BestDumbShirts API Usage Agreement
Effective as of July 15, 2016
This API Usage Agreement (“Agreement”) describes the terms and conditions that govern your use of the BestDumbShirts.com application programming interface that enables individuals and software applications to interface with the BestDumbShirts.com Service (the “API”). Your use of the API constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
If you register on behalf of a business, you represent to BestDumbShirts.com that you have the authority to bind that business and that your acceptance of this Agreement will be treated as acceptance by that business.
Changes and Modifications
BestDumbShirts.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change or amend this Agreement at any time. If we do change or amend the Agreement, we will notify you, either through the user interface, in an email notification, or through other reasonable means. Your use of the services after the date such changes become effective will be your consent to the changed terms. If you do not agree to any change or amendment to this Agreement, you must stop using the API; otherwise the new terms will apply to you. BestDumbShirts.com also reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change or modify the behavior of its API. Such changes may extend or restrict the API’s functionality, and/or the scope of Services available to you. You acknowledge and agree that changes to the API or to this Agreement may affect Your Application and/or Your Site (as defined below) and may require you to make changes to Your Application and/or Your Site, at your sole expense, to enable Your Application and/or Your Site to continue to be compatible with, and/or interface with, the BestDumbShirts.com Service and/or API.
Other Agreements
The BestDumbShirts.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are incorporated herein by reference. The API is a part of the “BestDumbShirts.com Service” (as defined in the BestDumbShirts.com Terms of Use). In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and the BestDumbShirts.com Terms of Use or Privacy Policy (on the one hand) and this Agreement (on the other hand), this Agreement shall control with respect to your use of the API.
1. License and Conditions of Use
License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, BestDumbShirts.com grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicenseable right to access and use the API as it is intended to be used and in accordance with this Agreement and applicable law. We grant you no other rights, implied or otherwise. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you grant to BestDumbShirts.com a non-exclusive license to use your name and likeness solely for the purpose of truthfully advertising your status as a user of the BestDumbShirts.com Service. You may revoke this limited license to BestDumbShirts.com by contacting us in writing at support ( at ) BestDumbShirts.com.
Permitted Uses. In connection with your use of the API, you may engage solely in the following activities, to the extent that such activities are permitted by the intended functionality of the API: -create and order products through the BestDumbShirts.com Service, or allow your users to create and order products through the BestDumbShirts.com Service (the “Permitted Use”); -display BestDumbShirts.com Content, including making limited intermediate copies necessary to perform any activity permitted under this Agreement solely for the purpose of the Permitted Use, if: (i) done in accordance with this Agreement; and (ii) any such display occurs within Your Application and/or on Your Site; -modify, solely in order to rearrange or reorganize, the BestDumbShirts.com Content, and solely for the Permitted Use within (i) a software application that is owned, operated, licensed, and/or developed by you to interact with the API (“Your Application”) or (ii) any website that is owned, operated and/or controlled by you (“Your Site”); and -enable Your Application and/or Your Site to interact with the BestDumbShirts.com Service through the API, solely for the Permitted Use, and to retrieve information necessary to facilitate the Permitted Use.
Keys. BestDumbShirts.com may provide you with confidential security keys that are specific to your use of the API (“Keys”). Keys are the property of BestDumbShirts.com and may be immediately revoked by BestDumbShirts.com for any reason, including, without limitation:
if you share your Key with any third party, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement;
if the confidentiality of your Key is compromised (e.g., it becomes publicly available); or
if you make any use of the API or BestDumbShirts.com Service not expressly permitted in this Agreement.
General Conditions of Use. Your license to use the API and the BestDumbShirts.com Service is at all times governed by, and expressly conditioned upon, the following:
you will not use the API or BestDumbShirts.com Service in any way not expressly permitted under this Agreement;
you will not use (or facilitate use of, or direct a third party to use) any alternative means (e.g. robots, site scraping, or any other technology) to access, extract, query, or use the API or BestDumbShirts.com Service, to obtain any information that BestDumbShirts.com has attempted to restrict access to;
you will not attempt to reverse engineer the Services, the API, or any component thereof;
you will not attempt to hide or mask the identity of your API implementation as it uses the Service;
you will not access or use the API or other BestDumbShirts.com Content through any technology or means other than those provided by the BestDumbShirts.com API or the BestDumbShirts.com Service; and
you will not pre-fetch, cache, or store any BestDumbShirts.com Content, except that you may store (i) limited amounts of such content for the purpose of improving the performance of your API implementation if you do so temporarily (in no event for more than thirty (30) calendar days), securely, and in a manner that does not permit use of the BestDumbShirts.com Content outside of your API implementation.
you will not distribute, publish, facilitate, enable or allow access to, or linking to the API or BestDumbShirts.com Service from any location or source other than Your Application or Your Site; and
Your Application, Your Site, and your use of the API and BestDumbShirts.com Service shall not: (i) be false, inaccurate, or misleading; (ii) infringe on any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, other property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (iii) violate any law, statute, ordinance, contract, or regulation; (iv) be defamatory, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing; (v) contain any viruses, of any kind, or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or other personal information; or (vi) create liability for BestDumbShirts.com or cause BestDumbShirts.com to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our service providers or suppliers.
