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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS SITE ,
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HERE IN AND ALL TERMS
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
These Vetted Biz LLC Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) apply to your access to and use of
the www.vettedbiz.com website and platforms (collectively, the “Site”) and all services
provided by Vetted Biz LLC (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), including without limitation
our business for sale marketplace (“Services”). By accessing or by using our Site or
using our Services, you agree to these Terms, and any terms incorporated by reference.
If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use our Site or Services.
We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. If we make changes,
we will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by providing a notice
through our Site or by updating the Effective Date. Unless we say otherwise in our notice,
the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of our Site
after we provide such notice will confirm your acceptance of the changes.
If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you must stop using our Site or Services.
If you have any questions about these Terms or our Site or Services, please contact us
at info@vettedbiz.com.
For information about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process information about you, please see our Privacy Policy.
Our Services include an online business and franchise advertising, searching, and information service. Company does not broker or sell businesses or franchise opportunities directly and is not a party to any transaction between the business or franchise purchaser and seller. As a result, Company does not (a) guarantee or ensure any business, any franchise opportunity, or any transaction between the seller and purchaser, (b) act as a business broker, franchisor, loan broker, money transmitter, payment manager, debt collector, or credit reporting agency, and does not guarantee any results from using the Services, or (c) broker or sell any businesses or franchise opportunities on the Website.
Our Site may allow you and other users to create, post, store, and share content,
including business and franchise listings, financial data, messages,
comments, stories, text, photos, graphics, videos, music, and other materials
(collectively, “User Content”). Except for the license you grant below,
you retain all rights in and to your User Content, as between you and us.
If you submit any User Content to us, including through the Site,
you grant us and our employees, contractors, service providers, and consultants,
a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, perpetual, irrevocable,
and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display
such User Content, and any name, username or likeness provided in connection
therewith, in all media formats and channels now known or later developed without
compensation to you, in connection with the Site and us, including the right to use
listings and other information submitted to it for publication of all or part of such
listing on the Internet for unrestricted use by Company customers and partners.
Company shall have sole authority to choose the manner in which any listing will be
received, displayed and used by the Services, and reserves the right to remove all or
any part of a listing or refuse Services to anyone at any time in its sole discretion.
Company shall have no obligation to (i) resolve disputes among users of the Services;
or (ii) monitor or verify the accuracy or proper use of the listings.
You may not create, post, store or share any User Content that violates these Terms
or for which you do not have all the rights necessary to grant us the license
described above. You represent and warrant that your User Content, and our use
of such content as permitted by these Terms, will not violate any rights of or
cause injury to any person or entity. Although we have no obligation to screen,
edit or monitor User Content, we may delete or remove User Content at any time
and for any reason with or without notice.
Company is under no obligation to edit or control your User Content or the User Content
of any other User and will not be in any way responsible or liable for any User Content.
You understand that when using the Services, you may be exposed to User Content of
other users and acknowledge that User Content may be inaccurate, offensive, indecent,
or objectionable. You agree to waive, and do waive, any legal or equitable
right or remedy you may have against Company with respect to User Content.
Company expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Content.
If notified by a user or content owner that User Content allegedly does not conform
with these Terms and Conditions of Use, Company may investigate the allegation
and determine in Company’s sole discretion whether to remove the User Content,
which Company reserves the right to do at any time and without notice.
Company utilizes email as a vital and primary communication channel with customers. As a registered user, Customer hereby consents to Company communicating and grants Company permission to communicate with customer via email, SMS, text message, telephone, or other electronic means for any purpose Company determines to be relevant including, but not limited to, system messages, product updates, service announcements and other marketing messages. Your carrier’s normal, messaging, data, and other rates and fees will apply to these circumstances. Company will use commercially reasonable measures to honor Customer’s request to opt out of marketing messages, but in every circumstance Company shall comply with applicable law with respect to such opt-out request and under no circumstances will Company have any liability for sending any email to its registered users/customers. With respect to sharing any personal data with third parties, Company does so in compliance with applicable law.
You will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right or other third-party right or commit a tort in connection with any User Content you post to the Site, and you are solely responsible for your conduct while using our Site. You will not:
You may also post or otherwise share only User Content, if our Site allows User Content, that is non-confidential and that you have all necessary rights to disclose. You may not create, post, store or share any User Content that:
Customer privileges are granted by Company to the registered customer only. Customer user rights cannot be assigned, sublicensed, distributed, shared, viewed, accessed, or otherwise transferred to anyone without the express written permission of Company. Company requires that each registered user maintain a valid email address or Customer ID and a password, which shall be utilized for logging on to the Company system. Customers are not permitted to share their individual logon information with others. Company has the right to refuse service to any customer that refuses to abide by the Terms and Conditions of Use herein or abuses their rights related to the Company Services.
