Terms & Conditions
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These Terms of Use (“Terms”) set out the terms and conditions by which Unistraw Corp. whose office is at 600 B Street, San Diego, California, USA, and its affiliates (hereinafter “Unistraw” or “UNISTRAW” or “we” or “our” or “us”) offer you access to our Property. By “Property” we mean websites, information and embedded content, social media content or other places where these Terms are referenced or posted.
THESE TERMS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION. YOU AGREE THAT, EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED BELOW, ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND UNISTRAW WILL BE RESOLVED THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, AND YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. PLEASE READ THE SECTION TITLED “DISPUTES; ARBITRATION; CLASS ACTIONS; JURY TRIAL” BELOW TO LEARN MORE.
Using any item of Unistraw’s Property indicates your unconditional agreement to these Terms, including our Privacy Policy, as updated from time to time. If you are under 18, you must obtain the consent of your parent or guardian to access our Property. If you are under 13 years old, you are not permitted to register as a user, sign up for any promotional messages (see below), or otherwise provide us any personal information. Supplemental terms may apply to some Property and are deemed a part of these Terms as appropriate. Our Privacy Policy explains how we treat your “Personally Identifiable Information” and “Non-personally Identifiable Information” as we define those terms in the Privacy Policy. The supplemental terms will apply to the extent there is a conflict with these Terms. These Terms (including the Privacy Policy and any additional terms incorporated by reference) constitute the entire agreement between you and us, and supersede all other written or oral agreements.
Our Property may contain descriptions or ideas that may include dangerous activities performed by or under the guidance or direction of professionals. Accordingly, Unistraw requests that you do not attempt to follow or recreate any of the actions or activities illustrated in our Property unless suitably competent or under competent guidance and direction.
1. PURPOSE & USE
A. We provide our Property for educational, informational and/or promotional purposes only. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable limited license to our Property for your personal, non-commercial use only. “Property” also includes but is not limited to any text, images, graphics, information, URLs, technology, and documentation included with or available through our Property, and all intellectual property rights to the same, including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress.
B. You are responsible for your use of our Property. Our goal is to create a positive, useful, and safe user experience. To promote this goal, we prohibit certain conduct that may be harmful to other users or to us. When you use our Property, you may not:
i. violate any law or regulation;
ii. violate, infringe, or misappropriate other people’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights;
iii. post or share anything that is illegal, abusive, harassing, harmful to reputation, pornographic, indecent, profane, obscene, hateful, racist, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable;
iv. send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or commercial communications, such as spam;
v. use any means to spider, harvest, scrape, crawl, or participate in the use of software, including spyware, to collect data from the Site or Services or any Web pages contained in the Property;
vi. transmit any viruses or other computer instructions or technological means whose purpose is to disrupt, damage, or interfere with the use of computers or related systems;
vii. stalk, harass, or harm another individual;
viii. impersonate any person or entity or perform any other similar fraudulent activity, such as phishing;
ix. attempt to circumvent any technological measure implemented by us or any of our providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Property;
x. attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software or other underlying code used to provide the Property; or
xi. advocate, encourage, or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.
2. USER CONTENT
A. “User Content” includes video, text, images, sounds and any other information (including names and likenesses), material or ideas you provide to us. When you post or otherwise make available User Content, you grant us a universal, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable and transferable right to host, store, use, reproduce, modify, distribute, create derivative works based upon, translate, communicate, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate, transmit, display advertisements in connection with and publish the User Content in whole or in part as we in our sole discretion deem appropriate in any format, media or technology now known or later developed, including for purposes of advertising or promoting our Property or Unistraw. You represent that User Content you provide is original with you, does not and will not (when used by Unistraw consistent with the above license) violate or infringe upon the rights of any third parties, including, without limitation, any intellectual property rights and rights of publicity and/or privacy.
