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Terms & Conditions/Safety Notice

The use of the thegreatindoors.com website (this "Website") and the sale of products and services offered on this Website are governed by the terms and conditions set forth below and all other disclaimers, guidelines, policies and terms and conditions of sale appearing on this Website under Customer Service (link) (collectively, the "Terms and Conditions"). These Terms explain a contractual agreement between you ("user," "you," "your") and The Great Indoors regarding your use of this Web Site. Your use of this Website in any manner, whether browsing, activating an account with us or making a purchase, constitutes your acknowledgement that you have read the Terms and Conditions and that you agree to follow and be bound by them. The Great Indoors reserves the right to modify or change the Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice to you. Therefore, we recommend that you please read them carefully each time you use this Website.


Please note that the guidelines, policies and other terms and conditions of use and sale at the retail stores of The Great Indoors ("TGI") and other TGI-affiliated or co-branded websites may vary.


 


Usage Restrictions
You may access and view the Content (as defined below) appearing on this Website for personal, non-commercial use only. You may download and/or copy certain portions of the Content for personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you (a) retain all copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained on the Content, (b) do not modify or alter the Content in any way and (c) do not make the Content available to any third party. TGI reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights in any Content that you download from this Website.

 

You agree to use this Website only for lawful purposes. The following activities are strictly prohibited: You are specifically prohibited from any use of this Web Site, and you agree not to use or permit others to use this Web Site, for any of the following:

(a) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on, or waste of valuable time for, the Web Site's infrastructure or resources, including, but not limited to, sending or promoting the distribution of "spam," "junk mail," chain letters, or other such unsolicited or unlawful mass e-mailing techniques;

(b) disclose to, or share with, any unauthorized third parties the ID's, assigned confirmation numbers and/or passwords, or use the ID's, assigned confirmation numbers and/or passwords for any unauthorized purpose, or otherwise allow or facilitate others to gain access to TGI's information technology systems, environments, networks, files, data or accounts through the use of the ID's, assigned confirmation numbers and/or passwords;

(c) access or attempt to access TGI's information technology systems, environments, networks, files, data or accounts to which express authorization has not been obtained (including access to data not intended for You), or log into a server or account that you are not authorized to access;

(d) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, modify, remove or reverse engineer any of the software or HTML code comprising or in any way making up a part of this Web Site;

(e) interfere with, disrupt, disable or damage (or attempt to interfere with, disrupt, disable or damage), in an unauthorized manner, the use or operation of this Web Site or TGI's, its affiliated or related entities' or the Providers' systems, equipment or applications, or service to any user, host, or network, including by use of any programs, scripts, commands, viruses, worms, web bugs, harmful code, Trojan horses, other contaminants, or otherwise. This includes "denial of service" attacks, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service or to burden excessively a service's resources, attempts to "crash" a host, and/or modifying or rerouting any Content or services provided at this Web Site;

(f) attempt to circumvent or subvert system or network security (i.e., authentication) mechanisms, or probe the security of any system, network, or account, associated or used in conjunction with this Web Site;

(g) misrepresenting the identity of a user, including but not limited to providing an email or property address other than your own;

(h) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Information, Content, or proprietary rights that you do not have a right to transmit under the Terms, any law or other contractual or fiduciary relationships;

(i) use any robot, spider, intelligent agent, meta-searching, other automatic device, or manual process to search, monitor or copy TGI's Web Site pages or the Content in violation of the Terms or without TGI's prior written permission, provided that generally available third party Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator® and Microsoft Internet Explorer® may be used without such permission; and or


(j) conduct any fraudulent or otherwise illegal activities.


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Privacy Policy
TGI’s use of personal information that you may submit through this Website is governed by the TGI Customer Information Privacy Policy. Please see Privacy Policy.


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Children
From time to time some of the Content appearing on this Website or other TGI-affiliated websites may be directed at children. TGI urges all parents and guardians to monitor and supervise their children's use of this Website and the Internet in general. TGI safeguards and use of personal information that may be submitted by children through this Website is governed by the TGI Children's Online Privacy Policy. Please see the Children's Privacy Policy.

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Proprietary Rights
The TGI logos and trademarks, as well as other marks, trade names, trademarks and logos on this Website, are the properties of their respective owners. You may not use, reproduce, copy or manipulate such logos in any manner without the prior written consent of the owner.

The entire contents of this Website, including text, images, music, sound, photographs, video, illustrations, icons, graphics, headers, data, information and software (collectively, "Content") are subject to copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights or licenses held by TGI or a TGI affiliate or by third parties who have licensed their rights to TGI. All Content is copyrighted as a collective work under the U.S. and international copyright laws and TGI owns, to the fullest extent allowed by such law, the copyright in the arrangement, coordination, enhancement and selection of such Content or this Website. Except as provided above, you may not make copy, modify or create derivative works of the Content. In addition, you may not distribute, publish, transmit, reuse, repost, "and frame" the Content in any manner or sell or attempt to sell the Content.

