Effective Date: August 18, 2020

These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) governs the www.readjumpthemoon.com (the “Website”) owned and operated by Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. (collectively “Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.”, “we”, “our”, or “us”). Please review these Terms of Use carefully.

BY CHOOSING TO USE AND/OR ACCESS THE WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND CERTIFY THAT:

  • YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, WHICH EXPRESSLY INCORPORATE OUR PRIVACY POLICY.
  • YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY AND COMPLY WITH OUR TERMS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY.
  • YOU WILL AT ALL TIMES COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, REGULATIONS, TREATIES, AND ORDERS.

If you wish to contact us concerning these Terms of Use or for any other reason, please contact us at:

Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.
PO Box 1660
Pittsboro, NC 27312

PLEASE BE AWARE THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WHICH REQUIRES DISPUTES BETWEEN US TO BE SUBMITTED TO BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION.

Your use and access to the Website is, at all times, expressly conditioned on your compliance with these Terms of Use, as well as all applicable laws, rules, regulations, treaties, and orders. Your failure to comply with these Terms of Use, as well as all applicable laws, rules, regulations, treaties, and orders may result in termination of your access to the Website.

DISCLAIMERS

The Website is controlled and operated by us from our offices in the State of North Carolina and is intended only for persons residing in the United States. We make no representation that any of the materials or services to which you have been given access are available or appropriate for use in other locations. Your use of or access to the Website outside of the State of North Carolina should not be construed as our purposefully availing ourselves of the benefits or privilege of doing business in any state or jurisdiction other than the State of North Carolina.

We hereby disclaim all warranties, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We make the Website available “as is”, without warranty of any kind. Neither we nor the Website shall be held responsible or liable for the accuracy of any information transmitted or made available through the Website, nor responsible for any error or omissions in any of that information. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

We have no control over, and no liability for any third-party websites or materials, even if they are linked to or from the Website. We make no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the content and/or information provided by such third parties, and we assume no responsibility for third-party content.  Any information or content on any third-party website or platform shall be governed by that party’s terms of use, which we encourage you to review.

Your access and use of the Website may be unavailable during periods of peak demand, system upgrades, malfunctions, or scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, or for other reasons. You assume the risk of any and all damage or loss from use of, or inability to use or access the Website.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All contents of the Website are Copyright © 2020 Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. All rights are reserved. All of our trademarks, logos, brand names, service marks, trade dress, trade names, copyrights, patents, domain names, trade secrets, text, graphics, images, music, software, audio, video, works of authorship of any kind, information or other materials that are posted, generated, provided or otherwise made available through or embedded in the Website, and all other proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) whether registered or not, are our property or are licensed to us. Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. exclusively own all right, title, and interest in and to the Website, including all Intellectual Property.

By posting any reviews or making other user content (“User Content”) available through the Website, you hereby grant to Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licenseable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Website and information on the Website to you and to other users.

DMCA COPYRIGHT NOTICE

If you have evidence, know, or have a good-faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third-party have been violated and you want us to delete, edit, or disable the material in question, you must provide us with all of the following information at the contact information listed above:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted;
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

PROHIBITED CONDUCT

You agree not to do any of the following:

  1. Post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any User Content that: (a) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights, or other intellectual property rights, proprietary rights, confidentiality rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (b) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable treaty, law, rule, order, or regulation or would give rise to civil, criminal, or administrative liability; (c) is fraudulent, false, misleading, untrue, or deceptive; (d) is defamatory, threatening, harassing, vulgar, obscene, or offensive; (e) promotes violence, discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment, or harm against any individual or group; or (f) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
  2. Without Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.’s express written consent, use, display, or publish any information or content on the Website, or any individual element within the Website; the Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. name, Intellectual Property, or other proprietary information;
  3. Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Website, Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.’s providers;
  4. Attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. system or network or breach any of the security or authentication measures that we use or that are used by us for access to the Website;
  5. Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. or any of Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.’s providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Website;
  6. Attempt to access or search the Website or download content from the Website through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. or other generally available third-party web browsers;
  7. Send any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, email, junk mail, spam, chain letters or other form of solicitation;
  8. Use any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing a Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. trademark, logo URL or product name without Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc.’s express written consent;
  9. Use the Website for any commercial purpose or the benefit of any third-party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms of Use;
  10. Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Website to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
  11. Attempt to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the software, including, without limitation, the source or object code, used by us in providing the Website;
  12. Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, malware, crashing, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Website;
  13. Collect or store any personally identifiable information, personal data, personal information, or other sensitive information from the Website or from other users of the Website without their express consent;
  14. Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity; or
  15. Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.

