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Terms of Use

All users of this website agree that access to and use of this website are subject to the following terms and conditions and other applicable law. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this website.

Beauty & Brains Enterprises reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time. You agree to review the these Terms of Use periodically to be aware of such modifications and that your continued use of the website shall be deemed to be your conclusive acceptance of any modified Terms of Use. We will indicate that changes to these Terms of Use have been made by updating the date indicated after “Last Modified” at the end of these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by any modified version of these Terms of Use, you are not authorized to use this website.

Copyright
The entire content included in this website, including but not limited to text, graphics or code is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of Beauty & Brains Enterprises. Copyright 2012, Beauty & Brains Enterprises ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may display and, subject to any expressly stated restrictions or limitations relating to specific material, download or print portions of the material from the different areas of the website solely for your own non-commercial use, or to place an order with Beauty & Brains Enterprises or to purchase Beauty & Brains Enterprises products. Any other use, including but not limited to the reproduction, distribution, sale, display or transmission of the content of this website is strictly prohibited, unless authorized by Beauty & Brains Enterprises in writing. You further agree not to change or delete any proprietary notice from materials downloaded or printed from the website.

Trademarks / Intellectual Property
Any and all trademarks, service marks and trade names, issued or pending, of Beauty & Brains Enterprises used in the website and/or appear on products created, designed, reproduced, distributed, displayed, sold or transmitted by Beauty & Brains Enterprises, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Beauty & Brains Enterprises. They may not be used, reproduced, sold, distributed or transmitted without Beauty & Brains Enterprises’ prior written permission. Any and all other intellectual property in the website, including but not limited to patents, issued or pending, are the sole property of Beauty & Brains Enterprises.

Product Orders
Any and all orders placed through the website are subject to Beauty & Brains Enterprises acceptance, which is in its sole discretion. Without limitation, this means that Beauty & Brains Enterprises may refuse to accept or may cancel any order, whether or not the order has been confirmed, for any or no reason, in its sole discretion, and without liability to you or any third party. If your credit card has already been charged for an order that is subsequently cancelled, Beauty & Brains Enterprises shall issue a credit to your credit card account.

User Generated Content
You acknowledge and agree that Beauty & Brains Enterprises has the absolute right to monitor User Generated Content posted to the Website in its sole discretion. In addition, Beauty & Brains Enterprises reserves the right to alter, edit, refuse to post or remove any such User Generated Content, in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason, and to disclose such User Generated Content and the circumstances surrounding their transmission to any third party. You agree that we do not have any obligation to use or respond to any User Generated Content.

You agree that you shall immediately notify Beauty & Brains Enterprises in writing of any objectionable content appearing on the Website. Beauty & Brains Enterprises will make good faith efforts to investigate allegations that any User Generated Content violates these Terms of Use but (a) makes no warranty to you that it will edit, remove, or continue to permit the display of any specific User Generated Content, whether or not subject to such allegations, and (b) will have no liability whatsoever for editing, removing, or continuing to permit the display of any User Generated Content whatsoever.

Any use of any content on this website, including, without limitation, User Generated Content will be at your own risk.

You may not post or otherwise distribute content to the website which Beauty & Brains Enterprises in its sole discretion determines to be abusive, harassing, threatening, defamatory, obscene, an impersonation of others, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, in violation of a copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right of another, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, in violation of any other right of Beauty & Brains Enterprises or another party, illegal, or otherwise objectionable to Beauty & Brains Enterprises. You may not upload commercial content on the website or use the website to solicit others to join or become members of any other commercial online service or other organization. You may be required to register and/or agree to additional terms of use prior to being permitted to post or otherwise distribute User Generated Content to this website.

Use of Information Submitted
You agree that Beauty & Brains Enterprises is free to use any comments, information, designs, ideas, or other content contained in any User Generated Content posted by you to this website, or created by you while accessing the website, or contained in any communication you may send to Beauty & Brains Enterprises or submit to the website without notice, compensation or acknowledgement to you for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services and creating, modifying or improving the website or other products or services.

Copyright Agent
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information: (1) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (2) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (3) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; (4) your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; (5) a written 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; and (6) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Any notification by a copyright owner or a person authorized to act on its behalf that fails to comply with requirements of the DMCA shall not be considered sufficient notice and shall not be deemed to confer upon Beauty & Brains Enterprises actual knowledge of facts or circumstances from which infringing material or acts are evident.

Beauty & Brains Enterprises may, in appropriate circumstances and in its sole discretion, terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers or otherwise prohibit such users from accessing the website.

Third-Party Links
In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, Beauty & Brains Enterprises may link to websites operated by third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Beauty & Brains Enterprises, Beauty & Brains Enterprises has no control over these linked websites, all of which have separate terms and conditions and privacy and data collection practices, independent of Beauty & Brains Enterprises. These linked websites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. Beauty & Brains Enterprises seeks to protect the integrity of the website and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback about the website and for websites it links to as well. Please review the privacy policy of any third-party website that you have linked to from the Website before you use such third-party website.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Beauty & Brains Enterprises, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from or relating in any way to your use of this website.

Privacy
Beauty & Brains Enterprises is committed to safeguarding your privacy. The terms regulating the handling of personally identifiable information and other information by you in connection with the website is described in our Privacy Policy.

Warranty Disclaimer
THIS WEBSITE AND THE MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTEES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. SOME STATES DO NOT PERMIT LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS ON WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS AND CONDUCT OF ANY USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND ANY LINKED SITES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT. THIS LIMITATION OF RELIEF IS A PART OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

Limitation of Liability
BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE OR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS PURCHASED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THE CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OF THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IF, NOTWITHSTANDING THE OTHER PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS OF USE, BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES IS FOUND TO BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS WHICH ARISES OUT OF OR IS IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, BEAUTY & BRAINS ENTERPRISES’ LIABILITY SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED US$100.00.

Miscellaneous
Your use of this website shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of New York, U.S.A., without regard to choice of law provisions, and not by the 1980 U.N. Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. Except where prohibited, you agree that any and all disputes, claims and legal proceedings directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this website (including but not limited to the purchase of Beauty & Brains Enterprises products) shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Durham, North Carolina. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the website (including but not limited to the purchase of Beauty & Brains Enterprises products) just be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. By using the website, you agree to receive electronic communications from Beauty & Brains Enterprises You agree that any notice, agreement, disclosure or other communication that Beauty & Brains Enterprises sends you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that such communications be in writing. Beauty & Brains Enterprises’ failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these terms and conditions shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any of these terms and conditions. Beauty & Brains Enterprises may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.

Terms: Termination
These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing the website. Beauty & Brains Enterprises reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or restrict your use of the website, without notice, for any or no reason, and without liability to you or any third party. In addition, these terms and conditions, or any part of them, may be terminated by Beauty & Brains Enterprises without notice at any time, for any reason. The provisions relating to Copyright, Trademarks, Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification and Miscellaneous, shall survive any termination.