Terms And Conditions
BeautifulNow, Inc. (“BeautifulNow,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) welcomes you. We invite you to access and use our online services (the “Services”), which are made available to you through a variety of platforms, including http://beautifulnow.is/ (the “Website”) and through our mobile app, which is accessible through tablets, cell phones, personal digital assistants, connected televisions, and other devices (the “App”). The Website and the App are collectively referred to as the “Platform.”
We provide our Services to Visitors and Registered Users (as defined below) subject to the following Terms of Use, which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. By browsing the public areas, by accessing and using the Services, and/or by entering any contest, promotion, or sweepstakes (collectively, “Contests”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and any applicable contest rules (“Contest Rules”), all of which are hereby incorporated by reference (collectively, this “Agreement”). If you do not agree to any of these terms, then please do not use the Services.
Capitalized terms not defined in these Terms of Use shall have the meaning set forth in our Privacy Policy.
- DESCRIPTION AND USE OF SERVICES
BeautifulNow is an online social marketplace specializing in all things beautiful.
We provide Visitors and Registered Users with access to the Platform as described in this Agreement.
Visitors. Visitors, as the term implies, are people who don’t register with us, but want to view all publicly-accessible content, browse through great products and content, and e-mail us.
Registered Users. Registration and login is required for all Registered User services. Registered Users can do all the things that Visitors can do, and can: (a) create an online journal (a “Journal”) where they can upload content, including text, videos, and photos; designate items in the Journal as public or private; and share the Journal with other Registered Users; (b) participate in our Contests; (c) purchase and pre-order select products and services; (d) post feedback and comments; and (e) and message other Registered Users.
We are under no obligation to accept any individual as a Registered User, and may accept or reject any registration in our sole and complete discretion.
- RESTRICTIONS
The Services are available for individuals aged 13 years or older. If you are 13 or older, but under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you should review this Agreement with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand it.
- COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
BeautifulNow’s community, like any community, functions best when its users follow a few simple rules. By accessing and/or using the Services, you hereby agree to comply with these community rules and that:
- You will not take any action that may undermine the feedback, rating, or voting systems;
- You will not use the Services for any unlawful purpose;
- Registered Users may not use the Services to engage in any commercial activities (other than in connection with purchasing products or services through the Platform), including, without limitation, raising money; advertising or promoting a product, service, or company; or engaging in any pyramid or other multi-tiered marketing scheme, unless such activities are approved by BeautifulNow and occur on our Sponsored Channel on the Platform;
- You will not access or use the Services to collect any market research for a competing business;
- You will not upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any User Content (as defined below) that: o is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, or misinformative; advertises on our Sponsored Channel any illegal services or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by applicable law, including, without limitation, items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by New York law;
- infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any person or entity;
- is threatening, tortious, defamatory, libelous, indecent, obscene, pornographic, invasive of another’s privacy, or promotes violence; or
- discloses any sensitive information about another person, including that person’s e-mail address, postal address, phone number, credit card information, or any similar information;
- We do not post photos with watermarks. Please be advised, if you submit a photo with watermarks, we will crop the watermark out.
- You will not “stalk” or otherwise harass another;
- You will not impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
- You will not cover, obscure, block, or in any way interfere with any advertisements and/or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on the Services;
- You will not take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our technical infrastructure;
- You will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or scrape data from the Platform, except for Internet search engines (e.g., Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g., archive.org) that comply with our robots.
- You will not use any automated device or software that enables the submission of automatic postings on the Platform without human intervention or authorship, including, without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device in connection with bulk postings or for automatic submission of postings at certain times or intervals; and
- You will not interfere with or attempt to interrupt the proper operation of the Services through the use of any virus, device, information collection or transmission mechanism, software or routine, or access or attempt to gain access to any data, files, or passwords related to the Services through hacking, password or data mining, or any other means.
- You can view our Contest Rules and Guidelines here. Please let us know about inappropriate content. If you find something that violates our community guidelines, let us know, and we’ll review it. We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to (a) deny you access to the Platform, or any portion of the Services, without notice; (b) remove any User Content that does not adhere to these guidelines; and (c) immediately stop any contest in case of technical problems or violations of this Agreement.
- SIGN-IN NAME; PASSWORD; UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS
During the registration process for Registered Users, if you do not login through Facebook Connect or Twitter Connect, we will ask you to create an account, which includes a sign-in name (“Sign-In Name”), a password (“Password”), and perhaps certain additional information that will assist in authenticating your identity when you log-in in the future (“Unique Identifiers”). When creating your account, you must provide true, accurate, current, and complete information. Each Sign-In Name and corresponding Password can be used by only one Registered User. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of your Sign-In Name, Password, and Unique Identifiers, as well as for any use, misuse, or communications entered through the Platform using one or more of them. You will promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a Password or Sign-In Name, or change any Unique Identifier. We reserve the right to delete or change your Password, Sign-In Name, or Unique Identifier at any time and for any reason. BeautifulNow will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by any unauthorized use of your account.
- PAYMENT
You agree that BeautifulNow may immediately authorize your credit card (or other approved facility) for payment for any charges incurred under your account.
You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account, and you agree to be personally liable for all charges incurred under your account. Your liability for such charges shall continue after termination of this Agreement.
If you have a question about any BeautifulNow charge on your credit card statement, please follow the instructions found on the Website to contact customer service.
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Platform contains material, such as software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and other material provided by or on behalf of BeautifulNow (collectively referred to as the “Content”). The Content may be owned by us or by third parties. The Content is protected under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content, and you will not use the Content except as permitted under this Agreement. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from us. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content on any copy you make of the Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use or posting of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited.
If you violate any part of this Agreement, your permission to access and/or use the Content and the Platform automatically terminates, and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Content.
The trademarks, service marks, and logos of BeautifulNow (“BeautifulNow Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Platform are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of BeautifulNow. Other company, product, and service names located on the Platform may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (the “Third-Party Trademarks”, and, collectively with BeautifulNow Trademarks, the “Trademarks”). Nothing on the Platform or Services should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Trademarks, without our prior written permission specific for each such use. Use of the Trademarks as part of a link to or from any site is prohibited unless establishment of such a link is approved in advance by us in writing. All goodwill generated from the use of BeautifulNow Trademarks inures to our benefit.
Elements of the Platform are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair contest, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated, in whole or in part, by any means, including but not limited to the use of framing or mirrors. None of the Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.
- COMMUNICATIONS TO US; USER CONTENT
Although we encourage you to email us, we do not want you to, and you should not, email us any content that contains confidential information. With respect to all emails you send to us, including but not limited to, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information, without compensation to you.
As noted above, the Services provide Registered Users the ability to post and upload user content (e.g., votes, feedback, comments, text, photos, videos, questions, etc.) to the Platform (collectively, “User Content”). User Content also includes any Contest materials submitted by you in connection with your participation in any Contest, as described in the applicable Contest Rules. You expressly acknowledge and agree that once you submit your User Content, unless you designate it as “private,” it will be accessible by others, and that there is no confidentiality or privacy with respect to such User Content, including, without limitation, any personally identifying information that you may make publicly available. YOU, AND NOT BEAUTIFULNOW, ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE USER CONTENT THAT YOU UPLOAD, POST, EMAIL, OR OTHERWISE TRANSMIT VIA THE PLATFORM.
Unless otherwise set forth in the applicable Contest Rules, you retain all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in and to your own User Content. You do, however, hereby irrevocably grant us and our sublicensees and assignees a non-exclusive, transferable, perpetual, royalty-free, freely sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license to modify, compile, combine with other content, copy, record, synchronize, transmit, translate, format, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise use or exploit (including for profit) any and all of your User Content that you have not designated as “private,” your username, the picture associated with your username, and all intellectual property and moral rights therein throughout the universe, in each case, by or in any means, methods, media, or technology now known or hereafter devised. Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that uses of your User Content, username, and associated picture permitted by the foregoing rights and licenses may include the display of such User Content, username, and associated picture adjacent to advertising and other material or content, including for profit, and in connection with books, documentary films, and/or other audio/visual works.
Ownership of and licenses to User Content submitted in connection with a particular Contest shall be governed by the Contest Rules applicable to that Contest. In connection with any such Contest, if there is a conflict between those Contest Rules and these Terms of Use, the Contest Rules shall govern.
If you submit User Content to us, each such submission constitutes a representation and warranty to BeautifulNow that such User Content is your original creation (or that you otherwise have the right to provide the User Content), that you have the rights necessary to grant the license to the User Content under this Section, and that it and its use by BeautifulNow and its content partners as permitted by this Agreement does not and will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property or moral rights of any person or contain any libelous, defamatory, or obscene material or content that violates our Community Guidelines.
- NO WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
BEAUTIFULNOW DOES NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY ANY THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE PLATFORM OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING.
THE PLATFORM, THE SERVICES, THE CONTESTS, AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE THE PLATFORM, THE SERVICES, AND THE CONTENT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM OR THE SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE PLATFORM, THE SERVICES, THEIR SERVERS, OR CONTENT ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, THE SERVICES, OR THE CONTENT RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM YOUR PURCHASE OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM, THE SERVICES, THE CONTESTS, OR THE CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
BEAUTIFULNOW HAS MADE EVERY EFFORT TO DISPLAY THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, COLORS, AND IMPRINTS AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE ON THE PLATFORM. HOWEVER, THE FINAL PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES DELIVERED MAY VARY FROM THE IMAGES VIEWED ON THE PLATFORM DUE TO A NUMBER OF FACTORS THAT ARE NOT WITHIN OUR CONTROL. THESE FACTORS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, SYSTEM CAPABILITIES AND CONSTRAINTS OF YOUR COMPUTER, MANUFACTURING PROCESS ISSUES, AND THE AVAILABILITY OF PRODUCTS AND RAW MATERIALS.
ALTHOUGH BEAUTIFULNOW WILL EXERCISE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO HELP ENSURE THAT THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES CONFORM TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS, VARIATIONS SOMETIMES OCCUR. ALL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, PRICING, SPECIFICATIONS, AND OFFERINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. THE SERVICES MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS, NOT ALL OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE IN EVERY LOCATION. A REFERENCE TO A PRODUCT OR SERVICE ON THE SERVICES DOES NOT IMPLY THAT SUCH PRODUCT OR SERVICE IS OR WILL BE AVAILABLE IN YOUR LOCATION. THE SERVICES MAY CONTAIN TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH TYPOGRAPHICAL, TECHNICAL, OR PRICING ERRORS LISTED ON THE SERVICES.
- DEALINGS WITH OTHER REGISTERED USERS
You acknowledge and agree that BeautifulNow shall not be liable for your interactions with any other Registered Users through the Services. These dealings are solely between you and such other Registered Users. You agree and acknowledge that BeautifulNow shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or interactions. If there is a dispute between Registered Users or between Registered Users and any third party, you understand and agree that BeautifulNow is under no obligation to become involved in such dispute. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other Registered Users, you hereby release BeautifulNow, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and successors from any and all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes.
- EXTERNAL SITES
The Platform may contain links to third-party websites (“External Sites”). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content on such External Sites. The content of such External Sites is developed and provided by others. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or any content located on such External Sites. We are not responsible for the content of any linked External Sites and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such External Sites. You should take precautions when downloading files from all websites to protect your computer from viruses and other destructive programs. If you decide to access linked External Sites, you do so at your own risk.
- REPRESENTATIONS; WARRANTIES; AND INDEMNIFICATION
(a) You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to all trademark,
- trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary, privacy, and publicity rights in and to your User Content and any other works that you incorporate into your User Content, and all the rights necessary to grant the licenses and permissions you grant hereunder;
- Use of your User Content in the manners contemplated in this Agreement shall not violate or misappropriate the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights of any third party; and
- You hereby represent, warrant, and covenant that: You shall not submit to the Platform any User Content that violates our community guidelines set forth above.
(b) You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, licensees, and assignees harmless from and against any claims, actions, or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from: (i) your breach of this Agreement or any Contest Rules; (ii) your access to, use, or misuse of the Content, the User Content, the Platform, or the Services, and (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, trademark, property, publicity, or privacy right. We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit, or proceeding. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter that is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense of such matter.
- COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS
The Platform is based in the United States. We make no claims concerning whether the Content may be downloaded, viewed, or be appropriate for use outside of the United States. If you access the Platform, the Services, or the Content from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk. Whether inside or outside of the United States, you are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with the laws of your specific jurisdiction.
- TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate this Agreement and your access to all or any part of the Services, at any time and for any reason without prior notice or liability. We reserve the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the Services at any time without prior notice or liability.
- DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
BeautifulNow respects the intellectual property rights of others and attempts to comply with all relevant laws. We will review all claims of copyright infringement received and remove any Content or User Content deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws.
Our designated agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “Act”) for the receipt of any Notification of Claimed Infringement which may be given under that Act is as follows:
BeautifulNow, Inc.
Attention: DMCAIf you believe that your work has been copied on the Platform in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our agent with notice in accordance with the requirements of the Act, including: (i) a description of the copyrighted work that has been infringed and the specific location on the Platform where such work is located; (ii) a description of the location of the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work; (iii) your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; (iv) 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; (v) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and (vi) an electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
- MISCELLANEOUS
This Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New York, without respect to its conflict of laws provisions. You expressly agree: (i) to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State of New York; and (ii) that the Services shall be deemed passive that do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over BeautifulNow, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than New York. YOU AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE PLATFORM OR THE SERVICES MUST COMMENCED BY YOU WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction or terminated in accordance with the Termination provision above, the invalidity or termination of such provision shall not affect the validity of the following provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect: “Intellectual Property,” “Communications to Us; User Content,” “No Warranties; Limitation of Liability,” “Dealings with Other Registered Users,” “Representations; Warranties; Indemnification,” “Termination of the Agreement,” and “Miscellaneous.”
Our failure to act on or enforce any provision of the Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of that provision or any other provision in this Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against us unless made in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Except as expressly agreed by us and you in writing, this Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. The section headings are provided merely for convenience and shall not be given any legal import. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sublicensees