1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS & CONDITIONS

HomestayLocator.com is an online resource that contains a database. This database is a conglomeration of postings, forums, and ads; all of which is herein referred to as either of the following “HomestayLocator’s service” or simply “service”. HomestayLocator welcomes you and your postings. The database of postings is a collection of postings by third parties and is meant to provide you, herein known as the user, with no direct or implied warranty of any sort. By using these resources, hosted by the HomestayLocator.com site, you are agreeing to the following terms, conditions, guidelines, and any subsequent modifications thereto. Therefore by using this site and its services, you agree to comply by all terms, conditions, guidelines, and any subsequent modifications thereto. Please leave this site now if you choose not to accept these conditions, guidelines , terms, and any subsequent modifications thereto.

2. NO LIABILITY OR INDIRECT DAMAGES
Whether HomestayLocator has been informed of the possibility of direct, indirect or special damages, HomestayLocator, under no circumstances, shall be liable, this is true regardless of whether damages arise from use or misuse of this site or its services, or the suspension, or modification of services. Based on court established precedence and consultation of one of the nation’s leading authorities on cyber libel/slander it is understood that HomestayLocator is not liable and HomestayLocator claims immunity from any liability or damages under the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 (See 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)(2000)). HomestayLocator, under no circumstances, shall be liable for direct or indirect loss or damages, such as, but not limited to, damages due to slander, through the services provided. Under no circumstances shall HomestayLocator be liable for direct, indirect, or special damages incurred during the use of other services or products provided by HomestayLocator. Other services and products may be, but is not limited to, provided by HomestayLocator, or its advertisers, links, and affiliates. HomestayLocator under no circumstances shall be liable for postings, advice and any other information provided by third parties, such as you, the user must understand that postings, advice and any other information provided by third parties are only for the user’s entertainment and may not reflect any sort of truth or accuracy.

3. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT
You must review this agreement on a regular basis since we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof.

4. CONTENT
HomestayLocator is not responsible, and does not control content made available through the HomestayLocator site. As used herein, content is defined as all postings, messages, text, files, images, links to other sites, photos or other material posted on or transmitted through the HomestayLocator.com site. Under no circumstances is HomestayLocator responsible for the content. HomestayLocator may exercise the right to remove any content that it may consider to be unfit for display, however, the content displayed is the sole responsibility of the user who posted such content, so naturally, you, the user, may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or objectionable. The HomestayLocator.com site and its content may contain links to other sites, which may or may not be completely independent; therefore, it is your responsibility to exercise caution when linking to these other sites. As a consequence, it is done on your own risk. HomestayLocator does not make any expressed or implied warranties or guarantees pertaining to the completeness or authenticity of the content on the HomestayLocator.com site. By reading these Terms and Conditions the user acknowledges understanding that all risks associated with the use of any content on the HomestayLocator.com site, falls upon the user. Also, the user acknowledges that the content may not represent any reliability and that under no circumstances will HomestayLocator be liable in any way for any content or for any loss or damage of any kind, sustained as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the HomestayLocator.com site. You acknowledge that HomestayLocator does not pre-screen or approve content, and therefore you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or objectionable. HomestayLocator shall have the right, but not the obligation, in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any content that is available via the HomestayLocator.com site, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms and Conditions or for any other reason, where HomestayLocator feels it is appropriate to do so. Therefore, without exceptions, HomestayLocator reserves the right to delete or move any content that is available via the HomestayLocator.com site.

5. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold HomestayLocator its officers, subsidiaries, employees,
affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, agents, service providers, suppliers, contractors, partners and any other entity or individuals engaged in business with HomestayLocator harmless from any claim or demand of any sort. This includes attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party, due to content available through posts or made available through the HomestayLocator.com site and its services by the user. This includes your use of the HomestayLocator.com site and its services, your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another. HomestayLocator is not liable.

6. LINKS TO AND FROM THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES
The HomestayLocator.com site and content may contain third party advertisements, features, or links that may link you or provide you with information or material. Such information or material could be completely independent of HomestayLocator, therefore, your use of such information or material, dealings, payment, or exchange of services is solely between you and the third party and therefore, HomestayLocator shall not be liable or responsible for any damages or loss, indirect or direct sustained from such content from third parties. By reading these Terms and Conditions, the user agrees that HomestayLocator will not become involved, if there is a dispute or problem between participants on HomestayLocator.com, or between users and any third party. In the case of a dispute between the user and any third party, the user, you, hereby release HomestayLocator, its officers, employees, agents, and successors in rights, contractors from claims, demands and damages, actual and consequential, of every kind or nature. This also applies to demands and damages, actual and consequential, due to known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, due to or in any way related to such disputes, the HomestayLocator’s service. You also agree to waive California Civil Code Section 1542, if you are a California resident. California Civil Code Section 1542 states, "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favour at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."

