Terms of use
Last updated January 30th, 2018
Blackbell, Inc. (âBlackbell,â âwe,â âus,â or âourâ) welcomes you. We invite you to access and use our online services (the âServicesâ), which are made available to you through our website located at https://www.blackbell.com (the âWebsiteâ).Â
Blackbell, Inc. (âBlackbell,â âwe,â âus,â or âourâ) welcomes you. We invite you to access and use our online services (the âServicesâ), which are made available to you through our website located at https://www.blackbell.com (the âWebsiteâ).Â
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We provide visitors to our Website (âVisitorsâ) access to the Website subject to the following Terms of Use, which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. By browsing the public areas or by accessing and using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use and the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy, which are hereby incorporated by reference (collectively, this âAgreementâ). If you do not agree to any of these terms, then please do not access or use the Website.
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Any hotel, apartment or other establishment that signs up to use our Services (each, a âCustomerâ), is agreeing to the terms of this Agreement and the accompanying License Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the License Agreement, the License Agreement shall control.
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Capitalized terms not defined in these Terms of Use shall have the meaning set forth in our Privacy Policy.
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1.        DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
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We provide Visitors and Customers with access to the Website and the Services as described in this Agreement.
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Visitors. Visitors, as the name implies, are people who visit the Website, but do not sign in as Establishments. They can (i) view all publicly-accessible content, and (ii) contact us.
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Customers. Login is required for all Customers. Customers can do all the things that Visitors can do, and: (i) access and use our Services; (ii) access exclusive content available only to Customers; and (iii) create, access, manage, and update their own accounts on the Website.Â
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We are under no obligation to accept any individual as a Customer, and may accept or reject any Customer in our sole and complete discretion. Â
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2.        RESTRICTIONS
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The Website and the Services are available for individuals 18 years or older. If you are under 18, please do not use the Website. By accessing and using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18.
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3.        COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
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By visiting the Website and/or accessing and/or using the Services, you hereby agree to comply with our community guidelines and that: Â
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- You will not use the Website and the Services for any unlawful purpose;Â
- You will not access or use the Website and the Services to collect any market research for a competing business;Â
- You will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or scrape data from the Website and the Services, except for Internet search engines (e.g., Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g., archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file;Â
- You will not take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our technical infrastructure;Â
- You will not interfere with or attempt to interrupt the proper operation of the Website and the Services through the use of any virus, device, information collection or transmission mechanism, software or routine, or access or attempt to gain access to any data, files, or passwords related to the Website through hacking, password or data mining, or any other means; andÂ
- You will not cover, obscure, block, or in any way interfere with any advertisements and/or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on the Website and the Services.  Â
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We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to deny you access to the Website, the Services, or any portion of the Website or the Services, without notice and without liability to you, if you fail to adhere to these guidelines.
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4.        INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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The Website and the Services contain materials, such as software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and other material provided by or on behalf of Blackbell (collectively referred to as the âContentâ). The Content may be owned by us or by third parties. The Content is protected under both French and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content, and you will not use the Content except as permitted under this Agreement. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from us. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use or posting of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited.Â
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If you violate any part of this Agreement, your permission to access and/or use the Content and the Website automatically terminates.
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The trademarks, service marks, and logos of Blackbell (âBlackbell Trademarksâ) used and displayed on the Website are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of Blackbell. Other company, product, and service names located on the Website may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (the âThird-Party Trademarks,â and, collectively with Blackbell Trademarks, the âTrademarksâ). Nothing on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Trademarks, without our prior written permission specific for each such use. Use of the Trademarks as part of a link to or from any site is prohibited unless establishment of such a link is approved in advance by us in writing. All goodwill generated from the use of Blackbell Trademarks inures to our benefit.Â
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Elements of the Website are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part, by any means, including but not limited to the use of framing or mirrors. None of the Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.
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5.        COMMUNICATIONS TO US
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Although we encourage you to e-mail us, we do not want you to, and you should not, e-mail us any content that contains confidential information. With respect to all e-mails you send to us, including but not limited to, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information, without compensation or attribution to you.