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Steps 4 Success Inc. “Steps 4 Success”, “we”, “our” or “us”) values the trust you have placed in us. As part of our relationship, we recognize and respect your privacy. That is why Steps 4 Success is committed to protecting your privacy and using the information you share with us responsibly.
This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) is designed to explain: (i) how Steps 4 Success collects, uses, processes, secures, shares and transfers information; (ii) what type(s) of information we collect; (iii) how you can edit and/or delete certain information and change preferences; and (iv) covers your access and/or use of our website. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the practices of companies that Steps 4 Success Inc. does not own or control, or to people that Steps 4 Success does not employ or manage.
This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices or relevant laws. When we make changes, we will post them here. If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement we will place a notice on our website. You may wish to check this section of our website from time to time, because by visiting our website, you agree to accept any such changes to this Privacy Statement. Except as otherwise mentioned herein, this Privacy Statement only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on our website.
This Privacy Statement is incorporated into, and part of our Terms of Use, which governs your access to and use of our website in general. This Privacy Statement shall be interpreted under the laws of the United States, regardless of the location, residence or nationality of individual users.
We updated our Privacy Statement on April 29, 2019 which is this Privacy Statement’s effective date.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Steps 4 Success may collect personal information from you when you enter a contest or sweepstake, participate in a survey or poll, shop online, check the status of an order or review order history, join our mailing list or our social networking sites, purchase and send a gift card or utilize our technical support or customer services. Categories of personal information collected include: your name, e-mail address, postal, billing and shipping address, phone number and credit card number. In addition, we may maintain a record of your purchases from STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM and our and our affiliated companies’ stores and authorized distributors, retailers and dealers.
We obtain certain information by automated means when you visit our website, such as the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet, domain type, browser version, service provider and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our website to our visitors and understand what products and services you might prefer. We and certain of our trusted third party providers collect this information through various means, such as "cookies" and "web beacons," each of which are discussed in more detail below.
We also collect information from third-party sources, including from social media and other websites that display authorized STEPS 4 SUCCESS branding. For example, if you post a comment on our Facebook page or send us a message on Twitter, we may collect that information as described in this Privacy Statement. We also may collect information about you from commercially available sources (such as data aggregators and public databases). Please note that we may combine this information with other information that we collect about you and use it as described in the Privacy Statement.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
STEPS 4 SUCCESS uses the information we collect from you for the following purposes:
• To process your order and answer your questions about the status of your order.
• To provide you with periodic e-mails and mailings about STEPS 4 SUCCESS merchandise, services and promotions.
• To pre-fill fields.
• Showing you and/or providing to you content that we think might be of interest to you, and displaying content according to your preferences and our terms.
• To send you e-mails to help us learn more about your shopping preferences.
• To help us improve our online store and your shopping experience.
• To provide advertisements to you about our products and services on this and other websites.
• To analyze user traffic patterns.
• To protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business.
• To contact or notify you if necessary.
• To develop new services and products.
• To provide services to you.
• To comply with our legal obligations, policies and procedures.
• As otherwise indicated in our Terms of Use.
Please note that if you use the share feature on our website to share any products with a friend, we will use your friend's name and email address to send the forwarding email. Your friend's information will not be saved in our customer or marketing databases. On occasion, we may combine information you provide with other demographic information available to us.
DATA INTEGRITY
STEPS 4 SUCCESS processes personally identifiably information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personally identifiably information needed to provide or improve our website, services and products or as otherwise permitted under this Privacy Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we depend on you to update or correct your personally identifiable information whenever necessary.
MOBILE MARKETING
You may be able to sign up to receive communications about our products and services through your mobile device by submitting your mobile telephone number on this website. If you use this feature, we will send you communications about our products, services and promotions to such email address and/or by text message and voice message. You may, at any time, opt out of receiving these communications by contacting us as specified in the "How to Contact Us" section below. Depending on the terms of your mobile phone contract, you may incur charges for receiving and sending email and text messages on your mobile device. STEPS 4 SUCCESS is not responsible for these charges.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
STEPS 4 SUCCESS will not sell or rent the personal information you provide to us online to any third party. STEPS 4 SUCCESS shares information about our customers and subscribers with affiliated companies and reputable third parties to provide better service to you. These third party providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. These services may include gathering, maintaining and managing customer information; providing customer services; taking and fulfilling orders; conducting STEPS 4 SUCCESS promotions, contests, sweepstakes and surveys; and communicating effectively with our subscribers, visitors and customers. We do not authorize these third parties to make any other use of your information. In addition, STEPS 4 SUCCESS may share information that our subscribers and customers provide with specially chosen marketing partners. We also may share aggregated statistical or demographic information about you with third party companies in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity.
