To establish eligibility you must answer all questions accurately.
Hardship-aid (hardship-aid.org) is a completely independent, privately held for profit entity. hardship-aid.org has no affiliation or relationship (financial or otherwise) with any political party, government agency, or any other outside group or persons. We pay our operating costs through our advertising revenue by having third party affiliate offers. Furthermore, hardship-aid.org is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education. We urge you not to pay any third party offer for assistance that you can get for free elsewhere. Any offers provided to customers who originated via a paid Google advertisement feature rate quotes on hardship-aid.org of no greater than 35.99% APR with terms from 61 days to 180 months. Your actual rate depends upon credit score, loan amount, loan term, and credit usage and history, and will be agreed upon between you and the actual lender. An example of total amount paid on a personal loan of $10,000 for a term of 36 months at a rate of 10% would be equivalent to $11,616.12 over the 36-month life of the loan. hardship-aid.org is a Marketing Lead Generator with its main office located at 1014 North Westlake Boulevard, Suite 14227, Westlake Village, California 91361, Telephone Number 888-517-9292. This site is directed at, and made available to, persons in the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii only.
PRIVACY POLICY - OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Hardship-aid's mission is to bring you and your family real resources and up-to-date information every day. On a daily basis The Team's best efforts are applied to finding the most useful resources and information that offer the most Value to our members. We accomplish this by creating relationships with independent, outside resources, which we hope will help you.
This site is owned and operated by Hardship-aid, a private, non-government, entity. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Hardship-aid, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our privacy policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
WHAT INFORMATION Hardship-aid GATHERS
Hardship-aid gathers the following kinds of personal information when it is voluntarily provided by our users:
1. First and last name
2. Street address, including city, state and zip code
3. Email addresses
4. Telephone numbers
5. Date of birth
6. Social Security Number
7. Gender
Hardship-aid also gathers certain information during or after your visit to our website, as described in greater detail below:
1. User traffic information on our website
2. Information that a member has completed a transaction on a third party website where the member has been referred by us at the member's request.
HOW Hardship-aid GATHERS INFORMATION
Hardship-aid gathers information about users in several different ways:
1. Information users provide through optional "Voluntary Submissions."
These are voluntary submissions you provide in order to sign up for our website, receive our electronic newsletters, participate in our message boards or forums, email a friend, and from your participation in polls, comments and surveys.
We offer the following optional free services, which require voluntary submission of personal information by users:
a. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches).
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users as well as email additional information and additional resources and offers to our members on a regular basis. Hardship-aid gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter or email correspondence that points users to the subscription management page. They can also unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to info@hardship-aid.org and stating that they wish to unsubscribe from receiving the newsletter.
b. Message boards/forums policy.
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
c. "E-mail this to a friend" policy.
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only to transmit the requested email, to let the recipient know who sent the email, and in case of transmission errors. The recipient's information is not retained or used for any other purpose.
d. Polling / Comments.
We may offer interactive polls and comments to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls and comments are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user other than the Member I.D. Hardship-aid may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with any information about individual users.
e. Surveys.
Hardship-aid may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We do not retain or share this information about specific individuals with any third party.
2. Information users specifically authorize us to share with a third party.
When you submit a request for information or for a quote from us in response to a benefit, an ad or an offer presented on our website or in an email, you are granting your permission to be contacted by Hardship-aid.org, its affiliates, the specified third party or other third parties offering products or services that may be of interest to you.
3. Information gathered through aggregated tracking.
This information is derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Hardship-aid derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users.
Hardship-aid tracks user traffic patterns throughout our entire site. In addition, Hardship-aid sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use such tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
4. Pixel notifications of transactions on referred third party websites.
If a user executes a transaction on a third party website where the member has been referred by us at the member's request, we receive a pixel notification confirming the transaction has taken place. No other personal information about the member, including any credit card or other sensitive personal information, is transmitted to us in connection with such notifications.
5. Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not collect any personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read any data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Hardship-aid uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
Our advertising system attempts to deliver a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
6. Google Analytics and Remarketing
We use a service provided by Google called Google Analytics (GA). GA permits us to reach people who have previously visited our site, and show them relevant advertisements when they visit other sites across the Internet in the Google Display Network. This is often called 'remarketing'. Cookies can be used to track your session on our website, to serve customized ads from Google and other third party vendors. When you visit this website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other third parties. Through first-party and third party cookies, these third parties may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and across the Internet obtained from your prior visits to this website and elsewhere on the Internet. We do not collect this information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see.
Opting Out of Google Analytics
You may be able to opt out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences) and the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on ( http://www.google.ca/ads/preferences/plugin).
Your use of this website without opting out of the Google Display Network ads means that you understand and agree to this data collection to provide you with remarketing ads using GA and cookies from other third party vendors based on your visits to this website and elsewhere on the Internet.
USE OF INFORMATION
Hardship-aid uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free.
Hardship-aid uses information voluntarily given by our users for the following purposes:
1. To enhance the experience of users of our network, whether to provide interactivity or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
2. To send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We do not share our newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
3. To share information you provide to us, including on a request form for a particular offer or quotation, with affiliated or third party advertisers or offer providers for the particular offer or quotation requested by the user.
4. To share information you provide to us, including on request forms for offers or quotations, with other unaffiliated third parties that offer products or services that may be of interest to you.
5. To determine whether a member has completed a transaction on a third party website where the member has been referred by us at the member's request.
6. To create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. These reports do not provide any information or usage patterns about individual users.
7. To comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
If you choose to opt in to a benefit, an ad or an offer supplied by an affiliate or third party, we will transfer nonpublic personally identifiable information you have provided to us, including information on the request form, to that party with your authorization.
In addition, we will share nonpublic personally identifiable information you have provided to us, including on request forms for offers or quotations, with other unaffiliated third parties that offer products or services that may be of interest to you. You have the right to opt out of the disclosure of nonpublic personally identifiable information about you to nonaffiliated third parties by following the OPT-OUT procedure described below.
Among the categories of nonpublic personally identifiable information we may share with affiliates and nonaffiliated third parties are your:
1. First and last name
2. Street address, including city, state and zip code
3. Email addresses
4. Telephone numbers
5. Date of birth
6. Social Security Number
7. Gender
We may share such information with unaffiliated third party marketing companies that present consumer offers relating to products or services you may be interested in for financial companies, insurance companies, lenders, retailers, companies offering discounted products and/or services, sweepstakes companies and companies presenting opportunities to participate in surveys, among others.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
1. Opting not to register for our website or to receive our electronic newsletters or emails.
2. Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, such as message boards, forums, surveys and polls.
3. Opting not to request to participate in a benefit, an ad or an offer supplied by an affiliate or third party.
4. Opting out at any time from having your nonpublic personally identifiable information shared with any unaffiliated third parties by:
a) changing your privacy preferences by clicking here, or
b) sending an e-mail to info@hardship-aid.org and notifying us that you wish to opt-out from such sharing
THIRD PARTY - OUTSIDE LINK DISCLAIMER
Any links to external, or third party websites, are provided solely for users' convenience. Links to other sites are used at your own risk and Hardship-aid accepts no liability for any linked sites or their content. The existence of a link from Hardship-aid.org to any external website does not imply or mean that Hardship-aid endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such website. Hardship-aid makes no representations regarding the quality, safety, suitability, or reliability of any external websites or any of the content or materials contained in them. It is important for users to take necessary precautions, especially to ensure appropriate safety from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other potentially destructive items. When you access an external website, keep in mind that Hardship-aid has no control over its content, standards or privacy policies, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms of use for any such sites to learn more about, what, why and how they collect and use any nonpublic personally identifiable information.
SECURITY
Hardship-aid operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our members.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request nonpublic personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. Hardship-aid requires all users to provide their date of birth at the time of registration, and no one under the age of 18 may enroll as a user of Hardship-aid.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS: California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to either: (1) a list detailing the categories of information shared and the entities to which such information was provided; or (2) be notified of a mechanism by which a consumer may opt-out of having their information shared with third parties. We have elected to comply with the second option. (See OPT-OUT POLICY above.)
