Last updated: 27 February 2024
1. User's Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Terms
We provide the www.RateStars.com site and the RateStars application for mobile devices and various related services (together referred to as this ”Site”) subject to your compliance with all the terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein (the ”Terms of Use”), as well as any other written agreement between us (or your company). In addition, when using particular services or materials on this Site, users shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services or materials that may contain terms and conditions in addition to those in these Terms of Use. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use. Any user of this site shall be referred to as “you” or “user” or any other grammatically appropriate term referencing a user.
The terms “we”, “us”, and “our” used in these Terms of use refer to the following entities:
BY COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AND/OR USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE EXIT THE SITE NOW. YOUR REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THIS SITE, OR ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, CONTENT, OR OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THIS SITE, IS TO STOP USING THE SITE AND/OR THOSE PARTICULAR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. YOUR AGREEMENT WITH US REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE BECOMES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON COMMENCEMENT OF YOUR USE OF THIS SITE.
BY COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AND/OR USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN (16) OR THE AGE OF MAJORITY WHERE YOU LIVE IF YOUR LOCAL LAWS REQUIRE AS SUCH.
As used in these Terms of Use, references to our ”Affiliates” include our owners, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, officers, directors, suppliers, partners, sponsors, and advertisers, and includes (without limitation) all parties involved in creating, producing, and/or delivering this Site and/or its contents.
2. Description of Services
We make various services available on this Site including, but not limited to, the ability to nominate and post profiles of public figures for reviewing, the ability to comment on and review the public figures, and the ability to rate and comment on other user profiles (the “Services”).
Personalized Services. Your experience on the Site is unlike any other user: from the posts, reviews, events, ads, and other content you see to the public figures you follow and other features you might use, such as the searches you perform. For example, we use data about the ratings and reviews you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you post to personalize your experience.
Connecting You with Public Figures You Care About. We help you find and connect with public figures, people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that matter to you. We use data to make suggestions for you and others - for example, public figures to follow or rate and people you may wish to follow. Stronger ties make for better communities, and we believe our services are most useful when people are connected to people, groups, and organizations they care about or wish to see improve.
Making Your Voice Heard. There are many ways to be heard on the Site and communicate with others about what matters to you - for example, rating public figures, posting public comments, or even creating like-minded groups. And we continue to explore and develop new technologies that allow users to rate and interface with the organizations they care about.
Safety and Security. People will participate on the Site if they feel safe and secure. We work hard to maintain the security (including the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality) of our Services. We employ dedicated teams around the world, work with external service providers, partners and other relevant entities and develop advanced technical systems to detect potential misuse of our Site, harmful conduct towards others, and situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community, including to respond to user reports of potentially violating content. If we learn of content or conduct like this, we may take appropriate action based on our assessment that may include notifying you, offering help, removing content, removing or restricting access to certain features, disabling an account, or contacting law enforcement. We may access, preserve, use and share any information we collect about you where we have a good faith belief it is required or permitted by law to do so. For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.
Modifications. We reserve the sole right to either modify or discontinue the Site, the Services, including any features therein, at any time with or without notice to you. We shall not be liable to you or any third party, should we exercise such right. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in Site formatting, Site storage, the Services, the addition of pricing structure, the addition of fee-based services, or changes to limitations on allowable file sizes. Any new features that augment or enhance the then-current services on this Site shall also be subject to these Terms of Use.
Interruptions. You understand and agree that temporary interruptions of the services available through this Site may occur as normal events. You further understand and agree that we have no control over third party networks you may access in the course of the use of this Site, and therefore, delays and disruption of other network transmissions are completely beyond our control.
You understand and agree that the services available on this Site are provided "AS IS" and that we assume no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.
3. Registration Data and Privacy
In order to access the services on this Site, you will be required to create a separate account and password that can be obtained by completing our online registration form, which requests certain information and data ("Registration Data") and maintaining and updating your Registration Data as required. By registering, you agree that all information provided in the Registration Data is true and accurate and that you will maintain and update this information as required in order to keep it current, complete and accurate.
You also grant us the right to disclose to third parties certain Registration Data about you. If you are based in the EU or other countries that have statutory laws pertaining to the limitation of disclosure of your personal data, we will make sure that we have an appropriate legal basis for sharing the Registration Data with third parties (e.g., performing our contractual obligations or pursuing our legitimate business interests).