When STEPS 4 SUCCESS conducts contests, sweepstakes, promotions, and surveys, or joins with other companies to do so, customers who choose to participate may be asked to provide personal information. STEPS 4 SUCCESS and the other participating companies may use this information for such purposes as notifying winners and fulfilling promotional obligations, and may also cross reference customer databases to identify common customers. Information from these activities may also be used to explore future promotional opportunities or fulfill contractual obligations.
STEPS 4 SUCCESS may disclose your personal information to third parties (i) if we are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process (such as a court order), (ii) in response to a request by government or law enforcement authorities, (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; (iv) enforce our Terms of Use or the terms of any of our statements or policies; or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of STEPS 4 SUCCESS, our associates or our visitors, users, subscribers or customers. In addition, we may share your information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as a merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This website may contain links and conduits to other websites (“Linked Sites”) for your convenience and information. These websites may be operated by companies not affiliated with STEPS 4 SUCCESS. These Linked Sites may have their own privacy policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any Linked Site. We are not responsible for the content of any websites that are not affiliated with STEPS 4 SUCCESS, any Linked Site, any use of those websites, or the privacy practices of those websites.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the personal information you provide on this website against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use and other unlawful forms of processing. For online payment transaction we use Paypal. They use the latest in data encryption and anti-fraud technology to keep your information secure, reducing the risk of online fraud. We encourage you to read the Policy of Privacy of Paypal.
You can check the security of your connection by looking at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure website, the first characters of the website address change from "http" to "https. If you are using a web browser or firewall that does not permit communications through secure websites, you will not be able to make purchases on our website. If you cannot access the secure server for any reason, you can place your order by calling 1-305-213-5155.
While we implement the above and other security measures to protect your information, please note that no data transmitted over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
YOUR SECURITY OBLIGATIONS
You must protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Please sign off when finished using a shared computer. Your emails to us are not necessarily secure against interception so do not include sensitive information in them. We generally will not ask for passwords in an email and you should assume that if you get such a request, it might be fraudulent. YOU MUST DO WHAT YOU REASONABLY CAN TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ON OTHER WEBSITES
We may offer some of our products and services or authorized STEPS 4 SUCCESS branding on or through other websites. Information, including personally identifiably information, that you provide to those websites may be sent to us in order to deliver our products and services or collected and used by us as described in this Privacy Statement. We process, use, share and secure such information under this Privacy Statement. The affiliated websites through which our products and services and authorized STEPS 4 SUCCESS branding are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices, policies and security measures implemented by third parties on their websites.
THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS
Our website may include Widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our website to provide specific services from another company (e.g. allowing you to share a profile with your FaceBook or Twitter account). Personal information, such as your email address, may be collected through the Widget. Cookies may also be set by the Widget to enable it to function properly. Information collected by this Widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices, policies and security measures implemented by such parties.
PUBLIC FORUMS
When you contribute to a public area or feature, such as a chat room, bulletin board, list serve, wall, blog, wiki or other open forum that we may make available on or through our website or an authorized third-party website, the information that you submit may be made available to the general public. We do not restrict the distribution of personal information that you voluntarily disclose in these public forums, and so that information can be collected and used by others. For this reason, we recommend that you do not submit any sensitive information, including your full name, home address, phone number, other information that would enable other users to locate you, or financial information on these areas. We cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy Statement or applicable law.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
Subject to applicable law, we provide you with access to personal information we have retained about you and the ability to review, correct, update, block or delete the information where it is inaccurate. Subject to applicable law, we may limit or deny access to personal information where providing such access is unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances. Please submit your request to the address specified in the "How to Contact Us" section below. Please include your name, email address and postal address in your request.
YOUR CHOICES
We offer you certain choices about how we communicate with you and what information we collect from you. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us or object at any time on legitimate grounds to the processing of your personal information, and we will apply your preferences within a reasonable time going forward. You can choose not to receive marketing communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our marketing emails or contacting us as specified in the "How to Contact Us" section below. Please include your name, email address and postal address if you send us your request by email or postal mail.