In addition to the provisions of Section 5 , Prohibited Conduct and Content, Customer agrees that all images submitted for publishing represent the business opportunity or category exclusively, and do not include any broker logos, contact information, website addresses, phone numbers, or any overlay text or graphics of any kind. Only one listing on the Company Websites published using the Services is permitted for each business opportunity (e.g., multiple business advertisements within a listing, or multiple listings for the same opportunity, is not permitted), and a listing may not be modified or edited in an attempt to sell a different business entity. Additionally, the Customer agrees to allow the listing, or any part of it, to be searched, displayed, accessed, downloaded, copied, and otherwise referred to by users of the Customer’s website or the Company Website. The Company shall have the sole authority to choose the manner in which any listing will be searched, displayed, accessed, downloaded, copied, and otherwise used on the Website and Company shall have the right to modify the listing in the exercise of its rights under these Terms. Customer (a) represents and warrants that all business and associated information provided by Customer will be accurate, and to the extent applicable, Customer has acquired or obtained all the required licensing, permits and legal authority to market and sell the business(es) in the locations in which it is advertising; (b) agrees that Customer will not permit the posting of a business on the Website under a name other than that of the business owner or the named licensed business agents that have been engaged by the business owner to market the business under the terms of a duly executed, active and exclusive listing agreement with the owner; (c) agrees to administer and maintain the accuracy of listings provided by Customer at all times; (d) shall ensure (and shall require its sales agents, if applicable) to respond to all buyer inquiries relating to the listing (i) within seventy-two (72) business hours and (ii) in a professional and respectful manner; and (e) agrees to provide to prospective buyers, free of cost, the information needed so that such prospective buyers can make a fully informed purchase decision. In addition, Customer agrees not to advertise a business opportunity as an Established Business unless such a business (1) is open and has been continuously operating for a minimum of one year (two years for internet-based businesses), (2) has an established customer base and a material revenue history, and (3) has ability to provide financial history information to qualified buyers. Company reserves the right to remove all or any part of the listings posted on the Company website. Company accepts no responsibility for checking the accuracy of reports or data files submitted by Customer. While Company shall take all reasonable efforts for data backup and business resumption, Customer will be solely responsible for retaining back-up copies of all information, photographs, and other materials it provides to Company.
All information obtained from the Services, including business listings, business broker directory,
valuation reports, and any other information otherwise made available to Customer
in the Services (individually and collectively, the “Content”) is proprietary to
Company and its licensors, and is protected by copyright and other U.S. and international
intellectual property rights, laws and treaties. Customer agrees that Content reserved for
members will be treated as proprietary, maintained as confidential and shall be protected as a
trade secret of Company. Company does not ensure the accuracy of, endorse, or recommend any
Content and Customer uses such Content at the Customer’s own risk. Customer may access the Content
solely to obtain initial information from which further evaluation and investigation may commence.
Customer shall limit access to and use of Content to personal and internal use, and shall not use
Content obtained from the Services for further distribution, publication, public display, or
preparation of derivative works or facilitate any of these activities in any way.
Customer shall not use or reproduce Content obtained from the Services for or in connection
with any other listing service or device. Customer shall not modify, merge, decompile,
disassemble, translate, decode or reverse engineer any portion of the Product, or use any
data mining, gathering or extraction tool, or any robot, spider or other automatic device or
manual process, to monitor or copy any portion of the Services. Customer shall not access or use
any portion of the Services if you are a direct or indirect competitor of Company,
nor shall you provide, disclose or transmit any portion of the Services to any direct or
indirect competitor of Company (by way of example, a “direct or indirect competitor” of Company
includes, but is not limited to, Internet listing services or other business information services
and employees, independent contractors and agents of such services).
CUSTOMERS VIOLATING THESE SPECIFIC TERMS, SPECIFICALLY THOSE CUSTOMERS SEARCHING THE SERVICES IN AN
ABUSIVE OR EXCESSIVE MANNER, BY AUTOMATED OR MANUAL MEANS, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE TERMINATION
OF THEIR MEMBERSHIP AND WILL BE ASSESSED AN EXCESSIVE USE FEE OF $500.
Company reserves the right to terminate a Customer’s account at any time without prior notice. Cause for termination includes, but is not limited to, breaches or violations of the Terms and Conditions of Use, requests by law enforcement, inappropriate, unsuitable, controversial, fraudulent or illegal activity by you, discontinuance or material modification of Company Services, nonpayment of fees owed by you in connection with Company Services, account inactivity or technical or security issues. Upon termination, Company shall have no obligation to maintain or forward any content in your account. In addition, the Company may require additional evidence of compliance with the provisions of these Terms from Customers who are alleged to have submitted businesses or other information in violation of these Terms.