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Submissions to thegreatindoors.com and Affiliated Servers

Any remarks, suggestions, ideas, messages and data submitted by you to TGI through this Website or other TGI-affiliated websites (collectively, the "Messages") shall be and remain the exclusive property of TGI and/or its affiliates. Therefore, TGI discourages you from submitting Messages that you do not wish to assign to TGI, including confidential information or any original creative materials such as product ideas or original works. You represent and warrant to TGI, and accept responsibility for, the accuracy, appropriateness and legality of the Messages. Your submission of such Messages shall constitute an assignment to TGI of all worldwide right, title and interest in and to all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Messages. TGI is entitled to use, copy modify, disclose, distribute and make derivative use of any of the Messages for any purpose without restriction or compensation in any way to you.

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Modification of Content
TGI attempts to ensure that the Content on this Website is complete and current. As indicated in the DISCLAIMERS set forth below, TGI does not guarantee that the information contained on this Website will not contain errors, inaccuracies or omissions. Such errors, inaccuracies or omissions may relate to price or to product description or availability. TGI reserves the right to correct any error, inaccuracy or omission or to change or update the Content without prior notice to you. Further, TGI reserves the right to refuse or cancel any orders containing any error, inaccuracy or omission, whether or not the order has been submitted, confirmed and/or your credit card has been charged. If your credit card has been charged for the purchase and your order is canceled, TGI shall promptly issue a credit to your credit card. If you are otherwise unsatisfied with your purchase, you may return it to TGI. Please see our Return/Cancellation Policy.

 

 

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Placing an Order
At this time, TGI ships merchandise only to locations within the continental United States and in some cases will only ship to a location where there is a TGI store in such state. TGI does not ship merchandise to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands or any international locations.


The risk of loss and title for all merchandise ordered on this Website pass to you when the merchandise is delivered to the shipping carrier. To see TGI shipping and delivery policies in more detail, please see Shipping & Delivery.

You may purchase merchandise from this Website by using any one of the payment options listed in Payment Options. TGI reserves the right to change its payment options at any time without prior notice to you.

The amount of tax charged to an order will be calculated based on the shipment destination state and local sales-tax laws.

TGI will charge the payment for your order, to the credit card that you submit as part of your registration. You authorize TGI to make and collect such payment and charge, and agree to make payment to TGI if we cannot collect the charge for any reason. You shall be responsible and liable for any fees, including attorneys’ fees and collection costs, that TGI may incur in its efforts to collect any unpaid balances from you.

Once your order is submitted to us, we cannot change or cancel an order until your merchandise is received by you. All returns of merchandise are subject to TGI return policy, available under Returns/Cancellations.

 

 

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Disclaimers
ALL CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY ADVICE THAT MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU OVER THIS WEBSITE, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ALL USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TGI DISCLAIMS, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE, ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND LIABILITIES OF TGI, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THIS WEBSITE AND ANY CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY: (A) IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (B) IMPLIED WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT; AND (C) CLAIM IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE). WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TGI DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL BE ACCESSIBLE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THIS WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE FROM ERRORS, DEFECTS, DESIGN FLAWS OR OMISSIONS OR FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

TGI DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, INTEGRITY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT PROVIDED IN THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING ANY ADVICE OR OTHER SIMILAR INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE. TGI DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE CONTENT PROVIDED IS APPLICABLE OR APPROPRIATE FOR USE IN LOCATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

TGI reserves the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for products and/or services for which the sale or use of such products and/or services in your state is restricted or prohibited.

To properly serve all customers, TGI reserves the right to limit quantities. In this case, only one (1) of this item may be placed into your shopping cart. TGI further reserves the right to cancel multiple orders of this item purchased by the same TGI.com user and/or shipped to the same delivery address.

TGI may display advertising prints for products sold through this Website. TGI attempts to display the colors of the products shown on this Website as accurately as possible. However, we cannot guarantee that the color you see matches the product color, as the display of color depends, in part, upon the type of computer monitor used by you.


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Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL TGI, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE-WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY USE OF, INABILITY TO USE, OR RESULTS OF USE OF, THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF TGI OR ITS REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THIS WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT THEREON, OR THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THIS WEBSITE. IF ANY PORTION OF THIS LIMITATION IS FOUND TO BE INVALID OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, THEN TGI TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). SOME JURISDICTIONS PROHIBIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DAMAGES, IN WHICH CASE THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

 

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Indemnification
TGI reserves the right to report any wrongdoing, if and when it becomes aware of it, to any applicable government or law enforcement agencies. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold TGI and the Providers, its and their officers, directors, employees, affiliated or related entities, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, costs, liabilities, losses and damages of any kind (including attorneys' fees) resulting from your use of this Web Site, your breach of any provision of these Terms and/or any negligent acts, omissions or intentional wrongdoing by You. Any such indemnification shall be conditioned on TGI: (a) notifying you in writing of any such claim, demand, action, cost, liability, loss or threat of any thereof; (b) cooperating with you in the defense or settlement thereof; and (c) allowing you to control such defense or settlement. TGI shall be entitled to participate in such defense at its own cost and expense.

