Terms

Last updated: March 1, 2024

Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms", "Terms and Conditions") carefully before using the https://b3bookclub.org website (the "Service") operated by B3 Book Club ("us", "we", or "our").

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who wish to access or use the Service.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you do not have permission to access the Service.

Accounts

When you create an account with us, you guarantee that you are above the age of 18, and that the information you provide us is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Inaccurate, incomplete, or obsolete information may result in the immediate termination of your account on the Service.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, including but not limited to the restriction of access to your computer and/or account. You agree to accept responsibility for any and all activities or actions that occur under your account and/or password, whether your password is with our Service or a third-party service. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

You acknowledge and agree that if you are opening a B3 Book Club account or otherwise using the Service as or on behalf of an employer company, organization or other entity, the other members of your entity who open accounts must and do separately agree to be bound by this Agreement.

You may control your User profile and how you interact with the Service by changing the settings on your Profile page. By providing B3 Book Club with your email address and/or mobile number, you consent to our using the email address and/or mobile number to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your email address and/or mobile number to send you other messages, such as changes to features of the Service and special offers. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt out or change your preferences in your Preferences page. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers.

California Residents

The provider of services is B3 Book Club, 1308 Selby Lane, Knoxville TN 37922. We can be reached at . If you are a California resident, in accordance with Cal. Civ. Code §1789.3, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by contacting them in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112 Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

Service Rules and Restrictions

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping”; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the B3 Book Club servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on-line web browser (except that B3 Book Club grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy publically available materials from https://b3bookclub.org for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (iii) uploading, posting, hosting, or transmitting spam, chain letters, SMSs or other unsolicited email or messages; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents or any code of a destructive nature through the Service; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; (viii) using the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Service; (xi) accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein; (xiii) verbally, physically or other abuse (including threats of abuse or retribution) of any other User or any B3 Book Club customer, employee, member, or officer; (xiv) reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, reselling or otherwise exploiting any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without the express written permission by B3 Book Club; or (xv) modifying, adapting or hacking the Service or modifying another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Service, B3 Book Club, or any other B3 Book Club service.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other B3 Book Club Users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users. We shall have no liability for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s action or inaction.

User Content

Some areas of the Service allow Users to post or provide content such as profile information, images, comments, questions, and other content or information (any such materials a User submits, posts, displays, or otherwise makes available on the Service is referred to as “User Content”). We claim no ownership rights over User Content created by you. The User Content you create remains yours; however, by providing or sharing User Content through the Service, you agree to allow others to view, edit, and/or share your User Content in accordance with your settings and this Agreement. B3 Book Club has the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to remove any User Content that is shared via the Service. The User Content may be viewed or shared with others in accordance with your profile settings and the Privacy Policy.

You agree not to post User Content that: (i) may create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, to any other person, or to any animal; (ii) may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property; (iii) seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise; (iv) may constitute or contribute to a crime or tort; (v) contains any information or content that we deem to be unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, obscene, or otherwise objectionable; (vi) contains any information or content that is illegal (including, without limitation, the disclosure of insider information under securities law or of another party’s trade secrets); (vii) contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; (viii) contains any information or content that you know is not correct and current or (ix) violates any company, employer or other applicable policy.

You agree that any User Content that you post does not and will not violate third-party rights of any kind, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below), rights of privacy or other rights of B3 Book Club or any third party.

B3 Book Club reserves the right, but is not obligated, to reject and/or remove any User Content that B3 Book Club believes, in its sole discretion, violates any of these provisions or is otherwise unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable. You understand that publishing your User Content on the Service is not a substitute for registering it with the U.S. Copyright Office, the Writer’s Guild of America, or any other rights organization.

For the purposes of this Agreement, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.

In connection with your User Content, you affirm, represent and warrant the following:

A. You have the written consent of each and every identifiable natural person in the User Content, if any, to use such person’s name or likeness in the manner contemplated by the Service and this Agreement, and each such person has released you from any liability that may arise in relation to such use.

B. If applicable, you have the consent and appropriate rights in the User Content to use your employer’s logos, trademarks, trade names or service marks in the manner contemplated by the Service or this Agreement.

C. You have obtained and are solely responsible for obtaining all consents as may be required by law to post any User Content relating to third parties.

D. Your User Content and B3 Book Club’s use thereof as contemplated by this Agreement and the Service will not violate any law or infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any Intellectual Property Rights and privacy rights.

B3 Book Club may exercise the rights to your User Content granted under this Agreement without liability for payment of any guild fees, residuals, payments, fees, or royalties payable under any collective bargaining agreement or otherwise.

