TERMS AND CONDITIONS
PET SHEPHERD, NC RECOVERY SERVICES AGREEMENT This Recovery Services Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the terms and
conditions that apply to your participation in our recovery program. Pet Shepherd, NC is referred to in this Agreement as "PSNC", "we" or "us". You may be referred to herein as "Participant", “entity”, or "you". Each of PSNC and Participant may be referred to as "Party" or collectively as the "Parties". BACKGROUND A. PSNC provides certain services and sells certain products via the Internet through websites owned and operated by PSNC including but not limited to websites located at www.petshepherdnc.com, (each a "PSNC Site" and collectively "PSNC Sites"). B. Participant is enrolled in the PSNC Network for as long as the dues are current and up-to-date. C. Participant desires to enter into a pet recovery services program provided by PSNC in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. THE IDENTIFICATION AND RECOVERY PROGRAM To enroll as a Participant, you must purchase one of our established recovery plan and be registered in our private database in good standings with your current plan fees or dues up-to-date. You can be enrolled under your own volition or through a Pet Adoption Rescue, Shelter, and Network or otherwise. We will continually evaluate your application for correctness and to ensure “you” are current with your plan dues and/or fees. We will also notify you for renewals as the time nears. We may reject your application for further services if we determine, in our sole discretion, that you are not current with your plan dues or if you deny giving us a means to contact you in the event your pet strays, contact information includes, but not limited to Home phone, Cell, e-mail address, etc. Furthermore, you may also be denied further service should you recluse yourself from our attempts to contact you without a response in a reasonable amount of time. All current plans are available on our site under PLANS & PRICING except for the LIFE plan below, which will soon or is now be available. THE LIFE PLAN. By purchasing our LIFE Plan you agree to be bound by the following terms:
A. The established LIFE price will cover your dog for its entire
life without B. Should your dog lose its tag, the replacement tag price will remain in effect. C. Transferring ownership of your dog will not require a new purchase of the plan.
D. Transferring from one dog to another dog (for whatever the
reason) will E. The total price of the LIFE Plan is set at a conveniently low price of only $59.99. THE PET RECOVERY AND PET SUPPLIES NETWORK Participant and PSNC each desire to establish the general terms and conditions which shall govern any relationship arrangements between Participant and PSNC which result from their participation in this agreement. This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to Participant’s relationship with PSNC' s Identification and Recovery Services Program as well as Advertising Network. Participant acknowledges that PSNC may require Participant to agree to certain terms and conditions prior to Participant’s inclusion into PSNC' s Advertising Network. PET SHEPHERD, NC as a company
Pet Shepherd, NC is a strong company with absolutely no plans to
cease its
Pet Shepherd, NC is a family owned and operated business and we have
every
A. Should Pet Shepherd, NC become the subject of purchase by another
company,
B. You agree to hold Pet Shepherd, NC harmless from all present
obligations TERMS AND CONDITIONS In consideration of the promises set forth below, PSNC and Participant agree as follows: 1. Offers and Engagements. 1.1. From time to time, PSNC may post on PSNC' s Marketing Network offers to Participants. Such offers from PSNC shall be deemed to be an "Offer" for purposes of this Agreement. 1.2. If an Offer made by one Party is accepted by the other Party in accordance with the Offer's terms via this agreement, an "Engagement" will have been formed. Each Engagement shall be governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. However, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of the specific Engagement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Engagement shall govern and PSNC at its sole discretion may and can void such offer whether an engagement had been previously formed. 1.3. At any time prior to Participant providing payment or after payment has been made, PSNC may, with or without notice, (a) change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of an Offer or an Engagement, or (b) remove, alter, or modify any graphic or banner ad submitted by PSNC for an Offer or an Engagement. Participant agrees to promptly implement any request from PSNC to remove, alter or modify any graphic or banner ad submitted by PSNC that is being used by Participant as part of an Engagement. 2. Participant’s Responsibilities. 2.1. Participant may link its site to areas within PSNC' s Site using special URLs specified by the “Engagement” with PSNC (the "Required URLs"). Participant may post as many links to the Required URLs and the rest of PSNC' s Sites as it likes on Participant's Site. The position, prominence and nature of links on Participant's Site shall comply with any requirements specified in the Engagement, but otherwise will be at the discretion of the Participant. 2.2. Participant agrees not to make any representations, warranties or other statements concerning PSNC, PSNC’ s Sites, any of PSNC’ s products, services, content, or PSNC’ s Site policies, except as expressly authorized by the Engagement, and as determined in PSNC’ s sole discretion. 