The following describes the terms on which CellularSwap.com offers
you access to our services.
Introduction
Welcome to CellularSwap.com. By using the services on the CellularSwap
website (CellularSwap.com and other related websites where this agreement
appears), you are agreeing to the following terms, including those available
by hyperlink, (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement")
with CellularSwap, LLC. If you have any questions, please refer to the
FAQ or help sections on the Site.
Before you may become a member of CellularSwap, you must read and accept
all of the terms and conditions in, and linked to, this User Agreement
and the Privacy Policy.
We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also
access and read the linked information. This User Agreement is effective
upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on June 1st,
2007.
Using CellularSwap
While using the Site, you will not:
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post content or items in an inappropriate category or
areas on the Site;
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violate any laws, third party rights, or our policies;
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use the Site if you are not able to form legally binding
contracts, are under the age of 18, or are temporarily or indefinitely
suspended from our Site;
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fail to deliver payment for items purchased by you,
unless the seller has materially changed the item's description after
you bid, a clear typographical error is made, or you cannot authenticate
the seller's identity;
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fail to deliver items purchased from you, unless the
buyer fails to meet the posted terms, or you cannot authenticate the
buyer's identity;
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manipulate the price of any item or interfere with other
user's listings;
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circumvent or manipulate our fee structure, the billing
process, or fees owed to CellularSwap;
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post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or libelous
content (including personal information);
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distribute or post spam, chain letters, or pyramid
schemes;
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distribute viruses or any other technologies that may
harm CellularSwap, or the interests or property of CellularSwap users;
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copy, modify, or distribute content from the Site and
CellularSwap's copyrights and trademarks; or
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Harvest or otherwise collect information about users,
including email addresses, without their consent.
Abusing CellularSwap
Please report problems, offensive content, and policy violations to
us.
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit, suspend, or terminate
our service and user accounts, prohibit access to our website, remove
hosted content, and take technical and legal steps to keep users off
the Site if we think that they are creating problems, possible legal
liabilities, or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our
policies. We also reserve the right to cancel unconfirmed accounts.
Fees and Services
Joining CellularSwap and assuming listed contracts or bidding on listed
items is free. We do charge fees for using other services, such as listing
cellular contracts and equipment. When you list an item or use a service
that has a fee you have an opportunity to review and accept the fees
that you will be charged based on our Fees schedule, which we may change
from time to time. Changes to that Policy are effective after we provide
you with at least fourteen days' notice by posting the changes on the
Site. We may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services
for promotional events (for example, free listing days) or new services,
and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional
event or new service on the Site.
Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are
responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes associated with
the Site in a timely manner with a valid payment method. If your payment
method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using
other collection mechanisms. (This includes charging other payment methods
on file with us, retaining collection agencies and legal counsel, and
for accounts over 180 days past due, deducting the amount owed from
your PayPal account balance.)
Content License
When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual,
irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right
to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other
rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future.
(We need these rights to host and display your content.)
Liability
You will not hold CellularSwap.com responsible for other users' actions
or inactions, including things they post. You acknowledge that we are
not a traditional auctioneer. Instead, the Site is a venue to allow
anyone to offer, sell, swap, and buy cellular contracts and/or equipment,
at anytime, from anywhere, in a variety of pricing formats and venues,
such as stores, fixed price formats and auction-style formats. We are
not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. We
have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety or legality
of items advertised, the truth or accuracy of listings, the ability
of sellers to sell items, the ability of buyers to pay for items, or
that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.
We do not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer,
and nothing in this agreement shall modify the governing provisions
of Texas Commercial Code and Uniform Commercial Code, under which legal
ownership of an item is transferred upon physical delivery of the item
to the buyer by the seller. Unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise,
the buyer will become the item's lawful owner upon physical receipt
of the item from the seller, in accordance with Texas Commercial Code
and Uniform Commercial Code. Further, we cannot guarantee continuous
or secure access to our services, and operation of the Site may be interfered
with by numerous factors outside of our control. Accordingly, to the
extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms and
conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill, or reputation,
or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your
use of our Site. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties
or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not
apply to you.
Regardless of the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable,
our liability to you or to any third party is limited to the greater
of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action
giving rise to the liability, and (b) $100.
Release
If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our
officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees)
from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every
kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected
with such disputes.
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 CellularSwap and our users. 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:
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take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole
discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure;
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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 CellularSwap
and the appropriate third party, as applicable;
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interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working
of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or
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bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures
we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.
Privacy
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for
their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We use your
information only as described in the CellularSwap Privacy Policy. We
view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle.
We store and process your information on computers located in the United
States that are protected by physical as well as technological security
devices. You can access and modify the information you provide us and
choose not to receive certain communications by signing-in to your account.
We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles. For
a complete description of how we use and protect your personal information,
see the CellularSwap Privacy Policy. If you object to your Information
being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents,
subsidiaries, joint ventures 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 your violation
of any law or the rights of a third party.
No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee
relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
Notices
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, legal notices shall be served
on CellularSwap's national registered agent (in the case of CellularSwap)
or to the email address you provide to CellularSwap 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 legal notice by mail to the
address provided during the registration process. In such case, notice
shall be deemed given three days after the date of mailing.
Resolution of Disputes
If a dispute arises between you and CellularSwap, our goal is to provide
you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute
quickly. Accordingly, you and CellularSwap agree that we will resolve
any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement
or our services (a "Claim") in accordance with one of the
subsections below or as we and you otherwise agree in writing. Before
resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first
contact us directly to seek a resolution by going to the Customer Support
help page. We will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute
through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation
or arbitration, as alternatives to litigation.
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Law and Forum for Disputes - This Agreement
shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Texas
as they apply to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely
within Texas between Texas residents, without regard to conflict of
law provisions. You agree that any claim or dispute you may have against
CellularSwap must be resolved by a court located in Travis County,
Texas, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or as described in
the Arbitration Option paragraph below. You agree to submit to the
personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Travis County,
Texas for the purpose of litigating all such claims or disputes.
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Arbitration Option - For any claim (excluding
claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount
of the award sought is less than $1000, the party requesting relief
may elect to resolve the dispute in a cost effective manner through
binding non-appearance-based arbitration. In the event a party elects
arbitration, they shall initiate such arbitration through an established
alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") provider mutually
agreed upon by the parties. The ADR provider and the parties must
comply with the following rules: a) the arbitration shall be conducted
by telephone, online and/or be solely based on written submissions,
the specific manner shall be chosen by the party initiating the arbitration;
b) the arbitration shall not involve any personal appearance by the
parties or witnesses unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties;
and c) any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be
entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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Improperly Filed Claims - All claims you bring
against CellularSwap must be resolved in accordance with this Resolution
of Disputes Section. All claims filed or brought contrary to the Resolution
of Disputes Section shall be considered improperly filed. Should you
file a claim contrary to the Resolution of Disputes Section, CellularSwap
may recover attorneys' fees and costs up to $1000, provided that CellularSwap
has notified you in writing of the improperly filed claim, and you
have failed to promptly withdraw the claim.
General
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. In our sole discretion, we may assign this Agreement in accordance
with the Notices Section. Headings are for reference purposes only and
do not limit 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. We do not guarantee
we will take action against all breaches of this Agreement.
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms
on the Site. Except as stated elsewhere, all amended terms shall automatically
be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. Additionally,
we will notify you through the Sites' message center tools. This Agreement
may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by you and us.
This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between
us with respect to the subject matter hereof. The following Sections
survive any termination of this Agreement: Fees and Services (with respect
to fees owed for our services), Release, Content License, Liability,
Indemnity and Resolution of Disputes.