Yatbo's User Agreement and
Privacy PolicyTHE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH YATBO OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR
SERVICES.
Welcome to the user agreement (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement") for
Yatbo.
This Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our
services available under the domain and sub-domains of www.yatbo.com (the
"Site") (including half.yatbo.com) and the general
principles for the websites of our subsidiaries and international affiliates. If
you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do
not use or access our services.
You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and
conditions contained in this User Agreement and the Privacy Policy,
which include those terms and conditions expressly set out below and
those incorporated by reference, before you may become a member of
Yatbo. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User
Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in the
other pages and websites referred to in this document, as they may
contain further terms and conditions that apply to you as a Yatbo
user. Please note: underlined words and phrases are links to these
pages and websites. By accepting this User Agreement, you also agree
that your use of other Yatbo websites will be governed by the
User Agreement and Privacy Policy posted on those websites.
We
may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on
the Site. Except as stated below, all amended terms shall
automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted
on the Site.
Membership Eligibility AND AGREEMENT.
Our services are available only to, and may
only be used by individuals who can form legally binding contracts
under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services
are not available to children (persons under the age of 18) or to
temporarily or indefinitely suspended Yatbo members. If you are a
under the age of 18, you can use this service only in conjunction
with, and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. If you
do not qualify, please do not use our Site. Further, your Yatbo
account (including feedback) and User ID may not be transferred or
sold to another party. If you are registering as a business entity,
you represent that you have the authority to bind the entity to this
Agreement.
You agree as a condition of use and membership
that Yatbo may contact you for the purpose of informing you of
changes to this Agreement or describing new Yatbo Services
available on the Site.
DISPUTES
Yatbo has no responsibility to resolve disputes between
users and visitors regarding posted ads using the Yatbo's
Services, or otherwise. We recommend that you contact the other
Member through the "Contact" links available through your
Account's main page to resolve disputes. You further agree to
notify Yatbo of any activity on the Site that you believe may
be deceptive, fraudulent or misleading.
DISCLOSURE OF
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION
Yatbo will transmit certain information about a Buyer to the
Seller, and about the Seller to a Buyer, upon the Buyer's
commitment to purchase the Seller's listed item through the
Yatbo's Service. You agree that you will not use or disclose
to any other person or entity any part of another Member's
personal information that was disclosed to you by Yatbo for
any purpose not expressly and directly related to such
transaction. Furthermore, you acknowledge and accept the risk
that other Members may misuse your personal information provided
to them by Yatbo, and you acknowledge and agree that Yatbo
is not in any way responsible or liable for any resulting loss,
harm, injury or damage which may result from such.
LEGAL COMPLIANCE
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international
laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of
the any of the Services available on the Site. You are
responsible for all the activity that takes place within your
Member Account, even if such activities can be demonstrated to
have been performed by another person or entity. You should
never share the information required to access your Member
Account with anyone or allow others to use your Member Account.
You agree that Yatbo is not responsible in any way for the
accuracy or suitability of any payment of taxes to any entity on
your behalf. You shall indemnify and hold Yatbo, its
subsidiaries, affiliates, co-brand partners and other partners,
and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees
harmless against all liabilities, costs, interest and expenses
(including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by Yatbo that
arise out of any third party or governmental claim that
involves, relates to, or concerns (i) any federal, state or
county tax obligation or amounts due or owing under any tax
regulation, law, order or decree or (ii) any dispute concerning
the tax status of Yatbo as a reseller of goods.
You agree as a Member that Yatbo shall not be liable to you
or any third party for any modification, suspension or
discontinuance of the Site or any Services.
TERMINATION
Either party may terminate the Agreement at any time. Upon
termination or expiration of this Agreement for any reason, all
obligations or liabilities of any Member under this Agreement,
as well as under the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, shall
survive to the maximum extent permissible under applicable laws,
including without limitation: all accrued payment obligations,
amounts owed for Services, liability related to the use or
misuse of Yatbo content, and indemnification obligations as
set forth in this Agreement. You authorize Yatbo to keep a
record of any information related to your Member Account even in
the event of termination. You explicitly authorize Yatbo to
maintain a record of any credit card you had used in connection
with your Member Account even in the event of termination.
To terminate your Member Account, you must send an email to
admin@yatbo.com
stating that you want to terminate your account. Upon termination of
your Member Account, you will still be obligated to pay any fees
(or other amounts) owing to Yatbo.
Yatbo may terminate your Member Account by sending you
notification to your e-mail address and/or by simply suspending
access to your Account. If your Member Account or other
privileges are terminated by Yatbo or by you, you may be
considered for reinstatement, at Yatbo's sole discretion.
USING YATBOBy contributing or submitting any content to the Site, you
warrant that you are the author and owner of the intellectual
property rights thereto or have the appropriate license and
sublicense rights from the owner, and you grant Yatbo 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
Yatbo, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, Licensors, co-brand
partners or other partners and their respective directors, officers,
employees, agents and representatives. Yatbo reserves the right
to change, condense or delete any content on the Site that Yatbo
deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or
any other provision of this Agreement.
You agree that you shall not perform, post or provide any information
to/for the Sites:
- 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 in
any applicable jurisdictions (including, but not limited to,
those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair
competition, anti-discrimination, false advertising and
privacy);
- that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory,
hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive (including
the use of swear words), unlawfully threatening or unlawfully
harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
- that includes any information that references other web
sites, addresses, email addresses, contact information, phone
numbers or other personal information such as credit card
numbers; or
- that contains any computer viruses, worms or other damaging
or potentially damaging computer programs or files.
- interfere with the way Yatbo properly functions or
administer an unreasonable load on our system;
In contributing or submitting any content to the Site, you agree
not to use a false or misleading email address, impersonate any
person or entity, or otherwise provide any misleading information as
to the origin of any content that you submit.
You agree that you that you will not use any device, software or
routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers, or to interfere or
attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any
sales being conducted through the Site. You agree that you will not
take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately
large load on Yatbo's computer systems or communications
infrastructure. You agree that you will not use any software robot,
spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy
Site pages or the content contained therein without Yatbo's prior
written consent.
CONTENT
Yatbo provides a number of different services to assist you in
comparison shopping for products and services on the Site. Yatbo does not sell, resell or license any of the products
listed on the Site, nor is Yatbo acting as an agent of sale, and
Yatbo disclaims any responsibility for, or liability related to,
such products and services (see Disclaimer of Warranties and
Limitation of Liability, below). Any questions, complaints or claims
related to any product should be directed to the appropriate
merchant or seller.
Yatbo does not warrant that posted ad descriptions, pricing,
editorial commentary or any other content of the Site, regardless of
its source, is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free.
Site content is provided for informational purposes only and does
not constitute an endorsement by Yatbo of any product, merchant,
seller, service, or any reviews or comments thereof regardless of
the source of such review or comment. Yatbo assumes no liability
for inaccuracy or incompleteness in its search results, editorial
content, user ratings (e.g. user merchant rating, or user product
rating) or other content on the Site.
INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Yatbo, its
subsidiaries, affiliates, co-brand partners or other partners, and
their respective officers, directors, employees and agents free and
harmless from and against any claims, actions and demands,
including, without limitation, any legal and accounting fees
resulting from your use of the Site or your breach of the Terms of
Use and Privacy Statement and/or Member Agreement. Yatbo shall
provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit or
proceeding.
GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement shall be governed in all
respects by the laws of the Province of Ontario as such laws are
applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely
within Ontario between Ontario residents. We do not guarantee
continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and
operation of the Site may be interfered with by numerous factors
outside of our control. If any provision of this Agreement is held
to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and
the remaining provisions shall be enforced. You agree that this
Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically
assigned by Yatbo. 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. This Agreement sets forth the entire
understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject
matter hereof. stated above (Fees and Services) with respect to fees
owed for our services shall survive any termination or expiration of
this Agreement.
