Terms
of Service
MaxWebSearch (“MWS”) provides the
MaxWebSearch.com site (the “Site”) and the offered services and features (the
“Services”) subject to these Terms of Service (“Terms of Service”). By using
the Site and Services, you are deemed to accept and be bound by these Terms of
Service, INCLUDING A MANDATORY ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES
CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER CONTAINED IN SECTION 16 BELOW. If you
do not accept these Terms of Service, please discontinue using the Site and
Services. Your use of the Site or a service included within the Site may also
be subject to additional terms that govern particular services, offers, or
features, such as community or chat areas or special
promotions or contests or sweepstakes (the “Additional Terms”). In the event
that any of the provisions in these Terms of Service conflict with Additional
Terms provided with any particular service, then these Terms of Service shall
control. The Terms of Service applies regardless of the device used to access
the Site and/or Services (e.g., personal computer, a mobile device or any other
technology or software known today or developed in the future).
1. Modification of These Terms of Service
These Terms of Service may change from time
to time,
without any notice other than posting on the relevant page. Your continued use
of the Site and Services following our posting of changes constitutes your
acceptance of any such changes. Please check this page from time to time for
current Terms of Service.
2. Privacy
For all questions about how we use the
information we obtain through your use of the Site and Services, please visit
our Privacy Policy. By using the Site and Services, you agree to also be bound
to the Privacy Policy.
3. Your License to Access Content on Site
All right, title and interest to the content
displayed on the Site, including but not limited to the Site’s look and feel,
data, information, text, graphics, images, sound or video materials,
photographs, designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, URLs and content
provided by third parties, are the property of MWS, or respective third
parties, and are protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary
rights and laws. Any such content may be used solely for your personal,
non-commercial use. You agree not to modify, reproduce, retransmit, distribute,
disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any such material without
the written permission of MWS or the appropriate affiliate. You are not granted
any other license or right (including by implication, by estoppel or
otherwise), with respect to the Site, Services, or any content accessible
through the Site or Services. Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms
of Service are reserved by MWS.
In your use of the Site and Services, you
agree to comply with all applicable laws including those regarding the
transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country
in which you reside.
4. Age Restriction
The Site and Services are not intended for
children under 13 years of age, and you may not use the Site or Services or
register for the Community feature or create a user profile, if applicable, if
you are under 13. You hereby represent and warrant that you are at least 13
years of age.
5. Code of Conduct
When using any portion of and/or
functionality on or through the Site or Services, you agree to abide by the
following Code of Conduct.
a. You may not:
Copy, modify, create a
derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to
discover any source code of the Site or Services;
Remove or obscure the
copyright notice or other notices displayed in connection with the content
accessible through the Site or Services;
Interfere with or disrupt
the Site functionalities, Services, or servers and networks connected to Site,
or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks
connected directly or indirectly to the Site;
Modify the Site or Services
in any manner or form, or use modified versions of the Site or Services,
including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access
to the Site or Services;
Reproduce, print, cache,
store or distribute content retrieved from the Site or Services in any way, for
any commercial use without the prior written permission of MWS;
Sell, assign, sublicense,
or otherwise transfer any right in the Services or content accessible through
the Site;
Access the Site or Services
by any means other than through the interface that is provided by MWS;
Violate the restrictions in
any robot exclusion headers on the Site or in the Services, if any, or bypass
or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to the Site or
Services;
Collect or store personal
data about other users of the Site or Services;
Engage in any activities
that would violate the personal privacy rights of others, including but not
limited to, collecting and distributing information about Internet users
without their permission, except as permitted by applicable law; or
Use the Site or Services to
violate any law (whether local, state, national, or international), whether or
not intentionally.
b. No Automated Querying
You may not send automated queries of any
sort to the Site, including:
using any software which sends
queries to determine how a website or webpage “ranks” for various queries;
“meta-searching”;
and
performing “offline” searches on the
Site.
