Terms of Service
1. Agreement to Terms of Use
- Welcome to the stockpotcuisine.com website (the “Site”). Stockpot Cuisine (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) provides a service offering bespoke chef services (collectively, including all features, functionality and content of the Site, the “Services”).
- These Terms of Use (the “Agreement”), which include our Privacy Policy, govern the legally binding terms for your use of the Services. Certain features of the Services or Site may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules, which will be communicated as part of the Services in connection with such features. All such additional guidelines, terms and rules are incorporated by reference into this Agreement.
- By using, visiting, or browsing the Site or Services, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, so please read this Agreement carefully before using the Site or Services. If you do not accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you should not use the Site or Services.
- You must be 18 years of age or older to use the Site or Services or to accept this Agreement.
2. Changes to Terms of Use
- We reserve the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms of Use, including the Privacy Policy, in our sole and absolute discretion. The most current version of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy can be reviewed by visiting our website and clicking on the appropriate link. The most current version of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will supersede all previous versions. Continued use of our Site or Services following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
3. Privacy
- Any personally identifying information submitted through the Site is subject to our Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated herein. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices. By using the Service, you are consenting to receive certain communications from us. For example, we may send you newsletters about new features, special offers, promotional announcements and customer surveys via email or other methods. If you no longer want to receive certain non-transactional communications from us, simply use your account name and password to access the "Email preferences" link on the "Preferences" page and uncheck those items to unsubscribe or click on the unsubscribe link in our email communications. Please review our Privacy Policy for further detail on our marketing communications. You can also find the unsubscribe instructions there.
- By using the Site, you consent to receiving electronic communications from us. These communications will include notices about your account (e.g., change in password or Payment Method, confirmation e-mails and other transactional information) and information concerning or related to the Service. These communications are part of your relationship with us and you receive them as part of your subscription. You agree that any notice, agreements, disclosure or other communications that we send to you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that such communications be in writing.
4. Use of the Site, Intellectual Property
- 4.1 License
- Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to use the Site and Services for your personal and non-commercial use. Any breach of this Agreement will result in the immediate revocation of the license granted in this paragraph without notice to you.
- Except for the foregoing limited license, no right, title or interest shall transfer to you. You may not reproduce, display, transmit, license, lease, rent, sell, transfer, assign, distribute, create derivative work from, translate, modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise exploit the Site or Services or any portion of them unless expressly permitted by us in writing. You may not make any commercial use of any of the information provided on the Site or make any use of the Site for the benefit of another business unless explicitly permitted by us in advance. Any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Site or Services shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement. We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, and/or cancel orders at our discretion, including, without limitation, if we believe that a customer conduct violates applicable law or is harmful to our interests.
- You acknowledge that all copyrights, patents, trademarks, and any other intellectual property rights contained within the Site and/or Services are owned by us or our agents. Our provision of the Site and delivery of the Service to you does in no way transfer to you, or any third party, any rights, title or interest in or to these intellectual property rights. We and our agents reserve all rights not granted in this Agreement.
- 4.2 Support
- You acknowledge that we have no responsibility to provide you with any support in relation to the Site or Services.
- 4.3 Ongoing Changes to the Site; Service
- From time to time, we test various aspects of the Service, including the Site, user interfaces, service levels, plans, promotions, features, delivery, and pricing, and we reserve the right to include you in or exclude you from these tests without notice.
- Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that the Site and Services will meet your requirements and we cannot guarantee that the Service will be fault free. If a fault occurs in the Service, please report it to us (see below for contact details) and we will correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can.
- Your access to the Site may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will restore the Service as soon as we reasonably can. In the event that the Site is unavailable, our usual correspondence methods apply.
5. Third Party Sites and Ads
From time to time the Site may include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse, approve, monitor or review these websites. We have no responsibility for the content of the linked websites.