We may monitor, in our discretion, access to or use of the Website or review or edit any information on the Website for the purpose of operating the Website, ensuring compliance with these Terms of Use, complying with applicable law or other legal requirements, or for any other purpose in our discretion. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove or disable access to the Website or any portion thereof, at any time and without notice, including, but not limited to, if we, at our sole discretion, consider any User Content to be objectionable or in violation of these Terms of Use. We have the right to investigate violations of these Terms of Use or conduct that affects the Website. We may also consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate applicable law.

GOVERNING LAW; ARBITRATION

These Terms of Use, and all interactions between you and us, shall be governed solely and exclusively by the laws of the State of North Carolina without regard to conflicts of laws principles. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or in any way relating to these Terms of Use or any interactions between you and us, including but not limited to claims concerning the validity, enforceability, enforcement, interpretation, or arbitrability of these Terms of Use (each, a “Dispute”), shall be referred to and finally determined by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the applicable commercial rules of the American Arbitration Association in effect at the time in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitration shall be confidential and shall be conducted by one independent and impartial arbitrator in Raleigh, North Carolina.  In all cases, the arbitrator should be a lawyer with more than ten (10) years of experience or a retired judge.

All arbitration conducted pursuant to this Agreement shall apply the laws of the State of North Carolina. Each party to the arbitration shall pay, in equal portions, all arbitration fees through the final adjudication of any claim. The substantially prevailing party in any such arbitration or permitted court action shall be entitled, in addition to any other rights and remedies it may have, to reimbursement for its reasonable attorneys’ fees, expert fees, costs of the action, and costs of the arbitration (including, without limitation, arbitrator and arbitration forum costs and fees). Any action to enter judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of North Carolina.

Any and all arbitrations pursuant to these Terms shall occur solely and exclusively on an individual basis. Class arbitrations and class, representative, and/or collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc., agrees otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

INDEMNIFICATION

By using the Website or purchasing any product or service on the Website, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. and its employees, agents, contractors, contributors, affiliates, members, managers, officers, directors, shareholders, attorneys, advisors, and representatives (“Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, claims, allegations, causes of action, actions, judgments, assessments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses of whatever kind, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, fees and the costs of enforcing any right to indemnification under this Agreement, and the cost of pursuing any insurance providers, whether direct, contingent, or consequential and no matter how arising, whether or not meritorious, incurred by an Indemnified Party or awarded against an Indemnified Parties (collectively, “Losses”), arising out of or resulting from any claim of a third party arising from or relating to any acts or omissions you commit, including but not limited to, your violation of any applicable law, regulation, treaty, rule, or order; your violation of these Terms of Use; your resale of any of our products; or any other act or omission of yours.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event will we be liable to you or any third party making claims on your behalf or through you (whether based in contract, tort, strict liability or any other legal theory) for any indirect, consequential, incidental, punitive, exemplary, or special damages, or any damages for loss of data, profits, revenue, reputation, business, or goodwill, or business interruption, damages relating to the loss, inaccuracy, corruption, or inaccessibility of data, costs of recovering data, or costs incurred in repairing or replacing computers, software, mobile devices, tablets, or other devices, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event will Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. aggregate liability to you or to any third party making claims on your behalf or through you exceed all payments paid by you to Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc. during the twelve (12) months preceding the date that you assert any claim against Bound to Happen Publishing, Inc..

MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the subject matter of this agreement and supersede any other prior or contemporaneous agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter hereof, whether written, oral, or implied. We may freely assign our rights under these Terms of Use. You are not permitted to assign, delegate, or transfer any rights hereunder without our prior, written consent, which we may withhold, delay, or condition in our sole and absolute discretion. These Terms of Use are binding on and will inure to the benefit of any permitted assign or successor hereunder. If any of the Terms of Use are held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, such provisions shall be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary for Terms and Use to otherwise remain in full force and effect. A waiver by you or us of any provision of these Terms of Use or any breach thereof, will not constitute a waiver of any other provision of these Terms of Use or any subsequent breach. All provisions of these Terms of Use that would reasonably be expected to survive termination or expiration of these Terms of Use, your access to the Website, or you relationship with us, including, without limitation, Arbitration (Section 5), Indemnification (Section 6), and Limitation of Liability (Section 7), shall do so.

REVISIONS OR MODIFICATIONS OF THESE TERMS OF USE

We reserve the right change, add, modify, or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time, which shall become effective as of the effective date at the top of this page. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms of Use prior to each use of the Website. By continuing to use the Website, you agree to any modifications.