Mxpreview.com Content Provider Agreement
This User Agreement (or "Agreement")
is a legal agreement between you and Master Mind Alliance, LLC d/b/a
Mxpreview.com ("Mxpreview.com" or "us") governing your
participation on the Mxpreview.com site as a Content Provider. By using, accessing or registering as a
member of Mxpreview.com, you agree to be bound by and hereby become a party to
all the terms of this Agreement. If you
do not agree with the terms and conditions in this Agreement, you may not
become a member, provide content, review products on Mxpreview.com.
We can amend this Agreement
either by emailing you about the amended terms, which take effect when we send
you the email, or by posting the amended terms on Mxpreview.com, which take
effect when we post them. By continuing
to access or use Mxpreview.com after any such amendment, you agree to be bound
by the terms of the amended Agreement. Otherwise, this Agreement may be amended only by a writing physically
signed by us.
A Note About Minors. The Mxpreview.com
Network is not targeted towards, nor intended for use by anyone under the age
of 13. By using the Mxpreview.com
Network, you represent and warrant that you are not targeting persons 13 years
of age or younger. Minors under the age
of 13 are not allowed to register for Mxpreview.com or to participate in the
online activities of the Mxpreview.com without advance written permission from
their parent or legal guardian. We
reserve the right to terminate your membership in the event that Mxpreview.com
becomes aware you are targeting persons under 13.
Membership. You may
become a "Member" of Mxpreview.com, which may grant you additional privileges,
by completing the membership application form. Becoming a Member allows you to post content on Mxpreview.com.
You agree as a condition of use and
membership that we may contact you for the purpose of informing you of changes
to this Agreement or describing new services available on Mxpreview.com.
You are responsible for safeguarding the
password that you use to access any secure areas of Mxpreview.com.
You agree not to disclose your password to
any third party. You agree to take sole
responsibility for any activities or actions under your password, whether or
not you have authorized such activities or actions.
You will immediately notify Mxpreview.com of any unauthorized use
of your password.
Content. Mxpreview.com
provides a number of different services to assist in comparison shopping for
products. Mxpreview.com provides
information regarding products and third party merchants, and links to third
party merchants that are selling listed products.
The products listed on Mxpreview.com are sold by third party
merchants, and are not sold by Mxpreview.com unless specifically labeled as
coming from Mxpreview.com.
Mxpreview.com does not sell,
resell or license any products listed on Mxpreview.com unless specifically
labeled by sold by Mxpreview.com; nor is Mxpreview.com acting as an agent of
sale without an express agreement stating otherwise.
Mxpreview.com disclaims any responsibility for, or liability
related to, such products not sold by Mxpreview.com (see Disclaimer of
Warranties below). Any question,
complaints or claims should be directed to the appropriate merchant or seller.
Mxpreview.com does not warrant
that product descriptions, pricing, editorial commentary or any other content
of Mxpreview.com, regardless of its source, is accurate, complete, reliable,
current or error-free. Mxpreview.com
content is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an
endorsement by Mxpreview.com of any product, merchant, seller or service.
You should not rely on such information in
situations where its inaccuracy would cause you to suffer any loss (see Disclaimer
of Warranties and Liability Limits below).
You are solely responsible for any content you provide.
Mxpreview.com assumes no liability for
inaccuracy or incompleteness in its search results, editorial content, user
ratings (e.g., user merchant rating,
user product rating) or other content on Mxpreview.com.
Consumer reviews and ratings on
Mxpreview.com are from our members who have elected to post a review on
Mxpreview.com. Mxpreview.com is not
responsible for nor have any control over these ratings.
As such, these reviews and ratings are
intended to be informative for those wishing to use them, but they do not
guarantee any level of performance by a merchant or other third party in any
given transaction. Mxpreview.com does
not guarantee any specific outcome or traffic to your products for
reviews.
