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Last Updated July 11, 2008
THIS AGREEMENT OF TERMS OF USE (this "Agreement”) is made as of
this day, by and between Strategic Development Group, LLC, a Florida corporation
(“FlatRateExpress.com”), and you. This Agreement sets forth the terms and
conditions that apply to your access and use of the Internet websites owned and
operated by FlatRateExpress.com and its affiliates, including, but not limited to
the website located at the URL
www.FlatRateExpress.com ("
www.FlatRateExpress.com "). If you do not agree with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, please do not access or use www.FlatRateExpress.com
.
Your Right to Access and Use www.FlatRateExpress.com
Your right to access and use
www.FlatRateExpress.com is personal to you and is not transferable by you to
any other person or entity. You are only entitled to access and use
www.FlatRateExpress.com for lawful
purposes and pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Your
access and use of www.FlatRateExpress.com
may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including,
but not limited to, the malfunction of FlatRateExpress.com's equipment, periodic
updating, maintenance or repair activities that FlatRateExpress.com may undertake
from time to time, or other actions that FlatRateExpress.com, in its sole
discretion, may elect to take. FlatRateExpress.com reserves the right to
suspend or discontinue the availability of
www.FlatRateExpress.com and/or any of
its listings and/or features for access and use at any time in its sole
discretion and without prior notice to you.
Your Registration with www.FlatRateExpress.com
Certain features of
www.FlatRateExpress.com are accessible only to registered users. The
right to register with
www.FlatRateExpress.com and to be issued an email address, username or
password by FlatRateExpress.com is available only to those individuals who provide
to FlatRateExpress.com the requested accurate, complete and current personal
information. You must inform FlatRateExpress.com of any changes to or
updates of any personal information that you provide to FlatRateExpress.com.
You can submit changes or updates to FlatRateExpress.com at
strategy@FlatRateExpress.com. FlatRateExpress.com reserves the right
to deny or revoke issuance of any email address, username or password at any
time and without prior notice.
Your Compliance with this Agreement
By accessing and using
www.FlatRateExpress.com (other than to read this Agreement), you agree to
comply with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including any
changes or revisions to this Agreement, which FlatRateExpress.com, in its sole
discretion, may make in the future. In order to determine your compliance
with this Agreement, FlatRateExpress.com may monitor your access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com in accordance
with FlatRateExpress.com's Privacy Policy for
www.FlatRateExpress.com located at the
URL http://www.FlatRateExpress.com/PrivacyPolicy.aspx.
Any action by you that, in FlatRateExpress.com's sole discretion, violates the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, or restricts, inhibits or prevents any
third party from accessing, using or enjoying
www.FlatRateExpress.com , or through
the use of www.FlatRateExpress.com ,
defames, abuses, harasses, offends or threatens any other user or third party,
shall not be permitted, and may result in your loss of the right to access and
use of www.FlatRateExpress.com .
You shall not provide links to or frame
www.FlatRateExpress.com without the prior express written permission of
FlatRateExpress.com.
Your Compliance With Fair Housing Regulations
When you access and use
www.FlatRateExpress.com , you agree to abide by applicable federal and state
housing regulations with regard to your access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com . You
agree that by or through your access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com , you shall
not discriminate in the sale or financing of your property on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin. For
example, you may not list a property's availability to certain persons based on
race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.
FlatRateExpress.com reserves the right to refuse to list or post, or to edit,
information submitted by you that discriminates on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.
Pursuant to FlatRateExpress.com's Privacy Policy for
www.FlatRateExpress.com located at the
URL http://www.FlatRateExpress.com/PrivacyPolicy.aspx,
FlatRateExpress.com may report you to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban
Development or other appropriate authorities if you submit or post, or attempt
to submit or post, information that that discriminates in the sale or financing
of your property on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability,
familial status or national origin.
Your Transmissions, Submissions and Postings to
www.FlatRateExpress.com
If you transmit, submit or post information to
www.FlatRateExpress.com (including,
without limitation, your name, contact phone number, property location, style,
features, selling price and description, and any pictures and virtual tours of
your property), you automatically grant FlatRateExpress.com the worldwide,
fully-paid, royalty-free, exclusive right and license to use, copy, format,
adapt, publish and/or incorporate any or all such information in any media
whatsoever, including, without limitation, the Content.
FlatRateExpress.com may, in its sole discretion, edit, refuse to post or
remove any information you transmit, submit or post to
www.FlatRateExpress.com .
You shall not transmit, submit or post information to
www.FlatRateExpress.com that contains
any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, easter eggs, time
bombs, cancelbots or other code or computer programming routines that contain
contaminating or destructive properties or that are intended to damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any
system, data or personal information. Pursuant to FlatRateExpress.com's Privacy
Policy for www.FlatRateExpress.com
located at the URL http://www.FlatRateExpress.com/privacy.asp ,
FlatRateExpress.com may monitor any transmissions, submissions or postings by you
to determine, in its sole discretion, your compliance with this Agreement.
