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TERMS & CONDITIONS

Terms and Conditions

Last revised 2/23/24

 

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) apply to your access to and use of the websites and other online services (collectively, the “Services”) provided by Friends to Elect Frugal Dougall (the “Committee”, “we” or “us”). By accessing and using the Services, you agree to these Terms.

 

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Services. We may provide additional or different terms and conditions with respect to some of the Services (“Additional Terms”). If you use any Services with Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will apply to your use of such Services. If there is any conflict between these Terms and any Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will control to the extent of such conflict. We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make any changes to these Terms, we will notify you by revising the “Last Revised” date at the top of these Terms and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to our website homepage or by sending you a notification). Unless otherwise indicated in our notice to you, any changes to these Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of the Services following our provision of such notice will confirm your acceptance of such changes. If you do not agree to any changes to these Terms, you must stop using the Services. If you have any questions regarding these Terms or the Services, please contact us at info@votefrugal.com

 

1. Privacy Policy

For information about how we collect, use, and share information about you, please see our Privacy Policy.

 

2. Ownership and Limited License

The Services, 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 Services 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 Services for your own personal, informational, and noncommercial use. Any use of the Services other than as specifically authorized herein, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein and violate our intellectual property rights.

 

3. Trademarks

“Friends to Elect Frugal Dougall” and our logos, our slogans, our product or service names, and the look and feel of the Services are trademarks of Us and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product or service names, and company names or logos mentioned on or included in the Services 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 thereof by us.

 

4. Feedback

You may voluntarily submit or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, original or creative materials, or other information about Us or the Services (collectively, “Feedback”). You understand that we may use Feedback for any purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you, including to develop, copy, publish, or improve the Feedback in our sole discretion. You understand that We may treat Feedback as nonconfidential.

 

5. Third-Party Content

We may provide information about third-party products, services, activities or events, or we may allow third parties to make their content and information available on or through the Services (collectively, “Third-Party Content”). We provide Third-Party Content as a service to those interested in such content. Your dealings or correspondence with third parties and your use of or interaction with any Third-Party Content are solely between you and the applicable third party. We do not control or endorse, and no representations or warranties regarding, any Third-Party Content. Your access to and use of Third-Party Content is at your own risk.

 

6. Prohibited Content and Conduct

You will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right or other third-party right, or commit a tort, and you are solely responsible for your conduct while using the Services.
 

You will not:

  • engage in any harassing, threatening, intimidating, predatory, or stalking conduct;

  • impersonate, submit, or post on behalf of any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

  • sell, resell, or commercially use the Services;

  • copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, or publicly display all or portions of the Services, except as expressly permitted by us or our licensors;

  • modify the Services, remove any proprietary rights notices or markings, or otherwise make any derivative works based upon the Services without our prior written consent;

  • use the Services other than for their intended purpose or in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the Services or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of the Services in any manner;

  • reverse engineer any aspect of the Services or do anything that might discover source code or that might bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of the Services;

  • use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods designed to scrape or extract data from the Services;

  • develop or use any applications that interact with the Services without our prior written consent;

  • send, distribute, or post spam, unsolicited or bulk commercial electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;

  • bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file; or

  • use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in, encourage, or promote any activity that violates these Terms.

 

This Section 7 does not create any private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that the Services will not contain any content that is prohibited by such rules.

 

7. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Committee and its officers, directors, employees, volunteers and agents (individually and collectively, the “Committee Parties”), from and against any claims, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) (“Claims”) arising out of or related to (a) your access to and use of the Services; (b) your Feedback; (c) your violation of these Terms; (d) your conduct in connection with the Services; or (e) your violation, misappropriation, or infringement of any rights of any third party (including intellectual property or privacy rights).

 

8. Disclaimer

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE IN A WRITING BY THE COMMITTEE, THE SERVICES AND ANY CONTENT THEREIN ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, THE COMMITTEE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENT THEREIN ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, OR ERROR-FREE. WHILE THE COMMITTEE ATTEMPTS TO MAKE YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY CONTENT THEREIN SAFE, THE COMMITTEE CANNOT AND DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENT THEREIN OR OUR SERVER(S) ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES.

 

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMMITTEE OR ANY OTHER COMMITTEE PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, EVEN IF THE COMMITTEE OR ANY OTHER COMMITTEE PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE OTHER COMMITTEE PARTIES FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, EXCEED ANY COMPENSATION YOU PAY, IF ANY, TO THE COMMITTEE FOR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICES. THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION 10 WILL NOT LIMIT OR EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR THE GROSS NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD, OR INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT OF THE COMMITTEE OR ANY OTHER COMMITTEE PARTIES OR FOR ANY OTHER MATTERS FOR WHICH LIABILITY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IN ADDITION, PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. THEREFORE, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

 

10. Transfer and Processing of Data

In order for us to provide the Services, you agree that we may process, transfer, and store information about you in the United States and other countries, where you may not have the same rights and protections as you do under local law.