Mxpreview.com is not
responsible for the content of the reviews. Mxpreview.com is not in a position to arbitrate disputes between the
various posters on Mxpreview.com including between vendors and reviewers. Accordingly, we encourage all parties to
resolve their disputes directly, you should contact the party at issue directly
to resolve any disputes. Similarly,
Mxpreview.com does not control and assumes no responsibility for content that
appears on a third party's website that may be accessed via Mxpreview.com, and
you should contact third party sites directly to resolve any disputes.
Participating merchants and
other third parties may pay Mxpreview.com to be presented on Mxpreview.com or
to have their product or service offerings placed higher in our search results,
and may also purchase research from Mxpreview.com, but in no event do such
payments affect the reviews or ratings given to any merchant by participating
members.
You may download, view and
print a single copy of any other content, solely for your personal and
non-commercial purposes, subject to the restrictions set forth in this
Agreement. All right, title, and
interest in and to Mxpreview.com, and any other content appearing on Mxpreview.com,
will remain the exclusive property of Mxpreview.com and its licensors. Except as expressly permitted in this
Agreement, you may not reproduce, modify or prepare derivative works based
upon, distribute, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit,
or otherwise use Mxpreview.com, or any other content appearing on
Mxpreview.com. You may not copy or
modify the HTML code used to generate web pages on Mxpreview.com. You may not use Mxpreview.com, or any other
content appearing on Mxpreview.com, on or in connection with any other website,
for any purpose.
Content Submission. By
contributing or submitting any content to Mxpreview.com, you warrant that you
are the author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto, and you
grant Mxpreview.com a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free,
transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety,
adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or
distribute such materials and/or incorporate such materials into any form, medium
or technology without compensation to you.
In addition, you warrant that all "moral rights" that you may have in
those materials have been voluntarily waived by you. None of the materials shall be subject to any obligation of
confidence on the part of Mxpreview.com, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates,
co-brand partners or other partners and their respective directors, officers
and employees. Mxpreview.com reserves
the right to change, condense or delete any content on Mxpreview.com that
Mxpreview.com deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines
or any other provision of this Agreement.
You agree that you shall not post any information:
- that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
- that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
- that violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
- that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
- that is not based on direct personal experience as a consumer of the reviewed product, such as puffery of your products or poor reviews of competitors in order to manipulate reviews, ratings, or other related information
- for which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party;
- that includes any information that references addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers that are not your own;
- or that contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
In addition, you agree to
comply with Mxpreview.com's
Site Rules, which are deemed to be
incorporated into this Agreement.
You retain all ownership rights
to information, text, graphics, or other materials you publish on
Mxpreview.com. However, we can
reproduce, publish and distribute all or teaser portions of your content online
and offline and permit others to do the same. You can edit or remove your content from Mxpreview.com at any time; but
if we have distributed your content to others, we may be unable to require them
to make the same changes.
It is not a violation of the
Content Provider Agreement to post your reviews to other sites.
We ask that you refer or provide links to
Mxpreview.com if you choose to republish your content elsewhere, although this
is not mandatory.
Copyrights. All content
available on Mxpreview.com, including site design, text, graphics, interfaces,
and the selection of arrangements thereof is copyrighted by Master Mind
Alliance, LLC, with all rights reserved, or is the property of Master Mind
Alliance, LLC, Mxpreview.com or third parties protected by intellectual
property rights.
Mxpreview.com is a service mark
of Master Mind Alliance, LLC d/b/a Mxpreview.com. Mxpreview.com's service marks/trademarks may not be used in
connection with any product or service that is not provided by Mxpreview.com,
in any matter that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any
manner that disparages or discredits Mxpreview.com.
If you believe content on the
Mxpreview.com Network infringes your copyright, you should send notice of
copyright infringement to Mxpreview.com's Copyright Agent. Your notice must meet the requirements of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (as required under 17 U.S.C. §
512) by
providing the following information:
1.
An identification of the
copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
2.
An identification of the
material that you claim is infringing so that we may locate it on the site;
3.
Your contact person,
address, telephone number and email address;
4.
A statement by you that
you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent or the law;
5.
A statement by you that
the above information in your notice is accurate, made under penalty of
perjury, and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the
copyright interest involved;
6.
