Terms & Conditions
Coffeehits.com is Copyright (C) 2002-2008
The following outlines terms and conditions for use of this web site and
membership of Coffeehits.com. If you do
not agree with these Terms of use, your only recourse is to immediately cease
using this site.
Ownership
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Coffeehits.com is a free service, all software and content on this web site
are Copyright (C) 2002-2008
Termination / Modification
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This agreement may be
modified from time to time, and it is your responsibility to regularly review
this agreement for such updates.
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Coffeehits.com,
reserves the right to modify or terminate this service at any time, and
without notice or liability.
Service Provided "As Is" Without Warranties
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In no event will
Coffeehits.com (or its directors, officers, employees, or affiliates) be
liable to any party for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental or
other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of
this web site.
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The information and
services on this web site are provided "as is" and without warranties as to
performance of, merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or
implied. The user assumes the entire risk of using this web site and the
services provided hereon.
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Any and all claims for products and services
listed on this web site is based on information provided by the manufacturers
of said products and services, or information in the public domain. We do not
necessarily endorse or even verify any such claims.
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Due to the labor-intensive nature of web
development, the frequency of changes in market and business conditions, and
other factors not specified, we do not guarantee nor warrant that all
manufacturer's claims relating to the products and services have been
correctly transcribed to this web site. We therefore disclaim all liability
for accurateness, completeness or the timeliness of the information contained
on this web site, including, but not limited, errors or omissions relating to
human, mechanical, typographical or other errors or omissions.
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Coffeehits.com, owner of this web site,
disclaims all liability for all products or services produced by any person or
entity other than itself.
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Any mentions of, or
promises to increase web site traffic, make money, whether express or implied
are strictly based on the authors' opinions of what is believed to be
possible, with appropriate facilities, funding, management, and expertise in
sales, marketing, writing, general business skills, and any other necessary
skills not listed.
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Coffeehits.com
(or its directors, officers, or employees, or affiliates) does not intend to
render legal, accounting or other professional advice in the documents
contained herein.
Coffeehits.com Membership
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Coffeehits.com
membership is free.
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Membership does not
imply any employment relationship between Coffeehits.com and the member.
Neither does it imply any endorsement of the member's web site or business by
Coffeehits.com
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Coffeehits.com offers membership to all webmasters, who operate web site's in
accordance with our acceptance criteria, and whom we chose to accept.
All member sites must:
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Must primarily based on or around a business topic which is "Coffee &
Tea"
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Must not contain additional Pop Ups or Pop Unders.
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Must not consist purely of banners, or have no content.
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We do not allow sites containing illegal materials, including (but
not limited to) sites which contain, link to, promote or are promoted by:
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Nudity, sexual
themes, profanity, offensive content, etc.
- Gambling,
firearms, or drugs.
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Pyramid schemes,
chain letters, etc.
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Hate material or
gross violence, etc.
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Spam e-mail or
newsgroups postings, etc.
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Illegal materials,
materials that violate copyrights, etc.
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ROMs, illegal
downloads, MP3, emulators, etc.
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Right Of Refusal:
Coffeehits.com may refuse membership to any person or entity, at its sole
discretion and without giving reasons.
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Multiple Account Rules:
A person possessing more than one web site may sign up for 1 account per web
site, provided all sites are fully in compliance with these terms &
conditions, and are totally separate from one another.
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Members are required to
give and maintain a valid e-mail contact address in all their accounts, at all
times.
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Members
agree to receive e-mail updates from Coffeehits.com for the duration of
their membership.
Such updates may include, but are not limited to, statistical
information on their use of the service, additional marketing offers and news,
etc.
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Coffeehits.com
may include traffic sent to this site by members in aggregate statistics.
Furthermore, member grants Coffeehits.com a royalty-free license to mention,
highlight, or link to publicly accessible areas of the member's web site(s)
without charge, in both online and offline publications, press releases, etc.
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Coffeehits.com may terminate a person's or entity's membership at any time, and
without necessarily giving notice or reasons.
Member Responsibilities
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Members agree to
indemnify and hold harmless Coffeehits.com (and its directors, officers,
employees or
affiliates) for
their use of this service, and the content of their web site.
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Members agree to place
the Coffeehits.com "html code", unaltered, on their web site. They may place
the code on as many pages as desired of the same web site provided all pages
are in full compliance with our acceptance criteria. They may not place the
code on additional web sites without the specific written authorization
of Coffeehits.com.
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No Artificially
Generated/Inflated Traffic:
Members "earn" traffic to their web site based on the number of visitors to
the "html code". Members may not artificially inflate such traffic
counts by using robots,
hitbots,
automated agents, software, scripts, traffic generating services,
popup pages, popunder pages, bulk email, spam/opt-in, etc. The only acceptable way
to earn credits for visitors to their web site is from real people visiting
their web site on there own good will, using web-browser software, and from the unaltered "html code"
being displayed by said web-browser software.
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No Spam/Unsolicited/Opt-in
Email:
In no event may members use
Newsgroup/Usenet postings, unsolicited "spam", Opt-in e-mail to promote their
referral link "html code".
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No
use of "Traffic
Generating Services".
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the event that member's violation of this agreement causes downtime, reduction
in Coffeehits.com service availability, or inaccessibility of this or any
other Coffeehits.com web site, or in the event that a member is found to be
artificially generating traffic, or in the event that a member is found to be
using any of the above mentioned tactics, the member agrees to pay penalty
charges to Coffeehits.com.
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This provision specifically includes downtime, use of bandwidth, reduction of service
availability, or inaccessibility caused by the actions of a third party
(e.g. hosting provider or ISP) which are triggered as a direct or indirect
result of a member's violation of this agreement.
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Compensation to Coffeehits.com will be calculated at the rate of US $1,000,
plus (for each Coffeehits.com site) US $100 per hour (or part thereof) of
downtime, service reduction or service inaccessibility, plus $50 per
Gigabyte (or part thereof) of bandwidth used by artificially generated
traffic, plus $5 per spam e-mail sent by the member, plus $100 per newsgroup
posted to by the member. In the event that some of these values are not
readily or easily quantifiable, Coffeehits.com will provide reasonable
estimates of such values.
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Furthermore the member agrees to pay any and all costs, damages, losses,
etc., incurred by third parties which occur as a direct or indirect result
of the member's violation of this agreement.
The member's liability for
such charges and costs, as specified above, shall survive the termination of
their membership, this agreement, and even the termination of the Coffeehits.com
service.
Tracking
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Coffeehits.com will be solely responsible for tracking all traffic, etc., and numbers
produced by Coffeehits.com are not subject to dispute.
Interpretation & Governing Law
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This agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of United
States of America.
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