Website Terms of Use
Version 1.0
Last revised on: February 8, 2024
The website located at heyai.bot (the “Site”) is a
copyrighted work belonging to Appmakey LLC (“Company”,
“us”, “our”, and “we”).
Certain features of the Site may be subject to additional guidelines, terms,
or rules, which will be posted on the Site in connection with such features.
All such additional terms, guidelines, and rules are incorporated by
reference into these Terms.
These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) set forth the legally
binding terms and conditions that govern your use of the Site. By accessing
or using the Site, you are accepting these Terms (on behalf of yourself or
the entity that you represent), and you represent and warrant that you have
the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these Terms (on behalf of
yourself or the entity that you represent). you may not access or use the
Site or accept the Terms if you are not at least 18 years old. If you do
not agree with all of the provisions of these Terms, do not access and/or
use the Site.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SECTION 9.2 CONTAINS PROVISIONS GOVERNING HOW TO
RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY. AMONG OTHER THINGS, SECTION
9.2 INCLUDES AN AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE WHICH REQUIRES, WITH LIMITED
EXCEPTIONS, THAT ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US SHALL BE RESOLVED BY
BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION. SECTION 9.2 ALSO CONTAINS A CLASS
ACTION AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER. PLEASE READ SECTION 9.2 CAREFULLY.
UNLESS YOU OPT OUT OF THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE WITHIN 30 DAYS: (1) YOU
WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO PURSUE DISPUTES OR CLAIMS AND SEEK RELIEF
AGAINST US ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN
ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR PROCEEDING AND YOU WAIVE YOUR
RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE
ARBITRATION; AND (2) YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO PURSUE DISPUTES OR
CLAIMS AND SEEK RELIEF IN A COURT OF LAW AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL.
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Accounts
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Account Creation.In order to use certain features
of the Site, you must register for an account (“Account”)
and provide certain information about yourself as prompted by the
account registration form. You represent and warrant that: (a) all
required registration information you submit is truthful and
accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information.
You may delete your Account at any time, for any reason, by
following the instructions on the Site. Company may suspend or
terminate your Account in accordance with Section 8.
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Account Responsibilities. You are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of your Account login information
and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your
Account. You agree to immediately notify Company of any
unauthorized use, or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or
any other breach of security. Company cannot and will not be liable
for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the
above requirements.
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Access to the Site
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License. Subject to these Terms, Company grants you
a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to use
and access the Site solely for your own personal, noncommercial use.
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Certain Restrictions.The rights granted to you in
these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) you shall
not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host,
or otherwise commercially exploit the Site, whether in whole or in
part, or any content displayed on the Site; (b) you shall not
modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or
reverse engineer any part of the Site; (c) you shall not access the
Site in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or
service; and (d) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the
Site may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished,
downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any
means. Unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or
other addition to functionality of the Site shall be subject to
these Terms. All copyright and other proprietary notices on the
Site (or on any content displayed on the Site) must be retained on
all copies thereof.
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Modification. Company reserves the right, at any
time, to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Site (in whole or in
part) with or without notice to you. You agree that Company will
not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification,
suspension, or discontinuation of the Site or any part thereof.
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No Support or Maintenance. You acknowledge and
agree that Company will have no obligation to provide you with any
support or maintenance in connection with the Site.
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Ownership.Excluding any User Content that you may
provide (defined below), you acknowledge that all the intellectual
property rights, including copyrights, patents, trade marks, and
trade secrets, in the Site and its content are owned by Company or
Company’s suppliers. Neither these Terms (nor your access to the
Site) transfers to you or any third party any rights, title or
interest in or to such intellectual property rights, except for the
limited access rights expressly set forth in Section 2.1. Company
and its suppliers reserve all rights not granted in these Terms.
There are no implied licenses granted under these Terms.