2.3. Participant is responsible for notifying PSNC in writing of any malfunctioning of the Required URLs or other problems with Participant's participation in the Engagement. PSNC will respond within a reasonable amount of time to all concerns upon notification by Participant. 2.4. Participant must remove approved advertising on or before the expiration date, should an expiration date be established or when asked to do so by PSNC. 3. Ownership and Licenses. 3.1. Each Party owns and shall retain all right, title and interest in its names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology, including, without limitation, those names, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights and proprietary technology currently used or which may be developed and/or used by it in the future. 3.2. PSNC grants Participant a revocable, non-exclusive, limited, license to use, reproduce and transmit the name, logos, trademarks, service marks, trade dress and proprietary technology, and other content, as designated in the Engagement or during the registration process in The Advertising Network?, on Participant’s site solely for the purpose of creating links from Participant's Site to PSNC' s Sites during Engagements and as contemplated by this Agreement. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or permitted by applicable law, Participant may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the same IP. Participant may not sublicense, assign or transfer any such licenses for the use of rights in and to the same IP, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer is void. Participant may not sublicense, assign, or transfer any such licenses, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment, or transfer is void. Participant will not, without prior written authorization from PSNC, (i) display any Web page of PSNC Sites except as otherwise provided in this Agreement; (ii) cache, store or copy any portion of PSNC Sites; (iii) modify or alter any pages of the PSNC Sites, including, without limitation, by removing any proprietary rights notices on PSNC Sites; (iv) frame any portion of PSNC Sites in conjunction with any materials that violate or infringe any right of any third party or in conjunction with any materials which PSNC, in its sole discretion, deems objectionable. 3.3. Participant grants PSNC a non-exclusive, worldwide, limited, royalty-free license to use, reproduce and transmit any graphic or banner ad submitted by Participant solely for co-branding purposes or as a return link from PSNC’ s Sites to Participant's Site. PSNC will remove such graphic or banner ad immediately upon Participant's written request. 3.4. Upon PSNC’ s request, Participant must immediately remove from the Participant Site any Link to PSNC Sites which is displayed on a page that PSNC, in its sole discretion, deems objectionable. 3.5. Participant may not, without obtaining PSNC’ s prior written consent, use any domain name on the Participant Site to redirect users of the Participant Site directly to PSNC Sites. 3.6 Participant’s Site will not, in any way, copy or resemble the look and feel of PSNC’ s Sites including but not limited to petshepherdnc.com. 3.7 Participant is not allowed to duplicate, post, or otherwise utilize any content from PSNC Sites or other PSNC branded materials without the prior written consent of PSNC. Materials provided by PSNC are approved by PSNC for use by all approved Participants. 3.8 Participant may bid on PSNC branded terms but will not outbid PSNC and its branded sites including but not limited to petshepherdnc.com 3.9. Participant may not use the PSNC Sites names, or any variation thereof, in any manner not expressly authorized under this Agreement, including, without limitation, the following: Participant may not post PSNC Sites sales or promotions on the Participant’s Site without PSNC’ s prior written consent; Participant may not use PSNC Sites names, or any variation thereof, in metatags, in hidden text or source code, or in Participant 's domain or sub-domain; Participant may not engineer the Participant Site in a manner that pulls Internet traffic away from the PSNC Sites; and Participant may not purchase any keywords on search sites related to PSNC Sites, and/or any of the brand names featured on PSNC Sites, or any variation thereof. Violation of any of the foregoing prohibitions may result in, among other things, the immediate termination of this Agreement and the commencement of an action by PSNC against Participant seeking, without limitation, injunctive relief and/or recovery of actually, statutory and punitive damages. 4. Termination. 4.1. Either Party may terminate any Engagement at any time by deleting their acceptance of the Engagement and notifying PSNC of such. Termination of an Engagement shall not terminate this Agreement or any other Engagement. 4.2. Either Party may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, provided that they provide at least five day's prior written notice of such termination to the other Party. Termination of this Agreement shall also terminate any outstanding Engagements. 5. Representations. 