THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES ON WHAT CONDITIONS Catfish Gold OFFERS YOU
ACCESS TO OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.
Welcome to the user agreement (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement") for Catfish Gold Magazine,
LLC (hereinafter referred to as “Catfish Gold”). This Agreement describes the terms and
conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and
sub-domains of www.Catfish Gold.com (the "Site") 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.
If you have any questions, please refer to our User Agreement Frequently Asked Questions.
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 Catfish Gold. 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 Catfish Gold 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 Catfish Gold 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. In addition, we will notify you in
accordance with your Notification Preferences. This Agreement may not be otherwise
amended except in a writing signed by you and Catfish Gold Holdings, LLC. This Agreement
is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise
effective on October 1st, 2007 for all users.
1. Membership Eligibility.
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 Catfish Gold 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 Catfish Gold
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.
2. Fees and Services.
There is no fee to be eligible to shop on the Site. We do charge a monthly subscription
fee for being a member. The cost of subscribing is listed on the Registration page.
We may in our sole discretion change some or all of our services at any time. In the event we introduce a new
service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. Unless
otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are responsible for paying
all fees associated with using our service and the Site and all applicable taxes.
3. Your Information.
3.1 Definition. "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide
to us or other users in the registration, negotiating or listing process, in any
public message area (including the feedback area) or through any email feature.
You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit
for your online distribution and publication of Your Information. 3.2 Restricted
Activities. Your Information (or any items listed) and your activities on the Site
shall not: (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent or involve
the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (c) infringe any third party's copyright,
patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity
or privacy; (d) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but
not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition,
antidiscrimination or false advertising); (e) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully
threatening or unlawfully harassing; (f) be obscene or contain child pornography
or, if otherwise adult in nature or harmful to minors, shall be posted only in the
Mature Audiences section and shall be distributed only to people legally permitted
to receive such content; (g) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancel bots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system,
data or personal information; (h) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in
whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers; and (i) link directly
or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that: (aa) are prohibited
under this Agreement; (bb) are identical to other items you have listed on your
Catfish Gold supplied website and/or the Catfish Gold on-line mall; (cc) are concurrently listed
for sale on a web site other than Catfish Gold's (this does not prevent linking to or advertising
an Catfish Gold item from another web site); or (dd) you do not have a right to link to
or include. Furthermore, you may not list any item on the Site (or consummate any
transaction that was initiated using our service) that, by paying to us the final
value fee (transaction fee), could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute,
ordinance or regulation, or that violates our current Prohibited, Questionable and
Infringing Items. 3.3 License. Solely to enable Catfish Gold to use the information you
supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information,
you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free,
sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity,
and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media
now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. Catfish Gold will only
use Your Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
4. Access and Interference.
The Site contains robot exclusion headers. Much of the information on the Site is
updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to Catfish Gold by our users
or third parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or
other automated means to access the Site 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 Information)
from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of Catfish Gold and the appropriate
third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper
working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iv) bypass our
robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access
to the Site.
5. Breach.
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit your activity, immediately
remove your item listings or disqualify your Offers, warn our community of your
actions, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate
your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if: (a) you breach this
Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference; (b) we are unable to verify
or authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your actions
may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.
6. Privacy.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their
marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information
as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very
important community principle. We understand clearly that you and your information
is one of our most important assets. We store and process your information on computers
located in the United States that are protected by physical as well as technological
security devices. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles.
Our current Privacy Policy is available at
http://www.CatfishGold.com/privacy.aspx. If you object to your Information
being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.
7. No Warranty.
WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS PROVIDE OUR
WEB SITE AND SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED
OR STATUTORY. WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS
SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some states do not allow the disclaimer
of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. This warranty
gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other legal rights that vary
from state to state.
8. Liability Limit.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES
OR OUR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH OUR SITE, OUR SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT
(HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE). OUR LIABILITY, AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR
SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS, TO YOU OR ANY THIRD
PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES
YOU PAY TO US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, AND
(B) $100. 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.
9. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim
or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to
or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates
by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
10. Legal Compliance.
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes,
ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your , listing,
purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items.
11. No Agency.
You and Catfish Gold are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture,
employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by
this Agreement.
12. Notices.
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail
to Catfish Gold Attn: Legal Department 1063 Gayley Ave., Westwood CA 90024
(in the case of Catfish Gold) or to the email address you provide to Catfish Gold during the registration
process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent,
unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively,
we may give you notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested,
to the address provided to Catfish Gold during the registration process. In such case,
notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of mailing.
13. Resolution of Disputes.
In the event a dispute arises between you and Catfish Gold, our goal is to provide you
with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly,
you and Catfish Gold agree that any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out
of this Agreement or our services ("Claims") shall be resolved in accordance with
one of the subsections below or as otherwise mutually agreed upon in writing by
the parties. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to
first contact us directly to seek a resolution and we will consider reasonable requests
to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as
mediation, as an alternative to litigation. 17.1 Binding Arbitration. For any Claim
(excluding Claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount
of the award sought is less than $10,000, you or Catfish Gold may elect to resolve the
dispute through binding arbitration conducted by telephone, on-line and/or based
solely upon written submissions where no in-person appearance is required. In such
cases, the arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association
or JAMS in accordance with their applicable rules, or any other established ADR
provider mutually agreed upon by the parties. Any judgment on the award rendered
by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. 17.2
Court. Alternatively, any Claim may be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction
located in Denton County, Texas or where the defendant is located (in
our case Propser, Texas, and in your case your home address or principal
place of business). You and Catfish Gold agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of
the courts located within the county of Denton, Texas. 17.3 Alternative Dispute
Resolution. Alternatively, Catfish Gold will consider use of other alternative forms of
dispute resolution, such as binding arbitration to be held in Denton County,
Texas or another location mutually agreed upon by the parties. All Claims (excluding
requests for injunctive or equitable relief) between the parties must be resolved
using the dispute resolution mechanism that is selected in accordance with this
Section by the first party to file a Claim. Should either party file an action contrary
to this Section 17, the other party may recover attorneys' fees and costs up to
$1000, provided that the party seeking the award has notified the other party in
writing of the improperly filed Claim, and the other party has failed to withdraw
the Claim.
14. Additional Terms.
The following policies are incorporated into this Agreement by reference and provide
additional terms and conditions related to specific services offered on the Site:
Privacy Policy: http://www.Catfish Goldecs.com/privacy.aspx,
Policies may be changed from time to time and are effective immediately
after we post the changes on the Site, except for the Privacy Policy for which we
will provide you with thirty days prior notice. In addition, when using particular
services on the Site, you agree that you are subject to any posted policies or rules
applicable to services you use through the Site, which may be posted from time to
time. All such posted policies or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into
this Agreement.
15. General.
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Texas
as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely
within Texas between Texas 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 Catfish Gold in accordance
with Section 16 "Notices", in our sole discretion, 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. This Agreement
sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the
subject matter hereof. Sections 2 (Fees and Services) with respect to fees owed
for our services, 3.4 (Release), 6.3 (License), 7 (Access and Interference), 12
(Liability Limit), 13 (Indemnity) and 17 (Resolution of Disputes) shall survive
any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
16. Disclosures.
The services hereunder are offered by Catfish Gold located at
810 North Hayes Rd., Prosper, Tx, 75078. If you are a Texas resident, you may have this same
information emailed to you by sending a letter to the foregoing address with your
email address and a request for this information.
Commercially available parental control protections (such as computer hardware,
software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist you
in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. Disputes between
you and Catfish Gold regarding our services may be reported to Customer Support by emailing
us at Support@Catfish Gold.com. We encourage you to report all user-to-user disputes to
your local law enforcement, postmaster general, or a certified mediation or arbitration
entity.