Your signature;
The notice should be mailed to:
Master Mind Alliance, LLC
PO Box 258013
Madison, WI 53725
Or via e-mail to: legal@mxpreview.com
Upon receipt of notice as
described above, Mxpreview.com will take whatever action, in its sole
discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content
from Mxpreview.com.
Trademarks. Mxpreview.com
is not in a position to arbitrate trademark disputes between the advertisers on
Mxpreview.com and trademark owners. Accordingly, we encourage trademark owners to resolve their disputes
directly with the advertisers, particularly because the advertisers may have
similar advertisements on other sites. Similarly, Mxpreview.com does not control and assumes no responsibility
for content that appears on a third party's website that may be accessed via
Mxpreview.com, and trademark owners should contact third party sites directly
to resolve trademark disputes.
As a courtesy to federally
registered trademark owners, however, we are willing to perform a limited
investigation of reasonable complaints.
If you are an owner of a registered
trademark (or represent an owner of a registered trademark) and have an
objection to content corresponding to your trademark on Mxpreview.com that is
consistent with the foregoing, or you believe that we have improperly used your
registered trademark to promote Mxpreview.com on a third party website, please
provide the following information in a signed letter on company stationery:
1.
Name of Company.
2.
Contact information
(including email address and contact person).
3.
List of registered
trademark(s) at issue including a copy of each relevant federal trademark
registration certificate(s).
4.
The identity of the
advertisement(s) at issue (via the URL stated on the bottom line of the ad or
other identifying information). Please indicate if your complaint is limited to
specific advertisers/advertisements or if it is a general objection to all
advertisers.
5.
If certain affiliates or
partners are permitted to use your trademark in their ad content, please list
the company names in your letter.
6.
Include the following
statement: "I have a good faith belief
that use of the trademarks described above with the advertisements described
above are not authorized by the trademark owner or its agent, nor is such use
otherwise permissible under law."
7.
Include the following
statement: "I represent that the
information in this notification is true and correct and that I am authorized
to act on behalf of the trademark owner."
8.
A signature of an
authorized agent.
Please send this written communication with the above information to the
following address:
Master Mind Alliance, LLC
PO Box 258013
Madison, WI 53725
Or via e-mail to: legal@mxpreview.com
Upon receipt of notice as
described above, Mxpreview.com will confirm the existence of the federal
registration of the trademark in question and will take whatever action, in its
sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged
content from Mxpreview.com. In the
event that the challenged content has been provided to Mxpreview.com by a third
party and in Mxpreview.com's sole discretion, it concludes that the content is
identical to the registered mark and is used in connection with goods and/or
services covered by the trademark owner's federal registration, Mxpreview.com
will provide to notice to the third party prior to any removal of content. If prior to such removal, the third party
demonstrates that it has its own trademark registration or approved trademark
application covering the challenged content, Mxpreview.com will not remove the
content.
Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Mxpreview.com will comply as appropriate with the terms of any court order
relating to the behavior of the challenged party identified in such court
order.
Termination. You can
cancel your account at any time by contacting Customer Support. We can
cancel your account, or otherwise refuse service to you, at any time for any
reason (including repeat infringement). Mxpreview.com may choose to assume that you intended to terminate your
account if you do not access it for more than 3 months. Following termination of your account for
any reason (including inactivity), at their sole option, Mxpreview.com and its
licensees may continue or stop publicly displaying some or all of your content.
Other Rules. You agree to
comply with Mxpreview's Site Rules, which are incorporated into this Agreement, and with
all laws and regulations applicable to your access and use of Mxpreview.com and
publishing your content. You may not
harvest personal data (including email addresses) from Mxpreview.com, and
specifically you may not use email addresses displayed on our sites to ask
users to join or contribute to your services. We have the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the
above to the fullest extent of the law. We may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in
prosecuting users who violate the terms of this Agreement. You acknowledge that Mxpreview.com has no
obligation to monitor your access to or use of Mxpreview.com, but has the right
to do so for the purpose of operating Mxpreview.com, to ensure your compliance
with this Agreement, or to comply with applicable law or the order or
requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body. Unless we explicitly agree otherwise in
writing, you may not use any automated means (such as scripts) to access
Mxpreview.com or collect information from it.