2. Solicitation Restrictions
You will not use the API, the BestDumbShirts.com Service, any data that you receive from BestDumbShirts.com or a user of the BestDumbShirts.com Service that contains personal information about users or their buying/selling activities (“User Information”), or that Your Application or Your Sites receives from users of the BestDumbShirts.com Service or that you transmit through the API or BestDumbShirts.com Service to BestDumbShirts.com (“Customer Information”) to send communications to BestDumbShirts.com users or to send unsolicited communications of any type. You will not solicit users of the BestDumbShirts.com Service or BestDumbShirts.com’ employees. You will not sell, rent, lease or otherwise disclose User Information or Customer Information to any third party. You agree to post and abide by an appropriate privacy policy, and all laws, applicable to your use and/or implementation of the BestDumbShirts.com API.
3. Ownership, Sublicensing, Non-Exclusive Rights
Ownership. As between BestDumbShirts.com and you: (i) BestDumbShirts.com retains all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights embodied in or associated with the BestDumbShirts.com Service, BestDumbShirts.com Content, and API, including without limitation anything derived therefrom; and (ii) you retain all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights embodied in or associated with Your Site and Your Application, excluding the above listed BestDumbShirts.com intellectual property and any other intellectual property rights owned by BestDumbShirts.com. You agree not to take any action inconsistent with BestDumbShirts.com’ ownership of the BestDumbShirts.com Service, API, or BestDumbShirts.com Content.
Sublicensing. Except as set forth in this section, all licenses and rights granted to you by BestDumbShirts.com in this Agreement are not assignable, transferable, or sublicensable. Subject to the terms and conditions herein, you may display the BestDumbShirts.com Content as provided in this Agreement to your users, and your users may use Your Application and Your Site to order shirts, provided that: – you do not disclose your Key(s) to any third party; – all API calls initiated through Your Application or Your Site shall be made exclusively through your Key(s); and – you shall not permit any user or other third party to have programmatic control over the API.
Independent Contractors and Non-Exclusive Rights. You and BestDumbShirts.com are independent contractors, and neither party is an agent of the other for any purpose. Both parties reserve the right (i) to develop or have developed for it goods, services, concepts, systems, or techniques that are similar to or compete with the goods, services, concepts, systems, or techniques developed or contemplated by the other party and (ii) to assist third party developers who may offer goods or services that compete with the other party’s goods or services.
4. Uptime
BestDumbShirts.com makes no guarantees with respect to the availability or uptime of the BestDumbShirts.com Service or API. BestDumbShirts.com may conduct maintenance on BestDumbShirts.com Service or API at any time without notice to you, in BestDumbShirts.com’ sole discretion.
5. Fees and Limitations
BestDumbShirts.com may charge fees for any and all of the services and/or benefits provided in connection with your use of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and API at any time. Any such fees shall be determined in BestDumbShirts.com’ sole and absolute discretion. Fees will be clearly disclosed to you. In the event BestDumbShirts.com charges a new fee or increases a fee, you will be notified prior to or during your next interaction with the BestDumbShirts.com Service or API. If any fee is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate this Agreement and immediately cease all use of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and API. Your continued use of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and/or API following a new fee or increased fee will constitute binding acceptance of the new fee or increased fee.
You may not cancel orders placed through the API. BestDumbShirts.com retains the right to cancel any order that is in violation of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, (i) any order for which inaccurate or insufficient shipping information is provided, (ii) any order for which artwork is submitted improperly or that is unprintable, and (iii) any order that may infringe the copyright or trademark right of any third party.
BestDumbShirts.com reserves the right to charge additional fees for services rendered after your initial order is placed. For example, if goods are returned because insufficient shipping information was provided, BestDumbShirts.com will charge you an additional fee to re-ship the goods. Any such additional fee will be disclosed to you at the time it is charged to your account.
API Calls. You are permitted to make no more than five API calls per second; no more than 5,000 API calls per 24-hour period. BestDumbShirts.com may increase or decrease the number of API calls permitted by you at any time and for any reason.
6. Term and Termination
The term of this Agreement shall begin upon the issuance of a Key to you and shall continue until terminated in accordance with this Agreement. BestDumbShirts.com reserves the right to terminate this Agreement or suspend or discontinue your access to the BestDumbShirts.com Service and/or API, or any portion or feature thereof, for any or no reason, at any time without liability to you, in BestDumbShirts.com’ sole discretion. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by ceasing any and all uses of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and API, and removing all API code from your implementation. Upon termination of this Agreement, all licenses and rights granted to you in this Agreement shall terminate, you shall immediately pay all fees due and owing to BestDumbShirts.com (if applicable), and you shall destroy all BestDumbShirts.com Content and User Information within ten (10) days of termination.
