1. Introduction.
BabySwap and
BabySwap, Inc., including subsidiaries and affiliates
(herein referred to as "Website Owner" or "we" or "us"
or "our") provides the information contained on this
website or any of the pages comprising the BabySwap.net,
(also known as BabySwap.ca, BabySwap.us, and
BabySwap.org) ("website") to visitors ("visitors")
(cumulatively referred to as "you" or "your"
hereinafter) subject to the terms and conditions set out
in these website terms and conditions, the
Privacy Policy
and any other relevant terms and conditions, policies
and notices which may be applicable to a specific
section or module of this website. By using this
service, you agree to comply with and be bound by these
terms.
2. Information on the Website.
Whilst every
effort is made to update the information contained on
this website, neither the Website Owner nor any third
party or data or content provider make any
representations or warranties, whether express, implied
in law or residual, as to the sequence, accuracy,
completeness or reliability of information, opinions,
any share price information, research information, data
and/or content contained on the website (including but
not limited to any information which may be provided by
any third party or data or content providers)
("information") and shall not be bound in any manner by
any information contained on the website. The Website
Owner reserves the right at any time to change or
discontinue without notice, any aspect or feature of
this website. No information shall be construed as
advice and information is offered for information
purposes only and is not intended for trading purposes.
You and your company rely on the information contained
on this website at your own risk. If you find an error
or omission at this site, please let us know by sending
an email to
info@babyswap.net.
3. Trade Marks.
The trade marks,
names, logos and service marks (collectively "trade
marks") displayed on this website are registered and
unregistered trade marks of the Website Owner. Nothing
contained on this website should be construed as
granting any license or right to use any trade mark
without the prior written permission of the Website
Owner.
4. External Links.
External links may
be provided for your convenience, but they are beyond
the control of the Website Owner and no representation
is made as to their content. Use or reliance on any
external links and the content thereon provided is at
your own risk. When visiting external links you must
refer to that external websites terms and conditions of
use. No hypertext links shall be created from any
website controlled by you or otherwise to this website
without the express prior written permission of the
Website Owner. Please contact us at
info@babyswap.net if you would like to link to this
website.
5. Public Forums and User Submissions.
The Website Owner
is not responsible for any material submitted to the
public areas by you (which include classified ads,
hosted pages, forum based chat rooms, or any other
public area found on the website.) Any material (whether
submitted by you or any other user) is not endorsed,
reviewed or approved by the Website Owner. The Website
Owner reserves the right to remove any material
submitted or posted by you in the public areas, without
notice to you, if it becomes aware and determines, in
its sole and absolute discretion that you are or there
is the likelihood that you may, including but not
limited to -
5.1
defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise
violate the rights of other users or any third parties;
5.2
publish, post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory,
obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information;
5.3
post or upload files that contain viruses, corrupted
files or any other similar software or programs that may
damage the operation of the Website Owner's and/or a
third party's computer system and/or network;
5.4
violate any copyright, trade mark, other applicable
State or Federal Laws of the United States or
international laws or intellectual property rights of
the Website Owner or any other third party;
5.5
submit contents containing marketing or promotional
material which is intended to solicit business.
You also
acknowledge and understand that there is some degree of
risk associated with participating in an online exchange
of information and therefore you accept the risk that
you may be exposed to information which is offensive,
inaccurate, indecent, misleading or otherwise
objectionable.
6.
Specific Use.
The Website Owner
grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to
access the website in order to (1) list your maternity
and infant products for resale; (2) list your maternity
and infant related service as a form of advertisement in
the Services section of the website; (3) search for
maternity and infant related goods and services for the
purpose of purchasing goods and services; (4) use the
information contained on the Website to contact sellers
of goods and services for the sole and exclusive use of
obtaining information about those goods and services
listed and/or making related inquiries; (5)
participating in the on-line forums. This license does
not include any derivative use such as data collection
or copying of materials, scripts, webpages or related
information. You agree to not engage in any use of the
Website without express permission granting you a
license to engage in that use from the Website Owner.
You further agree
not to use the website to send or post any message or
material that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory,
abusive, indecent, threatening, harmful, vulgar,
obscene, sexually orientated, racially offensive,
profane, pornographic or violates any applicable law,
including trademark and copyright laws, and you hereby
indemnify and hold the Website Owner, its officers,
directors, subsidiaries, agents, assigns, successors,
affiliates, employees, harmless against any loss,
liability, damage or expense of whatever nature which
the Website Owner, or any third party may suffer which
is caused by or attributable to, whether directly or
indirectly, your use of the website to send or post any
such message or material.