 

11. Applicable Law and Venue

Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or your use of the Services will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the District of Columbia applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the District of Columbia, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Each party irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in the District of Columbia for all disputes arising out of or related to these Terms or your use of the Services.

 

12. Modification or Termination of the Services

We reserve the right to modify the Services or to suspend or stop providing all or portions of the Services at any time and without prior notice to you. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to access or use the Services.

 

13. Severability

If any provision or portion of a provision of these Terms is deemed to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision or portion thereof is deemed severable from these Terms and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

 

14. Miscellaneous

Any failure by the Committee to enforce any provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of future enforcement of that or any other provision of these Terms, unless expressly waived in writing by the Committee. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Except as otherwise provided in these Terms, 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.

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15. Mobile Messaging Terms & Conditions

By requesting, joining, agreeing to, enrolling in, signing up for, acknowledging, or otherwise consenting to receive one or more text messages from Friends to Elect Frugal Dougall (“Sender”, “we”, “us”, “our”) through Sender’s messaging platform (“Platform”), you accept these Terms & Conditions (“Opt-In”).

Opting In

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  • You authorize Sender to use auto dialer or non-auto dialer technology to send text messages to the cell phone number associated with your Opt-In (i.e., the number listed on the Opt-In form or instructions, or, if none, the number from which you send the Opt-In, or, if none, the number on file for the account associated with your Opt-In). You also authorize Sender to include marketing content in any such messages. You do not have to Opt-In or agree to Opt-In as a condition of purchase of any of Sender’s offerings.

 

  • You confirm that you are the subscriber to the relevant phone number or that you are the customary user of that number on a family or business plan and that you are authorized to Opt-In.

 

  • You consent to the use of an electronic record to document your Opt-In.

 

  • You agree that, in addition to the main messages that Sender may provide, you may receive one or more welcome messages or administrative messages, such as (in some cases) a request to confirm your Opt-In.

 

  • By signing up for the program through a form provided on votefrugal.com or by giving your information to Us at an in-person event, or by texting Frugal to 80102, you are giving your express consent, and opting in to receive automated text messages, alerts, and updates at the phone number you provided. Regardless of your opt-in method you utilized to join the Program, you agree that these Terms apply to your participation in the Program. By opting-in you agree to receive recurring autodialed campaign & donation messages and you understand that your consent to be contacted in this method is not required to make any purchase from us.


About the Text Message Services and Opting Out
 

  • Message and data rates may apply. You must have a wireless device of your own, capable of two-way messaging, be using a participating wireless carrier, and be a wireless service subscriber with text messaging service. Not all cellular phone providers carry the necessary service to participate. Check your phone capabilities for specific text messaging instructions.

 

  • Unless otherwise noted, Sender may send multiple, recurring messages and frequency may vary. Sender may terminate any messaging services or your participation in it at any time with or without notice, including, for example, before you have received any or all messages that you otherwise would have received, but these Terms & Conditions still will apply. Your opt-out request may generate either a confirmation text.
     

  • You consent to the handling of your information as described in our Privacy Policy votefrugal.com/privacy-policy. To contact Sender customer service, at info@votefrugal.com.

 

  • You may text STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT to opt-out of messages or for additional help, text HELP. You also understand and agree that any other method of opting out, including, but not limited to, texting words other than those set forth above or verbally requesting one of our employees to remove you from our list, is not a reasonable means of opting out. You may receive an additional mobile message confirming your decision to opt out. These Terms & Conditions still will apply if you withdraw the consent mentioned above.

 

  • To request a free paper or email copy of the Opt-In, or to update our records with your contact information, or receive help with any messages, please contact us at info@votefrugal.com Minimum technology requirements may apply for electronic records.

 

  • You may not use of engage with the Platform if you are under thirteen (13) years of age. If you use or engage with the Platform and are between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years of age, you must have your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to do so. By using or engaging with the Platform, you acknowledge and agree that you are not under the age of thirteen (13) years, are between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) and have your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to use or engage with the Platform, or are of adult age in your jurisdiction. By using or engaging with the Platform, you also acknowledge and agree that you are permitted by your jurisdiction’s applicable laws, rules, and regulations to use and/or engage with the Platform.

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