FlatRateExpress.com's Intellectual Property Rights
The names “FlatRateExpress.com” and "buyowner.com" and the FlatRateExpress.com and
buyowner.com logos and graphics are trademarks of FlatRateExpress.com, and may not
be used by you without the prior express written permission of
FlatRateExpress.com, which permission may be withheld in FlatRateExpress.com's sole
discretion.
The proprietary information, data and content viewable on, contained in, or
downloadable from, www.FlatRateExpress.com
(collectively, the “Content”), including, without limitation, all text,
graphics, charts, pictures, photographs, images and line art, are copyrighted
by, or otherwise licensed to, FlatRateExpress.com. If you provide
FlatRateExpress.com with, or FlatRateExpress.com obtains or otherwise provides,
information on your property, including, without limitation, your name, contact
phone number, property location, style, features, selling price and description,
and any pictures and virtual tours of your property, you automatically grant
FlatRateExpress.com the worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, exclusive right and
license to use, copy, format, adapt, publish and/or incorporate any or all such
information in any media whatsoever, including, without limitation, the Content.
FlatRateExpress.com also owns a copyright of a collective work in the selection,
coordination, arrangement, presentation, display and enhancement of the Content.
Viewing, reading, printing, downloading or otherwise using the Content in
accordance with this Agreement does not entitle you to any ownership or
intellectual property rights to the Content.
You shall be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your infringement
of FlatRateExpress.com's intellectual property rights regarding the
“FlatRateExpress.com” and "buyowner.com" names, the FlatRateExpress.com and
buyowner.com logos and graphics, and/or the Content, and/or any other harm
incurred by FlatRateExpress.com as a direct or indirect result of your copying,
distributing, redistributing, transmitting, publishing or using the same for
purposes that are contrary to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Your Use of the Content
Without the prior written consent of FlatRateExpress.com, you may only print,
download or otherwise use the Content in the form of: (i) one machine-readable
copy; (ii) one backup copy; and (iii) one print copy, for your non-commercial
use; provided, however, that you shall not delete any proprietary notices or
materials with regard to the foregoing manifestations of the Content. You
may not modify the Content or utilize it for any commercial purpose or any other
public display, performance, sale or rental. You may not decompile,
reverse engineer or disassemble the Content in any way. You may not use
the Content to contact or otherwise solicit property buyers or sellers in any
way, except to contact the seller of a property with regard to purchasing that
property.
Except as otherwise permitted under the copyright laws of the United States, no
other copying, distribution, redistribution, transmission, publication or use,
other than the non-commercial use of the Content as permitted by this Agreement,
is permitted by you without the express prior written permission of
FlatRateExpress.com, which permission may be withheld in FlatRateExpress.com's sole
discretion.
Access and Interference.
This website contains robot exclusion headers. Much of the information on this
website is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to
FlatRateExpress.com by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use
any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the website for
any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that
you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole
discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from,
distribute or publicly display any content (except for your personal
information) from this website without the prior expressed written permission of
FlatRateExpress.com and the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii)
interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this website or any
activities conducted on this website; or (iv) bypass our robot exclusion headers
or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to this website.
FlatRateExpress.com Makes No Representations or Warranties Regarding
Content
The Content is being provided to you on an “as-is” basis.
FlatRateExpress.com does not make any representations, warranties or guarantees,
express or implied, regarding the accuracy, correctness, or completeness of the
Content, nor the safety, reliability, title, merchantability, conformity or
fitness for a particular purpose of the Content. It is your sole
responsibility to independently evaluate the accuracy, correctness or
completeness of the Content on
www.FlatRateExpress.com .
FlatRateExpress.com makes no representation, warranty or guarantee that the
Content that may be available for downloading from
www.FlatRateExpress.com is free of
infection from any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, easter
eggs, time bombs, cancelbots or other code or computer programming routines that
contain contaminating or destructive properties or that are intended to damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any
system, data or personal information.
Your Responsibility for Equipment and Related Costs
You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer
hardware, Internet access services and other equipment or services needed to
access and use www.FlatRateExpress.com
, and all costs and fees associated with Internet access or long distance
charges incurred with regard to your access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com .
Third Party Links
There may be provided on www.FlatRateExpress.com links to other websites belonging
to FlatRateExpress.com's advertisers, business partners, affiliates and other
third parties. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by
FlatRateExpress.com of those websites, nor the products or services listed on
those websites. FlatRateExpress.com is not responsible for the activities or
policies of those websites.