Indemnity. By choosing
to use Mxpreview.com, you agree to indemnify Mxpreview.com, its officers,
agents, partners, and employees from any and all claims or damage, including
reasonable attorney's fees, made by third parties due to, or arising out of
Content you choose to submit, post or transmit through Mxpreview.com; or of
your use of or connection to Mxpreview.com; your violation of the User
Agreement; or, your violation of any rights of another.
Release. Because we
are a venue, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users of
Mxpreview.com, you, on behalf of yourself (and any of your officers, directors,
employees, agents, predecessors, successors and assigns), hereby irrevocably,
release and discharge Mxpreview.com, our officers, directors, employees,
attorneys, predecessors, successors, assigns and agents from, against and in
respect of all past, present and future claims, rights, actions, causes of
action, suits, indemnification obligations, losses, liabilities, matters,
issues, cost, and expenses, of any kind or nature whatsoever, including without
limitation court costs and attorneys' fees, whether known or unknown, concealed
or hidden, fixed or contingent, suspected or unsuspected, in law or in equity
concerning, related to, or arising out of any such disputes.
Liability Limits. MxpREVIEW.COM
AND ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE)
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH MxpREVIEW.COM AND ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARY OR
AFFILIATE COMPANIES, OUR SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT. WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR MORE THAN
$100.
Governing Law/Arbitration. This
Agreement is governed by Wisconsin law. Any claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or Mxpreview.com
shall be settled by binding arbitration in Madison, Wisconsin, in accordance
with the American Arbitration Association's commercial arbitration rules. Any such claim shall be arbitrated on an
individual basis, not consolidated with another party's claim. However, (a) each of us may seek interim
relief from a Dane County, Wisconsin, court to protect the party's rights or
property while arbitration is pending, and (b) at our option, we may bypass
arbitration in cases of fraud or other crimes against us, interference with our
technical operations or violations of our rights or property.
Integration. This
Agreement, Mxpreview's Site Rules and our Privacy Policy, (which is incorporated herein by reference)
constitute the entire Agreement, and supersede any other Agreements or
understandings (oral or written), between you and us with respect to their
subject matters.
Disclaimer of Warranties. MxpREVIEW.COM
AND ITS SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND WE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We do not promise or warrant that any aspect
of the site or system will work properly or will be continuously
available. Mxpreview.com may contain
links to third-party websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for: (i)
the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or (ii) the
content, products, or services on or available from such websites or
resources. Links to such websites or
resources do not imply any endorsement of such websites or resources or the
content, products, or services available from such websites or resources.
You acknowledge sole responsibility for and
assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources.
Your correspondence with or participation in
promotions of merchants or advertisers found on Mxpreview.com, including
payment and delivery of related goods or service, and any other terms,
conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are
solely between you and such merchant or advertiser.
You agree not to hold Mxpreview.com 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 merchants or advertisers on Mxpreview.com. In addition, Mxpreview.com does not endorse,
warrant or guarantee the products or services of any seller, lender or broker,
including any rates, points and loan programs posted by sellers, lenders or
brokers. Nothing on Mxpreview.com constitutes
an advertisement for credit as defined by Paragraph 226.24 of Regulation Z of
the federal Truth in Lending Act.
Assignment. You agree
that this Agreement and all agreements and information incorporated herein may
be automatically assigned by Mxpreview.com, in its sole discretion, to a third
party. You may not assign your obligations to another entity.
General. This
Agreement does not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment or
franchise relationship. Because you are
not an employee, minimum wage laws do not apply to your relationship with
Mxpreview.com. Our failure to act in a particular circumstance does
not waive our right to act with respect to that or other circumstances.
We shall be excused for any problem due to a
factor beyond our control. If any
provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of the Agreement will remain
in full force and effect, and the provision affected will be construed so as to
be enforceable to the maximum extent permissible by law. Any waiver of any provision of this
Agreement will be effective only if in writing and signed by Mxpreview.com.