B. You agree and understand that Unistraw is not obligated to use any User Content and you have no right to compel such use. You understand and acknowledge that Unistraw has wide access to ideas, stories, designs, and other materials, and that new ideas are constantly being submitted to it or being developed by Unistraw’s own employees. Many ideas or stories may be competitive with, similar or identical to your User Content in structure, purpose, function, theme, idea, plot, format or other respects. You acknowledge and agree that you will not be entitled to any compensation as a result of Unistraw’s use of any such similar or identical material. Finally, you acknowledge that, with respect to any claim you may have relating to or arising out of Unistraw’s actual or alleged exploitation or use of any User Content or other material you submit to our Property or Unistraw, the damage, if any, thereby caused will not be irreparable or otherwise sufficient to entitle you to injunctive or other equitable relief and your rights and remedies in any such event shall be strictly limited to the right to recover damages, if any, in an action at law consistent with the terms set forth in the sections entitled “DISPUTES RESOLUTION AND MANDATORY ARBITRATION; NO CLASS ACTIONS; NO JURY TRIAL”.
3. REGISTRATION & ACCOUNTS – PRIVACY NOTICE
During registration, you may create a user name and password (an “Account”). You are responsible for the activity that occurs under your Account, and for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account. You agree not to provide any false personal information or to create an account for anyone other than yourself. You agree to contact us at Contact Us immediately if you become aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your Account.
4. COPYRIGHT POLICY
If you believe that any content appearing on our Property infringes your copyright rights, please forward the following information in writing to our contact address. You may also follow up by email.
i. your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
ii. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
iii. the exact URL or a description of each place where alleged infringing material is located;
iv. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use has not been authorized by you, your agent, or the law;
v. your electronic or physical signature or the electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on your behalf; and
vi. a statement by you that the information in your notice is accurate, and a statement made under penalty of perjury that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
Our contact address is:
Unistraw Corp
Attn: General Manager
600 B Street, suite 300
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 455 3748
Email: info@unistraw.com
We will review any notices of copyright infringement and take appropriate action. Inquiries that do not follow this procedure may not receive a response. Any notices of copyright infringement are subject to counter-notice.
5. THIRD PARTY INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the “Unistraw Parties” (as defined below) from and against any and all “Losses” (as defined below) that may arise in connection with: (i) your use of our Property in violation of these Terms; (ii) User Content provided by you; or (iii) any actual or alleged violation or breach by you of these Terms. “Unistraw Parties” means Unistraw and its officers, directors, employees, parents, partners, successors, agents, distribution partners, affiliates, subsidiaries and their related companies. “Losses” means claims, liabilities, losses, damages, obligations, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs). You agree to cooperate fully with us in the defense of any claim that is the subject of your obligations hereunder.
6. WARRANTIES & LIABILITY
A. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF OUR PROPERTY IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE ARISING FROM DOING SO. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, DATA, OR INFORMATION SHARED BY THIRD PARTIES. OUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) AND ALL ASSOCIATED CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT ANY CONTENT WITHIN OUR PROPERTY, ANY SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OR THE RELIABILITY, ACCURACY, SECURITY, TIMELINESS, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR AVAILABILITY OF OUR PROPERTY OR ANY ASSOCIATED CONTENT TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THOSE ARISING OUT OF A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE, AND ALL OTHER IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
B. WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, THE UNISTRAW PARTIES WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES OR DATA, FINANCIAL LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF THE UNISTRAW PARTIES FOR ANY CLAIMS UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT THAT YOU PAID US TO USE THE PROPERTY (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLY YOU WITH THE PROPERTY AGAIN).
BY ACCESSING THE PROPERTY, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY BE WAIVING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS THAT ARE AT THIS TIME UNKNOWN OR UNSUSPECTED, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH WAIVER, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND, AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE, THE BENEFITS OF SECTION 1542 OF THE CIVIL CODE OF CALIFORNIA, AND ANY SIMILAR LAW OF ANY STATE OR TERRITORY, WHICH PROVIDES AS FOLLOWS:
“A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”
A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.
C. YOU AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY OF OUR PROPERTY OR THESE TERMS MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE PERMANENTLY BARRED. THIS PROVISION IS NOT APPLICABLE IN NEW JERSEY.
