User Agreement
Please read the following
terms before using the services of SelfStorages.com. If you do not agree to
these terms and conditions, you may not access or otherwise use these services.
Your continued use of the Company's services indicates your acknowledgment that
you have read and accepted these terms and conditions.
I. GRANT OF RIGHTS; LIMITED
SCOPE, AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES, AND FEES
The Company grants to you a
non-exclusive, non-transferable limited right to access, use and display the
information and marketing services provided by the Company, as may be amended
from time to time on any machine(s) of which you are the primary user.
The Services currently do
not include services customarily associated with the services provided by real
estate agents and/or brokers. The Company is not acting as an agent or broker in
any capacity, and is merely a vehicle for sellers and buyers to transact
business directly with one another. The Company is not providing any Services in
any state in which the activities comprising the Services require independent
licensure. The Company provides no advice and/or opinions concerning any
particular property, the soundness of any proposed transaction and does not
assist in matching particular buyers and sellers or in negotiating or closing
any transactions related to the properties included on the Company's Web site.
II. CONTENT
You recognize that you are
solely responsible for the substance and content of any information that you
make available, including, without limitation, through the posting of content on
the Company's Web Site through a listing or otherwise. All of such content is
your responsibility. The Company will not be responsible, and cannot
independently verify, and makes no representations or warranties concerning, the
content information provided or received by you through your use of the
Services. Any information provided by the Company in connection with its
provision of the Services relating to property of others has been obtained
directly from the owners of such property or from sources believed by the
Company to be reliable. In connection with your use of any information made
available to you through the Services, you shall be responsible for any actions
taken in reliance on such information and, accordingly, you are recommended to
make your own due-diligence inquiries concerning the veracity of such
information and the Company assumes no liability there for. The Company has the
right to monitor the content that you or other users make by means of any
Service, but shall have no obligation to do so. You agree that if the Company in
its sole discretion deems any content made available by you to be unlawful,
fraudulent, unacceptable, offensive, obscene or otherwise objectionable, the
Company has the right, but not the obligation, to remove or deny access to such
content. You expressly agree that the Company shall not be liable to you for any
action the Company takes to remove or restrict access to such material, nor for
any action taken to restrict access to material posted in violation of any law,
regulation or rights of a third party, including, but not limited to, rights
under the copyright law and prohibitions on libel, slander and invasion of
privacy. The Company has the right to take all reasonable actions to remove or
restrict access to any such material, including restriction, suspension or
termination of your access privileges and/or deletion of the objectionable
material.
III. PROPRIETARY MATERIALS
Material accessible to you
through the Company's Services may be the subject of intellectual property
rights, including, without limitation, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade
secrets. Except as expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you may not
reproduce, redistribute, retransmit, publish or otherwise transfer, or
commercially exploit, any such material.
IV. PROHIBITED USES
(A) You expressly agree not
to use the Company's Services in a manner that is inconsistent with these terms
of use, prohibited by any law or regulation, or to facilitate the violation of
any law or regulation. You acknowledge that prohibited conduct includes, but is
not limited to, use of any of the Services to invade the privacy of third
parties, impersonation of the Company's personnel or other parties or entities,
transmitting abusive, profane, libelous, slanderous, threatening or otherwise
harassing material via e-mail, chat services or bulletin boards. You also agree
not to use the Services to (i) solicit other members to patronize services or
purchase goods from third parties; (ii) violate the security of the Services; or
(iii) attempt to utilize another user's account name or persona without
authorization from that user.
(B) You agree not to use the
Services or any e-mail address of the Company in connection with the sending of
the same or substantially similar unsolicited electronic mail message, whether
commercial or not to a large number of recipients. You agree not to send
unsolicited mass mailings from another service which in any way implicates the
use of the Company's Services, equipment or any Company e-mail address. For
purposes of this provision, merely making one's e-mail address accessible to the
public shall not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages. For
each violation by you of this provision, you agree to pay the Company damages to
compensate for the lost goodwill such a violation causes, but, where warranted,
such as in the case of an accidental transmission, the Company may waive all or
part of any applicable charge. Payment by you under this provision shall not
prevent the Company from seeking to obtain other legal remedies against you,
including other damages or an injunction.
V. CHARGES AND PAYMENT
(A) You are responsible for
all charges associated with connecting to the Services, including, without
limitation, all telephone access lines, telephone and computer equipment
necessary to access the Services.
(B) You are responsible for
all activities and charges from the use of the Company's Services. You agree to
pay all applicable Service fees (for each applicable Service utilized by you) as
well as all of your connection time charges of your ISP, surcharges, applicable
taxes and other charges you incur regarding the Services.
(C) In the event of a breach
of security, you will remain liable for any unauthorized use of your account
with the Company until you notify the Company by written notice.
(D) The Company reserves the
right to increase fees, surcharges, and to institute new fees at any time upon
thirty (30) days prior notice. The Company may reduce these fees at any time
without notice to you. You shall also be liable for all attorney and collection
fees arising from the Company's efforts to collect any unpaid balance of your
accounts.
