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SJBX TERMS OF USE
RULES, REGULATIONS AND AGREEMENTS

ABOUT ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE:  St. Johns Builders Exchange is a networking service and company that operates as an information center for the construction industry.  St. Johns Builders Exchange provides members and users a forum to network, upload plan documents to a single location, invite contractors to see your project information, send notifications to contractors who need project information, free posting, hosting and indexing of documents, document management with revision control, personalized plan room, plan and specifications available on-line for ordering and viewing and high volume printing capabilities. The services offered by St. Johns Builders Exchange include 24 hour, 365-Day access to project information, view plans, specs and addendums online, receive updates as they come in, download documents to your computer and print or order full size prints to be picked up, delivered or mailed to you, view plans, large format printing, small scale printing, file storage, binding, and PDF conversion.  Mainly, the St. Johns County Builders Exchange brings contractors, builders, customers, home owners, potential home owners and sub-contractors all together in one convenient location.
 
TERMS OF USE, RULES, REGULATIONS AND AGREEMENTS:  Use of this website constitutes agreement to abide by the terms of use, rules and regulations of the website as promulgated by St. Johns Builders Exchange from time to time, including acceptance of all the following terms and conditions listed below:

IF YOU WISH TO BECOME A MEMBER OF, USE OR BROWSE THE ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE, YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING BELOW AND AGREE TO ABIDE BY ALL THE TERMS OF USE, RULES AND REGULATIONS.

By using St. Johns Builders Exchange website and/or services, you agree to be bound by these terms of use, rules and regulations, whether you are a browser, customer, user or member.  You are authorized to use, browse or otherwise view the St. Johns Builders Exchange website and services if, AND ONLY IF, you agree to abide by the below listed rules, regulations and agreements. If you do not agree with any portion of the below listed rules, regulations and agreements listed below, then you are not authorized to use the St. Johns Builders Exchange services or website and you must leave the St. Johns Builders Exchange website and discontinue use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website and services immediately.

In order to participate in certain areas of St. Johns Builders Exchange website, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the St. Johns Builders Exchange services and website in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement.

St. Johns Builders Exchange may modify these terms of use, rules and regulations at its sole discretion and any modification shall be effective upon posting by St. Johns Builders Exchange on its website. You agree to be bound to any modifications when you use the St. Johns Builders Exchange’s website or services after any such modification is posted. Thus, you hereby acknowledge that it is important for you to review these terms of use, rules and regulations often. 

By using St. Johns Builders Exchange’s services or website and agree, promise and otherwise warrant that all information you submit is legal, truthful and accurate, that you will maintain the accuracy of such information and that your use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange services and website does not violate any law, ordinance, code or regulation.

St. Johns Builders Exchange assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any material posted on its website. St. Johns Builders Exchange assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever for anything that happens as a direct, indirect or consequential result of using, browsing or otherwise viewing its website.

RIGHT TO MONITOR, LIMIT ACCESS AND RESERVATION OF RIGHTS:  St. Johns Builders Exchange reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject your access to the St. Johns Builders Exchange website, refuse to allow you to use St. Johns Builders Exchange  services, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.  St. Johns Builders Exchange reserves the right to monitor all information stored in any files, programs or messages, as well as the right to delete or edit any file, program or message that contains documents or information that St. Johns Builders Exchange decides in the sole discretion has been loaded onto its website in violation of the Copyright laws, St. Johns Builders Exchange will delete that information only after St. Johns Builders Exchange is made aware of such violation.  Any member or user who, without authorization, loads copyrighted information on the website shall indemnify and hold St. Johns Builders Exchange harmless from any and all resulting claims and liability.

St. Johns Builders Exchange may delete any information or documentation posted on its website that in its sole judgment violates the terms of use, rules and regulations of the website or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person.

St. Johns Builders Exchange assumes no responsibility for monitoring its website for the accuracy of any information or documentation posted thereon. If St. Johns Builders Exchange chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor its website, St. Johns Builders Exchange nonetheless assumes no responsibility for information or documents posted thereon, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate information or documentation, and no responsibility for the conduct, workmanship or reputation of the users or members using the website or St. Johns Builders Exchange services.

INTERACTION WITH OTHER USERS OR MEMBERS: You are solely responsible for your interactions with other St. Johns Builders Exchange members or users. St. Johns Builders Exchange reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members or users.  No matter if you learn of another member or user solely through the use, browsing or viewing of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or through St. Johns Builders Exchange’s service, St. Johns Builders Exchange is NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DISPUTE WHATSOEVER THAT MAY OR DOES ARISE BETWEEN YOU AND THE OTHER PARTY.  As stated above, St. Johns Builders Exchange makes no warranties and does not endorse that you use any of its members or users services, products or otherwise. 

