PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, A CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS THE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF DISPUTES, AND OBLIGATIONS TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
Key Terms
Quupe provides an online platform that connects renters who have property to rent with Borrowers seeking to rent such items (collectively, the "Services"), which Services are accessible at quupe.com and any other websites through which Quupe makes the Services available (collectively, the "Site") and as applications for mobile, tablet and other smart devices and application program interfaces (collectively, the "Application").
"Quupe Content" means all Content that Quupe makes available through the Site, Application, Services, or its related promotional campaigns and official social media channels, including any Content licensed from a third party, but excluding Member Content.
"Booking Request Period" means the time period starting from the time when an item booking is requested by a Borrower (as determined by Quupe in its sole discretion), within which a Lender may decide whether to confirm or reject that booking request, as stated on the Site, Application or Services. Different Booking Request Periods may apply in different places.
"Collective Content" means Member Content and Quupe Content.
"Content" means text, graphics, images, music, software (excluding the Application), audio, video, information or other materials.
"Borrower" means a Member who requests from a Lender an item from a Listing via the Site, Application or Services, or a Member who uses an Item and is not the Lender for the associated Listing.
"Lender" means a Member who creates a Listing via the Site, Application and Services.
"Listing" means an Item that is listed by a Lender as available for rental via the Site, Application, and Services.
"Member" means a person who completes Quupe’s account registration process, including but not limited to Lenders and Borrowers, as described under "Account Registration" below.
"Member Content" means all Content that a Member posts, uploads, publishes, submits, transmits, or includes in their Listing, Member profile or Quupe promotional campaign to be made available through the Site, Application or Services.
"Tax" or "Taxes" mean any sales taxes, value added taxes (VAT), goods and services taxes (GST), transient occupancy taxes, tourist or other visitor taxes, Item or lodging taxes, fees (such as convention center fees) that Item providers may be required by law to collect and remit to governmental agencies, and other similar municipal, state, federal and national indirect or other withholding and personal or corporate income taxes.
Terms of Service
By using the Site, Application or Services, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service ("Terms"), whether or not you become a registered user of the Services. These Terms govern your access to and use of the Site, Application and Services and all Collective Content (defined below), and your participation in the Referral Program (defined below), and constitute a binding legal agreement between you and Quupe. Please also read carefully our Privacy Policy at www.Quupe.com/terms/privacy_policy.
In addition, certain areas of the Site and Application (and your access to or use of certain aspects of the Services or Collective Content) may have different terms and conditions, standards, guidelines, or policies posted or may require you to agree with and accept additional terms and conditions. If there is a conflict between these Terms and terms and conditions posted for a specific area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content, the latter terms and conditions will take precedence with respect to your use of or access to that area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you have no right to obtain information from or otherwise continue using the Site, Application or Services. Failure to use the Site, Application or Services in accordance with these Terms may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.
THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES COMPRISE AN ONLINE PLATFORM THROUGH WHICH LenderS MAY CREATE LISTINGS FOR ITEMS AND BorrowerS MAY LEARN ABOUT AND BOOK RENTALS DIRECTLY WITH THE LENDERS. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT QUUPE IS NOT A PARTY TO ANY AGREEMENTS ENTERED INTO BETWEEN LENDERS AND BORROWERS, NOR IS QUUPE A RENTAL BROKER, AGENT OR INSURER. QUUPE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE CONDUCT OF LENDERS, BORROWERS AND OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES OR ANY ItemS, AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY IN THIS REGARD TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
IF YOU CHOOSE TO CREATE A LISTING ON QUUPE, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH QUUPE IS LIMITED TO BEING A MEMBER AND AN INDEPENDENT, THIRD-PARTY CONTRACTOR, AND NOT AN EMPLOYEE, AGENT, JOINT VENTURER OR PARTNER OF QUUPE FOR ANY REASON, AND YOU ACT EXCLUSIVELY ON YOUR OWN BEHALF AND FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT, AND NOT ON BEHALF OF OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF QUUPE. QUUPE DOES NOT CONTROL, AND HAS NO RIGHT TO CONTROL, YOUR LISTING, YOUR OFFLINE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR LISTING, OR ANY OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO ANY LISTING, THAT YOU PROVIDE. AS A MEMBER YOU AGREE NOT TO DO ANYTHING TO CREATE A FALSE IMPRESSION THAT YOU ARE ENDORSED BY, PARTNERING WITH, OR ACTING ON BEHALF OF OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF QUUPE, INCLUDING BY INAPPROPRIATELY USING ANY QUUPE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR BY DOWNLOADING OR POSTING ANY CONTENT FROM OR ON THE SITE, VIA THE APPLICATION OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND RECEIVE OUR SERVICES (INCLUDING, WHERE APPLICABLE, PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE Lender PROTECTION INSURANCE PROGRAM, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE AND APPLICATION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT. If you accept or agree to these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to these Terms and, in such event, "you" and "your" will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity.
Modification
Quupe reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify the Site, Application or Services or to modify these Terms, including the Service Fees, at any time and without prior notice. If we modify these Terms, we will either post the modification on the Site or via the Application or otherwise provide you with notice of the modification. We will also update the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms. By continuing to access or use the Site, Application or Services after we have posted a modification on the Site or via the Application or have provided you with notice of a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If the modified Terms are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the Site, Application and Services.
Eligibility
The Site, Application and Services are intended solely for persons who are 18 or older. Any access to or use of the Site, Application or Services by anyone under 18 is expressly prohibited. By accessing or using the Site, Application or Services you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older.
For users in Canada, Quupe may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and if we have sufficient information to identify a user, obtain reports from public records of criminal convictions or sex offender registrations of the user. For users outside Canada, we may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and if we have sufficient information to identify a user, obtain the local version of background or registered sex offender checks in our sole discretion. You agree and authorize us to use your personal information, such as your full name and date of birth, to obtain such reports, including from Quupe’s vendors.
How the Site, Application and Services Work
The Site, Application and Services can be used to facilitate the listing and booking of Items for Rent. Such Items are included in Listings on the Site, Application and Services by Lenders. You may view Listings as an unregistered visitor to the Site, Application and Services; however, if you wish to book an Item or create a Listing, you must first register to create an Quupe Account (defined below).
As stated above, Quupe makes available an online platform or marketplace with related technology for Lenders and Borrowers to meet online and arrange for bookings of Items directly with each other.
PLEASE NOTE THAT, AS STATED ABOVE, THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES ARE INTENDED TO BE USED TO FACILITATE LENDERS AND BORROWERS CONNECTING AND BOOKING ITEM RENTALS DIRECTLY WITH EACH OTHER. QUUPE CANNOT AND DOES NOT CONTROL THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN ANY LISTINGS AND THE CONDITION, LEGALITY OR SUITABILITY OF ANY ItemS. QUUPE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AND DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY RELATED TO ANY AND ALL LISTINGS AND ItemS. ACCORDINGLY, ANY BOOKINGS WILL BE MADE OR ACCEPTED AT THE MEMBER'S OWN RISK.
Account Registration
In order to access certain features of the Site and Application, and to book an Item or create a Listing, you must register to create an account ("Quupe Account") and become a Member. You may register to join the Services directly via the Site or Application or as described in this section.
Your Quupe Account and your Quupe Account profile page will be created for your use of the Site and Application based upon the personal information you provide to us or that we obtain via an SNS as described above. You may not have more than one (1) active Quupe Account. You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current and complete. Quupe reserves the right to suspend or terminate your Quupe Account and your access to the Site, Application and Services if you create more than one (1) Quupe Account, or if any information provided during the registration process or thereafter proves to be inaccurate, fraudulent, not current, incomplete, or otherwise in violation of these Terms of Service.
You are responsible for safeguarding your password. You agree that you will not disclose your password to any third party and that you will take sole responsibility for any activities or actions under your Quupe Account, whether or not you have authorized such activities or actions. You will immediately notify Quupe of any unauthorized use of your Quupe Account.
Item Listings
As a Member, you may create Listings. To create a Listing, you will be asked a variety of questions about the Item to be listed, including, but not limited to, the location, capacity, size, features, and availability of the Item and pricing and related rules and financial terms. In order to be featured in Listings via the Site, Application and Services, all Items must have valid physical addresses. Listings will be made publicly available via the Site, Application and Services. You understand and agree that the placement or ranking of Listings in search results may depend on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, Lender and Borrower preferences, ratings and/or ease of booking.
Other Members will be able to book your Item via the Site, Application and Services based upon the information provided in your Listing, your Borrower requirements, and Borrowers’ search parameters and preferences. You understand and agree that once a Borrower requests a booking of your Item, you may not request the Borrower to pay a higher price than in the booking request.
You acknowledge and agree that you alone are responsible for any and all Listings and Member Content you post. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that any Listing you post and the booking of, or a Borrower's rental of, an Item in a Listing you post (i) will not breach any agreements you have entered into with any third parties, such as homeowners association, condominium, lease or rental agreements, and (ii) will (a) be in compliance with all applicable laws (such as zoning laws and laws governing rentals of residential and other properties), Tax requirements, Intellectual Property laws, and rules and regulations that may apply to any Item included in a Listing you post (including having all required permits, licenses and registrations), and (b) not conflict with the rights of third parties. Please note that Quupe assumes no responsibility for a Lender's compliance with any agreements with or duties to third parties, applicable laws, rules and regulations. Quupe reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Listing for any reason, including Listings that Quupe, in its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or Quupe's then-current Policies and Community Guidelines or Standards, Trademark & Branding Guidelines, or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.
If you are a Borrower, you understand and agree that Quupe does not act as an insurer or as your contracting agent. If a Lender agrees to a booking you’ve requested, and you accept their Item into your possession, any agreement you enter into with such Lender is between you and the Lender, and Quupe is not a party to it. Furthermore, as a Borrower you may be subject to pay up to 60% of the total value of any item that is lost, damaged, stolen, or otherwise compromised during the time it’s in your possession.
If you are a Lender, you understand and agree that Quupe does not act as an insurer or as your contracting agent. If a Borrower requests a booking of your Item and uses your Item, any agreement you enter into with such Borrower is between you and the Borrower, and Quupe is not a party to it.
When you create a Listing, you may also choose to include certain requirements which must be met by the Members who are eligible to request a booking of your Item, such as requiring Members to have a profile picture or verified phone number, in order to book your Item. Any Member wishing to book Items included in Listings with such requirements must meet these requirements. More information on how to set such requirements is available via the "Lending" section of the Site, Application and Services.
If you are a Lender, Quupe makes certain tools available to you to help you to make informed decisions about which Members you choose to confirm or preapprove for booking for your Item. You acknowledge and agree that, as a Lender, you are responsible for your own acts and omissions and are also responsible for the acts and omissions of any individuals who reside at or are otherwise present at the Item at your request or invitation, excluding the Borrower (and the individuals the Borrower invites to the Item, if applicable.)
Quupe recommends that Lenders obtain appropriate insurance for their Items. Please review any insurance policy that you may have for your Item carefully, and in particular please make sure that you are familiar with and understand any exclusions to, and any deductibles that may apply for, such insurance policy, including, but not limited to, whether or not your insurance policy will cover the actions or inactions of Borrowers (and the individuals the Borrower allows to use the Item, if applicable) while in possession of your Item.
Quupe may offer Lenders the option of having photographers take photographs of their Items. If you as a Lender choose to have a photographer do this, Quupe shall own all copyrights in photographs taken but these photographs will be made available to you to include in your Listing with a watermark or tag bearing the words "Quupe.com Verified Photo" or similar wording ("Verified Images"). You agree that you alone are responsible for ensuring that your Listing is accurately represented in the Verified Images. You alone are responsible for using the Verified Images for your Listing and you warrant that you will cease to use the Verified Images or any other images if such images cease to accurately represent your Listing or if you cease to be a Lender for the Listing featured. All images, materials and content created by these photographers, including Verified Images, constitute Quupe Content, regardless of whether you include them in your Listing and you agree not to use them except in your Listing without prior authorization from Quupe. If your Quupe Account is terminated or suspended for any reason, you shall not use Verified Images in any way. You agree that Quupe retains its right to and may use the Verified Images for advertising, marketing, commercial and other business purposes in any media or platform, whether in relation to your Listing or otherwise, without further notice or compensation.
No Endorsement
Quupe does not endorse any Member, Listing or Item. You understand that Verified Images are intended only to indicate a photographic representation of the Item at the time the photograph was taken. Verified Images are therefore not an endorsement by Quupe of any Member, Listing or Item.
Members are required by these Terms to provide accurate information. Although Quupe may, for transparency or fraud prevention or detection purposes, directly or through third parties, ask you to provide a form of government identification, your date of birth, and other information, or undertake additional checks and processes designed to help verify or check the identities or backgrounds of Members and/or screen Member information against third party databases or other sources, we do not make any representations about, confirm, or endorse any Member or the Member's purported identity or background.
By registering for a Quupe Account, you agree that Quupe may - but is not obligated to - request a consumer report on you from a Consumer Reporting Agency. If we do request a consumer report, we'll request and use it in compliance with applicable law, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Any references in the Site, Application or Services to a Member being "verified" or "connected" (or similar language) only indicate that the Member has completed a relevant verification or identification process, and does not represent anything else. Any such description is not an endorsement, certification or guarantee by Quupe about any Member, including of the Member's identity and whether the Member is trustworthy, safe or suitable. Instead, any such description is intended to be useful information for you to evaluate when you make your own decisions about the identity and suitability of others whom you contact or interact with via the Site, Application and Services. We therefore recommend that you always exercise due diligence and care when deciding whether to borrow from a Lender or to accept or preapprove a booking request from a Borrower, or to have any other interaction with any other Member. Except as provided in the Quupe Lender Guarantee Terms and Conditions ("Quupe Lender Guarantee"), which is an agreement between Quupe and Lenders, we are not responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with other Members.
By using the Site, Application or Services, you agree that any legal remedy or liability that you seek to obtain for actions or omissions of other Members or other third parties will be limited to a claim against the particular Members or other third parties who caused you harm. You agree not to attempt to impose liability on or seek any legal remedy from Quupe with respect to such actions or omissions. Accordingly, we encourage you to communicate directly with other Members on the Site and Services regarding any bookings or Listings made by you. This limitation shall not apply to any claim by a Lender against Quupe regarding the remittance of payments received from a Borrower by Quupe on behalf of a Lender, which instead shall be subject to the limitations described in the section below entitled "Limitation of Liability".