- You use all external links at your own risk. Once you have used these links to leave our site we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by our privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
6. User Material and Feedback
6.1 User Material
- “User Material” refers to all information and content that a user submits or enters to the Site or Service (including text, files, images, photos, video, sounds and musical or literary works). You are solely responsible for your User Material and assume all risks associated with use of your User Material. We do not systematically review User Material submitted by users of this website and are not responsible for the content of User Material. We do not necessarily endorse any opinion contained in such material and we make no warranties or representations, express or implied, about User Material, including as to its legality or accuracy. We disclaim all liability in connection with User Material to the extent permitted by law. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to refuse to post or to remove or edit any of your User Material, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of this website, particularly where User Material breaches these Terms of Use and we may do this with or without giving you any prior notice. Each time you submit User Material to us, you represent and warrant to us as follows: (a) you own your User Material or have the right to submit it, and in submitting it you will not be infringing any rights of any third party, including intellectual property rights (including copyright or trademark), privacy or publicity rights, rights of confidentiality or rights under contract; (b) your User Material is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive; does not encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law; and is not otherwise inappropriate; (c) your User Material does not advertise any product or service or solicit any business; (d) your User Material does not identify any individual (including by way or name, address or a still picture or video) under the age of 18 and if User Material identifies any individual over the age of 18, you have that person's consent to being identified in exactly that way in your User Material; and (e) in submitting your User Material you are not impersonating any other person. Please note that we are not obligated to backup any User Material and it may be deleted at any time.
- 6.2 Feedback
- If you provide us with any feedback, suggestions, ideas or information (including in your User Material) regarding the Site or Services (“Feedback”), you agree and acknowledge that you assign all rights in the Feedback to us and that we have the right to use any such Feedback in any way we see fit. Any Feedback you provide to us as will be regarded as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not provide to us any Feedback that you consider to be confidential or proprietary.
7. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold the Company (and its officers, employees, agents and its affiliates, parent company(ies) and their respective officers, employees and agents) harmless from and against any claim, demand, action, proceeding, damage, fine, penalty or loss of any kind, including attorneys’ fees and costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your use of the Site or Services, (b) your User Material, (c) your violation of this Agreement, or (d) your violation of applicable laws or regulations. We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims. You agree not to settle any matter without our prior written consent. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action or proceeding upon becoming aware of it.
8. Right to Terminate
In addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, we may, without prior notice to you, immediately terminate the Agreement or revoke any or all of your rights granted under this Agreement for any or no reason whatsoever. Upon any termination of this Agreement, you shall immediately cease all access to and use of the Site and Services and we shall, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, immediately revoke all password(s) and account identification issued to you and deny your access to and use of the Site and Services in whole or in part. Any termination of this Agreement shall not affect the respective rights and obligations (including without limitation, payment obligations) arising before the date of termination. You understand that any termination of your Account involves deletion of your User Material associated therewith from our live databases. We will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of this Agreement, including for termination of your Account or deletion of your User Material.
9. Governing Law/Venue
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Illinois without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You hereby submit to the jurisdiction of any state or federal court sitting in the State of Michigan and County of Wayne, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, and you further hereby agree that all claims in respect of the action or proceeding may be heard and determined in any such court. You hereby waive any defense of inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any action or proceeding so brought and further waive any bond, surety, or other security that might be required of any party with respect thereto.
10. Disclaimers
The Site its contents and associated Services are provided "as is" and on an "as available" basis and we (and our suppliers) make no representations or warranties, whether express or implied, of any kind with respect to it. We (and our suppliers) assume no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the website, any failures, delays, or interruptions in the shipment of boxes, delivery or downloading of any content contained on the Site, any costs, losses, expenses or damages arising from the use of the content provided on the website or any conduct by users of the website. We (and our suppliers) disclaim all representations and warranties, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy and systems integration. In addition, we do not represent or warrant that the information accessible via the Site is accurate, complete or current.
11. Limitation of Liability
- In no event shall we, including our shareholders, directors, officers, employees or agents, and the Company’s affiliates and parent company(ies), and their respective shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents be liable (jointly or severally), to you or any third party for any special, incidental, exemplary, punitive, indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information. Access to, and use of, the Site and Services are at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data resulting therefrom.
- If any applicable authority holds any portion of this section to be unenforceable, then liability will be limited to the fullest possible extent permitted by applicable law. Our maximum liability to you, arising out of or in connection directly or indirectly with your use of the Site, Site content or our Services shall not exceed in aggregate the total amount paid by you to us in respect of the Services in the month preceding any such claim. The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit. You agree that our agents will have no liability of any kind arising from or relating to this agreement.If we delay exercising or fail to exercise or enforce any right available to us under these Terms of Use, such delay or failure does not constitute a waiver of that right or any other rights under these Terms and of Use. Furthermore, if any provision of this Agreement is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of this Agreement will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
12. Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding these Terms of Use, please contact: Privacy Officer, Stockpot Cuisine, stockpotcuisine@gmail.com, Detroit, Michigan, USA.