These Terms shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws rules and any permitted court legal proceedings against Unistraw (i.e., those not subject to Mandatory Arbitration, as provided below) that may arise out of, relate to, or be in any way connected with our Property.
7. DISPUTE RESOLUTION & MANDATORY ARBITRATION
(A) We each agree to first contact each other with any disputes and provide a written description of the problem, all relevant documents/information and the proposed resolution. You agree to contact us with disputes by contacting us at Contact Us . We will contact you based on the contact information you have provided us.
(B) If after 30 days the parties are unable to resolve any dispute raised under the previous provision, the dispute may only be submitted to arbitration consistent with this Section. We each understand that either of us would have had a right or opportunity to litigate disputes through a court and to have a judge or jury decide their case, but we are instead voluntarily choosing to have any disputes resolved through binding arbitration.
(C) We each agree that any claim or dispute between us, and any claim by either of us against any agent, employee, successor, or assign of the other, including, to the full extent permitted by applicable law, third parties who are not signatories to this agreement, whether related to this agreement or otherwise, including past, present, and future claims and disputes, and including any dispute as to the validity or applicability of this arbitration clause, shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the JAMS under its rules and procedures in effect when the claim is filed. The rules and procedures and other information, including information on fees, may be obtained from JAMS’ website (www.jamsadr.com) or by calling JAMS at 949 224 1810.
(D) We are entering into this arbitration agreement in connection with a transaction involving interstate commerce. Accordingly, this arbitration agreement and any proceedings thereunder shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16. Any award by the arbitrator(s) may be entered as a judgment in any court having jurisdiction.
(E) Exception to Arbitrate. We each agree as follows: (i) either of us may bring qualifying claims in small claims court; (ii) to the extent state law permits either of us to seek injunctive or other equitable relief outside of arbitration, we each agree that such actions will be brought exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California or state court located in San Diego. We each consent and submit to the personal jurisdictions of these courts; and (iii) as set forth below, we each agree that any arbitration will be solely between you and Unistraw, not as part of a classwide claim. If for any reason any court or arbitrator holds that this restriction is unconscionable or unenforceable, then our agreement to arbitrate doesn’t apply and we each agree to resolve the dispute in court.
8. NO CLASS ACTIONS
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PURSUE DISPUTES ON A CLASS WIDE BASIS; THAT IS, TO EITHER JOIN A CLAIM WITH THE CLAIM OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY OR ASSERT A CLAIM IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY ON BEHALF OF ANYONE ELSE IN ANY LAWSUIT, ARBITRATION OR OTHER PROCEEDING.
9. NO TRIAL BY JURY
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LAWSUIT, ARBITRATION OR OTHER PERMITTED PROCEEDING.
10. AMENDMENTS & ASSIGNMENT
You agree that Unistraw may update these Terms at any time, and it is your obligation to check for updates. Updates do not apply retroactively. You may not assign these Terms or assign any rights or delegate any obligations hereunder, in whole or in part.
11. MISCELLANEOUS
A. Except as provided in these Terms, these Terms constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.
B. These terms do not create any rights in favor of any third party. Our failure to take action to enforce our rights does not mean that we give up those rights or cannot take such action in the future.
C. If you access our Property from locations outside of the U.S. you do so on your own initiative and at your own risk, and you are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
D. If a provision in these Terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable, that provision shall be removed from these Terms and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in force.
E. At any time and for any reason or no reason we may restrict, suspend or terminate your access to our Property, terminate your Account, and add, remove or modify functionality.
F. When using our Property, you agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
G. You agree to fully cooperate with us to investigate any suspected or actual activity that is in breach of these Terms.
H. Our Property may link or contain links to other websites maintained by our licensors, affiliates and/or third parties. We do not operate, control or necessarily endorse the content found on these third-party websites. You assume sole responsibility for your use of third-party links and any content posted on third-party websites.
I. If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about these Terms, you can contact us by clicking here.