Bookings and Financial Terms
○ Key definitions
○ "Item Fees" means the amounts that are due and payable by a Borrower in exchange for that Borrower's use of an Item. The Lender alone, and not Quupe, is responsible for the Item Fees for his or her Listing. The Lender may in his or her sole discretion decide to include in these amounts (i) a cleaning fee or any other fee permitted on the Quupe platform, or (ii) Taxes that the Lender determines that he or she has to collect.
○ "Borrower Fees" means the fee that Quupe charges a Borrower for the use of the Services, which is calculated as a percentage of the applicable Item Fees. The Borrower Fees will be displayed to the Borrower when the Borrower is asked whether to send a booking request to a Lender.
○ "Lender Fees" means the fee that Quupe charges a Lender for the use of the Services, which is calculated as a percentage of the applicable Item Fees. The Lender Fees will be displayed to the Lender when the Lender is asked whether to confirm or reject a booking request from a prospective Borrower.
○ "Payment Method" means a payment method that you have added to your Quupe Account, such as a credit card, debit card or PayPal.
○ "Service Fees" means collectively the Borrower Fees and the Lender Fees.
○ "Total Fees" means collectively the Item Fees and the Borrower Fees plus any Taxes.
○ Bookings and Financial Terms for Lenders
○ If you are a Lender and a booking is requested for your Item via the Site, Application or Services, you will be required to either preapprove, confirm or reject the booking request within the Booking Request Period, otherwise the booking request will automatically expire. When a booking is requested via the Site, Application or Services, we will share with you (i) the first and last name of the Borrower who has requested the booking, (ii) a link to the Borrower's Quupe Account profile page, (iii) if the Borrower and Lender have both connected their Quupe accounts to SNS and have not turned off sharing of social connections, the names of any shared connections on such SNS, and (iv) an indication of whether or not the Borrower has provided other information to Quupe, such as a verified email address, connection to SNSs, or a government ID. If you are unable to confirm or decide to reject a booking request within the Booking Request Period, any amounts collected by Quupe (via Quupe Payments) for the requested booking will be refunded to the applicable Borrower. When you confirm a booking requested by a Borrower, Quupe will send you an email, text message or message via the Application confirming such booking, depending on the selections you make via the Site, Application and Services.
○ Quupe Payments will collect the Total Fees from Borrowers at the time of the booking request or upon the Lender's confirmation and will initiate payment of the Item Fees (less applicable fees and taxes) to the Lender in most cases within 24 hours of the scheduled delivery time of the Borrower at the applicable Item (except to the extent that a refund is due to the Borrower) and as further described in the Payments Terms.
○ Each Lender agrees that Quupe may, in accordance with the cancellation policy selected by the Lender and reflected in the relevant Listing, (i) permit the Borrower to cancel the booking and (ii) refund (via Quupe Payments) to the Borrower that portion of the Item Fees specified in the applicable cancellation policy.
○ Bookings and Financial Terms for Borrowers
○ The Lenders, not Quupe, are solely responsible for honoring any confirmed bookings and making available any Items reserved through the Site, Application and Services. If you, as a Borrower, choose to enter into a transaction with a Lender for the booking of an Item, you agree and understand that you will be required to enter into an agreement with the Lender and you agree to accept any terms, conditions, rules and restrictions associated with such Item imposed by the Lender. You acknowledge and agree that you, and not Quupe, will be responsible for performing the obligations of any such agreements, that Quupe is not a party to such agreements, and that, with the exception of Quupe Payments' obligations pursuant to the Payments Terms, Quupe (inclusive of all subsidiaries) disclaims all liability arising from or related to any such agreements.
○ The Total Fees payable will be displayed to a Borrower before the Borrower sends a booking request to a Lender. As noted above, the Lender is required to either preapprove, confirm or reject the booking request within the Booking Request Period; otherwise, the requested booking will be automatically cancelled. Upon receipt of your booking request, Quupe Payments may initiate a pre-authorization and/or charge a nominal amount to your Payment Method pursuant to the Payments Terms. If a requested booking is cancelled (i.e., not confirmed by the applicable Lender), any amounts collected by Quupe Payments will be refunded to such Borrower, depending on the selections the Borrower makes via the Site and Application, and any pre-authorization of such Borrower's Payment Method will be released, if applicable.
○ You as a Borrower agree to pay the Total Fees for any booking requested, and in most cases confirmed, in connection with your Quupe Account. Quupe Payments will collect the Total Fees pursuant to the Payments Terms.
○ Once your confirmed booking transaction is complete you will receive a confirmation email summarizing your confirmed booking.
○ Service Fees and Other Fees
○ In consideration for the use of Quupe's online marketplace and platform, Quupe charges Service Fees. Quupe Payments collects these Service Fees pursuant to the Payments Terms, and, where applicable, may also collect Taxes (such as VAT in Europe) in respect of the Lender Fees and Borrower Fees. Quupe Payments deducts the Lender Fees from the Item Fees before remitting the balance to the Lender as described in the Payments Terms. Borrower Fees are, as noted above, included in the Total Fees.
○ More information on any such costs or deductions will be available via the Site and Application. More information on Services Fees can be found at quupe.com/help. Except as otherwise provided herein, Service Fees are non-refundable.
○ General Booking and Financial Terms
○ Cancellations and Refunds
○ If, as a Borrower, you wish to cancel a confirmed booking made via the Site, Application and Services, either prior to or after receiving the Item, the cancellation policy of the Lender contained in the applicable Listing will apply to such cancellation. Our ability to refund the Item Fees and other amounts charged to you will depend upon the terms of the applicable cancellation policy. Details regarding refunds and cancellation policies are available via the Site and Application. The Borrower Fee is non-refundable regardless of the cancellation policy selected by the Lender. Quupe Payments will initiate any refunds due pursuant to the Payments Terms.
○ If a Lender cancels a confirmed booking made via the Site, Services, and Application, (i) Quupe Payments will refund the Total Fees for such booking to the applicable Borrower pursuant to the Payments Terms and (ii) the Borrower will receive an email or other communication from Quupe containing alternative Listings and other related information. If the Borrower requests a booking from one of the alternative Listings and the Lender associated with such alternative Listing confirms the Borrower's requested booking, then the Borrower agrees to pay Quupe the Total Fees relating to the confirmed booking for the Item in the alternative Listing, in accordance with these Terms. If a Lender cancelled a confirmed booking and you, as a Borrower, have not received an email or other communication from Quupe, please contact Quupe.
○ If, as a Lender, you cancel a confirmed booking, you agree that Quupe may apply penalties or consequences to you or your Listing, including (i) publishing an automated review on your Listing indicating that a booking was cancelled, (ii) keeping the calendar for your Listing unavailable or blocked for the dates of the cancelled booking, or (iii) imposing a cancellation fee. You will be notified of the situations in which a cancellation fee applies before you decide to cancel.
○ In certain circumstances, Quupe may decide, in its sole discretion, that it is necessary or
desirable to cancel a confirmed booking made via the Site, Application and Services. This may be for
reasons set forth in
○ Rounding Off
○ Quupe may, in its sole discretion, round up or round down amounts that are payable from or to Borrowers or Lenders to the nearest whole functional base unit in which the currency is denominated (e.g. to the nearest dollar, euro or other supported currency); for example, Quupe will round up an amount of $101.50 to $102.00, and $101.49 to $101.00.
○ Some currencies are denominated in large numbers. In those cases, Quupe may determine the functional base unit in which those currencies are denominated to be 10, 100 or 1,000 of the currency; the corresponding examples for such currencies would be for Quupe to round up an amount of 1,045 up to 1,050 and 1,044 down to 1,040, or 35,450 up to 35,500 and 35,449 down to 35,400, or 837,500 up to 838,000 and 837,499 down to 837,000.
○ Donations
○ Some Lenders may pledge to donate a portion of the funds they receive from confirmed bookings made via the Site, Application and Services to a particular cause or charity. We do not take any responsibility or liability for whether the Lender does in fact make the donation he or she pledged to make. In such cases, the Lender in question is responsible for his or her own compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to such pledges and/or fundraising.
○ Booking Modifications
○ You as a Borrower or Lender are responsible for any modifications to a booking that you direct Quupe Customer Service to make ("Booking Modifications"), and you agree to pay any Item Fees, Borrower Fees, Lenders Fees, Services Fees, and/or Taxes associated with such Booking Modifications.
Taxes
Tax regulations may require us to collect appropriate tax information from our Lenders, or to withhold taxes from payouts to Lenders, or both. You as a Lender are solely responsible for keeping the information in your tax forms current, complete and accurate. If you as a Lender fail to provide us with documentation that we determine to be sufficient to alleviate our obligation (if any) to withhold taxes from payments to you (e.g. where you are a US Lender and you fail to provide us with a completed IRS Form W--9), we reserve the right in our sole discretion to freeze all payouts to you until resolution, to withhold such amounts as required by law, or to do both.
You as a Lender understand and agree that you are solely responsible for determining (i) your applicable Tax reporting requirements, and (ii) the Taxes that should be included, and for including Taxes to be collected or obligations relating to applicable Taxes in Listings. You are also solely responsible for remitting to the relevant authority any Taxes included or received by you. Quupe cannot and does not offer Tax-related advice to any Members.
Where applicable, or based upon request from a Lender, Quupe may issue a valid VAT invoice to such Lender.
You understand and acknowledge that appropriate governmental agencies, departments or authorities (the "Tax Authority") where your Item is located may require Taxes to be collected from Borrowers or Lenders on the amount paid for the right to use and/or occupancy of Items, and to be remitted to the respective Tax Authority.
Foreign Currency
Quupe's online platform facilitates bookings between Borrowers and Lenders who may prefer to pay in a currency different from their destination currency, which may require foreign currency conversions to accommodate these differing currency preferences. Although the Quupe platform allows users to view the price of Listings in a number of currencies, the currencies available for users to make and receive payments may be limited, and may not include the default currency in any given geographic location.
Details regarding currency conversion, including any associated fees, are in the Payments Terms.
Damage to Items and Security Deposits
As a Borrower, you are responsible for leaving the Item in the condition it was in when you received it. You acknowledge and agree that, as a Borrower, you are responsible for your own acts and omissions and are also responsible for the acts and omissions of any individuals whom you loan, or otherwise provide access to, the Item. In the event that a Lender claims otherwise and provides evidence of damage ("Damage Claim"), including but not limited to photographs, you agree to pay the cost of replacing the damaged items with equivalent items.
Lenders may choose to include security deposits in their Listings ("Security Deposits"). Each Listing will describe whether a Security Deposit is required for the applicable Item. Quupe will use commercially reasonable efforts to address Lenders' requests and claims related to Security Deposits, but Quupe is not responsible for administering or accepting any Damage Claims by Lenders related to Security Deposits, and disclaims any and all liability in this regard.
If a Lender makes a Damage Claim for a confirmed booking of an Item, you as a Borrower will be notified of any Damage Claim and given forty eight (48) hours to respond. Thereafter, Quupe (via Quupe Payments) will collect any such costs from you and/or against the Security Deposit in accordance with the Payments Terms. Quupe also reserves the right to otherwise collect payment from you and pursue any avenues available to Quupe in this regard in situations in which you have been determined, in Quupe's sole discretion, to have damaged any Item, including, but not limited to, in relation to any payment requests made by Lenders under the Quupe Lender Guarantee, and in relation to any payments made by Quupe (or Quupe Payments) to Lenders.
Both Borrowers and Lenders agree to cooperate with and assist Quupe in good faith, and to provide Quupe with such information and take such actions as may be reasonably requested by Quupe, in connection with any Damage Claims or other complaints or claims made by Members relating to Items or any personal or other property located at an Item (including, without limitation, payment requests made under the Quupe Lender Guarantee) or with respect to any investigation undertaken by Quupe or a representative of Quupe regarding use or abuse of the Site, Application or the Services. If you are a Borrower, upon Quupe's reasonable request, and to the extent you are reasonably able to do so, you agree to participate in mediation or similar resolution process with a Lender, at no cost to you, which process will be conducted by Quupe or a third party selected by Quupe or its insurer, with respect to losses for which the Lender is requesting payment from Quupe under the Quupe Lender Guarantee.
If you are a Borrower, you understand and agree that Quupe may make a claim under your homeowner's, renter's or other insurance policy related to any damage or loss that you may have caused or been responsible for or to an Item (including without limitation amounts paid by Quupe under the Quupe Lender Guarantee). You agree to cooperate with and assist Quupe in good faith, and to provide Quupe with such information as may be reasonably requested by Quupe, in order to make a claim under your homeowner's, renter's or other insurance policy, including, but not limited to, executing documents and taking such further acts as Quupe may reasonably request to assist Quupe in accomplishing the foregoing:
Security Deposits, if required by a Lender, may be applied to any fees due from a Borrower keeping an Item past its due date without the Lender's consent.
Keeping an Item past its due date without the Lender's Consent
Borrowers agree that a confirmed booking is merely a license granted by the Lender to the Borrower to receive and use the Item for the limited duration of the confirmed booking and in accordance with the Borrower's agreement with the Lender. Borrowers further agree to return the Item no later than the return time that the Lender specifies in the Listing or such other time as mutually agreed upon between the Lender and Borrower. If a Borrower goes over the agreed-upon duration without the Lender's consent, they no longer have a license to keep the Item and the Lender is entitled to pursue action against the Borrower to retrieve their Item. In addition, Borrowers agree that the Lender can charge the Borrower, for each 24-hour period that the Borrower keeps the Item past the agreed period without the Lender's consent, an additional daily fee of two times the average daily Item Fee originally paid by the Borrower to cover the inconvenience suffered by the Lender, plus all applicable Service Fees, Taxes, and any legal expenses incurred by the Lender to make the Borrower leave (collectively, "Additional Sums"). Quupe Payments will collect Additional Sums from Borrowers pursuant to the Payments Terms.