VI. USER INFORMATION
(A) You certify to the
Company that you are not a minor (i.e., that you are at least eighteen (18)
years of age).
(B) For purposes of
identification, billing and marketing, you agree to provide the Company with
accurate, complete, and updated information required by the Membership Profile,
including your legal name, address, telephone number(s), and applicable payment
data. You agree to notify the Company within ten (10) days of any changes in
this Profile information. Failure to comply with this provision may result in
immediate suspension or termination of your right to use the Services.
(C) You are solely
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords, and agree
that the Company will have no obligations with regard thereto.
(D) The Company reserves the
right to reveal any Profile information or other information in its possession
regarding users of the Services in cooperation with a request or investigation
by any governmental body or governmental agency.
VII. CONFIDENTIALITY
You shall be required to
keep and maintain as confidential any of the information made available to you
by the Company as may be provided by the Company from time to time; provided,
however, you expressly acknowledge that the Company is not a fiduciary with
respect to any information that you provide to the Company and that the Company
has no reciprocal obligation of confidentiality to you other than as expressly
provided in the Company's Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated
herein by reference.
VIII. WARRANTY AND INDEMNIFICATION
You represent and warrant to
the Company that you will not transmit by means of the Services any materials of
any kind which (i) violate, plagiarize, or infringe the intellectual property or
contractual rights of any third party; (ii) are exported in violation of any
law, rule, or regulation governing exports from the United States; (iii) contain
libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or otherwise unlawful
material; (iv) contain software viruses or any other malicious code designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications equipment. You further represent and warrant to
the Company that your use of the Services will at all times comply with
applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend
and hold harmless the Company and its employees, licensors, independent
contractors, providers, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, the
"Affiliates"), from and against any and all liability and costs incurred by the
Affiliates in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of the
foregoing representations, warranties and covenants, including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees and costs. You shall cooperate as fully as
reasonably required in the defense of any claim. The Company reserves the right,
at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter
otherwise subject to indemnification by you and you shall not in any event
settle any matter without the written consent of the Company.
IX. TERMS OF USE OF WARRANTY
The Services (including all
content, software, functions, materials and information accessed or provided by
any means thereof) are provided as is, without warranties of any kind, either
express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or
implied warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose, or
warranties of non-infringement. To the fullest extent permissible by law, the
Company makes no warranties and shall not be liable for the use of the Services,
including, without limitation, any interruption of or error in the Services
under any circumstances, including, but not limited to, the Company's
negligence.
X. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances shall
the company be liable for any special or consequential damages that are directly
or indirectly related to the use of, or the inability to use, the services even
if the company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states
do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages,
so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall the
company's total liability to you for all damages, losses, or causes of action
exceed one (1) dollar.
XI. TERMINATION
In addition to any other
rights of the parties set forth herein, either you or the Company may terminate
this Agreement at any time upon notice. The Company also reserves the right to
restrict, suspend or terminate the Services in whole or in part, without notice,
with respect to any breach or threatened breach of Sections III, IV, or VII or
based on a breach of any of your warranties set forth in Section IX, the Company
reserves the right to deny access to the Services in whole or in part,
including, without limitation, removing your Membership password from the
Company's server, and to refuse to provide the Services to you following such
termination.
XII. MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGREEMENT
The Company has the right to
modify this Agreement. Any modification is effective immediately upon either a
posting on the Company's Web Site (http://www.SelfStorages.com), or upon
notice by electronic mail, or U.S. mail. Your continued use of the Services
following notice of any modifications to this Agreement shall be conclusively
deemed an acceptance of all such modifications. Your only right with respect to
any dissatisfaction with any modifications made pursuant to this provision, or
any policies or practices of the Company in providing the Services, including,
without limitation, (i) any change in the content of the Services, or (ii) any
change in the amount or type of fees for any of the Services, is to terminate
membership by delivering notice to the Company. Such notice will be effective
upon receipt by the Company.
XIII. GENERAL
This Agreement constitutes
the entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Company's
Services and supersedes all prior agreements between you and the Company.
Failure by the Company to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be
construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Interpretation and enforcement
of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of Colorado (excluding choice of law rules). You consent to
personal jurisdiction in the federal and state courts residing in the State of
Colorado and the County of Delta for any action arising out of or relating to
your use of the Company's Services. The federal and state courts residing in the
State of Colorado and the County of Delta shall have exclusive jurisdiction over
all such actions and you specifically waive any defenses that you may have by
means of a claim of forum non-convenes. In any such action, the prevailing party
shall be entitled to recover all legal expenses incurred in connection with the
action including, but not limited to, its costs, both taxable and non-taxable,
and reasonable attorney’s fees. In the event that any portion of this Agreement
is held unenforceable, the unenforceable portion shall be construed in
accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original
intentions of the parties, and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in
full force and effect.