Reader's Rides Terms Of Use
Last Updated: October 28, 2013
1) GENERAL
Butler-LS offers the service of Reader's Rides to its visitors, users, and customers. By and through Reader's Rides, Butler-LS provides services including but not limited to: posting of user generated content, classified advertising, classified content, exchange of privately owned material, distribution of property, access to forums, and private messaging services. By accessing and using the Reader's Rides service, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of this agreement as a legal contract between you and Butler-LS. In addition, when using the Butler-LS website and any of its services by and through Reader's Rides, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services, which may be posted, modified, changed, removed or added at any time on either Butler-LS or Reader's Rides. Butler-LS may post changes to this Terms of Use at any time, and any such changes will be applicable to all subsequent access to or use of the Reader's Rides service by and through Butler-LS. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into this Terms of Use.
Any participation in using the Reader's Rides service will constitute acceptance of this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the above, please do not use this site. If you do not accept and agree to all provisions of this Terms of Use agreement, now or in the future, you may reject the Terms of Use by immediately terminating all access and use of Reader's Rides through Butler-LS, in which case any continuing access or use of Reader's Rides is unauthorized.
You are also required to comply with, and to ensure compliance with, all laws, ordinance and regulations applicable to your activities on the Reader's Rides service.
Reader's Rides is intended and designed for users 18 years of age and older, and access or use by anyone younger is not authorized.This Terms of Use grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Reader's Rides service Butler-LS provides, and use Reader's Rides, in whole or in part, to post content that includes, but is not limited to, user generated content and classified advertisements, solely in compliance with the Terms of Use.
2) MODERATION
Butler-LS has the right, but not the obligation, to regulate any content posted on the Reader's Rides service by users, which includes but is not limited to postings, text, code, images, video, binary files, ads, accounts, account information, flags, emails, messages and any other user communications content posted to, stored on or transmitted via Reader's Rides by any user (or any other third party in any manner); to regulate conduct (including but not limited to any authorized or unauthorized access to or use of Reader's Rides) by any user (or any other third party in any manner); and to enforce the Terms of Use for any reason and in any manner or by any means that Butler-LS, in their sole discretion, deems necessary or appropriate (including but not limited to automated and manual screening, blocking, filtering, exclusions from any pages or all pages, exclusion from search results, image search results, private listings, requiring the use of an application programming interface (API), requiring the use of a bulk posting interface, authorization, verification, and the deletion and/or termination of content, accounts and/or all or any use or access). Butler-LS may, in its sole discretion and without notice to any user start, stop, modify, change, delete, or regulate and enforce measures deemed appropriate by Butler-LS at any time without user consent.
Butler-LS’s action or inaction to regulate user generated content or conduct or to enforce against any potential violation of the Terms of Use by any user (or any third party) does not waive Butler-LS’s right to implement or not implement regulation or enforcement measures with respect to any subsequent or similar content, conduct, or potential Terms of Use violation.
You also understand and agree that any action or inaction by Butler-LS or any of its directors, officers, stockholders, employees, consultants, agents, moderators, administrators, affiliates or representatives (collectively Butler-LS Representatives) to prevent, restrict, redress, or regulate content, or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential Terms Of Use violation is undertaken voluntarily and in good faith, and you expressly agree that neither Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives shall be liable to you or anyone else for any action or inaction to prevent, restrict, redress, or regulate content, or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential violation of the Terms of Use.
Although Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives may moderate content, conduct and Terms of Use compliance on Reader's Rides at Butler-LS’s discretion, Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives have no authority to make binding commitments, promises, or representations to anyone that they or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS will “take care of” or process any alleged problem or complaint, or that they or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS will otherwise stop, cure, or prevent any problem, content, conduct or purported Terms of Use violation from occurring or recurring on Reader's Rides. Accordingly, you further agree that any representation (written or verbal) by any Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representative (or by anyone else acting on behalf of Butler-LS or by anyone purportedly acting on behalf of Butler-LS that Butler-LS (including but not limited to any Butler-LS Representatives, anyone else acting on behalf of Butler-LS, or anyone purportedly acting on behalf of Butler-LS would or would not prevent, restrict, redress or regulate content (including without limitation, screen, block, moderate, review, remove, terminate, delete, edit, or otherwise stop, cure or exclude any content), or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential or purported Terms of Use violation is superseded by this provision and is non binding and unenforceable. Specifically, you agree that Butler-LS, Butler-LS Representatives, and anyone else authorized to act on behalf of Butler-LS shall in no circumstance be liable as a result of any representation that Butler-LS, a Butler-LS Representative or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS would or would not restrict or redress any content, conduct, or potential or purported Terms of Use violation posted on Reader's Rides.
Butler-LS also has the right in its sole discretion to limit, modify, interrupt, suspend, or discontinue all or any portions of Reader's Rides at any time without notice. Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives shall not be liable for any such limitations, modification, interruptions, suspensions, or discontinuance, or any purported losses, harm or damages arising from or related thereto.
3) CONTENT AND CONDUCT
a. Content
Butler-LS does not control, is not responsible for, and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any user content posted on Reader's Rides. You agree, as a user of Reader's Rides, that you are solely responsible for your access to, use of, and /or reliance on any user content. You must conduct any necessary, appropriate, prudent, or judicious investigation, inquiry, research and due diligence with respect to any user content. Any content posted on Reader's Rides may not reflect the same principles, values, ideas, or opinions held by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
You are also responsible for any content and classifieds that you post or transmit on Reader's Rides and, if you create an account, you are responsible for all content posted or transmitted through or by use of your account.
