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TERMS OF USE
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to www.ustashop.com. This site is owned by the United States
Tennis Association (the "USTA").
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING
THIS USTA SITE.
By using this site, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Use
and our Privacy Policy. Click here to review our
Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do
not use this site. USTA reserves the right, at our discretion, to
change, add, remove or otherwise modify portions of these Terms of Use
at any time. Please check these Terms of Use periodically for changes.
Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to
these Terms of Use means you accept those changes.
OWNERSHIP
All content included on this site, including, without limitation,
text, graphics, images, logos, audio or video clips, digital downloads,
data compilations and software, is the property of the USTA or the USTA's
content suppliers or licensors and protected by the laws of the United
States and other countries and international treaties. The compilation
of all content of this site is the property of the USTA and is protected
by the laws of the United States and other countries and international
treaties. US Open, USA Tennis, TennisLink and USTA and other marks
indicated on the site are registered trademarks of the USTA in the
United States. All other trademarks that are not owned by the USTA that
appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, which
may or may not be affiliated with or connected to the USTA.
LICENSE AND SITE USE
The USTA grants you a limited license to access and make personal,
non-commercial use of this site. In accordance with these Terms of Use,
you are not permitted to download any material (including, without
limitation, software, text, graphics or other content), except for
printing single copies of pages, as necessary to access the site (for
personal, non-commercial use provided that all copyright and proprietary
notices are maintained), frame, link to any page within or modify all or
part of the site without the USTA's
express written consent. You may not redistribute, sell, de-compile,
reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce to a human-readable
form software that you are permitted to download from the site
hereunder, except as may be permitted by law. Except only as expressly
provided herein, this site (or any derivative work version of it), its
contents (including, without limitation rankings, tournament scores and
standings) and any member or account information may not in any form or
by any means now known or hereafter developed be reproduced, displayed,
downloaded, uploaded, published, repurposed, posted, distributed,
transmitted, resold, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose
without the USTA's prior
express written consent. All rights not expressly granted to you above,
including ownership and title, are reserved for the owner and not
transferred or licensed to you.
YOUR ACCOUNT
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of membership and account information, credit card
information, usernames, passwords and Ids that may be required to use
the site from time to time ("Account Information") and for restricting
access to your computer or other devices, and you agree that you are
responsible for all activity that occurs under or with the use of your
Account Information (including, without limitation, usernames and
password). USTA reserves the right in its sole discretion to refuse
access to the site or services provided through it, terminate accounts
and usage rights, edit or remove content or Submissions (as defined
below) and cancel orders or requests for materials made through the
site.
MERCHANDISE DISPLAY; AVAILABILITY
USTA makes reasonable efforts to display merchandise on this site as
accurately as possible. Sometimes, however, factors including the
display and color capabilities of your computer monitor, may
significantly affect what you see on your screen. USTA is not
responsible for the display of any color or detail of merchandise on
your computer screen and does not guarantee that that such display is
accurate. In addition, some featured merchandise may be available only
in limited quantities or only while supplies last. Although we will
attempt to remove any items that are out of stock from the site in a
timely manner, display of an item on the site is not a guarantee that
the item is currently available or that it will be available on a later
date.
SUBMISSIONS
Any information or materials you transmit, upload or otherwise submit
to any USTA site (including, without limitation, comments, reviews,
postings to chat, email messages or materials directed to any Forum, as
the term is defined below) or any creative suggestions, ideas, notes,
drawings, concepts or other information sent to the USTA via our Web
site or other means of transmission or delivery, shall be collectively
referred to as "Submissions." If you transmit or otherwise deliver
Submissions to USTA, you grant USTA a nonexclusive, royalty-free,
perpetual, irrevocable (or the longest period permitted under law)
license (with the right to sublicense and assign) to use, reproduce,
modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and display,
transmit, make, sell, create derivative works from and distribute such
Submissions or incorporate such Submissions into other works in any form
or medium and through any means or modes of distribution or technology
now known or hereafter developed. You hereby agree and represent to USTA
that you own or have been granted the necessary intellectual property
and other rights in the Submissions (including, without limitation, a
waiver of any applicable moral rights) to grant such license to the
USTA, that no such Submissions are, or shall be, subject to any
obligation of confidence on the part of the USTA and that USTA shall be
liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions. Without limitation
of the foregoing, USTA shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the
Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without
compensation to the provider of the Submissions. You agree that no
Submission made by you will contain libelous, abusive, obscene or
otherwise unlawful material and you acknowledge and agree that you are
exclusively liable for the content of any Submission made by you.
FORUMS AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
"Forum" means a chat area, message board, email function or other
function which allows you to transmit or submit material to a USTA site
for display, storage or distribution, offered as part of any USTA site
or by an affiliated company/organization and/or service provider of the
USTA. Where the Forum is provided on a site other than a USTA site, you
will be bound by the terms of service and privacy policy of the site you
have linked to. If you participate in any Forum within a USTA site, you
must not and agree that you will not through the use of any Submission
or otherwise:
- defame, abuse, harass or threaten others;
- make any bigoted, hateful or racially offensive statements;
- advocate illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the
intent to commit them;
- post or distribute any material that infringes and/or violates
any right of a third party or any law;
- post or distribute any vulgar, obscene, discourteous or indecent
language or images;
- advertise or sell to, or solicit, others;
- use the Forum for commercial purposes of any kind;
- post or distribute any software or other materials which contain
a virus or other harmful component; or
- post material or make statements that do not generally pertain
to the designated topic or theme of any chat room or bulletin board.
In addition, you must note and agree that you will not use a false
email address, impersonate any person or entity or otherwise mislead
others as to the source of origin of a Submission.
USTA reserves the right to remove or edit content from any USTA Forum
at any time and for any reason but does not regularly review posted
Submissions.
