Terms of Use

TERMS OF USE

Welcome to www.anyrateauto.com. Before you continue using this website in any way, we advise you to read and ensure that you are in full agreement with these terms of use (and by incorporation our Privacy Policy, as well as any other guideline, policy or content displayed on the AnyRateAuto website).


These terms of use and all subsequent claims and disputes arising out of or as related with your use of this website shall be administrated by the laws of the United States of America.


By visiting this website or using its services, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms of use. We reserve the right and may from time to time, at our sole discretion, exercise such to revise these Terms of use and all related information by updating this post or any related information.


Revised terms will take effect immediately upon posting and any use of this website after such changes are effected will be considered as your agreement to continue to be bound by this agreement.


HOW OUR WEBSITE WORKS

We offer this website as a service/platform for customers who are desirous of receiving automotive repairs to be connected to shops/technicians who offer such automotive repair services. A registered customer may post his/her repair job onto the site, allowing local technicians/shops to view the job and submit a bid. The customer can compare different offers, prices, and customer service reviews before choosing a preferred shop or technician. The customer then chooses the shop or technician he/she wants to use for the automotive repair. After the job is complete, both participants can leave feedback on the website.


BASIC DEFINITIONS

Under these terms of use, these following words/phrases shall be thus defined:


Us/we: Used interchangeably, this shall mean AnyRateAuto


Customer: An AnyRateAuto user who posts automotive repair job onto the site, and invites local technicians/shops to view the job and submit a bid.


Technician/Shop: This shall refer to a user who uses the AnyRateAuto platform to bid for and subsequently carry out automotive repair work on customers’ automobiles.


User: This shall refer to both customer and technician/shop


You/your: Used interchangeably, this shall refer to a user, whether a customer or a technician/shop


Fees: A percentage of income paid to AnyRateAuto by technician/shop.



ACCEPTABLE USE

We grant a limited, revocable, nonassignable, nonexclusive, nonsublicensable license to persons who have attained the legal age of 18 to access www.anyrateauto.com in compliance with these terms of use. As a user, you hereby consent not to license, make derivative works of, allocate, display, or sell content from www.anyrateauto.com.


You must not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from any part of the website. You are prohibited from mirroring, linking to, or framing any part of our website/services; neither must you try to gain unauthorized access to our website nor incapacitate any part of the AnyRateAuto website or its related systems.

You may not duplicate, reproduce, sell, copy, or otherwise abuse this website for any money- making purpose without AnyRateAuto’s prior written consent.

As a user, you may under no circumstances utilize information collected from our website to contact individuals or organizations except the automotive technician or service disclosed to customers, and vice versa.


You are expressly forbidden from copying or downloading account information for the benefit of another website or merchant; and you may not use data mining robots or comparable data extraction tools on this website.


You may not gain unauthorized access to other computer systems; make, transmit or store electronic copies of materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner. As a user, you may not disseminate any illegal, harassing, libelous, unmannerly, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material.


You are prohibited from communicating material that inspires criminal conduct or results in civil liability.


At www.anyrateauto.com, we may suspend or remove without prior notice any user’s account who is found to be abusing the website and its services and/or harassing any other user of the services.


Every user is liable for his/her conduct and activities on www.anyrateauto.com, including but not limited to all and any usernames and passwords, profiles, data, text, graphics information, images, photographs, video, audio, items, and links uploaded and posted on the site.


USER ACCOUNTS

In order to use most aspects of the AnyRateAuto services, you must register for and maintain an active personal user account. Our account registration process makes it mandatory for you to relay certain personal information. This may include your name, physical address, cell phone number, email address and age.


You agree to always maintain accurate, honest, comprehensive, and current information in your user account. Should you be found to have provided us with information that is incomplete, misleading or untruthful, we may disable your ability to access and use the website, and/or may terminate this agreement.


You agree that you are personally responsible for every action that transpires under your AnyRateAuto account, and hereby consent to ensure the confidentiality and security of your password at all times. You may not authorize third parties to use your AnyRateAuto account, and you agree to conform to every applicable law when using our website.


You are to immediately inform us should you suspect that the privacy of your account has been violated. You may only use the website for legal purposes.


Except otherwise permitted by www.anyrateauto.com in writing, you may only possess one account.


USER PROVIDED CONTENT

We have made provisions for www.anyrateauto.com users to upload comments on the website, especially regarding their feedback from automotive jobs ordered/delivered. You hereby guarantee that you are the only and exclusive proprietor of all user content that you post. You must otherwise have all rights, approvals, releases, and licenses necessary to grant www.anyrateauto.com the license to any third party user content. You hereby warrant that your user content will not in any way infringe upon, misuse or disrespect a third party’s exclusive rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or end in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.


Any user content provided by you remains your property, but by providing such user content to www.anyrateauto.com, you grant us a universal, endless, irreversible, transferrable, and royalty-free license, with the right to sub-license, replicate, alter, make derivative works of, allocate, openly show, publicly perform, and to otherwise use such User Content without consent from you or further notice to you, and without the obligation to reimburse you or any other person or entity.


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

Every material (such as but not limited to information, articles, reports, illustrations, photos and/or pictures, descriptions, or any software programs) shown and displayed on www.anyrateauto.com are trademarked and/or copyrighted by AnyRateAuto and are completely protected by intellectual property laws, except where we clearly state otherwise. Thus, all rights, titles and interests in relation to the contents are owned, licensed to or controlled by AnyRateAuto.