7. Survival
Upon termination of this Agreement, those provisions that by their nature are intended to continue indefinitely will continue to apply, including without limitation Sections 1 through 3, and sections 6 through 13 of this Agreement.
8. Confidentiality
“Confidential Information” includes all non-public information provided by BestDumbShirts.com to you, and shall include, but is not limited to, Keys and User Information. In connection with your receipt of Confidential Information, you agree that you shall not disclose Confidential Information to any third party, and shall not use Confidential Information other than as required to perform under this Agreement. The parties acknowledge that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for unauthorized use or disclosure of Confidential Information and that BestDumbShirts.com shall be entitled, without waiving any other rights or remedies, to such injunctive or equitable relief as may be deemed proper by a court of competent jurisdiction, without obligation to post any bond.
9. Disclaimers and Exclusions
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API, AND ANY GOOD OR SERVICE ORDERED THROUGH THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND/OR API, IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. BestDumbShirts.com AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, STOCKHOLDERS, AND LICENSORS (THE “BestDumbShirts.com AFFILIATES”) EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION ARISING BY USAGE OF TRADE, COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. BestDumbShirts.com AND THE BestDumbShirts.com AFFILIATES MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (a) THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (b) THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; (c) CONTENT WILL BE HOSTED AND/OR TRANSMITTED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION; (d) ANY PRODUCTS, SITES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL, WHETHER IN TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE FORM, PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS OR ANY STANDARD OF QUALITY; AND (e) ANY DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API, OR RELATED SOFTWARE, WILL BE CORRECTED.
ANY MATERIAL, INFORMATION, OR DATA DOWNLOADED, VIEWED, SHARED, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSED THROUGH THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND API IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULT FROM THE DOWNLOADING, VIEWING, SHARING, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING OF SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE, REPRESENTATION OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM BestDumbShirts.com OR THROUGH THE BestDumbShirts.com.COM WEBSITES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE AGREEMENT.
10. Limitation of Liability
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT BestDumbShirts.com AND THE BestDumbShirts.com AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION; ANY LOSS OF DATA; ANY COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES. THIS ALSO INCLUDES ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF (a) ANY CHANGES THAT BestDumbShirts.com MAY MAKE TO THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND/OR API; (b) ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION OF THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND/OR API; (c) THE DELETION OR CORRUPTION OF OR FAILURE TO STORE ANY CONTENT MAINTAINED THROUGH THE BestDumbShirts.com SERVICE AND/OR API; OR (d) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR KEY AND/OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE. THE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY ABOVE SHALL APPLY IRRESPECTIVE OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, INCLUDING CONTRACT (INCLUDING FUNDAMENTAL BREACH), WARRANTY, PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF WE (OR OUR AFFILIATES) HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
11. Exclusions or Limitations
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS THAT ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND, IN SUCH INSTANCES, BestDumbShirts.com AND THE BestDumbShirts.com AFFILIATES’ LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
12. Indemnification.
You will defend, indemnify, and hold BestDumbShirts.com and/or the BestDumbShirts.com Affiliates harmless from and against any and all liabilities and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by BestDumbShirts.com and/or the BestDumbShirts.com Affiliates in connection with any claim arising out of your breach of the Agreement, including without limitation the provision of content from Your Application or Your Site to BestDumbShirts.com via its API, or otherwise, that is alleged to infringe the intellectual property, publicity rights, or other rights of any third party. BestDumbShirts.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.
13. Miscellaneous.
Governing Law. You agree that all matters relating to your access to or use of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and API, including all disputes, will be governed by the laws of the United States and by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions. You agree to the personal jurisdiction by and venue in the State and Federal courts in Alameda County, California, and waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue.
Dispute Resolution. In the event of any controversy or dispute between BestDumbShirts.com and you arising out of or in connection with your use of the BestDumbShirts.com Service and API, BestDumbShirts.com will attempt, promptly and in good faith, to resolve the dispute. If BestDumbShirts.com is unable to resolve any such dispute within a reasonable time, either party may submit such controversy or dispute to mediation. The costs and fees, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, for any such mediation are to be borne by the customer. If the dispute cannot be resolved through mediation, then both you and BestDumbShirts.com may pursue any right or remedy available under applicable law.
Statute Of Limitations. You agree that, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim under this Agreement must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action arises, or such claim or cause of action is forever barred.
Severability of Terms; Non-waiver of Terms; Assignment. If any portion of the Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be stricken and the remainder of the Agreement enforced as written. If BestDumbShirts.com does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy including those contained in the Agreement or arising under applicable law, this will not be taken to be a formal waiver or relinquishment of our rights. BestDumbShirts.com may assign or delegate all rights and obligations under the Agreement, fully or partially.
Notices. BestDumbShirts.com may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Agreement, by email, regular mail, or postings to the Service. BestDumbShirts.com’ mailing address is 7575 Shangri-La Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89147. If you have general questions or concerns regarding this API Usage Agreement, please contact us in writing a
