Terms of use

Introduction

Please take a moment to review these Terms of Use, which detail the legal framework for your interaction with our digital offerings across websites, applications, and various services provided by vegashideaways.com (“Vegashideaways,” “us,” or “our”). Usage of our services implies full acceptance of these terms. Should you not consent to these terms, please discontinue accessing our platforms and services.

A. General Terms

Applicability

• These Terms of Use are applicable to all services and content accessed where they are referenced.
• Some areas of our service may carry additional terms, which will be presented with the specific services. In cases of discrepancy, those specific terms take precedence.

Amendment Procedures

• We reserve the unilateral right to modify these Terms of Use as needed, without obligation to prenotify users.
• Substantial changes will be communicated through service announcements or emails, providing an opportunity to review new terms before continuing service use.
• Account closure is your recourse if modified terms are unacceptable. Continued use after modifications indicates consent.

Age Restrictions

• Our services are tailored for and require users to be a minimum of 18 years old or of legal age to process personal data in your jurisdiction.

Acceptance of Terms

• By engaging with our services, you signify having read and agreed to these Terms of Use, an action further solidified through registration or submission of materials via our platforms.

B. Privacy Practices

Please familiarize yourself with our Privacy Policy to understand information management. Use of our services indicates acknowledgment and consent to these practices, reaffirmed through account registration or content submission.

C. Account Information & Security Measures

For interactive aspects of our services, registration, and a user profile may be necessitated.

Your undertakings include:

• Protecting login credentials including passwords and email addresses.
• Being responsible for activities under your account.
• Informing us promptly should unauthorized access to your account occur.

Please note that while in transit over public networks, data security cannot be guaranteed, hence communication risks lie with you. We bear no liability for losses or damages incurred through such electronic interactions.

D. Terms for Using Our Content

Our Content and Your Usage Rights

The diverse array of content featured on our services, which includes but is not limited to characters, logos, designs, text narratives, imagery, audio and video content, as well as software and the data it generates, is either our proprietary content, under our control, or duly licensed to us. This content is safeguarded globally by copyright, trademark, and other forms of intellectual property protection.

Unless expressly authorized in alternate written agreements, you are granted access to this content strictly for your personal and non-commercial use. You must refrain from copying, reproducing, spreading, transmitting, modifying, adapting, or creating derivative works from our content, or from publicly exhibiting or exploiting it in any form without first securing explicit written permission from the rightful content owner. If you’re granted broader rights, you agree to not modify or eliminate any proprietary notices.

Usage of any of our trademarks, logos, or service marks without a prior written authorization is strictly prohibited. We retain full rights, including intellectual property rights, to our services, reserving all rights not explicitly granted in these terms. For inquiries or requests for additional permissions related to our content, please make contact with the appropriate details for evaluation and follow-up.

E. User-Generated Content

Content Contributions on Our Services

The content or materials you or others supply, upload, or disseminate through our services, ranging from personal names and images to ideas, creative elements, and text, is beyond our endorsement or control, and we carry no liability for such contributions.

In engaging with our services or posting content, you and, when relevant, your guardians if you are underage, grant us permission to republish your name or utilize your contributions in line with these terms. You consent to grant us an unchangeable, perpetual, and royalty-free license, unless specified otherwise by us in writing, under the following terms:

1. We are entitled to use, adapt, copy, share, and display your contributions either with or without accrediting your name, fully or partially, across the universe in all currently known or future media forms, independently or within other materials, and for any purposes including commercial marketing and advertising.
2. We have the right to pair your name with your contributions.
3. We possess the ability to assign or pass on these privileges to other parties.

You affirm your ownership and right to grant us these permissions and ascertain that the usage and publication of such content do not infringe any third party’s rights or violate any laws, even if the materials include an identifiable person’s information.

We may monitor content contributed to our services though it is not our duty to do so. We reserve the discretion to remove any material or content at any time without notice, either provided or shared by you or others.

Should you believe that any material or content on our services infringes on your intellectual property rights, please reach out to us with the necessary details and adhere to the procedures to facilitate our review of your concerns.

