Builder’s Square, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, including its successors and assigns,
("Builder’s Square") operates the Builder’s Square Internet shopping sites (including,
without limitation,
www.BuildersSquare.com and
www.TheSquareDeal.com) and certain co-branded versions of its site under
contract other third parties (collectively, the "Site"). You may only use the Site
pursuant to the following terms and conditions, which you accept by your use of
the Site. Use of the Site is subject to additional terms and conditions defined
by our content providers ("Licensors") as stipulated on applicable pages of the
Site, which you accept by your use of the Site. Builder’s Square reserves the right
to modify or revise these Terms of Use and/or Privacy Statement or its other policies
at any time at its sole discretion. Any such modifications to the Terms of Use and
Privacy Statement shall be effective within forty-eight (48) hours of being posted
on the Site unless otherwise stated by Builder’s Square in writing. You are bound
by such modifications or revisions, and should therefore visit this page frequently
to review the terms. Your continued use of the Site following Builder’s Square's
posting of any changes or modifications to these Terms of Use and/or Privacy Statement
will constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications. In the event that
you do not agree to any changes or modifications of these Terms of Use and/or Privacy
Statement, you should not continue to use the Site.
LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS
Builder’s Square grants you a non-exclusive right and license to access and use
the Site for personal, noncommercial purposes, other than to purchase or sell items
through the Site's Storefronts Service, or to purchase items from third-party merchants
accessible via links on the Site. This license does not include and strictly prohibits:
any resale of the Site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings,
descriptions, or prices other than as expressly authorized herein; any derivative
use of the Site or its contents; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data
gathering and extraction tools. The Site, including its operation, interface and
contents, are covered by United States copyright laws and international laws and
treaties, and may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited,
or otherwise exploited for any unauthorized commercial purpose without the express
prior written consent of Builder’s Square. Any unauthorized use shall immediately
terminate the licenses and rights granted by Builder’s Square and any Licensors
hereunder, and may subject you to civil and/or criminal prosecution. You are granted
a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to any page of
the Site so long as the link does not portray Builder’s Square, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, Licensors, co-brand partners and other partners or its or their respective
services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise offensive or damaging manner.
You may not use any Builder’s Square, Licensor, subsidiary, affiliate, co-brand
partner, or other partner logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part
of a link to the Site without first obtaining the express written consent of Builder’s
Square, the subsidiary, affiliate, co-brand partner or other partner or Licensor
(as applicable).
Builder’s Square does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to
its services or the Site, and the operation of the Site may be interfered with by
numerous factors outside or within Builder’s Square's control.
CONTENT
Builder’s Square provides a number of different services to assist you in comparison
shopping for products and services on the Site. Builder’s Square is paid by merchants
or other third parties for listing products and services on the Site and for promotions
such as featured merchants, featured products and showcases.
Builder’s Square does not sell, resell or license any of the products listed on
the Site, nor is Builder’s Square acting as an agent of sale, and Builder’s Square
disclaims any responsibility for, or liability related to, such products and services
(see Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability, below). Any questions,
complaints or claims related to any product should be directed to the appropriate
merchant or seller.
Builder’s Square does not warrant that product descriptions, pricing, editorial
commentary or any other content of the Site, regardless of its source, is accurate,
complete, reliable, current or error-free. Site content is provided for informational
purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by Builder’s Square of any
product, merchant, seller, service, or any reviews or comments thereof regardless
of the source of such review or comment. Builder’s Square assumes no liability for
inaccuracy or incompleteness in its search results, editorial content, user ratings
(e.g. user merchant rating, or user product rating) or other content on the Site.
CONTENT SUBMISSION
By contributing or submitting any content to the Site, you warrant that you are
the author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto or have the appropriate
license and sublicense rights from the owner, and you grant Builder’s Square a worldwide,
perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy,
modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from and/or sell and/or distribute such materials and/or incorporate such materials
into any form, medium or technology, and you also grant the right to Builder’s Square
to sublicense and any all of the foregoing rights to third parties, in all cases
without compensation to you. In addition, you warrant that all "moral rights" that
you may have in those materials have been voluntarily waived by you. None of the
materials shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Builder’s
Square, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, Licensors, co-brand partners or other
partners and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives.
Builder’s Square reserves the right to change, condense or delete any content on
the Site that Builder’s Square deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content
guidelines or any other provision of this Agreement.
You agree that you shall not post or provide any information to/for the Sites:
- that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
- that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other
proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
- that violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation in any applicable jurisdictions
(including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection,
unfair competition, anti-discrimination, false advertising and privacy);
- that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, hateful, racially or
religiously biased or offensive (including the use of swear words), unlawfully threatening
or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
- for which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party;
- that seeks to obtain a commercial advantage;
- that includes any information that references other web sites, addresses, email
addresses, contact information, phone numbers or other personal information such
as credit card numbers; or
- that contains any computer viruses, worms or other damaging or potentially damaging
computer programs or files.
