TERMS OF SERVICE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND FMDINING.COM
The network of Web Sites (collectively, the
"FMDINING.com Web Sites") operated
by Summit Marketing Associates or its affiliates
or subsidiaries ("FMDINING.com "
,) is comprised of various Web sites and Web
pages. The FMDINING.com Web Sites are offered
to you conditioned on your acceptance without
modification of the terms, conditions, and
notices contained herein. Your use of the
FMDINING.com Web Sites constitutes your agreement
to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
Your use of a particular FMDINING.com website
included within the FMDINING.com Web Sites
network may also be subject to additional
terms outlined elsewhere on that website.
Additionally, the FMDINING.com Web Sites may
themselves contain additional terms that govern
particular features or offers (for example,
sweepstakes or chat areas). In the event that
any of the terms, conditions, and notices
contained herein conflict with the Additional
Terms or other terms and guidelines contained
within any particular FMDINING.com website,
then these terms shall control.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE AND
DISCLAIMERS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB
SITE (this "Site"). By accessing
or using this Site, you agree to these terms
of use, conditions and all applicable laws.
If you do not agree to these terms you may
not use this Site.
MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE.
FMDINING.com reserves the right to change
the terms, conditions, and notices under which
the FMDINING.com Web Sites are offered, including
but not limited to the charges associated
with the use of the FMDINING.com Web Sites.
You are responsible for regularly reviewing
these terms and conditions.
USE OF SITE. PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE
LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the FMDINING.com
Web Sites are for your personal and noncommercial
use. You may not modify, copy, distribute,
transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish,
license, create derivative works from, transfer,
or sell any information, software, products
or services obtained from the FMDINING.com
Web Sites.
You may display and, subject to any expressly
stated restrictions or limitations relating
to specific material, electronically copy,
download and print hard copy portions of the
material from the different areas of the Site
solely for your own noncommercial use, or
to place an order with FMDINING.com or to
purchase FMDINING.com products. Any other
use of materials on this Site, including but
not limited to the modification, reproduction,
distribution, republication, display or transmission
of the content of this Site, without prior
written permission of FMDINING.com is strictly
prohibited.
Harassment in any manner or form on the Site
or any of the FMDINING.com Websites, including
via e-mail and chat or by obscene or abusive
language is strictly forbidden. Impersonation
of others, including an FMDINING.com employee,
host, or representative or 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, or which may constitute
or encourage a criminal offense, violate the
rights of any party or 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.
COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS.
The entire content included in this Site,
including but not limited to text, design,
graphics, interfaces, or code and the selection
and arrangements thereof is copyrighted as
a collective work under the United States
and other copyright laws, and is the property
of FMDINING.com. The collective work includes
works that are licensed to FMDINING.com. Copyright
2007, 2008. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All trademarks,
service marks, and trade names (collectively
the "Marks") are trademarks or registered
trademarks of and are proprietary to FMDINING.com,
or other respective owners that have granted
FMDINING.com the right and license to use
such Marks.
NOTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code,
Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed
copyright infringement should be sent to the
website's designated agent. ALL INQUIRIES
NOT RELEVANT TO OR NOT COMPLYING WITH THE
FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL RECEIVE NO RESPONSE.
FMDINING.com respects the intellectual property
of others, and we ask our users and visitors
to do the same. FMDINING.com will process
and investigate notices of alleged infringement
and will take appropriate actions under the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA")
and other applicable intellectual property
laws. Upon receipt of notices complying with
the DMCA, FMDINING.com will act to remove
or disable access to any material found to
be infringing or found to be the subject of
infringing activity and will act to remove
or disable access to any reference or link
to material or activity that is found to be
infringing.
If you believe that your work has been copied
in a way that constitutes copyright infringement,
please provide FMDINING.com the following
information. Please be advised that to be
effective, the Notification must include ALL
of the following:
1. A physical or electronic signature of the
person authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of an exclusive copyright that is allegedly
infringed;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that
you claim has been infringed;
3. A description of where the material that
you claim is infringing is located on the
Site;
4. Your address, telephone number, and email
address and all other information reasonably
sufficient to permit FMDINING.com to contact
you;
5. A statement by you that you have a good
faith belief that the disputed use is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent,
or the law;
6. 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 behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed.