Content prohibited from Reader's Rides includes but is not limited to: illegal content, content in facilitation of the creation, advertising, distribution, provision or receipt of illegal goods or services, offensive content (including, without limitation, defamatory, threatening, hateful or pornographic content), content that discloses another’s personal, confidential or proprietary information, false or fraudulent content (including but not limited to false, fraudulent, or misleading responses to user ads transmitted via Reader's Rides, malicious content (including, without limitation, malware or spyware), content that offers, promotes, advertises, or provides links to posting or auto-posting products or services, account creation or auto-creation products or services, flagging or auto flagging products or services, bulk telephone numbers, or any other product or service that if utilized with respect to Butler-LS would violate these Terms of Use or Butler-LS’s other legal rights, and content that offers, promotes, advertises, or provides links to unsolicited products or services. Other content prohibitions are set forth in guidelines for particular categories or services on Butler-LS and all such prohibitions are expressly incorporated into these Terms of Use as stated in section 1 above.
You automatically grant and assign to Butler-LS, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to Butler-LS, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post on Reader's Rides. You also expressly grant and assign to Butler-LS all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post).
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of: (a) content that you post or transmit (including but not limited to content that a third-party deems defamatory or otherwise harmful or offensive); (b) activity that occurs through or by use of your account (including, without limitation, all content posted or transmitted); (c) your use of or reliance on any user content; and (d) your violation of the Terms Of Use. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
b. Conduct
Butler-LS does not control, is not responsible for and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any user or user conduct on Reader's Rides. You are solely responsible for your interaction with or reliance on any user or user conduct. You must perform any necessary, appropriate, prudent or judicious investigation, inquiry, research and due diligence with respect to any user or user conduct.
You are also responsible for your own conduct and activities on, through or related to Reader's Rides, and, if you create an account on Reader's Rides, you are responsible for all conduct or activities on, through or by use of your account.
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of your own conduct or activities on, through or related to Reader's Rides or Reader's Rides Representatives, and related to or arising out of any conduct or activities on, through or by use of your Reader's Rides account, if any. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
4. POSTING AND ACCOUNTS
a. Postings
Users may not circumvent any technological measure implemented by Butler-LS or Reader's Rides to restrict the manner in which content may be posted on Reader's Rides or to regulate the manner in which content (including but not limited to email) may be transmitted to other users. This prohibition includes, without limitation, a ban on the use of multiple email addresses (created via an email address generator or otherwise); the use of multiple IP addresses (via proxy servers, modem toggling, or otherwise); automating or outsourcing the account creation or login process; multiple and/or fraudulent Reader's Rides accounts, including phone-verified accounts; URL shortening, obfuscation or redirection; use of multiple phone lines or phone forwarding for verification; and content obfuscation via HTML techniques, printing text on images, inserting random text or content "spinning."
It is expressly prohibited for any third party to post content to Reader's Rides on behalf of another. Users must post content only on their own behalf, and may not permit, enable, induce or encourage any third party to post content for them.
It is expressly prohibited to post content to Reader's Rides using any automated means. Users must post all content personally and manually through all steps of the posting process. It is also expressly prohibited for any user to develop, offer, market, sell, distribute or provide an automated means to perform any step of the posting process (in whole or in part). Any user who develops, offers, markets, sells, distributes or provides an automated means to perform any step of the posting process (in whole or in part) shall be responsible and liable to Reader's Rides for each instance of access to Reader's Rides (by any user or other third party) using that automated means.
Affiliate marketing is expressly prohibited on Reader's Rides. Users may not post content or communicate with any Reader's Rides user for purposes of affiliate marketing or in connection with any affiliate marketing system, scheme or program in any manner or under any circumstance.
b. Accounts
A user may maintain and use no more than one account to post content. A user specifically may not create or use additional accounts for the purpose of circumventing technological restrictions (security measures) in the posting process or otherwise for posting content in violation of the Terms Of Use.
A user may create an account only on his/her own behalf. A user must not permit, enable, induce or encourage others to create accounts for him/her. The creation of accounts for others is expressly prohibited.
A user must only use his/her own account and may not use any account of another.
The purchase and sale of accounts is expressly prohibited.
A user must create his/her account personally and manually and may not create accounts by any automated means.
c. Flagging
A user shall not "flag" (or otherwise seek removal of) content on Reader's Rides without a personal, good-faith belief that the content violates the Terms Of Use. A user may flag content only on his/her own behalf. A user must not permit, enable, induce or encourage others to flag content for them. A user must not flag content for others.
A user flagging content must do so manually and may not employ any automated means, products (including, without limitation, software programs) or services to flag content. A user must not circumvent any technological restrictions (security measures) in the flagging process. Without limitation, this prohibition includes a ban on the use of multiple IP addresses for flagging (by use of proxy servers or any means whatsoever).
5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES
This section 5 applies to all uses and users of Reader's Rides, unless Butler-LS has specifically authorized an exception to a particular term for a particular user in a written agreement. Butler-LS has sole and absolute discretion to authorize or deny any exception or exceptions to the terms in this section 5.
To maintain the integrity and functionality of Reader's Rides for its users, access to Reader's Rides and/or activities related to Reader's Rides that are harmful to, inconsistent with or disruptive of Reader's Rides and/or its users' beneficial use and enjoyment of Reader's Rides are expressly unauthorized and prohibited.
Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of Reader's Rides or any content posted on Reader's Rides whether done directly or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is prohibited. As a limited exception, general purpose Internet search engines and noncommercial public archives will be entitled to access Reader's Rides without individual written agreements executed with Butler-LS that specifically authorize an exception to this prohibition if, in all cases and individual instances: (a) they provide a direct hyperlink to the relevant Reader's Rides website, service, forum or content; (b) they access Butler-LS from a stable IP address using an easily identifiable agent; and (c) they comply with Butler-LS robots.txt file; provided however, that Butler-LS may terminate this limited exception as to any search engine or public archive (or any person or entity relying on this provision to access Reader's Rides without their own written agreement executed with Butler-LS), at any time and in its sole discretion, upon written notice, including, without limitation, by email notice.
Any access to or use of Reader's Rides to design, develop, test, update, operate, modify, maintain, support, market, advertise, distribute or otherwise make available any program, application or service (including, without limitation, any device, technology, product, computer program, mobile device application, website, or mechanical or personal service) that enables or provides access to, use of, operation of or interoperation with Butler-LS (including, without limitation, to access content, post content, cross-post content, re-post content, respond or reply to content, verify content, transmit content, create accounts, verify accounts, use accounts, circumvent and/or automate technological security measures or restrictions, or flag content) is prohibited. This prohibition specifically applies but is not limited to software, programs, applications and services for use or operation on or by any computer and/or any electronic, wireless and/or mobile device, technology or product that exists now or in the future.
If you access Reader's Rides or copy, display, distribute, perform or create derivative works from Reader's Rides webpages or other Reader's Rides intellectual property in violation of the Terms Of Use or for purposes inconsistent with the Terms Of Use, your access, copying, display, distribution, performance or derivative work is unauthorized. Circumvention of any technological restriction or security measure on Reader's Rides or any provision of the Terms Of Use that restricts content, conduct, accounts or access is expressly prohibited. For purposes of this paragraph, you agree that cached copies of Reader's Rides webpages on your computer or computer server constitute "copies" under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101.
Any effort to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer all or any part of Reader's Rides in order to identify, acquire, copy or emulate any source code or object code is expressly prohibited.
Any activities (including but not limited to posting voluminous content) that are inconsistent with use of Reader's Rides in compliance with the Terms Of Use or that may impair or interfere with the integrity, functionality, performance, usefulness, usability, signal-to-noise ratio or quality of all or any part of Reader's Rides in any manner are expressly prohibited.
Any attempt (whether or not successful) to engage in, or to enable, induce, encourage, cause or assist anyone else to engage in, any of the above unauthorized and prohibited access and activities is also expressly prohibited and is a violation of the Terms Of Use.
6. USER COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, INTERACTIONS, DISPUTES AND RELATIONS
Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives are not parties to, have no involvement or interest in, make no representations or warranties as to, and have no responsibility or liability with respect to any communications, transactions, interactions, disputes or any relations whatsoever between you and any other user, person or organization ("your interactions with others"). You must conduct any necessary, appropriate, prudent or judicious investigation, inquiry, research or due diligence with respect to your interactions with others.
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of your interactions with others. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
7. FEES
Butler-LS may charge a fee to post content or for other features, products, services or licenses. You are responsible to Butler-LS for any fees applicable to content that you post or other features, products, services or licenses you purchase or that are purchased through your account. You authorize Butler-LS, or its designated payment processor, to charge your specified credit card, debit card or other payment method for such fees.
Unless otherwise specified, all fees are in United States dollars and all charges will be made in United States dollars. Any applicable sales or other taxes are additional to the stated fee. Currency exchange settlements and foreign transaction fees are based on your agreement with your credit card or other payment method provider.
Except as required by law, all fees are nonrefundable, including, without limitation, in situations where paid posts are removed by Butler-LS or by community flagging. Payments and purchases may not be canceled by the user, except as required by law. However, Butler-LS reserves the right to refuse or terminate any purchase or attempted purchase at any time in its sole discretion. You understand and agree that if you authorize a payment transaction with your credit card, debit card or other payment method, but your charge is rejected for any reason, there may be a hold on your use of that transaction amount for several days.
8. DISCLAIMERS
YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF AND RELIANCE ON Reader's Rides AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Butler-LS (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WEBSITES, PROGRAMS, SERVICES, FORUMS AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITES, PROGRAMS, SERVICES AND FORUMS) IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, Butler-LS ALSO DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES FOR OR WITH RESPECT TO: (a) THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY AND PERFORMANCE OF Reader's Rides AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; (b) COMPUTER WORMS, VIRUSES, SPYWARE, ADWARE AND ANY OTHER MALWARE, MALICIOUS CODE OR HARMFUL CONTENT OR COMPONENTS ACCESSED, RECEIVED OR DISSEMINATED THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; (c) ANY TRANSACTIONS OR POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS, GOODS OR SERVICES PROMISED OR EXCHANGED, INFORMATION OR ADVICE OFFERED OR EXCHANGED, OR OTHER CONTENT, INTERACTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS OR COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF USE OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON Reader's Rides OR IN CONTENT).
THESE DISCLAIMERS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Some jurisdictions do not allow disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers as to implied warranties may not apply.
9. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
Butler-LS AND THE Butler-LS REPRESENTATIVES SHALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE FOR ANY ACCESS TO, USE OF OR RELIANCE ON Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE, OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, INTERACTIONS, DISPUTES OR RELATIONS BETWEEN YOU AND ANY OTHER PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides , INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LIABILITY FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AS WELL AS FOR ANY HARM, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCURRED BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, STATUTORY, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF Butler-LS OR ANY Butler-LS REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY APPLIES REGARDLESS OF, BUT IS NOT RESTRICTED TO, WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY, HARM, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES AROSE FROM AUTHORIZED OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; ANY INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; OR ANY REMOVAL, DELETION, LIMITATION, MODIFICATION, INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, DISCONTINUANCE OR TERMINATION OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides.
THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY TRANSACTIONS OR POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS, GOODS OR SERVICES PROMISED OR EXCHANGED, INFORMATION OR ADVICE OFFERED OR EXCHANGED, OR OTHER CONTENT, INTERACTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS OR RELATIONS THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LINKS ON Reader's Rides AND LINKS IN CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides).
You hereby release Butler-LS and each of the Butler-LS Representatives, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, predecessors, assigns, heirs, service providers and suppliers, from all claims, demands and damages of every kind and nature, known and unknown, direct and indirect, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to Reader's Rides or content accessed through Reader's Rides, or any interactions with others arising out of or related to Reader's Rides or content accessed through Reader's Rides, and you expressly waive the provisions of California Civil Code Section 1542 (and any similar laws in other jurisdictions), which provides: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
10. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
You acknowledge and agree that any violation or breach of the Terms Of Use may cause Butler-LS immediate and irreparable harm and damages; consequently, notwithstanding any other provision of the Terms Of Use or other applicable legal requirements, Butler-LS has the right to, and may in its discretion, immediately obtain preliminary injunctive relief (including, without limitation, temporary restraining orders) and seek permanent injunctive relief regarding any violation or breach of the Terms Of Use. In addition to any and all other remedies available to Butler-LS in law or in equity, Butler-LS may seek specific performance of any term in the Terms Of Use, including but not limited to by preliminary or permanent injunction.
11. DAMAGES
In addition to any injunctive relief, you agree to pay to Butler-LS the total amount of all actual damages (including but not limited to direct, indirect, consequential and incidental damages) caused by any violation of the Terms Of Use for which you bear responsibility; EXCEPT you acknowledge that, for certain Terms Of Use violations, actual damages would be extremely difficult or impossible to quantify. Consequently, for such Terms Of Use violations, you agree to pay liquidated damages to Butler-LS.
Furthermore you agree that the amounts of liquidated damages assessed and decided upon by Butler-LS are reasonable estimates of Butler-LS damages for such violations, and that liquidated damages for violations of the Terms Of Use are and will be cumulative.
13. PRIVACY
Any personal and/or private information that Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides collects which includes, but is not limited to, names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and access dates and times will not be shared with any third party company, organization, or any other external entity. You agree that any and all personal and/or private information provided to Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides is done so by your own discretion and consent. Personal information is collected during the sign-up process and is used to differentiate you from other users of Reader's Rides.
Furthermore, you agree that Butler-LS has your full consent to collect and use any and all personal and/or private information that is provided to Reader's Rides. Butler-LS will not disclose personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law. Examples of this include but are not limited to if personal information is requested by a court of law, law enforcement, or government organizations. Butler-LS will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.
If you do not wish for Butler-LS to collect your personal and/or private information and want to prohibit Butler-LS from collection and using your personal and/or private information you must not enter your personal and/or private information into any form of collection processes that Reader's Rides utilizes, which include but are not limited to, intake forms, weblogs, surveys, web forms, registration forms, newsletter sign ups, and order placement forms. You also agree that any and all information entered into Reader's Rides is true and correct, and that you are not using information that belongs to another person, company, individual, or organization.
Butler-LS servers collect the following information which is not limited to, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, web pages visited, referring web pages, browsers used, dates and times of access, and user log-in information. Butler-LS does not associate this data to individual user identities. This information is used to improve web presentation and utilization. IP address information may also be used for troubleshooting purposes. Butler-LS uses “cookies” in order to deliver web content specific to individual users’ interests and/or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.
Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides uses webforms on this site. Web forms require users to give contact information that includes but is not limited to, full names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Contact information from the registration form is used only to send material relating to the purpose for which it was collected and will not be sold to another party. Butler-LS will only use personal information collected from this site for the purpose of communication back to individuals who contact us via the site.
14. MISCELLANEOUS
These Terms Of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Butler-LS and supersede any prior written or oral agreement. Other than the Butler-LS Representatives (who are expressly included as named third-party beneficiaries of the Terms Of Use), there are no third-party beneficiaries to the Terms Of Use.
Any and all claims, causes of action or disputes (regardless of theory) between you and Butler-LS arising out of or related to the Terms Of Use, Butler-LS or content accessed through Reader's Rides shall be classified as null and void through this Terms of Use. By having registered to Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides you agree to never file any form of legal suit against Butler-LS or any Butler-LS Representative.