- In contributing or submitting any content to the Site, you agree not to use a false
or misleading email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise provide
any misleading information as to the origin of any content that you submit. You
should also note your obligations to indemnify Builder’s Square (among others) for
the content you submit as set forth in the indemnity section, below.
- You agree that you that you will not use any device, software or routine to bypass
our robot exclusion headers, or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper
working of the Site or any sales being conducted through the Site. You agree that
you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately
large load on Builder’s Square's computer systems or communications infrastructure.
You agree that you will not use any software robot, spider, other automatic device
or manual process to monitor or copy Site pages or the content contained therein
without Builder’s Square's prior written consent.
- You may submit a merchant review through the Merchant Ratings System on the Site
or through the Shopper Satisfaction Survey to describe your shopping experiences
with merchants.
- You may submit a merchant review only in good faith and about a merchant from whom
you have actually purchased or attempted to purchase products, limited to where
you have (i) completed the ordering process, (ii) exchanged payment data, and/or
(iii) received an invoice number.
- You agree to submit the corresponding and legitimate invoice number or equivalent
confirmation of order number/identifier when submitting the merchant review ("Invoice
Number"). You acknowledge and agree that the Invoice Number will be made available
by Builder’s Square to the applicable merchant in conjunction with your review,
and accordingly, the merchant may be able to contact you regarding your review or
otherwise.
- You may only describe your experience with the merchant for which you are writing
a merchant review. You should not review any merchant on situations that are not
controlled by the merchant you are reviewing.
- You may submit no more than one merchant review of a particular merchant in any
thirty (30) day period.
- Any merchant review that you submit is subject to the conditions and restrictions
described in the CONTENT SUBMISSION section, above.
- You acknowledge and agree that Builder’s Square may, in its sole discretion, post
only the first ten (10) merchant reviews it receives from users (which may not include
your review) that are related, on a case by case basis and in whole or in part,
to a product or service listing error by a merchant, such as, but not limited to,
an error in the price of a product(s) or a service, the number of units of a product(s)
available for a certain price, the shipping rates for product(s), or inventory levels.
- Upon becoming aware of the same, Builders Square will omit any merchant review that
it determines on the face of the review (only) violates any requirements in this
Terms of Use or the Member Agreement. Builder’s Square will not itself edit or modify
the contents of a merchant review; it will only remove a review in accordance with
the foregoing.
- By providing the Invoice Number, you acknowledge and agree that you may be contacted
by Builder’s Square and/or the applicable merchant to which/whom the invoice relates.
You acknowledge and agree that your review may not be displayed if the Invoice Number
does not match the associated information in Builder’s Square's records. A merchant
may dispute the validity of an invoice identified by you and may submit a complaint
to Builder’s Square. This may result in Builder’s Square opening a user review inquiry.
During the user review inquiry, Builder’s Square may, in its sole discretion, remove
the contested review, and/or require additional data or proof from the user to determine
whether the review should remain or be reinstated on the Site. Failure of the user
to participate in the user review inquiry will result in the removal of the contested
review from the Site.
OTHER BUSINESSES AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Builder’s Square may provide links to the sites of third-party merchants, affiliated
companies, co-brand partners and other parties. These links are provided solely
as a convenience to you, and do not constitute an endorsement by Builder’s Square
of the content of such third-party sites nor of the business practices of such other
businesses, entities or individuals. Builder’s Square is not responsible for examining
or evaluating, and does not warrant or claim responsibility in any way, the products,
services, offerings or business practices of any of these businesses, entities or
individuals or the content of their web sites. You should carefully review their
privacy statements and other conditions of use.
Builder’s Square has no control over the business practices of any third-party merchant
or seller, nor does it control in any way the quality, safety or legality of any
item listed on the Site or any business transaction that occurs as a result of products
listed on the Site.
IN THE EVENT OF A DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND A MERCHANT LISTED ON THE SITE, TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU RELEASE BUILDER’S SQUARE, ITS SUBSIDIARIES,
AFFILIATES, CO-BRAND PARTNERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES UNDER CONTRACT WITH BUILDER’S
SQUARE, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVEFROM
AND AGAINST CLAIMS AND DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED,
DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH A DISPUTE.
If you are a California resident, by using the Site, you explicitly waive the rights
granted to you under California Civil Code 1542, which states: "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."
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE SITE IS PROVIDED BY BUILDER’S SQUARE ON AN "AS IS" AND ON AN "AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BUILDER’S SQUARE MAKES
NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION
OF THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR
SERVICES INCLUDED ON THE SITE, OR THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS.
IN ADDITION, THIRD PARTIES PROVIDE SOME OF THE MATERIAL ON THE SITE; TO THE MAXIMUM
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BUILDER’S SQUARE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY MATERIAL. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR
ANY TRANSACTION RESULTING THEREOF IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. BUILDER’S SQUARE DOES
NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO THE SITE OR THE SERVICES.
OPERATION OF THE SITE MAY BE INTERFERED WITH BY NUMEROUS FACTORS OUTSIDE OF BUILDER’S
SQUARE'S CONTROL.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BUILDER’S SQUARE DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT
OF PROPRIETARY OR THIRD PARTY RIGHTS REGARDING THE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE LAW, PRICEGRABER MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING
ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REVIEWED ON THE SITE OR BOUGHT AND/OR SOLD USING THE SITE,
OR THAT SELLERS OR BUYERS WILL PERFORM AS PROMISED BY THEM, OR THAT THE SITE, ITS
SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM BUILDER’S SQUARE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BUILDER’S SQUARE
WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SITE,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES RELATED TO LOSS OF BUSINESS OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME
OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU,
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE CONTENTS
OF THE SITE, OR DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, WITH BUILDER’S SQUARE'S
PRIVACY POLICY OR ANY OTHER POLICIES OF THE SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE
YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
INDEMNITY
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify
and hold Builder’s Square, its subsidiaries, affiliates, co-brand partners, and
other parties with which Builder’s Square is under contract, and their respective
officers, directors, employees and agents free and harmless from and against any
claims, actions and demands, including, without limitation, any legal and accounting
fees resulting from your use of the Site and/or your breach of the Terms of Use
and Privacy Statement and/or Member Agreement, and/or resulting form any and all
content you submit to Builder’s Square and/or the Site. Builder’s Square shall provide
notice to you of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
GOVERNING LAW/ARBITRATION
These Terms of Use and Privacy Statements will be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New Jersey.
IP OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Builder’s Square disclaims any responsibility for the content of any third party
materials provided through or on its Site or other services ("Third Party Content").
Builder’s Square will respond to notices of alleged infringement regarding Third
Party Content sent pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act ("DMCA"), which may include Builder’s Square removing or disabling access to
Third Party Content claimed to be the subject of infringement or other activity.
All notices sent to Builder’s Square regarding matters other than informing Builder’s
Square that a party's copyrighted material may have been infringed (and relating
only to Third Party Content) will not receive a response through this process.
Written notification must be submitted to the following Designated Agent:
By Mail:
Builder’s Square.com, Inc.
Attn: General Counsel
47 Brunswick Avenue
Edison, NJ 08817
INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATION
To be effective, your infringement notification must include the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple
copyrighted works at a single web site are covered by a single notification, a representative
list of such works at that web site;
- Identification of the material (i.e., the Third Party Content) that is claimed to
be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed
or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit
Builder’s Square to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit Builder’s Square to contact the complaining
party, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail
address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement, as follows: "I have a good faith belief that use of the material in
the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or
the law"; and
- A statement, as follows: "The information in this notification is accurate, and
under penalty of perjury, I swear that I am the copyright owner or that I am authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Upon receipt of the written notification containing the information as outlined
in 1 through 6 above:
- Builder’s Square shall remove or disable access to the Third Party Content that
is alleged to be infringing;
- Builder’s Square shall forward the written notification to the alleged infringer
(the "Subscriber");
- Builder’s Square shall take reasonable steps to promptly notify the Subscriber that
it has removed or disabled access to the Third Party Content.
COUNTER NOTIFICATION
To be effective, a Counter Notification must be a written communication provided
to Builder’s Square's Designated Agent that includes substantially the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of the Subscriber;
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been
disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or
access to it was disabled;
- A statement, as follows: "I swear under penalty of perjury that it is my good faith
belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of
mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled";
- The Subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the Subscriber
consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district
in which the Subscriber's address is located, or if the Subscriber's address is
outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which Builder’s Square
may be found, and that the Subscriber will accept service of process from the person
who provided notification or an agent of such person.
Upon receipt of a Counter Notification containing the information as outlined in
1 through 4 above, the DMCA provides that the removed material will be restored
or access re-enabled and Builder’s Square will comply with this requirement within
a reasonable time (or as otherwise required by law), provided Builder’s Square's
Designated Agent has not received notice from the original complaining party that
an action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber from engaging
in infringing activity relating to the material on Builder’s Square's network or
system.
GENERAL
If any provision of these Terms of Use and Privacy Statement or the Member Agreement
is held to be invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall
be struck and the remaining provisions shall remain enforceable. Headings are for
reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope
or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or
others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
You agree that these Terms of Use and Privacy Statement and the Member Agreement
and all agreements and notices incorporated herein may be automatically assigned
by Builder’s Square, in our sole discretion, to a third party. You may not assign
your obligations to any other entity.