7. CONDUCT POLICY
Pornographic content is not be posted, made available, or emailed by the user. Pornographic content includes depiction of sexual intercourse between persons or animals of any kind, masturbation, or exhibition of genitals. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a HomestayLocator employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity, however, this does not apply to messages that are lawful non-deceptive parodies of public figures. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that is perceivably false, deceptive, misleading, or deceitful. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, or copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You shall not post, email or otherwise make available content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that includes links to commercial services or web sites. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors less than 18 years of age in any way. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that harasses, degrades, insults, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that can interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment via software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs.. You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages to HomestayLocator’s service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use HomestayLocator’s service. You also agree not to stalk or otherwise harass anyone as a consequence of using the content on the HomestayLocator.com site. You also agree, as a consequence of using the content, not to collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes. Use of spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the site is not allowed. An exception can be made only if HomestayLocator expressly permits to do so in writing. An attempt to gain unauthorized access to HomestayLocator’s computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, its service or the HomestayLocator.com website, will be treated with the full force of the law.

8. NO SPAM POLICY
Sending unsolicited email advertisements to HomestayLocator email addresses is expressly prohibited by these Terms and Conditions. This also applies to sending unsolicited email advertisements through HomestayLocator computer systems. It is a violation of these Terms and Conditions, in addition to, certain federal and state laws, if there is any unauthorized use of HomestayLocator computer systems. The sender or sender’s agents may be subjected to civil and criminal penalties for any of the above mentioned violations.

9. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE

HomestayLocator grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access HomestayLocator’s services for your own personal use and therefore does not include any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the content. General purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives may employ the use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the HomestayLocator’s service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file. However, you may not employ the use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose. This, of course, is permitted only with written consent by HomestayLocator. HomestayLocator does permit you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website to the HomestayLocator.com site. This permission is granted as long as such use is for non-commercial news reporting purposes only, such as, use in personal web blogs or personal online media. HomestayLocator also permits you to create a hyperlink to the home page of the HomestayLocator.com sites so long as the link does not portray HomestayLocator, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. HomestayLocator permits you to display, and excerpt from your personal website or personal web blog, as long as it is for personal, non-commercial purposes only, each title is correctly linked back to the original post on the HomestayLocator.com site and redirects the user to the post when the user clicks on it, your use or display does not suggest that HomestayLocator promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services, your use does not strain HomestayLocator’s systems. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the HomestayLocator’s content made available for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from HomestayLocator.

Simply put, you must first request and obtain a license from HomestayLocator if you desire to aggregate, copy, collect, reproduce, display or make derivative use of HomestayLocator’s service or any content made available via the service for other purposes non stated herin. This applies, also to commercial purposes. Granted permissions, access, and/or licenses will be terminated upon any violation, breach , or out-of-scope use of the HomestayLocator.com site beyond the scope of authorized permissions, access, and/or licenses granted to you by HomestayLocator.

10. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that HomestayLocator shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of its service. You agree that HomestayLocator may establish limits concerning use of its services. Such limits may include the maximum number of days that content will be retained by HomestayLocator, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other content that may be transmitted or stored by HomestayLocator, and the frequency with which you may access its services. You agree that HomestayLocator has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any content maintained or transmitted by its service and that HomestayLocator reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue its service or any part thereof, with or without notice.

11. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that HomestayLocator shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to its service. You agree that HomestayLocator is not obligated, but in its sole discretion, has the right to delete your post. You also agree that HomestayLocator, in its sole discretion, has the right to block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of its service, or any part thereof, immediately and without notice. You also agree that HomestayLocator, in its sole discretion, has the right to remove and discard any content posted, for any reason, including, without limitation, if HomestayLocator believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. After termination you agree not to attempt to use HomestayLocator’s service Sections 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 shall survive termination of these Terms.

12. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

You agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the HomestayLocator.com site, and therefore will not reproduce, duplicate or copy content from the HomestayLocator.com site without express written permission from HomestayLocator. HomestayLocator’s service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties, which means that any copying, recreation, reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective work, or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written permission from HomestayLocator, Content displayed on or through the HomestayLocator.com site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained on its site. By posting content, you automatically grant HomestayLocator all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the content on the HomestayLocator.com site by any party for any purpose. Also, by posting content, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to HomestayLocator an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses, such as through multiple tiers, of the foregoing. Without limiting the preceding, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of its service.

13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
HomestayLocator does not guarantee any warranties of any kind from the use of the HomestayLocator.com site. It is used solely on the user’s own risk, and therefore there are no guarantees. The site is provided for entertainment and is provided on an as is or as available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, all express and implied warranties, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, pertinence, and non-infringement of proprietary rights are expressly disclaimed. HomestayLocator disclaims any warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law with regards to security, reliability, accuracy, usefulness, performance of the HomestayLocator.com site and its content. HomestayLocator disclaims any warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law with regards to other services or goods received through, advertised, or obtained through any links on the HomestayLocator.com site. HomestayLocator disclaims any warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law with regards to viruses or other components from using the HomestayLocator.com site and its services. HomestayLocator disclaims, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any warranties period. Some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties in some jurisdictions.

