Trails and Tap - Terms, Disclaimer, and Privacy Policies

Trails and Tap Terms of Use, Disclaimer, and Privacy Policies

Access to and use of Trail and Tap’s website array of online resources and services is subject in all cases, and constitutes the user’s agreement, to the terms set forth herein, as well as in any particular section of the website.

By using the website and services available thereon in any way, you are agreeing to comply with these terms, together with any applicable posted guidelines for particular services, all of which may change from time to time.

Trails and Tap is also known as “Trails & Tap”, trailsandtap.com, trailsntap.com

These terms may be enforced by all available legal means.

In the event you object to or are not willing to fully comply with any of these terms, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of the website and all services thereon.

Copyright Information

All materials in any form on the trailsandtap.com website are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, modified, transmitted, distributed, shared, displayed, published, linked or broadcast without the prior written permission of Trails and Tap.

You are permitted to use material from the trailsandtap.com website (one machine readable copy and one print copy per page) for your personal, noncommercial use only. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the material.

Additional copyright information and restrictions appear below.

Copyright and Restrictions

All material and information displayed, transmitted or carried on the trailsandtap.com website (including, but not limited to, directories, guides, news articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, trademarks, service marks and the like in all currently available and future formats, collectively the “content”) is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Trails and Tap, its affiliates or third party licensors, owns the content of this website.

You may not copy, frame, cache, modify, publish, transmit, transfer, sell, reproduce, create derivative work from, distribute, repost, perform, archive, display, or in any way commercially exploit any of the content or infringe upon trademarks or service marks contained in such content. You agree to abide by all copyright notices and restrictions attached to any content accessed through the trailsandtap.com website, not to alter the content in any way, and not to alter or remove any trademark, copyright or any other notice from copies of the content.

Permitted Personal Use

You may make a single copy of the content displayed on the trailsandtap.com website for personal, noncommercial use only, provided that you do not remove any trademarks, copyright and any other notice contained in such content.

With the exception of that copy, you shall not archive or retain any content in any form without the written permission from Trails and Tap. You may not distribute (including via e-mail or the internet), or otherwise make available, copies to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, without the written permission from Trails and Tap, except through the use of the “email story” service provided by the website on each story. (For permission requests, see below.)

We do not allow other websites to republish our content under any circumstances, and no republication, whether with or without permission, shall waive any copyright or similar rights.

Permission Requests

You may submit requests in writing for permission to retain, distribute or reproduce content as stated above to:

Digital Media Director
Trails and Tap
e-mail: info@trailsandtap.com

General Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability and Indemnification

The trailsandtap.com website contains facts, views, opinions, statements and recommendations of third party individuals and organizations. The trailsandtap.com does not represent or endorse the accuracy, timeliness or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed, uploaded or distributed through the trailsandtap.com website. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such use of this website, opinion, advice, statement or information shall be at your sole risk. Trails and Tap makes no representation that materials or information available through this website are appropriate or available for use outside of the United States of America and access to them from territories where such materials or information is prohibited or illegal.

If you access this website from outside the United States of America, you are also responsible for compliance with all applicable laws in addition to the those of the United States of America. As a user of this website in any manner you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Trails and Tap from any and all claims and damages arising from or relating to any allegation regarding your use of this website, Trails and Tap’s use of any content or information you provide, and any violation of the terms and policies on this website by you.

Arbitration. By using this website, you agree to be bound by this Arbitration Agreement for any dispute or claims of any nature that arise from prior, current or future use of this website.

Advertising Generally

All of the statements, requirements, and restrictions herein apply equally to advertisements placed by merchants and others on any portion of the trailsandtap.com website from time to time as well as to all forms of classified advertising available through trailsandtap.com.

All advertising, and all transactions carried out pursuant thereto, should comply with all applicable laws in all respects, provided that Trails and Tap disclaims all responsibility for requiring or assuring such compliance.

Trails and Tap does not, by the publication of advertisements thereby endorse any product, merchant or person, or the terms of any transaction.

This website contains affiliate links, which means that we may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

All communications and transactions between individuals, businesses or other entities and advertisers (including classified advertisers) (“participants”) are solely between the participants and neither Trails and Tap, as the case may be, is a party in any respect to any such transaction.

Users of the website responding to classified advertising are solely responsible for and are encouraged to take particular care in communications with and the sharing of personal or financial information with advertisers, and also in effecting payment or other financial components of any transaction. Trails and Tap encourages users to be particularly aware of and familiarize themselves with current news media accounts of “scams” and dishonest commercial practices victimizing innocent parties who do not exercise sufficient care in the transfer of funds or other components of third party transactions.

