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USER AGREEMENT
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH ROYALIMARKETING
OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES.
Welcome
to the user Agreement (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement")
for Royal Consumer Information Products, Inc.’s auction website, Royalimarketing.com
(“Royalimarketing”). The party you are contracting with is Royal Consumer
Information Products, Inc. This Agreement describes the terms and conditions
applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and
sub-domains of www.royalimarketing.com (the
"Site"). If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, do not use or access our services. By registering and using the Site, you agree
to be bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement and all policies and
guidelines incorporated by reference.
If
you have any questions, please email: International@royal.com.
You
must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in
this User Agreement and the Privacy Policy, which include those terms and
conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before
you may become a member of Royalimarketing. We strongly recommend that, as you
read this User Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in
the other pages and websites referred to in this document, as
they may contain further terms and conditions that apply to you as a Royalimarketing
user. By accepting this User Agreement, you also agree that your use of other Royalimarketing
websites will be governed by the user agreement and privacy policy posted on
those websites.
We
may amend this Agreement and our policies and guidelines at any time in our
sole discretion by posting the amended terms on the Site. Except as stated
below, all amended terms shall automatically be effective two (2) days after
they are initially posted on the Site. You
are responsible for reviewing the notices of revisions posted on the Site. Changes to referenced policies and guidelines
may be posted without notice to you. This
Agreement is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering
users, and is otherwise effective on June 1, 2005 for all users. Your continued use of the Site following Royalimarketing’s
posting of any changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes or
modifications. If you do not agree to
any changes to this Agreement do not continue to use the Site.
1.
Membership
Eligibility. Our services are available only to, and may
only be used by individuals who can form legally binding contracts under
applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available
to children (persons under the age of 18) or to temporarily or indefinitely
suspended Royalimarketing members. If you are under the age of 18, you can use this service
only in conjunction with, and under the supervision of your parents or
guardians. If you do not qualify, please do not use our Site. Further, your Royalimarketing
account, user name and/or password may not be transferred or sold to another
party. If you are registering as a business entity, you represent that you have
the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement. You must register
with us by providing us with your real name, address, phone number, birth date
and email address, as well as any other identification information required by
our policies or that we may request from time to time. As part of the
registration process, you will choose your own password. You will be
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of that password and for
restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for
all activities that occur under your user name and password. We may terminate
or suspend any auction or information listing, and we may terminate or suspend
any registration, at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, and
without any notice to you or any other person. Some of the reasons that we
might terminate or suspend a listing or a registration are described in this Agreement
and in our policies, but those reasons are not exclusive.
2.
Fees and
Services. Joining and bidding on items at Royalimarketing
is free. We may in our sole discretion change some or all of our services at
any time. In the event we introduce a new service, the fees for that service
are effective at the launch of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees
are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are responsible for paying all fees associated
with using our service and the Site and all applicable taxes.
3.
Bidding and
Buying. As a buyer, you are obligated to complete
the transaction with us if you are the highest bidder at the end of an auction
(meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your bid is
accepted by us, unless the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement. Royalimarketing specifically reserves onto
itself the right to set a minimum bid amount for each auction and the right to
reject all bids. By bidding on an item
you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale included in the item's
description so long as those conditions of sale are not in violation of this Agreement
or unlawful. Unless you and Royalimarketing agree otherwise, you will become
the item's lawful owner upon physical receipt of the item from us. Bids are not
retractable except without the express written permission of Royalimarketing. Unless otherwise indicated in the sale
conditions of the specific item, payment must be made by you to Royalimarketing
as set forth in the sales condition by certified funds, wire transfer or a
letter of credit, acceptable to us, prior to the delivery of any goods upon
which you have bid.
4.
Your
Information.
4.1
Definition. “Your Information” is defined as any information you
provide to us in the registration or bidding process, in any public message
area (including the feedback area) or through any email feature. You are solely
responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for your
online distribution and publication of Your Information.
4.2 Restricted Activities. Your
Information (or any items listed) and your activities on the Site shall not:
(a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent; (c) infringe any
third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary
rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (d) violate any law, statute,
ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export
control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false
advertising); (e) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or
unlawfully harassing; (f) be obscene or contain child pornography; (g) contain
any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other
computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal
information; or (h) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in
part) the services of our internet service provider(s) or other suppliers.
4.3 License. Solely to enable Royalimarketing
to use the information you supply us with, so that we are not violating any
rights you might have in that information, you agree to 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 Your Information, in any
media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. Royalimarketing
will only use Your Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
5.
Access and
Interference. Much of the information
on the Site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed
to Royalimarketing by our users or third parties. 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: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole
discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our
infrastructure; (ii) 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 Royalimarketing and
the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to
interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on
the Site; or (iv) bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may
use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.