The information we obtain through your use of this Site, including your Registration Data, is subject to our Privacy Policy.
Who Can Create an Account. When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:
If you do not or cannot create an account pursuant to these terms, you may still have access to view the Site, but you will not be able interact with the Site, any profiles or any users.
4. Account Suspension or Termination
We want the Site to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to express themselves and share their thoughts on public figures and organizations.
If we determine, in our discretion, that you have clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms or other policies, we may suspend or permanently disable your access to the Site, and we may permanently disable or delete your account. We may also disable or delete your account if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons.
We may disable or delete your account if after registration your account is not confirmed, your account is unused and remains inactive for an extended period of time, or if we detect someone may have used it without your permission and we are unable to confirm your ownership of the account.
Where we take such an action we will let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our Site or community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our Services or systems; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
You can contact us if you think we have disabled your account by mistake.
If you delete or we disable or delete your account, these Terms of Use shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but the following provisions will remain in place: 3-11, 17-20.
5. Conduct on Site
Your use of the Site is subject to all applicable laws and regulations, and you are solely responsible for the contents of your communications and posts on or through the Site. By posting information in or otherwise using Services, chat room, message board, newsgroup, or other interactive services that may be available to you on or through this Site, you agree that you will not upload, share, post, or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content -- including text, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information -- that:
WE NEITHER ENDORSE NOR ASSUME ANY LIABILITY FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY MATERIAL UPLOADED OR SUBMITTED BY USERS OF THE SITE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW. WE GENERALLY DO NOT PRE-SCREEN, MONITOR, OR EDIT THE CONTENT POSTED BY USERS OF COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS, NEWSGROUPS, OR OTHER INTERACTIVE SERVICES THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THIS SITE. However, we and our agents have the right, in our sole discretion, to remove any content that, in our judgment, does not comply with these Terms of Use and any other rules of user conduct for our Site, or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such content. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO SUCH REMOVAL AND WAIVE ANY CLAIM AGAINST US ARISING OUT OF SUCH REMOVAL OF CONTENT. See ”Use of Your Materials” below for a description of the procedures to be followed in the event that any party believes that content posted on this Site infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party.
In addition, you may not use your account to breach the security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server. Not all areas of the Site may be available to you or other authorized users of the Site. You shall not interfere with anyone else's use and enjoyment of the Site or other similar services. Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.
You agree that we may at any time, and at our sole discretion, terminate your membership without prior notice to you for violating any of the above provisions. In addition, you acknowledge that we will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected criminal violations.
6. Third Party Sites and Information
This Site may link you to other sites on the internet or otherwise include references to information, documents, software, materials and/or services provided by other parties. These sites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites and parties are not under our control, and you acknowledge that we are not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such sites, nor are we responsible for errors or omissions in any references to other parties or their products and services. The inclusion of such a link or reference is provided merely as a convenience and does not imply endorsement of, or association with, the site or party by us, or any warranty of any kind, either express or implied.
7. Intellectual Property Information
Copyright 2023 Artene Media Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
For purposes of these Terms of Use, "content" is defined as any information, communications, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds, and other material and services that can be viewed by users on our Site. This includes, but is in no way limited to, public figure profiles, message boards, chat, and other original content.
By accepting these Terms of Use, you acknowledge and agree that all content presented to you on this Site is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws, and is the sole property of Artene Media Group, LLC, its Affiliates, third parties, or the party responsible for posting the content. You are only permitted to use the content as expressly authorized by us or the specific content provider. You may not copy, reproduce, modify, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute any documents or information from this Site in any form or by any means without prior written permission from us, and you are solely responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is available on this Site. Any unauthorized use of the materials appearing on this Site may violate copyright, trademark and other applicable laws and could result in criminal or civil penalties.
Neither we or our Affiliates warrant or represent that your use of materials displayed on, or obtained through, this Site will not infringe the rights of third parties. See "Use of Your Materials" below for a description of the procedures to be followed in the event that any party believes that content posted on this Site infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party.
