Parc Packaging's Terms and Agreements

 

1. Acceptance of the Terms and Agreements

Welcome to Parc Packaging! (a.k.a. "we" or "us" or the "Company"). We are excited to have you as user an member of the community. The following terms and conditions (collectively, these "Terms and Agreements") apply to your use of Parc Packaging, including any content, functionality and services offered on or via Parc Packaging (the "Website").

We want to keep our relationship with you as lean and informal as possible, but please read the Terms and Agreements carefully before you start using Parc Packaging, because by using the Website you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms and Agreements.

Should you disagree with some of the provisions herein, you can either leave the Website (although we'll be sad to see you go!), or contact us at [email protected]. Parc Packaging is all about collaborating for improving legal documents, and we'll be happy to hear your comments and suggestions.

2. Changes to the Terms and Agreements and the Website

Parc Packaging is a work in progress, meaning that a lot will change in the near future. We reserve the right to update the Website and these Terms and Agreements from time to time, at our discretion and without notice. Nevertheless, this document is public on Parc Packaging, and you will be able to track the changes for any new version. Your continued use of the Website following the publishing of updated Terms and Agreements means that you accept and agree to the changes.

3. Accessing the Website, Security and Privacy

We are working hard on improving the Website, but we can't guarantee that the Website will be up and running 24/7. We also reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to some or all features to users. In any case, we will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period, nor for any data loss (see also section 7 below).

To access certain features of the Website you have to register by entering your email and choosing a username and password as part of our security procedures. You must treat such information as confidential, not disclosing it to any third party and only using the Website in person. There is a password reset procedure in case you forget your password, but please notify us of any breach of security. We highly recommend to choose a strong password (e.g., one that includes both letters (capital and lowercase) and numbers and at least one symbol)  and you log out from your account at the end of every session.

It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you provide on the Website is correct, current and complete. In the future, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. As custom for Internet websites, we reserve the right to disable any user account, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any provision of these Terms and Agreements.

We also do not guarantee that the Website or any content provided on the Website is error free.

4. Intellectual Property Rights and Use Guidelines.

The Website and its entire content, features and functionality (including look!), are owned by Parc Packaging and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. So you agree to not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, any of our copyrighted material, except to the extent permitted by the Website itself. If you have doubts about weather and how to use of material on the Website, please address your concerns to: [email protected].

For purposes of these Terms and Agreements, the term “Content” includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, written posts and comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through the Website. For the purposes of these Terms and Agreements, “Content” also includes all User Content (as defined below).

All Content added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted to the Website by users (collectively “User Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such User Content. You represent that all User Content provided by you is accurate, complete, up-to-date, and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. You acknowledge that all Content, including User Content, accessed by you using the Website is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to you or any other party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that any Content you access on or through the Website is or will continue to be accurate.

Any feedback, reviews, comments, and suggestions or recommendations for modifications, improvements or changes to the Services or the Site that you may choose in your sole discretion to provide us from time to time (“Feedback”) shall be solely owned by us (including all intellectual property rights therein and thereto).  You hereby assign and agree to assign all right, title and interest in and to the Feedback to us.

The Website may contain Content specifically provided by us, our partners or our users and such Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You shall abide by and maintain all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Website.

By submitting public User Content through the Website, you hereby do and shall grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content in connection with the Website and our (and our successors’ and assigns’) businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites and feeds). You also hereby do and shall grant each user of the Website a non-exclusive, perpetual license to access your User Content through the Website, and to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Content. For clarity, the foregoing license grants to us and our users does not affect your other ownership or license rights in your User Content, including the right to grant additional licenses to your User Content, unless otherwise agreed in writing. You represent and warrant that you have all rights to grant such licenses to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights, including without limitation, any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights.

We do not guarantee that any Content will be made available on the Website. We reserve the right to, but do not have any obligation to, (i) remove, edit or modify any Content in our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you and for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content or if we are concerned that you may have violated these Terms and Agreements), or for no reason at all and (ii) to remove or block any Content from the Website.

