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Use of this site signifies your agreement with the following terms of use. If you do not agree with any of these terms of use, please do not use this site. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify these Terms of Use at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications through your use of the Company's site.

All materials on this site, including, but not limited to, images, text, illustrations, audio clips, video clips (the "Materials") are protected by copyrights which are owned or licensed by the Company, or otherwise used with permission by the Company. PetGroomer.com, Driven to Groom, PetGroomerShop.com, Groomer Pedia®, PetGroomerForums.com Findagroomer.com, PetGroomerYellowPages.com, GroomingBusinessinaBox.com, GroomWise℠, GroomerTALK℠ and Grooming Business in a Box® are trademarks of the Company. You may not reproduce, perform, create derivative works from, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute in any way whatsoever any Materials from its websites, www.petgroomer.com, www.driventogroom.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.groomwise.com, www.groomerpedia.com, www.petgroomershop.com, www.mygroomingschool.com and www.petgroomershop.com or any other website owned or operated by the Company without the prior written permission of the Company. However, you may download or make one copy of the Materials, and other downloadable items displayed on the site, for personal noncommercial home use only, provided all copyright and other notices contained in the Materials are left intact. Any modification of the Materials, or any portion thereof, or use of the Materials for any other purpose constitutes an infringement of the Company's copyrights and other proprietary rights. Use of these Materials on any other website or other networked computer environment is prohibited without prior written permission from the Company.

OWNERSHIP OF SUBMISSIONS

By transmitting bulletin board postings, e-mail, messages, suggestions, ideas, or concepts (each, a "Submission"), whether unsolicited or solicited, to the Company you are granting the Company a royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, unrestricted, worldwide license to publish, transmit, perform, display and otherwise use the Submission for any purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotional purposes. No credit or compensation is due to you for such use. The Company also has the right, but not the obligation, to use your name, city and state in connection with broadcast, print, online or other use or publication of your submission. All submissions become the property of the Company and may be edited for use.

At times, the Company may solicit from visitors to www.petgroomer.com, www.petgroomercards.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.petgroomershop.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.groomwise.com, www.petgroomershop.com, www.driventogroom.com and www.egroomer.com various types of information (for example, registering for our Message Boards/Forums). For information on how this information will be used, please see our Privacy Policy and any notices of planned use posted where we solicit the information. Your provision of information in response to such a solicitation when informed of the planned use is a grant by you to the Company of a royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, unrestricted worldwide right and license to use the information as planned.

Although comments and questions are welcomed, the Company does not accept unsolicited submissions or creative ideas for its Company programs or products. Accordingly, any unsolicited submissions will become, and remain, the property of the Company. Furthermore, the Company is not responsible for the confidentiality of any Submission. (Please see our Privacy Policy regarding information that is solicited by us.)

Find A Groomer Inc. operates, GroomerTALK, a message board, forum and chat room at www.petgroomer.com and www.groomwise.com and interlinked websites which it owns including www.petgroomerforums.com. The following notice applies to them.

The Company is not responsible for any material posted in any Bulletin Board, chat room, talk radio or in any other forum on this website (each, a "Forum"). The Company is merely providing access to such material in such Forum(s) as a service to you and Forums shall be used only in a noncommercial manner (for entertainment purposes only). In order to participate in our Forums, you must go through "registration." When you register for the Forums, you will be required to provide the Company through its websites with the following information: your name, valid e-mail address. By going on the Forums as a guest and/or completing the registration process and selecting the "Login" button, you are indicating your agreement to comply with these Terms of Use.

Members or non-members shall not, without the Company's express approval, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, promotion, opinion, advertising or solicitation for goods or services. You specifically acknowledge that soliciting other guests to join or become members of any commercial online service or other organization is expressly prohibited. You shall not use the private message or email functions of the messaging services to contact one or more members with unsolicited requests for information for goods, services, consumer issues, legal matters or advertising in any manner.