All custom graphics, icons, logos and service names are registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of Artene Media Group, LLC or its Affiliates. All other trademarks or service marks are property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you any right to use any trademark, service mark, logo, and/or the name of Artene Media Group or its Affiliates.
8. User's Materials
Subject to our Privacy Policy, any communication or material that you transmit to this Site or to us, whether by electronic mail or other means, for any reason, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. While you retain all rights in such communications or material, you grant us and our designated licensees a non-exclusive, paid-up, perpetual, and worldwide right to copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, translate, adapt, modify, and otherwise use such material for any purpose regardless of the form or medium (now known or not currently known) in which it is used.
Please do not submit confidential or proprietary information to us unless we have mutually agreed in writing otherwise. We are also unable to accept your unsolicited ideas or proposals, so please do not submit them to us in any circumstance.
You are not allowed to disclose personal data of individuals who have not provided you with their consent to do so.
Permissions You Give Us. We need certain permissions from you to provide our Services:
However, to provide our Services we need you to give us some legal permissions (formally called a "license") to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Services as described above. Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with our Privacy Policy and any other policies that might apply). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on the Site, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others, again, consistent with our Privacy Policy and other applicable policies. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.
You can delete individual content you share, post, and upload at any time. In addition, all content posted to your personal account will be deleted if you delete your account. Account deletion does not automatically delete content that you post as an admin of a page or content that you create collectively with other users, such as photos you post in public figure profiles, which may continue to be visible to other album members.
It may take up to 90 days to delete content after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request. If you send content to trash, the deletion process will automatically begin in 30 days unless you chose to delete the content sooner. While the deletion process for such content is being undertaken, the content is no longer visible to other users. After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.
in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).
In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.
Copyright Use and Permissions. We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. If you or any user of this Site believes its copyright, trademark or other property rights have been infringed by a posting on this Site, you or the user should send notification to our Designated Agent (as identified below) immediately. To be effective, the notification must include:
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c), our Designated Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as indicated below. Service of therepeat infringers of copyright or of users about whom repeat claims of copyright infringement are received will be terminated.
Designated Agent for Claimed Infringement:
The Artene Media Group, LLC
copyright@RateStars.com
www.RateStars.comYou acknowledge and agree that upon receipt of a notice of a claim of copyright infringement, we may immediately remove the identified materials from our Site without liability to you or any other party and that the claims of the complaining party and the party that originally posted the materials will be referred to the United States Copyright Office for adjudication as provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Limitations of Use of our Intellectual Property. If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Services (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share on the Site), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks as we may allow in other policies or with our prior written permission. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open source license) to modify, translate, create derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer our products or their components, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
ALL MATERIALS AND SERVICES ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND ”AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (a) THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (b) THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (c) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR MATERIALS WILL BE EFFECTIVE, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR (d) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OR INFORMATION PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE SITE FROM US OR OUR AFFILIATES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS OR BE FREE FROM MISTAKES, ERRORS OR DEFECTS.
THIS SITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL OR OTHER MISTAKES, INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THE MATERIALS AND SERVICES AT THIS SITE, INCLUDING THE PRICES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ANY PRODUCTS LISTED HEREIN, AT ANY TIME WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE. THE MATERIALS OR SERVICES AT THIS SITE MAY BE OUT OF DATE, AND WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE SUCH MATERIALS OR SERVICES.
THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE DOWNLOADING OR OTHER ACQUISITION OF ANY MATERIALS THROUGH THIS SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND WITH YOUR AGREEMENT THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOU, YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH ACTIVITIES.
WE DO NOT CONTROL OR DIRECT WHAT PEOPLE AND OTHERS DO OR SAY, AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS OR CONDUCT (WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE) OR ANY CONTENT THEY SHARE, POST OR DISSEMINATE (INCLUDING OFFENSIVE, INAPPROPRIATE, OBSCENE, UNLAWFUL, AND OTHER OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT).
Through your use of the Site, you may have the opportunities to engage in commercial transactions with other users and vendors. You acknowledge that all transactions relating to any merchandise or services offered by any party, including, but not limited to the purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery terms relating to such transactions, are agreed to solely between the seller or purchaser of such merchandise and services and you. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY TRANSACTIONS EXECUTED THROUGH, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE, AND YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT SUCH TRANSACTIONS ARE CONDUCTED ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. ANY WARRANTY THAT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, MATERIALS, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THIS SITE FROM A THIRD PARTY IS PROVIDED SOLELY BY SUCH THIRD PARTY, AND NOT BY US OR ANY OTHER OF OUR AFFILIATES.