Your use of the
BabySwap websites signifies your and agreement of its
Privacy Policy. You further agree that the Website Owner
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 the Terms and
Conditions of using this
website, respond to claims that any content violates the
rights of third parties, respond to claims that contact
information (i.e. 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 the Website Owner,
his/her/its users and the general public.
You further agree
not to use the email addresses contained on the website
to send unsolicited emails or advertisements to users.
Any unauthorized use of the Website Owner’s computer
systems, including but not limited to, sending
unsolicited email, violates both federal and state law,
including but not limited to, the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act, (18 U.S.C. section 1030, et seq.,
California Penal Code, section 502, and the
California Business and Professions Code, section
17538.45. Such violations may subject the sender and his
or her agents, successors and assigns to civil and
criminal penalties.
6.1 Goods and Services Featured in Gallery
The Website Owner
reserves the right to feature goods and/or services
listed on the Website in the “Featured Gallery” and
“Gallery of Featured Classifieds Sections” of the
website. The Website Owner will only feature goods and
services of those users who have given permission to do
so by checking the box next to the request stated as
follows: “If you would like your item featured on our
gallery, please check the box.” By checking this box,
you understand and agree that the Website Owner has made
no warranties, representations, statements or guarantees
(whether express, implied in law or residual) regarding
whether, in fact, a particular good or service
will be featured in any of the online galleries. You
further acknowledge and agree that the Website Owner has
the sole discretion to decide which goods or services
will be featured and that the “gallery featured” service
is purely an optional service. You hereby release the
Website Owner from any liability, claims, and/or damages
resulting from the fact a particular good or service was
not featured in one of the website galleries.
7. Warranties.
The Website Owner
makes no warranties, representations, statements or
guarantees (whether express, implied in law or residual)
regarding the website, the information contained on the
website, your or your company's personal information or
material and information transmitted over our system.
All goods and
services listed on the Website are provided on an “as
is” or “as available” basis, without any warranties of
any kind whatsoever. All express and implied warranties,
including but not limited to, the warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and
non-infringement of proprietary rights, are expressly
disclaimed to the fullest extent as permitted by law. To
the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website Owner
disclaims any warranties for the security, reliability,
timeliness, accuracy and performance of the website and
the service, any warranties for other services or goods
received through or advertised on the website or the
sites or services accessed through any links on the
website, and any warranties for viruses other than or
other harmful components in connection with the website
or service.
8. Disclaimer of Liability.
The Website Owner
shall not be responsible for and disclaims all liability
for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct,
indirect or consequential), personal injury or expense
of any nature whatsoever which may be suffered by you or
any third party (including your company), as a result of
or which may be attributable, directly or indirectly, to
your access and use of the website, any information
contained on the website, your or your company's
personal information or material and information
transmitted over our system. In particular, neither the
Website Owner nor any third party or data or content
provider shall be liable in any way to you or to any
other person, firm or corporation whatsoever for any
loss, liability, damage (whether direct or
consequential), personal injury or expense of any nature
whatsoever arising from any delays, inaccuracies, errors
in, or omission of any share price information or the
transmission thereof, or for any actions taken in
reliance thereon or occasioned thereby or by reason of
non-performance or interruption, or termination thereof.
9. Use and Termination of Use of the Website.
The Website Owner
does not make any warranty or representation that
information on the website is appropriate for use in any
jurisdiction (other than California). By accessing the
website, you warrant and represent to the Website Owner
that you are legally entitled to do so and to make use
of information made available via the website.
You agree that the
Website Owner, may unilaterally delete or deactivate
your account, block your email or your IP address, or
otherwise terminate your access to the website
immediately and without notice, and remove and discard
any content within the service, for any reason,
including but not limited to, the Website Owner’s belief
that you violated the Terms and Conditions set forth
herein. Further, you agree that the Website Owner shall
not be liable to you or any third party for any
termination of your access to the service. Further, you
agree that you not attempt to use the service at anytime
after you have been terminated but said termination will
not relinquish your obligations under these Terms.
10. Dealings with Third Parties.
Any dealings on
the Website or interactions you have with third parties
found by using this Website Service is at your own risk.
