Terms and Conditions

Welcome to Find Local Gems! These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Find Local Gems's website, located at FindLocalGems.com. By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions in full. Do not continue to use Find Local Gems's website if you do not accept all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

1. Definitions

Throughout these Terms, the following definitions apply:

• "Company," "We," "Us," "Our" refers to Find Local Gems, located at 123 Magnificent Mile, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60611.
• "Website" refers to FindLocalGems.com.
• "User," "You," "Your" refers to anyone accessing or using the Website.
• "Content" refers to any text, images, videos, or other material displayed on the Website.
• "Business Listing" refers to a profile created for a local business on the Website.

2. Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise stated, Find Local Gems and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Find Local Gems. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view and/or print pages from FindLocalGems.com for your own personal use subject to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• Republish material from FindLocalGems.com
• Sell, rent, or sub-license material from FindLocalGems.com
• Reproduce, duplicate, or copy material from FindLocalGems.com
• Redistribute content from Find Local Gems (unless content is specifically made for redistribution).

3. Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Find Local Gems’s express written consent.

4. User Content

In these terms and conditions, "your user content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

By submitting user content, you grant to Find Local Gems a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Find Local Gems the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Find Local Gems or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

Find Local Gems reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Find Local Gems’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

5. Business Listings

If you are a business owner creating a listing on Find Local Gems, you agree to:

• Provide accurate and up-to-date information about your business.
• Maintain the confidentiality of your account and password.
• Comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Not post any offensive, misleading, or illegal content.

Find Local Gems reserves the right to remove or modify any business listing that violates these terms and conditions.

6. Limitations of Liability

Find Local Gems will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
• For any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or
• For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits, or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if Find Local Gems has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

7. Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Find Local Gems’s liability in respect of any:

• Death or personal injury caused by Find Local Gems’s negligence;
• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Find Local Gems; or
• Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Find Local Gems to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

8. Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

9. Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Find Local Gems and undertake to keep Find Local Gems indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Find Local Gems to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Find Local Gems’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Find Local Gems arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

10. Breach of Terms

Without prejudice to Find Local Gems’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Find Local Gems may take such action as Find Local Gems deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

11. Variation

Find Local Gems may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

12. Assignment

Find Local Gems may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with Find Local Gems’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13. Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

14. Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Find Local Gems in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

15. Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cook County, Illinois.