Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Site Conditions & Terms of Use

ImagenMx.com / Best of Lake Chapala

Terms and Conditions of Use

(Also see Contest Rules)

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE. Your use of BestofLakeChapala.com Business Directory implies your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Usage of www.BestofLakeChapala.com (BLC) and any parts of this site, to upload content which is offensive or enables discrimination by religion/caste/race is prohibited. Please report inappropriate content by writing to us at Email: mail@BestofLakeChapala.com or use the Contact Us page.

If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

ACCEPTABLE USE:  You may not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You may not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You may not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without ImagenMx’s express written consent. You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You may not republish material from this website (including republication on another website) without written permission by ImagenMx. You may not sell, rent or sub-license material from the website, show any material from the website in public, or reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose.

SITE VISITOR: A non-registered visitor can view any public portion of our site.

REGISTERED MEMBER: A registered member is entitled to site-wide participation. In addition to site viewing, registered members can nominate and vote in the People’s Choice Awards section, post free classifieds, post community calendar events, enter contests, and receive occasional newsletters or email notifications. By registering and confirming your membership, you confirm that you have read and agree to abide by our site rules.

SITE REGISTRATION: Registration on ImagenMx.com for the Best Of Lake Chapala is free and open to individuals having a distinct email account. Duplicate or multiple memberships account addresses will be deleted. Offensive user names may be rejected by site administrators.

To register, submit a name and email address. When you receive a Comfirmation Email, click on the confirmation link to verify your email and set up your password. All personal information (such as confirmation email address) will be held in strictest confidence (see our Privacy Policy).

PRIVACY: ImagenMx strictly limits access to all personally identifiable information to those within its organization and responsible for site administration and contest operation. Submitted data or emails will in no event be shared outside of the company for any reason whatsoever (with, of course, the exception of appropriate governmental or legal requests). Personally identifiable information will not be used by ImagenMx for any purpose whatsoever other than to validate voter registration or to receive occasional newsletters or updates.

NO WARRANTIES: This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  ImagenMx makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website, nor can ImagenMx warrant that this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or that the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

ImagenMx will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss; for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data. 

COPYRIGHT VIOLATION: It is the policy of our website to NOT publish any copyrighted material without permission from the author or copyright holder. Any article violating this policy material will be immediately removed upon written notice. If you feel that your copyrighted material appears on this web site without your permission, please send your request to remove.

COMMENTS: Tasteful and relevant comments on our articles are welcome. However, ImagenMx reserves the right to edit or remove comments that are deemed to be inflammatory, off-topic, repetitious, libelous, racist, sexist, homophobic, contain inappropriate personal details or is invasive of another person’s privacy, and other such content which may advocate bigotry. If you feel that a comment presented on our site violates this policy, please report it to us.

LINKS:  The links that appear our site allow you to leave our site. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Please be aware that once you leave our Site and enter another web site, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are no longer in effect, but are subject to that web site’s own rules and policies. ImagenMx is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by these sites.

DISCLAIMER: Every effort will be made to ensure accurate, valid and objective contest results. ImagenMx and its sponsors or employees cannot be held responsible for intentionally fraudulent voting, unauthorized claims related to our survey, or unauthorized duplication and use of the award emblem.

Should an individual, group or business be found to have displayed suspicious activity or violated in any way the integrity of the People’s Choice survey and its Contest Rules, including the use of the digital winner’s emblem, sponsor ImagenMx reserves the right to take appropriate steps. The first shall be notification and request that the violation be rectified within 15 days. Should the offending individual, group or business fail to rectify their violation or unauthorized use of the People’s Choice emblem within 15 days of written notification, steps by ImagenMx may include: 1) revocation of site membership and contest participation or authorization to use any past, present or future People Choice award;  2) the posting of clarifications and corrections on this site as well as in area print media and/or social media sites, with total impunity and lack of liability for ImagenMx arising from said clarifications or corrections; 3) legal action as necessary to obtain rectification and punitive damages. Should legal action be necessary, all associated legal fees will be the due and payable by the defendant upon conclusion of legal action and ruling

The content of these Terms of use are subject to change without notice.