User Conduct
You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content. In connection with your use of the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content, you may not and you agree that you will not:
○ violate any local, state, provincial, national, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court, including, without limitation, zoning restrictions and Tax regulations;
○ use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots, backdoors or other means or processes to access, "scrape," "crawl" or "spider" any web pages or other services contained in the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
○ access or use our Site, Application, Services or the Quupe API to use, expose, or allow to be used or exposed, any Quupe Content: (i) that is not publicly displayed by Quupe in its search results pages or listing pages before a booking is confirmed; (ii) in any way that is inconsistent with the Quupe Privacy Policy or Terms of Service; or (iii) in any way that otherwise violates the privacy rights or any other rights of Quupe's users or any other third party;
○ use the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content for any commercial or other purposes that are not expressly permitted by these Terms or in a manner that falsely implies Quupe endorsement, partnership or otherwise misleads others as to your affiliation with Quupe;
○ dilute, tarnish or otherwise harm the Quupe brand in any way, including through unauthorized use of Collective Content, registering and/or using Quupe or derivative terms in domain names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers, or registering and/or using domains names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers that closely imitate or are confusingly similar to Quupe domains, trademarks, taglines, promotional campaigns or Collective Content
○ copy, store or otherwise access or use any information contained on the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content for purposes not expressly permitted by these Terms;
○ infringe the rights of Quupe or the rights of any other person or entity, including without limitation, their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual right
○ interfere with or damage our Site, Application or Services, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service attacks, backdoors, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology;
○ use our Site, Application or Services to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others without their permission, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers;
○ use our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email ("spam") or advertisements unrelated to lodging in a private residence;
○ "stalk" or harass any other user of our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or collect or store any personally identifiable information about any other user other than for purposes of transacting as an Quupe Borrower or Lender;
○ offer, as a Lender, any Item that you do not yourself own or have permission to rent (without limiting the foregoing, you will not list Items as a Lender if you are serving in the capacity of a rental agent or listing agent for a third party);
○ register for more than one Quupe Account or register for an Quupe Account on behalf of an individual other than yourself;
○ unless Quupe explicitly permits otherwise, request or book use of any Item if you will not actually be receiving and using the Item yourself;
○ contact another Member for any purpose other than asking a question related to a Booking, Item, Listing, or the Member's use of the Site, Application and Services;
○ recruit or otherwise solicit any Lender or other Member to join third-party services or websites that are competitive to Quupe, without Quupe's prior written approval;
○ recruit or otherwise solicit any Member to join third-party services, applications or websites, without our prior written approval;
○ impersonate any person or entity, or falsify or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity;
○ use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
○ use the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content to find a Lender or Borrower and then complete a booking of an Item independent of the Site, Application or Services, in order to circumvent the obligation to pay any Service Fees related to Quupe's provision of the Services or for any other reasons;
○ as a Lender, submit any Listing with false or misleading information, including price information, or submit any Listing with a price that you do not intend to honor;
○ violate these Terms or Quupe's then-current Policies and Community Guidelinesor Standards;
○ engage in disruptive, circumventive, abusive or harassing behavior in any area or aspect of our Platform, Application, or Services;
○ post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading (directly or by omission or failure to update information) or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
○ systematically retrieve data or other content from our Site, Application or Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of bots, crawlers, or spiders, or otherwise;
○ use, display, mirror or frame the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or any individual element within the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, Quupe's name, any Quupe trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page in the Site, Application or Services, without Quupe's express written consent;
○ access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Site, Application or Services, Quupe's computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Quupe's providers;
○ attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Quupe system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;
○ avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble, or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Quupe or any of Quupe's providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content;
○ forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
○ attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content;
○ advocate, encourage, or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing; or
○ accept or make a payment for Item Fees outside Quupe Payments. If you do so, you acknowledge and agree that you: (i) would be in breach of these Terms; (ii) accept all risks and responsibility for such payment, and (iii) hold Quupe harmless from any liability for such payment.
Quupe has the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the above to the fullest extent of the law. In addition, and as set in these Terms, Quupe may take a range of actions against you, including but not limited to deactivating or canceling your Listing(s) or Quupe Account, for a violation of this Section or these Terms.
Quupe may access, preserve and disclose any of your information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that it is reasonably necessary to (i) respond to claims asserted against Quupe or to comply with legal process (for example, subpoenas or warrants), (ii) enforce or administer our agreements with users, such as these Terms and the Quupe Lender Guarantee, (iii) for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, customer support, product development and de-bugging purposes, or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of Quupe, its users, or members of the public. You acknowledge that Quupe has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content or to review or edit any Member Content, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating and improving the Site, Application and Services (including without limitation for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and customer support purposes), to ensure your compliance with these Terms, to comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body, to respond to content that it determines is otherwise objectionable or as set forth in these Terms. Quupe reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content that Quupe, at its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.
Reporting Misconduct
If you lend to or borrow from anyone who you feel is acting or has acted inappropriately, including but not limited to anyone who (i) engages in offensive, violent or sexually inappropriate behavior, (ii) you suspect of stealing from you, or (iii) engages in any other disturbing conduct, you should immediately report such person to the appropriate authorities and then to Quupe by contacting us with your police station and report number; provided that your report will not obligate us to take any action beyond that required by law (if any) or cause us to incur any liability to you.
Privacy
You agree that Quupe's Privacy Policy (as may be updated from time to time) governs Quupe's collection and use of your personal information.
Intellectual Property Ownership and Rights Notices
The Site, Application, Services, and Collective Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You acknowledge and agree that the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content, including all associated intellectual property rights, are the exclusive property of Quupe and its licensors. You will not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content. All trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, and any other proprietary designations of Quupe used on or in connection with the Site, Application, Services, and Quupe Content are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quupe in the US and abroad. Trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names and any other proprietary designations of third parties used on or in connection with the Site, Application, Services, and Quupe Content are used for identification purposes only and may be the property of their respective owners. As a Lender, Borrower, or Member, you understand and agree that you are bound by the additional Terms, Guidelines and Policies that apply to your use of the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content, including Quupe's Trademark & Branding Guidelines (as may be updated from time to time).
Additional Terms
Our Site, Application and Services have different products, features and offerings, so sometimes additional terms or product requirements may apply to your use of those products, features or offerings. For example, additional terms apply if you refer new users to Quupe ("Referral Program"). If additional terms are available for the relevant product or Services you use, those additional terms become part of these Terms.
Application License
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Quupe grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download and install a copy of the Application on each mobile device or computer that you own or control and run such copy of the Application solely for your own personal use. Furthermore, with respect to any Apple App Store Sourced Application (defined below), you will only use the App Store Sourced Application (i) on an Apple-branded product that runs the iOS (Apple's proprietary operating system) and (ii) as permitted by the "Usage Rules" set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service. Quupe reserves all rights in the Application not expressly granted to you by these Terms.
Quupe Content and Member Content License
Subject to your compliance with these Terms and Quupe's Trademark & Branding Guidelines, Quupe grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, to (i) access and view any Quupe Content solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes and (ii) access and view any Member Content to which you are permitted access, solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. You have no right to sublicense the license rights granted in this section.
You will not use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content, except as expressly permitted in these Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise under any intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Quupe or its licensors, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted in these Terms.
Member Content
We may, in our sole discretion, permit you to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content on or through the Site, Application, Services, or through Quupe promotional campaigns, you hereby grant to Quupe a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, view, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content on, through, by means of or to promote or market the Site, Application and Services. Quupe does not claim any ownership rights in any such Member Content, and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit any such Member Content.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application, Services or through Quupe promotional campaigns. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application, Services or through Quupe promotional campaigns or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to Quupe the rights in such Member Content, as contemplated under these Terms; and (ii) neither the Member Content nor your posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmittal of the Member Content or Quupe's use of the Member Content (or any portion thereof) on, through or by means of the Site, Application, the Services or Quupe promotional campaigns will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other proprietary or intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.
Links
The Site, Application and Services may contain links to third-party websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that Quupe is not responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or (ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by Quupe of such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or resources. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources or the Content, products or services on or available from such websites or resources.
Some portions of the Quupe platform implement Google Maps/Earth mapping services, including Google Maps API(s). Your use of Google Maps/Earth is subject to Google's terms of use.
Feedback
We welcome and encourage you to provide feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Site, Application and Services ("Feedback"). You may submit Feedback by emailing us, through the "Contact" section of the Site and Application, or by other means of communication. You acknowledge and agree that all Feedback you give us will be the sole and exclusive property of Quupe and you hereby irrevocably assign to Quupe and agree to irrevocably assign to Quupe all of your right, title, and interest in and to all Feedback, including without limitation all worldwide patent, copyright, trade secret, moral and other proprietary or intellectual property rights therein, and waive any moral rights you may have in such Feedback. At Quupe's request and expense, you will execute documents and take such further acts as Quupe may reasonably request to assist Quupe to acquire, perfect, and maintain its intellectual property rights and other legal protections for the Feedback.
Copyright Policy
Quupe respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. It is Quupe's policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances the Quupe Accounts of Members or other account holders who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders. Please see Quupe's Copyright Policy for further information.
Term and Termination, Suspension and Other Measures
○ Term
○ This Agreement shall be effective for a 30-day term, at the end of which it will automatically and continuously renew for subsequent 30-day terms until such time when you or Quupe terminate the Agreement as described below.
○ Termination for convenience
○ You may terminate this Agreement at any time via the "Cancel Account" feature on the Site or by sending us an email. If you cancel your Quupe Account as a Lender, any confirmed bookings will be automatically cancelled and your Borrowers will receive a full refund. If you cancel your Quupe Account as a Borrower, any confirmed booking will be automatically cancelled and any refund will depend upon the terms of the applicable cancellation policy.
○ Without limiting our rights specified below, Quupe may terminate this Agreement for convenience at any time by giving you 30 days' notice via email to your registered email address.
○ Termination for breach, suspension and other measures
○ Quupe may immediately, without notice terminate this Agreement if (i) you have materially breached these Terms or our Policies, including but not limited to any breach of your warranties outlined in these Terms or breach of the "User Conduct" provisions in these Terms, (ii) you have provided inaccurate, fraudulent, outdated or incomplete information during the Quupe Account registration, or Listing process or thereafter, (iii) you have violated applicable laws, regulations or third party rights, or (iv) Quupe believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to protect the safety or property of other Members, Quupe or third parties, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, security or investigation purposes.
○ In addition Quupe may deactivate or delay Listings, reviews, or other Member Content, cancel any pending or confirmed bookings, limit your use of or access to your Quupe Account and the Site, Application or Services, temporarily or permanently revoke any special status associated with your Quupe Account, or temporarily or permanently suspend your Quupe Account if (i) you have breached these Terms or our Policies, including material and non-material breaches and receiving poor ratings from Lenders or Borrowers, or (ii) Quupe believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to protect the safety or property of Members, Quupe or third parties, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, security or investigation purposes.
○ In case of non-material breaches and where appropriate, you will be given notice of any measure by Quupe and an opportunity to resolve the issue to Quupe's reasonable satisfaction.
○ Consequences
○ If we take any of the measures described above we may (i) communicate to your Borrowers or Lenders that a pending or confirmed booking has been cancelled, (ii) refund your Borrowers in full for any and all confirmed bookings, irrespective of preexisting cancellation policies, (iii) support your Borrowers, on an exceptional basis, in finding potential alternative Items, and (iv) you will not be entitled to any compensation for confirmed bookings that were cancelled.
○ If you or we terminate this Agreement, we do not have an obligation to delete or return to you any of your Member Content, including but not limited to any reviews or Feedback. When this Agreement has been terminated, you are not entitled to a restoration of your Quupe Account or any of your Member Content. If your access to or use of the Site, Application and Services has been limited or your Quupe Account has been suspended or this Agreement has been terminated by us, you may not register a new Quupe Account or attempt to access and use the Site, Application and Services through other Quupe Accounts.
○ Survival
○ If you or we terminate this Agreement, the clauses of these Terms that reasonably should survive termination of the Agreement will remain in effect.
Disclaimers
IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR PARTICIPATE IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM, YOU DO SO AT YOUR SOLE RISK. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT QUUPE DOES NOT HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CONDUCT BACKGROUND OR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER CHECKS ON ANY MEMBER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BORROWERS AND LENDERS, BUT MAY CONDUCT SUCH BACKGROUND OR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER CHECKS IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. IF WE CHOOSE TO CONDUCT SUCH CHECKS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT SUCH CHECKS WILL IDENTIFY PRIOR MISCONDUCT BY A USER OR GUARANTEE THAT A USER WILL NOT ENGAGE IN MISCONDUCT IN THE FUTURE.
THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT AND REFERRAL PROGRAM ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, QUUPE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. QUUPE MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE LISTINGS OR ANY ItemS, OR THE REFERRAL PROGRAM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS. QUUPE MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE QUALITY OF ANY LISTINGS, ITEMS, LENDERS, BORROWERS, YOUR ACCRUAL OF QUUPE TRAVEL CREDITS, THE SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, TRUTHFULNESS, COMPLETENESS OR RELIABILITY OF ANY COLLECTIVE CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR REFERRAL PROGRAM.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED FROM QUUPE OR THROUGH THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT, WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN.
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF YOUR COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES AND WITH OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LENDERS OR BORROWERS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT QUUPE DOES NOT MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO VERIFY THE STATEMENTS OF USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR TO REVIEW OR VISIT ANY ITEMS. QUUPE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONDUCT OF USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR THEIR COMPATIBILITY WITH ANY CURRENT OR FUTURE USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES. YOU AGREE TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS IN ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES AND WITH OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BORROWERS AND LenderS, PARTICULARLY IF YOU DECIDE TO MEET OFFLINE OR IN PERSON REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH MEETINGS ARE ORGANIZED BY QUUPE. QUUPE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY BORROWER OR OTHER THIRD PARTY.
Limitation of Liability
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES AND COLLECTIVE CONTENT, YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY ITEMS VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM, AND ANY CONTACT YOU HAVE WITH OTHER USERS OF QUUPE WHETHER IN PERSON OR ONLINE REMAINS WITH YOU. NEITHER QUUPE NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR THE REFERRAL PROGRAM WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL OR BODILY INJURY OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS, FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT, FROM ANY COMMUNICATIONS, INTERACTIONS OR MEETINGS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, OR SERVICES OR OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM OR FROM YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY Item VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT QUUPE HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
EXCEPT FOR OUR OBLIGATIONS TO PAY AMOUNTS TO APPLICABLE LENDERS PURSUANT TO THESE TERMS OR AN APPROVED PAYMENT REQUEST UNDER THE QUUPE LENDER GUARANTEE, IN NO EVENT WILL QUUPE’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS AND YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FROM YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY ITEM VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM AND IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ITEM OR INTERACTIONS WITH ANY OTHER MEMBERS, EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID OR OWE FOR BOOKINGS VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES AS A BORROWER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR IF YOU ARE A LENDER, THE AMOUNTS PAID BY QUUPE TO YOU IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100), IF NO SUCH PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE, AS APPLICABLE. THE LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN QUUPE AND YOU. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Indemnification
You agree to release, defend, indemnify, and hold Quupe and its affiliates and subsidiaries, and their officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content or your violation of these Terms; (b) your Member Content; (c) your (i) interaction with any Member, (ii) booking of an Item, or (iii) creation of a Listing; (d) the use, condition or rental of an Item by you, including but not limited to any injuries, losses, or damages (compensatory, direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of a rental, booking or use of an Item; and (e) your participation in the Referral Program or your accrual of any Quupe Travel Credits.