IP OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Yatbo disclaims any responsibility for the content of any
third party materials provided through or on its Site or other
services ("Third Party Content"). Yatbo will respond to notices
of alleged infringement regarding Third Party Content sent pursuant
to, and in accordance with, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"),
which may include Yatbo removing or disabling access to Third
Party Content claimed to be the subject of infringement or other
activity. All notices sent to Yatbo regarding matters other than
informing Yatbo that a party's copyrighted material may have been
infringed (and relating only to Third Party Content) will not
receive a response through this process.
Written notification must be submitted to the following:
By Email: admin@yatbo.com
INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATION
To be effective, your infringement notification must include the
following:
1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to
act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been
infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single web site are
covered by a single notification, a representative list of such
works at that web site;
3. Identification of the material (i.e., the Third Party Content)
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 Yatbo
to locate the material;
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Yatbo 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;
5. A statement, as follows: "I have 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
6. A statement, as follows: "The information in this notification is
accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I swear that I am the
copyright owner or that I am authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Upon receipt of the written notification containing the
information as outlined in 1 through 6 above:
1. Yatbo shall remove or disable access to the Third Party
Content that is alleged to be infringing;
2. Yatbo shall forward the written notification to the alleged
infringer (the "Subscriber");
3. Yatbo shall take reasonable steps to promptly notify the
Subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the Third Party
Content.
COUNTER NOTIFICATION
To be effective, a Counter Notification must be a written
communication provided to Yatbo's Designated Agent that includes
substantially the following:
1. A physical or electronic signature of the Subscriber;
2. 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;
3. A statement, as follows: "I swear under penalty of perjury that
it is my good faith belief that the material identified above was
removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of
the material to be removed or disabled";
4. The Subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a
statement that the Subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of
Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the
Subscriber's address is located, or if the Subscriber's address is
outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which
Yatbo may be found, and that the Subscriber will accept service
of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of
such person.
Upon receipt of a Counter Notification containing the information
as outlined in 1 through 4 above, the DMCA provides that the removed
material will be restored or access re-enabled and Yatbo will
comply with this requirement within a reasonable time (or as
otherwise required by law), provided Yatbo's Designated Agent has
not received notice from the original complaining party that an
action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber
from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on
Yatbo's network or system.
GENERAL
If any provision of these Terms of Use and Privacy Statement or
the Member Agreement is held to be invalid, void or unenforceable
for any reason, such provision shall be struck and the remaining
provisions shall remain enforceable. Headings are for reference
purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the
scope or extent of such section. 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. You agree that these
Terms of Use and Privacy Statement and the Member Agreement and all
agreements and notices incorporated herein may be automatically
assigned by Yatbo, in our sole discretion, to a third party. You
may not assign your obligations to any other entity.
PRIVACY POLICY
At Yatbo ("Yatbo") we want you to know exactly how and when
we collect and use information that can specifically identify you,
such as your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address
("personal information").
We do not require that you provide, nor do we collect, any
personal information if you are just browsing the Site. We may offer
on the Site non-transactional and transaction based services ("Service(s)")
in which, subject to applicable terms and availability, you may
participate (e.g., submitting posts reviews or becoming a Member
to browse or post ads through our Service). In order to provide you
with the Services you request, Yatbo may require that you first
provide certain personal information, which we determine is
reasonably necessary in order for us to fulfill your request. If you
indicate an interest in participating in a Service, we will identify
what specific personal information you must provide prior to
collecting such information. Any personal information which we
collect from you will only be used for the purposes identified in
this Privacy Statement, the Yatbo Terms of Use and your
applicable Member Agreement with Yatbo, and as may otherwise be
indicated at the time the information is collected.
Yatbo will not disclose your personal information to any third
party unless: 1) it is necessary in order to provide you with a
particular Service you have requested; 2) it is required of Yatbo
in order to comply with a legal process in any applicable
jurisdiction (e.g., court order, subpoena, search warrant, law
enforcement request); 3) Yatbo determines, in its sole
discretion, that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights,
property, and safety of Yatbo, its subsidiaries, affiliates,
co-brand partners or other parties under contract with Yatbo, our
users, or others; or 4) you have provided such data through a
partner's private-level shopping web site hosted by Yatbo, in
which case Yatbo may provide your personal data to that partner (Yatbo
is not responsible for its partners' privacy policies or their use,
storage and processing of data collected on their web sites). In
addition, Yatbo may transmit information to a poster/merchant, such as
an invoice number, which may permit the poster/merchant to deduce the
identity of a user/reviewer in the event that a poster/merchant disputes a
user review on the grounds that a transaction never took place
between the user and the poster/merchant and/or an order was never made by
the user in each case for the applicable product(s)/service(s).
In certain instances, Yatbo may request that you provide
secondary information (e.g., demographic information), which we may
use, for example, to learn more about our customers and to develop
and improve our services. Any requests for secondary information
will be marked "optional" (or its equivalent). We may compile your
personal information with that collected from other customers to
create aggregate data. Aggregate data is information about groups of
customers and, once compiled, will in no way identify you as an
individual. We may disclose aggregate data to our business
affiliates, advertisers, and other parties.
Our web servers collect from Site visitors statistical
information regarding what pages are visited, the date and time of
the visits, how long it took a user to download a page, and the
TCP/IP address of the user. These automated server functions do not
collect this information in a manner intended to identify your
individual use of the Site, nor do we use this information for any
such purpose. This information is collected to assist us in
maintaining a high quality site, as well as providing necessary
traffic information to our advertisers. This information helps us
learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors,
which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of
offers our customers like to see.
The Site contains cookie technology, which collects non-personal
information about you which is used to customize the Site for your
future use.
The Site contains links to web sites of third parties. Yatbo
is not responsible for the actions of these third parties, including
their privacy practices and any content posted on their web sites.
We encourage you to review their privacy policies to learn more
about what, why and how they collect and use personal information.
Yatbo adheres to industry recognized standards to secure any
personal information in our possession, and to secure it from
unauthorized access and tampering. However, as is true with all
online actions, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully
intercept transmissions of personal information, or other users of
the Site may misuse or abuse your personal information that they may
collect from the Site.
Copyrights and Trademarks
Content, graphics, format, design, the user interface and other
copyrighted material on the Site (collectively, "materials") are
protected by copyright law and other intellectual property laws, and
are owned by Yatbo and/or its licensors (as the case may be). The
materials from the Site are only available for informational and
non-commercial offline use, provided that: the materials are not
modified in any way; all copyright and other proprietary notices and
markings are retained and reproduced in their entirety on any copy
made from any material on the Site; and Yatbo has, in its sole
discretion, given its prior written approval to such use of the
Site's materials. Any requests to re-use the Site's materials should
be sent to: info@yatbo.com.
Copyright 2006 Yatbo. All rights reserved.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE SITE IS PROVIDED BY YATBO ON AN "AS IS" AND ON AN "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
YATBO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION,
CONTENT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES INCLUDED
ON THE SITE, OR THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR
TIMELINESS. IN ADDITION, THIRD PARTIES PROVIDE SOME OF THE MATERIAL
ON THE SITE; TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
YATBO SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY MATERIAL.
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY TRANSACTION
RESULTING THEREOF IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. YATBO DOES NOT
GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO THE SITE OR
THE SERVICES. OPERATION OF THE SITE MAY BE INTERFERED WITH BY
NUMEROUS FACTORS OUTSIDE OF YATBO'S CONTROL.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YATBO
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY OR
THIRD PARTY RIGHTS REGARDING THE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YATBO MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR
REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REVIEWED ON THE
SITE OR BOUGHT AND/OR SOLD USING THE SITE, OR THAT SELLERS OR BUYERS
WILL PERFORM AS PROMISED BY THEM, OR THAT THE SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR
E-MAIL SENT FROM YATBO ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
YATBO WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM
THE USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY
DAMAGES RELATED TO LOSS OF BUSINESS OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS
ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN
DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE
DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU
MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF
THE CONTENTS OF THE SITE, OR DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, WITH YATBO'S PRIVACY POLICY OR ANY OTHER POLICIES OF
THE SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
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