This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the terms between you and Samurai Messenger LLC, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York, ("Samurai", "us" or "we"), and you should carefully read this Agreement before using any website we maintain at https://samuraimessenger.com/, or any website we maintain on behalf of other clients (the “Website” or “Websites”). We are willing to provide you with access to our Websites only on the condition that you accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. By accessing or using our Websites, you agree to be bound by this Agreement and all of its terms without change. If you are using our Websites on behalf of a company or organization, such company or organization will also be considered a party to this Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT ACCESS THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE.
If you are under the age of 13, you may not use this Website.
Your use of our Website is subject to the additional disclaimers and notices that may appear throughout the Website. If you use any of our products or services, you are subject to any applicable agreements ("Supplemental Agreements") and any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such products or services. All such guidelines, or rules, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement. Where a conflict exists between this Agreement and any of the Supplemental Agreements, the provisions of the applicable Supplemental Agreement shall govern.
Except in instances of gross misconduct and willful negligence, Samurai and its representatives assume no responsibility for any consequence based on the information, services or other material on our Website. While we strive to keep the information on this Website accurate, complete and up-to-date, Samurai and its representatives cannot guarantee, and will not be responsible for any damage or loss related to, the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information or services on the Website.
If at any time you are not happy with the Website or object to any content within the Website, your sole remedy is to cease using the Website.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Except as expressly provided otherwise in an applicable Supplemental Agreement, we disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for the timeliness, sequence, quality, accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, operability or availability of information or material contained on the Website. The Website may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. We disclaim any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, mis-delivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material in respect of the Website or the use thereof.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE HEREIN OR IN AN APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT, ALL SERVICES AND INFORMATION OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, ACCURACY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. WE AND OUR DATA PROVIDERS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES AND INFORMATION IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR CLAIMS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA, THAT RESULTS FROM DOWNLOADING OR OTHERWISE OBTAINING SUCH MATERIAL.
Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so these exclusions may not apply to you.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE HEREIN OR IN AN APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR ANY OF OUR DATA PROVIDERS OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, DELIVERING OR MANAGING THE CONTENT OR OPERATIONS OF THE WEBSITE (COLLECTIVELY THE "WEBSITE PROVIDERS"), BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LOST REVENUES, LOST PROFITS, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, LOSS OF PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE WEBSITE, ANY COMMUNICATIONS SENT TO YOU VIA THE WEBSITE OR OTHERWISE FROM US (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN THE FORM OF ELECTRONIC MAIL OR VIA TELEPHONE), OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF ANY ONE OF OR ALL OF THE WEBSITE PROVIDERS IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR MAXIMUM LIABILITY TO YOU EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US FOR THE SUBJECT SERVICES OR $100, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.
USER RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for your use of your Internet browser, the Website, and the services and information provided on the Website. We are not responsible for deletion of data, timeliness of services, or the failure to store any of your data or personalization settings.
RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS ON SITE
All material on the WebSite, including all files, images, text, software, and data, are the property of Samurai. These materials are licensed to you for your personal, non-commercial use. You may download, print, or view these materials on your personal computer, provided you do not delete or change any of the information, including copyright and trademark notices. You may not modify, reverse-engineer, disassemble, redistribute, republish, upload, or re-use any of the text, graphics, or other materials on the WebSite without our written permission.
YOUR ACCOUNT
There may be portions of the Website that require you to create a user account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to promptly notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account, or any other breach of security of which you are aware, and to ensure that you properly close out of your account at the end of each session. We may, in our sole discretion, terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the Website at any time and for any or no reason. Samurai will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Website. If your status as a user of this Website is terminated, you will (i) stop using the Website and any information obtained from the Website, and (ii) destroy all copies of your account information, password and any information obtained from this Website.
You represent and warrant that any information you provide to us through the Website will be accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete as of the date the information was provided, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right, without limitation, to suspend or terminate any of your accounts and to refuse any and all current or future use of the Website (or any portion thereof) and the services and information provided on the Website.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
If you are under the age of 13, you may not use this Website.
As a condition of your use of this Website, you warrant to Samurai that you will not use this Website for any purpose that is against the law or prohibited by these terms. If you violate any of these terms, your permission to use this Website automatically ends.
You may not, without our prior written permission, use any computer code, data mining software, "robot," "bot," "spider," "scraper" or other automatic device, or program, algorithm or methodology having similar processes or functionality, or any manual process, to monitor or copy any of the web pages, data or content found on this Website or accessed through this Website. You may not republish Samurai content or other content from this Website on another website or use in-line or other linking to display such content without our permission. You may not introduce viruses, spyware or other malicious code to this Website. You represent and warrant that you use frequently updated, commercially standard virus protection software to ensure that the system you use to access our Website is virus free.
LINKS TO OUR WEBSITE
We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, nontransferable and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Website so long as (i) the link or your linking website does not portray us or any of our services or information in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter; (ii) your linking website complies with all applicable law and does not otherwise violate this Agreement or the rights of others; and (iii) your website has, maintains and follows a privacy policy no less protective of user data than Samurai’ Privacy Policy. You may not use any of our logos or other proprietary graphic or trademarks as part of the link without our express written permission. We may revoke this license at any time, with or without cause, in which case you agree to immediately remove such hyperlink. You may not link to any page other than the home page of this Website. Any link to our Website should be a full forward link that passes the client browser to our home page without barriers. The "back" button should return the visitor to original site if the visitor wishes to back out.
CHANGES TO WEBSITE
We may make improvements or changes in the information, services, products, and other materials on this Website or terminate this Website at any time for any or no reason and without notice.
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that any material contained on the Website infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, you should notify Samurai of your copyright infringement claim in accordance with the following procedure. Samurai will process notices of alleged infringement which it receives and will take appropriate action as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable intellectual property laws.
Under the DMCA, the notification of claimed infringement must include the following:
a. An electronic or physical signature of the owner or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest
b. Identification of the copyrighted work (or works) that you claim has been infringed
c. A description of the material that you claim is infringing, and the location where the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work exists (for example, the URL of the page of the web site where it is lawfully posted; the name, edition and pages of a book from which an excerpt was copied, etc.)
d. A clear description of where the infringing material is located on our Website, including as applicable its URL, so that we can locate the material
e. Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address
f. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
g. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf
NOTE: THE DESIGNATED AGENT IS PROVIDED SOLELY FOR NOTIFYING US THAT YOUR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN INFRINGED. DO NOT SEND ANY INQUIRIES UNRELATED TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT (e.g., REQUESTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR CUSTOMER SERVICE, REPORTS OF E-MAIL ABUSE, etc.) TO THE DESIGNATED AGENT AS YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. WE CAUTION YOU THAT UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO HEAVY CIVIL PENALTIES. THESE INCLUDE MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND ATTORNEYS FEES INCURRED BY US, BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER, OR BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER'S LICENSEE THAT IS INJURED AS A RESULT OF OUR RELYING UPON YOUR MISREPRESENTATION. YOU MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY.
We will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate repeat infringers. If you believe that an account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer, please follow the instructions above to contact Samurai and provide information sufficient for us to verify that the account holder or subscriber is a repeat infringer.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of law provisions. Any legal action or proceeding between Samurai and you related to this Agreement will be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in the State of New York.
b. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, along with any Supplemental Agreements, is the entire and exclusive agreement between the parties, and it supersedes all previous communications, representations or agreements, either oral or written, between them with respect to this subject matter. No representations or statements of any kind made by us, which are not included in this Agreement, shall be binding on us.
c. Amendments. You may not modify or amend this Agreement in whole or in part without the prior written consent of one of our authorized representatives. We may replace or amend this Agreement from time to time by posting new terms of service to this Website. Please check the Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your subsequent use of the Website, or any content, products, services or materials provided through the Website, will be subject in all respects to the terms of service in force at the time of such subsequent use.
d. Waiver. No waiver of any provision herein shall be valid unless in writing and signed by both our authorized representative and you. Our failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement or any right shall not be construed as a waiver of any such provision or right.
e. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be automatically reformed and construed so as to be valid, operative and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law or equity while preserving its original intent. The invalidity of any part of this Agreement shall not render invalid the remainder of this Agreement.
f. Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only and shall have no legal or interpretive effect.
g. Limitation. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of
or related to use of this Website or this Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action
arose or be forever barred.
h. Other. We may assign our rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.
TERMS OF CARRIAGE (WHEN APPLICABLE)
All fees are all inclusive of any service or vendor required to facilitate your request, and may be fulfilled by employees, contracted partners or third party vendors. We may, at our discretion, utilize third party carriers and vendors for transportation and carriage. Samurai, and it’s partners (“Us,” or “We”) will honor the following terms and conditions:
Unless a greater value has been placed on a shipment at the time that a request for delivery service is made to the order taker, it is agreed that in consideration of the rate being charged, the liability for the damages is limited to $100.
In any event, Samurai and its partners will not be liable for any damages whether incidental special or consequential, including but not limited to loss of income or profits, whether or not Samurai and its partners acknowledges that such damages might be incurred. Samurai and its partners will not be liable for:
-acts or omissions including but not limited to incorrect declarations of cargo, improper or insufficient packing, securing, marking or addressing of your shipment, or for the acts of omissions of the recipient.
-concealed damage in packages packed and sealed by the shipper.
-theft, pilferage, or any attempt thereof from any unattended bicycle or motor vehicle.
Samurai and its partners will not be liable for loss, damage to shipment of cash, currency, negotiable instruments or other prohibited items including but not limited to: stamps, jewelry, original artwork, any type of perishable goods. Samurai and its partners will not accept liability for items that are not fully enclosed in a carton or proper packaging material. Samurai and its partners does not accept hazardous goods, that is, any goods falling within the specifications of the Dangerous Goods Act.
Samurai and its partners will not be liable for loss, damage or delay caused by the event that we cannot control, including but not limited to Acts of God, perils of the air, weather conditions, acts of public enemies, war, civil commotions, or acts or omissions of public authorities including customs and health officials with actual or apparent authority.
Samurai and its partners may open or inspect your packages prior to or after you give them to us to deliver without the prior express approval of Customer in each instance, it being understood that we reserve the right to reject a shipment at anytime, when we reasonably believes that such shipment would be likely to cause damage to or delay to other shipments, equipment or personnel, or if the transportation of such shipment is prohibited by law.
We do not accept the liability for the failure to properly collect or remit funds for COD shipments, or to collect signatures for deliveries performed.
Subject to express instruction given by the Customer, Samurai and its partners reserve absolute discretion to the means, route and procedure for any transit and in the hand, storage and transportation of any consignment. If in our reasonable opinion, it is at any stage necessary or desirable in the Customer's interest to depart from express instructions, we shall be at liberty to do so. Client is fully responsible for describing the package upon order. Any increase over quoted rate for the failure to do so need not be reported to the client.
Samurai shall reserve the right to charge according to our most recent rate schedule, and is not to be held for out-of-date rates that orderer may find on paper or Internet.
All claims regarding damage, loss or delay of any shipment must be submitted in writing to the company's office within 15 calendar days of delivery of the shipment: otherwise Samurai reserves the right to waive the claim. Samurai is not obligated to act on any claim until you have paid all transportation charges, and you may not deduct the amount of your claim from those charges without the approval of Samurai.
Rates are subject to change without advance notice.
All invoices are due within 30 days of issue. Any invoices paid after 30 days are subject to a late fee of 10% of the total invoice. Samurai may deny service at any time and may pursue collection action through the courts for unpaid invoices. Please direct all claims to:
Samurai
POBox 1690
New York, NY 10156