15. FEEDBACK
Comments on these Terms Of Use are welcome and should be sent to the Butler-LS feedback email:
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Reader's Rides Terms Of Use
Last Updated: October 28, 2013
1) GENERAL
Butler-LS offers the service of Reader's Rides to its visitors, users, and customers. By and through Reader's Rides, Butler-LS provides services including but not limited to: posting of user generated content, classified advertising, classified content, exchange of privately owned material, distribution of property, access to forums, and private messaging services. By accessing and using the Reader's Rides service, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of this agreement as a legal contract between you and Butler-LS. In addition, when using the Butler-LS website and any of its services by and through Reader's Rides, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services, which may be posted, modified, changed, removed or added at any time on either Butler-LS or Reader's Rides. Butler-LS may post changes to this Terms of Use at any time, and any such changes will be applicable to all subsequent access to or use of the Reader's Rides service by and through Butler-LS. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into this Terms of Use.
Any participation in using the Reader's Rides service will constitute acceptance of this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the above, please do not use this site. If you do not accept and agree to all provisions of this Terms of Use agreement, now or in the future, you may reject the Terms of Use by immediately terminating all access and use of Reader's Rides through Butler-LS, in which case any continuing access or use of Reader's Rides is unauthorized.
You are also required to comply with, and to ensure compliance with, all laws, ordinance and regulations applicable to your activities on the Reader's Rides service.
Reader's Rides is intended and designed for users 18 years of age and older, and access or use by anyone younger is not authorized.This Terms of Use grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Reader's Rides service Butler-LS provides, and use Reader's Rides, in whole or in part, to post content that includes, but is not limited to, user generated content and classified advertisements, solely in compliance with the Terms of Use.
2) MODERATION
Butler-LS has the right, but not the obligation, to regulate any content posted on the Reader's Rides service by users, which includes but is not limited to postings, text, code, images, video, binary files, ads, accounts, account information, flags, emails, messages and any other user communications content posted to, stored on or transmitted via Reader's Rides by any user (or any other third party in any manner); to regulate conduct (including but not limited to any authorized or unauthorized access to or use of Reader's Rides) by any user (or any other third party in any manner); and to enforce the Terms of Use for any reason and in any manner or by any means that Butler-LS, in their sole discretion, deems necessary or appropriate (including but not limited to automated and manual screening, blocking, filtering, exclusions from any pages or all pages, exclusion from search results, image search results, private listings, requiring the use of an application programming interface (API), requiring the use of a bulk posting interface, authorization, verification, and the deletion and/or termination of content, accounts and/or all or any use or access). Butler-LS may, in its sole discretion and without notice to any user start, stop, modify, change, delete, or regulate and enforce measures deemed appropriate by Butler-LS at any time without user consent.
Butler-LS’s action or inaction to regulate user generated content or conduct or to enforce against any potential violation of the Terms of Use by any user (or any third party) does not waive Butler-LS’s right to implement or not implement regulation or enforcement measures with respect to any subsequent or similar content, conduct, or potential Terms of Use violation.
You also understand and agree that any action or inaction by Butler-LS or any of its directors, officers, stockholders, employees, consultants, agents, moderators, administrators, affiliates or representatives (collectively Butler-LS Representatives) to prevent, restrict, redress, or regulate content, or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential Terms Of Use violation is undertaken voluntarily and in good faith, and you expressly agree that neither Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives shall be liable to you or anyone else for any action or inaction to prevent, restrict, redress, or regulate content, or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential violation of the Terms of Use.
Although Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives may moderate content, conduct and Terms of Use compliance on Reader's Rides at Butler-LS’s discretion, Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives have no authority to make binding commitments, promises, or representations to anyone that they or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS will “take care of” or process any alleged problem or complaint, or that they or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS will otherwise stop, cure, or prevent any problem, content, conduct or purported Terms of Use violation from occurring or recurring on Reader's Rides. Accordingly, you further agree that any representation (written or verbal) by any Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representative (or by anyone else acting on behalf of Butler-LS or by anyone purportedly acting on behalf of Butler-LS that Butler-LS (including but not limited to any Butler-LS Representatives, anyone else acting on behalf of Butler-LS, or anyone purportedly acting on behalf of Butler-LS would or would not prevent, restrict, redress or regulate content (including without limitation, screen, block, moderate, review, remove, terminate, delete, edit, or otherwise stop, cure or exclude any content), or to implement other enforcement measures against any content, conduct, or potential or purported Terms of Use violation is superseded by this provision and is non binding and unenforceable. Specifically, you agree that Butler-LS, Butler-LS Representatives, and anyone else authorized to act on behalf of Butler-LS shall in no circumstance be liable as a result of any representation that Butler-LS, a Butler-LS Representative or anyone else on behalf of Butler-LS would or would not restrict or redress any content, conduct, or potential or purported Terms of Use violation posted on Reader's Rides.
Butler-LS also has the right in its sole discretion to limit, modify, interrupt, suspend, or discontinue all or any portions of Reader's Rides at any time without notice. Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives shall not be liable for any such limitations, modification, interruptions, suspensions, or discontinuance, or any purported losses, harm or damages arising from or related thereto.
3) CONTENT AND CONDUCT
a. Content
Butler-LS does not control, is not responsible for, and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any user content posted on Reader's Rides. You agree, as a user of Reader's Rides, that you are solely responsible for your access to, use of, and /or reliance on any user content. You must conduct any necessary, appropriate, prudent, or judicious investigation, inquiry, research and due diligence with respect to any user content. Any content posted on Reader's Rides may not reflect the same principles, values, ideas, or opinions held by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
You are also responsible for any content and classifieds that you post or transmit on Reader's Rides and, if you create an account, you are responsible for all content posted or transmitted through or by use of your account.