If you wish to opt out from having your nonpublic personally identifiable information shared with any unaffiliated third parties by sending an e-mail to optout@Hardship-aid.org and notifying us that you wish to opt-out from such sharing.
CALIFORNIA "DO NOT TRACK" LAW: This website does not honor any "Do Not Track" signals that are provided by user's browsers. However, Hardship-aid does not collect or authorize the collection by any third party of any nonpublic personally identifiable information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across different Web sites or online services, with the exception of the notification we receive when a member has completed a transaction on a third party website where the member has been referred by us at the member's request and as described below in connection with Google Analytics.
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. We can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with our Website so we can improve it. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. Google uses cookies and IP addresses, and it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information related to Google Analytics, click here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-On. For information about and to install Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, click here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
OPT-OUT / OPT-IN PROCEDURES FOR EMAIL, SMS TEXT AND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS:
We, our affiliate(s) and/or other unaffiliated third parties may also promote product and service offerings via e-mail, sms-text message, or telephone to consumers who expressly agree to be contacted either through our Site's online forms, our Site's Opt-in process or through an Opt-In process on the website of a third-party vendor or affiliate ("List Members"). List Members will receive any emails or other communications they agree to receive for as long as they wish to continue to receive such contacts.
List Members can be removed from our contact lists at any time with no questions asked. To remove your information from our database, discontinue receiving future communications from us or no longer receive our service, you may:
1) Send an e-mail to info@hardship-aid.org, or
2) Go to http://www.hardship-aid.org/login?goto=email-settings.
Please note that your ability to participate in certain activities offered on our Site may be limited if nonpublic personally identifiable information is not submitted for the user. E-mail addresses and phone numbers received in an opt-out request will be added to our internal Do-Not-Contact registry within ten (10) days following receipt. Unless we hear from you, we will assume you consent to receiving communications from us and our third-party vendors and affiliates.
If a List Member chooses to be removed from our contact list, if applicable, we will also forward this request to the specific third-party vendor or affiliate who provided List Member's informational request to us so that the List Member may be included on the third-party's Do-Not-Contact registry as well. Please bear in mind that if your information was purchased commercially from a third-party vendor or affiliate, Hardship-aid.org may not be the only purchaser of your information. Additionally, any third-party vendor or affiliate may have purchased your contact information from an independent third-party and thus you may continue to receive contacts from those third-party companies. Hardship-aid.org is not responsible for stopping all unwanted contact from sources beyond our immediate control. We are a CAN-SPAM compliant company.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
In the event we change this privacy policy, we will forward an email notification to all users that have provided us with and maintained a current email address. In addition, we will post any such changes on this page so that you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as described in this Privacy Policy by Hardship-aid.
Privacy Policy Update: Monday, July 27th, 2015.
Effective Date: July 1, 2015
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY. By registering with us or using or browsing this Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. By providing the information required by the Web site (the 'Site'), you will be enabling us ('we' or 'our') to provide such information to its third party partners (the 'Partners') consistent with the terms of our Privacy Policy, who will be contacting you to provide you information or quotes for their products or services. In signing up on the Site, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions of use ('Terms and Conditions').
This Site is provided for your and others' personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms and Conditions of use and all modifications thereto, and any other rules or guidelines, including (without limitation) any sweepstakes rules that may be published from time to time on this Site. We reserve the right to modify the Site and any element thereof from time to time, for any reason without notice. You should check these Terms and Conditions periodically for changes, as we also reserve the right to modify them at any time. The date of the current version of these Terms and Conditions is noted above. Your use of the Site following any modifications to these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to be your assent to any such modifications.
Conditions for Use of the Site
As a condition to your visit and use of the Site, you represent and warrant that:
1. You are at least 18 years of age and possess the legal authority to enter into an agreement and to use the Site in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
2. All information supplied by you is true and accurate; without limitation of the foregoing, the provision of any speculative, incorrect, misleading, false or fraudulent information is prohibited;
3. You understand and agree that, consistent with the terms of our Privacy Policy, we may share nonpublic personally identifiable information and other information provided by, and aggregated information about, you and other users with our Partners, sponsors, advertisers, service providers and marketers, lookup and reference services, other unaffiliated third parties, and other entities that are able to provide its users with special offers and opportunities, as more fully described in the Privacy Policy.
