All the Legal Stuff
Welcome to www.meerguide.com. The website is comprised of various web pages operated by Meer (Meer Guide). www.meerguide.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained here. Your use of the site constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully.
Electronic Communications
Visiting www.meerguide.com or sending emails to Meer Guide constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the website, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. Meer Guide does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may only use www.meerguide.com with permission of a parent or guardian.
Links to Third Party Sites/Services
www.meerguide.com.com may contain links to other websites. The Linked Sites are not under the control of Meer Guide and Meer Guide is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Meer Guide is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Meer Guide of the site or any association with its operators. Certain services made available via www.meerguide.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the www.meerguide.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Meer Guide may share such information and data with any third party with whom Meer Guide has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of www.meerguide.com users and customers.
No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use www.meerguide.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of Meer Guide, you warrant that you will not use Meer Guide for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use Meer Guide in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through Meer Guide. All content included as part of the website, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the website, is the property of Meer Guide or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto. You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on Meer Guide. Meer Guide content is not for resale. Your use of www.meerguide.com does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Meer Guide and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Meer Guide or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
Use of Communication Services
Meer Guide may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded, restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations. Meer Guide has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Meer Guide reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Meer Guide reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. Meer Guide reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, at Meer Guide’s sole discretion. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Meer Guide does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Meer Guide specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Meer Guide spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Meer Guide. Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.
Materials provided to or posted on www.meerguide.com
The information provided by Meer Guide is for general informational purposes only. All information on Meer Guide is provided in good faith, however we make no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability or completeness of any information on Meer Guide. Meer Guide does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to www.meerguide.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Meer website or our associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Meer Guide, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Meer Guide is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Meer Guide’s sole discretion. By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
International Users
www.meerguide.com is controlled, operated and administered by Meer Guide from our offices within the USA. If you access the website from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use Meer Guide content accessed through www.meerguide.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Meer Guide, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Meer Guide reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Meer Guide in asserting any available defenses.
Liability Disclaimer
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MEER GUIDE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME. MEER GUIDE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. MEER GUIDE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MEER GUIDE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF MEER GUIDE OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
Changes to Terms
Meer Guide reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.meerguide.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Meer Guide encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
Contact Us
Meer welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:
Email Address: hello@meerguide.com
Effective as of December 17, 2019
PRIVACY POLICY
Updated December 12, 2019
Meer Guide is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other users of our website and related subscription services. We created this Privacy Policy to give you confidence as you visit and use the website or otherwise subscribe to our services, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. Except as otherwise expressly provided, this Policy does not apply to any other websites that you may be able to access from Meer Guide, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN PLEASE NOTE: We are a general audience site, and do not direct any of our content specifically at children under 13 years of age. We understand and are committed to respecting the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information in that user’s account.
Information We Collect and How it’s Used
WHAT INFORMATION DOES THE COMPANY COLLECT? In operating the website or services, we may include registration, online surveys, and other online forms that ask users to provide their names, e-mail addresses, age group, birth date and other contact information, as well as the following categories of information: country of residence, zip code, and gender. Our servers automatically recognize visitors’ domain names and IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet). No personal information about you is revealed in this process. The website may also gather anonymous “traffic data” that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer. From time to time, we may use the standard “cookies” feature of major browser applications that allows us to store a small piece of data on your computer about your visit to our website. We do not set any personally identifiable information in cookies, nor do we employ any data capture mechanisms on our website other than cookies. Cookies help us learn which areas of our site are useful and which areas need improvement. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser. WHAT DOES COMPANY DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION? We will not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent, except as necessary to provide you with the services offered by us or to comply with the law. We may use your personal information to verify your identity or to check your qualifications. We may also use your contact information to inform you of any changes to the website or services, or to send you additional information about Meer Guide. If you give your permission during the account registration process, we may share your contact information with our business partners or other companies so that they may send you promotional materials. We use anonymous information to analyze our website traffic, but we do not examine this information for individually identifying information. In addition, we may use anonymous IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, or to display the content according to your preferences. Traffic and transaction information may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis. USE OF COOKIES We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests or for other purposes. Promotions or advertisements displayed on Meer Guide may contain cookies. We do not have access to or control over information collected by outside advertisers on our website. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Meer Guide or its parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of Meer Guide or the users of the website or services, or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the website or services. SALE OF INFORMATION In order to accommodate changes in our business, Meer Guide may sell or buy portions of our company or other companies or assets, including the information collected through this website or otherwise collected in connection with the services. If Meer Guide or all of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the assets transferred to the acquirer. ACCESS TO INFORMATION Unfortunately, we do not maintain any procedures for you to review or request changes to the information that we collect about you, except that you may request that we remove all information about you from our database by contacting us in accordance with instruction below.
SECURITY
www.meerguide.com and services have security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, but we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
WEBSITE AREAS BEYOND COMPANY’S CONTROL
The website may include interactive forums such as message boards and chat rooms. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. The website may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.
CONTACT INFORMATION AND POLICY UPDATES
If you have any questions about this Policy, our practices related to www.meerguide.com or services, or if you would like to have us remove your information from our database please contact us at: hello@meerguide.com. We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on the website and without any other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website. It is your responsibility to review this Policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.
DISCLOSURE
meerguide.com does not sell your personal information, email address, or any other identifiable information to third parties.
The website does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from persons under thirteen years of age. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for www.meerguide.com or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on website.
Any paid collaborations or sponsorships are disclosed within the respective editorial. We plan to monetize some outbound product links.
Meer Guide maintains this website to provide information and opinions. This is a service that is continually under development. While we try to keep the information timely and accurate, we make no guarantees. We will make an effort to correct errors brought to our attention.
You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the services and accessing www.meerguide.com. Meer Guide is not responsible for the content of linked sites.