
Throughout this Agreement, the words “Aosom,” “us,” “we,” and “our,” refer to our company, Aosom, LLC, as is appropriate in the context of the use of the words.
By clicking “I agree” or accessing the Site you agree to be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy. We may amend this Agreement at any time and may notify you if we do so. Please be aware that there are ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION PROVISIONS contained in this Agreement.
Each User who has filled out an on-line registration form on the Site by giving its information (such as name, address, telephone and fax number, email address, details of its business, etc.) is a registered user of Aosom.com (a "Registered User"). Aosom.com will establish an account ("Account") for each Registered User and each Registered User will be assigned a user alias ("User ID") and password ("Password") for log-in access to its own Account.
Aosom.com may assign a web-based email account with limited storage space for the User to send or receive email (the "Email Account"). The User shall be responsible for all users and the content of all the messages communicated through the Email Account, as well as the consequences of any such message.By becoming a Registered User, you consent to the inclusion of your personal data in our Global Buyer Database and share such information with other Users.
We may suspend or terminate a Registered User's Account or Email Account at any time by giving no less than 24-hour notice to the Registered User; provided, however, that notice is not required for such termination if (a) in our determination, there is any breach of the provisions of this Agreement by the Registered User; or (b) we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information provided by a Registered User is untrue, inaccurate or is not current or complete, or (c) we believe that the Registered User's actions may cause financial loss or legal liability to such Registered User, other Users, or Aosom.com.
The Registered User shall not use the Email Account for junk mail, chain letters or spamming or the transmission of any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. Further, the Registered User shall not use the Email Account to publish, distribute, transmit or circulate any unsolicited advertising or promotional information or any content that is obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, defamatory, threatening, or which incites or results in causing racial hatred, discrimination, menace or breach of confidence.
A Registered User may not sell, attempt to sell, offer to sell, give, assign or otherwise transfer an Account, User ID or Password to a third party without the prior written consent of Aosom.com. Aosom.com may suspend or terminate the Account of a Registered User.
Aosom.com may refuse registration and deny the issuance of an Account and/or Email Account and associated User ID and Password to any User for whatever reason.
When accessing or using our Site, you are solely responsible for your actions and you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:
- You will not copy, distribute or disclose any part of the Site in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping;”
- You will not attempt to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Site;
- You will not use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Site or to extract or export data collected through the Site;
- You will not take any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- You agree not to use the Site to stalk, harass, bully or harm another individual;
- You agree that you will not hold Aosom responsible for your use of the Site;
- You agree not to violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to Aosom;
- You agree not to interfere with or disrupt the Site;
- You agree to not violate any US federal laws, state laws, or local laws while using the Site;
- You agree not to use the Site in any way that is: misleading, unlawful, defamatory, obscene, invasive, threatening, or harassing.
If you are discovered to be undertaking any of the aforementioned actions your privileges to use our Site may at our discretion be terminated or suspended. Generally, we will provide an explanation for any suspension or termination of your use of any of our Site, but Aosom reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access at any time without notice or explanation.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Aosom, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from:
- your use of any Aosom Content;
- your violation of any term of this Agreement;
- your use of the Aosom Site.
This defense and indemnification obligation will survive this Agreement. You also agree that you have a duty to defend us against such claims and we may require you to pay for an attorney(s) of our choice in such cases. You agree that this indemnity extends to requiring you to pay for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements. In the event of a claim such as one described in this paragraph, we may elect to settle with the party/parties making the claim and you shall be liable for the damages as though we had proceeded with a trial.
We take copyright infringement very seriously, if you live within the US or own any copyrighted material within the US and believe that your copyright has been infringed, please send us a message which contains:
- Your name.
- The name of the party whose copyright has been infringed, if different from your name.
- The name and description of the work that is being infringed.
- The location on our website of the infringing copy.
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted work described above is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is not otherwise permitted by law.
- A statement that you swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or have an exclusive right in law to bring infringement proceedings with respect to its use.
You must sign this notification and send it to our Copyright Agent: Copyright Agent of Aosom, legal@aosom.com.
If two or more provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement you may have with Aosom are deemed to conflict with each other’s operation, you agree that Aosom shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force.
Lastly, California users are also entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.