c. You agree not to use the
Site or Services to:
Post any content that is
unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory,
vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful, degrades others on the basis of gender,
race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference,
disability or other classification or otherwise objectionable in any way;
Harm or threaten to harm
anyone in any way;
“Stalk” or otherwise harass
any other person or entity;
Impersonate any person or
entity (including an MWS agent, enthusiast, or moderator), or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
Post any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain
letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;
Disseminate or transmit any
content that (i) violates any law (whether local, state, national, or
international), (ii) infringes or violates any copyright, trademark, trade
secret, patent or any other proprietary right (including, but not limited to,
using third party copyrighted materials or trademarks without appropriate
permission or attribution), or (iii) includes third party information (whether
or not protected as a trade secret) in violation of a duty of confidentiality;
Disseminate or transmit any
worms, viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files, code,
programs or other similar technologies; or post any material that contains
software viruses or any other computer code, files, programs or other similar
technologies designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any
computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
Manipulate identifiers in
order to disguise the origin of any question, answer or comment you post on the
Site;
Post any content that would
violate the personal privacy rights of others, including but not limited to
revealing personal or private information about others without their
permission; or
Facilitate violations of
these Terms of Service or the Privacy Policy.
MWS reserves the right to take any action it
deems appropriate if it determines, in its sole and absolute discretion,
that you have engaged in any of these practices or otherwise violated
these Terms of Service. Such action may include removing any of your content,
cancelling the account of any user MWS believes to be in violation of the Terms
of Service and/or Community Guidelines, terminating your license to access the
Site or use the Services or initiating civil or criminal legal proceedings.
Internet transmissions are never completely secure.
6. RESERVED
7. Use the Site and Services at Your Own Risk
The Site and Services include links to other
websites or resources. Because MWS has no control over such sites and
resources, you acknowledge and agree that MWS is not responsible for the
availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is
not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other
materials on or available from such sites or resources. You acknowledge that
such external sites usually have their own terms and conditions, including
privacy policies, over which MWS has no control and which will govern your
rights and obligations with respect to the use of those websites.
To offer use of the Site and Services to its
users for free, MWS allows advertisers to display advertisements or promotional
answers on the Site. Your dealings with advertisers and third party vendors
found on or through the Services and/or on the Site, including your
participation in promotions, purchase of goods and services, and any terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such activities, are
solely between you and the third party advertiser or vendor. MWS does not make
any representations or warranties with respect to any goods, services or
websites that appear in advertisements or promotional answers, and you agree
that MWS will have no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as
a result of any activities you undertake in connection with the use of or
reliance on any content, goods, services, information or other materials
available, through advertisers and/or third party vendors. You understand that
there is an inherent risk in submitting content to the Site and/or Services,
and that any communications may be subject to interception by a third party.
You understand that by using the Services,
you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. In
addition, if you rely on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any
linked third party websites or resources or any answer or comment posted by a
Community member, you do so solely at your own risk. Under no circumstances
will MWS be liable in any way for such content, including, but not limited to,
for any errors, omissions or misrepresentations in any linked third party
website or Community Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred by
you as a result of your use of, or reliance on, any linked third party website
or Community Content.
You acknowledge that MWS is a provider of
interactive computing service as set forth in the Communications Decency Act,
47 U.S.C. § 230, and expressly reserves its rights to not be treated as the
publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content
provider of the Site or through any Community features.
You acknowledge, consent, and agree that MWS
may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and/or any content
you submit or make available for inclusion on the Site and/or Services, if
required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access,
preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary for any of the following
reasons: (1) to comply with legal process; (2) to enforce these Terms of
Service; (3) to respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third
parties; (4) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of MWS, its
users, and the public; or (5) to respond to your requests for customer service.
8. Modifications to the Services
MWS reserves the right at any time and from
time to time to modify, suspend, discontinue or terminate the Services (or any
part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that MWS will not be liable to
you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, discontinuation or
termination of the Services.
9. Termination of Your Access to the Services
You can terminate your Community account at
any time by sending a request through the Settings – Your Account page. You can
also delete your Community profile information at any time by contacting us at
support@MaxWebSearch.com. We may terminate your use of the Site and/or
Services or Community account and deny you access to the Community service in
our sole discretion due to: (i) your violation of these Terms of Service and/or
Community Guidelines; (ii) lack of use of the Community service; or (iii) if we
consider, in our sole discretion, that (a) certain questions, answers or
comments you have posted are inappropriate and/or do not meet the Community
Guidelines, (b) your use of the Site or Services or your behavior within the
Community does not meet our community standards or violates the Community
Guidelines or (c) you have otherwise violated these Terms of Service. You agree
that any termination of your access to the Services may be effected without
prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that MWS may immediately deactivate or
delete your Community account and all related information and/or bar any
further access to your account or the Site or Services. If you use the Site or
Services in violation of these Terms of Service, MWS may, in its sole
discretion, retain all data collected from your use of the Site or Services.