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Feedback. If you provide Company with any feedback
or suggestions regarding the Site (“Feedback”), you
hereby assign to Company all rights in such Feedback and agree that
Company shall have the right to use and fully exploit such Feedback
and related information in any manner it deems appropriate. Company
will treat any Feedback you provide to Company as non-confidential
and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not submit to Company
any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential or
proprietary.
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User Content
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User Content. “User Content” means
any and all information and content that a user submits to, or uses
with, the Site (e.g., content in the user’s profile or postings).
You are solely responsible for your User Content. You assume all
risks associated with use of your User Content, including any
reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or
any disclosure of your User Content that personally identifies you
or any third party. You hereby represent and warrant that your User
Content does not violate our Acceptable Use Policy (defined in
Section 3.3). You may not represent or imply to others that your
User Content is in any way provided, sponsored or endorsed by
Company. Since you alone are responsible for your User Content, you
may expose yourself to liability if, for example, your User Content
violates the Acceptable Use Policy. Company is not obligated to
backup any User Content, and your User Content may be deleted at any
time without prior notice. You are solely responsible for creating
and maintaining your own backup copies of your User Content if you
desire.
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License. You hereby grant (and you represent and
warrant that you have the right to grant) to Company an irrevocable,
nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to
reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare
derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use
and exploit your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the
foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your User
Content in the Site. You hereby irrevocably waive (and agree to
cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or
attribution with respect to your User Content.
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Acceptable Use Policy.The following terms
constitute our “Acceptable Use Policy”:
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You agree not to use the Site to collect,
upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content (i)
that violates any third-party right, including any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right,
right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or
proprietary right, (ii) that is unlawful, harassing, abusive,
tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy,
vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade
libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes
racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against
any group or individual or is otherwise objectionable, (iii)
that is harmful to minors in any way, or (iv) that is in
violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions
imposed by any third party.
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In addition, you agree not to: (i) upload, transmit, or
distribute to or through the Site any computer viruses, worms,
or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or
data; (ii) send through the Site unsolicited or unauthorized
advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain
letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or
unsolicited messages, whether commercial or otherwise; (iii)
use the Site to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information
or data regarding other users, including e-mail addresses,
without their consent; (iv) interfere with, disrupt, or create
an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Site, or
violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such
networks; (v) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site
(or to other computer systems or networks connected to or used
together with the Site), whether through password mining or any
other means; (vi) harass or interfere with any other user’s use
and enjoyment of the Site; or (vi) use software or automated
agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Site, or
to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to
strip, scrape, or mine data from) the Site (provided, however,
that we conditionally grant to the operators of public search
engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials
from the Site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent
necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of
the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials,
subject to the parameters set forth in our robots.txt file).
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Enforcement.We reserve the right (but have no
obligation) to review, refuse and/or remove any User Content in our
sole discretion, and to investigate and/or take appropriate action
against you in our sole discretion if you violate the Acceptable Use
Policy or any other provision of these Terms or otherwise create
liability for us or any other person. Such action may include
removing or modifying your User Content, terminating your Account in
accordance with Section 8, and/or reporting you to law enforcement
authorities.
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Indemnification.You agree to indemnify and hold Company
(and its officers, employees, and agents) harmless, including costs and
attorneys’ fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to
or arising out of (a) your use of the Site, (b) your violation of these
Terms, (c) your violation of applicable laws or regulations or (d) your
User Content. Company reserves the right, at your expense, to assume
the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are
required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of
these claims. You agree not to settle any matter without the prior
written consent of Company. Company will use reasonable efforts to
notify you of any such claim, action or proceeding upon becoming aware
of it.
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Third-Party Links & Ads; Other Users
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Third-Party Links & Ads.The Site may contain
links to third-party websites and services, and/or display
advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party
Links & Ads”). Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not
under the control of Company, and Company is not responsible for any
Third-Party Links & Ads. Company provides access to these
Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does
not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any
representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads. You
use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should
apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When
you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable
third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s
privacy and data gathering practices. You should make whatever
investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding
with any transaction in connection with such Third-Party Links &
Ads.