With respect to any materials posted for inclusion in such Forums by other parties, such parties are responsible for the reliability, accuracy, and truthfulness of such material and such matters are beyond the control of the Company. Similarly, the Company has no control over whether such material is of a nature that users will find inoffensive, tasteful and otherwise acceptable and expressly disclaims any responsibility for such material. Just as when you obtain materials in any other setting, you should exercise appropriate discretion, good judgment and caution in accessing materials in any of the Forums and in taking any actions based upon material in such Forums. Accordingly, you will bear all risk associated with any such material that you access.

We never sell your email address or other member information. You agree as a member of GroomerTALK Community we may occasionally (1 to 4 times years) send you an email regarding events sponsored at the GroomerTALK Community www.petgroomerforums.com.

With respect to any materials you elect to post for inclusion in such Forums, you grant to the Company, simultaneous with such posting, the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such material (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You agree not to upload, transmit, distribute or otherwise publish in any Forum any material that is:

(1) libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, pornographic, threatening, or an invasion of privacy;
(2) an infringement of the intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks, of any person or entity;
(3) illegal in any way or advocates illegal activity;
(4) an advertisement or solicitation of funds, goods, or services;
(5) a message posted by a user impersonating another;
(6) personal information such as messages which identify phone numbers, social security numbers, account numbers, addresses, or employer references;
(7) chain letters of any kind;
(8) soliciting employment as either an employee or employer including independent contractor arrangements;
(9) soliciting the purchase or sale of businesses, products or services of any kind;
(10) sharing legal forms of any kind or
(11) sharing or comparing grooming prices.
(12) pictures of other people's pets wherein you do not have their express permission to display here.

Possible Legal action; Members are reminded that they are the copyright holder of any/all content of posts made on these forums. Any member who deems this content to be libel shall in the first instance contact the Administrator and draw his/her attention to the offending post. Responsibilities and actions; The administrator shall contact by whichever means deemed appropriate the author of the offending post and inform him/her that an objection has been raised and the reason for deletion. The member shall also be reminded at this time that should a further incident occur, then the member will be banned from the forums. The forum owners shall be allowed a reasonable period of time to respond to the objection. This will end the involvement of the forum owners. Should a member subsequently decide to raise an action against another member, the owner shall, as directed by the relevant law authority, provide legal testimony as required. By posting on these forums you agree to the above conditions.

You acknowledge that the GroomerTALK Message Board and Chat Room(s) are available to the general public both with and without registration as the operator deems correct. You further acknowledge that transcripts of live or recorded chat room sessions may be made public and published for the GroomerTALK Community review.

The Company will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

Any registered member may request that their GroomerTALK account at www.petgroomerforums.com be closed wherein their memer name will be removed from their posts will no longer show their registered member name but instead display "Guest." The member profile page will be fully deleted. You agree that the Company shall not have to remove any of your posts on your demand and they will remain as being posted by "Guest" instead. They may remain in the GroomerTALK database until the Company performs pruning maintenance of aged posts which may extend 5 or more years.

Contact information is not required to register for GroomerTALK Message Board or Chat Rooms. However if your contact info becomes known to us it shall not be shared except with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting that information. If your conduct at PetGroomer.com community facilities leads to potential issues or legal matters with other members or vendors we may use your real name, if known to us, interchangeably with any or all of your fictional names you have created to interact with our community facilities, in order to resolve any and every issue or matter.

The Chat Room cannot be used to rally, stage or encourage dissent against other members, advertisers or management. Direct comments to the Admin instead by email below.

You also agree to indemnify the Company for any claims or suits arising from your posting of such material in a Forum.

You acknowledge that the Company cannot assure you that someone will impersonate you on our message board or chat room when you provide your user name and password to them in any manner of doing so, including not logging out and allowing someone else to use your computer. Further if you opt to use any form of convenience programming to assist you with a faster login on your computer, such as a Windows cookie that remembers your login information, you acknowledge that others using your computer could login and impersonate you without our knowing. You fully hold the Company harmless in any such case where you do not protect your login information to the fullest extent possible. In addition, your computer may be hacked and again someone could access your login information maintained on your computer and therein come to our message or chat facilities impersonating you without our ever being able to know. You acknowledge it is your complete responsibility to protect your login information for GroomerTALK Message Board and Chat Room.

