Terms Of Use
Terms and Conditions
Last Modified: January 1, 2015
These Terms and Conditions of Use (this "Agreement") apply to your use of the website located at www.superhomesurplus.com and any affiliated website on which this Agreement is posted (collectively, this "Site"), and to any services, content or applications made available on the Site. This Agreement represents a binding contract between you and SHS of TN, LLC d/b/a Super Home Surplus (“Super Home Surplus,” "we", "us" and "our"). Regardless of how you use the Site, you must agree to the terms set forth in this Agreement and, by using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully before you start to use the Site. If you do not agree to any of the terms in this Agreement, do not access, visit or use the Site.
The Site is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older and who reside in the United States or any of its territories or possessions. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with Super Home Surplus and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Site.
1. Modifications
We reserve the right to change, modify or update this Agreement from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Site thereafter. Your use of the Site constitutes your consent to be bound by the terms of the Agreement in effect at the time you access or use the Site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Agreement and familiarizing yourself with any material changes, as they may be binding on you. We encourage you to keep the email address you provide to us current and to promptly notify us if your email address changes by contacting us at [email protected] so that you may receive any notices we send to you regarding changes to this Agreement. If you do not agree with the changes, you should not access or use the Site after a new version of this Agreement takes effect and, if you are a registered user, you may cancel your account with us by contacting us at [email protected]. None of our employees, representatives or agents have the right to modify this Agreement orally or otherwise..
2. Privacy
In connection with your use of the Site, please review our Privacy Policy located at superhomesurplus.com/privacy.html in order to understand how we use information we collect from you when you access or use the Site. If you do not want your information used as outlined in our Privacy Policy, you should not use the Site.
3. Site Offerings
We may make certain services available to visitors of the Site. For example, you may be able to purchase goods or services, sign up for a mailing list to receive relevant advertisements and other information that may be of interest to you, post comments and communicate with us or other users, sign up for promotional offers and sweepstakes, download screensavers or other software, or use any other services we may offer from time to time (collectively, the "Site Offerings").
We reserve the right, for any reason and in our sole discretion, to terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any of our Site Offerings or other feature of the Site, including, but not limited to, content, features or hours of availability. We may also impose limits on certain features of the Site or restrict your access to part or all of the Site without notice or penalty. We may also require that you register with us (as described below) to use the Site or any of the Site Offerings. Our right to suspend or terminate access to the Site Offerings at anytime is further described in Section 13.
4. Your Use of the Site and Affirmative Representations
By entering into this Agreement and using the Site, you represent and warrant that: (a) any information you submit to us is truthful and accurate; (b) you will update your contact information if it changes so that we may contact you as appropriate; (c) your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation; (d) you are 18 years of age or older; and (e) you will comply with the obligations and restrictions set forth in this Agreement.
5. User Content
The Site enhances user experience by providing ways to communicate with us and other users through various third-party social media services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and Myspace. For example, you may be able to post a comment, communicate with us or other users, or submit other information to the Site through the use of applicable third-party social media services. If you choose to make a comment or post content on the Site by logging in to a third-party social media service, your comment will be displayed on the Site in connection with your applicable third-party social media profile name and/or image. Your use of third-party social media services are subject to their terms of use, and not this Agreement.
Users are entirely and solely responsible for the comments, information and other content they provide and post on or transmit through the Site ("User Content"). By contributing in any way to the Site, including, but not limited to, posting comments to the Site through an applicable third-party social media service, you represent and warrant that you own or have sufficient rights to the User Content you submit or post.
Users are encouraged to exercise caution and good judgment when disclosing personal information (such as name or user name, email address, phone number, etc.) on the public portions of this Site that allow users to post comments, communicate with us or other users, or otherwise interact with the Site.
Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information about User Content posted or submitted to the Site, including content and communications posted or submitted through the use of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other applicable third-party social media service.
6. License to Your User Content
You hereby expressly grant us a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable, world-wide license to use in any way, copy, republish or sell your User Content. By using the Site, you agree and acknowledge that any and all communications and/or information transmitted by you to or through the Site will not be treated as confidential or proprietary.
7. Prohibited User Conduct
You represent and warrant that, while using the Site, you will not upload, post, transmit to, distribute or otherwise publish through the Site any User Content that:
(a) violates our or any other person's privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyrights and trademarks) or contract rights;
(b) is unlawful, threatening, harassing, profane, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts (including but not limited to sexual language of a violent or threatening nature directed at another individual or group of individuals), is invasive of another's privacy, or hateful, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or exploits anyone in a sexual or violent manner;
(c) restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Site;
(d) constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability; or
(e) contains a virus or other harmful component, advertising of any kind, or false or misleading indications of origin or statements of fact.
You also represent and warrant that while using the Site you will not:
(i) impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity;
(ii) upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any information or other material obtained through the Site for commercial purposes (other than as expressly permitted by the provider of such information or other material);
(iii) engage in spamming or otherwise send unsolicited commercial communications, or interfere with or disrupt the Site or the networks or services connected to the Site in any other way;
(iv) install or attempt to install or promote spyware, malware or other computer code, to enable you or others to gather information about or monitor activities of other persons, or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Site; or
(v) use the Site for any unauthorized purpose.
8. Registration; Usernames and Passwords
You may be required to register with us to access certain areas of the Site. In our sole discretion, we may refuse to grant you, and you may not use, a user name or email address that: (a) belongs to or is already being used by another person or entity; (b) may be construed as impersonating another person; (c) violates the intellectual property or other rights of any person; (d) is offensive; or (e) we reject for any other reason in our sole discretion.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any password you may use to access the Site. You represent and warrant that you will not transfer your password or user name, or lend, sell, link, exploit for any commercial purposes or otherwise transfer your use of or access to the Site, to any third party. You are fully responsible for all actions that occur in connection with your user name. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or user name or any other breach of security related to your account, your user name or the Site.
9. Our Intellectual Property Rights
The Site and its entire contents, including, but not limited to, the trademarks, service marks, logos, text, information, material, software and graphics contained on this Site, are owned by us, our affiliates or our or their licensors or licensees (collectively, the "Materials"). The Materials are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws and treaties. We make no proprietary claim to any third-party content, names, trademarks or service marks appearing on this Site, which are the properties of their respective owners. The Site and the Materials are for your information and personal use only and not for commercial exploitation by you. You may not: (a) modify the Materials or use them for any commercial purpose, or any other public display, performance, sale, or rental; (b) decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble software materials; (c) remove any copyright notice or other proprietary notices from the Materials; or (d) transfer the materials to another person. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.
10. Copyright Policy and DMCA Notification
We have a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the access rights of repeat infringers. If you believe that any User Content on this Site violates your copyright rights, please sent us a notice of copyright infringement to the following address:
President, Consumer Products
SHS of TN, LLC d/b/a Super Home Surplus
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Notifications
To be effective, the notification must be a written communication that includes the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online website are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that website;
- 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 us to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has 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
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Counter Notifications
If we give you notice that we have removed or disabled access to material that you uploaded to this Site, you may provide a counter notification in writing to our designated agent to have the material restored. To be effective, the counter notification must be a written communication that includes the following:
- Your physical or electronic signature;
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
- A statement from you under the penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
- Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a United States District Court for the judicial district in which your physical address is located, or if your physical address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.
A copy of your counter notification will be forwarded to the person who filed the original notification of claimed copyright infringement against you. If you file a counter notice, access to your material will be restored unless the copyright owner files suit against you for copyright infringement.
Sanctions for False Statements
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)) (the “DMCA”), you may be held liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, for making false statements under oath in a notification or counter notification.
11. Our Right to Monitor the Site
We reserve the right, but do not undertake the obligation, to monitor conduct or content posted on or transmitted through the Site. We may disclose any information as necessary or appropriate to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, to operate the Site properly, or to protect ourselves or our users. We reserve the right, but undertake no obligation, to refuse to post or remove any User Content or Materials, in whole or in part, that we determine, in our sole discretion, to be unacceptable, undesirable, inappropriate or in violation this Agreement.
12. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless us, our affiliates, licensors and service providers, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of this Agreement or your use of the Site, including, but not limited to, your User Content, any use of the Site's content, services and products, other than as expressly authorized in this Agreement, or your use of any information obtained from the Site.
13. Termination of Access; Changes to the Site
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, TO RESTRICT OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE OR ANY FEATURE OR PART OF THE SITE, OR TO CHANGE, SUSPEND OR DISCONTINUE ANY ASPECT OF THIS SITE FOR ANY REASON OR NO REASON AT ALL, AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.
14. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, SERVICES, GRAPHICS, FUNCTIONS AND MATERIALS, IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES, OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS; ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR THE FUNCTIONS, FEATURES OR CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN WILL BE TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT THE CONTENT WILL BE CORRECT, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE WILL MEET USERS' REQUIREMENTS. NO ADVICE, RESULTS OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
15. Limitation of Liability
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR ANY OF OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, OR CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, MATERIALS AND FUNCTIONS RELATED TO IT, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATIONAL TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUSES OR LINE FAILURE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS OR LOST SALES, EVEN IF WE OR SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO CERTAIN USERS. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, EXCHANGED OR RECEIVED BY OR ON BEHALF OF ANY USER OR OTHER PERSON ON OR THROUGH THE SITE.
16. Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not controlled by us or our affiliates. We do not make any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the content of any of these third-party websites. These links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, authorization or sponsorship by, or affiliation with us with respect to any third party, any third party's website, the content of any third party's website, or any products or services provided by any third party.
17. Other Countries
We control and operate the Site from our offices in the United States of America. We do not represent that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access the Site from other locations do so at their own risk, and are responsible for compliance with the laws of that jurisdiction.
18. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and the State of Kentucky, without giving effect to any choice of law rule that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than Kentucky. By using the Site, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of state and federal courts located in Warren County, Kentucky and the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, for any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Site or the use of, or reliance on, the Site.
19. Independent Contractors
No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship is created as a result of this Agreement and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind us in any respect whatsoever.
20. No Third Party Beneficiaries
This Agreement is between you and us. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Agreement.
21. Non-Waiver
The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.
22. Severability
If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
23. Assignment
This Agreement is not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you, except with our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign or delegate this Agreement and our rights and obligations without your consent.
24. Entire Agreement
This Agreement supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, representations and warranties and understandings, whether oral or written, with respect to the Site, the Site's contents and any services provided on the Site, including amendments to this Agreement that are not posted on the Site and that do not fall under Section 1 (Modifications). In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any other agreement or understanding related to the Site, this Agreement shall control.