Terms of service

I. BINDING EFFECT: This is a binding agreement. By using the Internet site located at HAUSOFTOOLS.COM (the "Site") or any services provided in connection with the Site (the "Service"), you agree to abide by these Terms of Use, as they may be amended by HAUS OF TOOLS ("Company") from time to time in its sole discretion. Company 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 Service and the Site. YOU AGREE THAT BY USING THE SERVICE YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.

II. PRIVACY POLICY: Company respects your privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. A complete statement of Company's current privacy policy regarding the Site can be found by clicking here. Company's privacy policy is expressly incorporated into this Agreement as though set fully herein by this reference.

When you are required to open an account to use or access the Site or Service, you must complete the registration process by providing the complete and accurate information requested on the registration form. You may also be asked to provide a user name and password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You may not use the account, username, or password of someone else at any time. You agree to notify Company immediately on any unauthorized use of your account, user name, or password. Company shall not be liable for any loss that you incur as a result of someone else using your password, either with or without your knowledge. You may be held liable for any losses incurred by Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives due to someone else's use of your account or password

III. COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS: When accessing the Site or using the Service, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Service and the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, "Content") in violation of Company’s or any third party's copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of company’s or third party rights caused by any Content you provide or transmit, or that is provided or transmitted using your User ID. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or third party rights rests solely with you.

IV. INAPPROPRIATE 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 (a) is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening; (b) 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; or (c) advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods or services. You further agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute to the Site or Service any surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk mail, spam, unsolicited messages, viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or similar software. You also agree not to use metatag searches of the Site or the Service or create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others. Company reserves the right to terminate your receipt, transmission, or other distribution of any such material using the Site or the Service, and, if applicable, to delete any such material from its servers. Company 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.

V. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: Company has in place certain legally mandated procedures regarding allegations of copyright infringement occurring on the Site or with the Service. Company has adopted a policy that provides for the immediate suspension and/or termination of any Site or Service user who is found to have infringed on the rights of Company or of a third party, or otherwise violated any intellectual property laws or regulations. Company's policy is to investigate any allegations of copyright 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 Company to delete, edit, or disable the material in question, you must provide Company 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 copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted 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 Company to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit Company 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 Company's designated agent at:

Manager of Website Affairs, 3102 Kashiwa St.,Torrance CA 90505-4011 United States

VI. ALLEGED VIOLATIONS: Company reserves the right to terminate your use of the Service and/or the Site at any time and for any reason. To ensure that Company provides a high quality experience for you and for other users of the Site and the Service, you agree that Company 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 unauthorized uses of the Site or the Service. Company does not intend to disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law, but Company 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 Company believes that you have violated any of the Terms of Use, furnished Company with false or misleading information, or interfered with use of the Site or the Service by others.

VII. WARRANTIES: Company hereby disclaims all warranties. Company is making the site, the services and the merchandise offered for sale through the site (“merchandise”) 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, the services or the merchandise. To the maximum extent permitted by law, company expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, regarding the site, the service and/or the merchandise, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, suitability, title or noninfringement. Company does not warrant that the site, the service or the merchandise will meet your requirements or that the operation of the site, the service or the merchandise will be uninterrupted or error-free.

VIII. LIMITED LIABILITY: Company's liability to you is limited. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall company 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, the services, the merchandise or any other materials or services provided to you by company. 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, whether in law or in equity.

IX. AFFILIATED SITES AND THIRD PARTY CONTENT: Company has no control over, and no liability for any third party websites or materials that may be accessible or viewed on the Site. Company works with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because neither Company nor the Site has control over the content and performance of these partners, affiliate sites, and third party providers, Company makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites and/or third party providers, and Company 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 and/or posted to the Site or the Service by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that Company makes no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, quality or unlawfulness 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. Any User Content, including, but not limited to, information, website links, opinions, reviews, statements, services, advice, offers, or other content posted on this Site by any person or entity, including, but not limited to, manufacturers, distributors, users, or others, are those of that person only and do not state or reflect the content, information, opinions, statements, services, advice or offers of Company. Any references to any commercial products or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, do not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Company.

X. PROHIBITED USES: Company imposes certain restrictions on your permissible use of the Site and the Service. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Site or Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, the Site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) 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 or Service, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mail bombing," or "crashing;" (d) using the Site or Service to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f) 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 Company in providing the Site or Service. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.

XI. INDEMNITY You agree to indemnify Company for certain of your acts and omissions. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Company, 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. Company 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.

XII. COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS: Trademarks & Logo's appearing on this site are property of their respective owners, while all other contents of the Site and/or Service are: Copyright © 2009-2019, HAUS OF TOOLS, 3102 Kashiwa St., Torrance, CA 90505-4011. All other rights are reserved.

HAUSOFTOOLS.COM and HAUS OF TOOLS are all trademarks of HAUS OF TOOLS and your use of those trademarks are strictly prohibited without the express written consent of HAUS OF TOOLS. The absence of a name or logo in this list does not constitute a waiver of any and all intellectual property rights that HAUS OF TOOLS has established in any of its product, feature, or service names or logos.

XIII. RISK OF LOSS: All Merchandise purchased from the Site is subject to the condition that the risk of loss and title for such Merchandise shall pass to you once we deliver it to the shipping carrier.

XIV. DESCRIPTION OF MERCHANDISE: The Company will try its best to describe the Merchandise offered on the Site as accurately as possible. Yet, Company does not warrant that the descriptions of Merchandise found on the Site are accurate, comprehensive, or that they should be relied upon. If Merchandise offered on the Site is not as described, your sole remedy shall be to return it in its unopened and unused condition.

XV. 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 California, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in the State of California, USA in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Service. By your use of the Site you expressly agree that this Agreement has been entered into in the State of California, County of Los Angeles, City of Torrance.

XVI. SEVERABILITY; WAIVER: If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in these Terms of Use to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.

XVII. NO LICENSE: Nothing contained on the Site should be understood as granting you a license to use any of the trademarks, service marks, or logos owned by Company or by any third party.

XVIII. MODIFICATIONS: Company may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, (a) revise these Terms of Use; (b) modify the Site and/or the Service; and (c) discontinue the Site and/or Service at any time. Company shall post any revision to these Terms of Use to the Site, and the revision shall be effective immediately on such posting. You agree to review these Terms of Use and other online policies posted on the Site periodically to be aware of any revisions. You agree that, by continuing to use or access the Site following notice of any revision, you shall abide by any such revision.

XIX. RETURNS POLICY: The Company’s Returns/Refund Policy, which can be found on the Site or by clicking here, and also here is expressly incorporated into this Agreement as though set forth fully herein by this reference.

XXI. ENTIRE AGREEMENT: This Agreement shall serve as the entire Agreement between You and Company.

XXII. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: BY USING THE SERVICE OR ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS MENTIONED IN THIS AGREEMENT, THEN YOU MUST DISCONTINUE THE USE OF THE SITE AND/OR SERVICE.

 

Haus of Tools Privacy Policy

 This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://hausoftools.com/ (the “Site”).

 PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

 When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

 

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

     - “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

    - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

    - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

 SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

 BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

 You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

  INCLUDE OPT-OUT LINKS FROM WHICHEVER SERVICES BEING USED.

  COMMON LINKS INCLUDE:

    FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

    GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

    BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

 Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

 DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

 YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

 Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

 DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

 MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

 CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@hausoftools.com or by mail using the details provided below:

 3102 KASHIWA ST, TORRANCE, CA, 90505, United States