You acknowledge that the Company does not keep records of Chat Room activity for longer than 48 hours and that there is no legal requirement to keep transcripts. The Company solely owns the transcripts and will not share them with any member, only through proper procedures with law enforcement. We do not guarantee to review transcripts and instead if there is a problem you must immediately contact us. You further agree that we may publish or display live chat activities or transcripts, there is no implied privacy by being in a chat room any more than posting and replying on the message board. The Company may also make comment on the message board or marked up chat transcripts when displayed in order to make example of activity that is appropriate or not according to the guidelines presented here and on the message board(s) and chat room(s).

You acknowledge that you will not use the GroomerTALK Message Board, including all of its functions such as private messaging, to market in any manner traffic to another message board or chat or similar community discussion facility owned by you or another party. Your membership may be temporarily or permanently banned for this infraction.

Your further acknowledge that Internet search engines regularly visit our forums to index its database including your message(s) in their databases made public. You release and hold harmless the Company from any and all activity as a result of search engines presenting the results of their indexing and presenting our forums and your messages to Internet users and other uses conducted by any one or all search engines. You release the Company from any and all responsibility to assist you or take on the responsibility to contact any one or all search engine(s) in order to delete or discontinue presentation of your message(s) you originally posted in our forums. It is fully your responsibility to contact any one or all involved search engines to delete or modify your messages indexed in their databases from the Company's public forums.

The Company reserves the right to monitor and delete any postings deemed inconsistent with its policies. The Company also reserves the right to, at our discretion, terminate the registration of any Forum user who violates any of the Terms of Use. If you are aware of any such material posted on the Company's website, please contact us at findagroomer@earthlink.net. Please provide as much detail as possible, including a copy of the underlying material, the location where the Company may find it, the reason(s) such postings should be removed and a statement, signed under penalty of perjury, certifying the accuracy of the information you provide to us. To the extent any notice is based on an alleged copyright or trademark violation, please provide copies of applicable state or federal registration certificates. Although the Company will do its best to monitor materials in Forums, in no event does it assume any particular obligation to do so or liability for failing to either monitor the Forums or remove specific material.

You acknowledge that registration is required to post or reply on the GroomerTALK Message Board and Chat Room. Registration only requires your email address, but that no other positive identification is made of you. Your email address is never made available to members of GroomerTALK Community or the public. Your presence in the GroomerTALK Community is through a fictitious user name. The Company does not require any positive identification, and neither your legal name, address, website URL, or telephone. Therefore you remain anonymous to the public unless you disclose at your own risk your identity and which we strongly discourage.

Users agree to open and register no more than one account for the GroomerTALK Message Board. Registered members that become banned users and/or users whose account is closed by the administration agree not to sign-up for an alternate account and that their IP address may be blocked for attempting or intending to do so.

SOFTWARE

Software accessed through www.petgroomer.com, www.petgroomercards.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.groomerpedia.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.petgroomershop.com, www.egroomer.com and www.petgroomershop.com is subject to the license terms provided with the software and may be further subject to United States Export laws, rules and regulations, as amended from time to time. No software from this Site may be downloaded or exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Sudan or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or (ii) anyone on the United States 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.

LINKS

The Company is not responsible for the content of any sites which may be linked to www.petgroomer.com, www.petgroomercards.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.groomerpedia.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.petgroomershop.com. www.driventogroom.com, www.egroomer.com and www.petgroomershop.com, or any web pages of its websites. These links are provided for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk.

COUPONS, SAMPLES & FREEBIES OFFERS

PetGroomer.com's Coupons, Samples and Freebies page is herein and hereafter referred to as "C, S & F." The C, S & F page and the entirety of its content may also be located on third party web sites and/or applications. Our C, S & F enables you to locate the latest online coupons, freebies and samples available from merchants. We provide you with the latest available listings which allow you, the user, to receive freebies, samples and discounts on purchases at merchants for whom we have coupons. The C, S & F acts as a system or venue to introduce you to sellers of goods or services online. Find A Groomer Inc. uses reasonable efforts to ensure the availability of the information and content, including coupon codes and expiration dates, that it makes available through the C, S & F page. However, merchants have the ability to change or terminate their promotional offers at any time, including but not limited to, the freebie offer, samples offer, coupon code and the expiration date. Since the C, S & F is composed of content not offered by Find A Groomer Inc., Find A Groomer Inc. does not control (i) the terms of the coupon or promotional offer made by the merchant; (ii) the availability or technical capabilities of the merchant Web sites or links to their Web sites; (iii) the quality, safety or legality of items available through or on merchant Web sites or sites of third parties not in privity of contract with Find A Groomer Inc., (iv) the truth or accuracy or legality of the content from those advertisers or those third parties (even if such content appears on the C. S & F), or (v) Find A Groomer Inc. is not liable or responsible for content supplied by third parties, or for actions you might take in reliance on that content.

