Terms & Conditions

Last Updated and Effective:  Janurary 7, 2023

THIS WEBSITE IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY R. Williamson & Associates.  PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, OUR PRIVACY POLICY, AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS RELATING TO PROGRAMS WE OFFER, EXPRESSLY INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AS THE “TERMS”) FULLY AND CAREFULLY BEFORE USING WeSellFans.com AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS, INCLUDING LIMITATIONS OF YOUR RIGHTS AND EXCLUSIONS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU.  THESE TERMS SET FORTH LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE SITE.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE. 

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS 

By checking the box indicating acceptance of these Terms [browsing or using the Site], you agree to these Terms and any amendments hereto that may be published from time to time on the Site, each of which is incorporated by reference. 

BY CHECKING THE BOX INDICATING ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS, YOU ARE AGREEING TO WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND INSTEAD AGREE TO HAVE ALL DISPUTES DECIDED BY AN ARBITRATOR.  BY AGREEING TO ARBITRATION, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL TO SETTLE DISPUTES RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, AS STATED FULLY IN THE “DISPUTE RESOLUTION” SECTION BELOW. 

KEY TERMS  

R. Williamson & Associates refers to R. Williamson & Associates & also WeSellFans.com and is referred to herein as “R. Williamson & Associates,“, “Wesellfans.com”, “we,” or “our.”

“Content” means logos, design, text, graphics, images, software, audio, video, works of authorship of any kind, and information and other materials that are posted, generated, provided, or otherwise available through or on the Site.  We and our licensors exclusively own all right, title, and interest in and to the Content, including all associated intellectual property rights.  You acknowledge that Content is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries and that you will not remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark, or other proprietary rights or notices incorporated in or accompanying Content on the Site.

“Site” means the website WeSellFans.com including all subdomains and subparts, as well as our social media accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and other platforms and applications for mobile, tablet, and other smart devices and application programs. 

“Terms” refers to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, along with our Privacy Policy.

“User” means any visitor to the Site, regardless of whether the visitor registers for the Site or purchases any services or products from the Site, and is referred to herein as “User” or “you.”

“User Content” refers to any photographs, comments, video clips, or other Content that Users, including you, may upload to the Site.  Content includes, without limitation, User Content.  We do not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights a User may have to use and exploit their own User Content.

ELIGIBILITY TO USE THE SITE

You may use the Site only if you are eighteen (18) years or older (or the applicable age of majority in your jurisdiction, if greater than eighteen (18) years of age) and capable of forming a binding contract with us and are not barred from using the Site under any applicable law.  As long as you comply with these Terms, you may view and use our Site for your personal, non-commercial purposes.  No other use of the Site is authorized.

NOTICE REQUIRED BY CALIFORNIA LAW

Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California residents are entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice:

The name, address, and telephone number of the provider of this service is R. Williamson & Associates LLC, 3334 Main St Skokie IL 60076, 847-647-0000. Complaints regarding services or products, or requests to receive further information regarding use of this Site may be sent to the above address or to customerservice@wesellfans.com

The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Boulevard, Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.

GOVERNING LAW

These Terms and any action or proceeding relating thereto will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois.  If any provision or part-provision of these Terms is declared invalid, unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, it will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible. 

CHANGES TO TERMS OF USE

We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms at any time, and such changes will be effective immediately upon being posted on the Site.  Each time you use the Site, you should review the current Terms.  You can determine when these Terms were last revised by referring to the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of these Terms.  Your continued use of the Site will constitute your acceptance of the then-current Terms; however, any material change to these Terms after your last usage of the Site will not be applied retroactively.  Except for such material changes, the Terms that were in effect at the time any claim or dispute arose between you and R. Williamson & Associates will be applied.

YOUR ACCOUNT

You may choose to register an account with R. Williamson & Associates to access certain services.  With respect to any such registration, we may refuse to grant you the username you request.  Your username and password are for your personal use only.  You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to them, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.  In addition to all other rights available to R. Williamson & Associates, including those set forth in these Terms, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your account or your use of the Site, block or prevent future access to and use of the Site, refuse service to you, or cancel your product orders (i) if you violate any of these Terms; (ii) for any other reason; or (iii) for no reason. Upon any such termination, your right to use the Site will immediately cease.

PRIVACY POLICY 

Users of the Site should refer to our Privacy Policy (as may be updated from time to time) for information about how we use and collect information, which may be accessed by clicking on the following link: WeSellFans.com/Privacy-policy.  You agree that we may collect, use, retain, and disclose your personal information to the extent permissible by law and as described in our Privacy Policy and that our Privacy Policy will govern our collection and use of your personal information to the fullest extent permitted by law.