Entire Agreement
Except as they may be supplemented by additional Quupe policies, guidelines, standards, or terms for a specific product, feature, service or offering, these Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Quupe and you regarding the Site, Application, Services, Collective Content (excluding Payment Services), and any bookings or Listings of Items made via the Site, Application and Services (excluding Payment Services), and these Terms supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Quupe and you regarding bookings or listings of Items, the Site, Application, Services, and Collective Content (excluding Payment Services).
Assignment
You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without Quupe's prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null and of no effect. Quupe may assign or transfer these Terms, at its sole discretion, without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
Notices
Any notices or other communications permitted or required hereunder, including those regarding modifications to these Terms, will be in writing and given by Quupe (i) via email (in each case to the address that you provide) or (ii) by posting to the Site or via the Application. For notices made by e-mail, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.
Dispute Resolution
If you reside in the United States or Canada, you and Quupe agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, or to the use of the Services or use of the Site, Application or Collective Content (collectively, "Disputes") will be settled by binding arbitration, except that each party retains the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights. You acknowledge and agree that you and Quupe are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action lawsuit, class-wide arbitration, private attorney-general action, or any other representative proceeding. Further, unless both you and Quupe otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding. If this specific paragraph is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this "Dispute Resolution" section will be deemed void. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, this "Dispute Resolution" section will survive any termination of these Terms.
Arbitration Rules and Governing Law. This agreement to arbitrate evidences a transaction in interstate commerce, and thus the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (the "AAA Rules") then in effect, except as modified by this "Dispute Resolution" section. (The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org/arb_med or by calling the AAA at 1--800--778--7879.) The Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this section.
Arbitration Process. A party who desires to initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a written Demand for Arbitration as specified in the AAA Rules. (The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration.) The arbitrator will be either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of California and will be selected by the parties from the AAA's roster of consumer dispute arbitrators. If the parties are unable to agree upon an arbitrator within seven (7) days of delivery of the Demand for Arbitration, then the AAA will appoint the arbitrator in accordance with the AAA Rules.
Arbitration Location and Procedure. Unless you and Quupe otherwise agree, the arbitration will be conducted in the county where you reside. If your claim does not exceed $10,000, then the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of documents you and Quupe submit to the arbitrator, unless you request a hearing or the arbitrator determines that a hearing is necessary. If your claim exceeds $10,000, your right to a hearing will be determined by the AAA Rules. Subject to the AAA Rules, the arbitrator will have the discretion to direct a reasonable exchange of information by the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the arbitration.
Arbitrator's Decision. The arbitrator will render an award within the time frame specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator's decision will include the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator based the award. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrator's award damages must be consistent with the terms of the "Limitation of Liability" section above as to the types and the amounts of damages for which a party may be held liable. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the claimant and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the claimant's individual claim. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys' fees and expenses, to the extent provided under applicable law. Quupe will not seek, and hereby waives all rights it may have under applicable law to recover, attorneys' fees and expenses if it prevails in arbitration.
Fees. Your responsibility to pay any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be solely as set forth in the AAA Rules. However, if your claim for damages does not exceed $75,000, Quupe will pay all such fees unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought in your Demand for Arbitration was frivolous or was brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)).
Changes. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Modification" section above, if Quupe changes this "Dispute Resolution" section after the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms), you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email) within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the "Last Updated" date above or in the date of Quupe's email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Quupe in accordance with the provisions of this "Dispute Resolution" section as of the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms).
General
The failure of Quupe to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of future enforcement of that right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Quupe. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise. If for any reason an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Third-party beneficiary
These Terms do not and are not intended to confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties.
Contacting Quupe
If you have any questions about these Terms or any App Store Sourced Application, please contact Quupe.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, A CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS THE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF DISPUTES, AND OBLIGATIONS TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
IN PARTICULAR, LENDERS SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW THE LAWS WORK IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CITIES. SOME CITIES HAVE LAWS THAT RESTRICT THEIR ABILITY TO LENDER PAYING BORROWERS FOR SHORT PERIODS. THESE LAWS ARE OFTEN PART OF A CITY'S ZONING OR ADMINISTRATIVE CODES. IN MANY CITIES, LENDERS MUST REGISTER, GET A PERMIT, OR OBTAIN A LICENSE BEFORE LISTING A PROPERTY OR ACCEPTING BORROWERS. CERTAIN TYPES OF SHORT-TERM BOOKINGS MAY BE PROHIBITED ALTOGETHER. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS VARY GREATLY IN HOW THEY ENFORCE THESE LAWS. PENALTIES MAY INCLUDE FINES OR OTHER ENFORCEMENT. LENDERS SHOULD REVIEW LOCAL LAWS BEFORE LISTING AN ITEM ON QUUPE.
TERMS OF SERVICE
If you are using the Site, Application or Services and you reside in the USA or Canada, you are contracting with Quupe, Inc. with respect to use of the Quupe Site, Application or Services, and with Quupe Payments, Inc. with respect to any payments or payouts from or to you conducted through the Site, Application or Services. If you reside outside of the USA or Canada, you are contracting with Quupe Ireland with respect to use of the Quupe Site, Application or Services, and with Quupe Payments UK Ltd. with respect to any payments or payouts from or to you conducted through the Site, Application or Services. If you initially reside in the USA and contract with Quupe, Inc. and/or Quupe Payments, Inc., but subsequently change your residence to outside of the USA, you will contract with Quupe Ireland from the date on which your place of residence changes, and vice versa. (Quupe, Inc., Quupe Ireland, Quupe Payments UK Ltd. and Quupe Payments, Inc. (the last two solely with respect to payments and payouts related activity) are each hereinafter referred to as "Quupe", "we", "us", or "our"). Quupe Payments, Inc. and Quupe Payments UK Ltd. shall individually and collectively, as appropriate, be referred to herein as "Quupe Payments".
Quupe provides an online platform that connects Lenders who have Items to rent with Borrowers seeking to rent such Items (collectively, the "Services"), which Services are accessible at quupe.com and any other websites through which Quupe makes the Services available (collectively, the "Site") and as applications for mobile devices (the "Application"). By using the Site or Application, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service ("Terms"), whether or not you become a registered user of the Services. These Terms govern your access to and use of the Site, Application and Services and all Collective Content (defined below), and your participation in the Referral Program (defined below), and constitute a binding legal agreement between you and Quupe. Please also read carefully our Privacy Policy at http://www.Quupe.com/terms/privacy_policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you have no right to obtain information from or otherwise continue using the Site, Application or Services. Failure to use the Site, Application or Services in accordance with these Terms may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.
THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES COMPRISE AN ONLINE PLATFORM THROUGH WHICH LENDERS MAY CREATE LISTINGS FOR ITEMS AND BORROWERS MAY LEARN ABOUT AND BOOK ITEMS DIRECTLY WITH THE LENDERS. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT QUUPE IS NOT A PARTY TO ANY AGREEMENTS ENTERED INTO BETWEEN LENDERS AND BORROWERS. QUUPE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE CONDUCT OF LENDERS, BORROWERS, AND OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES OR ANY ITEMS, AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY IN THIS REGARD TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Key Terms
"Quupe Content" means all Content that Quupe makes available through the Site, Application, or Services, including any Content licensed from a third party, but excluding Member Content.
"Booking Request Period" means the time period starting from the time when an item booking is requested by a Borrower (as determined by Quupe in its sole discretion), within which a Lender may decide whether to confirm or reject that booking request, as stated on the Site, Application or Services. Different Booking Request Periods may apply in different places.
"Collective Content" means Member Content and Quupe Content.
"Content" means text, graphics, images, music, software (excluding the Application), audio, video, information or other materials.
"Borrower" means a Member who requests from a Lender a booking of an Item via the Site, Application or Services, or a Member who stays at an Item and is not the Lender for such Item.
"Lender" means a Member who creates an Item Listing via the Site, Application and Services.
"Listing" means an Item that is listed by a Lender as available for rental via the Site, Application, and Services.
"Member" means a person who completes Quupe's account registration process, including but not limited to Lenders and Borrowers, as described under "Account Registration" below.
"Member Content" means all Content that a Member posts, uploads, publishes, submits, transmits, or includes in their Listing or Member profile to be made available through the Site, Application or Services.
"Tax" or "Taxes" mean any sales taxes, value added taxes (VAT), goods and services taxes (GST), transient occupancy taxes, tourist or other visitor taxes, Item or lodging taxes, fees (such as convention center fees) that Item providers may be required by law to collect and remit to governmental agencies, and other similar municipal, state, federal and national indirect or other withholding and personal or corporate income taxes.
Certain areas of the Site and Application (and your access to or use of certain aspects of the Services or Collective Content) may have different terms and conditions posted or may require you to agree with and accept additional terms and conditions. If there is a conflict between these Terms and terms and conditions posted for a specific area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content, the latter terms and conditions will take precedence with respect to your use of or access to that area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR BY DOWNLOADING OR POSTING ANY CONTENT FROM OR ON THE SITE, VIA THE APPLICATION OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE AND APPLICATION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT. If you accept or agree to these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to these Terms and, in such event, "you" and "your" will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity.
Modification
Quupe reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify the Site, Application or Services or to modify these Terms, including the Service Fees, at any time and without prior notice. If we modify these Terms, we will either post the modification on the Site or via the Application or otherwise provide you with notice of the modification. We will also update the "Last Updated Date" at the top of these Terms. By continuing to access or use the Site, Application or Services after we have posted a modification on the Site or via the Application or have provided you with notice of a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If the modified Terms are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the Site, Application and Services.
Eligibility
The Site, Application and Services are intended solely for persons who are 18 or older. Any access to or use of the Site, Application or Services by anyone under 18 is expressly prohibited. By accessing or using the Site, Application or Services you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older.
How the Site, Application and Services Work
The Site, Application and Services can be used to facilitate the listing and booking of residential and other properties ("Items"). Such Items are included in Listings on the Site, Application and Services by Lenders. You may view Listings as an unregistered visitor to the Site, Application and Services; however, if you wish to book an Item or create a Listing, you must first register to create an Quupe Account (defined below).
As stated above, Quupe makes available an online platform or marketplace with related technology for Borrowers and Lenders to meet online and arrange for bookings of Items directly with each other. Unless explicitly specified otherwise in the Quupe platform, Quupe's responsibilities are limited to: (i) facilitating the availability of the Site, Application and Services and (ii) serving as the limited payment collection agent of each Lender for the purpose of accepting payments from Borrowers on behalf of the Lender.
PLEASE NOTE THAT, AS STATED ABOVE, THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES ARE INTENDED TO BE USED TO FACILITATE LENDERS AND BORROWERS CONNECTING AND BOOKING ITEMS DIRECTLY WITH EACH OTHER. QUUPE CANNOT AND DOES NOT CONTROL THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN ANY LISTINGS AND THE CONDITION, LEGALITY OR SUITABILITY OF ANY ITEMS. QUUPE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AND DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY RELATED TO ANY AND ALL LISTINGS AND ITEMS. ACCORDINGLY, ANY BOOKINGS WILL BE MADE OR ACCEPTED AT THE MEMBER'S OWN RISK.
Account Registration
In order to access certain features of the Site and Application, and to book an Item or create a Listing, you must register to create an account ("Quupe Account") and become a Member. You may register to join the Services directly via the Site or Application or as described in this section.
You can also register to join by logging into your account with certain third-party social networking sites ("SNS") (including, but not limited to, Facebook; each such account, a "Third-Party Account"), via our Site or Application, as described below. As part of the functionality of the Site, Application and Services, you may link your Quupe Account with Third-Party Accounts, by either: (i) providing your Third-Party Account login information to Quupe through the Site, Services or Application; or (ii) allowing Quupe to access your Third-Party Account, as permitted under the applicable terms and conditions that govern your use of each Third-Party Account. You represent that you are entitled to disclose your Third-Party Account login information to Quupe and/or grant Quupe access to your Third-Party Account (including, but not limited to, for use for the purposes described herein), without breach by you of any of the terms and conditions that govern your use of the applicable Third-Party Account and without obligating Quupe to pay any fees or making Quupe subject to any usage limitations imposed by such third-party service providers. By granting Quupe access to any Third-Party Accounts, you understand that Quupe will access, make available and store (if applicable) any Content that you have provided to and stored in your Third-Party Account ("SNS Content") so that it is available on and through the Site, Services and Application via your Quupe Account and Quupe Account profile page. Unless otherwise specified in these Terms, all SNS Content, if any, will be considered to be Member Content for all purposes of these Terms. Depending on the Third-Party Accounts you choose and subject to the privacy settings that you have set in such Third-Party Accounts, personally identifiable information that you post to your Third-Party Accounts will be available on and through your Quupe Account on the Site, Services and Application. Please note that if a Third-Party Account or associated service becomes unavailable, or Quupe's access to such Third-Party Account is terminated by the third-party service provider, then SNS Content will no longer be available on and through the Site, Services and Application. You have the ability to disable the connection between your Quupe Account and your Third-Party Accounts, at any time, by accessing the "Settings" section of the Site and Application. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS IS GOVERNED SOLELY BY YOUR AGREEMENT(S) WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS. Quupe makes no effort to review any SNS Content for any purpose, including but not limited to for accuracy, legality or non-infringement and Quupe is not responsible for any SNS Content.
Your Quupe Account and your Quupe Account profile page will be created for your use of the Site and Application based upon the personal information you provide to us or that we obtain via an SNS as described above. You may not have more than one (1) active Quupe Account. You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current and complete. Quupe reserves the right to suspend or terminate your Quupe Account and your access to the Site, Application and Services if you create more than one (1) Quupe Account, or if any information provided during the registration process or thereafter proves to be inaccurate, fraudulent, not current or incomplete. You are responsible for safeguarding your password. You agree that you will not disclose your password to any third party and that you will take sole responsibility for any activities or actions under your Quupe Account, whether or not you have authorized such activities or actions. You will immediately notify Quupe of any unauthorized use of your Quupe Account.
Item Listings
As a Member, you may create Listings. To create a Listing, you will be asked a variety of questions about the Item to be listed, including, but not limited to, the location, functions, size, features, and availability of the Item and pricing and related rules and financial terms. In order to be featured in Listings via the Site, Application and Services, all Items must have valid physical addresses. Listings will be made publicly available via the Site, Application and Services. Other Members will be able to book your Item via the Site, Application and Services based upon the information provided in your Listing. You understand and agree that once a Borrower requests a booking of your Item, you may not request the Borrower to pay a higher price than in the booking request.