Content available through this Site often represents the opinions and judgments of an information provider, Site user, or other person or entity not connected with us. We do not endorse, nor are we responsible for the accuracy or reliability of, any opinion, advice, or statement made by anyone other than our spokesperson speaking in his/her official capacity. Please refer to the specific editorial policies posted on various sections of this Site for further information, which policies are incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.
10. Limitation of Liability
Your exclusive remedy and our entire liability, if any, for any claims arising out of these Terms of Use and your use of this Site shall be limited to the amount you paid us for the services on the Site during the one (1) month period before the act giving rise to the liability.
If you are based in the EU, our liability will be limited to the highest extent permitted by the applicable law and nothing in these Terms of Use shall affect any statutory rights that you are entitled to as a consumer and that you cannot contractually agree to alter or waive.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SITE, ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY OUR AGENTS, INCLUDING FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS OR TRAINING SERVICES, NOR FOR ANY ANTICIPATED RESULTS, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THIS SITE OR OF ANY WEBSITE REFERENCED OR LINKED TO FROM THIS SITE.
FURTHER, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR THIRD PARTY GOODS AND SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THIS SITE OR FOR ASSISTANCE IN CONDUCTING COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS THROUGH THIS SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE PROCESSING OF ORDERS.
SOME JURISDICTIONS PROHIBIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
11. Indemnification
Upon a request by us, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our Affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney's fees, that arise from your use or misuse of this Site. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
12. Participation in Promotions
From time to time, this Site may include advertisements offered by third parties. You may enter into correspondence with or participate in promotions of the advertisers showing their products on this Site. Any such correspondence or promotions, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such correspondence or promotions, are solely between you and the advertiser. We assume no liability, obligation or responsibility for any part of any such correspondence or promotion.
13. Use of Site and Storage of Material
You acknowledge that we may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the services available on our Site, including without limitation the maximum number of days that uploaded content will be retained on the Site, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the services in a given period of time. You agree that we have no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any content maintained or transmitted on or through this Site. You acknowledge that we reserve the right to log off accounts which have not paid a subscription fee that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that we reserve the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice.
We may provide storage space and access for material through our Site. For purposes of these Terms of Use, "material" refers to all forms of communication that we may allow, including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), video recordings, and audio recordings. You may not use this Site to publish material that we determine, at our sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent, or objectionable, or which violates the restrictions described in "Your Conduct on the Site" above. We will not routinely monitor the contents of your online portfolio. You are solely responsible for any information contained in your online portfolios. However, if complaints are received regarding language, content, or graphics contained or used in your online portfolio, we may, at our sole discretion, remove the images hosted on our servers and terminate your access to our Site. We may also suspend the account, restrict access to it, or remove content from it if necessary or appropriate.
The accounts of our users operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one user may have a negative impact on all other users. Misuse of network resources in a manner that impairs network performance, including excessive consumption of CPU time, memory, disk space, and session time, is prohibited and may result in termination of your account or limitation of your activities.
This Site Is not designed or intended to be used as a disaster recovery facility or as an emergency data storage facility. Although we take reasonable precautions to preserve and protect the material you upload to the Site, you should not rely on the Site as your only storage facility. You should preserve backup copies of any digital data, information or other materials that you have uploaded. You agree not to hold us for any damage to, any deletion of or any failure to store your files, data or Registration Data.
14. Security and Password
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and for any and all statements made and acts or omissions that occur through the use of your password and account, including any mail sent and any charges incurred. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain access to your password and account. Our personnel will never ask you for your password. You may not transfer or share your account with anyone, and we reserve the right to immediately terminate your account in the event of any unauthorized transfer or sharing thereof.
15. International Use
The Site may be accessible worldwide, and, therefore, various laws lay apply to your use of the Site. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Website complies with the laws applicable to you (e.g., the laws of the country in which your are based). Those who choose to access this Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. Any offer for any product, service, and/or information made in connection with this Site is void where prohibited.