INTERNATIONAL USERS

Our Site is controlled, operated, and administered from our offices in Illinois, United States of America.  We make no representation that Content on the Site is appropriate or available for use at other locations outside the United States, and access to it is prohibited from territories where the Content or services or products available through the Site are illegal.  You may not use the Site or export its Content or services or products in violation of United States export laws and regulations.  If you access the Site from a location outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws if, and to the extent, local laws are applicable. 

RULES OF CONDUCT AND GENERAL PROHIBITIONS 

You must only use this Site for lawful purposes, and you must not use it in any way that infringes the rights of anyone else or that restricts or inhibits anyone else’s enjoyment of the Site.  You may not, without our written consent: (i) copy, reproduce, use, or otherwise deal with any Content on the Site; (ii) modify, distribute, or re-post any Content on the Site for any purpose; or (iii) use the Content of the Site for any commercial exploitation whatsoever.

In using the Site, you further agree not to do any of the following:

• post, publish, submit, or otherwise transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates, or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) is knowingly false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive; (iii) is defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise violative of any law; or (iv) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
• disrupt or interfere with the security of, or otherwise abuse, the Site or any service, systems resource, account, server, or network connected to or accessible through the Site, or affiliated or linked websites; 
• disrupt or interfere with any other User’s enjoyment of the Site, or affiliated or linked websites; 

• post, publish, submit or otherwise transmit through or on the Site any viruses or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files; 
• use, frame, or utilize framing techniques to enclose our trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including, but not limited to, images found on the Site, Content, any text, or the layout/design of any page or form contained on a page) without our express written consent; 
• use meta tags or other “hidden text” utilizing our name, trademark, or product name without our express written consent; 
• deep link to the Site without our express written consent; 
• create or use a false identity on the Site, share your account information, or allow any person besides yourself to use your account to access the Site; 

• collect or store personal data about others; 
• attempt to obtain unauthorized access to the Site or portions of it that are restricted from general access; and
• encourage or enable another User or individual to do any of the foregoing prohibited activities.

By accessing or using this Site you agree to comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations relating to your use of or activities on the Site.  To the extent permissible by law, we will not be responsible or liable to any third party for the User Content or accuracy of any Content posted by you or any other User on the Site.  We have the right to remove any User Content or posting you make on the Site if, in our sole discretion, such Content or posting does not comply with the standards set out in these Terms.  

If you do not agree to these Terms, you do not have our consent to obtain information from or otherwise use the Site.  Failure to use the Site in accordance with these Terms may subject you to civil or criminal penalties. 

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, AND/OR DOWNLOADING OR POSTING ANY CONTENT FROM OR ON THE SITE, YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE CREATED AN ACCOUNT ON THE SITE.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.  If you accept or agree to these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or legal entity to these Terms and, in such event, “you” or “your” will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity. 

RIGHT TO USER CONTENT POSTED BY YOU

By making any User Content available to or through the Site, you will remain the owner of your User Content, but hereby grant R. Williamson & Associates a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your User Content in connection with operating and providing services and products to you and/or other Users, and also in connection with advertising of our services and products.  You also agree that your User Content will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will not be returned to you, except as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy.

In the event you upload any User Content to the Site, we have the right to use any and all such elements of the Content in connection with and/or as part of our business, including, but not limited to, in connection with or in any advertising in any and all media, product packaging, printed publications, presentations, promotional materials, events, and associated marketing materials, television and cinema commercials, videos, or on the Site in perpetuity throughout the world as we, in our sole discretion, see fit without further consent by, or payment to, you.  By uploading User Content to the Site, you agree to grant R. Williamson & Associates the right to use your copyright in such User Content.  We also have all right, title, and interest in any and all results and proceeds from our use of the User Content to the extent permissible by law.  We have the right to transfer our rights to use the User Content to any third party, including, but not limited to, any of our subsidiaries or affiliated companies.

We may alter, adopt, or edit the User Content and any further material created under these Terms, and market and exploit it entirely in our sole discretion.  Upon request, you will furnish R. Williamson & Associates with any and all documentation, substantiation, or releases necessary to verify your compliance with these provisions.  We are not obligated to make use of any of your User Content or exercise any of the rights granted by these Terms.

You are responsible for all your User Content.  You represent and warrant that you own all of your User Content or you have all rights necessary to grant R. Williamson & Associates the license rights in your User Content under these Terms.  You also represent and warrant that neither your User Content, nor your use and provision of your User Content to be made available through the Site, nor any use of your User Content by R. Williamson & Associates on or through the Site, will infringe, misappropriate, or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.  