You acknowledge and agree that you alone are responsible for any and all Listings and Member Content you post. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that any Listing you post and the booking of, or a Borrower's borrowing of, an Item in a Listing you post (i) will not breach any agreements you have entered into with any third parties, such as homeowners association, condominium, lease or rental agreements, and (ii) will (a) be in compliance with all applicable laws (such as zoning laws and laws governing rentals of residential and other properties), Tax requirements, and rules and regulations that may apply to any Item included in a Listing you post (including having all required permits, licenses and registrations), and (b) not conflict with the rights of third parties. Please note that Quupe assumes no responsibility for a Lender's compliance with any agreements with or duties to third parties, applicable laws, rules and regulations. Quupe reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Listing for any reason, including Listings that Quupe, in its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or Quupe's then-current Policies and Community Guidelines, or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.
If you are a Lender, you understand and agree that Quupe does not act as an insurer or as your contracting agent. If a Borrower requests a booking of your Item and uses your Item, any agreement you enter into with such Borrower is between you and the Borrower, and Quupe is not a party to it. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Quupe Payments serves as the limited authorized payment collection agent of the Lender for the purpose of accepting, on behalf of the Lender, payments from Borrowers of such amounts stipulated by the Lender (including cleaning or other fees and/or Taxes).
When you create a Listing, you may also choose to include certain requirements which must be met by the Members who are eligible to request a booking of your Item, such as requiring Members to have a profile picture or verified phone number, in order to book your Item. Any Member wishing to book Items included in Listings with such requirements must meet these requirements. More information on how to set such requirements is available via the "Lending" section of the Site, Application and Services.
If you are a Lender, Quupe makes certain tools available to you to help you to make informed decisions about which Members you choose to confirm or preapprove for booking for your Item. You acknowledge and agree that, as a Lender, you are responsible for your own acts and omissions and are also responsible for the acts and omissions of any individuals who reside at or are otherwise present at the Item at your request or invitation, excluding the Borrower (and the individuals the Borrower invites to use the Item, if applicable.)
Quupe recommends that Lenders obtain appropriate insurance for their Items. Please review any insurance policy that you may have for your Item carefully, and in particular please make sure that you are familiar with and understand any exclusions to, and any deductibles that may apply for, such insurance policy, including, but not limited to, whether or not your insurance policy will cover the actions or inactions of Borrowers (and the individuals the Borrower invites to the Item, if applicable) while using your Item.
Quupe may offer Lenders the option of having photographers take photographs of their Items. If you as a Lender choose to have a photographer do this, the photographs taken will be made available to you to include in your Listing with a watermark or tag bearing the words "Quupe.com Verified Photo" or similar wording ("Verified Images"). You agree that you alone are responsible for ensuring that your Listing is accurately represented in the Verified Images. You alone are responsible for using the Verified Images and you warrant that you will cease to use the Verified Images or any other images if such images cease to accurately represent your Listing. All images, materials and content created by these photographers, including Verified Images, constitute Quupe Content, regardless of whether you include them in your Listing. You agree that Quupe may use the Verified Images for advertising, marketing, commercial and other business purposes in any media or platform, whether in relation to your Listing or otherwise, without further notice or compensation.
Insurance and Liability
All items listed through the Quupe platform are covered up to their full resale value through Quupe’s insurance guarantee. Borrowers are able to pay an additional fee to also cover their transaction under Quupe’s insurance guarantee. The insurance guarantee only will cover those i) never convicted of, or charged with, any offence besides driving offences, ii) never subject to bankruptcy proceedings or a court judgment, iii) whom have never had insurance cancelled, refused, or declined, nor have had any special terms imposed, and iv) have not made more than two insurance claims in the past five years or more than one claim in the past ten months. Lenders that already have their items insured, through either commercial or personal insurance, will need to file a claim first with their existing insurance prior to filing a claim with Quupe. If your existing insurance does not cover the claim, or the claim is rejected, the user can then submit their claim to Quupe’s insurance process.
Quupe’s insurance does not cover any transactions paid for outside of our platform or any transactions that occur outside of British Columbia, Canada. Quupe’s insurance does not cover vehicles requiring a license or permit to operate; real estate; chemicals, liquids, or consumables; livestock, pets, or other animals; weapons; or chainsaws.
Lender conditions:
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 50% (max $500) of the resale value of the transactional item for first-time lenders.
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 100% of the resale value of the transactional item for second-time lenders. This gives our lenders full insurance coverage.
○ If a user has an insurance claim, their insurance account will default back to first-time insurance settings. In this case, the user will have to build their insurance account again.
Borrowers conditions:
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 30% (max $200) of the resale value of the transactional item for first-time insurance users. If the insurance paid for the item is more than $200 then that exact amount will be covered, plus 10% of the resale value of the transaction item.
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 50% (max $500) of the resale value of the transactional item for second-time insurance users. If the insurance paid for the item is more than $500 then that exact amount will be covered, plus 10% of the resale value of the transaction item.
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 90% (max $1000) of the resale value of the transactional item for third-time insurance users. If the insurance paid for the item is more than $1000 then that exact amount will be covered, plus 10% of the resale value of the transaction item.
○ Insurance coverage will be up to 100% of the resale value of the transactional item for fourth-time insurance users. This gives our borrowers full insurance coverage.
○ If a user has an insurance claim, their insurance account will default back to first-time insurance settings. Meaning, the user will have to build their insurance account again.
User liability
Lenders that list items on the platform are required to give accurate information as to the item’s condition and function, as well as what parts it does or does not include. Lenders that knowingly rent out a damaged item will be liable for at least 50% of the repair or replacement costs.
Users participating in a rental transaction are responsible for assessing the condition of the item prior to use. This includes time-stamped visual media (i.e. photo or film) verifying the condition and function of the item prior to it being used.
Borrowers that request to rent an item are responsible for having sufficient funds to cover damages or replacement of the item. Quupe maintains the right to withdraw money up to the estimated value of the item listed from a user’s account without seeking further permission if we have reason to believe the item has been damaged or stolen, or the user is unable to return it, within 7 days of the end of the rental period.
Borrowers that knowingly use a rented item that they have identified as damaged will be liable for at least 50% of the repair or replacement costs. If a Borrower refuses to pay for repairs for any damage caused to the item while it was in their possession, or to pay any amount that the Borrower owes Quupe or a Quupe user within the timeframe given them, we will engage the services of debt collectors who will pursue this debt with the Borrower on Quupe’s behalf. The Borrower agrees that the charge for their services will be added to the debt collected from them.
No Endorsement
Quupe does not endorse any Member or any Item. You understand that Verified Images are intended only to indicate a photographic representation of the Item at the time the photograph was taken. Verified Images are therefore not an endorsement by Quupe of any Member or any Item. Members are required by these Terms to provide accurate information, and although Quupe may undertake additional checks and processes designed to help verify or check the identities or backgrounds of users, we do not make any representations about, confirm, or endorse any Member or the Member's purported identity or background.
Any references in the Site, Application or Services to a Member being "verified" or "connected" (or similar language) only indicate that the Member has completed a relevant verification process, and does not represent anything else. Any such description is not an endorsement, certification or guarantee by Quupe about any Member, including of the Member's identity and whether the Member is trustworthy, safe or suitable. Instead, any such description is intended to be useful information for you to evaluate when you make your own decisions about the identity and suitability of others whom you contact or interact with via the Site, Application and Services. We therefore recommend that you always exercise due diligence and care when deciding whether to enter into a borrowing relationship with a Lender or to accept a booking request from a Borrower, or to have any other interaction with any other Member. Except as provided in the Quupe Lender Guarantee Terms and Conditions ("Quupe Lender Guarantee"), which is an agreement between Quupe and Lenders, we are not responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with other Members.
By using the Site, Application or Services, you agree that any legal remedy or liability that you seek to obtain for actions or omissions of other Members or other third parties will be limited to a claim against the particular Members or other third parties who caused you harm. You agree not to attempt to impose liability on or seek any legal remedy from Quupe with respect to such actions or omissions. Accordingly, we encourage you to communicate directly with other Members on the Site and Services regarding any bookings or Listings made by you. This limitation shall not apply to any claim by a Lender against Quupe regarding the remittance of payments received from a Borrower by Quupe on behalf of a Lender, which instead shall be subject to the limitations described in the section below entitled "Limitation of Liability".
Bookings and Financial Terms
Key definitions
"Item Fees" means the amounts that are due and payable by a Borrower in exchange for that Borrower's use of an Item. The Lender alone, and not Quupe, is responsible for the Item Fees for his or her Listing. The Lender may in his or her sole discretion decide to include in these amounts (i) a cleaning fee or any other fee permitted on the Quupe platform, or (ii) Taxes that the Lender determines that he or she has to collect.
"Borrower Fees" means the fee that Quupe charges a Borrower for the use of the Services, which is calculated as a percentage of the applicable Item Fees. The Borrower Fees will be displayed to the Borrower when the Borrower is asked whether to send a booking request to a Lender.
"Lender Fees" means the fee that Quupe charges a Lender for the use of the Services, which is calculated as a percentage of the applicable Item Fees. The Lender Fees will be displayed to the Lender when the Lender is asked whether to confirm or reject a booking request from a prospective Borrower.
"Service Fees" means collectively the Borrower Fees and the Lender Fees.
"Total Fees" means collectively the Item Fees and the Borrower Fees plus any Taxes.
Bookings and Financial Terms for Lenders and Borrowers
If you are a Lender and a booking is requested for your Item via the Site, Application or Services, you will be required to either confirm or reject the booking request within the Booking Request Period, otherwise the booking request will automatically expire. When a booking is requested via the Site, Application or Services, we will share with you (i) the first and last name of the Borrower who has requested the booking, (ii) a link to the Borrower's Quupe Account profile page, (iii) if the Borrower and Lender have both connected their Quupe accounts to SNS, the names of any members of an SNS with whom you are "friends" or associated on the SNS if such individuals are also "friends" or associated with the Borrower on such SNS, and (iv) an indication of whether or not the Borrower has provided other information to Quupe, such as a verified email address, connection to SNSs, or a government ID. If you are unable to confirm or decide to reject a booking request within the Booking Request Period, any amounts collected by Quupe for the requested booking will be refunded to the applicable Borrower's credit card, and any pre-authorization of such credit card will be released. When you confirm a booking requested by a Borrower, Quupe will send you an email, text message or message via the Application confirming such booking, depending on the selections you make via the Site, Application and Services.
Quupe Payments will collect the Total Fees at the time of booking confirmation (i.e., when the Lender confirms the booking request) and will initiate payment of the Item Fees (less Quupe's Lender Fees and any Taxes in respect of the Lender Fees, such as VAT in Europe) to the Lender within 24 hours of when the Borrower arrives at the applicable Item (except to the extent that a refund is due to the Borrower). The time it takes for the Lender to receive payouts may depend upon the payout method chosen by the Lender. Some methods involve the use of third-party payment processors, who may impose their own additional charges for the use of their services on the Lender, including by deducting their charges from the payout amount.
If you owe or agree to pay any amount via Quupe Payments to Quupe (whether as a result of your bookings or actions as a Borrower or otherwise), then Quupe Payments may (but is not obliged to) withhold the amount owing to Quupe from any payout amounts due to you as a Lender, and use the withheld amount to set off the amount owed by you to Quupe. If Quupe Payments does so, then your obligation to pay Quupe will be extinguished to the extent of the amount withheld by Quupe Payments, and Quupe will cease to owe to you any obligations (including, but not limited to, any obligation to pay you) with respect to the amount withheld. In addition to the amount due, if your account is delinquent or you otherwise have chargebacks on your account, you may be charged fees that are incidental to our collection of these delinquent amounts and chargebacks. Such fees or charges may include collection fees, convenience fees, or other third party charges. You hereby explicitly agree that all communication in relation to delinquent accounts will be made by electronic mail or by phone, as provided to Quupe by you. Such communication may be made by Quupe or by anyone on its behalf, including but not limited to a third-party collection agent.
Appointment of Quupe Payments as Limited Payment Collection Agent for Lender
Each Lender hereby appoints Quupe Payments as the Lender's limited payment collection agent solely for the purpose of accepting the Item Fees from Borrowers.
Each Lender agrees that payment made by a Borrower through Quupe Payments, shall be considered the same as a payment made directly to the Lender, and the Lender will make the Item available to the Borrower in the agreed-upon manner as if the Lender has received the Item Fees. Each Lender agrees that Quupe may, in accordance with the cancellation policy selected by the Lender and reflected in the relevant Listing, (i) permit the Borrower to cancel the booking and (ii) refund (via Quupe Payments) to the Borrower that portion of the Item Fees specified in the applicable cancellation policy. Each Lender understands that as Quupe Payments accepts payments from Borrowers as the Lender's limited payment collection agent and that Quupe Payments' obligation to pay the Lender is subject to and conditional upon successful receipt of the associated payments from Borrowers. Quupe does not guarantee payments to Lenders for amounts that have not been suddenly received by Quupe Payments from Borrowers. In accepting appointment as the limited authorized agent of the Lender, Quupe Payments assumes no liability for any acts or omissions of the Lender.
Please note that Quupe does not currently charge fees for the creation of Listings. However, you as a Lender acknowledge and agree that Quupe reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to charge you for and collect fees from you for the creation of Listings. Please note that Quupe will provide notice of any Listing fee collection via the Site, Application and Services, prior to implementing such a Listing fee feature.
Bookings and Financial Terms for Borrowers
The Lenders, not Quupe, are solely responsible for honoring any confirmed bookings and making available any Items reserved through the Site, Application and Services. If you, as a Borrower, choose to enter into a transaction with a Lender for the booking of an Item, you agree and understand that you will be required to enter into an agreement with the Lender and you agree to accept any terms, conditions, rules and restrictions associated with such Item imposed by the Lender. You acknowledge and agree that you, and not Quupe, will be responsible for performing the obligations of any such agreements, that Quupe is not a party to such agreements, and that, with the exception of its payment obligations hereunder, Quupe disclaims all liability arising from or related to any such agreements. You acknowledge and agree that, notwithstanding the fact that Quupe is not a party to the agreement between you and the Lender, Quupe Payments acts as the Lender's payment collection agent for the limited purpose of accepting payments from you on behalf of the Lender. Upon your payment of the Total Fees to Quupe Payments, your payment obligation to the Lender for the Item Fees is extinguished, and Quupe Payments is responsible for remitting the Item Fees (less the Lender Fees and any Taxes in respect of the Lender Fees, such as VAT in Europe), in the manner described in these Terms. In the event that Quupe Payments does not remit any such amounts as described in these Terms, such Lender will have recourse only against such Quupe entity.
