Term and Conditions
- These terms and conditions apply to the IGA Gem Appraisal Web site located at www.Igagemappraisal.com. BY VISITING AND/OR USING THIS SITE IN ANY WAY, SUCH AS BROWSING PRODUCTS OR PLACING AN ORDER, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Please read these Conditions carefully. If you do not wish to be bound by these Conditions, do not access or use the IGA Gem Appraisal Site.
- IGA Gem Appraisal may, at its sole discretion, revise or add new terms to these Conditions from time to time without notice to you. Such revisions and additions shall be deemed effective immediately upon notice, which IGA Gem Appraisal may give by any means, including, without limitation, by posting the revised Conditions on the IGA Gem Appraisal Site. You are responsible for reviewing the IGA Gem Appraisal Site for any modifications to these Conditions that may affect your rights or obligations. Any change or modification will be effective immediately upon posting of the revisions on the Site. Any access or use by you of the IGA Gem Appraisal Site after changes to these Conditions will constitute your acceptance of the revised terms. If you do not agree to the amended terms, you must stop using the Site.
- The Site and all content and other materials, including, without limitation, text, icons, graphics, logos, images, designs, pictures, selection, coordination, "look and feel", information, data, sound files, and other files and software is the proprietary property of IGA Gem Appraisal or its affiliates, licensors or users and is protected by United States and international trade dress, copyright laws, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws. Copyright in the documents and material on the IGA Gem Appraisal Site is owned by or licensed to IGA Gem Appraisal. You are authorized to use this material only for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may download, print, and store copies of this material for your own personal, non-commercial use. Nothing contained on the IGA Gem Appraisal Site should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark or service mark displayed on the IGA Gem Appraisal Site without the written permission of IGA Gem Appraisal or any third party that may own such trademarks or service marks. IGA Gem Appraisal will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.
- IGA Gem Appraisal, the IGA Gem Appraisal logos, and any other product or service name or slogan contained in our Site are trademarks of IGA Gem Appraisal and/or its licensors, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of IGA Gem Appraisal or the applicable trademark holder. You may not use any metatags or any other "hidden text" utilizing "IGA Gem Appraisal" or any other name, trademark or product or service name of IGA Gem Appraisal without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and IGA Gem Appraisal names or logos mentioned in our Site are the property of their respective owners.
- You are granted a personal, limited, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Site and electronically copy, (except where prohibited without a license) and print to hard copy portions of the Site materials for your informational, non-commercial and personal use only. Such license is subject to these Conditions and does not include: (a) any resale or commercial use of our Site or the Site materials therein; (b) the collection and use of any product listings, pictures or descriptions for commercial purposes; (c) the distribution, public performance or public display of any Site materials, (d) modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of our Site and the Site materials, or any portion thereof; (e) use of any automated means to access, monitor or interact with any portion of our Site, including through data mining, robots, spiders, scraping, or similar data gathering or extraction methods; (f) downloading (other than the page caching) of any portion of our Site, the Site materials or any information contained therein, except as expressly permitted on our Site; (g) cause to appear any pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, banners, advertisement, or anything else which minimizes, covers, or frames or inhibits the full display of our Site; (h) use our web sites in any way which interferes with the normal operation of our sites; or (i) any use of our Site or the Site materials other than for its intended purpose. Any use of our Site or the Site materials other than as specifically authorized herein, without the prior written permission of IGA Gem Appraisal, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws, including without limitation copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Conditions shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or otherwise. This license is revocable at any time.
- IGA Gem Appraisal is committed to providing current and accurate information on our web sites, email, chat, and telephone communications. We do not, however, warrant that this information is always correct, accurate or complete. In rare circumstances, data, including prices, may be inaccurately displayed on our Site due to system and typographical errors which may occur. Inadvertent errors or inaccurate advertised prices are not binding on IGA Gem Appraisal, and may be adjusted by IGA Gem Appraisal at any time. Information that we communicate is not a binding contract, and should not be treated as such. The sole remedy of a customer acting on incorrect information is to request a cancellation of the order placed as a result of this incorrect information.
- All representations including representations regarding gemstone origin, recycled content of precious metals, and estate information, are provided to the best of IGA Gem Appraisal’s knowledge and without guarantee or warranty of any kind and IGA assumes no responsibility and no action may be taken from any appraisals or documents obtained from us.
- When you access or use the IGA Gem Appraisal website or your personalized IGA Gem Appraisal account, you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and for restricting access to your computer. You are further responsible for all activities that occur under your personal account and your password. If you are under the age of 18 years old, you may use igagemappraisal.com only under the guidance and direction of a parent or guardian. Please note that IGA Gem Appraisal reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content or cancel orders.
- Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to this site and for information on how IGA Gem Appraisal collects, uses and discloses personally identifiable information from its customers. IGA Gem Appraisal does reserve the right to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect IGA Gem Appraisal’s systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of IGA Gem Appraisal’s business and systems, and as such, IGA Gem Appraisal may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile information (i.e. name, e-mail address, etc.), IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted User Content (as defined herein). IGA Gem Appraisal’s right to disclose any such information shall govern over any terms of IGA Gem Appraisal’s Privacy Policy. Repeat Infringer Policy
- In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable law, IGA Gem Appraisal has the sole discretion to terminate and bar specific website users or IGA Gem Appraisal account holders who under appropriate circumstances are determined to be repeat infringers. IGA Gem Appraisal further reserves the right to limit access to this website and/or terminate the account of any users whom IGA Gem Appraisal reasonably suspects to have infringed any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement. Advertisements and Promotions
- IGA Gem Appraisal may run advertisements and promotions from third parties on our website. These advertisements and promotions are conducted under the direction of the third party and IGA Gem Appraisal is not responsible or liable for any loss, damage or liability incurred by you as a result of any dealings with the third party provider or resulting from the presence of these unaffiliated third parties on our website. Any business transactions, correspondence with, participation in the promotions of, advertisers other than IGA Gem Appraisal and any terms, conditions, warranties, or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party. Feedback and Submissions
- You acknowledge and agree that any feedback or submissions, including but not limited to questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, plans, notes, drawings, original or creative materials or other information, regarding this website, IGA Gem Appraisal, or the IGA Gem Appraisal products or services that are provided by you to IGA Gem Appraisal in any form are not confidential and upon submission, shall become the sole property of IGA Gem Appraisal. IGA Gem Appraisal shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights to said feedback and submissions, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of the feedback and submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. You grant IGA Gem Appraisal and its sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they so choose. You represent and warrant that (a) you own and control all of the rights to the content that you submit, or that you otherwise have the right to submit such content to this site; (b) the content is accurate and not misleading; and (c) use and posting of the content you supply will not and does not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. Social Media User Content
- At times, IGA Gem Appraisal may reach out to social media users to seek their permission to feature our favorite content on our Site, social channels, or in promotional materials. IGA Gem Appraisal may request permission from you to use your social media User Content consisting of photos, text, graphics, audio, video, comments and other materials from social media sites, in connection with IGA Gem Appraisal’s business, product features, marketing, promotional, advertising and other consumer-related activities. When you respond to a request for permission to use your social media User Content, you are granting IGA Gem Appraisal and its related agents, licensees, sublicensees, contractors, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and third-party service providers, and their respective retail partners, marketing or public relations agencies, and other affiliates (the “Licensed Parties”) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable right to use your social media User Content in any manner to be determined in the Licensed Parties’ sole discretion, including but not limited to on webpages and social media pages operated by the Licensed Parties, in promotional e-mails and advertisements, and in any and all other marketing, promotional and advertising initiatives, and in any media now or hereafter known. The Licensed Parties may use, display, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works from, combine with other materials, alter and/or edit your social media User Content in any manner in their sole discretion, with no obligation to you whatsoever. You are also granting the Licensed Parties the right to use your username, real name, image, likeness, descriptions of you, location or other identifying information, including but not limited to your voice, in connection with any use of your social media User Content. You are also agreeing, representing and warranting that (i) you are solely responsible for your social media User Content, (ii) you own all rights in and to your social media User Content and/or have obtained appropriate rights and permissions from any and all other persons and/or entities who own, manage or otherwise claim any rights with respect to such social medial User Content, (iii) you are not a minor, (iv) the Licensed Parties’ use of your social media User Content as described herein will not violate the rights, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity, moral, proprietary or other rights, of any third party, or any law, rule or regulation, and (v) the social media User Content is not libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, indecent, threatening, harassing, hateful, or offensive or otherwise unlawful.. Disclaimer of Warranties
- This site, the content contained therein and the products provided in connection therewith (the "products") are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. IGA Gem Appraisal makes no representations or warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, as to the operation of this site or the information, content, materials or products included on it. you expressly agree that your use of this site is at your sole risk, by your own free will, and that you are solely responsible for any consequences arising from this use. without limiting the foregoing, IGA Gem Appraisal disclaims all warranties, whether expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement as to the information, content, and materials on the site. IGA Gem Appraisal, does not warrant that this site, its servers, or its electronic communication are accurate, reliable, complete, current or free of viruses or other harmful components. Limitation of Liability
- In no event shall IGA Gem Appraisal, its directors, members, employees, affiliates, or agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the IGA Gem Appraisal products be liable to you or any third party for damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive and consequential damages or other damages of any kind, including but not limited to loss of use, loss of profits, or loss of data, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, including negligence, arising out of or in any way connected with or resulting from the use of our site, the products, the services or the content contained in or accessed through the IGA Gem Appraisal site, or that results from the reliance by user on any information obtained from IGA Gem Appraisal, including any error or omission regarding listed diamond origin, any mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files or emails, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission or any failure of performance of the IGA Gem Appraisal site, whether or not resulting from acts of god, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to IGA Gem Appraisal’s programs or services, even if IGA Gem Appraisal is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages, or even if the loss, damage or expense was caused by IGA Gem Appraisal, its directors, members, employees, affiliates or agents. in no event shall IGA Gem Appraisal's liability be greater than the price you paid for the product or service that is the basis for the claim. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. It is your responsibility to check local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusions of implied warranties Indemnification
- You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless IGA Gem Appraisal, its independent contractors, service providers and consultants, and its parents, affiliates, and related entities and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims, losses, damages, liabilities, expenses and costs (including without limitation reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs), arising out of or relating to your breach of these Conditions or your access to or use of the IGA Gem Appraisal Site or inability to use the Site, including without limitation any actual or threatened suit, demand or claim made against IGA Gem Appraisal and/or its independent contractors, service providers, employees, directors or consultants, arising out of or relating to the Content, your conduct, your violation of these Terms and Conditions or your violation of the rights of any third party. Termination
- Notwithstanding any of these Conditions, IGA Gem Appraisal reserves the right, without notice and in its sole discretion, to terminate your license to use this site, and to block or prevent future your access to and use of the Site. Arbitration
- These Conditions and your use of this Site shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without resort to its conflict of law provisions. You agree that any action at law or in equity or any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Conditions or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or the use of the Site or purchases from the Site thereof, (collectively, “Claims”) shall be resolved by binding arbitration, as described below, instead of in court, except that each party retains the right to bring an individual action in small claims court. You further agree that arbitration must be on an individual basis and that you are hereby waiving your right to join or consolidate Claims in arbitration or arbitrate any claims as a representative or member of a purported class. You acknowledge and agree that you are waiving the right to a trial by jury. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Conditions, as well as any other contractual agreement that you have with the Company. Questions
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