Terms of Use
INTRODUCTION; CONSENT TO TERMS
www.seotipsandstrategies.com is owned and operated by Quality Web Site Testing, LLC of Wheaton, Illinois. When the terms ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’, or ‘Quality Web Site Testing’ are used in the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy they mean Quality Web Site Testing, LLC and its owners, employees, and agents.
Please read these Terms of Use before using www.seotipsandstrategies.com (the “Site”). By accessing and using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, please exit the Site and do not use any of its features.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify, add or delete portions of these terms at any time by posting updated Terms of Use and/or an updated Privacy Policy on the Site. Please check these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy frequently for updates. Any modifications, additions or deletions to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy shall be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of updated Terms of Use or an updated Privacy Policy will mean that you agree to those changes.
If you breach any of the Terms of Use, your authorization to access or use this Site automatically terminates, and any materials downloaded or printed from the Site in violation of the Terms of Use must be immediately destroyed.
YOUR AGREEMENT WITH QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING
You agree that Terms of Use represent a binding agreement between us regarding your use of this Site and it supersedes all previous and contemporaneous oral or written agreements regarding your use of Site. We may discontinue or change the Site, or its availability to you at any time.
You agree that Terms of Use, as well as any and all claims arising from them and from your use of this Site will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, United States of America applicable to contracts made entirely within Illinois and wholly performed in Illinois, without regard to any conflict or choice of law principles. The exclusive jurisdiction for any litigation (“Litigation”) arising out of Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and your use of this Site will be vested in the federal or state courts located in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and such courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter of any such Litigation. You hereby agree to consent to and hereby waive all arguments or claims regarding venue for such Litigation. The Terms of Use will not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The prevailing party in any such litigation shall be entitled to collect from the other party all costs incurred by them in the Litigation including reasonable attorneys’ fees and the cost of investigation.
CONTENT
Our Site contains content (“Content”) that we create. All materials published on our Site, including, but not limited to, written content, photographs, graphics, images, illustrations, marks, logos, sound or video clips, and Flash animation, are protected by our copyrights or trademarks. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or in any way exploit any of the materials or Content on our Site in whole or in part. We do not guarantee the accuracy, the integrity, or the quality of the content on our Site, and you may not rely on any of this content.
We may discontinue or change any Content or feature on the Site at any time and without notice.
You must provide at your own expense the equipment and Internet connections that you will need to access and use the Site.
We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of any site that you link to from this Site or the information contained in any such site. You are visiting any other websites at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, that you may not rely on said content, and that under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the such sites.
Quality Web Site Testing assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from the use of the materials or Content, or from use of the information obtained at linked Internet addresses, or in any respect for the content of such information, including (but not limited to) errors or omissions, the accuracy or reasonableness of factual or scientific assumptions, studies or conclusions, the defamatory nature of statements, ownerships of copyright or other intellectual property rights, and the violation of property, privacy, or personal rights of others. Quality Web Site Testing is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on such information. NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, ARE MADE BY QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING WITH RESPECT TO SUCH INFORMATION.
NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that your copyrighted work, or your registered trademark has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or if applicable, trademark infringement, you may notify us by providing our copyright and trademark agent with the following information at:
a) Identify the material on the Site that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website, for example the URL of the webpage;
b) A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or trademark owner, its agent, or the law;
c) A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (1) the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (2) that you are the owner of the copyright or trademark interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;
d) Your name, address, telephone number, and email address; and
e) Your physical or electronic signature. We will remove the infringing Content, subject to the procedures outlined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
LICENSE AND ACCESS TO THE SITE
Quality Web Site Testing hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive paid in full license to access the Site for your own personal use, including the right to view this Site and the material and Content on this Site on a computer or mobile device via a web browser, to copy and store this Site and the material and Content on this Site in your web browser cache memory, and to print pages from this Site for your own personal (non-commercial) use. You do not have any other rights in relation to this Site or the material and Content on this Site. In other words, all other rights are reserved. This license does not include any right to private or commercial collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Content nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted in advance in a written document signed by us. The sole exception is the limited right provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Site, provided they comply with our robots.txt file.
LIMITATIONS ON USE
Except as described pursuant to the terms of the license described above you may not reproduce, frame, copy, republish, broadcast, modify, translate, sublicense, assign, sell, or loan any portion of the Content without our prior expressed written consent.
As some examples of improper activities when accessing or using the Site, or Content, you agree that you shall not:
- Violate or infringe the rights of others including, without limitation, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity or other proprietary rights.
- Use or attempt to gain access to or use another’s computer system or network connected to the Site.
- Make available any files containing Content where you do not own or control, you have not obtained our prior written consent, or you have not received the necessary licenses to, all Intellectual Property Rights, rights of privacy and publicity and all other rights in and to such Content.
- Disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise cause harm to, the Site, or any Content, systems resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through the Site or any affiliated or linked sites.
- Transmit unsolicited or bulk communications.
- Use or otherwise direct traffic away from our Web site by using our domain name ‘seotipsandstrategies.com’ in another Web site’s metatags, or by any other means.
- Impersonate any person, business or entity.
- Disrupt, interfere or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Site or other affiliated or linked sites, or Content.
- Take any action that imposes an unreasonably or disproportionately large load on our servers.
- Post or otherwise submit any topic, name, material or information that is defamatory, excessively violent, harassing, inappropriate, indecent, lascivious, lewd, obscene, profane, invasive of another’s privacy, racist, unlawful, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable.
- Collect, compile, use, download or otherwise copy any information about other end users.
Quality Web Site Testing takes the protection of its copyrighted materials very seriously. If Quality Web Site Testing discovers that you have violated our copyright license, we may bring legal proceedings against you. You could also be ordered to pay our legal costs.
TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that Quality Web Site Testing, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, refuse, move, or remove any material that you submit to our site for any reason, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Site (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any material submitted to us, for any reason, including, without limitation, if Quality Web Site Testing believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use. Further, you agree that Quality Web Site Testing shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Site.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” OR “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR OUR SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF QUALITY WEB SITE TESTING HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES OFFERED BY US, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE SITE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SITE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE OR ANY LINKS ON THE SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Quality Web Site Testing, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, owners, employees, agents, service providers, and suppliers harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content, your use of the Site, your violation of the Terms of Use, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.