6.
Reservation of rights. We
retain the right, but without any obligation, to terminate or suspend any
listing, terminate or suspend any registration, terminate or suspend any
auction or sale, prevent or restrict access to the Site, or take any other
action we consider appropriate in the case of technical problems, material we
consider, in our sole and absolute discretion, to be objectionable for any
reason whatsoever or for no reason, at any time, in each case in our sole and
absolute discretion, for any reason or for no reason at all, and without any
notice to you or any person. We also retain the right to change or discontinue
any or all features of the Site, at any time and without notice to you or any
person. We also retain the right to set a minimum bid
for each auction and to reject all bids submitted for any specific auction.
7.
Restrictions
on conduct. In addition to the other restrictions on
conduct set forth in this Agreement and the other documents incorporated into this
Agreement, you agree to use the Site only for its intended purpose, and not to
attempt to use it for advertising products or services (other than the specific
item(s) you list) or commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to use the
Site to attempt to conduct purchases outside of the Site, and you agree not to
take any action to disrupt or interfere with any auction conducted on the Site.
If we are notified of allegedly
infringing, defamatory, damaging, illegal, or offensive content provided by
you, we may investigate the allegation and determine in our sole discretion
whether to remove such content from the Site. We may disclose any content or
communication of any kind (i) to satisfy any law, regulation, or governmental request; (ii) if such disclosure is
necessary or appropriate to operate the site; or (iii) to protect the rights or
property of Royalimarketing, other users, or other persons. We reserve the right to prohibit conduct,
communication, or content that we deem in our sole discretion to be unlawful or
harmful to us, any user, or any third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we
cannot ensure prompt removal of questionable content after online posting.
Accordingly, neither Royalimarketing, nor any of its officers, directors,
employees, or agents assumes any liability for any action or inaction with
respect to conduct, communication, or content on the Site.
8.
Breach. Without limiting other remedies, we may limit your
activity, immediately remove your bids, warn our community of your actions,
issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your
membership and refuse to provide our services to you if: (a) you breach this Agreement
or the documents it incorporates by reference; (b) we are unable to verify or
authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your
actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.
9.
Privacy. We do not
sell or rent Your Information to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent and we only use Your Information as described in
the Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very important
community principle. We understand clearly that you and Your Information is one
of our most important assets. 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 acknowledge, however, that third party
companies are used to host our Site and that they will have access to Your
Information. We use third parties to
verify and certify our privacy principles. If you object to Your Information
being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.
10.
No Warranty. WE, OUR AFFILIATES,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS PROVIDE OUR WEB SITE AND
SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE, OUR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND
OUR SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE,
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
THE PRODUCTS OR GOODS SOLD
THROUGH ROYALIMARKETING ARE SOLD WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF
ANY NATURE, EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTY THAT MIGHT ACCOMPANY THE SPECIFIC
PRODUCT OR GOOD.
Some states do not allow the
disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to
you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other
legal rights that vary from state to state.
11.
Liability
Limit. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR AFFILIATES,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR OUR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR
ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH OUR SITE, OUR SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT (HOWEVER ARISING,
INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE). FURTHER, IN NO
EVENT, SHALL ROYALIMARKETING BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU IN ANY WAY OR FOR
ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY MISHANDLING OR NEGLIGENCE BY THE THIRD PARTY HOSTING COMPANY IN REGARD
TO YOUR INFORMATION. Some States do not
allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so
the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
Royalimarketing shall have no
liability of any nature to you if you misuse or alter the product after receipt
from you and additionally, any such conduct shall void and make of no further effect
any warranty that might accompany a specific product. Products sold by Royalimarketing are designed
to operate on 110 voltage and use of any other voltage may damage the product
and Royalimarketing shall have no liability or responsibility for any such use.
12.
Indemnity. You agree to
indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates,
officers, directors, agents, 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 the documents it incorporates by
reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
13.
Legal
Compliance. You shall comply with all applicable domestic
and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use
of our service and your bidding on, listing, purchase, solicitation of offers
to purchase, and sale of items. You may not register
under or use a false name or use an invalid or unauthorized credit or debit
card. You may not make bids under a false name, impersonate another person, or
use another user's password. Fraudulent conduct is a violation of state and
federal laws, and is strictly prohibited. We may report any conduct we consider
fraudulent or potentially fraudulent to law enforcement agencies, and we will
cooperate with law enforcement agencies in an effort to ensure that violators
are prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted by law.
14.
No Agency. You and Royalimarketing
are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture,
employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created
by this Agreement.
15.
