebOpenings reserves the right (but is not obligated) to remove User Content
that is abusive, illegal, disruptive or that otherwise fails to conform with
these Terms and/or to edit or delete any User Content, regardless of whether
such content violates these Terms. WebOpenings reserves the right (but is not
obligated) to monitor, edit, disclose or record any User Content for adherence
to these Terms. WebOpenings may exercise these rights if required, in the
course of normal operations and maintenance of the Site, or in the good faith
belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with the law or with
legal process served; or (ii) protect and defend the rights of Users,
WebOpenings or others. WEBOPENINGS HAS NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY TO USERS
OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR PERFORMANCE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF THE
AFOREMENTIONED SCREENING ACTIVITIES.
(iii) You
understand, acknowledge and agree that when you delete User Content from the
Site it is deleted but such removed User Content may persist, in backup copies
for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to other users of
the Site).
(iv) You agree
that you shall not post, publish, submit or otherwise disseminate any User
Content or other information through the site: (a) that is known by you to be
false, inaccurate or misleading (including, without limitation, creating a
fictitious account with false information); (b) that violates, infringes or
misappropriates any third partys copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret,
right of privacy, right of publicity or other intellectual property or
proprietary right; (c) that violates any law, statute, regulation, rule or
ordinance (including, but not limited to, those governing export control,
consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false
advertising); (d) that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory,
libelous, hateful, profane, abusive, racially, religiously or otherwise biased
or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual
or entity, or otherwise contains foul language; (e) for which you were
compensated or granted any consideration by any third party; (f) that contains
any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or
files; (g) harasses or advocates harassment of another person; (h) exploits
people in a sexual or violent manner; (i) involves the transmission of junk
mail, chain letters or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, spimmins,
or spamming; (j) solicits passwords or personal identifying information for
commercial or unlawful purposes for other users; or (k) includes any
information or photograph of another person without such persons consent. YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PENALTIES
IF YOU POST OR UPLOAD ANY USER CONTENT THAT IS COPYRIGHTED OR CONTAINS ANY
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OF ANOTHER THIRD PARTY.
(b) WebOpenings Content.
The Site (and
the services offered by WebOpenings on the Site) contains certain information,
materials, files or content of WebOpenings (collectively WebOpenings Content).
No WebOpenings Content comprising, contained in or distributed through the Site
may be reproduced in any form or used by you without the prior written consent
of WebOpenings. The Site and the WebOpenings Content found therein are the
property of WebOpenings and are protected by copyright laws and international
treaty provisions. You acknowledge that WebOpenings or its licensors (as
applicable) own and shall retain the exclusive right, title and ownership in
and to all copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and other intellectual
property and proprietary rights in the Site and all WebOpenings Content. For
purposes herein, the term Content shall include User Content and
WebOpenings Content.
(c) Participating Business
Content.
(i) The Content on the Site may
include information relating to Participating Business and their products,
services and opportunities, and links to such Business and their online
resources. Such Content may include, without limitation, postings by users in
different areas of the Site, data files, written text (e.g., reviews,
recommendations, articles, etc.), computer software, music, audio files, video
files, web casts photographs or other images. The Content on the Site may also
include a variety of information and reviews and opinions on a wide range of
topics. Some Content will be provided directly by WebOpenings or Participating
Businesses (or agents or representatives working on their behalf). In other
instances, Content may be provided by experts who may or may not be compensated
by WebOpenings or affiliated with WebOpenings in any manner. WebOpenings does
not warrant that product, service or opportunity descriptions, pricing,
editorial, opinion or other commentary on services offered by a Participating
Business or any other Content, regardless of its source, is accurate, complete,
reliable, current, of good quality or error-free. All Content is provided for
informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement,
recommendation, sponsorship or approval of such Content, or any product,
service, or opportunity of or provided by a Participating Business or by
WebOpenings. You should not rely on such information including, without
limitation, in situations where its inaccuracy would or could cause you or any
other third party to incur any loss, damage, liability or injury (including,
without limitation, personal injury or death).
