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TERMS OF USE
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This Terms of Use Agreement (this “Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you and Noah Minuskin, doing business as HOUS STUDIOS (hereinafter referred to as “STUDIOS”, “we”, “us” or “our”) providing, among other things, the terms and conditions for your use of our Web site Hous-Studios.com (the “Site”).

We may from time to time modify these terms of use. If you do not agree to, or cannot comply with, the Agreement as amended, you should not use the Site. You will be deemed to have accepted the Agreement as amended if you continue to use the Site after any amendments are posted on the Site.

THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS WARRANTY AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMERS. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT WITHOUT ANY RESERVATIONS, MODIFICATIONS, ADDITIONS, OR DELETIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE SITE. YOU MAY BE DENIED ACCESS TO THE SITE WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY WITH ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

1. AUTHORIZED USERS

1.1 Age Requirement; Authority. In order to use the Site, you must be at least 18 years of age. You represent that (i) you have read and understood, and that you agree to be bound by, this Agreement and (ii) you are at least 18 years old. If you do not agree to, or cannot comply with, any of these terms and conditions of this Agreement, please do not attempt to access this Site.

2. LICENSE TO USE THE SITE

2.1 Grant of License. HOUS hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, personal, non-commercial license to access and use the Site. HOUS reserves all right, title and interest not expressly granted under this license to the fullest extent possible under applicable laws. ANY USE OF THE SITE NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

2.2 Restrictions. You agree that you will not; (i) use the Site to reproduce copyrighted material; (ii) copy, store, edit, change, prepare any derivative work of or alter in any way any of the content provided on this Site; or (iii) use our Site in any way that violates the terms of this Agreement.

3. SITE INFORMATION AND SERVICES

3.1 Information. We try to ensure that the information posted on the Site is correct and up-to-date. We reserve the right to change or make corrections to any of the information provided on this Site at any time and without any prior warning. We cannot, and do not, guarantee the correctness, precision, thoroughness or completeness of any of the information available on this Site, nor will we be liable for any inaccuracy or omission concerning any of the information provided on this Site.

3.2 SERVICES. HOUS services are arranged exclusively through this site Hous-Studios.com

4. PROHIBITED ACT

By using this Site, you represent, warrant and covenant that you will not; (a) impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity; (b) engage in spamming, flooding, harvesting of e-mail addresses or other personal information, spidering, “screen scraping,” “database scraping,” or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining list of users or other information, or send chain letters or pyramid schemes via the Site or (c) attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Site. You agree that you will not use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site.

5. COPYRIGHTS

As between you and HOUS, you acknowledge that HOUS owns or has a license to all title and copyrights in and to the content provided on this Site. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the licensed content provided on this Site is the property of the respective content owners and may be protected by the applicable copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties and subject to use restrictions under such laws or treaties.

6. TRADEMARKS AND THIRD-PARY TRADEMARKS

Hous Studios and Noah Minuskin are registered trademarks of Hous Studios, as well as all the other related trademarks and certain other HOUS trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos (collectively, “HOUS Trademarks”) used in connection with the sale and distribution of HOUS products. The Site may contain third-party trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos. You are not granted any right or license with respect to the HOUS trademarks or the trademarks of any third party.

7. PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 25, 2019

Hous Studios (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the Hous-studios.com website and the Hous Studios mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Definitions

  • Service

Service means the Hous-studios.com website and the Hous Studios mobile application operated by Hous Studios

  • Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

  • Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”).

This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service with a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Hous Studios uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service

  • To notify you about changes to our Service

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

  • To provide customer support

  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service

  • To monitor the usage of our Service

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Hous Studios will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

Hous Studios may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation

  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Hous Studios

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

  • PayPal / Braintree

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: Mail@hous-studios.com

8. TESTIMONIALS

If you submit to us or post a testimonial comment, review, suggestion or any work of authorship (collectively a “Comment”) to us, including, without limitation, Comments about our products or services, such Comments will not be confidential or secret, and may be used by us in any manner. By submitting or sending a Comment to us, you (i) represent and warrant that the Comment is original to you, that no other party has any rights thereto, and that any “moral rights” in such Comment have been waived, and (ii) you grant us a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sub licensable right and license to use, reproduce, publish, distribute, display, translate, summarize, modify and adapt such Comment (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, in our sole discretion, with or without your name.

9. TERM

This Agreement will remain effective until terminated by you or terminated by us.

10. DISCLAIMERS

10.1 THIS SITE (INCLUDING ALL ITS CONTENT) IS PROVIDED TO YOU ‚”AS IS”. ANY USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HOUS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. HOUS MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE THAT THIS SITE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, DESTRUCTION, DAMAGE, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND HOUS DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERTO.

10.2 HOUS MAKES NO GUARANTEES, REPRESENTATIVES, OR WARRANTIES THAT USE OR RESULT OF THE USE OF THE SITE (INCLUDING ALL OF ITS CONTENT) IS OR WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, UNINTERRUPTED OR WITHOUT ERRORS. WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE, HOUS MAY MODIFY, SUSPEND OR DISCONTINUE ANY ASPECT OR FEATURE OF THIS SITE OR YOUR USE OF THIS SITE. IF HOUS ELECTS TO MODIFY, SUSPEND OR DISCONTINUE THE SITE, IT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY.

10.3 YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR SUBMISSION OF ANY INFORMATION TO US IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. HOUS DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY TO YOU WITH REGARD TO ANY LOSS OR LIABILITY RELATING TO SUCH INFORMATION IN ANY WAY.

