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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 SOVAI.com. “You”
refers to all users of the web site. “Sellers” refers to
users who use SOVAI to integrate their payment system.
1.
ADDITIONAL TERMS; MODIFICATIONS TO THE TERMS
SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.com Web
site or the other Services, or disobey any requirements,
procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to
the SOVAI.com web site; and
5.1.6. upload, submit, post, store or transmit any (a)
content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, tortuous, 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 SOVAI acces):
6.1
Any Merchant using the SOVAI service is responsible for
payment for those services and will be invoiced for such
services by SOVAI. Only those merchants that receive a
statement in writing (from SOVAI.com) that the fees
are to be waived are not responsible for paying their
service fees for SOVAI Payment
for the monthly listing shall be made by credit card,
check/debit card or by mailed check/money order. Users
may cancel their service by sending a cancellation request via e-mail. Direct all
cancellation requests to: info@sovai.com.
6.2
Merchants are solely responsible for securing their SOVAI
access, login ID's, passwords and pins for touch-tone order
entry.
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 SOVAI.com.
We neither endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or
reliability of any opinion, advice, information, or
statement made on the SOVAI.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
SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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. SOVAI.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 are not allowed to resale the services purchased from
SOVAI without expressed and written consent of
Thompson Merchant Services/SOVAI.com
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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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:
15.2
the
use or the inability to use the Services;
15.3
the
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;
15.4
unauthorized
access to or alteration of your transmissions or data;
15.5
statements
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;
15.6
your
failure to adequately safeguard your password or access to
the Services;
15.7
any
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;
15.8
termination
of your access to or use of the Services as provided herein;
15.9
the
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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.com
Web site or other Services.
18.
TRADEMARKS
Certain of the names, logos, and other materials displayed
on the SOVAI.com Web site and in and
through the Services constitute trademarks, trade names,
service marks or logos (“Marks”) of SOVAI.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 SOVAI.com
or its licensors (the “Content”), is copyrighted by SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.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. SOVAI.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 SOVAI.com
for use in accessing the Service.
20.
LICENSE
You hereby grant to SOVAI.com and its
successors and assigns, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable,
royalty-free, sublicense able 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 SOVAI.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 SOVAI.com
with respect to the subject matter hereof, and govern your
use of the Services, superseding any prior agreements or
negotiations between you and SOVAI.com with
respect to the subject matter hereof. The Terms and the
relationship between you and SOVAI.com
shall be governed by the laws of the State of Georgia as
applied to agreements made, entered into and performed
entirely in
Georgia by
Georgia 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 Chatham
County,
Georgia 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@sovai.com.
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