(ii) The
products and services offered by Participating Business are sold or provided by
such Participating Business and not by WebOpenings, nor is WebOpenings or the
Site acting as agent for such Participating Businesses in the provision of such
Participating Business products and services including, without limitation,
with respect to any free product samples you may obtain through the use of the
Site. Reviews, ratings and other Content (e.g., video, web casts, etc.) on the
Site are from our users, partners or vendors who have elected to provide such
materials on the Site. WebOpenings disclaims any responsibility for, or
liability related to, such products and services (or any information relating
thereto), and you agree to address any questions, complaints or claims solely
to the appropriate Participating Business of such products or services and not
to WebOpenings. Links to other Internet sites operated by Participating
Businesses, including service providers featured on WebOpenings, do not
constitute sponsorship, endorsement or approval by WebOpenings of the content,
policies or practices of such linked sites.
(iii) WebOpenings expressly
disclaims any and liability for the accessing of any data or communications or
other Content on the Site by unauthorized persons and entities.
(d) DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FOREGOING, THE
SITE, AND THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN AND DISSEMINATED FROM THE SITE, ARE PROVIDED
AS IS, AS AVAILABLE, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (ALL OF SUCH
IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS BEING HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED). YOU
ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK (1) AS TO YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, AND YOUR
SELECTION AND USE OF ANY CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH OR FROM THE SITE, (2) YOUR
USE OF ANY PARTICIPATING BUSINESS, AND (3) THAT THE SITE AND/OR THE CONTENT
WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, HAVE ANY LEVEL OF QUALITY
OR MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. WEBOPENINGS MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT
YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE OR THE CONTENT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, VIRUS
FREE, ERROR-FREE OR COMPLETELY SECURE. WEBOPENINGS MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO PARTICIPATING BUSINESS PRODUCTS, SERVICES
OR OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES. YOU ARE SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, OR FOR
ANY LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER DAMAGES, RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE
CONTENT. ANY ISSUES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO
PARTICIPATING BUSINESS PRODUCTS, SERVICES OR OPPORTUNITIES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY OR PURCHASED FROM PARTICIPATING
BUSINESSES MUST BE RESOLVED SOLELY AND DIRECTLY WITH THE PARTICIPATING BUSINESS
PRODUCTS, SERVICES OR OPPORTUNITIES. NO ADVICE, INFORMATION OR CONTENT, WHETHER
ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM, THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE
OF THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, WILL CREATE OR PROVIDE ANY WARRANTY OR
REPRESENTATION ON THE PART OF WEBOPENINGS.
FURTHER,
WEBOPENINGS DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY REGARDING THE QUALITY
OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY A PARTICIPATING BUSINESS AND IN NO EVENT SHALL
WEBOPENINGS BE DEEMED TO GUARANTEE, ENDORSE OR OPINE TO ANY OF THE SERVICES
OFFERED BY A PARTICIPATING BUSINESS.
Please note that some
jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the
above exclusions may not apply to you. In such jurisdictions, the liability of
WebOpenings shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by applicable
law. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the
exclusion of implied warranties.
(e) Assumption
of Risk. While using the Site, you may be exposed to Content that you find
offensive, indecent, profane, objectionable or inaccurate, and you bear all
risks associated with your access to or use of such Content. We have the right,
but not the obligation, to remove any Content that may (in our sole discretion)
violate these Terms or that we may otherwise decide should be removed from the
Site (in our sole discretion).
VI.
Conduct.
WebOpenings
cannot and does not assure that other Users are or will be complying with these
Terms, and, as between you and us, you hereby assume all risk of harm or injury
resulting from any such lack of compliance. However, it is acknowledged and
agreed that it shall be a violation of these Terms to use any Content obtained
from this Site to abuse or harm another Participating Business or to contact,
advertise to, solicit or sell to any User without the prior written consent of
such User.
VII. Privacy.
Certain information collected
from you in the course of your using the Site is subject to our Privacy Policy,
which is incorporated into these Terms by reference and which may be revised
from time to time as provided therein. You acknowledge, agree and consent to
the information collection, distribution and other terms, conditions and
matters set forth in the Privacy Policy.
VIII. Release.
WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SITE
WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OR CONTENT OF
THIRD PARTIES (INCLUDING OTHER USER AND PARTICIPATING BUSINESS). YOU HEREBY
DISCLAIM, WAIVE AND RELEASE WEBOPENINGS AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE WEBOPENINGS FOR
ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, CAUSES OF ACTION, JUDGMENTS, INJURY, LOSS, DAMAGES,
EXPENSES AND DEMANDS WHICH MAY ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF, RELIANCE ON,
OR REFERENCE TO THE SITE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY SERVICES OFFERED BY
PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES OR THE PARTICIPATING BUSINESS THEMSELVES. IF YOU ARE A
CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CODE SECTION 1542 WHICH PROVIDES THAT
A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITORS DOES NOT KNOW OR
SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF
KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.
IX. Indemnification.
You agree to defend, indemnify
and hold harmless WebOpenings, its affiliates, vendors, partners, and each of
their respective directors, officers, members, managers, employees, agents and
representatives from and against any and all claims, actions, losses, damages,
liabilities, judgments, settlements, costs and expenses (including, but not
limited to, reasonable attorneys fees and court costs) arising out of or
relating to (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your access to or use of the
Site and/or the Content, (c) any User Content provided by you or on your
behalf, specifically, including, without limitation, any review or content you
provide regarding a Participating Business, or the subsequent use and access
thereto by third parties, (d) your violation, breach or misappropriation of a
third partys copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, right of privacy,
right of publicity or other intellectual property, proprietary or other right,
(e) your tortuous acts including, without limitation, defamation, libel,
slander or other acts regarding a Participating Business or other third party
and/or (f) any claims you may raise against third parties relating to third
party products or services. We reserve the right to assume, at our expense, the
exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to
indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claims. If we
assume such defense, we will be responsible solely for our legal fees in
connection with such defense and all other losses, damages, liabilities,
judgments, settlements, costs and expenses shall be your sole responsibility.
X. Limitation of Liability and
Exclusive Remedy.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL WEBOPENINGS OR ANY MEMBER, MANAGER,
OFFICER, DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT (COLLECTIVELY WITH
WEBOPENINGS THE WEBOPENINGS PARTIES) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS,
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS):
(A) ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF A PARTICIPATING BUSINESS; (B) ARISING OUT OF THE USE
OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, EVEN IF WEBOPENINGS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FROM YOUR USE OR
INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, YOUR USE OF ANY SERVICE PROVIDED BY A PARTICIPATING
BUSINESS, OR ANY OTHER BREACH OF THESE TERMS BY WEBOPENINGS SHALL BE FOR YOU TO
DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SITE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU UNDER THE LAWS OF THOSE STATES.
IF, NOTWITHSTANDING THE
PROVISIONS OF THE TERMS, ANY WEBOPENINGS PARTY IS FOUND TO BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS WHICH ARISES OUT OF OR IS IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO YOUR
ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE (OR ANY SERVICES PROVIDED BY A PARTICIPATING
BUSINESS), THE CONTENT OR OTHERWISE, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE WEBOPENINGS
PARTIES SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL OF ANY FEES (IF
ANY) PAID BY YOU TO WEBOPENINGS IN THE SIX MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE DATE OF
THE INITIAL CLAIM MADE AGAINST THE WEBOPENINGS PARTIES (OR ANY ONE OR MORE OF
THEM), OR (B) $150.00 USD. YOU AGREE TO USE YOUR BEST EFFORTS TO MITIGATE ANY
DAMAGES OR LOSSES YOU MAY SUFFER IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF
THE SITE AND THE CONTENT.
No action, regardless of form,
arising out of any transaction under these Terms, may be brought by you more
than one year after you have knowledge of the occurrence which gives rise to
the cause of such action.
XI.
Termination.
You may terminate your membership
and use of the Site at any time by contacting contact@WebOpenings.com.
Further, your right to access and use the Site will automatically terminate
without notice, if you breach any provision of these Terms. You agree that
WebOpenings may terminate your use of this Site, remove any User Content
submitted by you and/or exercise any other remedy available to it if
WebOpenings believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the
letter or spirit of these Terms, or violated the rights of WebOpenings or any
third party, or for any reason with or without notice to you. WEBOPENINGS
RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT OR DISCONTINUE THE SERVICE OR ANY
PORTION OR FEATURE THEREOF FOR ANY OR NO REASON AND AT ANY TIME IN WEBOPENINGSS
SOLE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION. You agree that WebOpenings will not be liable to you
or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation. The
following Sections shall survive termination of these Terms: ((V(d), V AND VI
THROUGH XVII) and all other sections that may be reasonably interpreted to or
are intended to survive these Terms.