Further, you agree that MWS shall not be liable to you or any third party for
the discontinuation or termination of your access to the Site or Services.
10. Disclaimers
BY USING THE SITE AND SERVICES YOU UNDERSTAND
AND AGREE THAT:
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THE SITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL
PURPOSES ONLY. NO CONTENT ON OUR SITE IS INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE PROFESSIONAL
ADVICE, WHETHER MEDICAL, FINANCIAL, LEGAL OR OTHERWISE. MWS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
OR LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES RELATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO ANY ACTION
YOU TAKE OR FAIL TO TAKE BASED ON THE INFORMATION, SERVICES OR OTHER MATERIAL
ON THE SITE.
·
YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
THE SITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. MWS EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR MWS’S PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON- INFRINGEMENT.
·
MWS MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE SITE OR
SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, CURRENT
OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE
SITE AND SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE, TIMELY, USEFUL OR RELIABLE.
·
ANY MATERIAL OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH USE OF THE SITE OR
SERVICES IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS
FROM YOUR DOWNLOAD OR USE OF ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR MATERIAL.
11. Limitation of Liability
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT MWS, ITS
SUBSIDIARIES, AND AFFILIATES, AND THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND
AGENTS, ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF USE,
LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, HOWSOEVER CAUSED, AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND
STRICT LIABILITY), OR OTHERWISE RESULTING FROM:
·
THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR
SERVICES,
·
THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES,
·
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR
TRANSMISSIONS OF DATA,
·
THE STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SITE,
·
RELIANCE ON CONTENT OR POSTINGS ON THE SITE, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ANY COMMUNITY, OR
·
ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SITE OR SERVICES.
THESE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT
MWS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.
BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY
NOT APPLY TO YOU.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold MWS, its
parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees
and agents, harmless from and against any and all liability, losses, claims,
demands, disputes, damages or costs of any kind, including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation, resulting from or in any
way connected with (a) Community Content or other content you post to the Site
or otherwise display or transmit through the Services, (b) your use of or
reliance on the Site or Services, (c) your connection to the Site or Services,
(d) your violation of these Terms of Service or the Community Guidelines, or
(e) your violation of any rights of another party.
13. Copyright and Trademark Protection
All contents of this Website are: Copyright
(c) 2013 MaxWebSearch All rights reserved. The logos,
marks, product and service names that appear throughout the Site (the “MaxWebSearch Marks) belong to MWS and are protected by U.S.
and international trademark laws. You agree not to display or use the MWS Marks
in any manner without MWS’s prior written permission. To seek permission to use
any of the MWS Marks, please contact MWS in writing at the following address:
MaxWebSearch
Attention: Legal Department
21301 S Tamiami Trail
Suite 320 #108
Estero, FL 33928
14. Notice for Claims of Copyright Infringement
MWS respects the intellectual property rights
of others and requires those that visit the Site and use the Services to do the
same. MWS may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, remove or
disable access to material on the Site or Services that infringes upon the
copyright rights of others. MWS also may, at our discretion, remove or disable
links or references to an online location that contains infringing material or
infringing activity. In the event that any visitors to the Site or users of our
Services repeatedly infringe on others’ copyrights, MWS may in its sole
discretion terminate those individuals’ rights to use the Site and/or Services
pursuant to our Digital Millennium Copyright Act repeat infringer policy.
If you believe that your work has been used
on MWS’s Site or in connection with its Service in any manner that constitutes
copyright infringement, please notify MWS’s copyright agent by written notice.
The notice should include the following information:
·
An electronic or physical signature of a person
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright allegedly infringed;
·
A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been
infringed, including a copy of the copyrighted work or the web page address
where the copyrighted work may be found;
·
Identification of the location on the Site or Services of
the material you claim has been infringed, or the link or reference to another
website that contains the material you claim has been infringed;
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Your name, address, telephone number and email address;
·
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that
the disputed use of the material at issue is not authorized by the copyright
owner, the agent of the copyright owner or the law; and
·
A statement by you that the information in this
notification is accurate and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you
are the copyright owner of the material allegedly infringed or authorized to
act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
The contact information for MWS’s copyright
agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on the Site and/or in
connection with the Services is:
Mail: MWS Copyright Agent
Attn. Legal Dept,
MaxWebSearch
21301 S Tamiami Trail
Suite 320 #108
Estero, FL 33928
15. Applicable Law
These Terms of Service and the relationship
between you and MWS are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri without
regard to its conflict of law provisions.