4. You understand that any abuse of the Site may result in your being denied access to such Site, as determined by our sole discretion;
5. You understand and agree that, in addition to these Terms and Conditions, the Site will be governed by the official rules applicable to a particular promotion or offer, if any;
6. You agree you will not:
• Harvest, sweep, or use any other means, to collect information about users of the Site;
• Use automated means, including spiders, robots, bots, scripts, crawlers, or the like, in connection with any activity on the Site;
• Resell, assign, sublicense, otherwise transfer, or delegate your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions without our prior express written authorization;
• Modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, link, display or in any way exploit any Site content; or
• 8. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions or the terms stated on the Site, use any information you may obtain from the Site (including without limitation, user information) to send any other person unsolicited messages, commercial or otherwise, by electronic, telephonic, postal or other means.
7. We reserve the right to reject any registration application from any person with or without cause at its sole discretion. We reserve the right to terminate a user account in the event that such user provides false or misleading registration information or otherwise violates any term of these Terms and Conditions (as determined by our sole discretion). Your status as a registered user does not create an employment relationship, an independent contractor relationship, an agency relationship, or any other relationship other than as a registered user.
Site Terms and Conditions
8. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Site and compliance with these terms.
9. This Site is not directed to anyone younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Site represents that they are 13 years of age or older.
10. You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Site:
• In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
• in a manner that 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;
• to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms and Conditions, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
• in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
• in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
• in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
• in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
• to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Site without authorization;
• to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or prevent others from using this Site, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Site, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Site;
• to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Site or the content contained therein;
• to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
• in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
• in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Site or to users; and
• in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
11. Additionally, you agree not to:
• "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
• Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
• Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Site or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Site for the purposes of automating logins to this Site;
• Post any content containing child pornography to this Site;
• Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
• Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
• Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Site - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
• Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure;
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Site;
• Use this Site as a generic file hosting service;
• Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Site or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Site); and
• Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Site.
To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Site, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.
12. You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Site to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Site Terms and Conditions inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Site platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Site Terms and Conditions. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Site are provided by this Site's online service provider. However, the Site Creator of this Site controls the content, membership and policy of this Site, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Site. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Site you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Site and participation with this Site.
Compliance With Law
By visiting this Site or participating in games and activities on the Site, you agree to comply with all relevant local, state, provincial, and federal laws and/or regulations that may be applicable to your visitation and/or participation.
Third Party Content/Promotions, Third Party Products, and Third Party Site Activities
The Site may display and make available content, promotions, advertisements, and offers provided by third parties, including the Partners ('Third Party Promotions'), as well as goods and services offered by third parties, including the Partners ('Third Party Products'). You understand and agree that we shall not be responsible and shall have no liability for any Third Party Promotions or Third Party Products or for your activities on any third party sites for whom we display offers ('Third Party Site Activity'), and that you participate in or choose to click on a Third Party Promotion, purchase and/or use a Third Party Product, or participate in a Third Party Site Activity solely at your own risk. You agree that your sole remedy in connection with any Third Party Promotion, Third Party Product or Third Party Site Activity will be through the applicable third party offering the Third Party Promotion, Third Party Product or Third Party Site Activity, and that you shall have no remedy against us arising from your use of (or participation in), or inability to use (or participate in), any Third Party Promotion, Third Party Product or Third Party Site Activity.
Intellectual Property Rights
The Site contains intellectual property owned by us and other parties. As between us and you, we are the sole owner of the Site and all materials on or available through the Site, including without limitation, all applicable U.S. and non-U.S. copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights thereto (collectively, the 'Site Content').
