TERMS OF SERVICE APPLYING TO ALL USERS
These Terms of Service (the "Terms of Service") govern the use of the mobile and internet-based services, business tools offered by Salon Suites Solutions, LLC (the "Company," "S3," "we" or "us") at and through the "Website" and through mobile applications (such services, applications and the Website are collectively referred to as the "Services"). S3's Privacy Policy located at PRIVACY POLICY , as well as any conduct guidelines or dispute resolution procedures that S3 may provide or make available, are all considered part of these Terms of Service and are incorporated by reference into these Terms of Service in their entirety. Any reference to these Terms of Service shall include and mean a reference to all such incorporated policies, guidelines, programs, schedules and processes. If you are accepting these Terms of Service and using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant to S3 that you have full power and authority to do so.
The S3 Platform. S3 is a platform that connects salon suite owners (“Owners”) with their merchants, tenant stylists and professionals (collectively or individually, "Professionals") providing hair, beauty and other health and wellness services ("Styling Services") and with clients utilizing such services ("Clients"). The S3 Platform includes FindaSuite.com, a website for Professionals to locate salon suites, booths and chairs for rent. FindaSuite.com also provides the salon suite Owner the ability to manage leads and to market their rental suites, booths and chairs to interested Professionals. The Owners, Professionals and Clients are all users of the Services provided by S3 and are hereinafter referred to collectively as "Users." S3 solely provides a platform for Owners, Professionals and Clients to connect and serves only as a medium to facilitate the management of salon suites. S3 does not have control over the quality, suitability, reliability, timing, durability, legality, failure to provide, or any other aspect whatsoever of any Styling Services provided by Professionals nor of the integrity, responsibility or any of the actions or omissions whatsoever of Owner or any Professionals or Clients. S3 makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect to Styling Services offered or provided by Professionals or requested by Clients through use of the Services, whether in public, private, or offline interactions, or about the accreditation, registration or licensing of any Professional. You understand that S3 does not routinely screen its Users, inquire into the background of its Users or attempt to verify information provided by any User. S3 does not verify or confirm that any User is who they claim to be or is accurately representing themselves and does not verify or confirm any representations with respect to Styling Services on the Services. S3 does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of this information or any information provided through the Services.
User Accounts. You agree to maintain your Account solely for your own use. You agree that you will not allow another person to use your Account IDs to access or use the Services under any circumstances. You are solely and entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account IDs and for any charges, damages, liabilities or losses incurred or suffered as a result of you failure to do so. We are not liable for any harm caused by or related to the theft of your Account IDs, your disclosure of your Account IDs, or your authorization to allow another person to access or use the Services using your Account IDs. Furthermore, you are solely and entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your Account including any charges incurred relating to the Services. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security known to you. You acknowledge that the complete privacy of your data and messages transmitted while using the Services cannot be guaranteed.
Termination of Accounts. S3 reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your Account if you violate these Terms of Service or for any reason or no reason at any time. We may also suspend your access to the Services and your Account (including the funds in your Account) if you (a) have violated the terms of these Terms of Service, any other agreement you have with S3, or S3's policies, (b) pose an unacceptable credit or fraud risk to us, (c) provide any false, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading information or otherwise engage in fraudulent or illegal conduct, or (d) for any other reason in S3's sole discretion. If your Account is terminated or suspended for any reason or no reason, you agree: (a) to continue to be bound by these Terms of Service, (b) to immediately stop using the Services, (c) that any licenses granted to you by S3 shall end, (d) that we reserve the right (but have no obligation) to hide or delete all of your information and account data stored on our servers, and (e) that S3 shall not be liable to you or any third party for termination or suspension of access to the Services or for deletion or hiding of your information or account data. You agree that S3 may retain and use your information and account data as needed to comply with investigations and applicable law. We will not be liable to you for compensation, reimbursement, or damages in connection with your use of the Services, or in connection with any termination or suspension of the Services. Any termination of these Terms of Service does not relieve you of any obligations to pay any Fees or costs accrued prior to the termination and any other amounts owed by you to us as provided in these Terms of Service.