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Other Users.Each Site user is solely responsible
for any and all of its own User Content. Since we do not control
User Content, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible
for any User Content, whether provided by you or by others. We make
no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability,
appropriateness, or quality of any User Content. Your interactions
with other Site users are solely between you and such users. You
agree that Company will not be responsible for any loss or damage
incurred as the result of any such interactions. If there is a
dispute between you and any Site user, we are under no obligation to
become involved.
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Release. You hereby release and forever discharge
Company (and our officers, employees, agents, successors, and
assigns) from, and hereby waive and relinquish, each and every past,
present and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right,
obligation, liability, action and cause of action of every kind and
nature (including personal injuries, death, and property damage),
that has arisen or arises directly or indirectly out of, or that
relates directly or indirectly to, the Site (including any
interactions with, or act or omission of, other Site users or any
Third-Party Links & Ads). IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU
HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH
THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO
CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR
SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE
RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED
HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”
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Disclaimers
THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND COMPANY
(AND OUR SUPPLIERS) EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS
OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ALL
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE (AND OUR
SUPPLIERS) MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL
BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS, OR
WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE, COMPLETE,
LEGAL, OR SAFE. IF APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO
THE SITE, ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO 90 DAYS FROM THE
DATE OF FIRST USE.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE
ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW
LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
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Limitation on Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY (OR OUR
SUPPLIERS) BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST
DATA, COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS, OR ANY INDIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING
FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE
SITE, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
ACCESS TO, AND USE OF, THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU
WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM,
OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING THEREFROM.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE
CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM
OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS (FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE
FORM OF THE ACTION), WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF FIFTY US
DOLLARS. THE EXISTENCE OF MORE THAN ONE CLAIM WILL NOT ENLARGE THIS LIMIT.
YOU AGREE THAT OUR SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM
OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
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Term and Termination.Subject to this Section, these
Terms will remain in full force and effect while you use the Site. We
may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Site (including your
Account) at any time for any reason at our sole discretion, including
for any use of the Site in violation of these Terms. Upon termination
of your rights under these Terms, your Account and right to access and
use the Site will terminate immediately. You understand that any
termination of your Account may involve deletion of your User Content
associated with your Account from our live databases. Company will not
have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights
under these Terms, including for termination of your Account or deletion
of your User Content. Even after your rights under these Terms are
terminated, the following provisions of these Terms will remain in
effect: Sections 2.2 through 2.6, Section 3 and Sections 4 through 10.
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General
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Changes. These Terms are subject to occasional
revision, and if we make any substantial changes, we may notify you
by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to
us (if any), and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on
our Site. You are responsible for providing us with your most
current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address
that you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not
capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our
dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless
constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice.
Continued use of our Site following notice of such changes shall
indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be
bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
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Dispute Resolution.Please
read the following arbitration agreement in this Section (the
“Arbitration Agreement”) carefully. It requires
you to arbitrate disputes with Company, its parent companies,
subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns and all of their
respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and
representatives (collectively, the “Company Parties”)
and limits the manner in which you can seek relief from the Company
Parties .
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Applicability of Arbitration Agreement.
You agree that any dispute between you and any of the Company
Parties relating in any way to the Site, the services offered on
the Site (the “Services”) or these Terms will
be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except
that (1) you and the Company Parties may assert individualized
claims in small claims court if the claims qualify, remain in
such court and advance solely on an individual, non-class basis;
and (2) you or the Company Parties may seek equitable relief in
court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property
rights (such as trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade
secrets, copyrights, and patents).
This Arbitration Agreement shall survive the expiration or
termination of these Terms and shall apply, without
limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before
you agreed to these Terms (in accordance with the preamble)
or any prior version of these Terms.
This Arbitration Agreement does not preclude you from bringing
issues to the attention of federal, state or local agencies.
Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against the
Company Parties on your behalf. For purposes of this
Arbitration Agreement, “Dispute” will also
include disputes that arose or involve facts occurring before
the existence of this or any prior versions of the Agreement as
well as claims that may arise after the termination of these
Terms.
