Terms & Conditions

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Last updated: April 20, 2020

Thank you for visiting our website on which these Terms and Conditions reside (collectively, the “Platform”), which is owned and provided by waterfasteners.com (including its affiliates, “waterfasteners.com”).  Your use and access of the Platform is governed by and subject to the following Terms and Conditions.  If you do not agree to these terms, or if you do not agree with our Privacy Policy , please do not use the Platform or any services offered by the Platform.

Member Accounts

In order to use certain features of the Platform, you may need to create an account (“User Account”).  If the Platform requires you to create a User Account, you may never use another User’s Account without permission.

Intellectual Property Ownership

Unless otherwise noted, all text, content and documents on the Platform, any names, logos, trademarks, service marks, brand identities, characters, trade names, graphics, designs, copyrights, trade dress, or other intellectual property appearing in the Platform, and the organization, software and other works on the Platform (the “Content”) are owned by waterfasteners.com (or its affiliates) or used with permission or under license from a third party (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Owner”) and are protected under copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and proprietary rights laws.  As between waterfasteners.com and you, all right, title and interest in and to the Content will at all times remain with waterfasteners.com and/or its Owners. All brand names, product names, titles, or service names and other marks used on the Platform, are registered and/or common law trade names, trademarks or service marks of waterfasteners.com.

Limited Use; Restrictions on Use

You are permitted to use the Content and/or any services and products on the Platform for lawful purposes as provided in the Terms and Conditions only; any other use or misuse of any Content is strictly prohibited.  waterfasteners.com grants you a non-exclusive, limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable, license to access and use the Content, without right to sublicense, under the following conditions: you shall not, without waterfasteners.com’s express written consent: (a) copy, retransmit, modify, disseminate, display, perform, reuse, or otherwise distribute the Content, or modify or re-use all or part of the Content, (b) use any tradename, trademark, or brand name of waterfasteners.com in metatags, keywords and/or hidden text, (c) create derivative works from the Content or commercially exploit the Content, in whole or in part, in any way, and (d) use the Platform, the Content, and/or any portion thereof, in any manner that may give a false or misleading impression, attribution or statement as to waterfasteners.com, the Owner, or any third party referenced therein.  waterfasteners.com reserves all other rights.  You shall not alter, remove or obscure any copyright notice, digital watermarks, proprietary legends or any other notice included in the Content.  Except as expressly provided herein, nothing on the Platform shall be construed as conferring any license under waterfasteners.com’s and/or its Owner’s intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, waterfasteners.com may revoke any of the foregoing rights and/or your access to the Platform, or any part thereof, including the blocking of your IP Address, at any time without prior notice.

No Archive

Even if this Platform includes features and functionality that permit you to upload certain Submissions to our services or systems, this Platform is not and shall not function as an archive.  waterfasteners.com shall have no liability to you or any other person for loss, damage, or destruction to your Submission.  You shall be solely responsible for maintaining independent archival and backup copies of any Submission.

Disclaimers

waterfasteners.com reserves the right to change any part of the Platform at any time without notice, subject to the “NOTICE” provision set forth below.

Warranties, Limitation of Liability

THIS PLATFORM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS, AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THIS PLATFORM OR ANY INFORMATION OR SOFTWARE THEREIN. Neither waterfasteners.com, its affiliates, nor any of their respective officers, directors, agents or other representatives will be liable for any damages, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive, including, without limitation, loss of data, income, profit or goodwill, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties arising out of your access to or use of (or inability to use) the Platform, or arising out of any action taken in response to or as a result of any Content or other information available on the Platform, however caused, whether based on breach of contract, tort, proprietary rights infringement, product liability or otherwise—except in the event waterfasteners.com fails to take reasonable security precautions as described in our Privacy Policy or is otherwise negligent.

No Framing; Links; Third Party Sites

Framing, in-line linking or other methods of association with the Platform are expressly prohibited without prior written approval from waterfasteners.com.

Assignment

The Terms and Conditions, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by waterfasteners.com without restriction.

Notice

From time to time, we may revise these Terms and Conditions.  To help you stay current of any changes, waterfasteners.com may take one or more of the following steps: (1) waterfasteners.com notes the date the Terms and Conditions was last updated above, and (2) when waterfasteners.com makes a material change to the Terms and Conditions, we may post conspicuous announcements of such changes on the Platform next to the link to these Terms and Conditions.  Your use of the Platform following the posting of any revised Terms and Conditions shall be deemed acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions.  waterfasteners.com strongly recommends checking the Terms and Conditions periodically.  If we are required by law to obtain your express consent for any changes to the Terms and Conditions, then we will make a commercially reasonable attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions.

Binding Arbitration

Any controversy or claim arising out of your use of the Platform, these Terms and Conditions, and/or our Privacy Policy shall be settled by binding arbitration before Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (“JAMS”), in a location determined by the arbitrator as set forth herein (provided that such location is reasonably convenient for claimant), or at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties, in accordance with the procedural rules for commercial disputes set forth in the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS (“JAMS Rules and Procedures”) then prevailing, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrator shall be selected pursuant to the JAMS Rules and Procedures.  Please go to www.jamsadr.com to see a complete copy of the JAMS Rules and Procedures or to submit a claim for arbitration.

In resolving a claim for arbitration, the arbitrator shall apply Missouri law consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act and applicable statutes of limitations, and shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law. In the event that you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, we will pay as much of your filing and hearing fees in connection with the arbitration as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive. If any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal (other than that claims will not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis), or otherwise conflicts with the rules and procedures established by JAMS, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein. If, however, the portion that is deemed invalid, unenforceable or illegal is that claims will not be arbitrated on a class, representative, or collective basis, or as a private attorney general on behalf of other persons similarly situated, then the entirety of this arbitration provision shall be null and void, and neither you nor we shall be entitled to arbitrate the dispute. Upon filing a demand for arbitration, all parties to such arbitration shall have the right of discovery, which discovery shall be completed within sixty days after the demand for arbitration is made, unless further extended by mutual agreement of the parties. Disputes regarding the arbitrability of any claim shall be resolved by the arbitrator.

THE ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. YOU MAY NOT BRING ANY CLAIM AS A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF OTHER SIMILARLY SITUATED PERSONS.  THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE OR JOIN THE CLAIMS OF OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES WHO MAY BE SIMILARLY SITUATED.

BY AGREEING TO THE ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES AS SET FORTH HEREIN, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND LIMITING YOUR RIGHT TO APPEAL. DO NOT USE THIS SITE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE FOREGOING BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISIONS.

Miscellaneous — waterfasteners.com’s failure to enforce any provision of the Terms and Conditions shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision.  A printed version of the Terms and Conditions and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to the Terms and Conditions to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy call us at (951) 212-3933 Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm PST, or email us at info@waterfasteners.com.

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