Nothing contained in any of the C, S & F is an offer or promise to sell or supply a specific product for a specific price or at no charge, and that any merchant will sell any product or service for any purpose or price or on any specific terms. Find A Groomer Inc. does not guarantee the price, terms, product, availability and/or services offered by any merchant.

For all of the C, S & F, Find A Groomer Inc. is not involved in any transactions between you and any of the merchants for whom we list coupons or promotional offers, and is not responsible for, and does not guarantee the price or performance of any goods, services or information provided by advertisers. If you have a dispute with one or more merchants, you agree to release and hereby release Find A Groomer Inc. (and Find A Groomer Inc.'s officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, successors, assigns, content providers and service providers) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Only Personal Use is Authorized
Under this Agreement, Find A Groomer Inc. gives you permission to access and use the C, S & F for your personal use, and to copy, distribute and transmit the content of the C, S & F only to the extent that such copying, distribution, and transmission is automatically done through your browser software incidentally to using the C, S & F for your personal use. You may also print a copy of the information displayed on the C, S & F for your personal use. That means, that except as set forth above, you may not modify, reformat, copy, display, distribute, transmit, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information, products, or service obtained by your use of the C, S & F. This restriction means, among other things, that you may not mirror on your own Web site any portion of the C, S & F or display through your own Web site any results pages or other information from the C, S & F without Find A Groomer Inc.'s express permission.

The technology underlying, and content within, the C, S & F is owned by Find A Groomer Inc. and/or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property or proprietary rights. If you use the C, S & F other than as provided above, you may violate copyright and other laws of the United States, other countries, as well as applicable state laws and may be subject to penalties. As between you and Find A Groomer Inc., Find A Groomer Inc. owns and retains all ownership of the technology underlying and content within the C, S & F, and reserves all rights not explicitly granted to you in this Agreement.

ADVERTISING, PAID & COMPLIMENTARY DIRECTORY LISTINGS

Sellers advertising in the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads acknowledge that they hold harmless the Company for any and all sales using the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads wherein the seller is affected by the fraud, misrepresentation, scams and other problems by buyers. In an effort to stop fraud the Company provides the following warning to all sellers click here and also on the Submit Ad page at the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads. We encourage the use of contracts of sale and legal advice in the handling of major purchases. We encourage sellers to report buyer abuse in any form.

Buyers using the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads acknowledge that the Company does not guarantee or warrant the accuracy of the information in any classified ad including any products, vehicles, equipment or services being sold. Buyers acknowledge that the Company shall not be held responsible for products, vehicles, equipment or services being advertised with omissions or inaccuracies. It is the buyers responsibility to verify the accuracy of products, equipment, vehicles or services advertised here before they purchase. We encourage buyers to consider a contract of sale for every purchase and legal representation especially for major purchases. Buyers may report fraud and abuse of the classified ads to the Company. Sellers may be blocked from further sales using the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads where conditions warrant. We reserve the right to refuse service.

