Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to OEMCats.com. This site is provided by oemcats.com, solely for the purpose of providing information about car parts shops and its affiliated entities and the products they offer.

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of Use

Except as otherwise set forth herein or agreed to between you and oemcats.com, these terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) govern your use of the oemcats.com website, (the “Site”). By accessing and using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and unconditionally agree to follow and be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, then you are requested to immediately exit the Site.

Revisions to Terms and Conditions

Please refer to these Terms and Conditions regularly. OEMCats.com reserves the right, at any time, to modify, amend, alter or update these Terms and Conditions without prior notice by updating this posting. Your continued use of the Site following posting of changes to these Terms and Conditions signifies that you agree to be bound by such modifications, amendments, alterations or updates.

Use of Site

This Site is intended for use by individuals 13 years of age or older. The Site is not for users under the age of 13. Users under the age of 13 must have the assistance and permission of a parent or guardian to use the Site.

All materials on the Site, including, without limitation, information, data, specifications, descriptions, images, graphics, trademarks, text, links, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, HTML code, and written and other materials (collectively the “Content”) included on the Site are the property of OEMCats.com, its affiliates or content providers, and are protected by copyright and trademark law. The Content is intended solely for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may download or copy the Content for your personal use only so long as you keep intact all copyright and proprietary notices. No right, title, or interest in the Content, downloaded materials, or software is transferred to you as a result of any downloading or copying of the Content. You may not reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any of the Content without the prior written consent of OEMCats.com. It is strictly prohibited to modify, transmit, distribute, reuse, reverse engineer, repost, “frame”, or use the Content without written permission from an authorized representative of OEMCats.com.

OEMCats.com claims no proprietary rights to, or affiliation with, any third party trademarks or logo references appearing on the Site. You should not infer any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement from the use of third party marks on the Site, as such marks are used solely to designate certain products or services as belonging to their respective owners.

Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, OEMCats.com. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

OEMCats.com may, from time to time, provide links to other outside websites not associated with OEMCats.com. OEMCats.com has not reviewed and is not responsible for such linked websites or the content of any of the linked websites. OEMCats.com provides these links as an additional resource for its Site users and makes no representations regarding the content of any linked website or any companies that own, control, or manage the linked websites. Consequently, OEMCats.com cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in, programs used by, or services or products offered by, websites linked to from the Site.

THE SITE INCLUDES CONTENT AND INFORMATION THAT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. WHILE OEMCATS.COM DESIRES THAT THE CONTENT AND INFORMATION ON THE SITE BE UP-TO-DATE AND ACCURATE, IT IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO CONFIRM THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR RELIABILITY OF SUCH CONTENT AND INFORMATION. OEMCATS.COM DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION REGARDING THE USE OF THE CONTENT OR INFORMATION ON THE SITE OR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF SUCH CONTENT OR INFORMATION.

Site Security

You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for you or logging onto a server or an account which you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mailbombing”, or “crashing”; (d) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security will result in the user being denied access to the Site and may result in civil or criminal liability. OEMCats.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and will cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Site users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activity being conducted on the Site. You agree not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, intelligent agents, or similar devices) to search or navigate the Site other than the search engine and search agents available from OEMCats.com on the Site and other than generally available third party web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox).

Any passwords used for this site are only intended for individual use. You are prohibited from sharing or otherwise providing the right to use your password with any other person. You will be responsible for the security of any password. OEMCats.com may, in its sole discretion, monitor the use of any password and may require you to change your password at any time.

User Submitted Content

Except as otherwise provided elsewhere in these Term and Conditions or on the Site, anything that you submit or post to the Site and/or provide OEMCats.com, including without limitation, ideas, know-how, techniques, questions, answers, reviews, comments, and suggestions (collectively, “Submissions”) is and will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary, and OEMCats.com and its affiliates shall have the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, and transferable right to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, perform, sell, lease, transmit, adapt, and create derivative works from such Submissions by any means and in any form for any purpose including without limitation, developing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing products using such information, and to translate, modify, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or decompile such Submissions. All Submissions shall automatically become the sole and exclusive property of OEMCats.com and shall not be returned to you.

In addition to the rights applicable to any Submissions, when you post communications, comments, or reviews to the Site, you also grant OEMCats.com and its affiliates the right to use the name that you submit with any communication, review, question, answer, or other content, if any, in connection with such review, question, answer, or other content, for any purpose, including without limitation, reproduction, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the Submissions that you post on the Site and that use of your Submissions by OEMCats.com will not infringe upon or violate the rights, including intellectual property rights, of any third party.

You shall not use a false e-mail address or the email address of any other person or entity, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead OEMCats.com or third parties as to the origin of any Submissions. You agree to post content that is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam”. OEMCats.com may, in its sole discretion, but shall not be obligated to, remove or edit any Submissions (including reviews, questions, or answers).

Although OEMCats.com may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Site, OEMCats.com is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations, nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. OEMCats.com will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing OEMCats.com to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

Terms and Conditions Disclaimer

Although these Terms and Conditions have been prepared with the intent to provide reliable information, no warranty (express or implied) is made as to their accuracy or completeness and no liability is assumed by OEMCats.com for loss or damage resulting from reliance on these Terms and Conditions. OEMCats.com reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice.

