Terms of Service
Terms of Service TERMS OF USE OF OCCVIP.COM
DEFINITIONS A "user" is someone who accesses, browses, crawls, scrapes, or in any way uses the Site. The terms "you" and "your" refer to you, as a user of the Site. The terms "we," "us," "our," or "OCC VIP" refer to OCC VIP, LLC, an Alabama limited liability company.
"Content" means all of the text, images, photos, audio, video, and all other forms of data or communication. "User Content" means Content that you submit or transmit to or through the Site, such as reviews, compliments, comments, invitations, advice, photographs, videos, and information that you display. "OCC VIP Content" means Content that we create and make available on the Site. "Third Party Content" means Content that is made available on the Site by parties other than OCC VIP or its users, such as data providers who license data to OCC VIP for use on the Site.
BINDING EFFECT. This is a binding agreement. By using the Internet site located at www.occvip.com, or in the alternative, sites that redirect from www.occvip.com, (the "Site") or any service connected with the Site (the "Services"), you agree to abide by these Terms of Use, as they may be amended by OCC VIP from time to time in its sole discretion. OCC VIP will post a notice on the Site any time these Terms of Use have been changed or otherwise updated. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use periodically, and if at any time you find these Terms of Use unacceptable, you must immediately leave the Site and cease all use of the Site or Services. YOU AGREE THAT BY USING THE SITE OR SERVICES, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 13 (16 in the EU) YEARS OLD AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
PRIVACY POLICY. OCC VIP respects your privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. A complete statement of OCC VIP's current privacy policy can be found by clicking here. OCC VIP's privacy policy is expressly incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
When you are required to open an account to use or access the Site or to purchase goods or products via the Site, you must complete the account registration process by providing the complete and accurate information requested on the relevant account information page. You will be asked to provide a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You may not use the account or password of someone else at any time. You agree to notify OCC VIP immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or password. OCC VIP shall not be liable for any loss that you incur as a result of someone else using your account or password, either with or without your knowledge. You may be held liable for any losses incurred by OCC VIP, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, or representatives due to someone else's use of your account or password.
LICENSE OF SOFTWARE. OCC VIP may make certain software available to you from the Site. If you use the Site and/or Services, and/or download images, files, content, or software from the Site, such Software, including all files and images contained in or generated by the Site, Services, or software, and accompanying data (collectively, "Software"), is deemed to be licensed to you by OCC VIP, for your personal and noncommercial use only. OCC VIP does not transfer either the title or the intellectual property rights to the Software, and OCC VIP retains full and complete title to the Software as well as all intellectual property rights therein. You may not sell, redistribute, or reproduce the Software, nor may you decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or otherwise convert the Software to a human-perceivable form.
USER CONTENT. You grant OCC VIP a license to use the User Content and materials you post to the Site. By posting, downloading, displaying, performing, transmitting, or otherwise distributing User Content to the Site, you are granting OCC VIP, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives a license to use User Content in connection with the operation of the Internet business of OCC VIP, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives, including without limitation, a right to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat User Content. You agree that OCC VIP may publish or otherwise disclose your name in connection with your User Content. By posting User Content on the Site, you warrant and represent that you own the rights to the User Content or are otherwise authorized to post, distribute, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute User Content.
COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS. When accessing or using the Site, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or Content in violation of any party's copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any laws and for any infringements of any intellectual property rights caused by any Content you provide, post, or transmit, or that is provided or transmitted using your user name or user ID. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or intellectual property rights rests solely with you.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP. Except for User-Generated Content, to which OCC VIP only claims a license to use from the User who uploaded/generated such content, all other content included on the Site and Service, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio and/or video media, digital downloads, data compilations, and Software, is the property of OCC VIP and is protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. The compilation of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of OCC VIP and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of OCC VIP or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international intellectual property laws.
You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of OCC VIP and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta-tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing OCC VIP's name or trademarks without the express written consent of OCC VIP. You may not use any direct linking or source-calling of any media presented on this website.
INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. OCC VIP has in place certain legally mandated procedures regarding allegations of copyright and other forms of intellectual property infringement occurring on the Site. OCC VIP's policy is to investigate any allegations of intellectual property infringement brought to its attention. If you have evidence, know, or have a good faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third party have been violated and you want OCC VIP to delete, edit, or disable the material in question, you must provide OCC VIP with all of the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the subject work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringed or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit OCC VIP to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit OCC VIP to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. For this notification to be effective, you must provide it to OCC VIP's designated agent at: info@occvip.com
PROHIBITED CONTENT. You shall not make the following types of Content available. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any Content that:
- (9.1) is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening, or that you know is false or misleading;
- (9.2) advocates or encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation;
- (9.3) is patently offensive or promotes or otherwise incites racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- (9.4) harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- (9.5) exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- (9.6) contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
- (9.7) solicits or is designed to solicit personal information from or about any minor;
- (9.8) contains information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
- (9.9) constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- (9.10) involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
- (9.11) contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- (9.12) solicits or is designed to solicit passwords or personal identifying information from other Users;
- (9.13) involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from OCC VIP;
- (9.14) includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent; or
- (9.15) violates or attempts to violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person.
OCC VIP reserves the right to terminate your receipt, transmission, or other distribution of any such material using the Site or Service, and, if applicable, to delete any such material from its servers. OCC VIP intends to cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials or agencies in the investigation of any violation of these Terms of Use or of any applicable laws.
PROHIBITED CONDUCT. You are also prohibited from engaging in the following activities, or assisting others in engaging in the following activities, in using the Site or Services:
- (10.1) threatening, stalking, defrauding another person, or inciting, harassing, or advocating the harassment of another person, or otherwise interfering with another user's use of the Site;
- (10.2) using the Site in a manner that may create a conflict of interest, such as trading reviews with other business owners or writing or soliciting shill reviews;
- (10.3) using the Site to promote bigotry or discrimination;
- (10.4) using the Site to solicit personal information from minors or to harm or threaten to cause harm to minors;
- (10.5) using the site for commercial or promotional purposes, advertising or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods or services, displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Site or Service on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content in a product review, placing links to e-commerce sites not authorized by OCC VIP in a product review, placing links to blogs or forums with a commercial purpose, or otherwise attempting to post messages or advertisements with a commercial purpose;
- (10.6) engaging in criminal or tortious activity, including, but not limited to, fraud, harassment, defamation, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
- (10.7) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access;
- (10.8) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, including circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the Site or Service;
- (10.9) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any User, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mail bombing," or "crashing";
- (10.10) using the Site to send unsolicited e-mails, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services;
- (10.11) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting;
- (10.12) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by OCC VIP in providing the Site;
- (10.13) using the Site for keyword spamming or to otherwise attempt to manipulate natural search results;
- (10.14) recording, processing, or mining information about other users;
- (10.15) using any viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network, or using any other automated system in order to harvest e-mail addresses or other data from the Site or Service for the purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorized material;
- (10.16) modifying, copying, distributing, downloading, scraping or transmitting in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, any Content from the OCC VIP Services other than your User Content which you legally post on, through or in connection with your use of the Site;
- (10.17) providing or using "tracking" or monitoring functionality in connection with the Site or Service, including, without limitation, to identify other Users' views, actions or other activities on the Site;
- (10.18) interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the OCC VIP's Site or the networks or services connected to the OCC VIP's Site;
- (10.19) impersonating or attempting to impersonate OCC VIP or an OCC VIP employee, administrator or moderator, another User, or person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of e-mail addresses associated with or of any of the foregoing);
- (10.20) using or distributing any information obtained from the OCC VIP's Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same;
- (10.21) using invalid or forged headers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted to or through OCC VIP's computer systems, or otherwise misrepresenting yourself or the source of any message or Content;
- (10.22) engaging in, either directly or indirectly, or encouraging others to engage in, click-throughs generated through any manner that could be reasonably interpreted as coercive, incentivized, misleading, malicious, or otherwise fraudulent; or
- (10.23) using the Site in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
ALLEGED VIOLATIONS. OCC VIP reserves the right to terminate your use of the Site and Service, and, in its sole discretion, to reject, to refuse to post, or to delete any Content on the Site for any reason. To ensure that OCC VIP provides a high-quality experience for you and for other Users of the Site, you agree that OCC VIP or its representatives may access your account and records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or allegations of abuse, infringement of third-party rights, or other prohibited uses of the Site. OCC VIP does not intend to disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law, but OCC VIP reserves the right to terminate your account or your access to the Site immediately, with or without notice to you, and without liability to you, if OCC VIP believes that you have violated any of the Terms of Use, furnished OCC VIP with false or misleading information, or interfered with use of the Site by other Users.