16. Binding Arbitration and Class Action
Waiver
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY – IT MAY
SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT
IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS.
ARBITRATION IS DIFFERENT FROM COURT; THE
RULES, INCLUDING DISCOVERY ARE DIFFERENT AND NO JUDGE OR JURY IS PRESENT AT AN
ARBITRATION. THE AWARD IS FINAL AND BINDING AND SUBJECT ONLY TO LIMITED REVIEW
BY A COURT.
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a. General Except as otherwise provided in this section
16, by using the Site and Services, you and MWS agree to submit any disputes
arising from the use of the Site or Services or any interpretation, violation,
non-performance, termination or invalidity of these Terms of Service or this
arbitration provision (including questions of its formation and enforceability)
to final and binding arbitration under the Commercial Rules of Arbitration of
the American Arbitration Association, which can be found here, by one or more
arbitrators appointed in accordance with those Rules. Notwithstanding these
rules, however, such proceeding shall be governed by the laws of the state of Missouri
as set forth in section 15 above. You agree to submit to binding arbitration in
either Kansas City, Missouri or your county of residence. MWS will agree to
commence arbitration in your county of residence. At your written request, MWS
will consider any requests to advance or reimburse any arbitration filing fee,
or administrative and hearing fees that you are required to pay to pursue a
claim in arbitration. The arbitrator will decide who will ultimately be
responsible for paying those fees. In no event will you be required to reimburse
MWS for any arbitration filing, administrative, or hearing fees in an amount
greater than what your court costs would have been if the claim had been
resolved in court. Any award in an arbitration initiated under this clause
shall be limited to monetary damages and shall include no injunction or
direction to any party other than the direction to pay a monetary amount.
Further, the arbitrator(s) shall have no authority to award punitive,
consequential or other damages not measured by the prevailing party’s actual
damages in any arbitration initiated under this section, except as may be
required by statute.
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b. Class Action Waiver Any proceedings to resolve any dispute will
be conducted solely on an individual basis. Neither you nor MWS will seek to
have any dispute heard as a class action, private attorney general action, or
in any other proceeding in which either party acts or proposes to act in a
representative capacity. No arbitration proceeding may be combined with another
without the prior written consent of all parties to the applicable proceeding.
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c. NO RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL FOR ARBITRAL CLAIM.YOU AND MWS ALSO HEREBY
WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL FOR ANY ARBITRAL CLAIM. IF FOR ANY REASON THIS
SECTION 16 IS HELD NOT TO APPLY TO AN ARBITRAL CLAIM, WHETHER SUCH ARBITRAL
CLAIM IS AGAINST YOU, MWS, OR MWS INDEMNIFIED PARTIES, BOTH YOU AND MWS STILL
AGREE TO WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY FOR THAT ARBITRAL CLAIM. BY USING THE SITE AND/OR
SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.
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d. Exception Notwithstanding the parties’ decision to
resolve all disputes through arbitration, this agreement does not preclude
claims by MWS to enforce its intellectual property rights and/or remedy unfair
competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, unauthorized access, fraud or
computer fraud, and/or industrial espionage. Neither party is precluded from
seeking relief in a court located in Kansas City, Missouri, for provisional
remedies, including temporary restraining order, preliminary injunctions, and
receiverships, pending arbitration or comprehensive litigation, to the extent
authorized in this section 16.
17. Severability of These Terms of Service
If any provision of these Terms of Service is
found by a court or other binding authority to be invalid, the remaining provisions
contained in these Terms of Service shall continue in full force and effect.
18. Limitation of Actions Brought against MWS
You agree that any claim or cause of action
arising out of your use of the Site or Services or these Terms of Service must
be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or it shall
forever be barred, notwithstanding any statute of limitations or other law to
the contrary. Within this period, any failure by MWS to enforce or exercise any
provision of these Terms of Service or any related right shall not constitute a
waiver of that right or provision.
19. Third Party Beneficiaries
You agree that, except for MWS and as
otherwise expressly provided in these Terms of Service, there shall be no third
party beneficiaries to this agreement.
20. Section Titles
The section titles in this Terms of Service
are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
21. Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns with
respect to these Terms of Service or Site and Services, please see send an
email to:
support@maxwebsearch.com.
Updated: March 27, 2014