Welcome to The Village Expo! These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of our website located at thevillageexpo.com (the “Site”) and the services provided through the Site (collectively, the “Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use our Services.
You must be at least 18 years old to use our Services. By using our Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.
To use certain features of our Services, you may be required to register for an account. When you register, you agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to update this information as necessary to keep it accurate, current, and complete. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer or device. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.
The Village Expo is a platform for small business owners to network, sell products, and engage with the community. By using our Services, you agree to:
We reserve the right to remove any content or terminate any account that violates these guidelines or our Terms.
By submitting or posting content on our Site, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such content in any media. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to submit or post such content and that your content does not infringe any third-party rights.
The Village Expo and its original content, features, and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of The Village Expo and its licensors. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without our prior written consent.
If you purchase any products or services through our Site, you agree to pay all applicable fees and taxes. All payments will be processed through our third-party payment processors, and you agree to their terms and conditions. We are not responsible for any issues related to payments processed by these third parties.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Village Expo, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, and licensors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (a) your use or inability to use our Services; (b) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any personal information stored therein; (c) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from our Services; (d) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like that may be transmitted to or through our Services by any third party; (e) any errors or omissions in any content; and/or (f) the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Village Expo, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, and licensors 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 (a) your use of and access to our Services; (b) your violation of any term of these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (d) any claim that your content caused damage to a third party.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide at least 30 days’ notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use our Services after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Services.
We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to our Services immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Services will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Services.
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the state or country where The Village Expo is based, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at members@thevillageexpo.com.
Our website address is: http://thevillageexpo.com. The Village Expo is a platform dedicated to empowering small business owners through networking, sales, and community engagement.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
When you access our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage of the Site, including:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We may share your information with third parties if you have given us your consent to do so.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information: