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1. Acceptance of Terms
PalmSprings.com provides a collection of online resources, including classified ads,
forums, and various email services, (referred to hereafter as "the Service")
subject to the following Terms of Use ("Terms"), which may be updated
by PalmSprings.com from time to time. PalmSprings.com will provide notice of materially
significant changes to the Terms by posting notice on the PalmSprings.com site. By
using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with these Terms. In
addition, when using particular PalmSprings.com services, you agree to abide by any
applicable posted guidelines for all PalmSprings.com services, which may change from
time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guidelines,
or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with PalmSprings.com
in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of PalmSprings.com.
2. Content
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video,
sounds, or other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through,
or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom
such Content originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for all
Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. You
understand that PalmSprings.com does not control, and is not responsible for Content
made available through the Service, and that by using the Service, you may be
exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise
objectionable. Furthermore, the PalmSprings.com site and Content available through
the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent
of PalmSprings.com. PalmSprings.com makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy,
completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. Your
linking to any other webites is 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 PalmSprings.com be liable in
any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result
of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the
Service. You acknowledge that PalmSprings.com does not pre-screen or approve Content,
but that PalmSprings.com shall 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 letter or spirit of the Terms or for any other reason.
3. Notification of Claims of Infringement
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated,
please notify PalmSprings.com's agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual
property infringement ("Agent"), by using our online contact form or contacting us directly at:
Copyright Agent
PalmSprings.com
PO BOX 5537
Playa del Rey, CA 90296
Please provide our Agent with the following Notice:
- Identify the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim
has been infringed;
- Identify the material on the PalmSprings.com site that you claim is infringing,
with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website;
- A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (a) the above information
in your Notice is accurate, and (b) that you are the owner of the copyright interest
involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
- Your address, telephone number, and email address; and
- Your physical or electronic signature.
PalmSprings.com will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the the procedures
outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
4. Privacy and Information Disclosure
You acknowledge and agree that PalmSprings.com 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 (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been
posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harrassment; protect
the rights, property, or personal safety of PalmSprings.com, its users or the general
public.
5. Conduct
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
- that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory,
libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
- that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual
conduct including but not limited to (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital,
oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same
or opposite sex, or (ii) bestiality, or (iii) masturbation, or (iv) sadistic or
masochistic abuse, or (v) lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area
of any person;
- 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,
a PalmSprings.com employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation
with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to messages that are lawful
non-deceptive parodies of public figures.);
- that includes personal or identifying information about another person
without that person's explicit consent;
- that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, miss-informative, or
constitutes "bait and switch";
- that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other
proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make
available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
- 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 of the PalmSprings.com sites which are not designated for such
purposes; or (2) emailed to PalmSprings.com 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 allowed
in "services";
- 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 by California 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.
List of items the sale of which is not permitted on PalmSprings.com:
- Obscene material or child pornography.
- Weapons and related items, including firearms, disguised, undetectable
or switchblade knives, martial arts weapons, sniper scopes, silencers, ammunition,
large capacity magazines, BB guns, tear gas or stun guns.
- Fireworks, including "safe and sane" fireworks or any destructive
devices or explosives.
- Controlled substances or illegal drugs, substances and items used to manufacture
controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.
- Alcohol or tobacco products.
- Prescription drugs and medical devices, such as prescription or contact
lenses, defibrillators, hypodermic needles or hearing aids.
- Nonprescription drugs that make false or misleading treatment claims or
treatment claims that require FDA approval.
- Blood, bodily fluids or body parts.
- Animals and animal parts, including the retail sales of cats and dogs.
- Restricted or regulated plants and insects, such as noxious weeds, endangered
plant species, or live insects or pests.
- Pesticides or hazardous substances, or items containing hazardous substances
such as contaminated toys, or art or craft material containing toxic substances
without a warning label.
- Illegal telecommunications equipment, such as access cards, password sniffers,
access card programmers and unloopers, or cable descramblers
- Stolen property or personal property with the serial number removed or
altered.
- Burglary tools, such as lock-picks or motor vehicle master keys
- False identification cards, items with police insignia, citizenship documents,
or birth certificates.
- Counterfeit currency, coins and stamps, as well as equipment designed
to make them.
- Counterfeit or knock-off brand name goods.
- Material that infringes copyright, such as warez, bootlegs (without consent
of the band), etc.
- Airline tickets that restrict transfer.
- Gambling items, such as lottery tickets, sports trading card 'grab bags,'
raffle tickets, sweepstakes entries or slot machines.
- Used or rebuilt batteries, or batteries containing mercury.
- Used bedding and clothing, unless sanitized in accordance with law.
- Non-packaged food items or adulterated food.
- Bulk email or mailing lists that contain names, addresses, phone numbers,
or other personal identifying information
Additionally, you agree not to:
- contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
- "stalk" or otherwise harrass 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 - unless expressly permitted
by PalmSprings.com;
- 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 PalmSprings.com'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 PalmSprings.com
website.