5.1. Each Party represents to the other that (a) it has the authority to enter into this Agreement and sufficient rights to grant any licenses granted hereby; (b) any material which is provided to the other Party and displayed on the other Party's site will not (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or right of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, including, without limitation, any anti-spam or other email or electronic commerce related law; (iii) be defamatory or libelous; (iv) be lewd, pornographic or obscene; (v) violate any laws regarding unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising; (vi) promote violence or contain hate speech; or (vii) contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines. 5.2. EXCEPT FOR THE REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, NEITHER PARTY MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES TO THE OTHER PARTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 6. Indemnification. 6.1. Participant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold PSNC, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, successors and assigns and their respective officers, directors, shareholders and employees, harmless from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, actions, claims, expenses and costs including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, which result or arise from or are based on (i) the negligence of Participant, its agents and/or employees, (ii) Participant's breach of this Agreement or any of the terms hereunder, (iii) any breach of a representation or warranty, or breach of a covenant or agreement made by Participant herein, or in the enrollment application, (iv) any claim that PSNC’ s use of Participant's trademarks infringe any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, license, intellectual property, or other proprietary right of any third party, or (v) any claim related, in any way, to Participant's Site, including, without limitation, content therein not contributed directly by PSNC’ s, as well as, any and all promotional and advertising activities conducted by, or on the behalf of, Participant. 7. Limitation of Liability. 7.1. In no event shall either Party be liable to the other Party for any indirect, special, exemplary, consequential or incidental damages, even if informed of the possibility of such damages. 8. Modification 8.1. PSNC may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in PSNC’ s sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on PSNC’ s site. If any modification is unacceptable to Participant, Participant's only recourse is to terminate this Agreement. Participant's continued participation in the Program following PSNC’ s posting of a change notice or new agreement on PSNC’ s Site and/or sending Participant the change notice via e-mail will constitute binding acceptance of the change. 9. Confidentiality. 9.1. Pursuant to this Agreement, the Parties may disclose to one another certain information ("Confidential Information") which is considered by the
disclosing Party to be proprietary or confidential information, including, without limitation, the term of this Agreement, business, marketing and financial information, and pricing and sales information. All such Confidential Information shall remain the sole property of the disclosing Party, and its confidentiality shall be maintained and protected by the receiving Party with the same degree of care as the receiving Party uses for its own confidential and proprietary information and the receiving Party shall not disclose such Confidential Information to any third party without the prior written consent of the disclosing Party. The restrictions of the use or disclosure of any Confidential Information shall not apply to any information: (i) after it has become generally available to the public without breach of this agreement by the receiving Party; (ii) is independently developed by the receiving Party; (iii) is rightfully in the receiving Party's possession prior to disclosure to it by the disclosing Party; iv) is rightfully received by the receiving Party from a third party without duty of confidentiality; or (v) is disclosed under operation of law or pursuant to legal or regulatory process. 10. General. 10.1. Each Party shall act as an independent contractor and shall have no authority to obligate or bind the other Party in any respect. 10.2. This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina. Any action to enforce this Agreement shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in the state of PSNC' s headquarters. Official correspondence must be sent via registered mail to PSNC' s headquarters to the attention of PSNC' s legal department. 10.3. This Agreement may be agreed to in more than one counterpart, each of which together shall form one and the same instrument. The Parties agree that execution may be achieved in any format convenient to the Parties. 10.4. The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and separable from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue of the fact that for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part. 10.5. Neither Party may assign any rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior consent of the other Party; provided, however, that PSNC may assign any rights or obligations to a subsidiary or affiliate or to any third party assuming all or part of the business function of the PSNC unit. 10.6. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties relating to this subject matter and supersedes all prior or simultaneous representations, discussions, negotiations and agreement, whether written or oral. In Witness whereof, the Parties authorized representatives have executed this PET SHEPHERD, NC RECOVERY SERVICES AGREEMENT as of the date of the last signature set forth below. Pet Shepherd, NC Date: March 16, 2009
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