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1. ACCEPTANCE
CityHaat provides a collection of online resources
which
include classified ads, forums, and various email services, (the
"Service") subject to the Terms of Use (the "Terms"). By using the
Service, you agree to comply with these Terms.
Additionally, when using particular CityHaat services, you agree to conform
to any
applicable posted guidelines for all CityHaat services, which may change
periodically. Should you object to any term or condition of these
Terms, any guideline,
or any subsequent changes thereto or become unhappy with CityHaat in any
way, your
only choice is to immediately discontinue use of CityHaat. These Terms may be updated by CityHaat at any time. You understand and agree
that you are solely responsible for reviewing these Terms from time to time. CityHaat
will provide notice of significant changes to the Terms by posting a notice
on the CityHaat website.
2. CONTENT POLICY
A. You understand that CityHaat does not control,
and is not responsible for listings, messages, comments, files, images, photos, video, sounds,
or any other material ("Content") made available through the website, and that by
using the website, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading,
or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the CityHaat site and Content available through the website may
contain links to other websites, which are completely unrelated to CityHaat.
CityHaat makes no representation or guarantee as to the accuracy or authenticity of the information
contained in any such site. Your linking to any other websites is completely at your own risk.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content,
that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will CityHaat be liable in any way
for Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content listed,
emailed or otherwise made available via the Service You acknowledge that CityHaat does not pre-screen
or approve Content, but that CityHaat will have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion
to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the spirit
of the site or the Terms or for any other reason.
B. You shall be solely responsible for your own Content posted on,
transmitted through, or linked from the Service and the consequences of posting or publishing it.
More specifically, you are solely responsible for all Content that you upload, email or otherwise make
available via the Service. In connection with Content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from
the Service by you, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary
licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize CityHaat to use all patent, trademark,
trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all Content to enable inclusion
and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the website and these Terms; and (ii) you have
the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in
the Content to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to
enable inclusion and use of the Content in the manner contemplated by the website and these Terms.
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting the
Content to CityHaat, you hereby grant CityHaat a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and
transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform
the Content in connection with the CityHaat website and CityHaat's (and its successors') business, including
without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the CityHaat website (and derivative
works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user
of the CityHaat website a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the website.
The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete Content from
the CityHaat website.
C. CityHaat does not endorse any Content or any opinion, recommendation,
or advice expressed therein, and CityHaat expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with user
Content. CityHaat does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property
rights on its website, and CityHaat will remove all Content if properly notified that such Content infringes
on another's intellectual property rights. CityHaat reserves the right to remove Content without prior notice.
CityHaat will also terminate a user's access to its website, if they are determined to be a repeat infringer.
A repeat infringer is a user who has been notified of infringing activity more than twice and/or has had
a user submission removed from the website more than twice. CityHaat reserves the right to decide whether
Content is appropriate and complies with these Terms for violations other than copyright infringement
and violations of intellectual property law, such as, but not limited to, pornography, obscene or
defamatory material, or excessive length. CityHaat may remove such Content and/or terminate a user's access
for uploading such material in violation of these Terms at any time, without prior notice and at its sole
discretion.
3. CONDUCT
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
- that violates any law;
- that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary
rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have
permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant CityHaat all of the license
rights granted herein;
- that is harmful, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, libelous,
invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way;
- that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals
on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
- that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an CityHaat employee,
or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
- that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's
explicit consent;
- that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
- that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam,"
"chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
- that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if (1) posted in areas or
categories of the CityHaat sites which are not designated for such purposes; or (2) emailed to CityHaat users
who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests;
- that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as specifically allowed by CityHaat;
- that advertises any illegal services or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or
restricted by applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or
regulated law;
- that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to
the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or
- that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in
order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
- "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes;
- use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to
download data from the Service - exception is made for internet search engines (e.g. Google) and
non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file;
- post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content,
or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- post the same item or service in more than one classified category or forum, or in more than
one metropolitan area; or
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to CityHaat's computer systems or engage in any activity
that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the
functionality of, the Service or the CityHaat website.
4.NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENTS
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any user
Content or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information
in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted 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;
(iii) Identification of the material 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 CityHaat to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit CityHaat to contact you,
such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic
mail address;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the
material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright
owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate,
and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
CityHaat's designated mail id is
cityhaatpostmaster@CityHaat.com.
You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section 4, your DMCA
notice may not be valid.
5. PRIVACY POLICYAND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
By using this website you acknowledge and agree that CityHaat may, in its
sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses,
IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process;
enforce these Terms; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond
to claims that contact information (for example phone number, street address) of a third-party has been
posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; protect the rights, property,
or personal safety of CityHaat, its users or the general public.
6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The materials on the CityHaat website, except all user Content (as defined above),
including without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos,
interactive features and the like ("Materials") and the trademarks, service marks and logos contained
therein ("Marks"), are owned by or licensed to CityHaat, subject to copyright and other intellectual property
rights under United States and foreign laws and international conventions. Materials on the website are
provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced,
distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other
purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. CityHaat reserves all rights
not expressly granted in and to the website and the Materials. You agree to not engage in the use,
copying, or distribution of any of the Materials other than as expressly permitted herein, including any
use, copying, or distribution of user Content of third parties obtained through the website for any
commercial purposes. If you download or print a copy of the Materials for personal use, you must retain
all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. You agree not to circumvent, disable or
otherwise interfere with security related features of the CityHaat website or features that prevent or
restrict use or copying of any Materials or enforce limitations on use of the CityHaat website or the
Materials therein.
7.USER SUBMISSIONS
You understand that when using the CityHaat website, you will be exposed to
Content from a variety of sources, and that CityHaat is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety,
or intellectual property rights of or relating to such Content. You further understand and acknowledge
that you may be exposed to Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you
agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have
against CityHaat with respect thereto.
8. INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CityHaat, its officers,
subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers
and employees, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or
debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorneys’ fees) arising from: (i) your use of and
access to the CityHaat website; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any
third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (iv) any
claim that your Content caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will
survive these Terms and your use of the CityHaat website.
9. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending
unsolicited email advertisements to CityHaat email addresses or through CityHaat
computer systems is expressly prohibited by these Terms. Any
unauthorized use of CityHaat computer systems is a violation of these Terms
and certain federal and state laws. Such violations may subject the
sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
10. DEALINGS WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
CityHaat shall not be liable for your
interactions with any organizations and/or individuals found on the
website or through the Service. This includes, but is not limited to,
payment and delivery of goods and services, and any other terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such
dealings. These dealings are solely between you and such organizations
and/or individuals. You agree that CityHaat shall not be responsible
or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of
any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this
site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree
that CityHaat is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that
you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release
CityHaat, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from
claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or
nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and
undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes
and/or our service.
11. LIMITATION AND TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You acknowledge that CityHaat may establish
limits concerning use of the Service, including among others, the
maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service,
the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other
Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the
frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that CityHaat has
no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that
CityHaat reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service
(or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that CityHaat shall not be
liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Service.
You agree that CityHaat, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the
obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or
IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service
(or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and
discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including,
without limitation, if CityHaat believes that you have acted inconsistently
with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further, you agree that CityHaat
shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of
your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use
the Service after said termination.
12. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected to the maximum
extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content
displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a
collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and
international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of
derivative works from or redistribution of the website or the
collective work is prohibited. Copying or reproducing the website or
any portion thereof to any other server or location for further
reproduction or redistribution is prohibited. You further agree not to
reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service, and agree to
abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You
may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt
to discover any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting
the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell,
resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the
Service. CityHaat is a mark registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office. Although CityHaat does not claim ownership of content that its
users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to CityHaat an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully
paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute
said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into
other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses
(through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. We need these rights in
order to host and display your content
13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE CityHaat SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
THE CityHaat SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CityHaat, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN
CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE AND YOUR USE THEREOF. CityHaat MAKES NO
WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
THIS SITE'S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY SITES LINKED TO THIS SITE AND
ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR
INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF
ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR
WEBSITE, (III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS
AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION
STORED THEREIN, (IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO
OR FROM OUR WEBSITE, (IV) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE
WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY,
AND/OR (V) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR
DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT
POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE CityHaat
WEBSITE. CityHaat DOES NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A
THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE CityHaat WEBSITE OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR
FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND CityHaat WILL NOT BE A
PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION
BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH
THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY
ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION
WHERE APPROPRIATE.
14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL CityHaat, ITS OFFICERS,
DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF CityHaat
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM
ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE CityHaat SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE
DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE CityHaat SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM
INABILITY TO USE THE CityHaat SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION,
SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE CityHaat SITE OR
THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES
INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR
ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CityHaat SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS
ON THE CityHaat SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE
RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CityHaat SITE OR THE
SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE CityHaat SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CityHaat SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER
SUBMISSIONS OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY
THIRD PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING
RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
CityHaat makes no representations that the CityHaat
Website is appropriate or available for use in any location. Those
who access or use the CityHaat Website from other jurisdictions do so at
their own volition and are responsible for compliance with local law.
15. ASSIGNMENT
These Terms, and any rights and
licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you,
but may be assigned by CityHaat without restriction.
16. ABILITY TO ACCEPT TERMS OF SERVICE
You affirm that you are either more
than 18 years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal
parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter
into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations,
and warranties set forth in these Terms, and to abide by and comply
with these Terms. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of
13, as the CityHaat website is not intended for children under 13. If
you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the CityHaat
website—there are lots of other great web sites for you. Talk to your
parents about what sites are appropriate for you.
17. GENERAL INFORMATION
These Terms and the other policies
posted on CityHaat constitute the complete and exclusive understanding and
agreement between you and CityHaat and govern your use of the Service
superceding all prior understandings, proposals, agreements,
negotiations, and discussions between the parties, whether written or
oral.
YOU AND CityHaat AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF
OR RELATED TO THE CityHaat WEBSITE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER
THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS
PERMANENTLY BARRED.
18. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the Terms, by flagging the posting(s) for review by emailing to cityhaatpostmaster@CityHaat.com.
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.
You understand and agree that, because damages are often difficult to
quantify, if actual damages cannot be reasonably calculated then you
will be liable to pay CityHaat liquidated damages as follows:
- If you post a
message that (1) impersonates any person or entity; (2) falsely states
or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; or
(3) that includes personal or identifying information about another
person without that person's explicit consent, you agree that CityHaat in
its sole discretion may disclose identifying information about you to
the victim, and that should CityHaat bring a claim against you in court,
that you will pay CityHaat one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such
message.
- If CityHaat establishes limits on the frequency with which
you may access the Service, or terminates your access to or use of the
Service, you agree to pay CityHaat one hundred dollars ($100) for each
message posted in excess of such limits or for each day on which you
access CityHaat in excess of such limits, whichever is higher.
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If you send unsolicited email advertisements to CityHaat email addresses or
through CityHaat computer systems, you agree to pay CityHaat twenty five dollars
($25) for each such email.
- If you post messages in
violation of these Terms, other than as described above, you agree to
pay CityHaat one hundred dollars ($100) for each such message. In its sole
discretion, CityHaat may elect to issue a warning before assessing damages.
Otherwise, you agree to pay CityHaat's actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated.
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