6. No Spam Policy
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to PalmSprings.com
email addresses or through PalmSprings.com computer systems, which is expressly prohibited
by these Terms, will use or cause to be used servers located in California. Any
unauthorized use of PalmSprings.com computer systems is a violation of these Terms
and certain federal and state laws, including without limitation the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.), Section 502 of the California
Penal Code and Section 17538.45 of the California Business and Professions Code.
Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal
penalties.
7. Limitations on service
You acknowledge that PalmSprings.com may establish limits concerning use of the Service,
including 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 PalmSprings.com has no responsibility or liability
for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by
the Service. You acknowledge that PalmSprings.com reserves the right at any time to
modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice,
and that PalmSprings.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
8. Access to the Service
PalmSprings.com grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the
Service for your own personal use of the Service, and not to download (other than
page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, or any Content made available
via the Service (except for your own Content), without the express written consent
of PalmSprings.com. This license does not include any collection, aggregation, copying,
duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining,
robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose
unless expressly permitted by PalmSprings.com. A limited exception is provided to general
purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such
tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the
Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses
using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file. "General
purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or search engine
or other service that specializes in classified listings or in any subset of classifieds
listings such as jobs, housing, for sale, services, or personals, or which is
in the business of providing classified ad listing services.
9. Termination of service
You agree that PalmSprings.com, 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 PalmSprings.com believes
that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further,
you agree that PalmSprings.com 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. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-16 shall survive
termination of these Terms.
10. Dealings with organizations and individuals
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the
Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely
between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You agree that PalmSprings.com
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
PalmSprings.com is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have
a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release PalmSprings.com, 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. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil
Code Section 1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims
which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time
of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected
his settlement with the debtor."
11. 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 site or the collective work, and/or copying
or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location
for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written
consent of PalmSprings.com. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content
from the Service without the express written consent of PalmSprings.com, 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.
Although PalmSprings.com 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 PalmSprings.com 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. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public
area of the Service, you automatically grant PalmSprings.com all rights necessary to
prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction,
or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE BANANA.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR
OWN RISK. THE BANANA.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS"
OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS
AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, BANANA.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY,
TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE BANANA.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BANANA.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR
OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE BANANA.COM SITE
OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE BANANA.COM SITE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BANANA.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR
VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE BANANA.COM SITE OR
THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties.
In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you
insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
13. Limitations of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL BANANA.COM BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF BANANA.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF
THE BANANA.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE
OF THE BANANA.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE BANANA.COM SITE
OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR
TERMINATION OF THE BANANA.COM 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 BANANA.COM SITE OR THE SERVICE
OR ANY LINKS ON THE BANANA.COM SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR
ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BANANA.COM SITE OR
THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE BANANA.COM SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdiction, limitations of liability
are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may
not apply to you.
14. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold PalmSprings.com, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates,
successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers
and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney
fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content
you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service,
your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties
herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
15. General information
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and PalmSprings.com and govern
your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and PalmSprings.com.
The Terms and the relationship between you and PalmSprings.com shall be governed by
the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
You and PalmSprings.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts located within the county of Riverside, California. The failure
of PalmSprings.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall
not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms
is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless
agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions
as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in
full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the
contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the
Service or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause
of action arose or be forever barred.
16. Violations of Terms and Liquidated Damages
Please report any violations of the Terms, by flagging the posting(s) for review,
or by using our online contact form . 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 it becomes necessary for PalmSprings.com to pursue legal action to enforce these
Terms, you will be liable to pay PalmSprings.com the following amounts as liquidated
damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of PalmSprings.com’s' damages
for the specified breaches of these Terms:
- 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 to pay PalmSprings.com one thousand dollars
($1,000) for each such message. This provision does not apply to messages that
are lawful non-deceptive parodies of public figures.
- If PalmSprings.com 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 PalmSprings.com one hundred dollars ($100) for each message posted in excess of
such limits or for each day on which you access PalmSprings.com in excess of such limits,
whichever is higher.
- If you send unsolicited email advertisements to PalmSprings.com email addresses
or through PalmSprings.com computer systems, you agree to pay PalmSprings.com twenty five
dollars ($25) for each such email.
- If you post messages in violation of these Terms of Use, other than as described
above, you agree to pay PalmSprings.com one hundred dollars ($100) for each such message.
In its sole discretion, PalmSprings.com may elect to issue a warning before assessing
damages.
- If you aggregate, display, copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise exploit
for any purpose any Content (except for your own Content) in violation of these
Terms without PalmSprings.com's express written permission, you agree to pay PalmSprings.com
three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you engage in such conduct.
Otherwise, you agree to pay PalmSprings.com's actual damages, to the extent such actual
damages can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of these
Terms, PalmSprings.com retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance
of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary or permanent injunction
against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
in these Terms, or any combination thereof.
17. Feedback
We welcome your feedback on this document in our contact form.
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