To the best of your knowledge, all your User Content and other information that you provide to us is truthful and accurate.

B3 Book Club takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content that you or any other User or third party posts, sends, or otherwise makes available over the Service. You shall be solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting, publishing it, sharing it, or otherwise making it available on the Service, and you agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. You understand and agree that you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate, objectionable, inappropriate for children, or otherwise unsuited to your purpose, and you agree that B3 Book Club shall not be liable for any damages you allege to incur as a result of or relating to any User Content.

By posting or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to B3 Book Club a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and B3 Book Club’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

In addition to the foregoing, if you are an employer, as between you and B3 Book Club you are solely responsible for any and all User Content you provide and/or cause to be provided to the B3 Book Club Service, and the consequences of providing, posting or transmitting such User Content, including responsibility for compliance with breach notification laws. You agree that you will not use B3 Book Club to collect, store, or process bank account information, credit or debit card information, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or health or medical information, nor will you direct your employees to provide such information to B3 Book Club. B3 Book Club has the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to remove any User Content that does not comply with this Section.

Text Messaging and Consent

A. Consent to Add Survey Participants

B3 Book Club makes it easy for you to add survey participants to your B3 Book Club account so that you can exchange messages with each other. YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO US THAT EACH PERSON YOU ADD TO YOUR B3 BOOK CLUB ACCOUNT HAS CONSENTED TO BE ADDED TO THE ACCOUNT AND TO RECEIVE MESSAGES FROM B3 BOOK CLUB.

B. Compliance with Laws

You represent and warrant that all communications you cause to be sent through the Service shall at all times comply with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the CAN-SPAM Act, and all other laws and regulations concerning privacy, telemarketing, and the sending of SMS text messages.

C. Consent to Receive Periodic Messages from B3 Book Club

As part of the Service, B3 Book Club sometimes causes administrative messages to be sent to users and the survey participants associated with each user's account. BY SIGNING UP FOR B3 BOOK CLUB, YOU AGREE TO RECEIVE TEXT AND EMAIL MESSAGES FROM US AND YOU WARRANT THAT ANY SURVEY PARTICIPANTS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR ACCOUNT ALSO AGREE TO RECEIVE TEXT AND EMAIL MESSAGES FROM US.

D. Stopping Text Messages

To permanently cease receiving text messages from B3 Book Club, you or the survey participants associated with your account may reply STOP to any B3 Book Club message. To enable receiving text messages again, you or the survey participants associated with your account may reply SUBSCRIBE to any B3 Book Club message.

E. Text Messaging Fees

You may sign up to receive certain B3 Book Club notifications or information via text messaging. You may incur additional charges from your wireless provider for these services. You agree that you are solely responsible for any such charges. Please be aware that texting charges can fluctuate internationally. Text messaging rates can normally be found by asking your service provider.

In addition, the survey participants associated with your account may receive certain B3 Book Club notifications or information via text messaging. They may incur additional charges from their wireless provider for these services. You represent and warrant that they agree that they are solely responsible for any such charges.

Proprietary Rights

Except for your User Content, the Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music, and User Content belonging to other Users (the “B3 Book Club Content”), and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of B3 Book Club and its licensors (including other Users who post User Content to the Service). Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any B3 Book Club Content. Use of the B3 Book Club Content for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

You may choose to, or we may invite you to, submit comments or ideas about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products (“Ideas”). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place B3 Book Club under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone. You further acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, B3 Book Club does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to B3 Book Club, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.

Links To Other Web Sites

Our Service may contain links to third party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by B3 Book Club

B3 Book Club has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. We do not warrant the offerings of any of these entities/individuals or their websites.

You acknowledge and agree that B3 Book Club shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such third party web sites or services.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third party web sites or services that you visit.

Termination

We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms.

If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless B3 Book Club and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Service, by you or any person using your account and password, or b) a breach of these Terms.

Limitation Of Liability

In no event shall B3 Book Club, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Service; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the Service; (iii) any content obtained from the Service; and (iv) unauthorized access, use or alteration of your transmissions or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or any other legal theory, whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damage, and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

Disclaimer

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. The Service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.

B3 Book Club its subsidiaries, affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that a) the Service will function uninterrupted, secure or available at any particular time or location; b) any errors or defects will be corrected; c) the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components; or d) the results of using the Service will meet your requirements.

Exclusions

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so the limitations above may not apply to you.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Tennessee, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Service.

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you are no longer authorized to use the Service.

Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at or by writing to us at:

1308 Selby Lane

Knoxville TN 37922