Third Party Payment Service Provider “PSP”. S3 facilitates the processing of payments Professionals receive from Clients. Clients Only: You authorize us to process payments in accordance with the Services, using the payment information you have supplied. Users of the Service will be required to provide their credit card or bank account details to S3 and the PSP. When a Styling Service has been completed, you agree to authorize S3 to provide your payment details to the PSP for processing of payments, out of pocket expenses owed to a Professional, any tip or gratuity, if applicable, and the service fees and/or booking fees owed to S3 for the use of the Service. As determined by the Professional, you may be charged a cancellation/no show fee through the PSP if you book a Styling Service but cancel or do not show for a scheduled service.
Accepted Cards. S3 works with any US-issued and most non-US issued credit, debit, prepaid, or gift cards ("Cards") with a Visa, MasterCard, or Discover logo. We may remove or add Cards that we accept at any time without prior notice. We will generally only process Cards that receive an authorization from the applicable Network and Card issuer. We may decide not to authorize or settle any transaction that you submit to us if we believe in our sole discretion that the transaction is in violation of these Terms of Service or any other S3 agreement, or that it exposes Professionals, other S3 Users, the PSP or S3 to harm. Harm includes fraud and other criminal acts as determined by S3 in our sole discretion. If we reasonably suspect that your Account has been used for an unauthorized, illegal, or criminal purpose, you give us express authorization to share information about you, your Account, and any of your transactions with law enforcement. S3 is not liable for any losses relating to chargebacks, fraudulent charges, or other actions by any User that are deceptive, fraudulent or otherwise invalid as determined in S3's sole discretion (“Fraudulent Actions"). By using the Services, you hereby release S3 from any liability arising from Fraudulent Actions. You will also use best efforts to promptly notify S3 of any Fraudulent Actions which may affect the Services. S3 reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate the account of any User that engages in, or enables any other User to engage in, Fraudulent Actions.
Customer Service. Professionals are solely responsible for all customer service issues relating to such Professional's goods or services, including without limitation, any Styling Services, pricing, order fulfillment, order or appointment cancellation, returns, refunds and adjustments, rebates, functionality and warranty, and feedback concerning experiences with such Professional, any personnel, their policies or processes.
Changes to the Services. We may change, modify, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without reason. You acknowledge that the operation of the Services may from time to time encounter technical or other problems and may not necessarily continue uninterrupted or without technical or other errors and S3 shall not be responsible to you or others for any such interruptions, errors or problems or an outright discontinuance of the Services. S3 has no obligation to maintain or update the Services or to continue producing or releasing new versions of the Services. We will make reasonable efforts to keep the Services operational 24 hours a day/7 days a week, except for: (i) planned downtime (of which we will endeavor to provide at least 8 hours prior notice); or (ii) any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond our control, including but not limited to, acts of God, acts of government, flood, fire, earthquakes, civil unrest, acts of terror, strikes or other labor problems or Internet service provider failures or delays.
User Code of Conduct. As a User of the Services, you agree to follow all applicable rules and laws and take full responsibility for any promotion you offer via the Services. We do our best to keep S3 safe and spam free, but can't guarantee it. In order to help us do so, you agree not to:
•send or otherwise post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on the Services.
•collect Users' content or information, or otherwise access the Services, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.
•engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on the Services.
•upload viruses or other malicious code.
•solicit login information or Account IDs or access an account belonging to someone else.
•bully, intimidate, or harass any User.
•post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic, or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
•develop, advertise or otherwise market alcohol-related or other mature content.
•use S3 to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
•do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of S3 or the Services, such as a denial of service attack.
•facilitate or encourage any violations of these Terms of Service.
