Terms and Conditions
ChoiceOfHomes.com provides this internet web site and
the services offered on it (collectively, the “Services”)
under the following terms and conditions of service and use (the “Terms”).
Please read them carefully. You understand, agree and acknowledge that
your use and the Services provided to you are exclusively governed by
these Terms which cannot be modified by you. By accessing and using
the Services, you agree that you have read and understand the Terms
and that you agree to be bound by them, without limitation or qualification
and that no signatures are required to implement the Terms. As used
on this Web site, the terms “we”, “us”, or “our”
refer to ChoiceOfHomes.com. “You” refers to all users of
the web site. “Sellers” refers to users who list their properties
for sale on the web site.
1. ADDITIONAL TERMS; MODIFICATIONS TO THE TERMS
ChoiceOfHomes.com may change the Terms from time to time without prior
notification to you. Each time you access the web site you will be governed
by the Terms then in effect. All of such changes will be posted on the
ChoiceOfHomes.com home page. If you object to any such changes, your sole
recourse shall be to cease using the Services. Continued use of the Services
following any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such
changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such
changes, without limitation or qualification. In addition, when using
particular portions of the Services, you will be governed by additional
terms which will appear when accessing such Services. All such additional
terms are herein incorporated by reference. In the event of a conflict
between such additional terms and these Terms, such additional terms shall
govern when you access such Services.
2. MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICES
We reserve the right to modify or discontinue (temporarily or permanently)
the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you. We shall
not be liable to you or any third party if we exercise our right to modify
or discontinue the Services. If you object to any such changes, your sole
recourse shall be to cease using the Services. Continued use of the Services
following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement
of such changes and satisfaction with the Services as so modified.
3. PRIVACY
As part of the registration process, Sellers will be asked to provide
certain personal information to us. You acknowledge, consent and agree
that ChoiceOfHomes.com may access, preserve, and disclose your account
information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith
belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary
to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms; (c) respond
to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond
to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property,
or personal safety of ChoiceOfHomes.com, its users and the public. All
uses of such personal information will be in accordance with the provisions
of our Privacy Policy.
4. YOUR LISTING, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
Sellers will be assigned individual listing numbers and passwords. You
are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your listing number
and password and you are solely responsible for all activities that occur
under your listing number and password. You agree to immediately notify
us of any unauthorized use of your listing number and password or any
other breach of security related to the Services. WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT
BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM YOUR FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY
SAFEGUARD YOUR LISTING NUMBER AND/OR PASSWORD, OR TO OTHERWISE COMPLY
WITH THIS SECTION.
5. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
In providing us with information during the registration process, you
agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information as prompted
and to maintain and update such information to keep it true, accurate,
current and complete at all times. If any information you provide is untrue,
inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if we reasonably believe so,
we may suspend or terminate your access to and use of the Services, and
refuse to provide any current or future Services to you. You acknowledge
that you are over 18 years of age or otherwise are of legal age to form
a binding contract. You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining
all telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed for access
to and use of the Services and all charges related thereto. You are solely
responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under your listing number
or password, including the accuracy and completeness of all content that
you (or anyone using your account) submit, post or transmit through the
Services.
You agree not to use the Services to do
any of the following:
5.1.1. violate any local, state, national
or international law;
5.1.2. stalk, harass or harm another individual
or communicate with such individual after being advised to cease any such
communications;
5.1.3. collect, harvest or store personal
data about other users including email addresses or contact Sellers for
any purpose other than responding to the content posted by such Sellers;
5.1.4. impersonate any person or entity,
or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
5.1.5. interfere with or disrupt the Services
or servers or networks connected to the ChoiceOfHomes.com Web site or
the other Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies
or regulations of networks connected to the ChoiceOfHomes.com web site;
and
5.1.6. upload, submit, post, store or
transmit any (a) content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of
another’s privacy, hateful, racist, sexist, homophobic, or ethnically
or otherwise objectionable; (b) content that you do not have a right to
transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
(c) content that infringes the intellectual property rights of a third
party; or (d) material that contains software viruses or any other computer
code, files or programs, for example, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots,
time bombs and the like, designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality
of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
(d) unsolicited advertising material, notices or “spam”, “junk
mail”, pyramid schemes, chain letters or the like; (e) surveys that
have not been approved or cleared by us;or (f) contests or games of chance.
6. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN REGARD TO
PROPERTY LISTINGS (if applicable):
You agree that listings paid for will
be made available online only for the duration stated in the scheme selected.
There is no refund offered for any of the listing schemes.
7. THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND MONITORING
We are a distributor (and not a publisher) of Content supplied by third
parties and users of the Services. Accordingly, we have no editorial control
over such Content. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers,
or other information or Content expressed or made available by third parties,
including information provided by other users of the Services, are those
of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) of that information and
not of ChoiceOfHomes.com. We neither endorse nor are responsible for
the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, information, or statement
made on the ChoiceOfHomes.com Web site by such parties. By posting, inputting
or otherwise submitting information to our web site, you are representing
you are the rightful owner of such information and are granting us the
right, license and privilege to use such information or data in any way
we deem appropriate. We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor
and review the Content on the ChoiceOfHomes.com Web site and provided
through use of the Services and your account to determine compliance with
these Terms and any other operating rules established by us, to satisfy
any law, regulation or authorized government request, or for other purposes.
You understand and acknowledge that we do not pre-screen or monitor Content
for accuracy or reliability, but that we and our designees shall have
the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to remove any
Content from the Services, without liability to you for any reason. Without
limiting the foregoing, we and our designees shall have the right to remove
any Content that violates the Terms, that we believe may create liability
for us, or that we deem otherwise objectionable.
8. DEALINGS WITH PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS
Your correspondence or business dealings with, participation in promotions
of, or purchase of goods and/or services from our partners, advertisers
or sponsors found on or through the Services, and any terms, conditions,
warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely
between you and such partner(s), advertiser(s) or sponsor(s). YOU AGREE
THAT ChoiceOfHomes.com SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS
OR DAMAGE OF ANY SORT INCURRED AS THE RESULT OF ANY SUCH DEALINGS, OR
AS THE RESULT OF THE PRESENCE OF SUCH PARTNERS, ADVERTISERS OR SPONSORS
ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES.
9. EXTERNAL LINKS
Our provision of a link to any other Web site or location is for your
convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other Web site
or location or its contents. Any concerns you may have regarding any external
link should be directed to that link’s Web site administrator or
webmaster. ChoiceOfHomes.com SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INFORMATION,
SOFTWARE, OR LINKS FOUND AT ANY OTHER WEB SITE, INTERNET LOCATION, OR
SOURCE OF INFORMATION, OR FOR YOUR USE OF SUCH INFORMATION.
10. NO SPAM
We do not condone or allow spam. We prohibit you from using the Services
to promote your own Web site or any business, product or service through
the sending of unsolicited email. We reserve the right to investigate
and terminate your rights under this Agreement.
11. USE AND STORAGE
You acknowledge and agree that we may establish general practices and
limits concerning use of the Services, including, without limitation,
the maximum number of days that information, data, account history or
other uploaded Content will be retained by the Services and the maximum
number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the
Services in a given period of time.
12. NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for
any commercial purposes, any portion of the Services, use of the Services
or access to the Services. The Services are provided for your personal,
noncommercial use only.
13. TERMINATION
You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may terminate your password,
account (or any part thereof) or access to and use of the Services, and
remove and discard any information posted by you on or through the Services,
for any reason or no reason, with or without notice and effective immediately,
including, without limitation, if we believe that you have violated or
acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. You acknowledge
and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your account and
all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further
access to such files or the Services. You agree that we may terminate
your account if it remains inactive for an extended period of time. FURTHER,
YOU AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY
TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICES. You may discontinue your participation
in and access to the Services at any time.
14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE
SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”
BASIS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT
WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES.
WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (A) THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
OR THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE;
(B) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL
BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; (C) THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR QUALITY OF ANY
INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SERVICES OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED THROUGH THE
SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; (D) DEFECTS IN THE SERVICES WILL
BE CORRECTED; OR (E) THE ChoiceOfHomes.com WEB SITE OR THE SERVER THAT
MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL AND/OR INFORMATION DOWNLOADED
OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR
OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM(S) OR FOR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM
THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR INFORMATION.
WE DO NOT CONTROL IN ANY RESPECT ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES
OFFERED BY THIRD PARTIES, AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS
OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES OR ANY TRANSACTIONS
ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR AS THE RESULT OF THE SERVICES.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM
ChoiceOfHomes.com OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY
NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN.
15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL ChoiceOfHomes.com OR ITS OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES,
AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES
FOR LOSS OF REVENUES, PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE
LOSSES (EVEN IF SUCH PARTIES WERE ADVISED OF, KNEW OF OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED
TO:
15.2the use or the inability to use the
Services;
15.3the cost of procurement of substitute
goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services
purchased or obtained or transactions entered into through or from the
Services;
15.4unauthorized access to or alteration
of your transmissions or data;
15.5statements or conduct of any third
party on or through the Services, including threatening, defamatory, obscene,
offensive or illegal conduct or any infringement of another’s rights,
including intellectual property rights;
15.6your failure to adequately safeguard
your password or access to the Services;
15.7any Content you access through the
services, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in
any Content, or your use of or reliance on any Content posted, emailed
or otherwise transmitted through the Services;
15.8termination of your access to or use
of the Services as provided herein;
15.9the deletion or failure to store any
information or data, communications or Content maintained or transmitted
by or through the Services;
15.10 any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Services (or any part thereof) or these terms;
15.11 use of or reliance on any Content,
goods or services available on any other Web sites that you access through
the Services; and
15.12 any other matter relating to the
Services or these Terms.
16. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or
the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential
damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations and disclaimers may
not apply to you. To the extent that we may not, as a matter of applicable
law, disclaim any implied warranty or limit its liabilities, the scope
and duration of such warranty and the extent of our liability shall be
the minimum permitted under such applicable law.
17. INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless ChoiceOfHomes.com, its
parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, co-branders or
other partners, employees, consultants and agents from and against any
and all third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses,
fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) that such parties may
incur as a result of or arising from (1) any information or Content (as
defined below) that you (or anyone using your account) submits, posts
or transmits through the Services, (2) your (or anyone using your account’s)
use of the Services, (3) your (or anyone using your account’s) violation
of these Terms, (4) your (or anyone using your account’s) violation
of any rights of any other person or entity or (5) any viruses, trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other similar harmful or deleterious
programming routines input by you into the ChoiceOfHomes.com Web site
or other Services.
18. TRADEMARKS
Certain names, logos, and other materials displayed on the ChoiceOfHomes.com
Web site and in and through the Services constitute trademarks, trade
names, service marks or logos (“Marks”) of ChoiceOfHomes.com
or other entities. You are not authorized to use any such Marks. Ownership
of all such Marks and the goodwill associated therewith remains with us
or those other entities.
19. COPYRIGHTS; RESTRICTIONS ON USE
The content of the Services, including without limitation, text, software,
music, sound, photos, graphics, video, page layout and design and other
material contained in the Services or information presented through the
Services by ChoiceOfHomes.com or its licensors (the “Content”),
is copyrighted by ChoiceOfHomes.com and/or its licensors under United
States and international copyright laws, is subject to other intellectual
property and proprietary rights and laws, including trademark and patent
laws, and is owned by ChoiceOfHomes.com or its licensors. The Content
may not be copied, modified, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted,
transmitted, sold, offered for sale, or redistributed in any way without
the prior written permission of ChoiceOfHomes.com and our applicable
licensors. You must abide by all copyright notices, information, or restrictions
contained in or attached to any Content. You acknowledge and agree that
the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service
("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information
that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws.
You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements
or information presented to you through the Service or advertisers is
protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary
rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by ChoiceOfHomes.com
or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute
or create derivative works based on the Service or the Software, in whole
or in part. ChoiceOfHomes.com grants you a personal, non-transferable
and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software
on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third
party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer,
reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell,
assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer
any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any
manner or form, or to use modified versions of the Software, including
(without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access
to the Service. You agree not to access the Service by any means other
than through the interface that is provided by ChoiceOfHomes.com for
use in accessing the Service.
20. LICENSE
You hereby grant to ChoiceOfHomes.com and its successors and assigns,
a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable right,
in any media now known or currently known, to exercise all copyright and
other intellectual property rights with respect the Content you provide
to us to be published on the ChoiceOfHomes.com Web site or on or through
the Services or otherwise through the Services, to use, distribute, display,
reproduce, modify and create derivative works from such material, in any
and all media, in any manner, in whole or in part, without any duty to
account to you. The foregoing does not apply to Content contained on hyper
linked pages or any other Content you do not submit to us.
21. MISCELLANEOUS
The Terms constitute the entire and exclusive and final statement of the
agreement between you and ChoiceOfHomes.com with respect to the subject
matter hereof, and govern your use of the Services, superseding any prior
agreements or negotiations between you and ChoiceOfHomes.com with respect
to the subject matter hereof. The Terms and the relationship between you
and ChoiceOfHomes.com shall be governed by the laws of the State of New
York as applied to agreements made, entered into and performed entirely
in New York by New York residents, notwithstanding your actual place of
residence. All lawsuits arising out of the Terms or out of your use of
the Services shall be brought in the Federal or state courts having jurisdiction
over New York County, New York and you hereby irrevocably submit to the
exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts for such purpose. Service
of Process in any such action may be effected either by certified mail,
return receipt requested or by recognized national private carrier where
you or your authorized agent accept delivery of such service of process.
Our failure 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 that 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 Services or
the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause
of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms
are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
22. VIOLATIONS
Please report any violations of the Terms to us at info@ChoiceOfHomes.com.