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Terms and Conditions

This Website and FineStar’s services are offered to you, conditioned on your acceptance without modification, of the following terms, conditions, and notices contained in this agreement (the “Terms and Conditions”). Your use of this Website or submission of service requests via telephone constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices in effect at such time. These Terms and Conditions apply to any FineStar services or properties such as websites or apps owned and operated by FineStar and collectively referred to herein as “FineStar,” on which a link to these Terms and Conditions appears. If you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions, you may contact us at www.FineStar.com. We may amend these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting a revised version of these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions were last updated on September 20, 2013.

Introduction to FineStar

Upon registration, you may choose your own password or FineStar will assign you a password to access the FineStar services through the FineStar website or apps.

Your Use of the FineStar Services and Prohibited Uses

You acknowledge and agree that your use of FineStar is for your personal use and not for advertising purposes. You may not use FineStar to recreate or compete with FineStar, for solicitation or harassment, or for any other purpose not contemplated herein. You acknowledge that a violation of the foregoing could result in significant damages, and you agree that you are liable to FineStar for any such damages, and will indemnify FineStar in the event of any third party claims against FineStar based on or arising from your violation of the foregoing. We reserve the right to revoke your access to any FineStar products or properties at any time. If it is determined or suspected by FineStar in its sole discretion that you are misusing or attempting to misuse or circumvent the FineStar services or system, or are using or attempting to use them for any inappropriate or non-personal purposes, including but not limited to activities such as hacking, scraping content, infiltrating, fraud, advertising, jamming or spamming, FineStar reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to immediately terminate your access without notice and to initiate without notice appropriate legal actions or proceedings to seek appropriate remedies and/or damages, including but not limited to lost revenue, repairs, legal fees, costs and expenses, and to seek injunctions or other equitable remedies.

Information You Provide to Us

Upon using FineStar, you will be prompted to disclose certain information about yourself and your service requirements, and you will be able to store information, such as services records, on our website or apps. By providing this information to us, or by submitting a service request, you are requesting, and you expressly consent to being contacted by us and by our service professionals and providers via phone, fax, email, mail or other reasonable means, at any of your contact numbers or addresses, even if you are listed on any federal, state, provincial or other applicable “Do Not Call” list, in order that we may provide the services set forth on our site, to service your account, to reasonably address matters pertaining to your account or for other purposes reasonably related to your service request and our business, including marketing related emails. For complete details on our use of your information, please see our privacy statement. You agree that by completing a service request, you are entering into a business relationship with FineStar and its partners and thus agree to be contacted by FineStar and/or its partners. You promise that all information you provide (including but not limited to your contact information, and any Ratings and Reviews that you provide) will be accurate, current and truthful to the best of your knowledge. If you provide any information that is untrue, not current or incomplete, or FineStar has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, FineStar has the right to refuse any current or future use of the FineStar services (or any portion thereof) by you. You are responsible for any use of the FineStar services by persons to whom you intentionally or negligently allow access to your password.

TO KNOWINGLY INPUT FALSE INFORMATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NAME, PHONE NUMBER, ADDRESS OR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS A VERY SERIOUS AND FRAUDULENT MATTER THAT COULD RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT COSTS AND DAMAGES INCLUDING INVASION OF PRIVACY RIGHTS, TO FINESTAR AND ITS SERVICE PROFESSIONAL PARTNERS, AND TO CONSUMERS, AS WELL AS THE LOSS OF TIME, EFFORT AND EXPENSE RESPONDING TO AND PURSUING SUCH FALSE INFORMATION AND REQUEST, AND FURTHER, COULD RESULT IN REGULATORY FINES AND PENALTIES. ACCORDINGLY, IF YOU KNOWINGLY INPUT FALSE INFORMATION IN A SERVICE REQUEST, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SOME ONE ELSE’S NAME, E-MAIL ADDRESS, PHYSICAL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER OR A RANDOM OR MADE UP NAME, ADDRESS, E-MAIL OR PHONE NUMBER YOU AGREE TO FULLY INDEMNIFY AND BE LIABLE TO FINESTAR AND EACH FINESTAR SERVICE PROVIDER WHO ACCEPTS SUCH SERVICE REQUESTS, FOR THE GREATER OF: (1) A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF $11,000 TO EACH OF FINESTAR AND EACH OF THE AFFECTED SERVICE PROFESSIONALS AND FOR EACH OF THE ACTUAL PERSON(S) AFFECTED BY ANY OF THE IMPROPER, INCORRECT OR FRAUDULENT INFORMATION YOU ENTER (FOR EXAMPLE THE ACTUAL OWNER OF THE E-MAIL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER, ETC.), PER IMPROPER SUBMISSION, PLUS ANY ATTORNEYS FEES COSTS AND EXPENSE RELATING THERETO, IF APPLICABLE, OR (2) THE ACTUAL DAMAGES, DIRECT, PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL, AND ANY REGULATORY OR JUDICIAL FINES OR PENALTIES THAT MAY ARISE FROM SUCH INTENTIONAL, MISLEADING, HARMFUL AND FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY, PLUS REASONABLE LEGAL FEES, COST AND EXPENSES RELATING THERETO, WHICH EVER IS GREATER.

Call Recording

You acknowledge and agree that FineStar may monitor and/or record any telephone calls between you and FineStar.

User Generated Content

You agree that all of the content and information posted by you or your agents or designees on FineStar, including but not limited to:

  • Ratings & Reviews
  • Photographs or Images
  • Comments, Questions and/or Answers
  • Any other content (known collectively as “Content”) is the sole and exclusive property of FineStar, and that you have no right to reproduce, post, publish, or otherwise use such information other than for your personal use relating to your service request.