Proprietary Rights. The Services contains content and technology of S3 that is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws. S3 owns intellectual property rights to any protectable part of the Services, including but not limited to the design, artwork, logos, functionality, and documentation (collectively, the "Company Property"). You may not copy, modify, or reverse engineer any part of the Services or S3 Property. You acknowledge that all derivative designs and artwork which utilize S3's logo or other Company Property (collectively, "Derivative Works") are the sole property of S3. No other rights are granted to you with respect to S3 Property other than those rights granted explicitly herein, including with respect to any Derivative Works. S3 reserves the right to remove or hide any Content from the Services, at its sole discretion. S3 respects the intellectual property of others. It may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the Accounts of Users who S3, in its determination, believes have repeatedly infringed others' rights. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide the following information to S3's copyright agent via email to: support@salonsuitesolutions.com
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. NEITHER S3 NOR ITS AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY USER OF THE SERVICES AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE S3 AND ITS AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS FROM ANY LIABILITY RELATED THERETO. S3 AND ITS AFFILIATES AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, INJURY OR DAMAGE ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. S3 AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. S3 MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS, (II) THAT YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR FREE, (III) THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED, OR (IV) THAT THE SERVICES OR ANY SERVER THROUGH WHICH YOU ACCESS THE SERVICES IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. S3 MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE QUALITY, SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, TIMING, DURABILITY, LEGALITY, OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF STYLING SERVICES OFFERED OR PROVIDED BY PROFESSIONALS OR REQUESTED BY CLIENTS THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICES WHETHER IN PUBLIC, PRIVATE, OR OFFLINE INTERACTIONS OR ABOUT THE ACCREDITATION, REGISTRATION OR LICENSE OF ANY PROFESSIONAL. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL S3 OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR BODILY INJURY OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS AND DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF S3 HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (I) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES; (II) STYLING SERVICES FACILITATED BY THE SERVICES OR ANY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LIABILITIES ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONDUCT, ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY USER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION STALKING, HARASSMENT THAT IS SEXUAL OR OTHERWISE, ACTS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, AND DESTRUCTION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY) OR ANY DISPUTE WITH ANY USER; (III) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; (IV) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF THE SERVICES OR YOUR DATA OR TRANSMISSIONS; OR (V) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICES. S3 EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY THAT MAY ARISE BETWEEN USERS RELATED TO OR ARISING FROM USE OF THE SERVICES. BECAUSE S3 IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE ACTUAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND CLIENTS OR IN THE PROVISION OF ANY STYLING SERVICES, YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE S3 AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, DAMAGES (ACTUAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, CONTINGENT OR LIQUIDATED, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO ANY DISPUTE OR INTERACTIONS WITH ANY OTHER USER, WHETHER ONLINE OR IN PERSON, WHETHER RELATED TO THE PROVISION OF STYLING SERVICES OR OTHERWISE.
Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless S3 and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, partners and licensors from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debt and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from or relating to: (i) your use of and access to the Services; (ii) Styling Services facilitated by the Services or any interaction between you and another user; (iii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Service; (iv) your violation of any rights of a third party, including without limitation any copyright, intellectual property, or privacy right; or (v) any third-party claims or damages relating to death, personal injury or emotional distress arising from or related to use of the Services. This defense and indemnification obligations will survive the termination of these Terms of Service and your use of the Services.
Binding Arbitration. If you and S3 are unable to resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, all claims arising from use of the Services (except those Disputes expressly excluded below) shall be finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration. Any election to arbitrate by one party will be final and binding on the other. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IF EITHER PARTY ELECTS TO ARBITRATE, NEITHER PARTY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT OR HAVE A JURY TRIAL. The arbitration will be commenced and conducted under the Commercial Arbitration Rules (the "AAA Rules") of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") and, where appropriate, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes ("AAA Consumer Rules"), both of which are available at the AAA website www.adr.org. Your arbitration fees and your share or arbitrator compensation will be governed by the AAA Rules (and, where appropriate, limited by the AAA Consumer Rules. The arbitrator will make a decision in writing, but need not provide a statement of reasons unless requested by a party. The arbitrator must follow applicable law, and any award may be challenged if the arbitrator fails to do so. Except as otherwise provided in these Terms of Service, you and S3 may litigate in court to compel arbitration, stay proceeding pending arbitration, or to confirm, modify, vacate or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator. Arbitration will take place in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. You and S3 agree that for any Dispute not subject to arbitration (other than claims proceeding in any small claims court), or where no election to arbitrate has been made, the Texas state and Federal courts located in Dallas, TX have exclusive jurisdiction and you and S3 agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.
Governing Law. Except as expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Service are governed by, and will be construed under, the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to choice of law principles. Notwithstanding the provision in the preceding paragraph with respect to applicable substantive law, the enforceability of Section 15 entitled "Dispute Resolution" shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C., Secs. 1-16).
Privacy. Our collection of data and information via the Services from Users and others is subject to our Privacy Policy which is available at PRIVACY POLICY and is incorporated herein (the "Privacy Policy"). You understand that through your use of the Services that you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of such data and information. We have implemented technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.
CONTACT INFORMATION. If you have questions you may contact us at:customerservice@salonsuitesolutions.com
Last Updated: September 8, 2018