Limitations on FlatRateExpress.com's Liability
FlatRateExpress.com shall in no event be responsible to, or liable to, you, or any
third party, whether in contract, warranty, tort (including negligence) or
otherwise, for any damages, including, but not limited to, special, incidental,
indirect or consequential damages that include, but are not limited to, damages
for any loss of profit, revenue or business, as a direct or indirect result of:
(i) your breach or violation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement; (ii)
your access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com ; (iii) your inability to access or use
www.FlatRateExpress.com for any
reason; (iv) your downloading of any of the Content for your use; or (v) your
reliance upon or use of the Content.
Your Indemnification of FlatRateExpress.com
You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless FlatRateExpress.com and its
officers, directors, shareholders, employees, independent contractors, agents,
representatives and affiliates from and against all claims and expenses,
including, but not limited to, attorneys' fees, arising out of, or attributable
to: (i) any breach or violation of this Agreement by you; (ii) your failure to
provide accurate, complete and current personal information requested pursuant
to registration or the listing of your property; (iii) your access or use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com ; and/or (iv)
access or use of www.FlatRateExpress.com
under any email address, username or password that may be issued to you.
Third Party Rights Under this Agreement
This Agreement is for the benefit of FlatRateExpress.com and its affiliates, each
of which shall have the right to enforce and assert the terms and conditions of
this Agreement directly against you on behalf of FlatRateExpress.com.
Amendments of this Agreement
FlatRateExpress.com reserves the right to amend this Agreement at any time in its
sole discretion and without notice. Changes, revisions or deletions with
regard to this Agreement shall be effective immediately upon their inclusion in,
or deletion from, this Agreement, and the posting of the same in this Agreement
on www.FlatRateExpress.com .
You are encouraged to revisit this Agreement from time to time in order to
review any changes that have been made. Your continued access and use of
www.FlatRateExpress.com following the
posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of the
same.
FlatRateExpress.com's Remedies
You acknowledge that FlatRateExpress.com may be irreparably damaged if this
Agreement is not specifically enforced, and damages at law would be an
inadequate remedy. Therefore, in the event of a breach or threatened
breach of any provision of this Agreement by you, FlatRateExpress.com shall be
entitled, in addition to all rights and remedies, to an injunction restraining
such breach or threatened breach, without being required to show any actual
damage or to post an injunction bond, and/or to a decree for specific
performance of the provisions of this Agreement.
For purposes of this Section, you agree that any action or proceeding with
regard to such injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach shall be
brought in the courts of record of Broward County, Florida, or the United States
District Court, Southern District of Florida. You consent to the
jurisdiction of such court and waive any objection to the laying of the venue of
any such action or proceeding in such court. You agree that service of any
court paper may be effected on such party by mail or in such other manner as may
be provided under applicable laws, rules of procedure or local rules.
Termination of this Agreement
You may terminate or opt out of this Agreement at any time by contacting
FlatRateExpress.com at strategy@FlatRateExpress.com.
Termination or opting out of this Agreement by you shall result in your loss of
the right to access and use
www.FlatRateExpress.com .
FlatRateExpress.com may terminate this Agreement or any email addresses, usernames
or passwords that may be issued to you, at any time, without prior notice, for
any reason, or for no reason, which shall not be required to be disclosed to
you.
Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Venue
This Agreement is to be governed and construed in accordance with the internal
laws of the State of Florida, without regard for principles of conflicts of
laws. Any civil action, claim, dispute or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement, except for an injunctive action regarding a breach
or threatened breach of any provision of this Agreement by you, shall be
referred to final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator, under the
commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in Broward
County, Florida. The arbitrator shall be selected by you and
FlatRateExpress.com, and if you and FlatRateExpress.com are unable to reach
agreement on selection of the arbitrator within thirty (30) days after the
notice of arbitration is served, then the arbitrator shall be selected by the
American Arbitration Association.
Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final, binding and
conclusive upon you and FlatRateExpress.com and your and FlatRateExpress.com's
respective administrators, executors, legal representatives, successors and
assigns, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, in no event shall either you or
FlatRateExpress.com be entitled to punitive damages and both you and
FlatRateExpress.com hereby waive your and FlatRateExpress.com's respective rights to
any punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages, including, but not
limited to, damages for any loss of profit, revenue or business.
Miscellaneous
If any portion of this Agreement is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by
any arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, this Agreement as a whole
shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of
this Agreement that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from
this Agreement.
The headings contained in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only,
are not to be considered a part of this Agreement, and shall not limit or
otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this
Agreement, as may be amended by FlatRateExpress.com from time to time, shall
survive your acceptance of this Agreement.
This Agreement represents the entire understanding and agreement between you and
FlatRateExpress.com regarding the subject matter of this Agreement, and supersedes
all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding
the same.
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