Except as otherwise specifically provided in these Terms and Conditions, you may not download or save a copy of the Site content or any portion thereof, for any purpose; however, you may print a copy of individual screens appearing as part of the Site content solely for your personal, non-commercial use or records, provided that any marks, logos or other legends that appear on the copied screens remain on, and are not removed from the printed or stored images of such screens. Except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, you may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit any portion of the Site content unless you first obtain prior written consent from us and from any other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property. To seek our permission, you may write to us at the address provided below. Any unauthorized attempt to modify any Site content, to defeat or circumvent our security features, or to utilize this Site for other than its intended purposes is strictly prohibited.
Linked Sites
You may be able to link to third parties' Web sites ('Linked Sites') from the Site. Linked Sites are not, however, reviewed, controlled or examined by us in any way and we are not responsible for the content, availability, advertising, products or other materials of any such Linked Sites, or any additional links contained therein. Except as otherwise noted on the Site, these links do not imply our endorsement of or association with the Linked Sites. It is your sole responsibility to comply with the appropriate rules and guidelines, if any, applicable to the use of the Linked Sites. In no event shall we be liable, directly or indirectly, to anyone for any loss or damage arising from or occasioned by the creation or use of links to the Linked Sites, the Linked Sites themselves, your participation in activities on such Linked Sites, or the information, material, products or services accessed through these Linked Sites. You should direct any concerns to that site's administrator or webmaster. We reserve the exclusive right, at our sole discretion, to add, change, decline or remove, without notice, any feature or link to any of the Linked Sites from the Site and/or introduce different features or links.
Other sites may link to the Site only through a plain-text link. Permission must be granted by us for any other type of link. To seek our permission, you may write to us at the address provided below. We reserve the right, however, to deny or rescind any permission granted by us to link through a plain-text link or any other type of link, and to require termination of any such link to the Site, at our discretion, at any time.
Submissions
Any notes, postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts, or other material submitted through this Site via e-mail or any means that we may create or provide in the future will become our property throughout the world and we shall be entitled (without any obligation to compensate any party) to use such material in perpetuity in any form and manner in any media, whether known or hereafter devised, and you will not have any claim against us with respect to such use. You agree that, in the event you make a submission to us, it is original with you, accurate and does not violate (and its use will not violate) the rights of any third party or any applicable law or ordinance.
Authorization/Consent for Methods of Communications
This confirms your authorization and consent for us (or our agents, including Trumpia, to communicate with you (including through automated means, such as autodialing, text and pre-recorded messaging) by telephone, cellular phone, email or text message (including SMS and MMS), even if your telephone number is currently listed on any state, federal or corporate Do Not Call list. This authorization may be revoked by you at any time, but it shall remain in effect until you notify us that this authorization is revoked.
SMS subscribers can expect to receive no more than one SMS per day from us. SMS communications work with the following carriers: AT&T®, Sprint®, Boost®, Verizon Wireless®, U.S. Cellular®, Cellular One®, and T-Mobile®, MetroPCS®. Msg&Data Rates May Apply. SMS Content sent by us will include benefits and resources pertinent to the individual subscriber. Subscribers can text HELP to any message received from us for help, or call 888-517-9292 Text STOP to any message received from us to be removed from the program. T-Mobile® is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Privacy Policy
The information collected and used on the Site is governed by our Privacy Policy.
Infringement and Regulatory Complaints
We will cooperate with any law enforcement authorities and comply with any judicial order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone uploading, downloading, or posting materials, or otherwise using this Site in violation of any applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Except as expressly set forth herein, we are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information or entry of information, whether caused by users of the Site or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in connection with the Site or the products or services provided on or through the Site, or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of information received by us. We assume no responsibly for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or authorized access to, or alteration of, information received or submitted in connection with the Site. We arenot responsible for any problems, errors or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, or software, or any failure of e-mail on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from use of the Site or Site Content.