DISCLAIMERS: St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for any information or documentation posted on the St. Johns Builders Exchange website by its members or users. St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in St. Johns Builders Exchange. Information and documentation created or posted on the St. Johns Builders Exchange website by members or users may contain links to other websites. St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for anything that arises from or is associated with those websites.  St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for the accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by St. Johns Builders Exchange. Inclusion of any linked website on the St. Johns Builders Exchange website does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by St. Johns Builders Exchange. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. St. Johns Builders Exchange takes no responsibility for its users’, members’ or other third parties’ advertisements which are posted on St. Johns Builders Exchange website or through the St. Johns Builders Exchange, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its users or members. St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user or member of the St. Johns Builders Exchange. St. Johns Builders Exchange assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any user or member communication. St. Johns Builders Exchange is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or services, including any injury or damage to users or members or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or services. Under no circumstances shall St. Johns Builders Exchange be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or services, attendance at a St. Johns Builders Exchange event, or from the conduct of any users or members of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or services, whether online or offline. The St. Johns Builders Exchange’s website is provided "AS-IS" and as available and St. Johns Builders Exchange expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. St. Johns Builders Exchange cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange’s website.

NO WARRANTIES:
  St. Johns Builders Exchange contains information about plans, bidders and other matters that may be of interest to users and members of the St. Johns Builders Exchange.  St. Johns Builders Exchange offers no warranty, expressed or implied, that any of the reported information is accurate.  Nor does St. Johns Builders Exchange warrant, endorse or otherwise vouch for the users or members of the website. 

DISCLAIMER/NO WARRANTIES:
  St. Johns Builders Exchange expressly disclaims all warranties, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, in connection with the use or operation of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website and services. St. Johns Builders Exchange expressly disclaims all other warranties such as workmanship, architecture or material warranties.    St. Johns Builders Exchange does not warrant, endorse or otherwise vouch for any of its users or members.  St. Johns Builders Exchange merely provides a forum for contractors, builders, customers, home owners, potential home owners and sub-contractors all to communicate.   

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY:
  St. Johns Builders Exchange will not be liable for any losses, including lost data, information, profits or any other incidents of consequential damages that may be sustained or arise DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY out of the use, operation or ability to use or operate the website.  In consideration for the privilege of using St. Johns Builders Exchange WEBSITE AND SERVICES, users hereby release St. Johns Builders Exchange, IT’S officers, employees, and the webmaster from any and all claims arising from the use of this system. IN NO EVENT SHALL ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE WEBSITE OR SERVICES, EVEN IF ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE FOR THE USE THE ST. JOHNS BUILDERS EXCHANGE WEBSITE OR SERVICES.

INDEMNIFY:
You agree to indemnify and hold St. Johns Builders Exchange, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or services in violation of these rules and regulations and/or arising from a breach of these rules and regulations and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any documentation or information that you post on the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or through the St. Johns Builders Exchange causes St. Johns Builders Exchange to be liable to another.

SEVERABILITY:
  All provisions of these terms and agreements shall survive mere use of this website.  The invalidity or unenforceability of any part of these terms under Florida law shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder.  If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.  This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law.

FAILURE TO ENFORCE OR EXERCISE RIGHT IS NOT WAIVER:
  The failure of St. Johns Builders Exchange to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.

COMPLETE AGREEMENT:
  These terms, rules, regulations and agreement represent the entire understanding between the parties with respect to its subject matter, and these terms, rules and regulations supersede all previous representations, understandings or agreements, oral or written, between the parties.  These terms, rules, regulations and agreement cannot be modified except by written instrument signed by authorized representatives of the parties and notarized by an official notary. These terms, rules, regulations and agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Florida.  Any claim relating to St. Johns Builders Exchange in any way must be brought before, and adjudicated by, a competent court located in St. Johns County, Florida.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and St. Johns Builders Exchange regarding the use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website and St. Johns Builders Exchange’s Services.

ADD, REMOVE AND MODIFY:
 
St. Johns Builders Exchange website users and members may modify or remove any information they post on the website at any time

GOVERNING LAW:
  Any and all lawsuits, claims or disputes in any way arising out of this website or having anything to do with this website whatsoever shall be performed in St. Johns County, Florida and governed by Florida law. 

MERGER/NO REPRESENTATIONS:  It is agreed by all parties hereto that all prior understandings and agreements are superseded by and are merged into these terms and agreements.  No representations, claims and statements, inducements, advertising, brochures, promotional activities, plans, blueprints or otherwise, made by St. Johns Builders Exchange, its agents, employees or representatives shall in any way be binding on the St. Johns Builders Exchange and same shall be of no force and effect unless expressly set forth in writing, signed and notarized by an authorized representative of St. Johns Builders Exchange.  User and members acknowledge that no representation has been made by St. Johns Builders Exchange, or any of St. Johns Builders Exchange’s agents, as to any income, income tax, or economic benefit to be derived from the use of this St. Johns Builders Exchange’s website. 

HEADINGS:  Paragraph and section headings are for guidance only and shall not be of any effect in construing the contents of respective paragraphs or sections.

REPLICATION PROHIBITED:  The information on St. Johns Builders Exchange website is provided for the sole use of St. Johns Builders Exchange members and users and any sharing, publication or replication is prohibited.

DISCLAIMER OF ACCURACY OF INFORMATION:  ERRORS OR OMISSIONS MAY OCCUR & READERS ARE ADVISED NOT TO RELY ON THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION.  THE PUBLISHER DISCLAIMS ANY & ALL LIABILITY ARISING FROM INACCURACY AND/OR  INCOMPLETENESS OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION.

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YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS, RULES AND REGULATIONS:
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the St. Johns Builders Exchange website or any of the St. Johns Builders Exchange services and is further affirmed by you becoming a member or a user.