JOY by Mel Lim
Terms of Use
The following are the rules or "Terms" that govern use of the JOY by Mel Lim web site and the Services offered on the Site such as e-commerce, links, and communications (collectively, "Site"). By using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and to follow these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations governing the Site. JOY by Mel Lim reserves the right to change these Terms at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Site.

Permitted Use
You are only authorized to view and to retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use.
Do not duplicate, publish, modify or otherwise distribute the material on this Site unless specifically authorized by JOY by Mel Lim to do so in writing.
The content and software on this Site is the property of JOY by Mel Lim and/or its suppliers and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.
We post a legal notice and various credits on pages of the Site. Please do not remove this notice or these credits, or any additional information contained along with the notices and credits.

User Contributions to the Site.
From time to time we may offer opportunities for you to contribute to the Site and to communicate with other users of the Site.
These may include, among others, uploading your comments, articles, links or other materials, which collectively, we call "User Content" to the Site.
JOY by Mel Lim is not liable or responsible for any Content provided by its users or other third parties to the Site or to other users of the Site by email ("User Content"). The contributions of third parties do not necessarily represent the view or opinions of JOy by Mel Lim and JOY by Mel Lim cannot preview User Content before appears or is sent to another user. Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited User Content they provide to the Site or to other users, including among other things, infringing, and defamatory or offensive materials. However, if you discover this kind of material on the Site, please notify us at info@joybymellim.com. We will investigate your claim and take appropriate action.

Links and Search Results
The Site may automatically produce search results that reference or links to third party sites throughout the Internet. JOY by Mel Lim has no control over these Sites or the Content within them. JOY by Mel Lim cannot guarantee, represent or warrant that the Content contained in the Sites is accurate, legal and/or inoffensive. JOY by Mel Lim does not endorse the Content of any third party Site, nor do can we warrant that they will not contain viruses or otherwise impact your computer. By using the Site to search for or link to another site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against JOY by Mel Lim for any damages or losses, whatsoever, resulting from your use of the Site to obtain search results and/or to link to another site. However, if you have a problem with a link from the Site, please let us know at info@joybymellim.com and we will investigate the link and take appropriate action.

Prohibited Content
The following is a partial list of the kind of User Content which is illegal or prohibited on the Site or via email accessed through the Site.
It includes User Content that:
Is patently offensive to the online community, such as User Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
Is or could be harmful to minors;
Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"
Promotes information that you know is false, misleading, or promotes illegal activities or conduct, is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
Is or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, provides information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices
Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page)
Displays pornographic material of any kind;
Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons; violating someone's privacy; providing or creating computer viruses,;
Solicits passwords, personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
Engages in commercial activities and/or sales without Mel Lim Design's prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, pyramid schemes, etc.
Involves sending unsolicited and/or unauthorized email to third parties.

Violation of the Terms
You understand and agree that in JOY by Mel Lim's sole discretion, and without prior notice, JOY by Mel Lim may terminate your access to the Site, to any email services offered on the Site, and remove any unauthorized User Content, if Mel Lim Design believes that the User Content you provided has violated or is inconsistent with the Terms or with the intention behind them, or that you have violated the rights of JOY by Mel Lim, another User or the law. JOY by Mel Lim may release user information about you if required by law or subpoena, or if the information is necessary or appropriate to release to address an unlawful or harmful activity.

Copyright Policy
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the our Site; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Privacy
We believe that your privacy and the privacy of all our users is important. Please review our Privacy Policy. If you post any original User Content to the Site, by electronic mail or otherwise, we will treat it as non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. By posting it to the Site, you authorize us to use or allow others to distribute, reproduce or otherwise use the Content. JOY by Mel Lim is not liable for any lost data resulting from the operation of our Site and/or the enforcement of the Terms. We urge all users to maintain their own back up versions of any content they submit to the Site. However, please note that if you purchase materials or services on the Site, your financial information and the content of your order will be treated as confidential in accordance with our Privacy Policy!

Individual who are under fourteen are expressly prohibited from posting any personally identifiable information about themselves or from uploading any User Content to the Site.

Ecommerce/Purchases
Transactions that you make on the Site are governed by our Purchase Policy.

U.S. Export controls
Software from this site is further subject to United States export controls. No software from this site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.

Disclaimer
JOY by Mel Lim does not promise that the Site or any services, such as links or searches offered on the Site will be error-free, uninterrupted, nor that it will provide specific results from use of the Site or any Content, search or link on it. The Site, and its Content are delivered on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. JOY by Mel Lim can not ensure that files you download from the Site will be free of viruses, Trojan horses, bugs, contamination or destructive features. Mel Lim Design disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including also any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. JOY by Mel Lim will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this Site, including without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive and consequential damages.

Disputes
If there is any dispute about or involving the Site, by using the Site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws or the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of California, County of San Diego.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold JOY by Mel Lim, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site, including also your use of the Site to provide a link to another Site or to upload User Content or other information to the Site.