Limitation of Liability

OEMCATS.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, THE PRODUCTS, OR INFORMATION, OR FUNCTIONS ON SUCH SITE, EVEN IF OEMCATS.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL OEMCATS.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION, WHETHER ARISING OUT OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THE SITE OR PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS.

Notification of Copyright Infringement (DMCA)

OEMCats.com respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact the agent designated to respond to reports alleging copyright infringement.

Claim

The DMCA specifies that all infringement claims must be in writing (either electronic mail or paper letter) and must include the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit OEMCats.com to locate the material.
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit OEMCats.com to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an e-mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
• A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

External Sites

This site may contain links to other sites that are owned and operated by third party vendors and others. You acknowledge that OEMCats.com is not responsible for the availability, content, text, graphics, information, or any actions or damages from any external site. You must contact the site administrator for those sites if you have any concerns regarding those links.

Termination of Access

In addition to any other legal or equitable remedies for misuse, OEMCats.com may, without prior notice to you, immediately terminate the Agreement or revoke any or all of your rights granted under this Agreement. Upon any termination of this Agreement, you shall immediately cease all access to and use of the Site and OEMCats.com shall, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, immediately revoke all password(s) and account identification issued to you and deny your access to and use of this Site in whole or in part. Any termination of this Agreement shall not affect the respective rights and obligations (including without limitation, payment obligations) of the parties arising before the date of termination.

Entire Agreement

These Terms and Conditions embody the entire agreement and understanding between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof.

Severability

If any these provisions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed several and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provision.

Survival

Any provision of these Terms and Conditions that, by its nature, is applicable to circumstances arising after the termination of these Terms and Conditions will survive such termination and remain in full force and effect, and no termination of these Terms and Conditions will relieve either party from any liability arising out of any breach of these Terms and Conditions occurring prior to said termination.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless OEMCats.com and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including without limitation, attorneys’ fees, arising from or related to your use of the Site or the Products.

Remedies

The remedy of OEMCats.com at law for any actual or threatened breach of these Terms and Conditions would be inadequate and OEMCats.com will be entitled to specific performance or injunctive relief, or both, in addition to any damages that OEMCats.com is legally entitled to recover, together with reasonable expenses of any form of dispute resolution, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees. No right or remedy of OEMCats.com shall be exclusive of any other, whether at law or in equity, including without limitation, damages, injunctive relief, attorneys’ fees, and expenses. No waiver by OEMCats.com of its rights or remedies under these Terms and Conditions shall imply any obligation to grant any similar, future, or other waiver.

Information we collect

Short version

• We use cookies in our sign in mechanism. You won't be able to sign in on OEMCats.com without cookies, but you can use OEMCats.com as a guest without any limitations.
• If you sign up with us we take great care to keep your information safe and we’ll never share it with others without your express permission.
• We never share your data with 3rd parties except to help us deliver our own services.
• We collect anonymous statistics about your visit, like which of our pages you viewed.
• Some 3rd parties like Facebook and Twitter may know you visited this website, if you use their services. We can’t control them but we don’t believe this knowledge poses any threat to you.
• We use Google AdSense to serve ads on OEMCats.com. Google uses cookies and similar technologies to deliver relevant ads.

Cookies and similar technologies

OEMCats.com uses cookies and similar technologies, such as HTML5 web storage and local shared objects (all referred to as 'cookies' below), to record the preferences of users.

By using our website, you consent to the use and storage of cookies on your end device. However, you can also view our website without cookies, but you won't be able to sign in into your account on OEMCats.com in this case.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies from being saved on your end device by setting your browser to not accept cookies. You can delete cookies stored on your end device at any time. The exact instructions for how to do this can be found in the manual for your browser or end device.

Measuring our visitors

We measure visitors to our website using Google Analytics. This records what pages you view within our site, how you arrived at our site and some basic information about your computer. All of that information is anonymous — so we don’t know who you are; just that somebody visited our site.

The information we collect from analytics helps us understand what parts of our sites are doing well, how people arrive at our site and so on. Like most websites, we use this information to make our website better.

You can learn more about Google Analytics or opt out if you wish.

Facebook, Twitter and other social networks

These services provide social buttons and similar features which we use on our website — such as the “Like” and “Tweet” buttons.

To do so we embed code that they provide and we do not control ourselves. To function their buttons generally know if you’re logged in; for example Facebook use this to say “x of your friends like this”. We do not have any access to that information, nor can we control how those networks use it.

Social networks therefore could know that you’re viewing this website, if you use their services (that isn’t to say they do, but their policies may change). As our website is remarkably inoffensive we imagine this is not a concern for most users.

Ads

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on OEMCats.com. Google uses cookies and similar technologies to deliver relevant ads. Google also shares some of data with other ad technology providers.

To learn more about Google AdSense and opt your data out please visit these pages: Google ad and content network privacy policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Contact us

For further information or to contact us with questions, concerns, or comments, you may email us at info@oemcats.com. Although OEMCats.com will, in most circumstances, be able to receive your email or other information provided through the Site, OEMCats.com does not guarantee that it will receive all such email or other information timely and accurately. OEMCats.com shall not be legally obligated to read, act on, or respond to any such email or other information.

Last Updated: April 2016.