Particular Rules

You agree not to post or otherwise utilize trailsandtap.com to make available any content that:

includes personal or identifying information about individual without his or her prior express consent;
may be pornographic or that depicts any human sexual conduct;
harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
may violate or facilitate the violation of the Fair Housing Act by stating, in any notice or ad fort he sale or rental of any dwelling, a discriminatory preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap (or violates any state or local law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of these or other characteristics);
may violate federal, state, or local equal employment opportunity laws, including but not limited to, stating in any advertisement for employment a preference or requirement based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability;
impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an employee or agent of Trails and Tap, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
is false, deceptive, misleading, or constitutes any marketing practice typically referred to as “bait and switch”;
infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property or other trade secret or proprietary rights of any party, or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationship;
constitutes or contains any matter that is within the categories commonly referred to as “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
includes links to commercial services or websites, except as may be expressly allowed in these terms;
advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by Georgia law;
contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers to disguise the origin of content transmitted through the website; or
disrupts the response speed of the website with an excessive amount of content (flooding attack) to the website, or that otherwise negatively affects other users’ ability to use the website.

Additionally, you agree not to:

contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose;
utilize the website services to “stalk” or otherwise harass anyone;
utilize the website services to collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes;
use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the website – unless expressly permitted by trailsandtap.com;
post non-local or otherwise irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
post the same item or service in more than one classified area;
attempt to gain unauthorized access to the computers that operate the trailsandtap.com website or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of,
interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the website; or
use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on trailsandtap.com without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof (an “automated posting device”), including without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals;
use any form of automated device or computer program (“flagging tool”) that enables the use of trailsandtap.com’s “flagging system” or other community moderation systems without each flag being manually entered by the person that initiates the flag (an “automated flagging device”), or use the flagging tool to remove posts of competitors, or to remove posts without a good faith belief that the post being flagged violates these terms; or
utilize a “Posting Agent”(third-party agent, service, or intermediary that offers to post content to the website on behalf of others). To moderate demands on trailsandtap.com’s resources, you may not use a Posting Agent to post content to the website without express permission or license from trailsandtap.com.
Correspondingly, Posting Agents are not permitted to post content on behalf of others, to cause content to be so posted, or otherwise access the website to facilitate posting content on behalf of others, except with express permission or license from trailsandtap.com, which may be denied in its sole discretion.

Additionally, you agree that the operator of the trailsandtap.com website may immediately remove any posting that it, in its sole discretion, determines is or may be in violation of any of the terms of use of the website.

Privacy Policies

General
Trails and Tap respects the privacy of every individual who visits the website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that Trails and Tap may collect and how we may use that information. This policy will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit the website.

Personal Data
Trails and Tap will not through our website collect any personally-identifiable information about you (for example, your name, address, telephone number, or email address (“personal data”) unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us.

When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may store and process that information to better understand how use of the website reflects user’s needs and how we can improve our products and services; we (or a fulfillment house or other third party on our behalf in connection with a promotion) may use that information to contact you; and/or we may provide third parties with data reflecting aggregate – but not individual – information about visitors to the website. We do not now and do not intend to sell, rent, or market personal data about any individual to third parties.

Additional Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may automatically (that is, not via registration) collect information about you that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to the trailsandtap.com website.

Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer/Cookies
When you view the trailsandtap.com website, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of what is typically referred to as a “Cookie” or similar file. Use of Cookies can assist us in tailoring the website to better match the interests and preferences of our visitors. Most internet browsers allow users to erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Your browser instructions or help functions should contain more information about these functions.

Additional Terms and Protection For Children
Trails and Tap encourages parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of the internet, and in particular the protection of their personal information and to remain aware of media reports and other sources of particular means by which children may be preyed upon by use of the internet.

Trails and Tap has no intention of collecting any personal data from individuals under thirteen years of age without parental consent. We will make an effort to include specific instructions to children not to submit such information on the website and take practical steps to ensure parental consent to such submission.

In the event the website runs a contest or other program that requires submission of information from children, parental consent will be a required part of any submissions. Notice may be provided in a number of ways, including sending an email message or a notice by postal mail. At any time you may write to the email address below to request a summary of any information we have retained or to ask that it be deleted.

Parents should be aware that the trailsandtap.com privacy policies will govern our use of personal data, but that information which is voluntarily given by children (or others) in chat sessions, email exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by third parties to generate unsolicited mail.

Governing Law

The policies herein and the use of this website are governed by Georgia law. Any claim related to the website or policies of Trails and Tap shall be brought only in a federal or state court in Dallas, Georgia, and within one year after the claim arises. Users of this website consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such court as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this website and policies. You agree that no such claim may be asserted as a class action. The trailsandtap.com is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please note the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. Your use of the website and submission of information constitute consent to such transfer. In the event case of any conflict between the terms of this website and its policies and the terms of any electronic or machine readable privacy policy, the terms stated in this website and its written policies shall control.

Modifications

We reserve the right, IN our sole discretion, to modify, add to, or otherwise modify these terms at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.

Contacting Us

For copyright, privacy related questions, permission requests, and other matters, we can be reached by contacting:

Trails and Tap
e-mail: info@trailsandtap.com