1. Overview
Buying a Home in New Baltimore, MI: Inspections, Hidden Problems, and Repairs
2. Informational Purposes Only
Radon in Colorado: What Every Homeowner and Buyer Should Know
3. Intellectual Property Rights
ADU Home Inspection: What Homeowners Should Know About Backyard Units
4. User Content, Responsibility, and Removal
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access or use of World Inspection Network International LLC (“WIN,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) website located at www.wini.com (the “Site”). Please read these Terms and our Privacy Policy located at privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) carefully before use of the Site, as they constitute a legal agreement between you and WIN governing your access and use of the Site and the services accessible via the Site (collectively, the “Services”). The Site is the property of WIN.
5. Prohibited Uses
The Site and content available within the Site are for informational purposes only. Neither the Site nor the content available within them constitutes professional advice, and neither should be relied upon by you or any third party, including for example to operate or promote your business, make decisions on repair and maintenance or purchase or any home, obtain any regulatory or governmental approvals, or otherwise to procure services or other benefits from any entity. Before making any decision or taking any action, you should consult with professional advisers.
6. Third Party Websites
All information, text, photographs, graphics, images, videos, logos, data, source code, processes, designs, technologies, URLs, domain names, software and other materials including WIN trademarks (whether registered or not), service marks and copyrights (collectively the “Content”) found throughout the Site is owned, controlled or licensed by or to WIN, and is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.
7. Privacy Policy, Other Agreements
Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including "mirroring") to any other computer, server, Web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without WIN’s express prior written consent.
8. Mobile Messaging Terms
You may use information on WIN products and services (such as data sheets, knowledge base articles, and similar materials) purposely made available by WIN for downloading from the Site, provided that you (1) not remove any proprietary notice language in all copies of such documents, (2) use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media, (3) make no modifications to any such information, and (4) not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such documents.
9. Age Restrictions
You agree that access and use of Content is subject to these Terms, including the disclaimers and limitations of liability herein. WIN expressly reserves all intellectual property rights in the Content. Nothing contained on the Site grants or should be construed as granting any license or right to use the Content for any purpose without the express written consent of WIN.
10. Disclaimers
“User Content” means any and all information and content that a user submits to, or uses with, the Site. You are solely responsible for your User Content. You assume all risks associated with use of your User Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure of your User Content that personally identifies you or any third party. You hereby represent and warrant that your User Content does not violate our Terms. You may not represent or imply to others that your User Content is in any way provided, sponsored or endorsed by WIN. Because you alone are responsible for your User Content, you may expose yourself to liability if, for example, your User Content violates the Terms. WIN is not obligated to backup any User Content, and your User Content may be deleted at any time without prior notice. You are solely responsible for creating and maintaining your own backup copies of your User Content if you desire.
11. Limitation of Liability
You hereby grant (and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant) to WIN an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site. You hereby irrevocably waive (and agree to cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.
12. Limitation Period.
You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the licenses referred to in these Terms. You further represent and warrant that your User Content is (a) complete and accurate and (b) is not fraudulent, tortious, or otherwise in violation of any applicable law or any right of any third party. You irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding all User Content that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory.
13. Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution
User Content may continue to exist on the Services. We are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content.
14. Termination
You may use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. In using the Site, you must not do any of the following:
15. Indemnification
In addition, you agree not to use the Site to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content that:
16. Changes to Terms
This Site may link to third-party sites and services, or otherwise display third-party content through our Site. These links are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the products or services sold or information provided through these websites, nor any association with their operators. We have no control over these linked sites, each of which has separate privacy and data collection policies and practices independent from us. As such we have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such websites. Any information you provide to third parties on their websites is covered under their privacy and data collection policies and is not covered by this Policy. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any personal information.
17. Miscellaneous
WIN’s Privacy Policy applies to use of this Site and the Services, and its terms are made a part of these Terms of Use by this reference. To view WIN’s Privacy Policy, click here. Additionally, by using the Site, you acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission (for example, credit card information) is encrypted.
18. Void Where Prohibited
In addition, when you access certain features of this Site, you may be asked to agree to special terms governing your use of the feature. In such cases, you may be asked to expressly consent to the special terms, for example, by checking a box or clicking on a button marked “I agree.” This type of agreement is known as a “click-through” agreement.
19. Your Feedback
If any of the terms of the click-through agreement are different than the terms of these Terms, the terms of the click-through agreement will supplement or amend this these Terms, but only with respect to the matters governed by the “click-through agreement.”
20. Contact
WIN Home Inspection and the independently owned and operated franchise locations when you opt in may send text messages to the mobile number you provide.
If you consent to service-related text messages, messages may include scheduling, appointment reminders, agreements, payments, inspection updates, report notifications, and customer support. If you separately consent to promotional text messages, messages may include recurring offers, seasonal reminders, home-maintenance tips, and other promotional communications.
Service-related and promotional consents are separate. Consent to receive text messages is optional and is not a condition of purchasing goods or services or submitting an inquiry.
Message frequency varies based on inspection activity, interactions with WIN, services requested, and communication preferences. Message and data rates may apply.
Reply STOP to unsubscribe from text messages sent from that number. After your request is processed, you may receive one final confirmation message. Reply HELP for assistance or email support@wini.com. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
You represent that you are the authorized user of the mobile number provided and will notify WIN if that number changes. Mobile Information is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
The Services and this Site are intended for users who are 18 years of age and above. Some of the content on the Site may be inappropriate for children. You must be 18 years of age or older to create an account with us or use the Services.