You are permitted to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use, or legitimate business purposes, provided that your activities are lawful and in accordance with these Terms and Agreements. Prohibited uses include violation of laws and regulations, hacking  the Website in any manner, or violating the Content Standards set below. No right, title or interest in or to the Website or any content on the site is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms and Agreements is a breach of these Terms and Agreements and can lead to account termination.

5. User Contributions and Content Standards. Special Disclaimer for legal content.

The Website contains user generated content, and also may contain (in the future) message boards, personal web pages, forums or other interactive features that allow you to upload, post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other Users Content on or through the Website. All User Content must be lawful, not full of spam, and clear of virus or other malware. More specifically, but without limiting the foregoing, it must comply with the following Content Standards:

  • Not contain any material which is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
  • Not promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property rights of any other person.
  • Not violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms and Agreements.
  • Not be likely to deceive any person.
  • Not promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
  • Not cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Not be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
  • Not involve commercial activities or sales , such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising.
  • Not give the impression that they emanate from us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.
  • Not used, if public, as test empty documents with no actual content, or typing exercises: please respect our community and help us minimize the clutter!

As stated above, all User Content is in the public domain, unless otherwise specified by the author. We claim no intellectual property rights over the User Content. Your content remain yours. In section 4 above, we grant you a license to use the non-user generated content of the Website, covered by copyright (e.g. blog posts, website copy, illustrations, logos, etc.), so long as you maintain attribution to Parc Packaging.

6. Law and Copyright Infringement

We do not undertake to review all material before it is posted on the Website, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party.  In the unlikely event we receive a disclosure request from an authorized party, we reserve the right to disclose user identities when required to do so by the law, including in response to a law enforcement request supported by a valid court order. You waive and hold harmless the Company from any claims resulting from any action taken by the Company during or as a result of its investigations and from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either the Company or law enforcement authorities.

If you believe that any User Content violate your copyright, please follow the procedure set forth by article 512(c) of the DMCA and provide us a written takedown notice including the following information:

  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 online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
  3. 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.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you, such as email, address, telephone number.
  5. A statement that you 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.
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The notice should be addressed to [email protected].

7. Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitations of Liability and Indemnification.

Your use of the Website is at your sole risk. The service is provided "as is" and "as available". We disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We are not liable for damages, direct or consequential, resulting from your use of the Website, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses, liability costs and expenses (including but not limits to attorney's fees) arising from your violation of any third-party's rights. You acknowledge that you have only a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable license to use the Website. Because the Website is not error or bug free, you agree that you will use it carefully and avoid using it ways which might result in any loss of your or any third party's property or information.

Additionally, we cannot be held responsible for mistakes related to the advertisement of information from our affiliate sites. The vast majority of the data displayed on this Website is sourced from our third party affiliates (the sites that sell the products we list). Examples of this data includes (but is not limited to) product availability (and/or whether it is in stock), pricing, descriptions, and images. We are limited to the data they provide us, and cannot verify each item. Therefore, we cannot be held responsible for things such as pricing and inventory discrepancies, incorrect descriptions, incorrect images, or other such mistakes. But, we will try to do our best to make sure all of the information is accurate, and welcome anyone to point out the mistakes, which we will fix if appropriate.

Any transaction entered into after clicking a link from the Website is strictly between you and the third party affiliate. We are not party to any transaction once you leave the Website, and cannot be held liable for any issue that arises from such a transaction. We do take pride in the quality of our affiliates, so if you have any problems, you may feel free to contact us and let us know. We do not promise to be able to fix any problems you encounter with a third party affiliate, but if we feel the affiliate does not live up to our standards, we may, at our own discretion, remove their links from the Website.

8. Geographic Restrictions

For now, we provide this Website for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible, appropriate or legal outside of the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Agreements and any dispute or claim arising out of, or related to them, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Texas without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms and Agreements or the Website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of Texas.

10. Waiver and Severability

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms and Agreements shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms and Agreements constitutes the entire agreement between you and Parc Packaging and govern your use of the service, superseding any prior agreements (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms and Agreements). If any provision of these Terms and Agreements is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms and Agreements will continue in full force and effect.

11. Feedback

We welcome any comment, question and communication at [email protected].

Last Edited: April 30, 2019