Terms and Conditions

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PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.

All users of the Home Sweet Home Portraits website agree that access to and use of this site are subject to the following terms and conditions and other applicable law. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please do not use this site or it’s services.

Copyright

The entire content included in this site, including but not limited to text, graphics or code is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of Home Sweet Home Portraits. Copyright 2012, Home Sweet Home Portraits ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is granted to electronically copy and print hard copy portions of this site for the sole purpose of placing an order with Home Sweet Home Portraits or purchasing Home Sweet Home Portraits products. Any other use, including but not limited to the reproduction, distribution, display or transmission of the content of this site is strictly prohibited, unless authorized by Home Sweet Home Portraits. You further agree not to change or delete any proprietary notices from materials downloaded from the site.

Copyright

The entire content included in this site, including but not limited to text, graphics or code is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of Home Sweet Home Portraits. Copyright 2012, Home Sweet Home Portraits ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is granted to electronically copy and print hard copy portions of this site for the sole purpose of placing an order with Home Sweet Home Portraits or purchasing Home Sweet Home Portraits products. Any other use, including but not limited to the reproduction, distribution, display or transmission of the content of this site is strictly prohibited, unless authorized by Home Sweet Home Portraits. You further agree not to change or delete any proprietary notices from materials downloaded from the site.

Limitation of Liability

Home Sweet Home Portraits shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the services and products offered on this site, or the performance of the services and products.

Term Termination

These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing the site. These terms and conditions, or any part of them, may be updated or terminated by Home Sweet Home Portraits without notice at any time, for any reason. The provisions relating to Copyrights, Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification and Miscellaneous, shall survive any termination.

Notice

Home Sweet Home Portraits may deliver notice to you by means of e-mail, a general notice on the site, or by other reliable method to the address you have provided to Home Sweet Home Portraits.

Miscellaneous

Your use of this site shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of Illinois, U.S.A., without regard to choice of law provisions, and not by the 1980 U.N. Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. You agree that jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this site (including but not limited to the purchase of Home Sweet Home Portraits products) shall be in the state or federal courts located in DuPage County, IL. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the site (including but not limited to the purchase of Home Sweet Home Portraits products) must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. Home Sweet Home Portraits’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these terms and conditions shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any of these terms and conditions. Home Sweet Home Portraits may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.

Use of Site

Harassment in any manner or form on the site, including via e-mail, chat, or by use of obscene or abusive language, is strictly forbidden. Impersonation of others, including a Home Sweet Home Portraits or other licensed employee, host, or representative, as well as other members or visitors on the site is prohibited. You may not upload to, distribute, or otherwise publish through the site any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable which may constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or which may otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law. You may not upload commercial content on the site or use the site to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or other organization.

Participation Disclaimer

Home Sweet Home Portraits does not and cannot review all communications and materials posted to or created by users accessing the site or using our services, and is not in any manner responsible for the content of these communications and materials. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and display user-generated content hosted on the site, Home Sweet Home Portraits is merely acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any contents or activities on the site. However, Home Sweet Home Portraits reserves the right to block or remove communications or materials that it determines to be (a) abusive, defamatory, or obscene, (b) fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading, (c) in violation of a copyright, trademark or; other intellectual property right of another or (d) offensive or otherwise unacceptable to Home Sweet Home Portraits in its sole discretion.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Home Sweet Home Portraits, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers (collectively the “Service Providers”) from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of these terms and conditions or any activity related to your seals or account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the site using your account.

Third-Party Links

In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, Home Sweet Home Portraits may link to sites operated by third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Home Sweet Home Portraits, Home Sweet Home Portraits has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of Home Sweet Home Portraits. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, Home Sweet Home Portraits seeks to protect the integrity of its web site and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work).