16. Termination of Use
You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site with or without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of these Terms of Use. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity may be grounds for terminating your relationship and may be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
Upon termination or suspension, regardless of the reasons therefore, your right to use the services available on this Site immediately ceases, and you acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or this Site. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any claims or damages arising out of any termination or suspension, or any other actions taken by us in connection therewith. These Terms of Use, as well as your liability for any unpaid fees, shall survive any termination.
17. Governing Law; Venue
If you are based un the United States of America, by accessing this Site both of us agree that the statutes and laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its choice or conflict of laws principles, will apply to all matters relating to the use of this Site and the purchase of products and services available through this Site. Each of us agrees and hereby submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the District Court of Miami-Dade County, Florida and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida with respect to such matters.
If you are based in the EU, these Terms of Use are governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Romania and you agree to resolve any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms Use by means of negotiation with us. If the dispute cannot be resolved by means of negotiation, the dispute shall be submitted to courts in Romania, unless your statutory laws permit otherwise. You may also use the ADR procedure discussed below. This Section 17 does not affect any statutory rights that you are entitled to as a consumer.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR). ADR body acts as an independent middleman between an Internet service provider and a customer when an initial complaint cannot be resolved. You do not need (but may opt for) legal assistance or representation to take your case to an ADR scheme. The ADR body investigates complaints by looking at consumer's and Internet service provider's arguments and comes to a decision it deems to be fair. More information on the online ADR platform provided by the European Commission (for traders and consumers based in the European Union) is available at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/main/index.cfm?event=main.home.chooseLanguage.
This Section 17 does not affect any statutory rights that you are entitled to in your country of residence.
18. Notices
All notices to a party shall be in writing and shall be made either via email or conventional mail. Notices to us must be sent via email to Support/Customer Service at support@RateStars.com. Notices to you may be sent either to the email address supplied for your account or to the address supplied by you as part of your Registration Data. In addition, we may broadcast notices or messages through the Site to inform you of changes to the Site or other matters of importance, and such broadcasts shall constitute notice to you.
Any notices or communication under these Terms of Use will be deemed delivered to the party receiving such communication (a) on the delivery date if delivered personally to the party; (b) two business days after deposit with a commercial overnight carrier, with written verification of receipt; (c) five business days after the mailing date, if sent by US mail, return receipt requested; (d) on the delivery date if transmitted by confirmed facsimile; or (e) on the delivery date if transmitted by confirmed email.
19. Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement and understanding between us concerning the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings of the parties with respect thereto. These Terms of Use may NOT be altered, supplemented, or amended by the use of any other document(s). Any attempt to alter, supplement or amend this document or to enter an order for products or services which are subject to additional or altered terms and conditions shall be null and void, unless otherwise agreed to in a written agreement signed by you and us. To the extent that anything in or associated with this Site is in conflict or inconsistent with these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use shall take precedence.
20. Miscellaneous
Supplemental Terms. Some Services may be governed by supplemental terms.
Username Change. We may need to change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username and it appears unrelated to the name you use in everyday life).
Timeline for Disputes. In any action to enforce these Terms of Use, the prevailing party will be entitled to costs and attorneys' fees. Any cause of action brought by you against us or our Affiliates must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arises or be deemed forever waived and barred.
No Assignment or Third-Party Beneficiary. You may not assign your rights and obligations under these Terms of Use to any party, and any purported attempt to do so shall be null and void. We may freely assign our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use. These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All of our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
No Copying. You agree not to sell, resell, reproduce, duplicate, copy or use for any commercial purposes any portion of this Site, or use of or access to this Site.
Force Majeure. In addition to any excuse provided by applicable law, we shall be excused from liability for non-delivery or delay in delivery of products and services available through our Site arising from any event beyond our reasonable control, whether or not foreseeable by either party, including but not limited to, labor disturbance, war, fire, accident, adverse weather, inability to secure transportation, governmental act or regulation, pandemic, epidemic, and other causes or events beyond our reasonable control, whether or not similar to those which are enumerated above.
Severability. If any part of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
No Waiver. Any failure by us to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms of Use or related rights shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
Reservation of Rights. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
21. Contact Information
You can contact us by email at support@ratestars.com.
Our mailing addresses are: