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Terms of Use

By using the Padonia Site, Application or Services, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use (“Terms“), whether or not you become a registered user of the Padonia Services as a Member of Padonia or a visitor to the site. These Terms govern your access to and use of the Site.

In addition, certain areas of the Site (and your access to or use of certain aspects of the Services or Collective Content) may have different terms and conditions, standards, guidelines, or policies posted or may require you to agree with and accept additional terms and conditions. If there is a conflict between these Terms and terms and conditions posted for a specific area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content, the latter terms and conditions will take precedence with respect to your use of or access to that area of the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you have no right to obtain information from or otherwise continue using the Site, Application, or Services. Failure to use the Site, Application, or Services in accordance with these Terms may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO CREATE A PROFILE ON THE PADONIA SITE, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH PADONIA IS LIMITED TO BEING A MEMBER AND/OR AN INDEPENDENT, THIRD-PARTY CONTRACTOR, AND NOT AN EMPLOYEE, AGENT, JOINT VENTURER OR PARTNER OF PADONIA FOR ANY REASON, AND YOU ACT EXCLUSIVELY ON YOUR OWN BEHALF AND FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT, AND NOT ON BEHALF OF OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF PADONIA. PADONIA DOES NOT CONTROL, AND HAS NO RIGHT TO CONTROL, YOUR INFORMATION, YOUR OFFLINE ACTIVITIES, OR ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT YOU PROVIDE. AS A MEMBER YOU AGREE NOT TO DO ANYTHING TO CREATE A FALSE IMPRESSION THAT YOU ARE ENDORSED BY, PARTNERING WITH, OR ACTING ON BEHALF OF OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF PADONIA, INCLUDING BY INAPPROPRIATELY USING ANY PADONIA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, APPLICATION, OR SERVICES OR BY DOWNLOADING OR POSTING ANY CONTENT FROM OR ON THE SITE, VIA THE APPLICATION OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND RECEIVE OUR SERVICES (INCLUDING WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE AND APPLICATION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES, OR COLLECTIVE CONTENT.

If you accept or agree to these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to these Terms and, in such event, “you” and “your” will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity.

We do not warrant complete accuracy. Certain events beyond our control may affect the timing and availability of information available on our site. Our information is intended to be as current as accurate as possible and we use best efforts to ensure that our content is as accurate and meaningful as possible. However, we do not warrant that our services are entirely accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. We also attempt to insure that any information that is contained in any e-mail, fax or other written material is accurate, but do not warrant or guarantee such accuracy. You should take all necessary steps to independently verify all relevant information prior to taking any action based on information and content on this site. Padonia may change, update or correct all or any portion of this website and the information contained herein at any time without notifying you. You should check back regularly because information contained on this site is fluid and will change regularly. This website will indicate the date that information was last updated.

Governing Law

By visiting Padonia’s website, you agree that the laws of the state of Maryland, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and in the event that any dispute of any sort that arises between you and Padonia.

Intellectual Property Rights and Ownership

The copyright in all material provided on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, layout, formatting, links, appearances, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, is the proprietary property of Padonia, and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. In addition, the processes used by Padonia to develop and publish its content is based on proprietary know-how that is protected by United States and international copyright laws. All rights are reserved.

All content on this site is the exclusive property of Padonia and protected by U.S. and international copyright law. None of the material on this website may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of Padonia or the copyright owner.

Limitation of Liability

As a provider of informational services only, Padonia makes no express or implied warranties of any kind whatsoever.

Padonia will specifically not be liable, under any legal definition, for incidental, consequential, punitive or similar damages resulting from the use of this site. In no event, even if we have been advised of or are aware of the potential for a claim from a third party(ies), will Padonia be liable for any loss of profits, loss of use, or any other loss, incidental or otherwise, related to the performance of, use of or in connection with any use of this site or the information appearing on it. No employee or agent of Padonia has the authority to enter into any agreement or contract that contains terms and conditions that differ in any way from those found in this document.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, OUR SERVERS OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SENT FROM US ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. PADONIA WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF ANY SERVICE, OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH OUR SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING.

User Conduct

You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Site, Application, and/or Services. In connection with your use of the Site, Application, and Services, you may not and you agree that you will not:

  • violate any local, state, provincial, national, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court, including, without limitation, zoning restrictions and Tax regulations;
  • use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots, backdoors or other means or processes to access, “scrape,” “crawl” or “spider” any web pages or other services contained in the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
  • access or use our Site, Application, Services or the Padonia Application Programming Interface (API) to use, expose, or allow to be used or exposed, any Padonia Content: (i) that is not publicly displayed by Padonia in its search results pages or listing pages; (ii) in any way that is inconsistent with the Padonia Privacy Policy or Terms of Service; or (iii) in any way that otherwise violates the privacy rights or any other rights of Padonia’s users or any other third party;
  • use the Site, Application, or Services for any commercial or other purposes that are not expressly permitted by these Terms or in a manner that falsely implies Padonia’s endorsement, partnership or otherwise misleads others as to your affiliation with Padonia;
  • dilute, tarnish or otherwise harm the Padonia brand in any way, including through unauthorized use of Collective Content, registering and/or using Padonia or derivative terms in domain names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers, or registering and/or using domains names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers that closely imitate or are confusingly similar to Padonia domains, trademarks, taglines, promotional campaigns or Collective Content
  • copy, store or otherwise access or use any information contained on the Site, Application, Services, or Collective Content for purposes not expressly permitted by these Terms;
  • infringe the rights of Padonia or the rights of any other person or entity, including without limitation, their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual right
  • interfere with or damage the Site, Application or Services, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service attacks, backdoors, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology;
  • use our Site, Application or Services to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others without their permission, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers;
  • use our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email (“spam”) or advertisements unrelated to lodging in a private residence;
  • “stalk” or harass any other user of our Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or collect or store any personally identifiable information about any other user other than for purposes of transacting as a Member of Padonia or an authorized guest;
  • register for more than one Padonia Account or register for a Padonia Account on behalf of an individual other than yourself;
  • impersonate any person or entity, or falsify or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity;
  • use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content;
  • as a Member, submit any false or misleading information;
  • engage in disruptive, circumventive, abusive or harassing behavior in any area or aspect of our Site, Application, or Services;
  • post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading (directly or by omission or failure to update information) or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;
  • systematically retrieve data or other content from our Site, Application or Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of bots, crawlers, or spiders, or otherwise;
  • use, display, mirror or frame the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, or any individual element within the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content, Padonia’s name, any Padonia trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page in the Site, Application or Services, without Padonia’s express written consent;
  • access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Site, Application or Services, Padonia’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Padonia’s providers;
  • attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Padonia system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;
  • avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble, or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Padonia or any of Padonia’s providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content;
  • forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
  • attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Site, Services, Application or Collective Content;
  • advocate, encourage, or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing; or
  • make or accept a payment outside Padonia’s system. If you do so, you acknowledge and agree that you: (i) would be in breach of these Terms; (ii) accept all risks and responsibility for such payment, and (iii) hold Padonia harmless from any liability for such payment.

Padonia has the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the above to the fullest extent of the law. In addition, and as set in these Terms, Padonia may take a range of actions against you, including but not limited to removing or disabling access to any or all of your Member Content or deactivating or canceling your Padonia Account, and/or terminating your Padonia membership entirely for a violation of this Section or these Terms.

Padonia may access, preserve and disclose any of your information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that it is reasonably necessary to (i) respond to claims asserted against Padonia or to comply with legal process (for example, subpoenas or warrants), (ii) enforce or administer our agreements with users, (iii) for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, customer support, product development and de-bugging purposes, or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of Padonia, its users, or members of the public. You acknowledge that Padonia has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services or Collective Content or to review, remove, disable access to or edit any Member Content, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating and improving the Site, Application and Services (including without limitation for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and customer support purposes), to ensure your compliance with these Terms, to comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, administrative agency or other governmental body, to respond to content that it determines is otherwise objectionable or as set forth in these Terms. Padonia reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content that Padonia, in its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.