14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Even if HomestayLocator has been informed or advised of the possibility of damages, direct or indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, HomestayLocator is, to the fullest extent permitted by law, not liable under any circumstances. To the fullest extent permitted by law, HomestayLocator, under all circumstances, shall not be liable for damages incurred by reason of other services or products received through, advertised in connection with HomestayLocator, or any links on the HomestayLocator.com site. To the fullest extent permitted by law, HomestayLocator, under all circumstances, shall not be liable for damages incurred by information, postings, or advice provided by users/ third parties. The aforementioned applies to your use of the HomestayLocator.com site, whether the damages arise from use or misuse of the site or from the inability to use the site due to temporary interruption, suspension, modification, alteration, or termination of the HomestayLocator.com site. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted; therefore, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you, if you are in such jurisdictions.

15. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and HomestayLocator and govern your use of its service, superseding any prior agreements between you and HomestayLocator. The Terms and Conditions and the relationship between you and HomestayLocator shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and HomestayLocator agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the County of Los Angeles, California. The failure of HomestayLocator to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms and Conditions remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the site or the Terms and Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

16. VIOLATION OF TERMS AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Any violations of the Terms and Conditions should be reported by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it If HomestayLocator does not act in response to a breach/violation by you or others, HomestayLocator does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches/violations. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, HomestayLocator retains the right to seek the remedy of specific performance of any term contained in these Terms and Conditions, or a preliminary or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in these Terms and Conditions, or any combination thereof.
17. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
A Privacy Policy has been created by HomestayLocator. It details the usage of user
Information. It addresses issues pertaining to how user information is collected and used, which is located at the following web address: Privacy Policy

Usage of the HomestayLocator.com website is an acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy by the user. You acknowledge and agree that, if required by law, HomestayLocator may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information. You, also, acknowledge and agree, that HomestayLocator may also do so if in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process; enforce these Terms and Conditions; respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of HomestayLocator, its users or the general public.

18. Discrimination
The user acknowledges and understands that a discriminatory housing post is illegal and in the event, that there is such a violation, the poster is solely responsible for his/her own actions. More information pertaining to discrimination in housing can be found at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is stated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that, "federal law prohibits housing discrimination based on your race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status, or disability."

19.  Protecting your privacy

This privacy policy, which may be updated at any time, details how your information is protected, collected and used by HomestayLocator. HomestayLocator is completely committed to protecting your information. Unless given your specific consent, any personally identifying information is not sold to third parties for marketing purposes.
HomestayLocator is also committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the HomestayLocator Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the HomestayLocator website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
HomestayLocator collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. HomestayLocator also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by HomestayLocator. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by HomestayLocator for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the HomestayLocator Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through HomestayLocator public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: HomestayLocator does not read any of your private online communications.

HomestayLocator encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from HomestayLocator so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. HomestayLocator is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the HomestayLocator and HomestayLocator family of Web sites.

HomestayLocator collects and uses your personal information to operate the HomestayLocator Web site and deliver the services you have requested. HomestayLocator also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from HomestayLocator and its affiliates. HomestayLocator may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

HomestayLocator does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. HomestayLocator may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, HomestayLocator may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to HomestayLocator, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

HomestayLocator does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

HomestayLocator keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within HomestayLocator, in order to determine what HomestayLocator services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within HomestayLocator to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

HomestayLocator Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on HomestayLocator or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of HomestayLocator; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of HomestayLocator, or the public.

The HomestayLocator Web site uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Because HomestayLocator is committed to protecting your privacy, cookies, web beacons, or other tracking devices will not be employed for marketing purposes. Links to third party websites, whether they be links provided directly by HomestayLocator, or through posts by third parties, may have privacy policies and practices that differ from those of HomestayLocator. Therefore, caution must be exercised by the user, and the user acknowledges and understands that HomestayLocator is not responsible for damages incurred, whether it is direct, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, even in cases where HomestayLocator has been informed of such possibilities.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize HomestayLocator's pages, or register with HomestayLocator site or services, a cookie helps HomestayLocator to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same HomestayLocator Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the HomestayLocator features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the HomestayLocator services or Web sites you visit.

HomestayLocator secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. HomestayLocator secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Information such as IP addresses and page URLs are collected via our web logs, and are used for troubleshooting problems with our servers. Personal information may be collected if given to us through feedback or comments. Database content may be moved and stored elsewhere indefinitely when removed by the poster.

Under very specific legal circumstances, HomestayLocator may release information if such disclosure of information is deemed necessary in order for HomestayLocator to oblige by the law. Also, HomestayLocator may exercise to do so if it believes disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of HomestayLocator, or the public. Decisions on the necessity of disclosure will be made solely by the voting members of HomestayLocator. By using the HomestayLocator.com site, you have acknowledged and agreed that all data provided by you can be stored and processed, such as, but not limited to, transfer of data among facilities, possibly in or out of your country.
HomestayLocator will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. HomestayLocator encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how HomestayLocator is protecting your information.

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