The Total Fees payable will be displayed to a Borrower before the Borrower sends a booking request to a Lender. As noted above, the Lender is required to either confirm or reject the booking request within the Booking Request Period; otherwise, the requested booking will be automatically cancelled. If a requested booking is cancelled (i.e., not confirmed by the applicable Lender), any amounts collected by Quupe Payments will be refunded to such Borrower, depending on the selections the Borrower makes via the Site and Application, and any pre-authorization of such Borrower's credit card will be released, if applicable.
You as a Borrower agree to pay Quupe for the Total Fees for any booking requested in connection with your Quupe Account if such requested bookings are confirmed by the applicable Lender. In order to establish a booking pending the applicable Lender's confirmation of your requested booking, you understand and agree that Quupe Payments, on behalf of the Lender, reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to (i) obtain a pre-authorization via your credit card for the Total Fees or (ii) charge your credit card a nominal amount, not to exceed one dollar ($1), or a similar sum in the currency in which you are transacting (e.g. one euro or one British pound), to verify your credit card. As a general rule, Quupe Payments will collect the Total Fees due once Quupe receives confirmation of your booking from the applicable Lender; if necessary, Total Fees may instead be collected at a later point. Please note that Quupe cannot control any fees that may be charged to a Borrower by his or her bank related to Quupe's collection of the Total Fees, and Quupe disclaims all liability in this regard.
In connection with your requested booking, you will be asked to provide customary billing information such as name, billing address and credit card information either to Quupe Payments or its third-party payment processor(s). You agree to pay Quupe Payments for any confirmed bookings made in connection with your Quupe Account in accordance with these Terms by one of the methods described on the Site or Application, e.g. by PayPal or credit card. You hereby authorize the collection of such amounts by charging the credit card provided as part of requesting the booking, either directly by Quupe Payments or indirectly, via a third-party online payment processor or by one of the payment methods described on the Site or Application. You also authorize Quupe Payments to charge your credit card in the event of damage caused to an Item as contemplated under "Damage to Items" below and for Security Deposits, if applicable. If you are directed to Quupe Payments' third-party payment processor(s), you may be subject to terms and conditions governing use of that third party's service and that third party's personal information collection practices. Please review such terms and conditions and privacy policy before using the services. Once your confirmed booking transaction is complete, you will receive a confirmation email summarizing your confirmed booking.
Security Deposits
Lenders may choose to include security deposits in their Listings ("Security Deposits"). Each Listing will describe whether a Security Deposit is required for the applicable Item. If a Security Deposit is included in a Listing for a confirmed booking of an Item, and a Lender makes a claim against such Security Deposit, Quupe Payments will, in its capacity as the payment collection agent of the Lender, use its commercially reasonable efforts to charge the Borrower's payment method in the amount of the Security Deposit, within a reasonable period of time after the Borrower's check-out from the Lender's Item. Quupe will also use its commercially reasonable efforts to address Lenders' requests and claims related to Security Deposits, but Quupe is not responsible for administering or accepting any claims by Lenders related to Security Deposits, and disclaims any and all liability in this regard.
Service Fees
In consideration for the use of Quupe's online marketplace and platform, Quupe charges the Service Fees. Where applicable, Taxes (such as VAT in Europe) may also be charged in respect of the Lender Fees and Borrower Fees. Quupe Payments deducts the Lender Fees from the Item Fees before remitting the balance to the Lender as described in these Terms. Borrower Fees are, as noted above, included in the Total Fees.
Balances will be remitted by Quupe Payments to Lenders via check, PayPal, direct deposit or other payment methods, as described on the Site or via the Application, in the Lender's currency of choice, depending upon the selections the Lender makes via the Site, Application and Services. Amounts may be rounded up or down as described the "Rounding Off" section below.
Please note that Quupe Payments, may impose or deduct foreign currency processing costs on or from any payments or payouts by Quupe in currencies other than U.S. dollars. More information on any such costs or deductions will be available via the Site and Application. More information on Services Fees can be found at quupe.com/help. Except as otherwise provided herein, Service Fees are non-refundable.
General Booking and Financial Terms
Cancellations and Refunds
If, as a Borrower, you cancel your requested booking before the requested booking is confirmed by a Lender, Quupe Payments will cancel any pre-authorization to your credit card and/or refund any nominal amounts charged to your credit card in connection with the requested booking within a commercially reasonable time. If, as a Borrower, you wish to cancel a confirmed booking made via the Site, Application and Services, either prior to or after arriving at the Item, the cancellation policy of the Lender contained in the applicable Listing will apply to such cancellation. Our ability to refund the Item Fees and other amounts charged to you will depend upon the terms of the applicable cancellation policy. Details regarding refunds and cancellation policies are available via the Site and Application. The Borrower Fee is non-refundable regardless of the cancellation policy selected by the Lender.
If a Lender cancels a confirmed booking made via the Site, Services, and Application, (i) Quupe Payments will refund the Total Fees for such booking to the applicable Borrower within a commercially reasonable time of the cancellation and (ii) the Borrower will receive an email or other communication from Quupe containing alternative Listings and other related information. If the Borrower requests a booking from one of the alternative Listings and the Lender associated with such alternative Listing confirms the Borrower's requested booking, then the Borrower agrees to pay Quupe the Total Fees relating to the confirmed booking for the Item in the alternative Listing, in accordance with these Terms. If a Lender cancelled a confirmed booking and you, as a Borrower, have not received an email or other communication from Quupe, please contact Quupe.
If, as a Lender, you cancel a confirmed booking, you agree that Quupe may apply penalties or consequences to you or your Listing, including (i) publishing an automated review on your Listing indicating that a reservation was cancelled, (ii) keeping the calendar for your Listing unavailable or blocked for the dates of the cancelled booking, or (iii) imposing a cancellation fee (to be withheld from your future payouts or charged to the credit card on file in your Quupe Account). You will be notified of the situations in which a cancellation fee applies before you decide to cancel.
In certain circumstances, Quupe may decide, in its sole discretion, that it is necessary or
desirable to cancel a confirmed booking made via the Site, Application and Services. This may be for
reasons set forth in
If, as a Lender, your Borrower cancels a confirmed booking or Quupe decides that it is necessary to cancel a confirmed booking, and Quupe issues a refund to the Borrower in accordance with the Borrower Refund Policy or other applicable cancellation policies, you agree that in the event you have already been paid Quupe shall be entitled to recover the amount of any such Borrower refund from you, including by subtracting such refund amount out from any future Item Fees due to you.
Recurring Payments
In some instances, Borrowers may be required to make recurring, incremental payments toward the Total Fees owed for a confirmed booking before beginning his or her stay at the applicable Item (collectively, "Recurring Payments"). More information on Recurring Payments will be made available via the Site, Application and Services, if applicable. If Recurring Payments apply to a confirmed booking, then the Borrower authorizes Quupe Payments, on behalf of the Lender, to collect the Total Fees and the Lender agrees that such Quupe entity will initiate payouts to the Lender, in the increments and at the frequency associated with the applicable Recurring Payments, each as identified on the Site, Application and Services.
Rounding Off
Quupe may, in its sole discretion, round up or round down amounts that are payable from or to Borrowers or Lenders to the nearest whole functional base unit in which the currency is denominated (e.g. to the nearest dollar, euro or other supported currency); for example, Quupe will round up an amount of $101.50 to $102.00, and $101.49 to $101.00.
Some currencies are denominated in large numbers. In those cases, Quupe may determine the functional base unit in which those currencies are denominated to be 10, 100 or 1,000 of the currency; the corresponding examples for such currencies would be for Quupe to round up an amount of 1,045 up to 1,050 and 1,044 down to 1,040, or 35,450 up to 35,500 and 35,449 down to 35,400, or 837,500 up to 838,000 and 837,499 down to 837,000.
Payment Processing Errors
We will take steps to rectify any payment processing errors that we become aware of. These steps may include crediting or debiting (as appropriate) the same payment method used for the original payout to or payment by you, so that you end up receiving or paying the correct amount.
Donations
Some Lenders may pledge to donate a portion of the funds they receive from confirmed bookings made via the Site, Application and Services to a particular cause or charity. We do not take any responsibility or liability for whether the Lender does in fact make the donation he or she pledged to make. In such cases, the Lender in question is responsible for his or her own compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to such pledges and/or fundraising.
Taxes
Tax regulations may require us to collect appropriate tax information from our Lenders, or to withhold taxes from payouts to Lenders, or both. For instance, IRS regulations stipulate that we must collect an IRS Form W-9 from our US Lenders, and an appropriate IRS Form W-8 (e.g. Form W-8BEN) from non-US Lenders with at least one Listing in the US. You as a Lender are solely responsible for keeping the information in your tax forms current, complete and accurate. If you as a Lender fail to provide us with documentation that we determine to be sufficient to alleviate our obligation (if any) to withhold taxes from payments to you (e.g. where you are a US Lender and you fail to provide us with a completed IRS Form W-9), we reserve the right in our sole discretion to freeze all payouts to you until resolution, to withhold such amounts as required by law, or to do both.
You as a Lender understand and agree that you are solely responsible for determining (i) your applicable Tax reporting requirements, and (ii) the Taxes that should be included, and for including Taxes to be collected or obligations relating to applicable Taxes in Listings. You are also solely responsible for remitting to the relevant authority any Taxes included or received by you. Quupe cannot and does not offer Tax-related advice to any Members.
Where applicable, or based upon request from a Lender, Quupe may issue a valid VAT invoice to such Lender.
You understand and acknowledge that appropriate governmental agencies, departments or authorities (the "Tax Authority") where your Item is located may require Taxes to be collected from Borrowers or Lenders on the amount paid for the right to use and/or occupancy of Items, and to be remitted to the respective Tax Authority. The laws in jurisdictions may vary, but these taxes may be required to be collected and remitted as a percentage of the rent or Item Fees set by Lenders, a set amount per day, or other variations, and are sometimes called "occupancy taxes," "hotel taxes," "lodging taxes," "transient taxes," "sales and use taxes," "value added taxes," "room taxes" or "tourist taxes" (hereafter, "Occupancy Taxes").
Occupancy Tax Collection and Remittance
In certain jurisdictions, Quupe may decide in its sole discretion to facilitate collection and remittance of Occupancy Taxes from or on behalf of Borrowers or Lenders, in accordance with your directions in this Agreement ("Collection and Remittance") if such tax jurisdiction asserts Quupe or Lenders have a tax collection and remittance obligation. In any jurisdiction in which we decide to facilitate direct Collection and Remittance, whether you are a Borrower or Lender, in lieu of the Lender collecting Occupancy taxes from Borrowers and remitting to the Tax Authority, you hereby instruct and authorize Quupe to collect Occupancy Taxes from Borrowers on the Lender's behalf at the time Item Fees are collected, and to remit such Occupancy Taxes to the Tax Authority. When Quupe facilitates Collection and Remittance of Occupancy Taxes in a jurisdiction for the first time, Quupe will provide notice to existing Lenders with Listings for Items in such jurisdictions. When a new listing is created in a jurisdiction where Quupe facilitates Collection and Remittance of Occupancy Taxes, the Lender will be notified in the listing creation flow.
The amount of Occupancy Taxes, if any, collected and remitted by Quupe will be visible to and separately stated to both Borrowers and Lenders on their respective transaction documents. Where Quupe is directly facilitating Collection and Remittance, Borrowers and Lenders agree that Lenders are not permitted to attempt collection, or collect any Occupancy Taxes relating to their Items on Quupe in that such jurisdiction. You expressly agree to release, defend, indemnify, and hold Quupe and its affiliates and subsidiaries, and their officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, debts, obligations, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and/or accounting fees, arising out of or in any way related to Occupancy Taxes, including, without limitation, the applicability of, calculation, collection or remittance of Occupancy Taxes in any amount or at all as to your transactions or Items. For any jurisdiction in which we facilitate Collection and Remittance, Lenders and Borrowers expressly grant us permission, without further notice, to store, transfer and disclose data and other information relating to them or to their Transactions, Bookings, Items and Occupancy Taxes, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information such as Lender or Borrower's name, listing addresses, transaction dates and amounts, tax identification number(s), the amount of taxes collected from Borrowers or allegedly due, contact information and similar information, to the relevant Tax Authority.
Opt-in to Lender Remittance of Taxes
In other jurisdictions, Quupe may decide in its sole discretion to facilitate Occupancy Tax collection on behalf of Lenders and Borrowers in accordance with a Lender's direction to opt in to a specific Occupancy Tax line item in the booking process, in which the Lender directs that Occupancy Taxes from Borrowers be sent directly to the Lender so that the Lender will remit such taxes directly to Tax Authority -(-"Opt-in for Lender Remittance"). In any jurisdiction in which we decide to facilitate Collection by Opt-in for Lender Remittance, whether you are a Borrower or Lender, you hereby instruct and authorize Quupe to send Occupancy Taxes received from Borrowers at the time Item Fees are collected to the Lender who is obligated to send such taxes to the Tax Authority directly. If Quupe offers and a Lender selects Opt-in for Lender Remittance in any jurisdiction, Lenders and Borrowers remain solely responsible and liable for the payment and remittance of any and all taxes that may apply to Items; you agree and understand that Quupe is not responsible for, and will not send any such Occupancy Taxes to the Tax Authority under Opt-in to Lender Remittance of Taxes. You hereby agree that through third party payment processors, Quupe is merely processing Your election and direction to have Occupancy Taxes from Borrowers sent directly to the Lender for remittance by the Lender to the Tax Authority, and that You will remit all amounts collected from Borrowers as Occupancy Taxes to such Tax Authority. You expressly agree to release, defend, indemnify, and hold Quupe and its affiliates and subsidiaries, and their officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, debts, obligations, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and/or accounting fees, arising out of or in any way related to Occupancy Taxes, including, without limitation, the applicability of, calculation of, collection of Occupancy Taxes in any amount or at all as to your transactions or Items. For any jurisdiction in which we facilitate Opt-in for Lender Remittance, Lenders and Borrowers expressly grant us permission, without further notice, to store, transfer and disclose data and other information relating to them or to their Transactions, Bookings, Items and Occupancy Taxes, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information such as Lender or Borrower's name, listing addresses, transaction dates and amounts, tax identification number(s), the amount of taxes received by Lenders from Borrowers, or allegedly due, contact information and similar information, to the relevant Tax Authority.