Trademark. Any
trademarks or other intellectual property found on Royalimarketing are the
exclusive property of us either by way of trademark registration, common law
rights or licensing and you shall have no rights to any such trademarks or
other intellectual property by your use of the Site.
16.
Delivery. All products
sold at the Site shall be shipped from warehouse or other points designated by
us and the cost of any such shipping shall be chargeable to you in addition to
any specific price for the product that may be listed on the Site. You shall be responsible for the cost of any
such shipping or delivery and the amount of the same shall be included in
charges rendered to you for which you are responsible for payment.
17.
Notices. Except as
explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail to Royalimarketing,
379 Campus Drive, 2nd Floor, Somerset, NJ 08875 (in the case of Royalimarketing) or to the email
address you provide to Royalimarketing 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 notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt
requested, to the address provided to Royalimarketing during the registration
process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of
mailing.
18.
Resolution of
Disputes. In the event a dispute arises between you and Royalimarketing, our goal is to provide you with a neutral
and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and
Royalimarketing agree that any claim or controversy at law or equity that
arises out of this Agreement or our services ("Claims") shall be
resolved in accordance with one of the subsections below or as otherwise
mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties. Before resorting to these
alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a
resolution and we will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute
through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation, as an
alternative to litigation. However, if any Claim is brought to court, it must
be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, without a jury, located in
New Jersey, United States. You and Royalimarketing
agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within the
State of New Jersey.
19.
General. This Agreement
shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New Jersey as such laws are applied to Agreements entered into
and to be performed entirely within New Jersey between New Jersey residents. We do not guarantee continuous,
uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of the Site may
be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. 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. You agree that this Agreement
and all incorporated Agreements may be automatically assigned by Royalimarketing
in accordance with Section 15 "Notices", in our sole discretion;
Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe
or describe 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. This Agreement sets forth the entire
understanding and Agreement between us with respect to the subject matter
hereof. 4.3 (License), 5 (Access and
Interference), 11 (Liability Limit), 12 (Indemnity) and 16 (Resolution of
Disputes) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
PRIVACY POLICY
Royalmarketing.com
is committed to your privacy
Your privacy is important, so we have created the following Privacy Policy to
let you know what information we collect when you visit our auctions site, Royalmarketing.com
(the “Site”), why we collect it, and how it is used. This Policy also addresses
our data security practices, the options you have to access and control any
personally identifiable information you provide to us, and other matters. This
Policy is governed by our User Agreement. We may periodically make changes to
this Policy, which will be included on this page. It is your responsibility to
review this Policy frequently and remain informed about any changes to it, so
we encourage you to visit this page often. When we change the Policy, we will include
the date of the last change, so that you can easily see whether there have been
any changes since the last time you read the Policy.
Special note about children
The Site is not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 18. By
registering with us or using the Site to bid for products or by providing us
with any information via the Site, you represent to us that, if you are an
individual, you are 18 years of age or older and that any information you
provide to us about a third party is for a third party that is 18 years of age
or older.
What information do we collect from you?
You must be registered with Royalmarketing.com. In general, we collect
information that enables us to operate the site and to provide services and
features that may be of interest to you. Although you may browse the Site
without providing any personal information about yourself to us, if you choose
to register with us in order to be able to bid for products, we will require
you to provide personal contact information and other information as described
below and in the registration forms. If you provide personal contact
information to us, you may later access and modify it, and remove it from our
system, subject to certain limitations described below. You may also choose
simply not to provide your personal contact information at the point of
collection.
Accessing, reviewing and modifying your personal information
You may review and modify your user name, password, email address and other
contact information, shipping information and user preferences by going to
the Preferences area on your homepage. You are required to correct or update
your personal information if it is inaccurate or it changes. We will deactivate
your registration upon your request made to international@royal.com in
accordance with our registration deactivation procedures and applicable law.
After we deactivate your account, we will keep some or all of your personal
information and other information we have collected about you and your history
using the site for the purposes of detecting and preventing fraudulent
activities, resolving disputes, fixing problems, assisting with investigations
by law enforcement, governmental authorities or others, collecting any fees
owed to us, enforcing the User Agreement and complying with applicable legal
requirements.
We may collect your name, address, phone number, email address and credit
card information
When you use our website, we may request your first and last name, home or
other physical address, including your street name and address and name of your
city or town, your telephone number or other physical contact information. We
may request your email address, which we may use to contact you regarding your
use of the Site or for marketing purposes. We may also request your credit card
information and birth date, which we may use to confirm other information you
have provided to us. If you provide us with a credit card number, we may also
collect related information, including your billing address, the expiration
date, and the security code on the card.