COOKIES
Like many companies, we use "cookies" on this website. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit certain websites. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site. We use cookies, for example, to preserve the contents of your virtual shopping cart between visits. We also use cookies to measure activity on the website and determine which areas and features of the website are the most popular. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie and how to disable existing cookies. Without cookies, however, you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features. For example, if you turn off cookies or refuse them, you will not be able to make purchases on the website. If you cannot access the secure server for any reason, you can place your order by calling 1-305-213-5155.
WEB BEACONS
Certain pages on this website contain "web beacons" (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs). Web beacons are used for internal purposes, such as to obtain the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, and the type of browser used to view the page. We also retain service providers who use web beacons to assess the effectiveness of our email communications and learn what pages our visitors viewed.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
STEPS 4 SUCCESS also may allow reputable third parties to collect information about your online activities through cookies and other technologies so that these third parties can provide services to us. These selected companies may use information about your activities on our website and other websites and combine such information with other information (such as an email address) to provide advertisements about our products and services on this and other websites. These third parties have their own policies regarding privacy, and their information practices are not covered by this Privacy Statement. Some of these third parties are members of the Network Advertising Initiative(“NAI”), a cooperative of online marketing companies that offers a centralized tool for opting out of behavioral advertising delivered by each of its member companies. We encourage you to read these businesses' privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your personal information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer Web site located at. Please note that opting out of the use of your information by an NAI member company does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising or that data about your activities on our website will not be collected by third parties. It does mean that a NAI member company from which you opted out will no longer deliver advertisements tailored to your online activities as long as the company's opt-out cookie resides on your browser. You also may configure your browser settings to reject all third-party cookies.
TRANSMIT AND TRANSFER PERSONAL INFORMATION TO OTHER COUNTRIES
If you are unsure whether this Privacy Statement is in conflict with the applicable local rules where you are located, you should not submit your or any other persons personally identifiably information to us. Anyone who accesses, uses or interacts with us, our third party providers or this website who submits personally identifiably information or provides any other information does thereby consent to: (i) the international transmission, transfer, processing and/or storage of all such information, including personally identifiably information, to a country which may be deemed to have inadequate data protection and (ii) the collection, using and sharing of such information, including personally identifiably information, as provided in this Privacy Statement.
PHISHING
"Phishing" is a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that looks like it is from us asking you for your personal information, do not respond. We will never request your password, user name, credit card information or other personal information through email.
VISITING STEPS4SS.COM OR STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM FROM THIRD-PARTY SITES
If you are visiting STEPS4SS.COM OR STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM through a link from another website or search engine, information about your visit to STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM may be collected by the provider of the other website or search engine. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these other websites or search engines. You may avoid disclosing your information to these other websites or search engines by entering STEPS4SS.COM or STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM directly into the address field of your Internet browser.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
This website is not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen on the website. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of thirteen on this website, we will delete the information from our records. We recommend that prospective users between the ages of 13 and 17 ask their parents or other legal guardians for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us as indicated below:
Steps 4 Success Inc.
PO Box 366552
San Juan PR 00936-6552
Effective Date: July 4, 2010
Last Updated: April 29, 2019
Please carefully read the following Terms of Use before using the STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM Web sites (the "Site"). By accessing this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use may be updated from time to time. When we make changes, we will post them here. Accordingly, you should check the date of the Terms of Use (which appear at the end of this document) and review any changes since the last version. If at any time you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this Site.
This Web site is operated by Steps 4 Success Inc. Throughout the Site and these Terms of Use, the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to Steps 4 Success. Steps 4 Success offers this Site, including all information, content, materials, tools, products and services available from this Site, to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all the terms, conditions, policies, statements and notices stated here. Your continued use of this Site constitutes your agreement to these Terms of Use.
PRIVACY
We respect your privacy. Our Privacy Statement, located is incorporated into and forms a part of these Terms of Use and is part of our agreement with you. Please read our Privacy Statement carefully as it describes, among other things, how we collect, use, share, transmit, transfer and secure information obtained when you access and use our Site.
USE OF MATERIAL ON THE SITE
All content on this Site (including, without limitation, text, design, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio clips, downloads, interfaces, code and software, as well as the selection and arrangement thereof), is the exclusive property of and owned by Steps 4 Success, its licensors or its content providers and is protected by copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. You may access, copy, download and print the material contained on the Site for your personal and non-commercial use, provided you do not modify or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice that appears on the material you access, copy, download or print. Any other use of content on the Site, including but not limited to the modification, distribution, transmission, performance, broadcast, publication, uploading, licensing, reverse engineering, transfer or sale of, or the creation of derivative works from, any material, information, software, products or services obtained from the Site, or use of the Site for purposes competitive to Steps 4 Success Inc., is expressly prohibited. Steps 4 Success reserves the right to refuse or cancel any person’s registration for this Site, remove any person from this Site or prohibit any person from using this Site for any reason whatsoever. Steps 4 Success, or its licensors or content providers, retain full and complete title to the material provided on the Site, including all associated intellectual property rights, and provide this material to you under a license that is revocable at any time in Steps 4 Success’s sole discretion. Steps 4 Success neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials on this Site will not infringe rights of third parties not affiliated with Steps 4 Success Inc.
You or third parties acting on your behalf may not: (i) use contact information provided on the Site for unauthorized purposes, including marketing; (ii) use any hardware or software intended to damage or interfere with the proper working of the Site or to surreptitiously intercept any system, data or personal information from the Site; (iii) interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Site in any way; (iv) frame this Site or use Steps 4 Success’s proprietary marks, or any mark, word, term or slogan likely to be confused therewith, as meta tags or anything else, without our duly authorized prior written consent.
Steps 4 Success reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit or terminate your access to or use of the Site at any time without notice. You are personally liable for any orders that you place or charges or other liabilities that you incur prior to termination and are fully responsible for all of our costs for collection of any such charges or other liabilities. Termination of your access or use will not waive or affect any other right or relief to which Steps 4 Success Inc. may be entitled, at law or in equity. Steps 4 Success reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site and its content.
TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT
All Steps 4 Success trademarks, trade names, logo, slogan, service marks, service names, product names, and intellectual property, whether or not delineated in large print or with trademark symbols or in any other fashion, are trademarks and/or intellectual property of Steps 4 Success Inc. Nothing on this Site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, logo or service mark displayed on the Site without the owner’s prior written permission, except as otherwise expressly described herein. This Site and all of its content, including but not limited to text, design, graphics, interfaces and code, and the selection and arrangement thereof, is protected as a compilation under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. The use (except as permitted herein) or misuse of the trademarks, copyrights or any other intellectual property of Step 4 Success Inc. is expressly prohibited and may be in violation of copyright, trademark, slander or libel laws, privacy law and publicity and communications regulations and statutes. Please be advised that Steps 4 Success Inc. actively and aggressively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.
MERCHANDISE AVAILABILITY
Steps 4 Success prides itself in providing exclusive, quality merchandise. Availability of merchandise may vary at Steps 4 Success stores and on STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM. Some featured items may be available only in limited quantities or only while supplies last. Once an item is no longer available or out of stock, we may attempt to, respectively, remove the item promptly from display on STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM or list it as “out of stock.” Display of an item on STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM is not a guarantee that the item is currently available or in stock or that it will be available on our Site when you visit again. If you are unable to locate a particular item that caught your attention on a previous visit to our Site or if you have any questions concerning the availability of a particular item, please contact our Customer Services via email at fundraising@steps4ss.com or calling 1-305-213-5155 or via mail to: STEPS 4 SUCCESS INC., PO BOX 366552 SAN JUAN PR 00936. We will make every commercially reasonable effort to fulfill your requests whenever possible.
MERCHANDISE DISPLAY
Steps 4 Success will make every reasonable effort to display its merchandise on STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM as accurately as possible. Unfortunately, various factors, including the display and color capabilities of your computer monitor, may significantly affect what you actually see on your screen. Steps 4 Success is not responsible for the display of any color, texture or detail of its merchandise on your computer screen and cannot guarantee the accuracy thereof. However, if you are dissatisfied with any item you purchase from STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM, you can return or exchange it to us. For more information regarding Steps 4 Success’s return and exchange policy and procedures, please visit the Return/Exchange Policy page on our Site.
ORDERS, RESELLING, AND PRICE
We reserve the right at any time after receipt of your order to accept or decline your order, or any portion thereof, in our sole discretion, even after your receipt of an order confirmation or after your credit card has been charged. In the event a wholesale or individual product is listed at an incorrect price, we have the right to refuse or cancel orders placed for the product listed at the incorrect price, regardless of whether the order has been confirmed or your credit card charged. If your credit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is canceled, we will issue a credit to your credit card account. In the event we make a change to or cancel an order, we may attempt to notify you by contacting the e-mail and/or billing address/phone number provided at the time the order was made.
If purchase any item from this Site for resale purpose by you, through any other person or for a fundraising group or individual, you are allowed and committed to resell any item purchased from this Site in the exact same conditions as received within the suggested price range and following all the ethical expectations described ahead. If you are a customer of a fundraising group or individual reselling any of our items, please make sure to carefully inspect and only accept items in good conditions, we usually not audit any authorized reseller group or individual, and so we are not responsable for any damages made after any item is purchased. To make sure how a product is properly offered in good conditions, you may visit our individual product description page where we present details about our packaging, presentation and the correct price range of our products. The prices displayed on the Site are quoted in U.S. dollars and are intended to be valid and effective only in the United States.
RESELLING POLICY AND ETHICAL EXPECTATIONS
Trust is the foundation of Steps 4 Success online store, warehouse and fundraising community. When you partner with our services, we trust you will make wise and informed choices, and so, we expect from you, and sellers who partner with our fundraising products to fulfill the following Ethical Expectations, based in the Direct Sales Association (“DSA”) Code or Ethics standards. First, knowing that there is genuine interest from the group or individual you collaborate with comply with all applicable laws, including safety, labor, and any other partnership laws/agreements. Steps 4 Success representatives may ask to review the fundraising necessities from all members who intent to resell any of our fundraising items, and we may ask to demonstrate the goals, intentions, willingness, and to be transparent about any fundraising necessities and aspirations.
All Steps 4 Success sales are managed and represented directly from our warehouse and support headquarters, we do not audit or approve third-party suppliers other than genuine fundraising groups that fulfill all our Ethical Expectation standards. For a successful supplier-client relationship, we do expect you to consider the following standards when choosing any fundraising cause to work with:
Ethical Expectations when Buying as Fundraising Representatives
• You guarantee that you represent a real fundraising cause and have the authority to enter into agreements on behalf of that group.
• When issued an invoice for an order, you agree to make payment in accordance with the seller’s policies. Non-payment or late payment may result in the suspension or termination of your account and subject you to other collection mechanisms.
• You agree to allow Steps 4 Success and any other fundraising prospect buyer to contact you via phone, email, or Steps 4 Success’s Conversations tool regarding orders you place or products to sell. Not responding to inquiries from Steps 4 Success within seven (7) calendar days may result in the suspension or termination of your account.
• You are solely responsible for collecting and remitting any and all taxes applicable to any sales you make and for requesting and inspecting any documents required for taxes or tax exemptions from Buyers.
• We do not authorize the sales of damage goods.
Ethical Expectations Among Fundraising Teammate Partners
• No child labor or youth labor. Any group or individual you choose to work with should follow all local laws and rules regarding working hours and working conditions for minors.
• No involuntary labor. Groups or individuals should not use involuntary labor, including slave labor, prison labor, indentured labor, or forced labor.
• Humane working conditions. Partner with groups or individuals who provide humane working hours for their collaborators and who do not use any form of physical or psychological coercion or intimidation against their teammates.
• Non-discrimination. There should be no tolerance for discrimination on the basis of age, gender, race, maternity or marital status, nationality or cultural, religious or personal beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, political opinion, or otherwise in relation to hiring, wages, benefits, termination, or retirement.
• Guide/ Walkthrough your Partners. Provide your teammates and partners accurate information about the group’s compensation plan, reselling products, and sales methods.
• Describe the relationship between members and the groups goals in writing.
• Be accurate in any comparisons about products, services or opportunities.
• Refrain from any unlawful or unethical practice.
• Ensure that you are not just buying products solely to qualify for downline commissions.
• Ensure that any materials marketed to you by others in the salesforce are consistent with the company’s policies, are reasonably priced and have the same return policy as the company’s.
• Require you and your group to abide by the requirements of the Code of Ethics.
• Safeguard any private information.
• Provide adequate guide and training to help others operate ethically.
• Base all actual and potential sales and earnings claims on documented facts.
• Encourage you to purchase only the inventory you and your teammates can sell in a reasonable amount of time.
• Have reasonable start-up fees, costs, and compensations.
Ethical Expectations When Reselling
• Identify yourself and your motives. Tell you who they are, why you’re approaching you and what products you are selling.
• Promptly end a demonstration or presentation at your request.