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Informal Dispute Resolution.There might be
instances when a Dispute arises between you and Company. If that
occurs, Company is committed to working with you to reach a
reasonable resolution. You and Company agree that good faith
informal efforts to resolve Disputes can result in a prompt,
low‐cost and mutually beneficial outcome. You and Company
therefore agree that before either party commences arbitration
against the other (or initiates an action in small claims court
if a party so elects), we will personally meet and confer
telephonically or via videoconference, in a good faith effort to
resolve informally any Dispute covered by this Arbitration
Agreement (“Informal Dispute Resolution Conference”).
If you are represented by counsel, your counsel may participate
in the conference, but you will also participate in the
conference.
The party initiating a Dispute must give notice to the other party in
writing of its intent to initiate an Informal Dispute Resolution Conference
(“Notice”), which shall occur within 45 days after the
other party receives such Notice, unless an extension is mutually agreed
upon by the parties. Notice to Company that you intend to initiate an
Informal Dispute Resolution Conference should be sent by email to:
[email protected], or by regular mail to 5305 Macomb St NW, Washington,
District Of Columbia 20016. The Notice must include: (1) your name,
telephone number, mailing address, e‐mail address associated with your
account (if you have one); (2) the name, telephone number, mailing address
and e‐mail address of your counsel, if any; and (3) a description of your
Dispute.
The Informal Dispute Resolution Conference shall be individualized such that
a separate conference must be held each time either party initiates a
Dispute, even if the same law firm or group of law firms represents multiple
users in similar cases, unless all parties agree; multiple individuals
initiating a Dispute cannot participate in the same Informal Dispute
Resolution Conference unless all parties agree. In the time between a party
receiving the Notice and the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference, nothing
in this Arbitration Agreement shall prohibit the parties from engaging in
informal communications to resolve the initiating party’s Dispute. Engaging
in the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference is a condition precedent and
requirement that must be fulfilled before commencing arbitration. The
statute of limitations and any filing fee deadlines shall be tolled while
the parties engage in the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference process
required by this section.
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Arbitration Rules and Forum.
These Terms evidence a transaction involving interstate
commerce; and notwithstanding any other provision herein with
respect to the applicable substantive law, the Federal
Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., will govern the
interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration Agreement and
any arbitration proceedings. If the Informal Dispute Resolution
Process described above does not resolve satisfactorily within
60 days after receipt of your Notice, you and Company agree that
either party shall have the right to finally resolve the Dispute
through binding arbitration. The Federal Arbitration Act governs
the interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration
Agreement. The arbitration will be conducted by JAMS, an
established alternative dispute resolution provider. Disputes
involving claims and counterclaims with an amount in controversy
under $250,000, not inclusive of attorneys’ fees and interest,
shall be subject to JAMS’ most current version of the
Streamlined Arbitration Rules and procedures available at
http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-streamlined-arbitration/
; all other claims shall be subject to JAMS’s most current
version of the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures,
available at
http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/
. JAMS’s rules are also available at
www.jamsadr.com
or by calling JAMS at 800-352-5267. A party who wishes to
initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a request
for arbitration (the “Request”). The Request
must include: (1) the name, telephone number, mailing address,
e‐mail address of the party seeking arbitration and the account
username (if applicable) as well as the email address associated
with any applicable account; (2) a statement of the legal claims
being asserted and the factual bases of those claims; (3) a
description of the remedy sought and an accurate, good‐faith
calculation of the amount in controversy in United States
Dollars; (4) a statement certifying completion of the Informal
Dispute Resolution process as described above; and (5) evidence
that the requesting party has paid any necessary filing fees in
connection with such arbitration.
If the party requesting arbitration is represented by counsel, the Request
shall also include counsel’s name, telephone number, mailing address, and
email address. Such counsel must also sign the Request. By signing the
Request, counsel certifies to the best of counsel’s knowledge, information,
and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances,
that: (1) the Request is not being presented for any improper purpose, such
as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of
dispute resolution; (2) the claims, defenses and other legal contentions are
warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending,
modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law; and (3)
the factual and damages contentions have evidentiary support or, if
specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a
reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery.
Unless you and Company otherwise agree, or the Batch Arbitration process
discussed in Subsection 10.2(h) is triggered, the arbitration will be
conducted in the county where you reside. Subject to the JAMS Rules, the
arbitrator may direct a limited and reasonable exchange of information
between the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the
arbitration. If the JAMS is not available to arbitrate, the parties will
select an alternative arbitral forum. Your responsibility to pay any JAMS
fees and costs will be solely as set forth in the applicable JAMS Rules.
You and Company agree that all materials and documents exchanged during the
arbitration proceedings shall be kept confidential and shall not be shared
with anyone except the parties’ attorneys, accountants, or business
advisors, and then subject to the condition that they agree to keep all
materials and documents exchanged during the arbitration proceedings
confidential.
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Authority of Arbitrator. The arbitrator shall
have exclusive authority to resolve all disputes subject to
arbitration hereunder including, without limitation, any dispute
related to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or
formation of this Arbitration Agreement or any portion of the
Arbitration Agreement, except for the following: (1) all
Disputes arising out of or relating to the subsection entitled
“Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief,” including
any claim that all or part of the subsection entitled “Waiver of
Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief” is unenforceable,
illegal, void or voidable, or that such subsection entitled
“Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief” has been
breached, shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction
and not by an arbitrator; (2) except as expressly contemplated
in the subsection entitled “Batch Arbitration,” all Disputes
about the payment of arbitration fees shall be decided only by a
court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator; (3)
all Disputes about whether either party has satisfied any
condition precedent to arbitration shall be decided only by a
court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator; and
(4) all Disputes about which version of the Arbitration
Agreement applies shall be decided only by a court of competent
jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator. The arbitration
proceeding will not be consolidated with any other matters or
joined with any other cases or parties, except as expressly
provided in the subsection entitled “Batch Arbitration.” The
arbitrator shall have the authority to grant motions dispositive
of all or part of any claim or dispute. The arbitrator shall
have the authority to award monetary damages and to grant any
non-monetary remedy or relief available to an individual party
under applicable law, the arbitral forum’s rules, and these
Terms (including the Arbitration Agreement). The arbitrator
shall issue a written award and statement of decision describing
the essential findings and conclusions on which any award (or
decision not to render an award) is based, including the
calculation of any damages awarded. The arbitrator shall follow
the applicable law. The award of the arbitrator is final and
binding upon you and us. Judgment on the arbitration award may
be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
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Waiver of Jury Trial. EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED in
section 10.2(a) YOU AND THE COMPANY PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE ANY
CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A
TRIAL IN FRONT OF A JUDGE OR A JURY. You and the Company Parties
are instead electing that all covered claims and disputes shall
be resolved exclusively by arbitration under this Arbitration
Agreement, except as specified in Section 10.2(a) above. An
arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and
relief as a court and must follow these Terms as a court would.
However, there is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court
review of an arbitration award is subject to very limited
review.
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Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief.
YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT, EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION
10.2(h) EACH OF US MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY ON
AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR
COLLECTIVE BASIS, AND THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO
HAVE ANY DISPUTE BE BROUGHT, HEARD, ADMINISTERED, RESOLVED, OR
ARBITRATED ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, REPRESENTATIVE, OR MASS
ACTION BASIS. ONLY INDIVIDUAL RELIEF IS AVAILABLE, AND DISPUTES
OF MORE THAN ONE CUSTOMER OR USER CANNOT BE ARBITRATED OR
CONSOLIDATED WITH THOSE OF ANY OTHER CUSTOMER OR USER. Subject
to this Arbitration Agreement, the arbitrator may award
declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual
party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide
relief warranted by the party’s individual claim. Nothing in
this paragraph is intended to, nor shall it, affect the terms
and conditions under the Subsection 10.2(h) entitled “Batch
Arbitration.” Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Arbitration Agreement, if a court decides by means of a final
decision, not subject to any further appeal or recourse, that
the limitations of this subsection, “Waiver of Class or Other
Non-Individualized Relief,” are invalid or unenforceable as to a
particular claim or request for relief (such as a request for
public injunctive relief), you and Company agree that that
particular claim or request for relief (and only that particular
claim or request for relief) shall be severed from the
arbitration and may be litigated in the state or federal courts
located in the State of District Of Columbia. All other Disputes
shall be arbitrated or litigated in small claims court. This
subsection does not prevent you or Company from participating in
a class-wide settlement of claims.
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Attorneys’ Fees and Costs. The parties shall
bear their own attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless
the arbitrator finds that either the substance of the Dispute or
the relief sought in the Request was frivolous or was brought
for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth
in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)). If you or Company
need to invoke the authority of a court of competent
jurisdiction to compel arbitration, then the party that obtains
an order compelling arbitration in such action shall have the
right to collect from the other party its reasonable costs,
necessary disbursements, and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred
in securing an order compelling arbitration. The prevailing
party in any court action relating to whether either party has
satisfied any condition precedent to arbitration, including the
Informal Dispute Resolution Process, is entitled to recover
their reasonable costs, necessary disbursements, and reasonable
attorneys’ fees and costs.
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Batch Arbitration. To increase the efficiency
of administration and resolution of arbitrations, you and
Company agree that in the event that there are 100 or more
individual Requests of a substantially similar nature filed
against Company by or with the assistance of the same law firm,
group of law firms, or organizations, within a 30 day period (or
as soon as possible thereafter), the JAMS shall (1) administer
the arbitration demands in batches of 100 Requests per batch
(plus, to the extent there are less than 100 Requests left over
after the batching described above, a final batch consisting of
the remaining Requests); (2) appoint one arbitrator for each
batch; and (3) provide for the resolution of each batch as a
single consolidated arbitration with one set of filing and
administrative fees due per side per batch, one procedural
calendar, one hearing (if any) in a place to be determined by
the arbitrator, and one final award (“Batch Arbitration”).
All parties agree that Requests are of a “substantially similar nature” if
they arise out of or relate to the same event or factual scenario and raise
the same or similar legal issues and seek the same or similar relief. To the
extent the parties disagree on the application of the Batch Arbitration
process, the disagreeing party shall advise the JAMS, and the JAMS shall
appoint a sole standing arbitrator to determine the applicability of the
Batch Arbitration process (“Administrative Arbitrator”). In
an effort to expedite resolution of any such dispute by the Administrative
Arbitrator, the parties agree the Administrative Arbitrator may set forth
such procedures as are necessary to resolve any disputes promptly. The
Administrative Arbitrator’s fees shall be paid by Company.
You and Company agree to cooperate in good faith with the JAMS to implement
the Batch Arbitration process including the payment of single filing and
administrative fees for batches of Requests, as well as any steps to
minimize the time and costs of arbitration, which may include: (1) the
appointment of a discovery special master to assist the arbitrator in the
resolution of discovery disputes; and (2) the adoption of an expedited
calendar of the arbitration proceedings.
This Batch Arbitration provision shall in no way be interpreted as
authorizing a class, collective and/or mass arbitration or action of any
kind, or arbitration involving joint or consolidated claims under any
circumstances, except as expressly set forth in this provision.
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30-Day Right to Opt Out. You have the right to
opt out of the provisions of this Arbitration Agreement by
sending a timely written notice of your decision to opt out to
the following address: 5305 Macomb St NW, Washington, District
Of Columbia 20016, or email to [email protected], within 30
days after first becoming subject to this Arbitration Agreement.
Your notice must include your name and address and a clear
statement that you want to opt out of this Arbitration
Agreement. If you opt out of this Arbitration Agreement, all
other parts of these Terms will continue to apply to you. Opting
out of this Arbitration Agreement has no effect on any other
arbitration agreements that you may currently have with us, or
may enter into in the future with us.
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Invalidity, Expiration. Except as provided in
the subsection entitled “Waiver of Class or Other
Non-Individualized Relief”, if any part or parts of this
Arbitration Agreement are found under the law to be invalid or
unenforceable, then such specific part or parts shall be of no
force and effect and shall be severed and the remainder of the
Arbitration Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
You further agree that any Dispute that you have with Company as
detailed in this Arbitration Agreement must be initiated via
arbitration within the applicable statute of limitation for that
claim or controversy, or it will be forever time barred.
Likewise, you agree that all applicable statutes of limitation
will apply to such arbitration in the same manner as those
statutes of limitation would apply in the applicable court of
competent jurisdiction.
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Modification. Notwithstanding any provision in
these Terms to the contrary, we agree that if Company makes any
future material change to this Arbitration Agreement, you may
reject that change within 30 days of such change becoming
effective by writing Company at the following address: 5305
Macomb St NW, Washington, District Of Columbia 20016, or email
to [email protected]. Unless you reject the change within 30
days of such change becoming effective by writing to Company in
accordance with the foregoing, your continued use of the Site
and/or Services, including the acceptance of products and
services offered on the Site following the posting of changes to
this Arbitration Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any
such changes. Changes to this Arbitration Agreement do not
provide you with a new opportunity to opt out of the Arbitration
Agreement if you have previously agreed to a version of these
Terms and did not validly opt out of arbitration. If you reject
any change or update to this Arbitration Agreement, and you were
bound by an existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes arising out
of or relating in any way to your access to or use of the
Services or of the Site, any communications you receive, any
products sold or distributed through the Site, the Services, or
these Terms, the provisions of this Arbitration Agreement as of
the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any
subsequent changes to these Terms) remain in full force and
effect. Company will continue to honor any valid opt outs of the
Arbitration Agreement that you made to a prior version of these
Terms.
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Export.The Site may be subject to U.S. export
control laws and may be subject to export or import regulations in
other countries. You agree not to export, reexport, or transfer,
directly or indirectly, any U.S. technical data acquired from
Company, or any products utilizing such data, in violation of the
United States export laws or regulations.
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Disclosures. Company is located at the address in
Section 10.8. If you are a California resident, you may report
complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of
Consumer Product of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by
contacting them in writing at 400 R Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, or
by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
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Electronic Communications. The communications
between you and Company use electronic means, whether you use the
Site or send us emails, or whether Company posts notices on the Site
or communicates with you via email. For contractual purposes, you
(a) consent to receive communications from Company in an electronic
form; and (b) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements,
notices, disclosures, and other communications that Company provides
to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such
communications would satisfy if it were be in a hardcopy writing.
The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.
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Entire Terms. These Terms constitute the entire
agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Site. Our
failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms
shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The
section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no
legal or contractual effect. The word “including” means “including
without limitation”. If any provision of these Terms is, for any
reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of
these Terms will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable
provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and
enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law. Your
relationship to Company is that of an independent contractor, and
neither party is an agent or partner of the other. These Terms, and
your rights and obligations herein, may not be assigned,
subcontracted, delegated, or otherwise transferred by you without
Company’s prior written consent, and any attempted assignment,
subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of the foregoing
will be null and void. Company may freely assign these Terms. The
terms and conditions set forth in these Terms shall be binding upon
assignees.
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Copyright/Trademark Information. Copyright © 2024
Appmakey LLC. All rights reserved. All trademarks, logos and
service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Site are
our property or the property of other third parties. You are not
permitted to use these Marks without our prior written consent or
the consent of such third party which may own the Marks.
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Contact Information:
Chase Martyn
Address:
5305 Macomb St NW
Washington, District Of Columbia 20016
Telephone: 5154221310
Email: [email protected]