Notices of claimed copyright infringement
should be directed to:
By mail: FMDINING.com
Legal Division
Copyright Agent
P O Box 10072
Fargo, ND 58106
By Email: contact@fmdining.com
(Please include "Notice of Infringement"
in the subject line.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: THE PRECEDING INFORMATION
IS PROVIDED EXCLUSIVELY FOR NOTIFYING FMDINING.COMTHAT
YOUR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN INFRINGED.
ALL OTHER INQUIRIES, SUCH AS PRODUCT OR SERVICE
RELATED QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS, OR QUESTIONS
ON PRIVACY, WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE THROUGH
THIS PROCESS.
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.
In the event a FMDINING.com product or service
is listed at an incorrect price due to typographical
error or error in pricing information received
from our suppliers, FMDINING.com shall have
the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed
for product or service listed at the incorrect
price. FMDINING.com shall have the right to
refuse or cancel any such orders whether or
not the order has been confirmed and your
credit card charged. If your credit card has
already been charged for the purchase and
your order is canceled, FMDINING.com shall
issue a credit to your credit card account
in the amount of the incorrect price.
TERM; TERMINATION.
These terms and conditions are applicable
to you upon your accessing the Site and/or
completing the registration or shopping process.
These terms and conditions, or any of them,
may be modified or terminated by FMDINING.com
without notice at any time for any reason.
The provisions relating to Copyrights and
Trademarks, Disclaimer, Claims, Limitation
of Liability, Indemnification, Applicable
Laws, Arbitration and General, shall survive
any termination.
USER PARTICIPATION.
FMDINING.com does not and cannot review all
communications and materials posted to or
created by users accessing the Site 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 distribute user generated
content on the Site, FMDINING.com 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, FMDINING.com 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) violates any law or
regulation or (e) offensive or otherwise unacceptable
to FMDINING.com at its sole discretion. Note
that any personally identifiable information
you may post or transmit will be treated by
FMDINING.com in accordance with FMDINING.com
's Privacy Statement.
USER SUBMISSIONS.
Except for any personally identifiable information
we may collect from you under the guidelines
established in our Privacy Statement, any
material, information or other communication
you transmit, upload or post to this Site
("Communications")will be considered
non-confidential and non-proprietary. FMDINING.com
will have no obligations with respect to the
Communications. FMDINING.com and its designees
will be free to copy, disclose, distribute,
incorporate and otherwise use the Communications
and all data, images, sounds, text, and other
things embodied therein for any and all commercial
or noncommercial purposes.
USER CHAT ROOMS.
FMDINING.com may, but is not obligated to,
monitor or review any areas on the Site where
users transmit or post Communications or communicate
solely with each other, including but not
limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or
other user forums, and the content of any
such Communications. FMDINING.com, however,
will have no liability related to the content
of any such Communications, whether or not
arising under the laws of copyright, trademarks,
libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS.
In an attempt to provide increased value to
our visitors, this Site may contain links
to other sites on the Internet that are owned
and operated by third party vendors and other
third parties (the "External Sites").
However, even if the third party is affiliated
with FMDINING.com, FMDINING.com has no control
over these linked sites, all of which have
separate privacy and data collection practices,
independent of FMDINING.com. FMDINING.com
has no responsibility or liability for these
independent policies or actions and is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such web sites. These linked sites
are only for your convenience and therefore
you access them at your own risk. Links do
not imply that FMDINING.com sponsors, endorses,
is affiliated with or associated with, or
has been legally authorized to use any trademark,
trade name, service mark, design, logo, symbol
or other copyrighted materials displayed on
or accessible through such External Sites.
Nonetheless, FMDINING.com seeks to protect
the integrity of its 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).You should contact the
Site administrator or Webmaster for those
External Sites if you have any concerns regarding
such links or the content located on such
External Sites.
