The Hometrax Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern our relationship with users of the Hometrax Web site and associated Hometrax services. The Terms derive from Hometrax’s principles of respectful online community and productive services. Your use of the Hometrax site and services constitutes your acceptance of the Terms, which are stated below. The Terms may be modified periodically by posting a revised version of these terms on the Hometrax Web site. The Terms were last updated on 11/20/09.
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2. Using Hometrax
When you register with Hometrax, you must choose your own user name and password.
You agree that you will refrain from using the site for purposes other than the site’s stated use, which is to create community and services for homeowners that relate to home buying and selling, maintenance, insurance, building services, and the creation and strengthening of community through events listings, groups, service provider business tools, etc. When you use Hometrax to review a service provider, you will abide by the stated guidelines, including respectful and factually accurate commentary and ratings. When you participate in groups through bulletin boards and other posting vehicles, or events, you agree that you will not use profanity, you will be respectful of other members in your language and behavior, and you will not divulge personal or confidential information about any other person or business. Failure to comply with these guidelines may result in action by Hometrax, including but not limited to being banned from site use.
In using Hometrax site, you verify that you are at least 18 years old.
3. Hometrax Services and Service Providers
Hometrax is commitred to making your Hometrax experience a positive one. Service proviers who are listed on Hometrax are not prescreened, vetted or periodically reviewed by Hometrax. Hometrax does not check Service Provider information to ensure that it is accurate when entered or at any time thereafter, nor does Hometrax check Service Provider licenses to make sure they are legitimate or current. Hometrax does not verify that Service Providers are registered businesses. Hometrax does not check Service Providers for sex offender status, identity (social security, reverse phone look-up) verification, or legal judgements. Hometrax does not guarantee that service professionals meeting your specific needs will be available through Hometrax. Hometrax makes no guarantees or representations about the credentials, skills or quality of the job a service professional may provide if you choose to hire them. Hometrax does not endorse or recommend any particular service provider. Hometrax is not responsible for any service requested by you from a service provider. Any agreement you enter into with a service provider is explicitly and solely between you and the service provider; it is up to you to determine whether stated credentials and skills are valid. Hometrax recommends that you verify a service provider’s license, credentials and reputation before engaging them for a project. Specifically, Hometrax recommends that you ask a service provider for a copy of its license. The service providers are not Hometrax employees or agents; Hometrax is not an employee or agent of the service providers. There is no contractual or implied relationship between Hometrax and any given service provider relating to the performance of work for customers. Hometrax does not guarantee that service providers are insured or bonded. Your rights in your service provider relationship are governed by the terms of your service provider contract and applicable laws. If you have a dispute with a service provider that is in any way connected with Hometrax you hereby release Hometrax from all damages and claims of every kind. Hometrax does not guarantee work done by a Service Provider listed on Hometrax.
4. Service Provider Profiles and Reviews
Service Providers are invited by Hometrax to place a description of themselves and information about their services (as well as contact information) on Hometrax. This information is self-reported. Hometrax does not verify or review this information. You are invited to provide a review of work done for you by a Service Provider, and to read reviews provided by others about Service Providers. Hometrax reserves the right to edit or revise these reviews in any way, and to remove any reviews from the Hometrax site that do not comply with stated guidelines or common sense. The Hometrax guidelines for reviews are as follows:
- Courteous relay of information specifically related to the work done by a Service Provider.
- Factual and not editorial comments.
- No profanity.
- No more than 150 words.
- Service Providers may respond to
At its sole discretion, Hometrax may, but is not required to, remove reviews that contain any of the following as determined by Hometrax:
- Profanity, obscenity, vulgarity, sexually explicit material, hate speech, harassment, offensive language, harmful or abusive language, political references or rhetoric, illegal activity or references to illegal activity, references that are not related to Service Provider work or references that disparage Hometrax, Hometrax members, or Hometrax Service Providers.
Hometrax may hold, delay or otherwise designate a pending status for any review for any reason, including when a review reflects a dispute between a Service Provider and Hometrax member, until the dispute is resolved.
All reviews provided by Hometrax members reflect the opinion of the Hometrax member only and not of Hometrax, its owners or managers, shareholders, investors or employees, or of other Service Providers or members.
5. Your Content and Information
You will be asked to provide personal information on the Hometrax site. If you choose to provide information, you take responsibility for the information’s accuracy and legality. You agree that you will maintain and update the accuracy of the information in a timely way and will respond in a timely way to any inquiries from Hometrax about the accuracy of your information.
You may also be invited by Hometrax to provide content and information when participating in specific services. By doing so, you represent that the content is your original work and / or you own the necessary rights to distribute, post, use, or otherwise make the content available on Hometrax. You guarantee that you are not violating any rights by providing the content or information on Hometrax and you take sole responsibility for any issues that arise from the content or information you have posted on Hometrax; you agree to indemnify, hold harmless and protect Hometrax from any and all claims, liabilities or costs relating to rights violations for content and information you provide.
Hometrax will not sell your personal information. Hometrax will, however, share your information with partners who offer services on Hometrax so that they may better target their communications. By providing your information you are expressly providing permission to Hometrax to share this information with service providers and other partners.
6. Restrictions on Use of Content
This site contains a variety of kinds of content, including but not limited to text, images, trademarks, data and other. This content is available for your use on the site and for related Hometrax activities. By using this site you agree that you will not sell or otherwise commercialize this content. While every effort is made to ensure that the content on the site is safe for use, you assume all risk for engaging in the site and content, and you agree that you are responsible for how you use of the content and for complying with all laws governing the content.
The Hometrax site, including all content, is protected by intellectual property laws. You agree to abide by these laws. Hometrax has the right to terminate you on the site for any infringement of these laws.
Any effort to misuse the Hometrax site, including hacking, phishing, copyright infringement, or posting of illegal or inappropriate material (as defined by Hometrax) will result in immediate action including but not limited to termination from the site.
8. Links to Third Party Sites
Hometrax is not responsible for content, function, safety, privacy or any other aspect of links to third party Web sites that take you off the Hometrax site. These links are provided as a customer service and are not endorsed by, managed by or updated by Hometrax.
9. General
You agree to hold Hometrax harmless from any and all claims relating to use of, employment resulting from, work done in response to or other actions arising from use of the Hometrax site.
You acknowledge and agree that Hometrax services are provided to you on an ‘as is” basis. You may discontinue your use of Hometrax at any time; Hometrax may terminate its relationship with you at any time for any reason, including terminating your use of the Hometrax site.
Hometrax does not imply or guarantee any specific outcome resulting from use of the Hometrax site.
These terms are governed by the laws of the state of Washington. Any issues that arise will be mediated in accordance with those laws.
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