Terms of Use

Welcome to The ClassicCars.com Journal brought to you by ClassicCars.com! By accessing this website (“the Journal”), you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions appearing in this document. Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. Your use of the services provided by the Journal or any of its subsidiaries (the “Service”) is specifically conditioned upon your agreement to the Terms and Conditions contained in this Terms and Conditions Agreement (the “Agreement”). By using the Service, you are agreeing to all of the terms contained in this Agreement.

This Agreement applies to the Journal.  Please note that the main ClassicCars.com website has its own Terms and Conditions Agreement which differs from this Agreement in minor ways; the differences lie chiefly in the varying nature of the services provided by each site.

Definitions

Throughout this Agreement, the words “we,” “us,” “our”, and “ours” refer to The Collector Car Network, Inc. an Arizona corporation, its officers, employees, consultants, and subsidiaries. The words “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to you, a user of the Service.

Modifications to Agreement

We may at any time, and without notice, modify, update, or otherwise change the terms of this Agreement, and you agree to be bound by such changes. Accordingly, we encourage you to visit the Blog from time to time to review the current Terms and Conditions.

Ownership

Any and all intellectual property rights associated with the Service and the Journal and its affiliates—including without limitation any inventive concepts, know-how, publicity rights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, and copyrights—are the sole property of The Collector Car Network, Inc., and may not be copied, reproduced, modified, uploaded, transmitted, or distributed in any way without our written permission. Except as provided herein, we do not grant to you any express or implied rights to our intellectual property. Any rights associated with content that is transmitted, downloaded, or otherwise processed by the Service shall be retained by the content owner, if any, and may be protected by applicable copyright, trademark, or other laws. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term “Content” refers to any of the various information, files, data, and media types which can be sent, received, or processed by the Service in accordance with a variety of protocols, including, without limitation, text, graphics, video, audio, streaming media, email, chat, HTML, instant messaging, and the like. This Agreement gives you no rights in and to such Content. To the extent that you own any rights in Content that you provide to us, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, paid-up license to use, copy, publish, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, create derivative works or otherwise exploit any Content that is provided during your use of the Service.

No license to any marks on the Service is given or implied. All brands and product names are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Termination

You agree that we, at our sole discretion, may terminate your use of and access to all or a portion of the Service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use, or if we believe that you have violated this Agreement. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information, Content, or other files in your account or otherwise associated with you and/or prevent any further access to such files or the Service. Further, you agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party as a result of our termination of your access to the Service.

Acceptable Use

In consideration for your use of the Service, you agree to provide true, current, accurate, and complete information about yourself as requested, and to update such information as may be necessary to keep it true, current, accurate, and complete. You agree that you will use the Service in a manner that complies with all applicable laws, and you acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any Content that you upload, download, transmit or otherwise process using the Service.

You explicitly agree not to:

  • Transmit any data, text, video, audio, software, or other Content that is offensive, obscene, pornographic, inflammatory, harassing, threatening, tortious, invasive of another’s privacy, abusive, hateful, defamatory, harmful to minors, or is otherwise objectionable;
  • Transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, rights of publicity, or other intellectual property right;
  • Transmit any Content that violates any applicable local, state, national, or international law that could give rise to civil or criminal liability;
  • Transmit any unsolicited promotional Content, advertising materials, “spam,” chain letters, unauthorized links to other websites, or other such solicitation;
  • Use the Service to publicly broadcast, transmit, or display Content for “pay-per-download” or other commercial purposes;
  • Transmit any Content that solicits purchase of any product or service, unless that solicitation has been paid for by you and explicitly approved in writing by us;
  • Use the Service to transmit Content that includes any virus, worm, Trojan horse, sniffer, or other code designed to acquire information about other users or disrupt the functionality or availability of any computer program, database, the Service or any other Internet host;
  • Disguise your identity by spoofing, forging headers, using third-party relayers, or otherwise obscuring the origin of transmitted Content, including impersonating another person or entity;
  • Use any robot, spider or other automatic or manual device or process to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service, nor act as a conduit for others to affect the same result; or
  • Use the Service with the intent to defraud us, any user of the Service, or any other party, including, but not limited to, using the Service to solicit sales fraudulently or using the Service to engage another party in a fraudulent transaction.

No Liability

We assume no responsibility for Content downloaded, uploaded, stored, or otherwise processed by the Service. Accordingly, if you choose to use the Service, you do so at your own risk. For example, you acknowledge that:

  • Any Content you transmit will be treated by us as not being confidential to you, except as noted in the Privacy Policy;
  • You are aware of the limitations of security, authentication, encryption, and privacy measures used in connection with the Internet, including the Service, and that any Content you store or transmit may be damaged, corrupted, “sniffed” and/or accessed by another person without your permission; we cannot and will not guarantee the security of any of the Content stored or transmitted by the Service; and
  • You may be subjected to email, instant messages, video, and other Content which is pornographic, defamatory, hateful, or otherwise objectionable to you.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, CORRUPTION OF CONTENT, AND LOSS OR INACCURACY OF INFORMATION), ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE AND EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE LIKELY OR POSSIBLE.

Errors in Content, including, but not limited to, description, photography, or typographical errors, are subject to correction at our sole discretion.

Third Parties

Parties other than us and our subsidiaries may operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on the Service. Additionally, the Service may offer links to the websites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We shall not be responsible for examining or evaluating, and do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their respective websites. We assume no responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You explicitly agree to carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.

Electronic Communications

By using the Service or by communicating with us electronically via email, instant messaging, or by other means, you consent to receive communications from us electronically. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Product and Service Descriptions

We attempt to be as accurate as possible with respect to product and service descriptions. However, we do not warrant that product and service descriptions or other Content of the Service is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product or service offered by us itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition subject to the terms of our Refund Policy, to be published as warranted.

No Warranty

THE SERVICE COVERED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” AND “AS-AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW OR OTHERWISE GOVERN THE SCOPE OF EXCLUSIONS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY IN FULL. WE AND OUR AFFILIATES DO NOT WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR VIRUS-FREE.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and our vendors, service providers, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service, any Content you submit, transmit, or download through the Service, or any violation of this Agreement or the rights of others.

Modifications to Service

We reserve the right at any time to modify, correct, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. We may also change your priority of access to the Service with respect to other users. We make no commitment to update the information provided by the Service.

Disclosure of Content

Although we have no obligation to monitor the Content of our users, we reserve the right to monitor, retain, delete and/or disclose your Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal requirements, respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties, or protect our rights, property, or personal safety, or that of our users, or of the public.

Privacy Policy

For detailed information regarding our use of personally identifiable data and other user information, please read our Privacy Policy.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement shall constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us. While we reserve the right to modify this Agreement at any time, the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement may not be modified by you unless both you and a representative authorized by us execute a separate written agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and such decision shall not affect the enforceability of such provision or of the remaining provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement shall be subject to and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to conflicts of law provisions, and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts residing in the State of Arizona. Any and all unresolved disputes arising under this Agreement shall be submitted to arbitration in the State of Arizona. The arbitration shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may obtain equitable relief in any court to protect our intellectual property.