Our Right to Use Your Content

You acknowledge and agree that any Content you post or provide may be viewed by the general public and will not be treated as private, proprietary or confidential. You authorize us and our affiliates, licensees and sub-licensees, without compensation to you or others, to copy, adapt, create derivative works of, reproduce, incorporate, distribute, publicly display or otherwise use or exploit such Content throughout the world in any format or media (whether now known or hereafter created) for the duration of any copyright or other rights in such Content, and such permission shall be perpetual and may not be revoked for any reason. Further, to the extent permitted under applicable law, you waive and release and covenant not to assert any moral rights that you may have in any Content posted or provided by you.

Grant of License

You hereby grant FineStar and its users a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, assignable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, perform, distribute, print, publish, disseminate and place advertising near and adjacent to your Content in any format or media (whether now know or hereafter created) on the FineStar and apps in any manner that we deem appropriate or necessary, including, if submitted, your name, voice and likeness throughout the world, and such permission shall be perpetual and cannot be revoked for any reason.

Representation of Ownership and Right to Use Content

By posting or providing any Content to FineStar, you represent and warrant to FineStar that you own or have all necessary rights to use the Content, and grant to FineStar the rights granted below. The forgoing representation includes, but is not limited to a representation and warranty that you own or have the necessary rights (including any necessary releases) to grant all rights granted below in relation to any persons, places or intellectual property pictured in any photographic Content that you provide. In addition, if you post or otherwise provide any Content that is protected by copyright, you represent that you have obtained any necessary permissions or releases from the applicable copyright owner.

Content Guidelines

FineStar reserves the right, but not the obligation, to edit or abridge, or to refuse to post, or to remove any content that you or any other users post on any FineStar owned or operated websites or apps if FineStar determines (in its sole discretion) that such content contains or features any of the following:

  • Offensive, harmful and/or abusive language, including without limitation: expletives, profanities, obscenities, harassment, vulgarities, sexually explicit language and hate speech (e.g., racist/discriminatory speech.)
  • References to illegal activity.
  • Language that violates the standards of good taste or the standards of this Site.
  • Statements that are or appear to be false.
  • Comments that disparage FineStar.
  • With respect to Ratings and Reviews of service professionals, all of the above and in addition the following:
    • Reviews that do not address the goods and services of the business or reviews with no qualitative value (e.g., “work has not started yet”).
    • Comments concerning a different Service Professional.
    • Information not related to work requested in the service request.
    • If a dispute arises between a consumer and professional, the rating submitted may be held in pending status until resolution is reached. You represent and warrant that any Rating and Review provided by you is accurate and truthful, and that your will only provide a Rating and Review for a service professional that has performed services for you pursuant to your applicable service request.

Notice Specific to Documents and Information Available on this Website

Permission to use documents (such as press releases, datasheets, content, informational items and FAQs) from the FineStar server (“Server”) is granted, provided that (1) the below copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear, (2) use of such documents from the Web site is for your informational and non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any Documents are made. Educational institutions (specifically K-12, universities and state community colleges) may download and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom. Distribution outside the classroom requires express written permission of FineStar. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible. Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the FineStar or apps or any other FineStar owned, operated, licensed or controlled site. Elements of the FineStar or apps are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any FineStar web Site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by FineStar.

FINESTAR AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THIS SERVER FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FINESTAR AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE FineStar WEB SITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. FINESTAR AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.

FineStar provides certain content relating to printer and copier, repair, maintenance (“Articles”), on the FineStar or apps, and via mobile applications owned and operated by FineStar. Such Articles are provided “As-Is”, without any warranties or representations, and you assume all liability and responsibility for your use of such Articles. You understand and agree that the Articles do not provide advice, and that such Articles are no substitute for the advice of a professional.

Links to Third Party Sites

The links in the FineStar or apps will let you leave FineStar’s Web site. The linked sites are not under the control of FineStar and FineStar is not responsible for the contents or functionality of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. Your use of such third party linked sites is governed by the terms and conditions, and privacy policies, of such linked sites. FineStar is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. FineStar is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by FineStar of the site.

Indemnification

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY FINESTAR, AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CO-BRANDERS, AND OTHER PARTNERS AND HOLD THEM EACH HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR DEMANDS, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE FINESTAR SERVICES, IN CONNECTION WITH THE FINESTAR WEB SITE, WITH REGARD TO ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND A SERVICE PROFESSIONAL, OR YOUR VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OR ARISING FROM YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY.

General Provisions

You acknowledge and agree that the FineStar services are provided to you on an “AS IS” basis without any warranty whatsoever, and your sole and exclusive remedy, and FineStar’s sole obligation to you or any third party for any claim arising out of your use of the FineStar services or the FineStar or apps, is that you are free to discontinue your use of the FineStar services or the FineStar or apps at any time. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, FINESTAR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND YOU AGREE THAT FINESTAR SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL (INCLUDING LOST PROFIT), EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (EVEN IF FINESTAR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY CONSEQUENCES WHICH FLOW FROM IT. SOME STATES AND PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON OR EXCLUSION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IN SUCH STATES AND PROVINCES, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. The Terms and Conditions will inure to the benefit of FineStar’s successors, assigns and licensees. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, for any reason, by any court of competent jurisdiction that provision shall be modified in order to make it enforceable, while maintaining the spirit of the provision. Alternatively, if modification is not possible, such provision shall be stricken and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms. The failure of FineStar to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. 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 the FineStar services or the Terms and Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms and Conditions are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the State of New York as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely in the State of New York and between New York residents. You agree to submit to jurisdiction in New York and that any claim arising out of or related to these Terms and Conditions will be brought solely in a court in Queens County, New York. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and FineStar and supersede all oral and written negotiations or representations of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. These Terms and Conditions may not be modified or amended other than by an agreement signed by both parties.

 

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