OCC VIP assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Site for prohibited Content or conduct. If at any time OCC VIP chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Site, OCC VIP assumes no responsibility or liability for User Content or conduct, assumes no obligation to modify or remove prohibited Content, and assumes no responsibility or liability for prohibited User conduct.
If you become aware of misuse of the Site or of any prohibited Content or conduct, please report it to OCC VIP by clicking on the "Contact Us" link on the left-hand side of the Site's home page and sending us an email through the mechanism provided on the Contact Us web page.
ACCEPTANCE OF ORDERS. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to refuse or cancel any order for any reason. For your convenience, you will be charged upon ordering and your order will be shipped within the time stated on the product-specific page or mentioned under the "Shipping and Returns" and/or "International Shipping" webpages of the Site. Your order may be canceled due to, but is not limited to, limitations on quantities available for purchase, inaccuracies or errors in product or pricing information, or credit or fraud problems. We will contact you if any portion of your order is canceled or if additional information is required to accept your order. If your order is canceled after we have received payment, we will issue a credit by the charged payment method for the amount of the charge.
ORDER QUANTITY LIMITATIONS. We reserve the right to limit the quantity of items purchased per person, per household, or per order. These restrictions may be applicable to orders placed by the same payment account and also to orders that use the same billing and/or shipping address, or same e-mail address. We will provide notification to the customer e-mail and/or billing address provided should such limits be applied. We also reserve the right to prohibit sales to dealers or other corporations or institutions. If you are interested in purchasing multiple quantities of items for a corporation or institution, please contact us through our "Contact Us" webpage on the Site.
NO WARRANTIES. OCC VIP HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES. OCC VIP IS MAKING THE SITE AVAILABLE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGE OR LOSS FROM USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OCC VIP EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. OCC VIP DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.
LIMITED LIABILITY. OCC VIP'S LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL OCC VIP BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA, REGARDLESS OF THE FORESEEABILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY OCC VIP. This limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action.
AFFILIATED SITES. OCC VIP has no control over, and no liability for any third-party websites or materials. OCC VIP works with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because neither OCC VIP nor the Site has control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, OCC VIP makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and OCC VIP assumes no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the Site, you may have access to content items (including, but not limited to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that OCC VIP makes no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third-party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Use shall govern your use of any and all third-party content.
INDEMNITY. You agree to indemnify OCC VIP for certain of your acts and omissions. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless OCC VIP, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third-party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the Site, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. OCC VIP will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide you with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.
GOVERNING LAW. These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Alabama, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in Alabama in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site.
TEXT MARKETING NOTIFICATIONS. By subscribing to OCC VIP text notifications, you agree to receive automated marketing text messages from us about our products and services at the phone number you provided when you subscribed, and that the messages may be sent via automatic telephone dialing system or other technology. Message frequency is recurring. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE or QUIT to opt-out and HELP for customer support. You may receive an additional text message confirming your decision to opt-out. You understand and agree that attempting to opt-out by any means other than texting the opt-out commands above is not a reasonable means of opting out.
SMS/MMS MOBILE MESSAGE MARKETING PROGRAM TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
OCC VIP, LLC (hereinafter, âWe,â âUs,â âOurâ) is offering a mobile messaging program (the âProgramâ), which you agree to use and participate in subject to these Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy https://occvip.com/policies/privacy-policy (the âAgreementâ). By opting in to or participating in any of our Programs, you accept and agree to these terms and conditions, including, without limitation, your agreement to resolve any disputes with us through binding, individual-only arbitration, as detailed in the âDispute Resolutionâ section below. This Agreement is limited to the Program and is not intended to modify other Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy that may govern the relationship between you and Us in other contexts.
User Opt-In: The Program allows Users to receive SMS/MMS mobile messages by affirmatively opting into the Program, such as through online or application-based enrollment forms. Regardless of the opt-in method you utilized to join the Program, you agree that this Agreement applies to your participation in the Program. By participating in the Program, you agree to receive autodialed or prerecorded marketing mobile messages at the phone number associated with your opt-in, and you understand that consent is not required to make any purchase from Us. While you consent to receive messages sent using an autodialer, the foregoing shall not be interpreted to suggest or imply that any or all of Our mobile messages are sent using an automatic telephone dialing system (âATDSâ or âautodialerâ). Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.
User Opt-Out: If you do not wish to continue participating in the Program or no longer agree to this Agreement, you agree to reply STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT to any mobile message from Us in order to opt out of the Program. You may receive an additional mobile message confirming your decision to opt out. You understand and agree that the foregoing options are the only reasonable methods of opting out. You acknowledge that our text message platform may not recognize and respond to unsubscribe requests that alter, change, or modify the STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE or QUIT keyword commands, such as the use of different spellings or the addition of other words or phrases to the command, and agree that OCC VIP and its service providers will have no liability for failing to honor such requests. You also understand and agree that any other method of opting out, including, but not limited to, texting words other than those set forth above or verbally requesting one of our employees to remove you from our list, is not a reasonable means of opting out.
Program Description: Without limiting the scope of the Program, users that opt into the Program can expect to receive messages concerning the marketing, promotion, payment, delivery, and sale of apparel, drinkware, decals, and other goods found on site. Messages may include checkout reminders.
Cost and Frequency: Message and data rates may apply. You agree to receive messages periodically at Our discretion. Daily, weekly, and monthly message frequency will vary. The Program involves recurring mobile messages, and additional mobile messages may be sent periodically based on your interaction with Us.
Support Instructions: For support regarding the Program, text âHELPâ to the number you received messages from or email us at info@occvip.com. Please note that the use of this email address is not an acceptable method of opting out of the program. Opt outs must be submitted in accordance with the procedures set forth above.
MMS Disclosure: The Program will send SMS TMs (terminating messages) if your mobile device does not support MMS messaging.
Our Disclaimer of Warranty: The Program is offered on an "as-is" basis and may not be available in all areas at all times and may not continue to work in the event of product, software, coverage, or other changes made by your wireless carrier. We will not be liable for any delays or failures in the receipt of any mobile messages connected with this Program. Delivery of mobile messages is subject to effective transmission from your wireless service provider/network operator and is outside of Our control. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered mobile messages.
Participant Requirements: You must have a wireless device of your own, capable of two-way messaging, be using a participating wireless carrier, and be a wireless service subscriber with text messaging service. Not all cellular phone providers carry the necessary service to participate. Check your phone capabilities for specific text messaging instructions.
Age Restriction: You may not use or engage with the Platform if you are under thirteen (13) years of age. If you use or engage with the Platform and are between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years of age, you must have your parentâs or legal guardianâs permission to do so. By using or engaging with the Platform, you acknowledge and agree that you are not under the age of thirteen (13) years, are between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) and have your parentâs or legal guardianâs permission to use or engage with the Platform, or are of adult age in your jurisdiction. By using or engaging with the Platform, you also acknowledge and agree that you are permitted by your jurisdictionâs Applicable Law to use and/or engage with the Platform.
Prohibited Content: You acknowledge and agree to not send any prohibited content over the Platform. Prohibited content includes:
- Any fraudulent, libelous, defamatory, scandalous, threatening, harassing, or stalking activity;
- Objectionable content, including profanity, obscenity, lasciviousness, violence, bigotry, hatred, and discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
- Pirated computer programs, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other harmful code;
- Any product, service, or promotion that is unlawful where such product, service, or promotion thereof is received;
- Any content that implicates and/or references personal health information that is protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (âHIPAAâ) or the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (âHITECâ Act); and
- Any other content that is prohibited by Applicable Law in the jurisdiction from which the message is sent.