General use of the information
In addition to the other uses described in this Policy, we use the information
you provide to us, as well as other information we collect about you, to verify
other information you have provided to us, to support and analyze your use of
the Site, to customize and modify the services we provide, for internal
marketing and other purposes and to comply with any requirements of law. We may
review your personal information in an effort to identify users using multiple
user names. This information may be disclosed to our staff and to third parties
involved in the completion of your transaction, the analysis and support of
your use of the site, efforts to detect and prevent fraudulent or other
unlawful or undesirable behavior, efforts to resolve disputes and efforts to
fix problems, and to law enforcement agencies or personnel or other
governmental agencies or personnel. When we use third parties, such as
outsourcing firms, to provide a portion of the services involved in the
operation of the Site, we do so pursuant to confidentiality agreements that
prohibit the third party from using the information we provide to them for any
purpose other than the provision of the service to us for which we engaged
them.
Product offerings
We may also use the personal information we collect to contact you to inform
you of product or service offerings, and by your acceptance of the User
Agreement and this Policy, you agree that we may send these communications to
you.
From time to time we may recommend services or products offered by third
parties, such as escrow services, shipping services, or other third parties. If
we do, for your convenience we may share your personal information with such
third parties for the purpose of facilitating your transactions on the site,
and you consent to our sharing your information for such purposes.
We may collect bidding and purchase information
We may collect information actively generated by the bidding for or purchase of
a product or other use of the Site. We use this information to facilitate the
operation of the site and analyze and support the operation of the Site.
We may collect navigation and clickstream data
If you browse or use our website, we may gather navigational and clickstream
data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used.
We may also collect information about the URL you visited before and after
visiting the Site, your IP address and information about your browser. We use
this information to analyze and support the operation of the Site, to comply
with any requirements of law, and to determine any commissions we may owe to
third parties.
Your activities on the Site
The information you post to the Site will be available to the public. Your user
name and your bids will also be available to the public. If you post any
identifying information about yourself, other people may identify you.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf
These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel
gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that
these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely
anonymous.
Certain exceptional disclosures
In addition to the other types of disclosures discussed in this Policy, we may
disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights, if the
information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct, or if we have a
good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the
requirements of law or comply with governmental orders, court orders, or legal
process served on us, or (2) to protect and defend the property or
rights of Royalmarketing.com, users of the Site or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk protection. Our policy is to cooperate with law
enforcement agencies and third parties seeking to prevent fraud and to enforce
laws and protect legal rights, including intellectual property rights. By using
the Site, you authorize us, in response to a verified request by law
enforcement or other governmental authorities relating to a criminal
investigation or potential illegal activity, to disclose all information we
have about you, including your name, address, email and telephone number and
site activity history, without a subpoena. In addition, to the extent required
by law, and in accordance with the User Agreement, we may make other disclosures
of your personal information, including, without limitation, disclosure of your
personal information to another user of the Site who alleges fraud or deception
in a transaction on the Site.
We cannot assure you that your personal information will not be disclosed in
ways not contemplated by this Policy. For example, third parties may unlawfully
intercept or gain access to information you provide to us. Site users may
misuse information you provide. We could be required to disclose information to
governmental authorities or third parties. If Royalmarketing.com should ever
file for bankruptcy or merge with another company, we may sell the information
you provide to us to a third party or share your personal information with the
company we merge with. Consequently, although we follow reasonable technical
and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and
integrity of data stored on our system, we cannot assure you, and you should
not expect, that your personal information and private communications will
always remain confidential.
Mechanism for complaints or inquiries
We require bidders to register with us and to provide certain information to
us. We retain and use that information as described in our Privacy Policy. Bidders
may submit complaints or inquiries to us by email at international@royal.com.
How long do we keep user information?
We keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we are
required to do so by law or otherwise as long as we reasonably need it. We may
alter this practice according to changing requirements. For example, to the
extent permitted by law, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage
space. We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it or for
other reasons. In addition, information posted in a public forum could stay in
the public domain indefinitely.
Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent
feasible and within our direct control. Note: we have greater control over
recently collected data than for archived data. Once data is removed from the
system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests.
In those cases, our general data retention policy applies.
Third party sites
The Site contains links to third party websites. When you click on a link in a
product description, you are taken to a site not operated by Royalmarketing.com.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites,
or for the actions of the persons who operate any of those websites. Your use
of these third party websites is entirely at your own risk.
Your consent to this policy
By using the site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This is our entire and
exclusive Privacy Policy relating to the Site and it supersedes any earlier
version. Our User Agreement takes precedence over any conflicting Policy
provision. We may change this Privacy Policy by posting a new version of the
policy on this page as described above.
Legal matters
This Privacy Policy is governed by New Jersey law, excluding conflicts of law
principles.
If you have a privacy question
If you have a privacy question about the Site, please email: international@royal.com.
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