INDEMNIFICATION

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless R. Williamson & Associates, our affiliates, and each of our and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, suppliers, representatives, and agents from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise from or relate to: (i) your access to or use of the Site or Content; (ii) your User Content; (iii) violation of any applicable law that protects R. Williamson & Associates or our legal rights or those of any third party that your actions have damaged; (iv) your violation of these Terms or any applicable law, including, but not limited to, infringement by you of any intellectual property rights owned by R. Williamson & Associates or any third party; and (v) any and all activities that occur under or in connection with your account, username, and/or password.  We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will assist and cooperate with R. Williamson & Associates in asserting any available defenses.  YOU AGREE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL SUCH DAMAGES, CLAIMS, OR LOSSES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EVEN IF THEY ARE CAUSED BY OUR ACTIVE OR PASSIVE NEGLIGENCE, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, CLAIMS, OR LOSSES, AND EVEN IF THEY ARE REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

The Site, including all of the Content and organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion, software, services, and other matters related to same, is the sole and exclusive property of R. Williamson & Associates and protected by applicable copyright, trademark, other proprietary rights, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries.  Unless expressly stated otherwise, we retain other proprietary rights in all Content and services and products available through the Site.  

Except as stated herein, none of the Content may be copied, modified, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, performed, displayed, posted, transmitted, sold, and or made into derivative works in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without our prior written consent and permission of the respective copyright owner.  You may not, without our express written permission or that of the respective copyright owner: (i) copy, upload, publish, post, submit, or transmit any materials on any computer network or broadcast or publications media; (ii) modify the materials; or (iii) remove or alter any copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the materials.  You also may not: (i) sell, resell, or make commercial use of the Site, its Content, services, or products obtained through the Site; (ii) collect or use any product listings or descriptions; (iii) make derivative uses of the Site or its Content; or (iv) use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extracting methods.  You are not conveyed any right or license by implication, estoppel, or otherwise in or under any of our patent, trademark, or copyright rights, or other proprietary rights of any third party.

Together with other logos and product names appearing on the Site, the following includes a partial list of our trademarks and/or registered trademarks in the United States and other countries: R. Williamson & Associates, and WeSellFans.com. All other trademarks not owned by R. Williamson & Associates that are made available by and through the Site are the property of their respective owners who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by R. Williamson & Associates. These and all of our other trademarks may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission or that of the rights holder.  In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts are our service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress, and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission.  Any other names and brands on the Site may be claimed as the property of others.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COPYRIGHT, AND EXCLUSIVITY

Copyright in any manual, sales documentation, technical description, and other documents that may be supplied by R. Williamson & Associates under or in connection with your purchase(s) and any and all intellectual property rights, title, and interest in the formulation or design of R. Williamson & Associates’ services or products, or any part thereof, whether such formulation or design is registered or not, shall vest in R. Williamson & Associates absolutely.  Any data, patent, copyright, proprietary right, or confidentiality, know–how, trademark, or process with respect to R. Williamson & Associates’ services or products is the proprietary information (“Proprietary Information”) of R. Williamson & Associates and its third-party vendors (as the case may be).  You agree that you shall not, without R. Williamson & Associates’ prior written consent, use or disclose the Proprietary Information to any third-party for any reason other than that third-party’s personal use of R. Williamson & Associates’ services or products. You also agree that you shall not use or provide R. Williamson & Associates’ products to any third-party or other entity to reverse engineer or disassemble R. Williamson & Associates’ products or any part thereof to create or derive any R. Williamson & Associates or third-party intellectual property.

DMCA/COPYRIGHT POLICY 

It is our policy to respect the copyright and intellectual property rights of others.  We may remove content that appears to infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights, including moral rights, of others.  In addition, we may terminate access by Users who appear to infringe the intellectual property or other rights of others.  

We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).  If you believe we or any User of the Site has infringed your copyright in any material way, please notify R. Williamson & Associates, and provide the following:

• an identification of the intellectual property right claimed to have been infringed; 
• an identification of the material you claim is infringing so that we may locate it on the Site; 
• your address, telephone number, and email address; 

• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner or its licensee, or the agent of either of the foregoing, or the law; 
• a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and
• that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the intellectual property interest involved.

Please direct inquiries regarding intellectual property infringement issues by email to customerservice@wesellfans.com.

It is often difficult to determine if your intellectual property rights have been violated or if the DMCA requirements have been met.  We may request additional information before we remove any potentially infringing material.  If a dispute develops as to the correct owner of the rights in question, we reserve the right to remove the applicable material along with that of the alleged infringer pending resolution of the matter.  We have an absolute right to remove any such User Content or other material from the Site in our sole discretion at any time.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us customerservice@wesellfans.com