Auctiva Terms of Service

Please read these Terms of Service carefully.

Community Guidelines

Auctiva and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following notices, terms, and conditions. In addition, when you use any Auctiva or affiliate service, you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such service. Auctiva reserves the right to modify these notices, terms, and conditions from time to time. Your use of the Auctiva site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices

Legal Notices

Content Copyright

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, and software, is the property of Auctiva or its content suppliers and protected by US and international copyright laws. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Auctiva and protected by US and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Auctiva or its software suppliers and protected by US and international copyright laws. The content and software on this site may be used as a selling and selling management resource. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the content on this site is strictly prohibited.

Trademarks

Auctiva, eBud, ePoster2000, the ePoster2000 logo, are trademarks of Auctiva, Inc., in the United States and other countries. AuctionPictures.Com, AuctionCounters.Com, and Auctiva are trademarks of Auctiva Corporation. Auctiva's trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Auctiva's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Auctiva. Other trademarks and trade names belong to their respective owners.

Use of Site

This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose that is not expressly permitted by Auctiva. Auctiva and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, and/or cancel orders in its discretion, including, without limitation, if Auctiva believes that customer conduct violates applicable law or is harmful to the interests of Auctiva and its affiliates.

Copyright Infringement

Auctiva and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. Copyright infringement will not be tolerated.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our "Notice and Procedure for making claims of copyright infringement" below.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY AUCTIVA ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. AUCTIVA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, AUCTIVA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AUCTIVA WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

Applicable Law

This site is created and controlled by Auctiva in the State of California, USA. As such, the laws of the State of California will govern these disclaimers, terms, and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. We reserve the right to make changes to our site and these disclaimers, terms, and conditions at any time.

Links to Third Party sites

The Auctiva and affiliate web sites may contain links to other Web Sites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Auctiva and Auctiva is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site.

No unlawful or prohibited use

As a condition of your use of the Auctiva and affiliate web sites, you warrant to Auctiva that you will not use the Auctiva for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Auctiva or affiliate sites in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Auctiva or affiliate web sites. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Auctiva or affiliate sites. Auctiva reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, at Auctiva's sole discretion.

Materials provided to Auctiva or posted at any Auctiva affiliated site

Auctiva and its affiliates do not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Auctiva (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Auctiva or its associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Auctiva, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Auctiva is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time at Auctiva's sole discretion. By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

Software available on the Auctiva or affiliated web site

Software that is made available to download from the Auctiva Web Sites, ("Software") is the copyrighted work of Auctiva, Inc. and/or its suppliers. Your use of the Software is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with the Software ("License Agreement"). You may not install or use any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement unless you first agree to the License Agreement terms. For any Software not accompanied by a license agreement, Auctiva hereby grants to you, the user, a personal, nontransferable license to use the Software for viewing and otherwise using the particular Auctiva Web Site in accordance with these Terms of Use, and for no other purpose provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. All Software is owned by Auctiva and/or its suppliers and is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Any reproduction or redistribution of the Software is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. THE SOFTWARE IS WARRANTED, IF AT ALL, ONLY ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. You acknowledge that the Software, and any accompanying documentation and/or technical information, is subject to applicable export control laws and regulations of the USA. You agree not to export or re-export the Software, directly or indirectly, to any countries that are subject to USA export restrictions.

Fees and payment

Auctiva reserves the right to charge listing fees for certain listings, as well as transaction fees based on certain completed transactions using the Services. Auctiva further reserves the right to alter any and all fees from time to time, without notice.

Notice and procedure for making claims of copyright infringement

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Auctiva's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Auctiva and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed. Contact us at copyright@auctiva.com.

  • An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
  • A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
  • A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site, including the eBay listing ID number/s where the image/s in question are being used, if applicable;
  • Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
  • A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.