XII. No Endorsement.
WEBOPENINGS DOES NOT PROMOTE OR
ENDORSE ANY PARTICIPATING BUSINESS. ANY AND ALL THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON
PARTICIPATING BUSINESS WEBPAGES AND OTHERWISE ON THE SITE (INCLUDING ANY
REVIEWS OR TESTIMONIALS OF ANY OF THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY
PARTICIPATION BUSINESS ARE THE OPINIONS OF THE USERS OF THE SITE AND ARE NOT
THE OPINIONS, BELIEFS, FINDINGS OR EXPERIENCE OF WEBOPENINGS OR ITS MEMBERS,
MANAGERS, OFFICERS OR ITS AFFILIATES AND IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER DOES WEBOPENINGS,
ITS MEMBERS MANAGERS, OFFICERS OR AFFILIATES ENDORSE OR OPINE TO ANY
PARTICIPATING BUSINESS OR PRODUCT OR SERVICE OFFERED BY A PARTICIPATING
BUSINESS OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED ON THE SITE.
XIII. E-Mail Communications.
By accessing the Site and making
reservations on the Site you acknowledge your receipt of e-mail communications
relating thereto, including, without limitation, reservation confirmations,
cancellation confirmations, reward balance updates, if applicable, and other
correspondence relating to the Site and/or services offered by Participating
Businesses. You agree that by accessing and using the Site, you may be
contacted by us and/or a Participating Business for any purpose relating to the
Site and/or the services offered by a Participating Business.
XIV
Copyright Complaints.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we prohibit
users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on the Site any
materials that violate another party's intellectual property rights. When we
receive proper notification of an alleged copyright infringement, we will
promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and
terminate the accounts of repeat infringers as described herein in accordance
with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that any material on
the Site infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, you may send a
written notification of such infringement to us at the contact information
described below.
All notices of such claims of copyright
infringement on or regarding WebOpenings is:
WEBOPENINGS, LLC
303 Park Avenue South
Suite 1295
New York, New York 10010
If you believe Content on the Site
infringes your copyright rights (such Content being referred to as the Disputed
Items), you should send notice of alleged copyright infringement to the
above-referenced contact person. Your notice must meet the requirements of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (as required under 17 U.S.C. 512) by providing
the following information:
(1)
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right this is allegedly infringed;
(2)
Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or,
if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(3)
Identification of the Disputed Items that is claimed to be infringing or
to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to
which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to
locate the material; and
(4)
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the
complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an
electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
(5)
A statement that the complaining party has a good faith believe that use
of the Disputed Items in the manner complained of is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(6)
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and
under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. To learn
more, see 17 U.S.C. 512.
Once you provide WebOpenings with
an adequate notice as described above, WebOpenings will act expeditiously to
remove or disable access to the Disputed Item. WebOpenings will also take
reasonable steps to promptly notify the user that provided the Disputed Item.
If the User does not believe it has infringed your copyrights, then the user
may provide WebOpenings with a counter notification containing the following
information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation
Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act:
(1)
The users physical or electronic signature;
(2)
Identification of the Disputed Item that has been removed or to which
access has been disabled and the location at which the Disputed Item appeared
before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
(3)
A statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith
belief that the Disputed Item was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or
misidentification;
(4)
The users name, address and telephone number, and a statement that the
user consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial
district in which the users address is located, or if the users address is
outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which WebOpenings
may be found, and that the user will accept service of process from the person
who provided notification of the alleged infringement.
In the event that WebOpenings
receives a counter notification in compliance with the above requirements, it
will provide you with a copy of the counter notification and inform you that
WebOpenings will replace the removed material in 10 business days from the date
of the counter notification unless WebOpenings first receives notice from you
that you have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the user from
engaging in the allegedly infringing activity of uploading the Disputed Item to
the Site.
In accordance with Digital
Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable law, WebOpenings has adopted a
policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and WebOpeningss sole
discretion, Users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. WebOpenings may also
at its sole discretion limit access to the Site and/or terminate the
memberships of any Users who infringe any intellectual property rights of
others whether or not there is any repeat infringement.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WEBOPENINGS
INTENDS TO COMPLY WITH ALL PROVISIONS OF THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
BUT WILL NOT UNILATERALLY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICING AND REMOVING
MATERIAL THOUGHT TO BE INFRINGING.
