Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website and thereby agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, Tips & Quips and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or individual tips or quips from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
Acceptable use
In your use of the Tips & Quips website, you agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating the exercise of good judgment.
You hereby agree not to:
Violate any applicable law or regulation; infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights; use the information available through our website for any unauthorized or unlawful purpose; interfere with or damage our website, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, bots, harmful code, Trojan horses, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, or similar methods or technology; use our website to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information deemed harmful to another person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others, personal contact information or financial information; use our website in connection with the distribution of unsolicited email or ads; conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities; use our website for any commercial purpose whatsoever; impersonate any person or entity; remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right notices contained on the website; sell, rent or sub-license material from the website; reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose; edit or modify any material on the website that was not originally created by you; modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, or otherwise disassemble any portion of the website; assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.
User Access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted, including, but not limited to, editing of user profiles and existing tips and quips posts. Tips & Quips reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Tips & Quips’ discretion. If Tips & Quips provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
Tips & Quips may disable your user ID and password in Tips & Quips’ sole discretion without notice or explanation.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to Tips & Quips a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Tips & Quips the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, must not include anything that could be interpreted as pornography, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Tips & Quips or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
Tips & Quips reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Tips & Quips’ servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding Tips & Quips’ rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Tips & Quips does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Tips & Quips makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Tips & Quips does not warrant that: this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.
Limitations of liability
Tips & Quips will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data. These limitations of liability apply even if Tips & Quips has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Tips & Quips’ liability in respect of any: death or personal injury caused by Tips & Quips’ negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Tips & Quips; or matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Tips & Quips to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Tips & Quips has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Tips & Quips’ officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.
You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Tips & Quips’ officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Tips & Quips.
Unenforceable provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify Tips & Quips and undertake to keep Tips & Quips indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Tips & Quips to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Tips & Quips’ legal advisers incurred or suffered by Tips & Quips arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to Tips & Quips’ other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Tips & Quips may take such action as Tips & Quips deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
Tips & Quips may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
Tips & Quips may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Tips & Quips’ rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Tips & Quips in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with California State Law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of California.