CLAIMS.
Each claim or statement about the effectiveness
of FMDINING.com products and/or each claim
or statement comparing the effectiveness of
FMDINING.com products to the effectiveness
of other products is expressly limited to
the United States, unless otherwise disclosed
on the Site.
DISCLAIMER.
FMDINING.com makes no warranties or representations
about the accuracy or completeness of this
Site's content or the content of any site
or External Sites.
FMDINING.com does not filter advertisements
or other content that children may view through
our sites or "hot-linked" sites,
and they could receive content and materials
from the Internet and/or advertising that
are inappropriate for children. We encourage
parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children and to consider using
an electronic filtering software.
THIS SITE AND THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION,
SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS IN THIS SITE, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS,
ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE
PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, FMDINING.com DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER
VIRUS, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE
OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. FMDINING.com
DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS
CONTAINED IN THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED,
OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES
THE SITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR
OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. FMDINING.com DOES
NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS
SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS,
ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS,
RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
IN NO EVENT SHALL FMDINING.com BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL,
EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL, DAMAGES, OR ANY
DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, EVEN IF FMDINING.com HAS
BEEN PREVIOUSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION UNDER
CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE,
INABILITY TO USE, OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION,
SERVICES, PRODUCTS, AND MATERIALS AVAILABLE
FROM THIS SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE
OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED
WARRANTY LASTS, OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU.
INDEMNIFICATION.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless
FMDINING.com, its officers, directors, employees,
agents, licensors and suppliers (collectively
the "Provider") 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 Internet account
(including negligent or wrongful conduct),
by you or any other person accessing the Site
using your Internet account.
APPLICABLE LAWS.
Your use of this Site shall be governed in
all respects by the laws of the state of North
Dakota, 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 FMDINING.com products) shall be in the
state or federal courts located in Cass County,
North Dakota. Any cause of action or claim
you may have with respect to the Site (including
but not limited to the purchase of FMDINING.com
products) must be commenced within one (1)
year after the claim or cause of action arises.
FMDINING.com’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.
FMDINING.com may assign its rights and duties
under this Agreement to any party at any time
without notice to you.
FMDINING.com makes no representation that
materials in the Site are appropriate or available
for use in other locations, and access to
them from territories where their content
is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose
to access this Site from locations outside
North Dakota do so on their own initiative
and are responsible for compliance with applicable
local laws. You may not use or export the
materials in violation of U.S. export laws
and regulations. Any claim relating to the
materials shall be governed by the internal
substantive laws of the State of North Dakota.
ARBITRATION.
By using this Site, you agree that FMDINING.com,
at its sole discretion, may require you to
submit any disputes arising from the use of
this Site, or these Terms and Conditions concerning
or, including disputes arising from or concerning
their interpretation, violation, nullity,
invalidity, non-performance or termination,
as well as disputes about filling gaps in
this contract or its adaptation to newly arisen
circumstances, to final and binding arbitration
under the International Rules of Arbitration
of the American Arbitration Association, by
one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance
with the said Rules. Notwithstanding these
rules, however, such proceeding shall be governed
by the laws of the state as set forth in the
previous section.
Any award in an arbitration initiated under
this clause shall be limited to monetary damages
and shall include no injunction or direction
to any party other than the direction to pay
a monetary amount. Further, the arbitrator(s)
shall have no authority to award punitive,
consequential or other damages not measured
by the prevailing party's actual damages in
any arbitration initiated under this section,
except as may be required by statute.
GENERAL.
FMDINING.com may revise these Terms at any
time by updating this posting. You should
visit this page from time to time to review
the then-current Terms because they are binding
on you. Certain provisions of these Terms
may be superseded by expressly designated
legal notices or terms located on particular
pages at this Site.
OUR ADDRESS.
FMDINING.com
P O Box 10072
Fargo, ND 58106
United States
Please note that FMDINING.com does business
only in the State of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Last updated: December 1, 2007