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Terms of Use

Last Updated January 1, 2009

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

World Media Group provides websites for use by consumers and businesses including this website at Autobody.com, (referred to hereafter as "the Website") subject to the following Terms of Use. By using the Website in any way, you are agreeing to comply with the Terms of Use. Should you object to any term or condition of the Terms of Use or any guideline of any World Media Group website, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use.

2. CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF USE

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or alter the Terms of Use at any time. Such changes shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review the Terms of Use on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.

3. CONDUCT

You agree not to post any text, files, images, video, audio, or other materials ("Content") or use the Website in any way that:

  1. infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
  2. violates any state, federal or other law;
  3. threatens, harasses or is libelous;
  4. is harmful to minors;
  5. contains self-benefiting advertising or marketing;
  6. produces Software viruses or code harmful to other computers;
  7. disrupts the normal dialogue of users at the site with harmful or excessive disruptive Content;
  8. employs misleading or false information;
  9. uses forged headers or other items to manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content.

You agree not to decompile or reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Website.

Unless you receive explicit permission, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Website. Any business the registers with a listing has the right and permission to manage their listing to the commercial benefit so long as the codes of conduct above are not violated.

4. CONTENT

You understand that all postings, posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Website, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. You understand that World Media Group does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Website, and that by using the Website, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. If you believe that Content on the Website violates your rights please submit a claim to the compliance@world.com with supporting documentation to establish your rights.

By adding Content to the Website, you grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to World Media Group an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content.

5. DATA RETRIEVAL

Use of automated tools, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, to download data from the Website is expressly prohibited. Retrieval of data from the site for commercial purposes unless expressly permitted by the Website is prohibited.

6. LIMITATIONS AND TERMINATION

World Media Group may create limitations of your use of the Website including, but not limited to, the number of times you can access the Website and amount that you can post to the Website. Limitations can include full termination and you agree that World Media Group has the right at any time, in its sole discretion with or without notice, to modify or discontinue the Website (or any part thereof), to delete or deactivate your account and immediately remove and discard any Content within the Website. Further, you agree that World Media Group shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Website.

7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE WORLD MEDIA GROUP WEBSITE AND ANY INCLUDED SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES THAT IT IS FREE OF DEFECTS, ERRORS, VIRUSES, MERCHANTABLE AND THAT IT IS FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.

8. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WORLD MEDIA GROUP BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES THAT ARISE FROM YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, MODIFICATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICE OR PART THEREOF.

9. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold World Media Group, its officers, directors, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you add to the Website, your use of the Website, your violation of the Terms of Use, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.

10. JURISDICTION

The Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and World Media Group agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the State of New York.

11. PARTIAL INVALIDITY

Any provision of this Terms of Use which is found to be invalid or unenforceable by any court in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the provision in other jurisdictions and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions. The waiver or failure of World Media Group to exercise in any respect any right provided for in this Terms of Use shall not be deemed a waiver of any further right under this Agreement.

12. GENERAL

The Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and World Media Group and govern your use of the Website, superseding any prior agreements between you World Media Group.

13. VIOLATION OF TERMS

You agree that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for any breach of this Agreement and that World Media Group shall be entitled, without waiving any other rights or remedies, to seek injunctive or equitable relief as may be deemed proper by a court of competent jurisdiction.