A. Generally. You may be required to pay fees to access certain features of the Services, including if you list a business or purchase buyer leads. All fees are in U.S. dollars and are non-refundable. If Company changes the fees for all or part of the Services, including by adding fees or charges, Company will provide you advance notice of those changes. If you do not accept the changes, Company may discontinue providing the applicable part of the Services to you. Company’s authorized third-party payment processor will charge the payment method you specified at the time of purchase. You authorize Company to charge all fees as described in these Terms and Conditions of Use for the Services you select to that payment method. If you pay any fees with a credit card, Company may seek pre-authorization of your credit card account before your purchase to verify that the credit card is valid and has the necessary funds or credit available to cover your purchase. Completion of a payment transaction is contingent upon:
B. Subscriptions. The Services may include features that allow for automatically recurring payments for periodic charges (“Subscription Service”). If you decide to activate a Subscription Service, you authorize Company to periodically charge, on a going-forward basis and until cancellation of either the recurring payments or your account, all accrued sums on or before the payment due date for the accrued sums. The subscription will continue unless and until you cancel your subscription, or we terminate it. You must cancel your Subscription Service before it renews in order to avoid billing of the next periodic subscription fee to your account. We will bill the periodic subscription fee to the payment method you provide to us during registration (or to a different payment method if you change your payment information). Company may change the subscription fee for any subsequent subscription period but will provide you advance notice of any increase before it applies. Unless otherwise stated in your product-specific agreement, you may cancel a Subscription Service by contacting us at: info@vettedbiz.com or through your settings page for the paid feature.
C. Third Party Obligations. The Company may offer rebates in certain circumstances relating to certain Services. Such rebates shall be remitted by third parties and the Company is not responsible for any of such rebates. Should you elect to engage the Company for such Services provided by the Company that include rebates to be remitted to you by a third party, such third party shall be exclusively responsible for remitting such rebate.
Company offers to send spam (i.e. unsolicited commercial email) or otherwise send content that would violate these Terms and Conditions of Use. Customer may not use the listing contact form to promote products or services to the listing broker or business owner. Company has the right to revoke the privileges of any customer or company that breaches these terms. The email services that Company offers is intended to be used by users for business purposes. Customer has no expectation of privacy in its use of such email services. Customer’s use of the email services constitutes consent to monitoring, retrieval and disclosure to third parties of any information provided within the email service. Customer’s contact information supplied via the email services shall be used by Company in accordance with its Privacy Statement located at https://www.vettedbiz.com.
The Site, including the text, graphics, images, photographs, videos, illustrations, and other content contained therein, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected under both United States and foreign laws. Except as explicitly stated in these Terms, all rights in and to the Site are reserved by us or our licensors. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use our Site for your own personal, noncommercial use. Any use of the Site other than as specifically authorized herein, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited, will terminate the license granted herein and violate our intellectual property rights.
Our logos, our slogans, and the look and feel of the Site are our trademarks and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names or logos mentioned on the Site are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by us.
You may voluntarily post, submit or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, original or creative materials or other information about us or our Site (collectively, “Feedback”). You understand that we may use such Feedback for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you, including, without limitation, to develop, copy, publish, or improve the Feedback in our sole discretion. You understand that we may treat Feedback as non-confidential.
Company shall not be responsible or liable for the payment obligations of any third party to a customer contracting for Services provided by the Company. By contracting for such Services with the Company, including Services in which the Company offers a rebate, you agree to release Company from, hold Company harmless from, and waive any and all claims against Company for the failure of any third party to perform its obligations to you. You further agree that in the event that such third party fails to make any payment to you for Services provided by the Company, your sole remedy under law or equity shall be against such third party, and not the Company.
EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, GOODWILL, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, PUNITIVE DAMAGES CAUSED BY:
THIS PROVISION APPLIES TO ANY CLAIM, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE CLAIM ASSERTED IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY. COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES’ TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES IS LIMITED TO A REFUND TO CUSTOMER OF THE TOTAL FEES PAID TO COMPANY HEREUNDER, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY’S LIABILITY FOR ANY REASON EXCEED SUCH FEE.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, contractors, employees, and agents (individually and collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from:
Certain state laws may not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion of certain damages. Therefore, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions, or limitations may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights.
COMPANY PROVIDES THE SERVICES “AS IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, STATUTORY AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
This website may contain hyperlinks or contact forms that connect you to other websites operated by parties other than Company which are beyond Company’s control. Parties other than Company may provide services or sell product lines on this site that take you outside of Company’s service. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and content partners that may use Company’s logo(s) as part of a co-branding relationship. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement the click may take you off of the Company site. Company does not control, is not responsible for examining or evaluating, and does not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. In addition, you may fill out a form that delivers, at your direction and consent, the information you submit to another site. Company does not assume any liability for the actions, product, or content of any of these and any other third parties. Company makes no representations and cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material on such third-party websites. When you click on a link that leaves the Company site or submit information through a form that is delivered to a third party site, such third party site is not controlled by Company and different terms of use and privacy statements may apply. Company also does not assume, and expressly disclaims, all liability for any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, defects, or other malfunctions caused by, resulting from, existing within, or in connection with such third-party sites and any links thereto.
Company and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others, and Company asks those posting or transmitting any content to or through Company’s services or any associated websites to respect copyright law. It is the policy of Company to restrict and/or terminate in appropriate circumstances the ability to submit content and/or use the services and any associated websites by individuals or entities that repeatedly submit infringing content in violation of these Terms and Conditions of Use. If you believe that your work has been copied and is available on any Company website or Company’s other online services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify Company according to the notice requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and any other applicable law. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 512, Company’s DMCA registered agent can be reached as follows: by mail to Copyright Officer, Corporate Creations, 801 US Highway 1, North Palm Beach, FL 33408; by e-mail to valerie@corpcreations.com; and by telephone at 561-694-8107. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Company that your copyrighted material has been infringed.
Any dispute arising from these Terms and your use of the Site will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, except to the extent preempted by U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of law rules or principles that would cause the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction. Any dispute between the parties will be resolved in the state or federal courts in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
We reserve the right to modify our Site or to suspend or stop providing all or portions of our Site at any time. You also have the right to stop using our Site at any time. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to access or use our Site. All of the provisions of these Terms (excluding our license grants to you) will survive any termination or suspension.
If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
When you register to participate in our Services, you may be required to establish a login identifier and a password. You are responsible for protecting your login and password from unauthorized use, and you are responsible for all activity that occurs on your account (including without limitation financial obligations). You agree to notify us immediately if you believe that your login or password has been or may be used without your permission so that appropriate action can be taken. We are not responsible for losses or damage caused by your failure to safeguard your login and password.
Our Services and Site are available only to, and may only be used by, individuals who are 18 years and older who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Individuals under the age of 18 can use our Site and Services only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. In this case, the adult is the user and is responsible for upholding all Terms. For information on how we protect the privacy of minors who use our Site, please see our Privacy Policy.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Except as otherwise provided herein, these Terms are intended solely for the benefit of the parties and are not intended to confer third-party beneficiary rights upon any other person or entity. You agree that communications and transactions between us may be conducted electronically.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Vetted Biz LLC
www.vettedbiz.com
info@vettedbiz.com
The information in any excel model, calculator, listing page, or found elsewhere is for illustrative purposes only. Your individual results may differ. There is no assurance you will earn as much based on the information or projections that you find. Any financial performance representation does not reflect all costs of sales, operating expenses, or other costs or expenses that must be deducted from the gross revenue or gross sales figures to obtain your net income or profit. You should conduct an independent investigation of the costs and expenses you will incur in operating your franchised business. Franchisees or former franchisees, may be one source for this information. Investing is risky. You may lose everything that you invest. Vetted Biz LLC does not make any financial performance representations or guarantees. We also do not authorize our employees or representatives to make any such representations either orally or in writing.
By accessing or using our platform and any product on it, you acknowledge and agree that its contents are of a strictly private and confidential nature, reserved exclusively for its intended recipients. Except with prior permission and explicit written consent from Vetted Biz LLC, you are strictly prohibited from copying, distributing, reproducing, republishing, downloading, extracting, exploiting, duplicating, adapting, modifying, editing, distributing, or publicly displaying any content, information, or element of this product for non-personal or commercial endeavors, barring any other uses permitted by relevant copyright legislation. Specifically, you consent to utilize the Product solely for personal activities directly related to your franchise and/or small business projections, such as business planning, projecting, fundraising, forecasting, and budgeting exercises. The design, verbiage, illustrations, manifestations, and overall composition of this product are the copyrighted property of Vetted Biz LLC, with all rights reserved. All rights, titles, intellectual assets, and interests in this product belong exclusively to Vetted Biz LLC. Any unauthorized interaction with, or use of, the Product, or any of its components, will be considered an infringement upon the intellectual property rights of Vetted Biz LLC. Vetted Biz LLC retains the right to pursue and enforce its rights to the maximum extent permissible by law, including but not limited to the pursuit of civil and criminal repercussions.