This includes but it not limited to: payment for goods
and/or services and any terms or conditions,
representations or warranties associated with such
dealings or interactions. You agree that the Website
Owner and his/her/its officers, directors, employees,
agents and successors are not liable for any loss or
damages associated with such dealings. You also agree
that if any dispute should arise between yourself and
another party or user, that the Website Owner is under
no obligation to become involved for any reason and if
such dispute does arise you hereby agree to release the
Website Owner, its officers, directors, employees,
agents and successors from any claims, loss, demands and
damages of any kind arising out of such dispute. All
California residents agree to wave California Civil Code
Section 1542, which states,
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. General
11.1 Entire Agreement.
These website
terms and conditions constitute the sole record of the
agreement between you and the Website Owner in relation
to your use of the website. Neither you nor the Website
Owner shall be bound by any express tacit or implied
representation, warranty, promise or the like not
recorded herein. Unless otherwise specifically stated
these website terms and conditions supersede and replace
all prior commitments, undertakings or representations,
whether written or oral, between you and the Website
Owner in respect of your use of the website.
11.2 Alteration.
The Website Owner
may at any time modify any relevant terms and
conditions, policies or notices. You acknowledge that by
visiting the website from time to time, you shall become
bound to the current version of the relevant terms and
conditions (the "current version") and, unless stated in
the current version, all previous versions shall be
superseded by the current version. You shall be
responsible for reviewing the then current version each
time you visit the website.
11.3 Conflict.
Where any conflict
or contradiction appears between the provisions of these
website terms and conditions and any other relevant
terms and conditions, policies or notices, the other
relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices which
relate specifically to a particular section or module of
the website shall prevail in respect of your use of the
relevant section or module of the website.
11.4 Waiver.
No indulgence or
extension of time which either you or the Website Owner
may grant to the other will constitute a waiver of or,
whether by estoppel or otherwise, limit any of the
existing or future rights of the grantor in terms
hereof, save in the event or to the extent that the
grantor has signed a written document expressly waiving
or limiting such rights.
11.5 Cession.
The Website Owner
shall be entitled to cede, assign and delegate all or
any of its rights and obligations in terms of any
relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices to
any third party.
11.6 Severability.
All provisions of
any relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices
are, notwithstanding the manner in which they have been
grouped together or linked grammatically, severable from
each other. Any provision of any relevant terms and
conditions, policies and notices, which is or becomes
unenforceable in any jurisdiction, whether due to
voidness, invalidity, illegality, unlawfulness or for
any reason whatever, shall, in such jurisdiction only
and only to the extent that it is so unenforceable, be
treated as pro non scripto and the remaining provisions
of any relevant terms and conditions, policies and
notices shall remain in full force and effect.
11.7 Applicable laws.
Any relevant terms
and conditions, policies and notices shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of California without giving effect to any
principles of conflict of law. You hereby consent to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the State Court of California
in respect of any disputes arising in connection with
the website, or any relevant terms and conditions,
policies and notices or any matter related to or in
connection therewith.
11.8 Violation of Terms and Liquidated Damages.
You agree to
report any violations of these terms to
legal@babyswap.net.
You
understand and agree that if the Website Owner is
required pursue legal action to enforce these Terms, you
will be liable to pay the Website Owner the following
liquidated damages amounts, which you accept are
reasonable estimates of the Website Owner’s damages for
the specified breaches of these Terms:
a. For the sending of
unsolicited email advertisements to email address which
were obtained by you from the website, you agree to pay
the Website Owner one thousand ($1000) for each such
email.
b.
For the posting of any message that (1) impersonates any
entity or person; (2) falsely states or otherwise
misrepresents your affiliation with any entity or
person; or (3) includes personal or identifying
information about another person without that person's
explicit consent, you agree to pay the Website Owner
five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each such message.
c.
For the posting of any messages in violation of these
Terms , other than as described above, you agree to pay
the Website Owner five hundred dollars ($500) for each
such message.
d.
For the unauthorized reproduction of any content (except
for your own content) found on the website in violation
of these Terms without the Website Owner’s express
written permission, you agree to pay the Website Owner
five thousand ($5,000) for each day on which you engage
in such conduct.
Otherwise,
you agree to pay the Website Owner’s actual damages, to
the extent such actual damages can be reasonably
calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of these
Terms, the Website Owner retains the right to seek any
equitable remedies, including but not limited to,
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.
11.9 Comments or Questions.
If you have any
questions, comments or concerns arising from the
website, the
Privacy Policy
or any other relevant terms and conditions, policies and
notices or the way in which we are handling your
personal information please email us at
legal@babyswap.net.