THIS SITE, INCLUDING THE SITE CONTENT IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND 'AS AVAILABLE,' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, WE AND OUR PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, PARTNERS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, ADVERTISORS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (i) ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, APPROPRIATENESS, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, USEFULNESS, OR OTHERWISE OF THE SITE, AND THE SITE CONTENT; AND (ii) ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HOUSING-AID.ORG DOES NOT WARRANT OR GUARANTEE (1) THAT ANY PORTION OF THE SITE OR THE SITE CONTENT WILL BE FREE OF INFECTION BY VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES OR ANYTHING ELSE MANIFESTING CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES; OR (2) THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE OR SITE CONTENT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU INSOFAR AS THEY RELATE TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL WE, OUR PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, PARTNERS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, ADVERTISERS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND EMPLOYEES AND SHAREHOLDERS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY (i) FOR ANY INDIRECT, DIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE), OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE AVAILABILITY, USE, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR SITE CONTENT, EVEN IF ALL SUCH PARTIES SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE; OR (ii) FOR ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN, OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF THE SITE OR THE SITE CONTENT.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us, our parents, subsidiaries, partners, agents, affiliates, licensors, advertisers, successors and assigns and their respective officers, directors, employees and shareholders harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising in any way from, in connection with or as a result of your use or inability to use the Site and or Site Content, any information provided to you by the Site, or any violation of these Terms and Conditions by you.
YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY AGREE TO WAIVE ANY AND ALL LAWS THAT MAY LIMIT THE EFFICACY OF SUCH RELEASES, INCLUDING, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE TO WAIVE THE PROVISIONS OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH PROVIDES 'A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IS KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.'
Arbitration of Disputes
You agree that any disputes or claims between us, including our successors and assigns and our Affiliates, third party subcontractors and/or agents, arising out of or relating to the Site, these Terms and Conditions or the services to be provided thereunder (whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, equitable relief, misrepresentation or any other legal theory including state and federal statutory claims), at the option of either party, shall be resolved exclusively by neutral binding arbitration conducted and administered by a single arbitrator by and under the applicable rules of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"). See www.adr.org for additional information regarding the AAA. This arbitration agreement is made pursuant to a transaction involving interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16. The arbitrator shall be selected in accordance with the applicable AAA rules. The arbitration hearing shall be conducted in the federal district in which you reside. In all arbitrations, each party will bear its own expenses, unless allocated differently in the discretion of the arbitrator. The parties and their respective successors and assigns retain the right to seek provisional remedies from a court, pending final determination of the dispute by the arbitrator. Any arbitration must be brought within the applicable statute of limitations or statute of repose period. If any part of this arbitration clause is deemed to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, the balance of this arbitration clause shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. If the entire arbitration clause is deemed to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, the remaining terms of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, including the waiver of the right to proceed in a class action. THE PARTIES AGREE TO WAIVE THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CONSOLIDATED OR CLASS ACTION AND AGREE THAT ALL FORMS OF CLASS ACTION OR CLASS ARBITRATION ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. THE PARTIES UNDERSTAND THEY WILL NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY A COURT OR A JURY AND THAT THE INFORMATION THAT CAN BE OBTAINED IN DISCOVERY FROM EACH OTHER OR FROM THIRD PERSONS IN ARBITRATION IS GENERALLY MORE LIMITED THAN IN A LAWSUIT. IN ADDITION, OTHER RIGHTS THAT THE PARTIES WOULD HAVE IN COURT MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.
Limitation of Actions
You acknowledge and agree that, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you may have arising out of, or relating to, your use of the Site or Site content must be filed within one (1) year after the accrual of such claim or cause of action, or forever be barred.
Applicable Laws / Jurisdiction
You agree that the laws of California, excluding its conflicts-of-law rules, shall govern your use of the Site, the Site Content, and these Terms and Conditions. Your use of the Site may be subject to other local, state, national, and international laws.
We control and operate this Site from our offices in the United States of America. We do not represent that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access this Site from other locations do so on their own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Miscellaneous
All of these Terms and Conditions shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be modified or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto, and supercede any other agreement, promise, or practice between the parties relating to the subject matter hereto. We reserve the right to terminate these Terms and Conditions and/or to terminate your access to and ability to use the Site (or any portion thereof), at any time (with or without notice). No waiver by either party of any right hereunder shall constitute a waiver of this or any other right.
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