TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Sydney Paige Foundation (referred to hereafter as “Sydney Paige”) provides online services that encompass transactions, orders, postings, forums, and email, (referred to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU"). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with the TOU. In addition, when using any Sydney Paige services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines, which may change from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with Sydney Paige in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of Sydney Paige. Sydney Paige has the right, but is not obligated, to strictly enforce the TOU through self-help, community moderation, active investigation, litigation and prosecution.
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ORDERS, FULFILLMENT, AND DELIVERIES
You understand that any orders placed as a result of the Service are a courtesy arrangement to facilitate the movement of goods from the supplier to you. These suppliers are Sydney Paige and third party companies not managed or controlled by Sydney Paige. Sydney Paige does not provide any guarantees for the timing of deliveries, quality of the supplies, reliability of third party vendors, or any other factors related to Service orders and deliveries. Sydney Paige also makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of any order or delivery related information that is provided by third party suppliers. You agree that Sydney Paige is not liable or responsible for late deliveries, missing goods, damaged goods, or any other loss or damage of any kind related to orders and deliveries through the Service. Any order or delivery issues are the sole responsibility of the third party supplier and need to be raised within 3 business days of the receipt of goods. Sydney Paige will help facilitate the resolution of the issues as needed but you acknowledge that Sydney Paige cannot provide refunds, replacements, or other remedies without the approval from the appropriate third party supplier.
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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 each individual item ("Item") of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that Sydney Paige 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 Sydney Paige Website and Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of Sydney Paige. Sydney Paige makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. You acknowledge that Sydney Paige does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that Sydney Paige 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 TOU or for any other reason.
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THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The Sydney Paige Website and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content which is completely independent of Sydney Paige, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole. 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 should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties.
OWNERSHIP OF SERVICES
The Online Drive Services and all underlying technology are expressly licensed to Sydney Paige. Unless otherwise noted, the design and content features on the Services, including without limitation: information and other materials, product layout and design, icons, and the like, are licensed by Sydney Paige. The Services, as a whole and in part, are protected by copyright, and other intellectual property and proprietary rights, and all other applicable rights are reserved.
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No portion of the Services or Site Information may be reprinted, republished, modified, or distributed in any form without Sydney Paige’s express written permission. You may not, and these Terms do not give you permission to, reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, transmit, sell, distribute, license or create derivative works with respect to the Services or any of the Site Information.
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PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
Sydney Paige has developed a Privacy Policy to explain to users how use information is collected and used. This privacy policy is located at http://www.sydneypaige.org/privacy-policy/
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Your use of the Sydney Paige website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that Sydney Paige 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 TOU; 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 harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Sydney Paige, its users or the general public.
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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 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 Sydney Paige employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.);
• that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
• that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, 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 advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by California law.
• that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of Content (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.
Additionally, you agree not to:
• contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose;
• "stalk" or otherwise harass 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 Sydney Paige;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to Sydney Paige'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 Sydney Paige website.
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SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to Sydney Paige email addresses or through Sydney Paige computer systems, which is expressly prohibited by these Terms, will use or cause to be used servers located in California. Any unauthorized use of Sydney Paige 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.
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LIMITATIONS OF SERVICE
You acknowledge that Sydney Paige may establish limits concerning use of the Service. Such limits include 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 Sydney Paige has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that Sydney Paige reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that Sydney Paige shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
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ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
Sydney Paige grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include: (a) access to the Service by third party posting agents; or (b) 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 Sydney Paige. A limited exception to (b) 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.
Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by Sydney Paige immediately terminates said permission or license. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from Sydney Paige.
TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that Sydney Paige, 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 if Sydney Paige believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that Sydney Paige 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.
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PROPERTY 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 Sydney Paige. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of Sydney Paige, 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. SYDNEY PAIGE is a registered mark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Although Sydney Paige 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 Sydney Paige 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 Sydney Paige 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.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE 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, SYDNEY PAIGE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SYDNEY PAIGE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE SYDNEY PAIGE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SYDNEY PAIGE DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE 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.
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LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL SYDNEY PAIGE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF SYDNEY PAIGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE 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 SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SYDNEY PAIGE WEBSITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY CONTRARY LANGUAGE HEREIN, THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO OR LIMIT SYDNEY PAIGE'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR DIRECT DAMAGES OR LOSSES YOU SUFFER DUE TO SYDNEY PAIGE'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, VIOLATION OF LAW, BREACH OF PRIVACY, OR DATA BREACH, WHICH INCLUDES ACTS OF SYDNEY PAIGE'S AGENTS OR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR SERVICE PROVIDERS.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and Sydney Paige and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Sydney Paige. The TOU and the relationship between you and Sydney Paige shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and Sydney Paige agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Contra Costa, California. The failure of Sydney Paige to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOU 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 TOU 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 TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
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VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Please report any violations of the TOU, by emailing to: info@sydneypaige.org.
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. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, Sydney Paige 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.
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MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
Sydney Paige reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon posting. You agree to review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of changes. The most recent version of the TOU is available at http://www.sydneypaige.org/termsandconditions.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Sydney Paige welcomes your comments regarding our Terms and Conditions. If you believe that Sydney Paige has not adhered to these terms, please contact Sydney Paige at info@sydneypaige.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.