Miscellaneous Occupancy Tax Provisions
Whether you are a Borrower or Lender, you agree that any claim or cause of action relating to Quupe's facilitation of Opt-in Remittance or Collection and Remittance of Taxes shall not extend to any supplier or vendor that may be used by Quupe in connection with facilitation of Opt-in Remittance or Collection and Remittance of Occupancy Taxes, if any. Borrowers and Lenders agree that we may seek additional amounts from You in the event that the Taxes collected and/or remitted are insufficient to fully discharge your obligations to the Tax Authority, and agree that your sole remedy for Occupancy Taxes collected is a refund of Occupancy Taxes collected by Quupe from the applicable Tax Authority in accordance with applicable procedures set by that Tax Authority.
In any jurisdiction in which we have not provided notice of, or are not facilitating (or are no longer facilitating) the collection or remittance of Occupancy Taxes by Collection and Remittance, Opt-in for Lender Remittance or any other means or method, in your jurisdiction, Lenders and Borrowers remain solely responsible and liable for the collection and/or remittance of any and all Occupancy Taxes that may apply to Items.
Lenders and Borrowers acknowledge and agree that in some jurisdictions, Quupe may decide not to facilitate collection or remittance of Occupancy Taxes or may not be able to facilitate the collection and/or remittance of Occupancy Taxes, and nothing contained in this Agreement is a representation or guarantee that Quupe will facilitate collection and/or remittance of Occupancy Tax anywhere at all, including in any specific jurisdiction, or that Quupe will continue to facilitate any collection or remittance of Occupancy Tax in any specific jurisdiction in which it may have been offered. Quupe reserves the right, in its sole determination, to cease any facilitation of any collection and remittance of Occupancy Tax (regardless of method used or to be used in the future) for any reason or no reason at all, provided that it will give Lenders reasonable notice in any jurisdiction in which Quupe determines to cease any such facilitation.
Damage to Items
As a Borrower, you are responsible for returning the Item in the condition it was in when you received it. You acknowledge and agree that, as a Borrower, you are responsible for your own acts and omissions and are also responsible for the acts and omissions of any individuals whom you invite to use, or otherwise provide access to, the Item. In the event that a Lender claims otherwise and provides evidence of damage, including but not limited to photographs, you agree to pay the cost of replacing the damaged items with equivalent items. After being notified of the claim and given forty eight (48) hours to respond, the payment will be charged to and taken from the credit card on file in your Quupe Account. Quupe also reserves the right to charge the credit card on file in your Quupe Account, or otherwise collect payment from you and pursue any avenues available to Quupe in this regard, including using Security Deposits, in situations in which you have been determined, in Quupe's sole discretion, to have damaged any Item, including, but not limited to, in relation to any payment requests made by Lenders under the Quupe Lender Guarantee, and in relation to any payments made by Quupe to Lenders. If we are unable to charge the credit card on file or otherwise collect payment from you, you agree to remit payment for any damage to the Item to the applicable Lender or to Quupe (if applicable).
Both Borrowers and Lenders agree to cooperate with and assist Quupe in good faith, and to provide Quupe with such information and take such actions as may be reasonably requested by Quupe, in connection with any complaints or claims made by Members relating to Items or any personal or other property located at an Item (including, without limitation, payment requests made under the Quupe Lender Guarantee) or with respect to any investigation undertaken by Quupe or a representative of Quupe regarding use or abuse of the Site, Application or the Services. If you are a Borrower, upon Quupe's reasonable request, and to the extent you are reasonably able to do so, you agree to participate in mediation or similar resolution process with a Lender, at no cost to you, which process will be conducted by Quupe or a third party selected by Quupe or its insurer, with respect to losses for which the Lender is requesting payment from Quupe under the Quupe Lender Guarantee.
If you are a Borrower, you understand and agree that Quupe may make a claim under your homeowner's, renter's or other insurance policy related to any damage or loss that you may have caused or been responsible for or to an Item or any personal or other property located at an Item (including without limitation amounts paid by Quupe under the Quupe Lender Guarantee). You agree to cooperate with and assist Quupe in good faith, and to provide Quupe with such information as may be reasonably requested by Quupe, in order to make a claim under your homeowner's, renter's or other insurance policy, including, but not limited to, executing documents and taking such further acts as Quupe may reasonably request to assist Quupe in accomplishing the foregoing.
Overstaying without the Lender's Consent
Borrowers agree that a confirmed reservation is merely a license granted by the Lender to the Borrower to receive and use the Listing for the limited duration of the confirmed reservation and in accordance with the Borrower's agreement with the Lender. Borrowers further agree to return the Item no later than the return time that the Lender specifies in the Listing or such other time as mutually agreed upon between the Lender and Borrower. If a Borrower keeps the Item past the agreed upon return time without the Lender's consent, they no longer have a license to keep the Listing and the Lender is entitled to pursue action to retrieve the Item. In addition, Borrowers agree that the Lender can charge the Borrower, for each 24 hour period that the Borrower keeps the Item over the agreed period without the Lender's consent, an additional daily fee of two times the average daily Item Fee originally paid by the Borrower to cover the inconvenience suffered by the Lender, plus all applicable Service Fees, Taxes, and any legal expenses incurred by the Lender to make the Borrower leave (collectively, "Additional Sums"). Borrowers agree that Quupe Payments, in its role as limited collection agent for the Lender, shall charge the Borrower's credit card or other payment methods it has on file to collect these Additional Sums. In addition, Quupe Payments may recover any costs and expenses it incurs in collecting the Additional Sums by charging the Borrower's credit card or other payment method on file.
Foreign Currency
Quupe's online platform facilitates bookings between Borrowers and Lenders who may prefer to pay and to receive payments in different currencies, which may require foreign currency conversions to accommodate these differing currency preferences. Although the Quupe platform allows users to view the price of Listings in a number of currencies, the currencies available for users to make and receive payments may be limited, and may not include the default currency in any given geographic location.
Each foreign currency conversion is processed at a foreign currency conversion rate. This rate generally refers to the amount of one currency that must be paid to buy a certain amount of another currency at a given time. For example, if it costs US$125.00 to buy €100.00, the currency conversion rate of US dollars to Euros would be 1.25, and the currency conversion rate from Euros to US dollars would be 0.8. Currency conversion rates will vary from time to time.
Key definitions
"Display Currency" means the currency in which users view Listing prices on the Quupe platform. Borrowers may choose and change the Display Currency in order to view the pricing for a Listing in a number of different supported currencies.
"Booking Currency" means the currency in which a Borrower has to pay for his or her booking. At the time the Borrower submits a booking request, the Quupe platform will select the Booking Currency, based on the Borrower's country of origin and the payment methods available for that country. Quupe supports only a certain number of currencies as Booking Currencies. The Booking Currency for a booking may be different from the relevant Listing Currency.
"Listing Currency" means the currency in which a Listing's price is set. The Listing Currency is set by the Lender.
"Payout Currency" means the currency in which a Lender's payout will be paid to the Lender. The Payout Currency is set by the Lender.
"Base Exchange Rate" means a system-wide rate used by Quupe for foreign currency conversion that is in effect at the time the foreign currency conversion is processed, and does not include any fee or mark-up by Quupe. Quupe establishes the Base Exchange Rate using data from one or more third parties such as OANDA (http://www.oanda.com).
"Adjusted Exchange Rate" means a rate for foreign currency conversion that is calculated by adding a mark-up to the Base Exchange Rate. This mark-up represents a charge imposed by Quupe for its holding costs and foreign currency risks.
Foreign currency conversions on the Quupe platform
Quupe Payments will process a foreign currency conversion in the following situations:
● The Display Currency is different from the Listing Currency when a user views a Listing: Quupe will calculate the estimated Total Fees in the Display Currency, by applying either the Base Exchange Rate or the Adjusted Exchange Rate at the time of the view to the estimated Total Fees in the Listing Currency. The Adjusted Exchange Rate will be applied if the Display Currency is a supported Booking Currency, and it is different from the Listing Currency. Otherwise, the Base Exchange Rate will be applied.
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● The Booking Currency is different from the Listing Currency when a Borrower submits a booking request for a Listing: Quupe will calculate the Total Fees in the Booking Currency, by applying either the Base Exchange Rate or the Adjusted Exchange Rate at the time of the booking request to the Total Fees in the Listing Currency. The Borrower will be able to view the actual exchange rate applied. The Borrower Fee, which is a percentage of the applicable Item Fees, will be calculated based on the Item Fees in the Booking Currency (i.e. after conversion from the Listing Currency). The Adjusted Exchange Rate will be applied if the Display Currency is the same as the Booking Currency, and it is different from the Listing Currency for the Listing. Otherwise, the Base Exchange Rate will be applied.
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● The Payout Currency is different from the Listing Currency when Quupe initiates a payout: generally, Quupe will calculate the payout to the Lender, by applying the Base Exchange Rate on the date that Quupe initiates the payout to the Item Fees (less Quupe's Lender Fees and any Taxes in respect of the Lender Fees, such as VAT in Europe) in the Listing Currency. The Lender will be able to view the actual exchange rate applied in his or her transaction history in the Site or Application. In some cases where the payout method selected by the Lender involves certain third-party payment processors (such as Western Union), (i) Quupe will send the payout amount to the processor in a major currency (e.g. US dollars), by applying the relevant Base Exchange Rate for the Listing Currency to that major currency, (ii) the Lender will be able to view the payout amount sent by Quupe in that major currency in his or her transaction history in the Site or Application, and (iii) the processor will calculate the actual payout to the Lender by applying its own foreign currency conversion rate for that major currency to the Payout Currency.
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● When a confirmed booking is modified or cancelled, and there had been a foreign currency conversion when the booking was submitted, the foreign currency conversion for any additional payments required of the Borrower or any refund to the Borrower will be processed at the same rate as applied to the earlier payment by the Borrower.
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When you as a Borrower submit a booking request for a Listing, you will be able to view the actual exchange rate used to calculate the Total Fees in the Booking Currency. Where the Adjusted Exchange Rate is applied, you will be able to view the mark-up included in the rate. The actual exchange rate (and any mark-up included in the rate) will also be stated in the billing receipt for your booking.
Quupe updates the Base Exchange Rate on a regular basis, but not on a real-time basis. In particular, Quupe does not always change the Base Exchange Rate immediately when its costs of foreign exchange change. Accordingly, the Base Exchange Rate may not be identical to the applicable market rate in effect at the specific time a foreign currency conversion is processed.
Please note that your payment company (for example, your credit or bank card issuer) will use a currency conversion rate for and may impose a currency conversion fee on your payment or payout, if your card or bank account is denominated in a currency that is different from the Booking Currency or the Payout Currency respectively. Similarly, third-party payment processors may also use a currency conversion rate for or impose a currency conversion fee on your payment or payout. All of these currency conversion rates and fees are not controlled by or known to Quupe.
User Conduct
You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content. In connection with your use of the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content, you may not and you agree that you will not:
● violate any local, state, provincial, national, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court, including, without limitation, zoning restrictions and Tax regulations;
● use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots, backdoors or other means or processes to access, "scrape," "crawl" or "spider" any web pages or other services contained in the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
● access or use our Site, Application, Services or the Quupe API to use, expose, or allow to be used or exposed, any Quupe Content: (i) that is not publicly displayed by Quupe in its search results pages or listing pages before a booking is confirmed; (ii) in any way that is inconsistent with the Quupe Privacy Policy or Terms of Service; or (iii) in any way that otherwise violates the privacy rights or any other rights of Quupe's users or any other third party;
● use the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content for any commercial or other purposes that are not expressly permitted by these Terms;
● copy, store or otherwise access or use any information contained on the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content for purposes not expressly permitted by these Terms;
● infringe the rights of any person or entity, including without limitation, their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights;
● interfere with or damage our Site, Application or Services, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service attacks, backdoors, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology;
● use our Site, Application or Services to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others without their permission, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers;
● use our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email ("spam") or advertisements unrelated to lodging in a private residence;
● "stalk" or harass any other user of our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or collect or store any personally identifiable information about any other user other than for purposes of transacting as an Quupe Borrower or Lender;
● offer, as a Lender, any Item that you do not yourself own or have permission to rent as a residential or other property (without limiting the foregoing, you will not list Items as a Lender if you are serving in the capacity of a rental agent or listing agent for a third party);
● offer, as a Lender, any Item that may not be rented or subleased pursuant to the terms and conditions of an agreement with a third party, including, but not limited to, a property rental agreement;
● register for more than one Quupe Account or register for an Quupe Account on behalf of an individual other than yourself;
● unless Quupe explicitly permits otherwise, request or book the use of any Item if you will not actually be using the Item yourself;
● contact a Lender for any purpose other than asking a question related to a booking, such Lender's Items or Listings;
● contact a Borrower for any purpose other than asking a question related to a booking or such Borrower's use of the Site, Application and Services;
● recruit or otherwise solicit any Lender or other Member to join third-party services or websites that are competitive to Quupe, without Quupe's prior written approval;
● impersonate any person or entity, or falsify or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity;
● use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
● use the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content to find a Lender or Borrower and then complete a booking of an Item independent of the Site, Application or Services, in order to circumvent the obligation to pay any Service Fees related to Quupe's provision of the Services or for any other reasons;
● as a Lender, submit any Listing with false or misleading price information, or submit any Listing with a price that you do not intend to honor;
● post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
● systematically retrieve data or other content from our Site, Application or Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of bots, crawlers, or spiders, or otherwise;
● use, display, mirror or frame the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or any individual element within the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, Quupe's name, any Quupe trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page in the Site, Application or Services, without Quupe's express written consent;
● access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Site, Application or Services, Quupe's computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Quupe's providers;
● attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Quupe system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;
● avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble, or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Quupe or any of Quupe's providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content;
● forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
● attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content; or
● advocate, encourage, or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.
● accept or make a payment for Item Fees outside Quupe Payments. If you do so, you acknowledge and agree that you: (i) would be in breach of these Terms; (ii) accept all risks and responsibility for such payment, and (iii) hold Quupe harmless from any liability for such payment.
Quupe has the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the above to the fullest extent of the law.
Quupe may access, preserve and disclose any of your information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that it is reasonably necessary to (i) respond to claims asserted against Quupe or to comply with legal process (for example, subpoenas or warrants), (ii) enforce or administer our agreements with users, such as these Terms and the Quupe Lender Guarantee, (iii) for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, customer support, product development and de-bugging purposes, or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of Quupe, its users, or members of the public. You acknowledge that Quupe has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content or to review or edit any Member Content, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating and improving the Site, Application and Services (including without limitation for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and customer support purposes), to ensure your compliance with these Terms, to comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body, to respond to content that it determines is otherwise objectionable or as set forth in these Terms. Quupe reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content that Quupe, at its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.
Privacy
You agree that Quupe's Privacy Policy (as may be updated from time to time) governs Quupe's collection and use of your personal information.
Ownership
The Site, Application, Services, and Collective Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You acknowledge and agree that the Site, Application, Services and Collective Content, including all associated intellectual property rights, are the exclusive property of Quupe and its licensors. You will not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content.
Additional Terms
Our Services have different products and offerings, so sometimes additional terms or product requirements may apply to your use of those products. For example, additional terms apply if you refer new users to Quupe ("Referral Program") or participate in our Home Safety program. If additional terms are available for the relevant product or Services you use, those additional terms become part of these Terms.
Application License
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Quupe grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download and install a copy of the Application on each mobile device or computer that you own or control and run such copy of the Application solely for your own personal use. Furthermore, with respect to any App Store Sourced Application (defined below), you will only use the App Store Sourced Application (i) on an Apple-branded product that runs the iOS (Apple's proprietary operating system) and (ii) as permitted by the "Usage Rules" set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service. Quupe reserves all rights in the Application not expressly granted to you by these Terms.
Quupe Content and Member Content License
Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of these Terms, Quupe grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, to (i) access and view any Quupe Content solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes and (ii) access and view any Member Content to which you are permitted access, solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. You have no right to sublicense the license rights granted in this section.
You will not use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content, except as expressly permitted in these Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise under any intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Quupe or its licensors, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted in these Terms.
Member Content
We may, in our sole discretion, permit you to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content on or through the Site, Application and Services, you hereby grant to Quupe a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, view, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content on, through, by means of or to promote or market the Site, Application and Services. Quupe does not claim any ownership rights in any such Member Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit any such Member Content.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to Quupe the rights in such Member Content, as contemplated under these Terms; and (ii) neither the Member Content nor your posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmittal of the Member Content or Quupe's use of the Member Content (or any portion thereof) on, through or by means of the Site, Application and the Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other proprietary or intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.
Links
The Site, Application and Services may contain links to third-party websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that Quupe is not responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or (ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by Quupe of such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or resources. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources or the Content, products or services on or available from such websites or resources.
Some portions of the Quupe platform implement Google Maps/Earth mapping services, including Google Maps API(s). Your use of Google Maps/Earth is subject to Google's terms of use.
Proprietary Rights Notices
All trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names and any other proprietary designations of Quupe used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quupe. Any other trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names and any other proprietary designations are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective parties.
Feedback
We welcome and encourage you to provide feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Site, Application and Services ("Feedback"). You may submit Feedback by emailing us, through the "Contact" section of the Site and Application, or by other means of communication. You acknowledge and agree that all Feedback you give us will be the sole and exclusive property of Quupe and you hereby irrevocably assign to Quupe and agree to irrevocably assign to Quupe all of your right, title, and interest in and to all Feedback, including without limitation all worldwide patent, copyright, trade secret, moral and other proprietary or intellectual property rights therein, and waive any moral rights you may have in such Feedback. At Quupe's request and expense, you will execute documents and take such further acts as Quupe may reasonably request to assist Quupe to acquire, perfect, and maintain its intellectual property rights and other legal protections for the Feedback.
Copyright Policy
Quupe respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. It is Quupe's policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances the Quupe Accounts of Members or other account holders who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders. Please see Quupe's Copyright Policy for further information.
Suspension, Termination and Quupe Account Cancellation
We may, in our discretion and without liability to you, with or without cause, with or without prior notice and at any time, decide to limit, suspend, deactivate or cancel your Quupe Account. If we exercise our discretion under these Terms to do so, any or all of the following can occur with or without prior notice or explanation to you: (a) your Quupe Account will be deactivated or suspended, your password will be disabled, and you will not be able to access the Site, Application, Services, your Quupe Account, your Member Content, or receive assistance from Quupe Customer Service, (b) any pending or accepted future bookings as either Lender or Borrower will be immediately terminated, (c) we may communicate to your Borrowers or Lenders that a potential or confirmed booking has been cancelled, (d) we may refund your Borrowers in full for any and all confirmed reservations, irrespective of preexisting cancellation policies, (e) we may contact your Borrowers to inform them about potential alternate Items with other Lenders that may be available on the Site, Application and Services, and (f) you will not be entitled to any compensation for reservations or bookings (even if confirmed) that were cancelled as a result of a suspension, deactivation or termination of your Quupe Account. You may cancel your Quupe Account at any time via the "Cancel Account" feature of the Services or by sending us an email. Please note that if your Quupe Account is cancelled, we do not have an obligation to delete or return to you any Content you have posted to the Site, Application and Services, including, but not limited to, any reviews or Feedback.
Disclaimers
IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR PARTICIPATE IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM, YOU DO SO AT YOUR SOLE RISK. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT QUUPE DOES NOT HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CONDUCT BACKGROUND OR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER CHECKS ON ANY MEMBER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BORROWERS AND LENDERS, BUT MAY CONDUCT SUCH BACKGROUND OR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER CHECKS IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT AND REFERRAL PROGRAM ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, QUUPE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. QUUPE MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE LISTINGS OR ANY ITEMS, OR THE REFERRAL PROGRAM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS. QUUPE MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE QUALITY OF ANY LISTINGS, ITEMS, LENDERS, BORROWERS, YOUR ACCRUAL OF QUUPE TRAVEL CREDITS, THE SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, TRUTHFULNESS, COMPLETENESS OR RELIABILITY OF ANY COLLECTIVE CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR REFERRAL PROGRAM.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED FROM QUUPE OR THROUGH THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT, WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN.
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF YOUR COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES AND WITH OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LENDERS OR BORROWERS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT QUUPE DOES NOT MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO VERIFY THE STATEMENTS OF USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR TO REVIEW OR VISIT ANY ITEMS. QUUPE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONDUCT OF USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES OR THEIR COMPATIBILITY WITH ANY CURRENT OR FUTURE USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES. YOU AGREE TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS IN ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES AND WITH OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION OR SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BORROWERS AND LENDERS, PARTICULARLY IF YOU DECIDE TO MEET OFFLINE OR IN PERSON REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH MEETINGS ARE ORGANIZED BY QUUPE. NOTWITHSTANDING QUUPE’S APPOINTMENT AS THE LIMITED PAYMENT COLLECTION AGENT OF THE LENDERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACCEPTING PAYMENTS FROM BORROWERS ON BEHALF OF THE LENDERS, QUUPE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY BORROWER OR OTHER THIRD PARTY.
Limitation of Liability
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES AND COLLECTIVE CONTENT, YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY ITEMS VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM, AND ANY CONTACT YOU HAVE WITH OTHER USERS OF QUUPE WHETHER IN PERSON OR ONLINE REMAINS WITH YOU. NEITHER QUUPE NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR THE REFERRAL PROGRAM WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL OR BODILY INJURY OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS, FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT, FROM ANY COMMUNICATIONS, INTERACTIONS OR MEETINGS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, OR SERVICES OR OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM OR FROM YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY Item VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT QUUPE HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
EXCEPT FOR OUR OBLIGATIONS TO PAY AMOUNTS TO APPLICABLE LENDERS PURSUANT TO THESE TERMS OR AN APPROVED PAYMENT REQUEST UNDER THE QUUPE LENDER GUARANTEE, IN NO EVENT WILL QUUPE’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS AND YOUR USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FROM YOUR LISTING OR BOOKING OF ANY ITEM VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES, OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT OR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE REFERRAL PROGRAM AND IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ITEM OR INTERACTIONS WITH ANY OTHER MEMBERS, EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID OR OWE FOR BOOKINGS VIA THE SITE, APPLICATION AND SERVICES AS A BORROWER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR IF YOU ARE A LENDER, THE AMOUNTS PAID BY QUUPE TO YOU IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100), IF NO SUCH PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE, AS APPLICABLE. THE LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN QUUPE AND YOU. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Indemnification
You agree to release, defend, indemnify, and hold Quupe and its affiliates and subsidiaries, and their officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content or your violation of these Terms; (b) your Member Content; (c) your (i) interaction with any Member, (ii) booking of an Item, or (iii) creation of a Listing; (d) the use, condition or rental of an Item by you, including but not limited to any injuries, losses, or damages (compensatory, direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of a rental, booking or use of a Item; and (e) your participation in the Referral Program or your accrual of any Quupe Travel Credits.
Export Control and Restricted Countries
You may not use, export, re-export, import, or transfer the Application except as authorized by United States law, Canadian law, the laws of the jurisdiction in which you obtained the Application, and any other applicable laws. In particular, but without limitation, the Application may not be exported or re-exported: (a) into any United States embargoed countries; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce's Denied Persons List or Entity List. By using the Site, Application and Services, you represent and warrant that (i) neither you nor your listed Item is located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You also will not use the Site, Application and Services for any purpose prohibited by U.S. law, including the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Quupe does not permit Listings associated with certain countries due to U.S. embargo restrictions.
Accessing and Downloading the Application from iTunes
The following applies to any Application accessed through or downloaded from the Apple App Store ("App Store Sourced Application"):
● You acknowledge and agree that (i) these Terms are concluded between you and Quupe only, and not Apple, and (ii) Quupe, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App Store Sourced Application and content thereof. Your use of the App Store Sourced Application must comply with the App Store Terms of Services.
● You acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App Store Sourced Application.
● In the event of any failure of the App Store Sourced Application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the App Store Sourced Application to you and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App Store Sourced Application. As between Quupe and Apple, any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be the sole responsibility of Quupe.
● You and Quupe acknowledge that, as between Quupe and Apple, Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims you have or any claims of any third party relating to the App Store Sourced Application or your possession and use of the App Store Sourced Application, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App Store Sourced Application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
● You and Quupe acknowledge that, in the event of any third-party claim that the App Store Sourced Application or your possession and use of that App Store Sourced Application infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, as between Quupe and Apple, Quupe, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim to the extent required by these Terms.
● You and Quupe acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms as related to your license of the App Store Sourced Application, and that, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms as related to your license of the App Store Sourced Application against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
● Without limiting any other terms of these Terms, you must comply with all applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App Store Sourced Application.
Reporting Misconduct
If you borrow from or lend to anyone who you feel is acting or has acted inappropriately, including but not limited to anyone who (i) engages in offensive, violent or sexually inappropriate behavior, (ii) you suspect of stealing from you, or (iii) engages in any other disturbing conduct, you should immediately report such person to the appropriate authorities and then to Quupe by contacting us with your police station and report number; provided that your report will not obligate us to take any action beyond that required by law (if any) or cause us to incur any liability to you.
Entire Agreement
These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Quupe and you regarding the Site, Application, Services, Collective Content, and any bookings or Listings of Items made via the Site, Application and Services, and these Terms supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Quupe and you regarding bookings or listings of Items, the Site, Application, Services, and Collective Content.
Assignment
You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without Quupe's prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null and of no effect. Quupe may assign or transfer these Terms, at its sole discretion, without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
Notices
Any notices or other communications permitted or required hereunder, including those regarding modifications to these Terms, will be in writing and given by Quupe (i) via email (in each case to the address that you provide) or (ii) by posting to the Site or via the Application. For notices made by e-mail, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.
Controlling Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and your use of the Services will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California and the United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions. You and we agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of a state court located in San Francisco County, San Francisco, California or a United States District Court, Northern District of California located in San Francisco, California for any actions for which the parties retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights, as set forth in the Dispute Resolution provision below.
Dispute Resolution
You and Quupe agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, or to the use of the Services or use of the Site or Application (collectively, "Disputes") will be settled by binding arbitration, except that each party retains the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights. You acknowledge and agree that you and Quupe are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action or representative proceeding. Further, unless both you and Quupe otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding. If this specific paragraph is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this "Dispute Resolution" section will be deemed void. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, this "Dispute Resolution" section will survive any termination of these Terms.
Arbitration Rules and Governing Law. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (the "AAA Rules") then in effect, except as modified by this "Dispute Resolution" section. (The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org/arb_med or by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879.) The Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this section.
Arbitration Process. A party who desires to initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a written Demand for Arbitration as specified in the AAA Rules. (The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration and a separate form for California residents) The arbitrator will be either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of California and will be selected by the parties from the AAA's roster of consumer dispute arbitrators. If the parties are unable to agree upon an arbitrator within seven (7) days of delivery of the Demand for Arbitration, then the AAA will appoint the arbitrator in accordance with the AAA Rules.
Arbitration Location and Procedure. Unless you and Quupe otherwise agree, the arbitration will be conducted in the county where you reside. If your claim does not exceed $10,000, then the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of documents you and Quupe submit to the arbitrator, unless you request a hearing or the arbitrator determines that a hearing is necessary. If your claim exceeds $10,000, your right to a hearing will be determined by the AAA Rules. Subject to the AAA Rules, the arbitrator will have the discretion to direct a reasonable exchange of information by the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the arbitration.
Arbitrator's Decision. The arbitrator will render an award within the time frame specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator's decision will include the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator based the award. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrator's award damages must be consistent with the terms of the "Limitation of Liability" section above as to the types and the amounts of damages for which a party may be held liable. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the claimant and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the claimant's individual claim. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys' fees and expenses, to the extent provided under applicable law. Quupe will not seek, and hereby waives all rights it may have under applicable law to recover, attorneys' fees and expenses if it prevails in arbitration.
Fees. Your responsibility to pay any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be solely as set forth in the AAA Rules. However, if your claim for damages does not exceed $75,000, Quupe will pay all such fees unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought in your Demand for Arbitration was frivolous or was brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)).
Changes. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Modification" section above, if Quupe changes this "Dispute Resolution" section after the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms), you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email) within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the "Last Updated Date" above or in the date of Quupe's email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Quupe in accordance with the provisions of this "Dispute Resolution" section as of the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms).
General
The failure of Quupe to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of future enforcement of that right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Quupe. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise. If for any reason an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Third party beneficiary
These Terms do not and are not intended to confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree that the payment card networks are third party beneficiaries of these Terms for purposes of enforcing provisions related to payments, but that their consent or agreement is not necessary for any changes or modifications to these Terms.
Contacting Quupe
If you have any questions about these Terms or any App Store Sourced Application, please contact Quupe.