Any material transmitted, submitted or otherwise delivered to a Forum
shall constitute a Submission and is hereby governed by the terms
applicable to Submissions as described herein.
When participating in a Forum, never assume that people are whom they
say they are, know what they say they know, or are affiliated with whom
they say they are affiliated with in any chat room, message board or
other user-generated content area. Information obtained in a Forum may
not be reliable, and USTA is not responsible for the content or accuracy
of any information.
CONTENT LINKED TO ANY USTA SITE
Please exercise discretion while browsing the Internet using any USTA
site. You should be aware that while you are on a USTA site, you could
be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links
to other sites from USTA pages that take you outside of our service.
This includes links from regional sections, sponsors and content
partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding or other
agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users,
collect data, solicit personal information, or contain information that
you may find inappropriate or offensive. USTA reserves the right to
disable links from third party sites to any USTA site. USTA makes no
representations concerning the content of sites linked to any USTA site
or listed in any of our directories. Consequently, USTA cannot be held
responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality
or decency of material contained in sites listed in our search results
or otherwise linked to a USTA site. If you have any concerns regarding
any external link, you should contact the link's administrator or
Website.
DISCLAIMER
THE MATERIALS IN THIS USTA SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, USTA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. USTA DOES NOT
WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS ON ANY USTA SITE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR
THAT ANY USTA SITE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE SUCH MATERIALS AVAILABLE ARE
FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. USTA DOES NOT WARRANT OR
MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF
THE MATERIALS ON ANY USTA SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO
YOU.
USTA explicitly disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness, content or availability of information found on sites that
link to or from any USTA site. USTA cannot ensure that you will be
satisfied with any products or services that you purchase from a third
party site that links to or from any USTA site or third party content on
our sites. USTA does not endorse any of the merchandise (if any) except
as expressly provided, nor has USTA taken any steps to confirm the
accuracy or reliability of any of the information contained in such
third party sites or content. USTA does not make any representations or
warranties as to the security of any information (including, without
limitation, credit card and other personal information) you might be
requested to give any third party, and you hereby irrevocably waive any
claim against us with respect to such sites and third party content.
USTA strongly encourages you to make whatever investigation you feel
necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline
transaction with any of these third parties.
CREDIT CARDS
USTA may provide your credit card number, billing and shipping
information to participating merchants from whom you buy goods or
services and financial institutions pursuant to transactions with the
USTA. The merchants are solely responsible for how they use that
information and any other information they independently acquire from
you or about you. Otherwise, USTA does not share your credit card
information with anyone else. For more information, please read our
Privacy Policy.
To protect the security of your credit card information, USTA employs
the industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. USTA also
encrypts your credit card number when USTA stores your order and
whenever USTA transfers that information to participating merchants.
INDENTIFICATION
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and
security of your Account Information and for all activities that occur
under your account. You agree to indentify, defend and hold the USTA,
the USTA's subsidiaries
and other affiliated companies/organizations and sponsors and their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from and
against any third-party claims, demands, actions, suits, proceedings,
liabilities, damages, losses, judgments and expenses (including, but not
limited to, the costs of collection, reasonable attorney's
fees and other reasonable costs of defense or enforcing your obligations
hereunder) resulting from or arising out of any breach of any of your
representations or misuse of this or any other USTA site or of any site
linking to this or any other USTA site. You shall use your best efforts
to cooperate with us in the defense of any claim.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE,
SHALL USTA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO
USE, ANY USTA SITE OR MATERIALS OR FUNCTIONS ON ANY SUCH SITE, EVEN IF
USTA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAW
MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT
APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL
DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE
AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE USTA.
IN NO EVENT SHALL USTA BE LIABLE FOR ANY BREACH IN TRANSACTION
SECURITY CAUSED BY A THIRD PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY
PURCHASE OR ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE MERCHANDISE.
JURISDICTION
Unless otherwise specified, the materials in any USTA site are
presented solely for the purpose of promoting tennis, tennis equipment,
tennis instruction and tennis tournaments and other products and
services available in the United States and its territories, possessions
and protectorates. USTA makes no representation that materials on any
USTA site are appropriate or available for use in any particular
location. Those who choose to access a USTA site do so on their own
initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to
the extent local laws are applicable.
TERMINATION
These Terms of Use are effective until terminated by either party.
Your access to any and all USTA sites may be terminated immediately
without notice from us if, in our sole discretion, you fail to comply
with any term of these Terms of Use. Upon such termination, you must
cease use of the USTA site and destroy all materials obtained from such
site and all copies thereof, whether made under the terms of these Terms
of Use or otherwise. You may terminate at any time by discontinuing use
of all USTA sites. Upon such termination, you must destroy all materials
obtained from any and all such sites and all related documentation and
all copies and installations thereof, whether made under the terms of
this Terms of Use or otherwise.
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2),
notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to the
Service Provider's Designated Agent.
Notification must be submitted to the following Designated Agent:
United States Tennis Association
Attention: Legal Dept.
70 West Red Oak Lane
White Plains, NY 10604
(914) 696-7000
To be effective, the notification must be a written communication
that includes the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to
act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been
infringed or multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are
covered by a single notification, and a representative list of such
works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing
or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be
removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information
reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the
material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider
to contact the complaining party, such as an address, a telephone
number and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the
complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief
that use of the material in the manner complained of is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate
and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that
is allegedly infringed.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
By visiting this site you agree that the Terms of Use shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
New York, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law,
and that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to
these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy shall be filed only in the
state or federal courts located in New York County, New York and you
hereby consent and submit to the venue and personal jurisdiction of such
courts for the purposes of such action. If any provision of these Terms
of Use shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then
that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and
shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining
provisions. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between
us relating to the subject matter herein and shall not be modified
except in writing, signed by both parties.
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