F. Unsolicited Ideas Policy

Our Stance on Unprompted Ideas

We, including our employees, do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas or proposals concerning new products, technologies, enhancements, marketing strategies, or product names. This policy is in place to avoid potential misapprehensions or disputes if our products or marketing strategies seem similar to ideas you put forward to us. If you decide to send us your ideas despite this policy, by doing so, you acknowledge that:

1. Any ideas you submit become our property with no due compensation to you.
2. We are free to use and market those ideas in any fashion we see fit.
3. We can transfer or assign these ideas to third parties.

You declare that these ideas are your original work and that you hold all the necessary rights to provide us with the rights described above.

G. Impermissible Activities

Use Restrictions

Certain activities are strictly off-limits while interacting with our services, namely:

1. Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, derivative extraction, capturing source information or metadata, or attaining service layout or design in any method that involves our services.
2. Examining, decoding, “sniffing,” extracting code or information from any data transmitted to or from our services, or attempting any such acts.

You willingly waive any legal rights you may hold to carry out any aforementioned activities, including any claims that they embody “fair use” or are for “interoperability purposes” under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Furthermore, throughout the use of our services, you are prohibited from:

1. Violating these Terms of Use and impinging on our rights or the rights of others, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights, along with any form of legal infringement.
2. Participating in unlawful deeds.

H. Communicating Electronically

Accessing our services or emailing us implies your engagement in digital communications. By interacting with us electronically, you consent to the following:

1. Our use of email or service announcements to communicate with you.
2. Electronic messages we send satisfy any legal obligations for providing written communication.
3. The send date of any electronic notices we dispatch will be regarded as the date of receipt.

J. Interactions with Third Parties

Our services may include:

(i) Mentions of third-party entities and trademarks, along with their data, offerings, and services.

(ii) Hyperlinks to third-party websites.

(iii) Overviews of third-party offerings and products.

These are for your convenience and do not equate to our endorsement. We hold no responsibility for the third-party content or services, which are beyond our control. We cannot guarantee the functionality or continued availability of their offerings. Any disclaimers, legal statements, or terms provided by third parties augment these Terms of Use for respective contents. Assessing whether to visit third-party websites and understanding their terms falls onto your shoulders.

When engaging with any third parties, you acknowledge your personal interactions with them and bear full responsibility for your dealings. Any concerns with third-party services should be directed to their respective service operators.

K. No Warranties Provided

We cannot vouch for the perfection or steadiness of contents, materials, or services available through our platform. We provide everything “AS-IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS,” and on an “AS AVAILABLE” basis, without warranties or promises of error-free, uninterrupted service, or that they will be free from harmful components like viruses.

To the broadest extent the law permits, we negate all warranties, be they explicit, implied, or set by statute, including those of sellability, fitness for certain purposes, careful effort, non-infringement, and satisfactory quality. The onus is on you for the proper and lawful use of our services and their contents.

Your statutory rights may offer further consumer protections that might limit or negate the above disclaimers.

L. Limitation of Liability

In the instance of indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from or related to the use of our services – including, but not limited to, lost profits, revenues, or data corruption – neither we nor our affiliates or providers can be held accountable, regardless of the forewarning of such possibilities.

If the agreement’s intended remedies do not fulfill their essential purpose, the above limitations will still apply. You may also have other rights that these limitations cannot preemptively dismiss or curtail.

M. Indemnification

You pledge to defend, indemnify, and protect us against any claims, damages, liabilities, expenses, and legal fees arising from your utilization of our services, your breach of these Terms, or infringements on others’ rights. Additionally, you renounce any legal provisions that might limit the scope of these releases, like California Civil Code Section 1542.

N. Force Majeure Clause

Our obligations under the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are subject to exceptions for events beyond our reasonable control. Such events may include but are not limited to acts of war, invasions, public network failures, electricity outages, acts of terrorism, seismic disruptions, and natural disasters colloquially known as “acts of God.” We shall not be held liable for any losses, delays, or damages caused by these force majeure events.