10.4 SOME OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE MATERIALS THAT BELONG TO THIRD PARTIES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HOUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH CONTENT.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABLITY 

11.1 TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW OR JURISDICTION, IN NO EVENT WILL HOUS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, CORRUPTION OF FILES, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION OR ANY OTHE PECUNIARY LOSS) EVEN IF HOUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY HOUS OR OTHERS WILL CREATE A WARRANTY AND NEITHER YOU NOR ANY THIRD PARTY MAY RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE. HOUS’S ENTIRE LIABILITY AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE DOLLAR (US $1.00).

12. INDEMNITY

YOU WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HOUS, ITS ASSIGNEES, ITS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS AND LICENSORS HARMLESS WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUITS OR CLAIMS ARISING OUT (I) YOUR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY INFRINGEMENT BY YOU OF THE COPYRIGHTS OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY; OR (II) YOUR USE OF MISUSE OF THE SITE.

13. GENERAL

13.1 You will be responsible for providing the dial-up, DSL cable modem or other form of Internet access and any other hardware and software necessary to access and use the Site.

13.2 The Site may present links to third-party Web sites not owned or operated by us. We are not responsible for the availability of these third-party sites or their contents. You agree that we are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any content of any such third-party site or goods or services available through any such third-party site.

13.3 The Site is owned by HOUS and is protected by any applicable copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You will not sublicense, assign, or transfer the license granted to you under this Agreement. Any attempt to sublicense, assign, or transfer any of the rights, duties, or obligations in violation of the provisions of this Agreement is void.

13.4 If you know of, or suspect, copyright infringement, please send a notice to HOUS at Mail@hous-studios.com

13.5 This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the California. The exclusive jurisdiction for any claim, action or dispute with HOUS or relating in any way to your use of the Site will be in the state and federal courts of the State of California and the venue for the adjudication or disposition of any such claim, action or dispute will be in the City of Los Angeles, California. All parties to this Agreement waive their respective rights to a trial by jury.

13.6 HOUS may send notices to you with respect to your use of the Site by sending an email message to the email address listed in your submission. You agree that we may provide notice to you through such means. Unless otherwise stated in the notices, the notices will become effective immediately.

13.7 General Contact Information. For questions regarding our products or this Site, please email us at Mail@hous-studios.com

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT, UNDERSTAND IT AND WILL BE BOUND BY THIS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS AGREEMENT REPRESENTS THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US AND THAT IT SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT ORAL OR WRITTEN AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN US RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT.

FOR OTHER COUNTRIES THAN USA

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

This Web-Site (hereinafter the “Web-Site”) is published by HOUS.

Access to the Web-Site and the use of its contents is subject to the conditions set out below. By accessing the Web Site the visitor accepts these conditions:

This Web-Site and all materials, text, code, content, software, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, formats, files, devices and links contained in it or linked to it (together “Content”) are protected by copyright, trademarks, and other rights of intellectual property owned by HOUS or licensed to HOUS.

Anyone accessing this site is entitled to view any part of it. However the Content must not be used nor reproduced (in whole or part) for any other purpose including without limitation on or in connection with any other Web-Site or publication or for direct commercial gain.

Visitors to this Web-Site acknowledge that their use of this Web-Site and its Content is at their own risk. If the visitor is dissatisfied with this Web-Site, its Content or these conditions then its only remedy is to discontinue use of the Web-Site. As a result, HOUS cannot be held liable for:

– Any inaccuracy or omission in respect of the information or material provided on the Web Site.

– Any modification of the information provided on the Web-Site by third parties; and save for liability which HOUS cannot by law restrict or exclude, HOUS shall have no liability to visitors to the Web-Site or any third party for any direct, special, indirect, consequential or incidental damages, exemplary or lost profits, or any other damages of any kind whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even where HOUS has been advised of the possibility of the same whether resulting from access to the Web-Site, inability to access the Web-Site any information or material directly or indirectly provided through the Web-Site or otherwise.

Each visitor to the Web-Site may provide HOUS with personal information. The provision of such personal information is optional and allows HOUS to contact the visitor by email, telephone, or post to provide the visitor with details about HOUS products or services or any other information which HOUS believes may be of interest. Each visitor can be contacted by HOUS for marketing purposes. Any queries concerning personal information held by HOUS should be addressed to:  Mail@hous-studios.com. HOUS informs visitors that their personal information will be stored by the company hosting the website and located in the United States. The chosen hosting company has certified that it complies with the Safe Harbor Principles which meet the adequacy standard for privacy protection.

HOUS may deposit << cookies >> in the visitor’s computer in order to identify them. Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server computer during a browsing session. Cookies are typically stored on the computer’s hard drive and are used by web-sites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. Security measures have been employed to prevent unauthorized access to visitor data. However, visitors acknowledge that HOUS does not control the transfer of data over telecommunication facilities including the Internet. Therefore, HOUS will not be responsible for any breach of security or the unauthorized disclosure or use of any such data on the Internet. Visitors may configure their browser to reject cookies.

Hypertext links to the Web-Site may only be included with prior written consent from HOUS. Websites or pages to which this site is linked (other than other websites operated by HOUS) are for information only and have not been reviewed by HOUS . HOUS has no responsibility for the content of such websites or pages and accepts no liability for any losses whatsoever that may be incurred as a result of any linking to the same.

This Web-Site is not directed at persons in a jurisdiction where any reason the Web-Site’s publication or availability is prohibited and any person for whom such a prohibition applies must not access the Web-Site. Those who access the Web-Site on their own initiative are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws or regulations.

If any provision of these conditions is or becomes invalid or contravenes applicable regulations then the remaining provisions will not be affected.

HOUS informs visitors to the Web-Site that these conditions can be modified at any time. As soon as these modifications are displayed on line, each visitor who accesses the Web-Site is assumed to accept these modifications without restriction.

These conditions will be governed by the laws of the USA, notwithstanding the applicability of any imperative local law as the case may be. Any action or claim related to the use of the Web-Site shall come under the jurisdiction of the state of California.