 

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Governing Law
By accessing and using this Website, you agree that your access and use of this Website is subject to the Terms and Conditions, and all applicable laws, as governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of laws.

 

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Links to Third Party Websites
This Website may contain links to other sites that are neither owned nor operated by TGI (although some such sites may have an affiliation with TGI) (collectively, "Third Party Sites"). Such links are provided for your convenience only. TGI makes no representations whatsoever about any Third Party Sites which you may access through this Website, as TGI has no control over the content appearing on such Third Party Sites. Moreover, a link to a Third Party Site does not imply and does not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, approval or responsibility for the content on, or the use of, such Third Party Site. No rights to use or copy the information on this Website or the Third Party Site is granted or implied. Please Note: The privacy policies applicable to Third party Sites may differ significantly from TGI’s Customer Information Privacy Policy and TGI Children's Online Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to review the applicable privacy policies of such Third Party Sites.

 

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Miscellaneous
The Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and TGI with respect to this Website. The Terms and Conditions supercede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written between you and TGI with respect to this Website. No modification of the Terms and Conditions shall be effective unless it is authorized by TGI. If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is found to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be constructed in a manner to closely reflect, as much as possible, the intentions of the parties, with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.

One or more patents may apply to this Web site, including without limitation: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,528,490; 5,761,649; and 6,029,142.


Safety Notice

Before beginning any project, review the instructions carefully, and if any doubts or questions remain, consult local professionals or authorities. Because local codes and regulations vary greatly, you should always check with local authorities to ensure that your project complies with all applicable codes and regulations. Always read and observe all of the safety precautions provided by any tool or equipment manufacturer, and follow all accepted safety procedures. What follows are reminders, although not an exhaustive list, of safety measures you should be aware of if undertaking home improvements yourself. They are not substitutes for your own caution, care, good judgment and common sense.


General Precautions:

  1. Always read container labels on paints, solvents, and other products; provide ventilation, and observe all other warnings.
  2. Always read the manufacturer's users manual for using a tool, especially the warnings. You should not use tools until the owner's manual is received and reviewed thoroughly.
  3. Always pay deliberate attention to how a tool works so that you can avoid being injured. Do not try to force them to do what they were not designed to do.
  4. Always keep your hands away from the business ends of blades, cutters, and bits.
  5. Never work with any tools when you are tired or under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
  6. Never cut tiny pieces of wood or pipe using a power saw. Cut small pieces off larger pieces.
  7. Never work in insufficient lighting.
  8. Never work with dull tools. Have them sharpened, or learn how to sharpen them yourself.
  9. Never saw a surface that spans a large distance between horses without close support on each side of the cut; the piece can bend, closing on and jamming the blade, causing saw kickback.
  10. Never support a surface from underneath with your leg or other part of your body when working.
  11. Always use hold-downs and push sticks whenever possible when working on a table saw. Avoid working short pieces if you can.
  12. Always make sure that any adjustment is locked before proceeding.

Wear the Correct Gear:
  1. Wear rubber or work gloves when handling chemicals, moving or stacking lumber, or doing heavy construction.
  2. Wear eye protection, especially when using power tools or striking metal on metal or concrete.
  3. Use a special-purpose tool belt with leather pockets and holders if you want to carry sharp or pointed tools, such as knives, awls or chisels. Never carry such tools in your pockets.
  4. Wear a disposable facemask when you create dust by sawing or sanding. Use a special filtering respirator when working with toxic substances and solvents.
  5. Never work while wearing loose clothing, hanging hair, open cuffs, or jewelry.

Power Tool Precautions:
  1. Always be sure that the electrical setup is safe; be sure that no circuit is overloaded and that all power tools and electrical outlets are properly grounded. Do not use power tools in wet locations.
  2. Always remove the key from any drill chuck (portable or press) before starting the drill.
  3. Always clamp small pieces firmly to a bench or other work surface when using a power tool on them.
  4. Always be aware that your body's reflexes probably are not fast enough to save you from injury from a power tool in a dangerous situation. Be alert!
  5. Always hold a circular saw firmly, usually with both hands so that you know where they are.
  6. Always use a drill with an auxiliary handle to control the torque when large-size bits are used.
  7. Never change a movable part such as a saw blade, a drill or router bit unless the power cord is unplugged. Do not depend on the switch being off; you might accidentally hit it.
  8. Never use a power tool on a surface - large or small - that is not firmly supported.

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