XV. Confidentiality.
The Site is and contains
confidential and proprietary information of WebOpenings. You agree to hold in
strict confidence, not to use or disclose to any third party, and to take all
necessary precautions to secure the confidentiality of any nonpublic
information of WebOpenings (collectively Confidential Information).
You agree to take all steps necessary to safeguard the Confidential Information
against unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, publication, or use, and to
satisfy your obligations hereunder. In accordance with this provision, you will
maintain at least the same precautions as you take in regard to your own
confidential information, but not less than reasonable care. You will not at any
time, during or after the conclusion of your use of the Site, directly or
indirectly, divulge or disclose for any purpose or use for its own benefit or
for the purposes or benefit of any other person any Confidential Information.
You shall immediately advise WebOpenings in writing of any improper disclosure,
misappropriation, or misuse of the Confidential Information, which may come to
your attention.
XVI. Injunctive Relief.
Because of the unique nature of
the Site and the services offered thereby, you understand and agree that
WebOpenings may suffer irreparable injury in the event you fail to comply with
any of these Terms and that monetary damages may be inadequate to compensate
WebOpenings for such breach. Accordingly, you agree that WebOpenings will, in
addition to any other remedies available to it at law or in equity, be entitled
to immediate, injunctive relief to enforce these Terms without the necessity of
posting a bond.
XVII. Governing Law and
Jurisdiction.
The Site is controlled and managed
by WebOpenings from its offices in the United States. Those who choose to
access the Site from locations outside of the United States are responsible for
compliance with applicable local laws. The Site and the Content have been
specifically designed for use solely in the United States. You must not use the
Site or the Content in countries where it is restricted, prohibited or limited
by local laws, regulations, codes or customs. WebOpenings makes no warranty or
representation that the Site or the Content is appropriate or available for use
in locations outside of the United States. These Terms shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without
reference to its conflicts of laws principles. By using the Site, you submit to
the exclusive jurisdiction of and venue in the Federal District Court located
in Southern District, State of New York to resolve any dispute arising out of
or in connection with these Terms, the Site or the Content, and waive any
objections thereto including those of inconvenient forum or similar defenses.
No claim or cause of action based
on these Terms, the Site or the Content, or your access or use thereof, may be
brought by you more than one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose.
XVIII. Miscellaneous.
(a) These Terms
shall be binding upon you and WebOpenings and each of your or our successors,
assigns, executors and legal representatives, as applicable. You may not assign
your rights and obligations under these Terms without the prior written consent
of WebOpenings. Any attempt at such assignment without complying with the
foregoing shall be deemed null and void and of no effect.
(b) Waiver of a
breach of or right hereunder will not constitute a waiver of any other or
subsequent breach or right. If any provision herein shall be held by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, that provision shall be changed
and interpreted so as to best accomplish the objectives of the original
provision to the fullest extent allowed by law, and the remaining provisions
herein will remain in full force and effect.
(c) WebOpenings
will not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations hereunder where such
failure results from any cause beyond WebOpeningss reasonable control,
including, without limitation, mechanical, electronic or communications failure
or degradation.
(d) These terms
operate to fullest extent permissible by law. Without limiting any of these
Terms, if any provision of these Terms shall be deemed unlawful or
unenforceable under any applicable law or jurisdiction will be ineffective to
the extent that it unlawful or unenforceable without affecting any other
provision of these Terms.
(e) You agree
that these Terms (including the Privacy Policy) as modified from time to time,
are the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between WebOpenings
and you with respect to your access to and use of the Site and its Content, and
supersede and merge all prior or contemporaneous proposals, understandings and
all other agreements, oral and written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
(f) No change or
amendment to these Terms by any party other than WebOpenings shall be valid or
enforceable against WebOpenings unless agreed to in writing by WebOpenings.
(g) If you have questions or comments, please contact us at:
WEBOPENINGS,
LLC
303 Park
Avenue South
Suite 1295
New York,
New York 10010
Copyright 2010 WebOpenings,
LLC. All rights reserved.