Dispute Resolution: In the event that there is a dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Us, or between you and any other third-party service provider acting on Our behalf to transmit the mobile messages within the scope of the Program, arising out of or relating to federal or state statutory claims, common law claims, this Agreement, or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, such dispute, claim, or controversy will be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, determined by arbitration in Gaylord, Michigan before one arbitrator.
The parties agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (âAAAâ) then in effect. Except as otherwise provided herein, the arbitrator shall apply the substantive laws of the Federal Judicial Circuit in which OCC VIPâs principal place of business is located, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Within ten (10) calendar days after the arbitration demand is served upon a party, the parties must jointly select an arbitrator with at least five yearsâ experience in that capacity and who has knowledge of and experience with the subject matter of the dispute. If the parties do not agree on an arbitrator within ten (10) calendar days, a party may petition the AAA to appoint an arbitrator, who must satisfy the same experience requirement. In the event of a dispute, the arbitrator shall decide the enforceability and interpretation of this arbitration agreement in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act (âFAAâ). The parties also agree that the AAAâs rules governing Emergency Measures of Protection shall apply in lieu of seeking emergency injunctive relief from a court. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding, and no party shall have rights of appeal except for those provided in section 10 of the FAA. Each party shall bear its share of the fees paid for the arbitrator and the administration of the arbitration; however, the arbitrator shall have the power to order one party to pay all or any portion of such fees as part of a well-reasoned decision. The parties agree that the arbitrator shall have the authority to award attorneysâ fees only to the extent expressly authorized by statute or contract. The arbitrator shall have no authority to award punitive damages and each party hereby waives any right to seek or recover punitive damages with respect to any dispute resolved by arbitration.
THE PARTIES AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY VIA ARBITRATION AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATION PROCEEDING. Further, unless both parties agree otherwise in a signed writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one personâs claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.
Except as may be required by law, neither a party nor the arbitrator may disclose the existence, content, or results of any arbitration without the prior written consent of both parties, unless to protect or pursue a legal right. If any term or provision of this Section is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Section or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction. If for any reason a dispute proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, the parties hereby waive any right to a jury trial. This arbitration provision shall survive any cancellation or termination of your agreement to participate in any of our Programs.
Alabama Law: We endeavor to comply with the Alabama Telemarketing Act and the Alabama Do Not Call Act as applicable to Alabama residents. For purposes of compliance, you agree that we may assume that you are an Alabama resident if, at the time of opt-in to Program, (1) your shipping address, as provided, is located in Alabama or (2) the area code for the phone number used to opt-into the Program is an Alabama area code. You agree that the requirements of the Alabama Telemarketing Act and the Alabama Do Not Call Act do not apply to you, and you shall not assert that you are an Alabama resident, if you do not meet either of these criteria or, in the alternative, do not affirmatively advise us in writing that you are an Alabama resident by sending written notice to us. Insofar as you are an Alabama resident, you agree that mobile messages sent by Us in direct response to mobile messages or requests from You (including but not limited to response to Keywords, opt-in, help or stop requests and shipping notifications) shall not constitute a âtelephonic sales callâ or âcommercial telephone solicitation phone callâ for purposes of Alabama Statutes, to the extent the law is otherwise relevant and applicable.
Miscellaneous: You warrant and represent to Us that you have all necessary rights, power, and authority to agree to these Terms and perform your obligations hereunder, and nothing contained in this Agreement or in the performance of such obligations will place you in breach of any other contract or obligation. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein will not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. Any new features, changes, updates, or improvements of the Program shall be subject to this Agreement unless explicitly stated otherwise in writing. We reserve the right to change this Agreement from time to time. Any updates to this Agreement shall be communicated to you. You acknowledge your responsibility to review this Agreement from time to time and to be aware of any such changes. By continuing to participate in the Program after any such changes, you accept this Agreement, as modified.