• Provide a receipt with a clearly stated cooling off period permitting the consumer to withdraw from a purchase order within a minimum of three days from the date of the purchase transaction and receive a full refund of the purchase price.
• Explain how to return a product, claim a guarantee and cancel an order.
• Provide promotional materials that contain the address and telephone number of he direct selling fundraising group or individual.
• Provide a written receipt that identifies the group name, cause and salesperson, including contact information for either.
• Respect privacy by calling at a time that is convenient for others.
• Safeguard any private information.
• Provide accurate and truthful information regarding the price, quality, quantity, performance, and availability of products.
• Offer a written receipt in clear understandable language.
• Offer a complete description of any warranty or guarantee.
However, Steps 4 Success cannot guarantee the conditions under which products for resale were made. Steps 4 Success does not currently audit third-party resellers based on labor or other standards, and we do not require resellers to demonstrate that the motives incorporated into their resell process comply with the laws in the country or countries in which such fundraising group or individual do business. Steps 4 Success is not responsible for any fundraising group or individual chosen by final buyers.
Steps 4 Success reserves the right to approve or reject any fundraising application account to join Steps 4 Success wholesale benefits and to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time. All orders on Steps 4 Success wholesale must be placed through the Official Steps 4 Success wholesale purchase order system, unless you have entered into a written contractual agreement with Steps 4 Success to make Steps 4 Success wholesale sales or purchases off the website. Please contact fundraising@steps4ss.com for information about off-site wholesale orders.
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
We truly value your interest in our Online Store. However, please note that STEPS4SS.COM and STEPSFUNDRAISING.COM can only guarantee shipping to the U.S. at this time. We do, however, encourage our international visitors to contact us because our Customer Service team will evaluate the possibility to ship the product with additional shipping costs.
USER SUBMISSIONS
Any comments, suggestions, ideas, materials and other submissions ("User Submissions") that you send, provide or convey to or on behalf of Steps 4 Success are provided on a non-confidential and non-proprietary basis. By submitting any recommendation, you are granting Steps 4 Success Inc. an irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, and fully sub-licensable license to reproduce, publish, modify, adapt, translate, creative derivative works from, and otherwise use in whole or in part your submissions for any purpose in any media, whether now known or hereafter invented, for any purpose (including for commercial or promotional purposes). You grant Steps 4 Success the right to use your name and likeness in connection with any such use of your submissions made by you, but we will not be obligated to identify or attribute you in connection with any such use. You also agree that we will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any User Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products which incorporate or otherwise rely upon that information, without notifying or providing any further compensation to you.
You represent that no user submission made by you to the Site violates any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights. You further represent that no User Submissions made by you to the Site will be or contain material that is offensive, harmful, unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, hateful, 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, violate the security of the Steps 4 Success website or would otherwise violate the law. You agree that you will remain responsible for the content of any submissions you make and that you or any party acting through you will not seek to hold Steps 4 Success liable for the user submissions of others.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
When you access a non-Steps 4 Success website, please realize that it is independent of Steps 4 Success. Linking to any off-site pages is at your own risk. Steps 4 Success makes no warranties or representations about any non-Steps 4 Success website and has no responsibility or liable to you for such websites or their content. In addition, certain third party sites may also provide links to Steps 4 Success websites. None of such links should be deemed to imply that Steps 4 Success endorses such third party websites or any content therein.
ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND TIMELINESS ON INFORMATION ON THIS SITE
We are not responsible if information made available on this Site is not accurate, complete or current. The material on this Site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or timelier sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this Site is at your own risk. This Site may contain certain historical information. Historical information necessarily is not current and is provided for your reference only. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this Site at any time (including after you have submitted your order), but we have no obligation to update any information on the Site. You agree that it is your sole responsibility to monitor changes to the Site.
INDEMNITY
You agree to promptly defend, indemnify and hold Steps 4 Success Inc., its directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers and representatives (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' and professionals’ fees and court costs as incurred, (collectively, starting with the word “losses” or “Claim”) in any way arising from, related to or in connection with your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms of Use or the posting or transmission of any materials on or through the Site by you. You shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Parties, settle or compromise any Claim, or permit a default or consent to the entry of any judgment in respect thereof, unless such settlement, compromise, or consent includes, as an unconditional term thereof, the giving by the claimant to the Indemnified Parties an unconditional release from all liability in respect of such Claim. The Indemnified Parties reserve the right, at its/their own expense, to assume exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and, in such case, you agree to cooperate with the Indemnified Parties in the defense of such matter.
DISCLAIMER
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. STEPS 4 SUCCESS INC. EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTIES THAT CONTENT AND MATERIALS ON THE SITE ARE NONINFRINGING, AS WELL AS WARRANTIES IMPLIED FROM A COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR COURSE OF DEALING; THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; THAT THE SITE WILL BE SECURE; THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SITE AVAILABLE WILL BE VIRUS-FREE; OR THAT INFORMATION ON THE SITE WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCURATE OR TIMELY. IF YOU DOWNLOAD ANY CONTENT OR MATERIALS FROM THIS SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH CONTENT AND MATERIALS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM STEPS 4 SUCCESS INC. OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. STEPS 4 SUCCESS INC. DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE CONTENT AND MATERIALS ON THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.
IN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS, THE LAW MAY NOT PERMIT THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT: (i) YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE (ii) ANY INFORMATION YOU SEND OR RECEIVE DURING YOUR USE OF THE SITE MAY NOT BE SECURE AND MAY BE INTERCEPTED BY UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES; (iii) YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK; AND (iv) THE SITE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT NO CHARGE. RECOGNIZING SUCH, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SITE, OR ANY OTHER SITE YOU ACCESS THROUGH A LINK OR CONDUIT FROM THIS SITE OR FROM ANY ACTIONS WE TAKE OR FAIL TO TAKE AS A RESULT OF COMMUNICATIONS YOU SEND TO US, OR THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ADVERTISED IN OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, STEPS 4 SUCCESS’S REMOVAL OR DELETION OF ANY MATERIALS SUBMITTED OR POSTED ON ITS SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY ARISING FROM ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUSES, FILE CORRUPTION, COMMUNICATION-LINE FAILURE, NETWORK OR SYSTEM OUTAGE, YOUR LOSS OF PROFITS, OR THEFT, DESTRUCTION, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, LOSS OR USE OF ANY RECORD OR DATA, AND ANY OTHER TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE LOSS. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER OF THE SITE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CLAIMS OR ANY DISPUTE WITH THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU AND STEPS 4 SUCCESS AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES OR THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, ALL OR A PORTION OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
Our Site is based in the United States of America (“U.S.A.”). If you access this Site from outside the U.S.A., you do so on your own initiative, at your own risk, and accept total responsibility for your conduct. These Terms of Use shall be governed, construed and enforced according to the laws of U.S.A. and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, without giving effect to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s conflict of laws provisions. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising from or relating to these Terms of Use of this Site shall be in state or federal court located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S.A., and you further agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim or action and expressly waive any objection to that venue. You also agree to comply, at your expense, with all applicable local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, U.S.A. export restrictions that relate to your use or activities on this Site. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the controlling language, at all times, for these Terms and Conditions is English.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these Terms of Use at any time by posting revised terms on the Site. Please review the terms of use periodically because it is your sole responsibility to check for any changes we may make to these Terms of Use. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to these Terms of Use or other policies or statements will constitute your acceptance.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND ADMISSIBILITY
These Terms of Use and any policies, statements, notices or operating rules (individually and collectively, starting with the term “Terms of Use”, the “Entire Agreement”) posted on this Site constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Steps 4 Success with respect to the subject matter thereof and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between the parties with respect to such subject matter. A printed version of the Entire Agreement shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based on or relating to use of the Site to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.
MISCELLANEOUS
The waiver of any provision of the Entire Agreement shall not be considered a waiver of any other provision or of Steps 4 Success Inc.’s right to require strict observance of each of the terms herein or therein. If any provision of the Entire Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid for any reason, that provision shall be severable, and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The Entire Agreement does not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship. Except for the Indemnified Parties, there are no third party beneficiaries of these terms of use. The Entire Agreement is personal to you and you may not transfer, assign or delegate them to anyone without the express written permission of Steps 4 Success. Any attempt by you to assign, transfer or delegate the Entire Agreement without the express written permission of Steps 4 Success will be null and void. Steps 4 Success Inc. have the right to transfer, assign and delegate the Entire Agreement to one or more third parties without your permission.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
You acknowledge that the Entire Agreement is supported by reasonable and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge that such consideration includes your use of the Site and/or receipt of data, content, materials and information available at or through the Site.
Effective Date: July 4, 2010
Last Updated: April 29, 2019