THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE (“Terms of Use”) ARE LEGALLY BINDING BETWEEN YOU AND STO BUILDING GROUP (defined for purposes of this Agreement as STO Building Group Inc. and its member companies and subsidiaries) (“we”, “us”, “our”) THAT YOU FORM BY ACCESSING ANY AREA OF stobuildinggroup.com OR ANY AREAS OF SITES THAT LINK TO THESE TERMS OF USE (“Site”). YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY CHANGES TO OUR TERMS OF USE.
BY ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU WARRANT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD.
1. ACCESSING AND USING OUR SITE
We reserve the right to amend, update, and withdraw the Site, and any service or content we provide on the Site, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
If you are provided with a user name, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. Any accounts you create are personal to you and you must not provide any other person with access to this Site or portions of it using your user name, password, or other security information. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security.
We have the right to disable any user name, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.
2. SITE CONTENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Site and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by us, our licensors, or other providers of such material. Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make non-commercial use of the Site. The licenses granted by us terminate if you do not comply with these Terms of Use.
If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Site in breach of the Terms of Use, you are prohibited from accessing the Site and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the Site or any content on the Site is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are retained by us or our licensors or other rights holders. Any use of the Site not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use. You must not use, reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on the Site unless authorized under these Terms of Use.
You must not use our name, marks, logos, or related names, logos, product and service names, designs, or slogans without our prior written permission.
3. USER CONTENT
We may include features on the Site that allow you to share your communications, information, photos, or other content (“User Content”) with us and with other users of the Site. You must not send, upload, or transmit any User Content of any type that infringes or violates any rights of any party or violates these Terms of Use. By providing any User Content on the Site you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such User Content anywhere in the world and through any media for any purpose.
You represent and warrant that:
- You own or control all rights in and to the User Content and have the right to grant the license granted above.
- All of your User Content does and will comply with these Terms of Use.
You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Content you submit or contribute, and you, not we, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness.
4. PROHIBITED USES
You may use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You must not use the Site:
- In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material without our prior written consent, including any “junk mail,” “spam,” or any other similar solicitation.
- To impersonate or attempt to impersonate us, any of our employees, another user, or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses or screen names associated with any of the foregoing).
- To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Site, or which, as determined by us, may harm us or users of the Site, or expose them to liability.
- To transmit, post, publish or send any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, deceptive, fraudulent, tortious, obscene, pornographic, inflammatory, profane, or infringing material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
- To express or imply that we endorse any statement or posting you make, or any products or services you may offer.
Additionally, you must not:
- Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Site for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Site.
- Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Site.
- Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Site, the server on which the Site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Site.
- Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site.
- Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Site.
- Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from the Site or from materials originating from the Site.
6. INDEMNIFICATION
Except to the extent prohibited by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us, our officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, costs, liabilities, and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of your use of or activities in connection with the Site or any allegation that User Content from you infringes or violates the intellectual property rights of others, or that otherwise arises out of your violation of these Terms of Use.
7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
We do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the Site will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site for any reconstruction of any lost data.
The Site may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, aggregators, and/or reporting services. All statements expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by us, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials.
If the Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Site, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.
WE DO NOT EXTEND ANY WARRANTIES IN THE TERMS OF USE.
ANY LIABILITY ARISING UNDER OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OF USE OR OUR SITE SHALL BE LIMITED TO USD 1,000. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY UNDER WHICH A CLAIM IS BROUGHT.
8. GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE
The validity, construction, and effect of this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the state of New York, without giving effect to that state’s conflict of laws rules. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Site, shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of New York, in each case located in Manhattan, New York, although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of this Agreement in your country or county of residence, or any other relevant country or county. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
All disputes arising out of, or relating to, these Terms of Use (including formation, performance, breach, enforceability, and validity of the Terms of Use), our operation of the Site, or a purchase made through the Site shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration will be held in Manhattan, New York, or another location if we consent to such other location, which consent may be withheld in our sole discretion. The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of these Terms of Use, including any claim that all or any part of the Terms of Use is void or voidable. The award rendered by the arbitrator shall include costs of arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable costs for expert and other witnesses, and any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. Class actions and class arbitrations are prohibited. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, we each waive any right to a jury trial. Further, no action arising under this Agreement may be brought by User more than one (1) year after the cause of action has accrued.
9. NO WAIVER
No waiver of any term of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and our failure to assert any right or provision under the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
10. MISCELLANEOUS
If any part of these Terms of Use is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, solely that part, to the minimum extent possible, will be deemed severable, and will not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining provisions. Specific services, promotions, and sections of this Site may include additional terms and requirements, and those additional terms and requirements will supplement these Terms of Use with respect to the items to which they apply. We may revise or modify this Site and these Terms of Use without notice.
11. ENFORCEMENT AND SEVERABILITY
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use will not constitute a waiver of future enforcement of that right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by our duly authorized representative. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms of Use the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms of Use will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms of Use or otherwise. If any term or condition in these Terms of Use is deemed invalid, void, or unenforceable, that term or condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining term or condition.
12. CONTACT
The Site is operated by STO Building Group Inc., located at 330 W. 34th Street, New York, New York 10001.
You can reach us by telephone at 212-481-6100.
All notices of copyright infringement claims should be sent to legal@StructureTone.comGo to mailto:legal@StructureTone.com. It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances, to terminate repeat infringers.
All other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications related to the Site can also be sent to: corporatemarketing@stobuildinggroup.comGo to mailto:socialmedia@stobuildinggroup.com
Effective Date: April 10, 2024