The User Agreement below is effective for all users on Aug
20th, 2002.
User Agreement
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH USEDCELLPHONES.COM, LLC OFFERS
YOU ACCESS TO OUR FREE POSTING SERVICES FOR LOST AND FOUND CELL PHONES.
Welcome to the User Agreement for usedcellphones.com, LLC. This Agreement
describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services
available under the domain and sub-domains of www.usedcellphones.com.
If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
do not use or access our services.
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 use our web site.
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms
on our site. Except as stated below, all amended terms shall automatically
be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on our site.
- Membership Eligibility.
Our services are available only to individuals who can form legally
binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing,
our services are not available to minors or to temporarily or indefinitely
suspended past users. If you are a minor, you can use this service only
in conjunction with your parents or guardians. If you do not qualify,
please do not use our services.
- Fees and Services.
Joining and buying items at usedcellphones.com, LLC is free. However,
we may choose to temporarily change our Fees and Credits Policy and
the fees for our services for promotional events and such changes are
effective when we post the temporary promotional event on the homepage.
When you list an item you have an opportunity to review and accept the
fees (if any) that you will be charged for the use of our listing services.
We may in 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 our website and
all applicable taxes.
- We are a Venue.
usedcellphones.com/lostfound/ is a posting site. We allow anyone
to post lost or found cell phones or to search for a phone, at anytime,
from anywhere. We are not involved in the actual posting of messages.
As a result, we have no control over the quality, safety or legality
of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the posts, the ability
of finders to post or the ability of searchers to find. We cannot ensure
that a finder or searcher will actually complete a any kind of transaction.
3.2 Identity Verification. We use many techniques to identify
our users when they register on our site. However, because user verification
on the Internet is difficult, we cannot and do not confirm each user's
purported identity. We also encourage you to communicate directly with
potential posters through the tools available on our site.
3.4 Release. Because we are a venue, in the event that you have
a dispute with a poster of a lost or found cell phone, you release usedcellphones.com,
LLC (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.
3.5 Information Control. We do not control the 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, common sense, and practice safe trading when using
our site. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with underage
persons or people acting under false pretense. Additionally, there may
also be risks dealing with international trade and foreign nationals.
- Posting Lost or Found Cell Phones.
4.1 Listing Lost or Found Cell Phones. You must be legally able
to post the cell phone(s) you lost or found on our site. You must describe
your item and its details on the posting page of our site. Your postings
may only include text descriptions, graphics, pictures and other content
relevant to that item that was lost or found. All posted cell phones
must be listed in an appropriate category.
4.2 Fraud. Without limiting any other remedies, usedcellphones.com,
LLC 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 our site.
4.3 Manipulation. Neither you, finders nor searchers may manipulate
other user's postings.
- Your Information.
5.1 Definition. "Your Information" is defined as any information
you provide to us or other users in the registration, finding or searching
process, in any public posting area 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 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
child pornography or, if otherwise adult in nature or harmful to minors,
shall be posted only in the Mature Audiences section and shall be distributed
only to people legally permitted to receive such content; (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; (bb) are
items you have up for sale or auction; (cc) are concurrently listed
for sale on a web site other than ours (this does not prevent linking
to or advertising an usedcellphones.com, LLC item from another web site);
or (dd) you do not have a right to link to or include. Furthermore,
you may not post any lost or found 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
our current Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Items.
5.3 License. Solely to enable usedcellphones.com, LLC 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.
usedcellphones.com, LLC will only use Your Information in accordance
with our Privacy Policy.
- Access and Interference.
Our web site contains robot exclusion headers and you agree that
you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual
process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein
without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will
not use any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion
headers, or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working
of the usedcellphones.com, LLC site or any activities conducted on our
site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable
or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. Much of the
information on our site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary
or is licensed to usedcellphones.com, LLC by our users or third parties.
You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative
works, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information)
from our website without the prior expressed written permission of usedcellphones.com,
LLC or the appropriate third party.
- Breach.
Without limiting other remedies, we may immediately remove your
item listings, warn our community 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.
- Privacy.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties
for marketing purposes without your 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.
If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this
way please do not use our services.
- No Warranty.
WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, 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, 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.
- Liability Limit.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, 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, 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 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY. 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.
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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.
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Legal Compliance.
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international
laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our
service and your bidding on, listing, purchase, solicitation of offers
to purchase, and sale of items.
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No Agency.
You and usedcellphones.com, LLC are independent contractors,
and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee
relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
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Notices.
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given
by postal mail to usedcellphones.com, LLC Indianapolis, IN 46032 or
to the email address you provide to usedcellphones.com, LLC during
the registration process . 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 usedcellphones.com, LLC during the registration process.
In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of
mailing.
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Arbitration.
Any legal controversy or legal claim arising out of or relating
to this Agreement or our services, excluding legal action taken by
usedcellphones.com, LLC to collect our fees and/or recover damages
for, or obtain an injunction relating to, the usedcellphones.com,
LLC site operations, intellectual property, and our services, shall
be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial
arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such
controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and
shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy
of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in Indianapolis,
Indiana, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into
any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or usedcellphones.com,
LLC may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent
jurisdiction in Indianapolis, Indiana necessary to protect the rights
or property of you or usedcellphones.com, LLC pending the completion
of arbitration. Should either party file an action contrary to this
provision, the other party may recover attorney's fees and costs up
to $1000.00.
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Additional Terms.
The following policies are incorporated into this Agreement by
reference and provide additional terms and conditions related to specific
services offered on our site:
Privacy Policy:
Posting Policy:
Each of these policies may be changed from time to time and are effective
immediately after we post the changes on our site, except for the
Privacy Policy for which we will provide you with thirty days prior
notice. In addition, when using particular services on our site, you
agree that you are subject to any posted policies or rules applicable
to services you use through our site, which may be posted from time
to time. All such posted policies or rules are hereby incorporated
by reference into this Agreement.
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General.
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws
of the State of Indiana as such laws are applied to agreements entered
into and to be performed entirely within Indiana between Indiana residents.
We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to
our services, and operation of our 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 usedcellphones.com, LLC, in our sole discretion, to a
third party in the event of a merger or acquisition. 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), 5.3 (License),
6 (Access and Interference), 9 (No Warranty), 10 (liability Limit),
11 (Indemnity) and 15 (Arbitration) shall survive any termination
or expiration of this Agreement.
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Disclosures.
The services hereunder are offered by usedcellphones.com, LLC.,
located 8605 Allisonville Road # 284 - Indianapolis, IN 46250-1552.
Phone: 317-571-1437
Commercially available parental control protections (such as computer
hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available
that may assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to
minors.
We encourage you to report all user-to-user disputes to your local law
enforcement, postmaster general, or a certified mediation or arbitration
entity.
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