The AnyRateAuto name, logo, website, button icons, page headers, scripts, and service names and all related trademarks are trademarks of AnyRateAuto. We may initiate legal proceedings against the violator in the event of the violation of our copyright.


RELATIONSHIPS

Nothing in this agreement confers on AnyRateAuto and any technician/automotive shop an employer/employee relationship. All technicians and shops are independent contractors and are able to bid for jobs on www.anyrateauto.com for a percentage of fees received from customers. Customers acknowledge and agree to this fact.


Thus, AnyRateAuto shall in no way be held liable for a technician’s/automotive shop’s inability to deliver on job specifications and will under no circumstances pay restitution or damages to any customer for any botched/incomplete job done by a technician/automotive shop.


LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMER

THE WWW.ANYRATEAUTO.COM WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND ‘AS AVAILABLE’. WHILE WE HAVE TAKEN SENSIBLE CARE TO MAKE SURE THAT INFORMATION OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENTS ARE DETAILED AND TRUTHFUL, AND/OR OBTAINED FROM SOURCES THAT WE BELIEVE TO BE TRUSTWORTHY, WE MAKE NO ASSURANCES OR GUARANTEE OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF TITLE, WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT.


ANYRATEAUTO MAKES NO GUARANTEES THAT THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE ERROR-FREE OR ACCURATE.


WWW.ANYRATEAUTO.COM SHALL NOT IN ANY WAY BE LIABLE TO USERS AND/OR THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM POSSIBILITIES BEYOND OUR CONTROL IN THE COLLECTION, ASSEMBLAGE, INTERPRETATION, ALTERATION, REPORTING OR DELIVERING OF THE CONTENTS OR ANY PART THEREOF.


WE DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY CONCERNING THE IMPORTS OF ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. WWW.ANYRATEAUTO.COM SHALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE BE OBLIGATED AS REGARDS ANY CLAIM EMERGING OUT OF OR CONCERNING OUR WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENTS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY COURSE OF ACTION TAKEN OR RESOLUTION MADE BY USERS IN TRUST UPON SUCH CONTENT, AND/OR FOR HARMS/DAMAGES SUFFERED, WHETHER THEY BE IMMEDIATE, MOMENTOUS, SPECIAL, CORRECTIVE, INDIRECT OR SOMETHING ELSE, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE BEEN EDUCATED CONCERNING THE LIKELIHOOD OF SUCH HARMS.


WE SHALL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR QUALITY OF AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR JOBS CARRIED OUT; THE PRESENTATION OF TECHNICIANS’/SHOPS’ LICENSE AND/OR; THE VERIFICATION OF TECHNICIANS’/SHOPS’ INSURANCE.


WE ARE AN AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS/SHOPS FINDER WEBSITE AND WE ARE NOT RECOGNIZED BY ANY CITY OR STATE AS AN AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE HELD LIABLE FOR LOSS OF FUNDS/RESOURCES A CUSTOMER MIGHT ENCOUNTER, AS WE WILL NEVER ACCEPT MONEY DIRECTLY FROM ANY CUSTOMER.


WE WILL NOT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO YOU OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL, FOR ANY MATTERS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL; OR ANY UNFORESEEABLE MISFORTUNES OR HARMS.


NOTHING INCLUDED IN THESE TERMS IS INTENDED TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT ANY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEATH OR INJURY ARISING FROM CARELESSNESS, DECEPTION, OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH MAY NOT BE RESTRICTED OR EXEMPTED BY LAW, OR AIMED AT AFFECTING YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER.


THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Links contained in www.anyrateauto.com websites may lead to websites and other resources not under the control of AnyRateAuto. We are not responsible for the contents, procedures or resources found on a linked site. We provide these links to users only as a convenience and such inclusion should not be taken as an endorsement by www.anyrateauto.com of any such linked site. As a user, you consent that you access any use any linked sites at your own risk.


INDEMNIFICATION

You consent to indemnify, release, defend, and hold www.anyrateauto.com, its affiliates, holdings, and their officers, managers, agents, and proxies, not guilty from and against any liabilities, claims, losses, reparations, and expenses, including but not limited to, rational legal and accounting fees, in any way associated with your use of the AnyRateAuto website and services and/or your infringement of these terms.


CHOICE OF LAW

All claims, cause of action or disputes arising out of this agreement will be settled exclusively in the Massachusetts court system. You hereby agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of its courts for the purpose of litigating all such claims. These terms of use shall be interpreted and thereafter governed by the laws of Massachusetts in all respects.


SEVERABILITY

If any provision of this agreement is held unenforceable, we will modify specific provisions to reflect both parties' intention while all residual provisions of this terms of use shall remain in full force and effect.


MODIFICATIONS/ALTERATIONS

We may adjust, review, expand, add to or delete any of these provisions at any time without prior notice to users. We thus advise that you check back often for updates on this page. You must stop using the services if you find any term unacceptable. Your continued use of the services now, or after any changes, indicates your acceptance of these terms of use, and of any such changes.


CLOSURE

For all words, terms, and language used in this document. We use The American Heritage® College dictionary, fourth edition.


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