By submitting and purchasing advertising or listings for display in any feature at PetGroomer.com, including the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads, Find A Groomer Directory, PetGroomer.com Resources Directory Directory and banner advertising throughout PetGroomer.com you acknowledge that the Company and Find and www.petgroomer.com, www.petgroomercards.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.groomerpedia.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.petgroomershop.com, www.driventogroom.com, www.egroomer.com and www.petgroomershop.com do not guarantee any response to your advertising from its display at PetGroomer.com. By submitting advertising or listing(s) you acknowledge that you agree to all of the complete terms of use presented here. We also reserve the right to edit or delete any advertising or listing(s). Do not use registered, service marked or trademarked intellectual properties unless you are their legal owner. We are not responsible for checking your advertising or listing(s) for copyright protection, please consult your attorney. Advertising on the Internet is within the public domain and your commentary and/or graphics may be copied and reviewed by the general public, and they may be cataloged by Internet search engines and offered to the public utilizing Internet search engines. By advertising or listing with the Company and/or www.petgroomer.com, www.petgroomercards.com, www.groomingbusinessinabox.com, www.petgroomerads.com, www.findagroomer.com, www.groomerpedia.com, www.petgroomerforums.com, www.driventogroom.com, www.egroomer.com and www.petgroomershop.com at PetGroomer.com and its interlinked websites you hold harmless Find A Groomer Inc., its associates and sponsors for these actions by Internet search engines and the general public. If you do not agree with the entirety of these terms and conditions, you should not advertise or list or participate.

If you see your business listed in any area of PetGroomer.com websites without your authorization please contact our office at findagroomer@earthlink.net whereupon we will investigate and make corrections. Listings in Find A Groomer Inc. are complimentary to all grooming business owners or authorized management. Listings that show no activity by the listing owner may be removed every 18 to 30 months at the discretion of the Company.

Visitors acknowledge that offers of employment or search for employment of any kind including independent contractor in the PetGroomer.com Classified ads related to help wanted and job search have not been verified by the Company for compliance with local, state or federal employment. It is the responsibility of the visitor to conduct due diligence to determine if the position offered, or sought, is legally an employee status or independent contractor status. Consult your attorney, or local, state and federal agencies for assistance in making such a determination.

Additional functional instructions and usage rules for features including the PetGroomer.com Classified Ads at www.petgroomerads.com, GroomerTALK at www.petgroomer.com, GroomerTALK at www.petgroomerforums.com, Resources Directory at www.petgroomershop.com,  PetGroomer.com Resources Directory at www.petgroomershop.com, eGreeting cards at www.petgroomercards.com, www.egroomer.com and www.findagroomer.com are published at each respective feature and by accessing any one or more of these features you also agree completely to follow those instructions and additional usage rules in addition to the legal notices presented here.

By using this website and/or transmitting to it any Submission(s), you agree to indemnify the Company, its officers, directors, parents, partners, employees, agents, distributors, affiliates, subsidiaries and their related companies for any and all claims, damages, losses and causes of action arising out of your breach or alleged breach of this agreement.

THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE TRANSMITTED AND DISTRIBUTED "AS IS" AND APPEAR ON THE SITE WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO THE QUALITY, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND VALIDITY OF ANY MATERIALS ON THE website AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED ON THE website WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. Where applicable law does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, the foregoing exclusions may not apply to you.

The materials provided in this website are for entertainment, educational and promotional purposes only. User may not rely on any information and opinions expressed in it for any other purpose. Neither the Company, nor its officers, directors, parents, partners, employees, agents, distributors, affiliates, subsidiaries and their related companies are responsible or liable for any loss damage (including, but not limited to, actual, consequential, or punitive), liability, claim, or other injury or cause related to or resulting from any information posted on the Company's website.

The Company may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the site, including, but not limited to, any bulletin boards on its site, for any reason, including without limitation, breach of this agreement. In the event this agreement is terminated, the restrictions regarding Materials appearing on the website, and the representations and warranties, indemnities, and limitations of liabilities set forth in this agreement will survive any such termination.

This site is controlled and operated by the Company, a Nevada corporation operating in Washington state. The Company does not represent or warrant that Materials on the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access this site from other locations, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with any and all local laws.

This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nevada, as it is applied to agreements entered into and performed within that State. Any action brought to enforce this agreement or matters related to the site will be brought in either the State or Federal Courts of Nevada. If any provision of this agreement is deemed void, unlawful or otherwise unenforceable for any reason, that provision will be severed from this agreement and the remaining provisions of this agreement will remain in force. This contains the entire agreement between you and the Company concerning your use of the site, and the agreement will not be modified, except in writing, signed by both parties.