Content prohibited from Reader's Rides includes but is not limited to: illegal content, content in facilitation of the creation, advertising, distribution, provision or receipt of illegal goods or services, offensive content (including, without limitation, defamatory, threatening, hateful or pornographic content), content that discloses another’s personal, confidential or proprietary information, false or fraudulent content (including but not limited to false, fraudulent, or misleading responses to user ads transmitted via Reader's Rides, malicious content (including, without limitation, malware or spyware), content that offers, promotes, advertises, or provides links to posting or auto-posting products or services, account creation or auto-creation products or services, flagging or auto flagging products or services, bulk telephone numbers, or any other product or service that if utilized with respect to Butler-LS would violate these Terms of Use or Butler-LS’s other legal rights, and content that offers, promotes, advertises, or provides links to unsolicited products or services. Other content prohibitions are set forth in guidelines for particular categories or services on Butler-LS and all such prohibitions are expressly incorporated into these Terms of Use as stated in section 1 above.
You automatically grant and assign to Butler-LS, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to Butler-LS, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post on Reader's Rides. You also expressly grant and assign to Butler-LS all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post).
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of: (a) content that you post or transmit (including but not limited to content that a third-party deems defamatory or otherwise harmful or offensive); (b) activity that occurs through or by use of your account (including, without limitation, all content posted or transmitted); (c) your use of or reliance on any user content; and (d) your violation of the Terms Of Use. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
b. Conduct
Butler-LS does not control, is not responsible for and makes no representations or warranties with respect to any user or user conduct on Reader's Rides. You are solely responsible for your interaction with or reliance on any user or user conduct. You must perform any necessary, appropriate, prudent or judicious investigation, inquiry, research and due diligence with respect to any user or user conduct.
You are also responsible for your own conduct and activities on, through or related to Reader's Rides, and, if you create an account on Reader's Rides, you are responsible for all conduct or activities on, through or by use of your account.
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of your own conduct or activities on, through or related to Reader's Rides or Reader's Rides Representatives, and related to or arising out of any conduct or activities on, through or by use of your Reader's Rides account, if any. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
4. POSTING AND ACCOUNTS
a. Postings
Users may not circumvent any technological measure implemented by Butler-LS or Reader's Rides to restrict the manner in which content may be posted on Reader's Rides or to regulate the manner in which content (including but not limited to email) may be transmitted to other users. This prohibition includes, without limitation, a ban on the use of multiple email addresses (created via an email address generator or otherwise); the use of multiple IP addresses (via proxy servers, modem toggling, or otherwise); automating or outsourcing the account creation or login process; multiple and/or fraudulent Reader's Rides accounts, including phone-verified accounts; URL shortening, obfuscation or redirection; use of multiple phone lines or phone forwarding for verification; and content obfuscation via HTML techniques, printing text on images, inserting random text or content "spinning."
It is expressly prohibited for any third party to post content to Reader's Rides on behalf of another. Users must post content only on their own behalf, and may not permit, enable, induce or encourage any third party to post content for them.
It is expressly prohibited to post content to Reader's Rides using any automated means. Users must post all content personally and manually through all steps of the posting process. It is also expressly prohibited for any user to develop, offer, market, sell, distribute or provide an automated means to perform any step of the posting process (in whole or in part). Any user who develops, offers, markets, sells, distributes or provides an automated means to perform any step of the posting process (in whole or in part) shall be responsible and liable to Reader's Rides for each instance of access to Reader's Rides (by any user or other third party) using that automated means.
Affiliate marketing is expressly prohibited on Reader's Rides. Users may not post content or communicate with any Reader's Rides user for purposes of affiliate marketing or in connection with any affiliate marketing system, scheme or program in any manner or under any circumstance.
b. Accounts
A user may maintain and use no more than one account to post content. A user specifically may not create or use additional accounts for the purpose of circumventing technological restrictions (security measures) in the posting process or otherwise for posting content in violation of the Terms Of Use.
A user may create an account only on his/her own behalf. A user must not permit, enable, induce or encourage others to create accounts for him/her. The creation of accounts for others is expressly prohibited.
A user must only use his/her own account and may not use any account of another.
The purchase and sale of accounts is expressly prohibited.
A user must create his/her account personally and manually and may not create accounts by any automated means.
c. Flagging
A user shall not "flag" (or otherwise seek removal of) content on Reader's Rides without a personal, good-faith belief that the content violates the Terms Of Use. A user may flag content only on his/her own behalf. A user must not permit, enable, induce or encourage others to flag content for them. A user must not flag content for others.
A user flagging content must do so manually and may not employ any automated means, products (including, without limitation, software programs) or services to flag content. A user must not circumvent any technological restrictions (security measures) in the flagging process. Without limitation, this prohibition includes a ban on the use of multiple IP addresses for flagging (by use of proxy servers or any means whatsoever).
5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES
This section 5 applies to all uses and users of Reader's Rides, unless Butler-LS has specifically authorized an exception to a particular term for a particular user in a written agreement. Butler-LS has sole and absolute discretion to authorize or deny any exception or exceptions to the terms in this section 5.
To maintain the integrity and functionality of Reader's Rides for its users, access to Reader's Rides and/or activities related to Reader's Rides that are harmful to, inconsistent with or disruptive of Reader's Rides and/or its users' beneficial use and enjoyment of Reader's Rides are expressly unauthorized and prohibited.
Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of Reader's Rides or any content posted on Reader's Rides whether done directly or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is prohibited. As a limited exception, general purpose Internet search engines and noncommercial public archives will be entitled to access Reader's Rides without individual written agreements executed with Butler-LS that specifically authorize an exception to this prohibition if, in all cases and individual instances: (a) they provide a direct hyperlink to the relevant Reader's Rides website, service, forum or content; (b) they access Butler-LS from a stable IP address using an easily identifiable agent; and (c) they comply with Butler-LS robots.txt file; provided however, that Butler-LS may terminate this limited exception as to any search engine or public archive (or any person or entity relying on this provision to access Reader's Rides without their own written agreement executed with Butler-LS), at any time and in its sole discretion, upon written notice, including, without limitation, by email notice.
Any access to or use of Reader's Rides to design, develop, test, update, operate, modify, maintain, support, market, advertise, distribute or otherwise make available any program, application or service (including, without limitation, any device, technology, product, computer program, mobile device application, website, or mechanical or personal service) that enables or provides access to, use of, operation of or interoperation with Butler-LS (including, without limitation, to access content, post content, cross-post content, re-post content, respond or reply to content, verify content, transmit content, create accounts, verify accounts, use accounts, circumvent and/or automate technological security measures or restrictions, or flag content) is prohibited. This prohibition specifically applies but is not limited to software, programs, applications and services for use or operation on or by any computer and/or any electronic, wireless and/or mobile device, technology or product that exists now or in the future.
If you access Reader's Rides or copy, display, distribute, perform or create derivative works from Reader's Rides webpages or other Reader's Rides intellectual property in violation of the Terms Of Use or for purposes inconsistent with the Terms Of Use, your access, copying, display, distribution, performance or derivative work is unauthorized. Circumvention of any technological restriction or security measure on Reader's Rides or any provision of the Terms Of Use that restricts content, conduct, accounts or access is expressly prohibited. For purposes of this paragraph, you agree that cached copies of Reader's Rides webpages on your computer or computer server constitute "copies" under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101.
Any effort to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer all or any part of Reader's Rides in order to identify, acquire, copy or emulate any source code or object code is expressly prohibited.
Any activities (including but not limited to posting voluminous content) that are inconsistent with use of Reader's Rides in compliance with the Terms Of Use or that may impair or interfere with the integrity, functionality, performance, usefulness, usability, signal-to-noise ratio or quality of all or any part of Reader's Rides in any manner are expressly prohibited.
Any attempt (whether or not successful) to engage in, or to enable, induce, encourage, cause or assist anyone else to engage in, any of the above unauthorized and prohibited access and activities is also expressly prohibited and is a violation of the Terms Of Use.
6. USER COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, INTERACTIONS, DISPUTES AND RELATIONS
Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives are not parties to, have no involvement or interest in, make no representations or warranties as to, and have no responsibility or liability with respect to any communications, transactions, interactions, disputes or any relations whatsoever between you and any other user, person or organization ("your interactions with others"). You must conduct any necessary, appropriate, prudent or judicious investigation, inquiry, research or due diligence with respect to your interactions with others.
You agree to indemnify and hold Butler-LS and Butler-LS Representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim, cause of action, demand or damages related to or arising out of your interactions with others. This indemnification obligation includes payment of any attorneys' fees and costs incurred by Butler-LS or Butler-LS Representatives.
7. FEES
Butler-LS may charge a fee to post content or for other features, products, services or licenses. You are responsible to Butler-LS for any fees applicable to content that you post or other features, products, services or licenses you purchase or that are purchased through your account. You authorize Butler-LS, or its designated payment processor, to charge your specified credit card, debit card or other payment method for such fees.
Unless otherwise specified, all fees are in United States dollars and all charges will be made in United States dollars. Any applicable sales or other taxes are additional to the stated fee. Currency exchange settlements and foreign transaction fees are based on your agreement with your credit card or other payment method provider.
Except as required by law, all fees are nonrefundable, including, without limitation, in situations where paid posts are removed by Butler-LS or by community flagging. Payments and purchases may not be canceled by the user, except as required by law. However, Butler-LS reserves the right to refuse or terminate any purchase or attempted purchase at any time in its sole discretion. You understand and agree that if you authorize a payment transaction with your credit card, debit card or other payment method, but your charge is rejected for any reason, there may be a hold on your use of that transaction amount for several days.
8. DISCLAIMERS
YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF AND RELIANCE ON Reader's Rides AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Butler-LS (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WEBSITES, PROGRAMS, SERVICES, FORUMS AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITES, PROGRAMS, SERVICES AND FORUMS) IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, Butler-LS ALSO DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES FOR OR WITH RESPECT TO: (a) THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY AND PERFORMANCE OF Reader's Rides AND CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; (b) COMPUTER WORMS, VIRUSES, SPYWARE, ADWARE AND ANY OTHER MALWARE, MALICIOUS CODE OR HARMFUL CONTENT OR COMPONENTS ACCESSED, RECEIVED OR DISSEMINATED THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; (c) ANY TRANSACTIONS OR POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS, GOODS OR SERVICES PROMISED OR EXCHANGED, INFORMATION OR ADVICE OFFERED OR EXCHANGED, OR OTHER CONTENT, INTERACTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS OR COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF USE OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON Reader's Rides OR IN CONTENT).
THESE DISCLAIMERS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Some jurisdictions do not allow disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers as to implied warranties may not apply.
9. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
Butler-LS AND THE Butler-LS REPRESENTATIVES SHALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE FOR ANY ACCESS TO, USE OF OR RELIANCE ON Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE, OR FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, INTERACTIONS, DISPUTES OR RELATIONS BETWEEN YOU AND ANY OTHER PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides , INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LIABILITY FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AS WELL AS FOR ANY HARM, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCURRED BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, STATUTORY, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF Butler-LS OR ANY Butler-LS REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY APPLIES REGARDLESS OF, BUT IS NOT RESTRICTED TO, WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY, HARM, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES AROSE FROM AUTHORIZED OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; ANY INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides ; OR ANY REMOVAL, DELETION, LIMITATION, MODIFICATION, INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, DISCONTINUANCE OR TERMINATION OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides.
THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY TRANSACTIONS OR POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS, GOODS OR SERVICES PROMISED OR EXCHANGED, INFORMATION OR ADVICE OFFERED OR EXCHANGED, OR OTHER CONTENT, INTERACTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS OR RELATIONS THROUGH, RELATED TO OR AS A RESULT OF Reader's Rides OR CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LINKS ON Reader's Rides AND LINKS IN CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH Reader's Rides).
You hereby release Butler-LS and each of the Butler-LS Representatives, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, predecessors, assigns, heirs, service providers and suppliers, from all claims, demands and damages of every kind and nature, known and unknown, direct and indirect, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to Reader's Rides or content accessed through Reader's Rides, or any interactions with others arising out of or related to Reader's Rides or content accessed through Reader's Rides, and you expressly waive the provisions of California Civil Code Section 1542 (and any similar laws in other jurisdictions), which provides: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
10. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
You acknowledge and agree that any violation or breach of the Terms Of Use may cause Butler-LS immediate and irreparable harm and damages; consequently, notwithstanding any other provision of the Terms Of Use or other applicable legal requirements, Butler-LS has the right to, and may in its discretion, immediately obtain preliminary injunctive relief (including, without limitation, temporary restraining orders) and seek permanent injunctive relief regarding any violation or breach of the Terms Of Use. In addition to any and all other remedies available to Butler-LS in law or in equity, Butler-LS may seek specific performance of any term in the Terms Of Use, including but not limited to by preliminary or permanent injunction.
11. DAMAGES
In addition to any injunctive relief, you agree to pay to Butler-LS the total amount of all actual damages (including but not limited to direct, indirect, consequential and incidental damages) caused by any violation of the Terms Of Use for which you bear responsibility; EXCEPT you acknowledge that, for certain Terms Of Use violations, actual damages would be extremely difficult or impossible to quantify. Consequently, for such Terms Of Use violations, you agree to pay liquidated damages to Butler-LS.
Furthermore you agree that the amounts of liquidated damages assessed and decided upon by Butler-LS are reasonable estimates of Butler-LS damages for such violations, and that liquidated damages for violations of the Terms Of Use are and will be cumulative.
13. PRIVACY
Any personal and/or private information that Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides collects which includes, but is not limited to, names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and access dates and times will not be shared with any third party company, organization, or any other external entity. You agree that any and all personal and/or private information provided to Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides is done so by your own discretion and consent. Personal information is collected during the sign-up process and is used to differentiate you from other users of Reader's Rides.
Furthermore, you agree that Butler-LS has your full consent to collect and use any and all personal and/or private information that is provided to Reader's Rides. Butler-LS will not disclose personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law. Examples of this include but are not limited to if personal information is requested by a court of law, law enforcement, or government organizations. Butler-LS will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.
If you do not wish for Butler-LS to collect your personal and/or private information and want to prohibit Butler-LS from collection and using your personal and/or private information you must not enter your personal and/or private information into any form of collection processes that Reader's Rides utilizes, which include but are not limited to, intake forms, weblogs, surveys, web forms, registration forms, newsletter sign ups, and order placement forms. You also agree that any and all information entered into Reader's Rides is true and correct, and that you are not using information that belongs to another person, company, individual, or organization.
Butler-LS servers collect the following information which is not limited to, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, web pages visited, referring web pages, browsers used, dates and times of access, and user log-in information. Butler-LS does not associate this data to individual user identities. This information is used to improve web presentation and utilization. IP address information may also be used for troubleshooting purposes. Butler-LS uses “cookies” in order to deliver web content specific to individual users’ interests and/or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.
Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides uses webforms on this site. Web forms require users to give contact information that includes but is not limited to, full names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Contact information from the registration form is used only to send material relating to the purpose for which it was collected and will not be sold to another party. Butler-LS will only use personal information collected from this site for the purpose of communication back to individuals who contact us via the site.
14. MISCELLANEOUS
These Terms Of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Butler-LS and supersede any prior written or oral agreement. Other than the Butler-LS Representatives (who are expressly included as named third-party beneficiaries of the Terms Of Use), there are no third-party beneficiaries to the Terms Of Use.
Any and all claims, causes of action or disputes (regardless of theory) between you and Butler-LS arising out of or related to the Terms Of Use, Butler-LS or content accessed through Reader's Rides shall be classified as null and void through this Terms of Use. By having registered to Butler-LS and/or Reader's Rides you agree to never file any form of legal suit against Butler-LS or any Butler-LS Representative.
15. FEEDBACK
Comments on these Terms Of Use are welcome and should be sent to the Butler-LS feedback email: