THE FOLLOWING USE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") governs your use of the GuideToLenders.com Website (the "Website"). It is vitally important that you read the Agreement carefully as your use of the Website will constitute
your agreement to be legally bound by the terms and conditions set out in
the Agreement. The Agreement also governs your use of the services and goods
provided through or in connection with the Website (collectively, the "Service").
Each time you use the Service, you acknowledge that you have read the Agreement
and agree to be legally bound by it.
If you do not agree to be bound by the
Agreement, you may not use the Service.
1. The Nature of GuideToLenders.com. The Website acts solely
as an online marketplace for you to find and transact with other users, Members,
consumers or sellers (the "Users") business transactions related to the products
or services displayed on the Service or otherwise associated with the Service.
GuideToLenders.com is owned and operated by QuinStreet Media, Inc. ("QS").
QS is not a broker, lender or seller. QS is not a party to any agreement you
may make with a lender or broker with regard to any loan product or other product
or service. Any information you provide to a lender or broker in connection
with your application remains with that lender or broker and is not transferred
from such lender or broker to QS.
QS is not responsible and you agree that QS will bear no liability for any
products, services, information or other materials displayed, purchased, or
obtained by you from the Website. Nothing on the Website contains an offer,
promise or otherwise from QS to make a specific loan or that any participating
lender or broker will make any loan for any purpose or on any specific terms.
You acknowledge that QS is not a lender, broker or financial intermediary and
that your ability to secure any loan or consummate any transaction with any
other user of this Website or the Service is solely a matter to be resolved
between you and such other user.
QS does not endorse, warrant or guarantee the products or services of any
user of the Website or the Service. Nothing on the Website constitutes an advertisement
for credit as defined by Paragraph 226.24 of Regulation Z issued by the Board
of Govenors of the FDIC pursuant to authority contained in the Federal Truth
In Lending Act, as amended.
QS is not liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions with respect
to the information posted on the Website or submitted to the Website or the
transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, for any damage arising
therefrom or occasioned thereby, or for the results obtained from the use of
the information. You assume the entire risk as to the accuracy, adequacy, completeness,
currency, validity and quality of any information.
Any information on the Website is subject to change without notice.
2. TRANSACTIONS. You may post content or view content posted
by others on the Service. QS does not monitor such content. You may act as
a consumer of products or services promoted on the Website or, pursuant in
certain cases to additional agreements with QS, act as a seller of products
or services via the Website. You may also correspond with, participate in promotions
by, and conduct transactions with the Users. QS is not a party to the transactions
between you and the Users of the Website.
You may complete transactions as follows:
(i) Transaction Processing by the Seller. For certain transactions,
sellers contact or direct consumers to the seller's web site for transaction
processing or sellers provide consumers with sellers' contact information outside
the Website to complete a transaction. QS never collects credit card information
or other transaction-specific data from consumers for such transactions. If
there is a fee to be paid by a seller in respect of any such transaction, QS
collects such fee directly from sellers.
(ii) Third Party Transaction Processing. In other cases,
sellers may refer consumers to third parties, such as an escrow service, for
transaction processing. The third parties establish the terms of service for
any such transactions. If there is a fee to be paid by a seller in respect
of any such transaction, QS collects such fee directly from sellers.
The Agreement and any terms of service established by third parties govern
all transactions through the Service. By participating in a transaction through
the Service, you agree and accept the Agreement and any terms of service established
by third parties. QS and any QS-Co-branded-Partners, Licensees and Affiliates
(collectively "Affiliates") assume no liability, obligation or responsibility
in connection with any transactions between you and the Users of the Website.
If you have a dispute with the Users or any third party, you release QS (and
its affiliated companies, agents and employees) as well as its service providers
from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and
nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed,
arising out of or in any way connected with such dispute. If you are a California
resident, you acknowledge the existence of, and waive, California Civil Code
Section 1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims which
the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of
executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected
his settlement with the debtor," as well as any other statute or common law
principle of similar effect.
3. LINKS. QS and Affiliates may provide links to external
websites or resources for your convenience and reference only. QS and Affiliates
do not endorse and are not responsible for the availability of these external
websites or resources or for any content, advertising, products, or other materials
on or available from such external websites or resources. Your use of and dealings
with the owners or operators of these external websites or resources are at
your own risk. You cannot make any claim against QS, its Affiliates or its
service providers arising out of your use of external websites or resources.
4. MEMBER REGISTRATION. From time-to-time, QS may make available
certain Website functions for which access is restricted to those who have
first registered as a Member of GuideToLenders.com. You must provide certain
current, complete, and accurate information about yourself (the "Registration
Data") when registering as a Member or updating your Registration Data. You
agree not to misrepresent your identity. You agree to maintain and keep your
Registration Data current and to update the Registration Data as soon as it
changes. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your password.
QS and its service providers are not liable for any loss that you may suffer
through the use of your password by others. You agree to notify QS immediately
of any unauthorized use of your account or of any other breach of security
known to you with respect to the Service. You agree to report any violations
of this Agreement by others to Contact@GuideToLenders.com.
5. OWNERSHIP. All of the material included on the Website,
including but not limited to trademarks, text, graphics, logos and service
marks (collectively, the "Content"), is the property of QS and other parties.
U.S. and international copyright laws protects all Content available on the
Website. Your use of the Service and the Content does not transfer to you any
ownership or other rights in the Service or the Content. You may download Content
displayed on the Website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided
you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the
Content. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, publish,
sell, license, or create derivative works using any of the Content for commercial
or public purposes.
6. ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE WEBSITE. Your use of the Service
must be lawful and consistent with the security and reliability of the Service
and the World Wide Web.
In addition, the following rules apply to your use of the Service:
1. You certify to QS that you are at least 18 years of age.
2. You assume full responsibility for the use of the Service by any minors
utilizing computers owned or operated by you or for any minors use of any password
assigned to you by QS.
3. Membership registration is open only to residents of the 50 United States
and the District of Coloumbia.
4. Your use of the Service is subject to all applicable local, state, national
and international laws and regulations. Your conduct is also subject to applicable
laws, regulations, policies and procedures related to Internet use.
5. You are solely responsible for the content of your transmissions and the
products you buy or sell through the Service. You acknowledge and agree that
QS does not endorse the actions, the contents of communications, or the products
of the Users.
6. You must obtain and maintain, at your own expense, any equipment or ancillary
services needed to connect to, access or otherwise use the Service, including,
without limitation, modems, hardware, software, and long distance and local
telephone service. You are responsible for ensuring that such equipment and
ancillary services are compatible with the Service.
7. You must complete all transactions you agree to complete in connection with
the Service.
8. You agree to forward all feedback you receive regarding the Service to QS
when acting as a seller. In the event that you wish to provide feedback to
QS related to your use of the Service as a consumer, please send your comments
to Contact@GuideToLenders.com.
We welcome consumer comments. By submitting any comments to the above email
address, you give your consent to the reproduction or all or part of such comments
on the Website or in QS marketing materials, provided that QS shall under no
circumstances display your personally identifying data in conjunction with
any use of such comments.
9. You must abide by all of the-then current terms of QS' Privacy Policy as
set forth on the Website and as updated from time to time by QS in its sole
discretion.
7. PROHIBITED CONDUCT. You must not: (a) use the Service for
any illegal purpose or for the transmission of any material that is unlawful,
harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful,
vulgar, obscene, tortious, or otherwise objectionable, or that infringes or
may infringe the intellectual property or other rights of another, including
the sale of pornography, firearms and ammunition, living creatures and parts
of endangered species, stocks and other securities, drugs and drug paraphernalia,
human body parts and remains; (b) directly or indirectly interfere or attempt
to interfere with the proper working of the Website, any account, or any communication
or transaction being conducted on our Website; (c) use any robot, spider, other
automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the
Content without our prior expressed written permission; (d) take any action
which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure,
(e) use or disclose (to anyone except QS) any information you obtain about
or from other users of the Service, or you obtain from QS if such information
is marked confidential, for any purpose except fulfillment of orders initiated
by the Users or negotiating prices with the Users, (f) conduct fraud, hide
or attempt to hide your identity, represent yourself as someone else, or manipulate
or attempt to manipulate prices, compromise or attempt to compromise the security
of any account, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of
the Service, or (g) send any unsolicited e-mail or advertising to any known
User.
8. PRIVACY POLICY AND OTHER PRIVACY RELATED MATTERS. Please
see our Privacy Policy. By accepting the Agreement, and each time you use the
Service, you consent to QS collection, use and disclosure of your information
or Registration Data in accordance with the Privacy Policy without any further
notice or any liability to you or any other person.If any User chooses to receive
data from QS or the Website as an XML feed or any other format offered by QS,
such User shall develop, implement, publicly post, and at all times adhere
to the terms of a privacy policy which shall, (i) be available, at a minimum,
as a clear and conspicuous link from the main page of such Users Web site and
any Web page where visitors provide personally identifiable information, (ii)
protects the privacy of the User Data pertaining to the consumer submitting
such User Data, and (iii) complies with all applicable laws, privacy laws,
rules, regulations, statutes, ordinances and treaties.By submitting data to
our Website, you acknowledge and agree that we may contact you to acknowledge
your submission and, within 10 days, to solicit feedback about your experience.
9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE
OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. QS PROVDIES THE SERVICE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
QS AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND,
WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
QS AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR
REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR
ERROR FREE; NOR DO QS OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE
RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE, AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY
OR PRIVACY OF ANY OF USER'S INFORMATION REGISTRATION DATA, EXCEPT AS SET FORTH
IN THE QS PRIVACY POLICY, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE. ANY MATERIAL OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE
OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND
RISK AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM
OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA. QS
AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS OR SERVICES
PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE OR ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO
THROUGH THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE OF CONFIDENTIAL OR
PRIVATE INFORMATION BY MERCHANTS SELLING THROUGH THE SERVICE OR OTHER USERS.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM QS,
AFFILIATES OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY
MADE HEREIN. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES,
SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
While QS takes commercially reasonable steps to safeguard and to prevent unauthorized
access to your information and Registration Data, we cannot be responsible
for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and we make no warranty,
express, implied, or otherwise, that we will prevent unauthorized access to
your private information. IN NO EVENT SHALL QS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (WHETHER
CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, A THIRD PARTY'S UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION OR REGISTRATION DATA, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH
DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER THEORIES OF
LIABILITY, AND ALSO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER QS WAS GIVEN ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE
NOTICE THAT DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. QS AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS
SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR FOR COST
OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES OR RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS
OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED
INTO THROUGH THE SERVICE OR RESULTING FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION
OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS
OF PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE, EVEN IF QS OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO
NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT
WILL QS AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS EVER BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON
FOR ANY CLAIMS, PROCEEDINGS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND
COSTS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR UNDER OTHER FAULT OR WRONGDOING BY QS OR
ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS OR ANY PERSON FOR WHOM EITHER QS OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS
ARE RESPONSIBLE, IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO QS FOR THE USE
OF THE SERVICE WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THE CLAIM.
11. INDEMNIFICATION. You agree to indemnify and hold QS, its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, and service providers harmless
from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any
third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service, the violation
of this Agreement by you, or the infringement by you, or other user of the
Service using your computer, of any intellectual property or other right of
any person or entity. Even though prohibited, people may provide information
that is offensive, false, harmful, or deceptive. QS and its Service providers
assume no responsibility whatsoever for such content or actions.
12. RELEASE. YOU HEREBY RELEASE, REMISE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE
QS AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS, DIRECTORS,
OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS
AND LICENSEES, AND ALL OTHER RELATED, ASSOCIATED, OR CONNECTED PERSONS FROM
ANY AND ALL MANNER OF RIGHTS, CLAIMS, COMPLAINTS, DEMANDS, CAUSES OF ACTION,
PROCEEDINGS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, LEGAL FEES, COSTS, AND DISBURSEMENTS
OF ANY NATURE AND KIND WHATSOEVER AND HOWSOEVER ARISING, WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN,
WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER EXIST, WHICH ARISE FROM, RELATE TO, OR ARE CONNECTED
WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.
13. TERMINATION. If you breach any provision of this Agreement,
you may no longer use the Service. QS may, in its sole discretion, change,
suspend, or terminate, temporarily or permanently, the Service or any part
of it at any time, for any reason, without notice to you and without liability
to you or any other person. If QS terminates this Agreement for any reason,
it continues to apply and bind you with respect of your prior use of the Service,
including payment of any charges accrued in connection with use of the Service.
Upon termination, QS may remove from the Website and permanently delete and
destroy any Content that you or others may have posted or submitted without
any prior notice or liability to you or any other person.
14. DISPUTE RESOLUTION (The "Arbitration Clause"). In the
event of a dispute, you and QS agree to submit to binding arbitration. The
arbitration will be held before one arbitrator on an individual basis and not
as a class action. You waive any right you may have to arbitrate a dispute
as a class action. You may select any one of the following arbitration organizations
and its applicable rules: the American Arbitration Association, 335 Madison
Ave., Floor 10, New York, NY 10017-4605 (www.adr.org)
or JAMS, 1920 Main St., Ste. 300, Irvine, CA 92614 (www.jamsadr.com).
You may obtain copy of the rules of each organization by contacting the organization.
Arbitrators shall be attorneys or retired judges and shall be selected pursuant
to the applicable rules. The arbitrator shall apply governing substantive law
in making an award. The arbitration hearing shall be conducted in the federal
district in which you reside.
In any arbitration, QS will pay the filing, administration, service or case
management fee, plus the costs associated with the first day of arbitration,
with the remaining costs to be paid by the non-prevailing party. QS will pay
additional arbitration expenses to the extent that the arbitrator determines
that QS must do so in order to ensure the enforceability of this arbitration
clause. Each party shall be responsible for its own attorney, expert and other
fees, unless awarded by the arbitrator under applicable law.
The arbitrator's award is final and binding on all parties, except that the
losing party may request a new arbitration under the rules of the arbitration
organization by a three-arbitrator panel. The Federal Arbitration Act, and
not any state arbitration law, governs all arbitration under this Arbitration
Clause. Any court having jurisdiction may enter judgment on the arbitrator's
award. If any part of this Arbitration Clause, other than waivers of class
action rights, is deemed or found to be unenforceable for any reason, the remainder
remains enforceable.
You and QS retain the right to sue in small claims court for a dispute within
that court's jurisdiction, unless such action is transferred, removed or appealed
to a different court. You and QS do not waive the right to arbitrate by filing
suit.
THIS AGREEMENT PROVIDES THAT ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND QS WILL BE
RESOLVED BY BINDING ARBITRATION AND NOT IN COURT OR BY JURY TRIAL.
IF A DISPUTE IS ARBITRATED, YOU GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS
REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS MEMBER ON ANY CLASS CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST QS INCLUDING
ANY RIGHT TO CLASS ARBITRATION OR ANY CONSOLIDATION OF INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATIONS.
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THIS INCLUDES GIVING UP YOUR RIGHTS TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE
IN A CLASS ACTION AS SET FORTH IN THE WISCONSIN CONSUMER ACT, WIS. STATS. "sect;
426.110.
DISCOVERY AND RIGHTS TO APPEAL IN ARBITRATION ARE GENERALLY MORE LIMITED THAN
IN A LAWSUIT, AND OTHER RIGHTS AVAILABLE IN COURT MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.
15. GENERAL. The Agreement comprises the entire agreement
between you and QS and supersedes all prior agreements regarding the subject
matter contained herein, provided, however, that in the case of Users who are
sellers and who have entered into separate agreements ("Seller Agreements")
with QS related to the display of advertising materials related to their products
or services or their availability, the obligations of the parties related to
the Services shall be controlled by the terms of such Seller Agreements in
the event of any inconsistency between such Seller Agreements and the Agreement.
QS may amend the terms and conditions of this Agreement (the "Amended Terms")
from time to time. If you continue to use the Service after the Amended Terms
become effective, you are deemed to have agreed to be bound by the Amended
Terms. If you do not agree to the Amended Terms, then you agree not to use
the Service. Your continued use of the Service constitutes an affirmative:
(a) acknowledgment by you of this Agreement and its Amended Terms, if any;
and (b) agreement by you to abide and be bound by the Agreement and its Amended
Terms, if any. Except as set forth below, you must make all notices to QS in
writing via conventional mail or e-mail addressed to Contact@GuideToLenders.com.
If you believe that any content posted on the Website infringes any of your
intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of any third
party, you must promptly provide the following notice in writing to QS to Contact@GuideToLenders.com (QS
may change this address at any time by posting a notice to the Website): (a)
a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification
of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted
works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative
list of such works at that site; (c) identification of the material 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 us to locate the material; (d) information reasonably
sufficient to permit us to contact you; (e) a statement that you 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 (f) a statement under penalty
of perjury that the information in the notification is accurate and that the
complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed.
The Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of Nevada (without regard to conflict of laws provisions thereof).
If any provision(s) of the Agreement is held contrary to law, then such provision(s)
shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the
parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect. The failure
of QS to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Agreement shall
not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and
agreed to by QS in writing. The section titles in the Agreement are used solely
for the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance.